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[Dovecot] rawlog fails
by Mark E. Mallett 16 May '03

16 May '03

You mentioned --with-rawlog earlier, so I tried it. It fails with a select error. I believe it's because in some cases the timeval struct is not initialized in io_loop_get_wait_time (e.g. see sample diff below). -mm- diff -c src/lib/ioloop.c.orig src/lib/ioloop.c *** src/lib/ioloop.c.orig Sat Apr 12 11:00:10 2003 --- src/lib/ioloop.c Thu May 15 22:10:12 2003 *************** *** 223,230 **** --- 223,238 ---- int io_loop_get_wait_time(struct timeout *timeout, struct timeval *tv, struct timeval *tv_now) { + #if 0 /* mem 20030515 make sure tv contains valid data here */ if (timeout == NULL) return INT_MAX; + #else + if (timeout == NULL) { + tv->tv_sec = INT_MAX / 1000; + tv->tv_usec = 0; + return INT_MAX; + } + #endif if (tv_now == NULL) { if (gettimeofday(tv, NULL) < 0)

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[Dovecot] help: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask.
by Brandon Hoult 15 May '03

15 May '03

Am tryin to move from uw-imapd to dovecot, using dovecot ver 0.99.9.1-1 on debian. Using Mozilla Mail v 1.3 currently using mbox format. I made some test accounts and they seem to be working fine, but my older existing accounts give error messages whenever I connect or subscribe to mailboxes within them. The message that appears on the client is: "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask." it appears three times in an alert box (on windows) then everything seems to work. There are no messages in any of the mail logs in /var/log which would indicate a problem. The test accounts I created don't have this problem so I tried renameing the home directory, deleting the user, then recreating the user. However even with a new homedir the problem remains unchanged. I have verified that the permissions in ~/mail and /var/mail are set identically for working and non-working users. Thanks in advance for any advice, Brandon Hoult dolt(a)lmistudios.homeip.net

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[Dovecot] Creating and renaming mbox folders on NFS auto-installed partitions
by Robert Evans 14 May '03

14 May '03

I'm trying dovecot-0.99.9.1 in place of uw-imap which ground to a halt on a 500MHz SunBlade 100 Solaris 8 system which acts as our Departmental mail server. INBOXes are mbox files on the servers's local SCSI disk. But user directories are auto mounted from other Sun NFS servers and these may contain other mbox mailboxes in a ~/Mail directory. There's a problem with creating (and with renaming) mailboxes in the NFS mounted ~/Mail directory. For an arbitrary mailbox "newbox", say, dovecot tries to create the parent directory path /home/username/Mail before creating the newbox file. But /home/username is automounted and so creating directory /home or /home/username fails with errno 89 ENOSYS - unsupported file system operation. The solution is to check for the existence of the directory before trying to create it. This will work since /home and /home/username will always exist for any valid user. I've amended mbox-storage.c in src/lib-storage/index/mbox to call "access" to do this.... *** src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c.orig Tue Apr 15 14:04:02 2003 --- src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c Wed May 14 16:04:39 2003 *************** *** 38,44 **** p++; } ! if (mkdir(dir, CREATE_MODE) < 0 && errno != EEXIST) { t_pop(); return -1; } --- 38,44 ---- p++; } ! if ( (access(dir,F_OK) != 0) && mkdir(dir, CREATE_MODE) < 0 && errno != EEXIST) { t_pop(); return -1; } - - - (Could also remove the && errno == EEXIST part - it's redundant when access(dir,F_OK) is checking for existence). Robert -- Robert.Evans(a)cs.cf.ac.uk Tel:+44(0)29 2087 5518 Fax:+44(0)29 2087 4598 http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/department/staff/Robert.Evans.shtml Computer Science, Cardiff University, PO Box 916, Cardiff, CF24 3XF, UK

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Re: [dovecot] Re: List-id test
by Moe Wibble 13 May '03

13 May '03

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:44:06AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 04:21, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Just enabled List-* headers, testing if this still works.. > > Hmm. Wondered about why List-Id header used wrong host name and started > looking at Ecartis' sources .. Wasn't it written in Perl? I had believed > so for quite a long time for some reason. So since it's C, I figured I'd > audit the code for security flaws. > > .. I think I'll switch switch the list manager. Mailman looks nice. tried ezmlm? :)

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Re: [dovecot] Re: Design thought - Retention of reworked mbox files
by Tim Hunt 13 May '03

13 May '03

It's primarily for debugging, and I don't see it being used in a high volume environment. What triggered the thought is that I suspect I may have lost the bodies of a couple of messages during an expunge, but because I don't have the previous state of the mbox file, I have no way of verifying my concern, and certainly no way to try and recreate it. And yes, I'm using mbox files, because I have many years of mail stored in them, and I'm not quite ready to convert them to another format. Tim On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 11:01, Charlie Brady wrote: > On 12 May 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 02:05, Tim Hunt wrote: > > > Would it be possible to keep a backup copy of an mbox mail file any time it > > > needs to be substantionally rebuilt - for an example before an expunge. This > > > behaviour could be controlled by the config file, since it would most likely > > > only be used in development and testing environments. > > > > If it's only for debugging, I guess I could then just save a copy of it. > > Presumably the other reason you'd want it would be for mailbox integrity. > But if you are concerned about that, you'd be using maildir, wouldn't you? > > -- > Charlie

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[dovecot] quota
by Sebastian Pachuta 07 May '03

07 May '03

first, thx for --with-storages=maildir second, there is a problem when user exceed their quota < status INBOX (messages) > NO Internal error [2003-05-06 15:35:56] in logfile: imap(user): Can't create directory /var/mail/user/.INBOX: Disk quota exceeded 'user' is not able to get list of messages and delete some of them :( third, in logfile: imap(user2): maildir flags update: rename(/var/mail/user2/cur/1049405360.18375_0.asd, /var/mail/user2/cur/1049405360.18375_0.asd:2,T) failed: Disk quota exceeded is there any way to rename files when quota exceed?

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[dovecot] dovecot.spec
by Farkas Levente 07 May '03

07 May '03

hi, I'm just recoginze that dovecot contains an rpm spec file. unfortunately it's not too useful since an rpm -ta dovecot-.x.y.tar.gz can't be used since just the dovecot.spec.in is in the tarbar and not the actual spec file (which is in this from not useful in the above form). anyway here is my patch to the spec.in. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" --- dovecot/dovecot.spec.in.lfarkas 2003-05-05 16:36:16.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot/dovecot.spec.in 2003-05-05 17:04:30.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ # DarContact: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> +%define uid 96 +%define gid 96 Summary: Dovecot secure IMAP server. Name: dovecot Version: @VERSION@ -Release: 0 +Release: 1 License: GPL Group: System Environment/Daemons URL: http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ @@ -16,14 +18,12 @@ Prefix: %{_prefix} Prereq: /usr/sbin/useradd, /usr/sbin/usermod -BuildRequires: openssl-devel %{!?rh62:, pam-devel} %{?rh62: pam} +BuildRequires: openssl-devel %{!?rh62:, pam-devel} %{?rh62: pam} gettext %description Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Although it's written with C, it uses -several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Next -release will also contain a small POP3 server. - +several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats and it's fully compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ # # Init file for Dovecot IMAP daemon # -# chkconfig: - 54 46 +# chkconfig: 345 54 46 # description: Dovecot IMAP Daemon # # processname: dovecot @@ -101,8 +101,17 @@ exit \$RETVAL EOF +%{__cat} <<EOF >dovecot.pam +#%PAM-1.0 +auth required pam_nologin.so +auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth +account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth +session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth +EOF + %build -export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/kerberos/include" +export CPPFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags-only-I openssl`" +export LDFLAGS="`pkg-config --libs-only-L openssl`" %configure \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_sysconfdir}/ssl" @@ -112,27 +121,32 @@ %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot} %makeinstall %{__install} -d -m0755 %{buildroot}%{_initrddir} -%{__install} -m0755 dovecot.sysv %{buildroot}%{_initrddir}/dovecot +%{__install} -m0755 dovecot.sysv %{buildroot}%{_initrddir}/%{name} +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/imap +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/imaps +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/pop3 +%{__install} -m644 dovecot.pam %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/pop3s %{__mv} -f %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dovecot-example.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dovecot.conf ### Clean up buildroot -%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/dovecot/ +%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}/ %pre -/usr/sbin/useradd -M -s /sbin/nologin -r dovecot &>/dev/null || : -/usr/sbin/usermod -s /sbin/nologin dovecot &>/dev/null || : +# Add the dovecot user and group if not found +/usr/sbin/groupadd -g %{gid} -r %{name} &>/dev/null || : +/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/run/%{name} -s /bin/false -g %{name} -M -r -u %{uid} %{name} &>/dev/null || : %post /sbin/chkconfig --add dovecot %preun if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then - /sbin/service dovecot stop &>/dev/null || : + /sbin/service %{name} stop &>/dev/null || : /sbin/chkconfig --del dovecot fi %postun -/sbin/service dovecot condrestart &>/dev/null || : +/sbin/service %{name} condrestart &>/dev/null || : %clean %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot} @@ -142,11 +156,16 @@ %doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING* NEWS README TODO %doc doc/*.conf doc/*.sh doc/*.txt %config %{_sysconfdir}/dovecot.conf -%config %{_initrddir}/dovecot +%config %{_initrddir}/%{name} +%config %{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/* %{_sbindir}/* -%{_libexecdir}/dovecot/ +%dir %{_libexecdir}/%{name} +%{_libexecdir}/%{name}/ %changelog +* Mon May 5 2003 Levente Farkas <lfarkas(a)lfarkas.org> +- update a few things in the spec file + * Tue Apr 29 2003 Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com> - 0.99.9-0 - Updated to release 0.99.9.

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[dovecot] KMail?
by Joakim Ryden 07 May '03

07 May '03

Hey everyone - is anyone else having problems with Dovecot and KMail? I'm having trouble seeing my INBOX using KMail (Maildir format on the server), though all subfolders show up as normal. I suspect the problem is with KMail as all the other mail clients I've tested seem to have no such problems, they see INBOX *and* subfolders just fine, just wanted to see if anyone could confirm this behaviour? --Jo

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[dovecot] dovecot and squirrelmail
by Warren Togami 07 May '03

07 May '03

Is anyone using squirrelmail with dovecot? After a few minor tweaks squirrelmail seems to work great, but I can't seem to get rid of the "./" folder. SquirrelMail implements some workaround hacks for specific IMAP server quirks. The default setting is: $imap_server_type = 'uw'; What settings do you folks use? Thanks, Warren Togami warren(a)togami.com

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[dovecot] 0.99.9.1 - Runaway imap-login process
by Warren Togami 07 May '03

07 May '03

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 32116 dovecot 19 0 1464 1464 1212 R 99.9 0.1 60:58 0 imap-login service dovecot stop ps -ef |grep imap-login |grep -v grep dovecot 32116 1 98 01:27 ? 01:01:33 imap-login /etc/dovecot.conf: auth_userdb = passwd uth_passdb = pam I think this was triggered while I attempted to login to IMAP with the this dovecot configuration without adding an "imap" entry to /etc/pam.d/ (auth fails). When I attempt to strace -p this runaway process, it strangely displays nothing. kill was able to get rid of it. After I added an appropriate /etc/pam.d/imap entry, auth works and I didn't see this runaway process. This is a RH9 chroot server instance running within Linux virtual server with security contexts kernel. (Think of it as a theoretically unbreakable chroot.) Any tips on what I can do to get some debugging information out of this? Thanks, Warren Togami warren(a)togami.com

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[dovecot] Re: 0.99.9.1 OpenBSD and mbox
by Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens Mtnz. 07 May '03

07 May '03

Hi all, Now it works, these are the parameters I touched, the rest remains pretty the same as the example conf: #default_mail_env =mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u #mailbox_check_interval = 1 #mbox_locks = fcntl Anyway seems that HUP doesn't fully gets dovecot to reread conf file and restart, better to use SIGUSR1?, by the way how I disable dotlocking in case I want to try. Regards Alvaro Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Right. You'd have to either disable dotlocking or make /var/mail > world-writable and sticky. Currently there's no other ways around this. > >

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[dovecot] 0.99.9.1
by Timo Sirainen 05 May '03

05 May '03

Some bugfixes: v0.99.9.1 2003-05-03 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> - Messages having lines longer than 8192 bytes caused problems. - There was some problems when opening a mbox first time that had been empty for a while. - Didn't compile with OpenBSD. - POP3 server crashed sometimes instead of printing error message. - If cached IMAP envelope contained literals, SEARCHing in it wrote errors to log file. For example if subject contained highascii, '"' or '\' characters this happened.

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[dovecot] 0.99.9 released
by Timo Sirainen 05 May '03

05 May '03

As promised yesterday :) BTW. I just found libsqlora8 library yesterday and I've been playing with Oracle mail storage support. Shouldn't take too long to get it working. And the NEWS file once more: v0.99.9 2003-04-28 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * WARNING: mbox rewriting works now faster, but it's less likely to notice external message flag changes (it wasn't perfect before either). This also means that if you're not using index files, Dovecot may not notice changes made by another Dovecot process. This will be fixed later. + Message UIDs are now permanently stored outside index files. Deleting indexes is now possible without any kind of data loss and in-memory indexes are now usable. + mbox rewriting leaves extra space into X-Keywords header. It's shrinked or grown when updating message flag headers to avoid rewriting the rest of the file. + imap-login and pop3-login can now be started from inetd. Privilege separation is still used, so it executes dovecot and dovecot-auth processes which are left on the background. + PostgreSQL authentication support, patch by Alex Howansky - Large multiline headers (over 8kB) broke Dovecot before. Now they're parsed one line at a time and we try to avoid reading them fully into memory. - SEARCH OR was broken - Partial BODY[] fetches were broken - Timezones were still set wrong when parsing dates - Using non-synchronized literals (LITERAL+) broke APPEND - Renaming maildir subfolders inserted extra "." in the middle. - Subfolders were a bit broken with maildir - Invalid PLAIN auth request crashed auth process.

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[dovecot] 0.99.9.1 OpenBSD and mbox
by Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens Mtnz. 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hi, compiled perfectly, so the patch of course work ;), but seems that I had the conf a bit broken, because he doesn't read the new messages in /var/mail/user, does the line: #default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/username look good?, I also tryed with %h instead of username, the rest of the conf is pretty standard, I can create folders and so on. Regards Alvaro

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[dovecot] Problems fetching messages.
by Ian Kumlien 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hi, I have problems reading some mail with the latest version of dovecot. I use maildir etc but it all worked before... It seems like dovecot sends something that throws Evolution off the track since the actual information is sent, but in a broken form it seems. I also get some odd chars (this is raw tcp packet decoding): "ïêa-è "ïêc-è* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 609 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1049995962] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1044] Predicted next UID A10891 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. "ïêc-î "ïêc-î* 609 FETCH (UID 1043) A10892 OK Fetch completed. "ïêg-î* 498 FETCH (UID 646 BODY[] {3434} eturn-Path: <-----email-------> etc... Any clues? -- Ian Kumlien <pomac(a)vapor.com>

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[dovecot] Corrupted index
by Mark E. Mallett 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hi- Still getting a bunch of these: Apr 30 13:45:23 mercury mem[11056]: pop3(user1): Corrupted index file /users/78/user1/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: used_file_size larger than real file size (4032 vs 1608) and the occasional: Apr 30 13:08:53 mercury mem[13507]: pop3(user2): Corrupted index file (in-memory index for /users/e0/user2/Maildir): Filename mismatch for UID 1: 1051720748.28556.mercury.mv.net vs 1051715695.29601.mercury.mv.net Most of the time (but not always) the .imap* files are relatively old and apparently created by the test5 or older recent release. The errors persist in the logs until I manually remove the .imap* files, which are subsequently recreated upon the next access (without the error being logged, at least not right away). I had the impression that a "Corrupted index file" would cause the index files not to be used, and in fact recreated. Apparently not? If there is an error that causes the .imap* files to be ignored, shouldn't those files be removed? mm

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[dovecot] Message causing pop3 crash
by Mark E. Mallett 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hi- Found a message that will generate a pop3 coredump when using mbox format. It seems to do with the fact that it has a mime part with a line that's 10,000 bytes long. However, that doesn't seem to be the only factor. Adjusting the size of the mail header seems to cause different kinds of crashes. I'll avoid attaching the message here but I've put it at http://www.mv.com/users/mem/x/badmail Reproducing it here on a BSD/OS system involves something like: (login to a virgin account or one you don't care about) % wget http://www.mv.com/users/mem/x/badmail % rm -rf .imap % MAIL=mbox:`pwd`/badmail % limit coredump 10m % /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 quit at which point you should get some errors and/or a coredump. You may need to do it twice (i.e. let it create the .imap/ index structure first). If you can't make it happen I can send along more info. -mm- (and yes, this was a real mail message, albeit a spam, except that I simplified it some and replaced all of the content with "x" characters)

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[dovecot] Debian packages for 0.99.9
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

I uploaded the new version to sid today. Apart from the new version a big change is that it has now been split into 4 pieces. dovecot-imapd and dovecot-pop3d are the imap server and the pop3 server rspectively. They are seperate so you can install one without the other. dovecot-common contains the files they both use. dovecot is just a dummy to ensure smooth upgrades for users of older versions. As there are new packages, they will take a while to show up i the archive so I'm temporarily making them available from http://src.braincells.com/debian/sid/dovecot/ or deb http://src.braincells.com/debian sid/ deb-src http://src.braincells.com/debian sid/ via apt-get. but unless you have a burning need to upgrade, I recommend you just wait a few days. A backport to woody is also available, add deb http://src.braincells.com/debian woody/ deb-src http://src.braincells.com/debian woody/ to your sources.list. One problem I found with installing on woody is that the first time you do apt-get install dovecot, it gives you an error because /etc/dovecot.conf is no owned by dovect-common instead of dovecot. It will work correctly the second time you run the command. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[dovecot] Dovecot RH RPM packages
by Dag Wieers 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Hi, I can't remember if I already told you, but I'm building RPM packages of dovecot for RH73, RH80 and RH9. You can find these at: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/ Or use apt as described on: http://dag.wieers.com/apt/ I also added a sysv file to the SPEC-file for use with Red Hat. If you add this SPEC-file to your tarball (probably with some custom changes) everyone can build an RPM package by issuing: rpmbuild -ta <tarball> Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- �Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors�

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[dovecot] current cvs (04.28)
by Farkas Levente 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

hi, after the current cvs compile: ----------------------- gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I../../src/lib-storage -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c `test -f 'mail-storage-callbacks.c' || echo './'`mail-storage-callbacks.c source='main.c' object='main.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/main.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/main.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../../depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I../../src/lib-storage -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c `test -f 'main.c' || echo './'`main.c make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../lib-index/libstorage_index.a', needed by `pop3'. Stop. ----------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] 0.99.9 release candidate 1
by Timo Sirainen 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

0.99.9 should really be released soon. There's been quite a lot of important fixes since 0.99.8.1. There's still some recent counter strangeness, but it wasn't perfect before either. mbox still doesn't necessarily notice flag changes unless they're written into index file (ie. non-Dovecots and Dovecot without index files). But it wasn't perfect before either. dovecot-uidlist file works perfectly now as far as I know. I just noticed that mbox syncing has been somewhat broken for past month. It sometimes assigned new UIDs to messages without any reason, so it was mostly just slowdown. So unless there's something really broken, I'll release 0.99.9 tomorrow. Please get 0.99.9-rc1 from http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/rc/ and see if you can break it. NEWS file: v0.99.9 2003-04-28 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * WARNING: mbox rewriting works now faster, but it's less likely to notice external message flag changes (it wasn't perfect before either). This also means that if you're not using index files, Dovecot may not notice changes made by another process. This will be fixed later. + Message UIDs are now permanently stored outside index files. Deleting indexes is now possible without any kind of data loss and in-memory indexes are now usable. + mbox rewriting leaves extra space into X-Keywords header. It's shrinked or grown when updating message flag headers to avoid rewriting the rest of the file. + imap-login and pop3-login can now be started from inetd. Privilege separation is still used, so it executes dovecot and dovecot-auth processes which are left on the background. + PostgreSQL authentication support, patch by Alex Howansky - Large multiline headers (over 8kB) broke Dovecot before. Now they're parsed one line at a time and we try to avoid reading them fully into memory. - SEARCH OR was broken - Partial BODY[] fetches were broken - Timezones were still set wrong when parsing dates - Using non-synchronized literals (LITERAL+) broke APPEND - Renaming maildir subfolders inserted extra "." in the middle. - Subfolders were a bit broken with maildir - Invalid PLAIN auth request crashed auth process.

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[dovecot] shared folders?
by Moe Wibble 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

Any plans to implement shared folders anytime soon? greetinx -- MW

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[dovecot] dovecot and grsecurity (problem with resource limits)
by Heiko Zuerker 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

Howdy folks ! I just added Dovecot as a standard package to Devil-Linux and ran into a problem with resource limits. Grsecurity (http://www.grsecurity.net) is used in DL to prevent problems with common exploits, it also reports violations of rlimits. The following messages show up in the log, but it seems that the IMAP Server works fine: Apr 26 19:20:04 src@gate imap-login: Login: hz [192.168.0.11] Apr 26 19:20:05 src@gate kernel: grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 37 for RLIMIT_NPROC against limit 0 by (dovecot:10246) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (dovecot:634) UID(0) EUID(0) Apr 26 19:22:18 src@gate kernel: grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 37 for RLIMIT_NPROC against limit 0 by (dovecot:19802) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (dovecot:634) UID(0) EUID(0) Apr 26 19:22:18 src@gate imap-login: Login: hz [192.168.0.11] Apr 26 19:26:36 src@gate syslog-ng[606]: STATS: dropped 0 Apr 26 19:28:19 src@gate kernel: grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 33 for RLIMIT_NPROC against limit 0 by (dovecot:16011) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (dovecot:634) UID(0) EUID(0) How should we proceed to analyze/fix this problem? Thanks! Heiko

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[dovecot] today cvs
by Farkas Levente 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

hi, the today cvs has a new bug during configure (both on rh 8.0 and rh 9): ----------------------------------- checking size of long long... 8 checking type of off_t... long long ./configure: line 12009: syntax error near unexpected token `else' ./configure: line 12009: `else' ----------------------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] Using on AIX
by Adam Lackorzynski 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

Hi, I'm trying to install dovecot-0.99.9-test6 with gcc-3.2.2 under AIX (4.3.3) and found some problems. First, I need to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED to 1 in src/lib/fdpass.c and src/auth/mycrypt.c or undefine it to compile successfully. When I define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED to 1, I get the following error while connecting: dovecot: Apr 21 17:56:44 Info: Dovecot starting up imap-login: Apr 21 17:57:19 Fatal: fd_send(5) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Apr 21 17:57:19 Error: child 39504 (login) returned error 89 This happens after a successful authentication (i.e. wrong authentications are correctly denied). Something similar happens if I define _XOPEN_SOURCE to 500 in both files. When I undefine the _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDEDs without modifying the original _XOPEN_SOURCE defines, it seems to come further: imap-login: Apr 21 18:24:23 Info: Login: xxx [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] imap(xxx): Apr 21 18:24:23 Panic: file mail-index-data.c: line 439 (mail_index_data_append): assertion failed: ((size & (MEM_ALIGN_SIZE-1)) == 0) dovecot: Apr 21 18:24:23 Error: child 95800 (imap) killed with signal 6 but this doesn't work either. Anything other I could try? Thanks, Adam -- Adam adam(a)os.inf.tu-dresden.de Lackorzynski http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/

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