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[Dovecot] Dovecot IMAP error
by Marian Hercek 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

I am running Dovecot (IMAP and IMAPS), but still getting this error message in Outlook Express: "Access denied Code: 800cccd2". Code 800cccd2 means IMAP_TAGGED_NO_RESPONSE Message tagged. There are no errors in log files. What's the problem?

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[Dovecot] process imap SIGSEGVs when getting STATUS on mbox box
by Andreas Fuchs 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Hi, I just added an "archive" mbox namespace to my dovecot setup, so that people can put their old mail into a slightly more inode-friendly box. When querying the STATUS on one of these boxes, I got a sigsegv: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000454d24 in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x59e500, hdr_r=0x7fbffff420) at message-parser.c:759 759 if (msg[0] == '\n' || (gdb) bac #0 0x0000000000454d24 in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x59e500, hdr_r=0x7fbffff420) at message-parser.c:759 #1 0x00000000004297bb in mbox_sync_parse_next_mail (input=0x59e218, ctx=0x7fbffff670) at mbox-sync-parse.c:455 #2 0x000000000042ab9e in mbox_sync_loop (sync_ctx=0x7fbffff590, mail_ctx=0x7fbffff670, partial=0) at mbox-sync.c:118 #3 0x000000000042c187 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x597c70, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1445 #4 0x000000000042cf3c in mbox_storage_sync_init (box=0x597c70, flags=0) at mbox-sync.c:1770 #5 0x000000000041a000 in imap_sync_nonselected (box=Variable "box" is not available. ) at imap-sync.c:177 #6 0x0000000000413022 in cmd_status (cmd=0x590ab8) at cmd-status.c:68 #7 0x0000000000414319 in _client_input (context=Variable "context" is not available. ) at client.c:338 #8 0x000000000045e4a6 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x58eca0) at ioloop-poll.c:190 #9 0x000000000045d9cf in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x58eca0) at ioloop.c:230 #10 0x000000000041b841 in main (argc=Variable "argc" is not available. ) at main.c:232 Mail server runs dovecot 1.0alpha4, is an amd64, linux 2.6.8-11 (debian testing). Mutt can parse the mailbox in question ok; seems that dovecot's mail header parser is broken somewhere. If there's anything else you need to debug this, shout (-: Thanks, -- Andreas Fuchs, <asf(a)boinkor.net>, asf(a)jabber.at, antifuchs

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[Dovecot] inetd mode
by Alexander Sabourenkov 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Hi. Inetd mode is broken as of cvs-20051111 After logging in on POP3 port imap binary is started. Seems like somehow master process receives wrong protocol id and thus starts wrong binary. -- ./lxnt

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[Dovecot] problem with content-length and mbox parsing
by Glenn Leavell 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

The stars aligned recently such that I sent someone a message that contained a line similar to this in the message body: From glenn(a)usg.edu Thu Jun 20 16:48:11 2002 (Except that there wasn't that space character *before* the From; I've added it here to avoid any problems with this message). Dovecot wrote a copy of the message in my "sent mail" folder under the direction of my imap client. But when I went back to *read* that folder (still through Dovecot), it was broken and was presented as two corrupted mail messages. About a year ago, there was a thread on the list about the fact that Dovecot does not perform >From quoting when writing to mbox folders: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-October/004865.html Timo, in that thread you mentioned the following about Dovecot's use of the content-length header: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:13:36PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Dovecot (and eg. mutt) uses Content-Length header to figure out how > large the message body is, so clients can't mess anything by sending > From-lines. Also Dovecot requires that From-line has correct syntax and > valid timestamp or it's not treated as From-line. In the example above, the message *does* include a valid content-length header after it is initially written, but Dovecot seems to ignore the header when reading the folder, and it treats the "From " line in the body as a message separator. For example, a SELECT on the folder will return "2 EXISTS" even if the single message described above is the only message in the folder. I'm currently at CVS 20051104. Glenn

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[Dovecot] IMAP limitation
by Tom Allison 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

I was trying to delete a LOT of email messages in one shot from Thunderbird. I selected everything in a folder (>10,000) and then hit DELETE. I received an IMAP error. It clearly implied a limitation to just how many UIDS I can submit on an IMAP request at a time. Is this a limitation of dovecot? (I'm assuming it is). I can work around this, I think, because I haven't found a limitation to retrieving a list of email message UIDS as yet. I could thereby send splices or chunks of that list of UIDS to delete. I ran into this while trying to do a variety of obscene things in my attempts to develop a web mail application. Because of the number of strange tests I have, I don't really "blame" anything since I'm not sure that anyone really expects to delete 10,000 messages at one command.

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[Dovecot] Error: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
by Cliff Hayes 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hello all, I have successfully migrated from pop3d to dovecot. Now, I am having users call in unable to pop (prompted with a user/pass login). OE shows this in the error box: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file. I am able to log into the box using Webmail. Any suggestions? Cliff

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[Dovecot] Error indexing mbox file
by Zouari Fourat 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hello i'm using dovecot to host over 5000 email accounts on my server, and sometimes when logging in to an account with the correct login/password it raise an error like this : Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/username: LF not found where expected It becomes more and more frequent. does anybody have a solution for this ?

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[Dovecot] TLS negotiation from client fails after openssl upgrade
by Willem Riede 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Is anyone using dovecot on Fedora fc5-devel? I had to rebuild my rpm of alpha4 due to dependencies when I pulled in openssl-0.9.8a (with a whole bunch of other updates). Now when I start my mail client (balsa) it tells me it "Cannot connect to the server: TLS negotiation failed". Dovecot wrote in maillog: "imap-login: Disconnected: rip=1.2.3.4, lip=1.2.3.4, TLS". Does anyone else see that? Can anyone advise me how to debug this? Thanks, Willem Riede.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, Outlook Express and new accounts
by news.gmane.org 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

I have come across a strange situation, involving new accounts. I am running Dovecot 0.99.10-5 on Fedora Core 2. Dovecot is configured to use pam for authentication, and the dovecot pam service is configured to use pam_mkhomedir. When an account is created and the user logs in through SquirrelMail, there is no problem. The standard folders are available - Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items and Trash. When logging in through Outlook Express first, it gives the following error:- The server did not respond to this IMAP command before the connection was terminated. Configuration: Account: mail.server Server: mail.server User name: username Protocol: IMAP Port: 143 Secure(SSL): 0 Code: 800ccc0f A packet trace shows the following:- <<< * OK dovecot ready. >>> 008E CAPABILITY <<< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN <<< 008E OK Capability completed. >>> 008F LOGIN "username" "password" <<< 008F OK Logged in. >>> 008G IDLE <<< + idling >>> DONE <<< 008G OK Idle completed. 008H LIST "" "*" Connection to host lost. My suspicion that Outlook Express is not intelligent enough to create the folders, although the sudden connection drop might indicate a bug. If it is not a bug, is there a workaround? Regards -- Chris Hills IT Services North East Worcestershire College

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[Dovecot] Asserion Failure in Current CVS
by Todd Burroughs 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Just installed the version from CVS as of Oct. 27. I noticed three problems quite quickly: Still seeing "(imap) killed with signal 14" My INBOX closed with "access error" after reading it for a bit. There's nothing in the logs or anything, but this hasn't happened for quite a while now. There where quite a lot of incoming messages at the time and I was marking messages as deleted using pine. After reverting to the last version of dovecot that I was using and restarting pine, it opened quickly (no reindexing) and the deleted emails where marked as deleted. I don't know if this helps much ;-) The rest is a backtrace, etc. of an assertion failure: dovecot: Oct 27 16:58:12 Error: 13481 imap(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 393 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) dovecot: Oct 27 16:58:29 Error: child 13481 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbfffeec8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x000034a9 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809b35a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x34a9 <Address 0x34a9 out of bounds>) at failures.c:375 No locals. #7 0x0809b784 in i_panic ( format=0x80a88ec "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x08073c33 in mbox_sync_rewrite (sync_ctx=0xbffff7d0, mail_ctx=0xbffff740, end_offset=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93 ) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:447 mails = Variable "mails" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfffeec8 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x000034a9 in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809b35a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x34a9 <Address 0x34a9 out of bounds>) at failures.c:375 #7 0x0809b784 in i_panic ( format=0x80a88ec "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x08073c33 in mbox_sync_rewrite (sync_ctx=0xbffff7d0, mail_ctx=0xbffff740, end_offset=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93 ) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:447 #9 0x0806f4c2 in mbox_sync_loop (sync_ctx=0xbffff7d0, mail_ctx=0xbffff740, partial=Variable "partial" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:827 #10 0x080706ef in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c6c08, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1447 #11 0x08069ca6 in mbox_storage_close (box=0x80c6c08) at mbox-storage.c:973 #12 0x0808f7cd in mailbox_close (box=0x0) at mail-storage.c:303 #13 0x08057c19 in cmd_logout (cmd=0x80bfbf8) at cmd-logout.c:18 #14 0x08059a8b in _client_input (context=0x80bfbb8) at client.c:338 #15 0x080a0bba in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:190 #16 0x080a0139 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop.c:230 #17 0x080609d6 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:232 (gdb) frame #8 0x08073c33 in mbox_sync_rewrite (sync_ctx=0xbffff7d0, mail_ctx=0xbffff740, end_offset=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93 ) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:447 447 i_assert(extra_space < OFF_T_MAX); (gdb) p extra_space Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93

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[Dovecot] Folders mysterously deleted
by Andy Cravens 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Using alpha 3 on Solaris 9. One of our users reported all folders except his inbox were missing. I went to the server and looked at the logs and could find no indication that a sysadmin had logged in and deleted the folders. Also found no indication of anything unusual in the dovecot log file. Has anybody seen a situation where dovecot deleted folders?

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0alpha 4 error
by Alex Campoe 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

I tried to research this but could not find anything. Apologies if someone already reported this issue. I was running alpha 3 on Solaris 9, and having some timeout issues on lasge mailboxes. Decided to upgrade to rc4 before tweaking anything else. On rc4, when I try to start dovecot, I am getting: dovecot: Nov 10 14:04:56 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up dovecot: Nov 10 14:04:57 Error: child 18805 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Nov 10 14:04:57 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Nov 10 14:04:57 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver 'passdb' No changes on .conf file. Works fine with rc3. Did I miss something? Alex -- -- Alex Campoe, CISSP Information Security Manager -- -- Associate Director, Systems -- -- Email: campoe(a)usf.edu Phone: (813) 974-1796 -- -- Academic Computing University of South Florida -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] dovecot-example.conf error with POP3 UIDL format?
by Shayne Hardesty 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

I just installed dovecot 1.0alpha4 on a very busy RHEL4 server with about 1300 users. So far so good, except for the dreaded duplicate emails in outlook for users who use POP3 and have "leave message on server" selected. After searching the archives I found that this is usually related to the UIDL format. The example in the .conf file is this: / # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu / Note that 'v' comes first, then 'u'.. But, right under it, is this: / # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which was # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. / In this example (and the next example just under it) 'u' comes first, then 'v'. So is the first example right, in that %08Xv%08Xu is compatible with UW ipop3d, but not outlook? Or is the UW ipop3d example a mistake? For what it's worth %08Xu%08Xv seems to have fixed my users' duplication problems. Shayne

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[Dovecot] dovecot dead but subsys locked
by Kai Wang 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

I'm running dovecot 20051026 version on Redhat4. I tried to do a stress test. However dovecot dies after I login a few hundred users. I have some error messages in my mail log and am not sure if they are related to the problem. [root@lms2 imap1505]# service dovecot status dovecot dead but subsys locked Nov 10 12:58:52 lms2 dovecot: imap1514 [IMAP 7593]: mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /fs202/imap1514/mbox (371 > 39) Nov 10 12:58:52 lms2 dovecot: imap1514 [IMAP 7593]: X-IMAPbase uid-last unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs202/imap1514/mbox Nov 10 13:02:23 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /fs201/imap2011/mbox Nov 10 13:02:23 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /fs201/imap2011/mbox (33 > 6) Nov 10 13:04:11 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /fs201/imap2011/mbox (52 > 6) Nov 10 13:07:38 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: X-IMAPbase uid-last unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs201/imap2011/mbox Nov 10 13:08:10 lms2 dovecot: imap0501 [IMAP 7222]: X-IMAPbase uid-last unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs203/imap0501/mbox Nov 10 13:24:37 lms2 dovecot: imap2009 [IMAP 10253]: X-IMAPbase uid-last unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs205/imap2009/mbox Nov 10 13:27:48 lms2 dovecot: imap2520 [IMAP 10548]: X-IMAPbase uid-last unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs206/imap2520/mbox -- Kai Wang System Services Information Technologies, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Phone (403) 220-2423, Fax (403) 282-9361

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[Dovecot] diferent login
by Leopoldo Lara Vázquez 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi: I want to set up a system where all user can login in pop, but only a few in imap. I use pam auth. It's posible? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Cant log in to my new install :(
by Peter Church 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi, I have just built a copy of dovecot on my sparc based solaris box. I now have dovecot running but when I try to log in using thunderbird or the solaris default package I get bombed out and the following error is generated.... dovecot: Nov 09 21:42:57 Error: child 20780 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Nov 09 21:42:57 Error: imap(ppchurch): flock() locks not supported I have set the lock method to fcntl and restarted dovecot but I still get the same error ... anybody else seen this before? Thanks Peter

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[Dovecot] More informations on mysql bug
by Pierre Laplante 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -export-dynamic -ldl gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so -lz -ldl The problem is with dovecot-auth. I modify the program main.c: #include "/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql/mysql.h" #include <stdio.h> #include "common.h" #include "buffer.h" #include "ioloop.h" #include "network.h" #include "lib-signals.h" #include "restrict-access.h" #include "fd-close-on-exec.h" #include "randgen.h" #include "password-scheme.h" #include "mech.h" #include "auth.h" #include "auth-request-handler.h" #include "auth-worker-server.h" #include "auth-worker-client.h" #include "auth-master-interface.h" #include "auth-master-listener.h" #include "auth-master-connection.h" #include "auth-client-connection.h" #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <syslog.h> #include <pwd.h> #include <grp.h> #include <sys/stat.h> struct ioloop *ioloop; int standalone = FALSE, worker = FALSE; time_t process_start_time; static struct auth *auth; static struct auth_worker_client *worker_client; main() { MYSQL *h; h = mysql_init (NULL); if (h == NULL) { fprintf (stderr, "mysql_init() failed (probably out of memory)\n"); exit(1); } if (mysql_real_connect ( h, /* pointer to connection handler */ "localhost", /* host to connect to */ "lyra", /* user name */ "teSIVIkY", /* password */ "lyra", /* database to use */ 0, /* port (use default) */ NULL, /* socket (use default) */ 0) /* flags (none) */ == NULL) { fprintf (stderr, "mysql_real_connect() failed:\nError %u (%s)\n", mysql_errno (h), mysql_error (h)); exit (1); } } This program is working outsine of dovecot. So its one of the library or the compilation itself that cause the problem of access denied. Any idea??? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Moving from mbox to maildir?
by Patrick 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, New to the list. I have an updated FC4 box with Dovecot version 0.99.14.4.fc4. My mbox size is about 76 megs and growing rapidly because of several high-volume mailing lists I'm subscribed to. I have noticed that over time the performance of the Evoluion/Spamassassin/Dovecot combo deteriorates. Someone on the Fedora users list suggested I have a look at moving to a maildir setup. Reading the docs I can't really figure out what to. Does anyone have a suggestion how I can safely move my mbox setup to a maildir setup? Much appreciated! Regards, Patrick

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[Dovecot] mysql dovecot 1.0alpha4
by Pierre Laplante 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

I try to authenticate using mysql and I always get access denied. I wrote a program in C that connect to the database and it work. I put the code within driver-mysql.c and it failed!!! My question is do you set up anything (SSL?) that could explain this failure. thanks. Here is the code MYSQL *h; h = mysql_init (NULL); if (h == NULL) { fprintf (stderr, "mysql_init() failed (probably out of memory)\n"); exit(1); } if (mysql_real_connect ( h, /* pointer to connection handler */ "localhost", /* host to connect to */ "lyra", /* user name */ "xxxxxxx", /* password */ "lyra", /* database to use */ 0, /* port (use default) */ NULL, /* socket (use default) */ 0) /* flags (none) */ == NULL) { fprintf (stderr, "mysql_real_connect() failed:\nError %u (%s)\n", mysql_errno (h), mysql_error (h)); exit (1); }

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[Dovecot] Problem with different case logins
by Roberto Suarez Soto 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, we have a system (Debian sarge) that uses LDAP for user authentication, via pam. We also have virtual users by using a static userdb [1], using the directory structure /var/lib/dovecot/postoffice/%u (i.e., a directory under /var/lib/dovecot/postoffice with the name of the user). The directory /var/lib/dovecot/postoffice belongs to postoffice:mail. IMAP folders, indexes and stuff go here; normal mail goes into /var/mail/%u. We are using dovecot 1.0alpha3 (upgrading to alpha4 soon). Today we've found a grave problem. Let's suppose you have the login "mylogin.domain.com". If you instead use the login "MYLOGIN.domain.com", the authentication works anyway (which is Ok), but dovecot creates a new directory under /var/lib/dovecot/postoffice with the different case, i.e., /var/lib/dovecot/postoffice/MYLOGIN.domain.com (which is not Ok). Afterwards, you can only access this new folder if you use the login with the caps. A new file (we're using mbox) under /var/mail/ with the new name is also created, though I don't understand yet how. We're using Postfix as MTA, and it always delivers to the lower case name. I hope you can understand the problem. If an user logs with a name with just one letter changed from lower case to upper case, all his/her folders and mail will be seemingly gone. Is this a bug or a feature? If the latter, is it possible to change this behaviour, or at least work around it? Thanks in advance. -- Roberto Suarez Soto Allenta Consulting robe(a)allenta.com www.allenta.com

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[Dovecot] Ambiguous mail location setting
by snoop＠email.it 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8 (same problem find using Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 on OpenBSD 3.7) Log output: _________________________________ dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHl2cmlAbjN1dHJpbm4uaXQAeXVyaW6zgXRyaW1v dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): sql(myuser(a)mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT password FROM user_accounts WHERE username='myuser(a)mydomain.com' dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=myuser(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 5 32206 1 dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): sql(myuser(a)mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT '/var/mail/'||mailbox AS mail, uid, gid FROM user_accounts WHERE username='myuser(a)mydomain.com' dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 5 myuser(a)mydomain.com mail=/var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser uid=10001 gid=10001 dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Error: imap(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Error: imap(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/mydomain.com/myuser _________________________________ I verified that "default_mail_env" on my dovecot configuration file are "maildir:" correctly prefixed: "default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n" and ... permissions of /var/mail/mydomain and /var/mail/mydomain/myuser are 2755 and owner is root:mail. I'm sure that isn't an authentication problem. I've tried some days to understand and to find over internet and here in the dovecot mailing list but I've not find a solution yet. I think it's a dovecot internal bug. Someone know what I'm talking about? -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: La tua vacanze in Trentino Alto Adige a prezzi last minute! * Pacchetti wellness, sport, famiglia ed enogastronomci a prezzi bassissimi! Clicca qui * Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=4089&d=9-11

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[Dovecot] [OTAnn] Feedback
by shenanigans 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

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[Dovecot] dovecot and passwd-file migration
by Erick Perez 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, Im using dovecot with passwd-file authentication and would like to provide some kind of interface/script to let the users change their password. currently my passwd-file looks like: user@domain.com:{PLAIN}password I would also like to change the password to the same I use in my Linux user(a)domain.com: {MD5}password ??? What do I need to change in the .conf? Las thing, I just cant find a RPM or Source RPM for dovecot compiled with MySQL support. Our office uses MySQL and not Postgres. doing rpmbuild --rebuild --with mysql to the .src.rpm of dovecot does not work. dovecot fails telling he has no idea of what mysql is. If I get a dovecot with mysql rpm I will move from passwd-file to Mysql auth. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

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[Dovecot] dovecot crash after upgrade on FreeBSD
by Marko Lerota 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Updated from ports collection from ver. dovecot-1.0.a3 to 1.0.a4_1. And it wan't work. Here's the log Nov 8 10:51:07 ot-group dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver 'passdb' Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: child 17872 (auth) returned error 89 -- One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk Tacunka Witco

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[Dovecot] error 89 Failed to create storage with data
by Nicolas 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hello, I have this error message in logs : dovecot: Nov 07 21:49:34 Error: POP3(manager(a)mydomain.com): Failed to create storage with data: manager(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Nov 07 21:49:34 Error: child 27834 (pop3) returned error 89 When I try to retrieve email of manager(a)mydomain.com kmail says there is no new message although this email box is not empty. I don't understand why. In my dovecot.conf I have default_mail_env = maildir:/home/Courrier/%d/%n with mutt on the server I can read all emails in /home/Courriel and for example : /home/Courrier/mydomain/manager/ Does anyone have an idea where I have to look for ? Thank you for your help and your response Nicolas

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