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[Dovecot] IMAP subfolders
by Manuel Moran Vaquero 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi: I am using dovecot since the first day on my server (so I have no other mailbox formats). I can't create any subfolders under any IMAP folders. Is this still an issue of dovecot? In mozilla, the operation is simply ignored. With outlook, you can't even click "Accept" if you select to create a subfolder, rather than a top level folder. I have Fedora Core 1, and didn't touch anything special in the configuration file (just one line which enabled pop3 and imap). I have seen the list archives but the existing thread about the issue seems to say that the problem is solved. (?) Thanks in advance for replies Manuel Moran

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Re: [Dovecot] ":" in filenames
by Timo Sirainen 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 05:57, Lars Hansson wrote: > dovecot seems to have an issue with :'s in pathnames: > imap(test.user): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /home/ > hosted/example.com/users/test:user > > This causes a bit of a problem with vmailmgr since it, by default, > replaces .'s in maildir path with :'s. > I'm curious as to why :'s in paths are an issue? Do they have special > meaning to dovecot? Hmm.. They do. default_mail_env format is: "storage_format:data" and both mbox and maildir in "data" part treat it as "path:option:option2:..". So, Dovecot above thought "/home/hosted/example.com/users/test" was the storage format and "user" the data part for it. You could change default_mail_env = maildir:~/ but then Dovecot would think "user" as being unknown option.. I'm not sure what to do about this.. ':' was selected because it's PATH separator as well, so people rarely have directories containing ':' in it's name. Maybe it could be escaped as "\:"..

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[Dovecot] ":" in filenames
by Lars Hansson 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

dovecot seems to have an issue with :'s in pathnames: imap(test.user): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /home/ hosted/example.com/users/test:user This causes a bit of a problem with vmailmgr since it, by default, replaces .'s in maildir path with :'s. I'm curious as to why :'s in paths are an issue? Do they have special meaning to dovecot? --- Lars Hansson

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[Dovecot] dovecot-nightly/NetBSD - Fwd: CVS commit: wip/dovecot-nightly
by tom＠replic8.net 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

hello everybody, i just commited a pkgsrc for dovecot nightly cvs-snapshots to the pkgsrc-wip repository for NetBSD - this will hopefully go into base pkgsrc, soon. please see http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/ on how to obtain pkgsrc-wip. ----- Forwarded message from Tom Hensel <tomhensel(a)users.sourceforge.net> ----- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:18:52 -0800 From: Tom Hensel <tomhensel(a)users.sourceforge.net> Reply-To: pkgsrc-wip-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: CVS commit: wip/dovecot-nightly To: pkgsrc-wip-cvs(a)lists.sourceforge.net Module name: pkgsrc-wip Committed by: tomhensel Date: Sun Feb 22 19:18:52 UTC 2004 Import into wip/dovecot-nightly Log Message: Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Although it's written in C, it uses several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. A nightly CVS-snapshot is available at http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/nightly/ which includes major changes from Dovecot 0.99.10.4; please see the ChangeLog file inside the distribution archive. For more information on Dovecot see http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ Status: Vendor Tag: tomhensel Release Tags: tomhensel_20040222 N wip/dovecot-nightly/PLIST N wip/dovecot-nightly/distinfo N wip/dovecot-nightly/Makefile N wip/dovecot-nightly/DESCR N wip/dovecot-nightly/files/dovecot.sh N wip/dovecot-nightly/patches/patch-aa N wip/dovecot-nightly/patches/patch-ab No conflicts created by this import To generate a diff of this commit: Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ pkgsrc-wip-cvs mailing list pkgsrc-wip-cvs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pkgsrc-wip-cvs ----- End forwarded message -----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot -- basic setup
by Tom 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hey all, After some kind soul made me understand what I can expect from Dovecot, I feel really embarassed for not being able to set it up correctly. What I already had was ~/Mail, containing about six maildirs. Exim got mail, delivered it to procmail, and procmail dropped it in my inbox; a needless extra step that I keep for future, ehm, needs that I might start to care about when I can just succesfully use the most basic mail configuration I can think of. As far as I understood, I just have to point Dovecot to my maildir for it to serve my mail when I connect appropriately with a client. When I test that with KMail connecting to localhost, I get a bizarre overview of my mailfolders, that looks like this: http://www.xs4all.be/~verbreyt/img/scrots/dovecot-kmail.jpg The error message on top is what I get when I try to catch up with any possible new mail: "Unable to get information about folder antwort.index. The server replied: Internal error." Syslog says "lstat(/home/tom/Mail/.antwort.index/cur) failed: Not a directory". Could be, of course: the directory should be ~/Mail/antwort/cur. After I ran KMail and got those errors, ~/Mail, previously only containing some folders, each in turn containing cur/, new/ and tmp/, is stuffed with index files, and three new folders (cur/, new/ and tmp/) directly in the toplevel. ##### $ ls -a Mail . .drafts.index.ids .sent.index.ids .. inbox sent-mail antwort .INBOX .sent-mail.index .antwort.index .inbox.index .sent-mail.index.ids .antwort.index.ids .inbox.index.ids spam check .inbox.index.sorted .spam.index .check.index new .spam.index.ids .check.index.ids outbox tmp cur .outbox.index trash .customflags .outbox.index.ids .trash.index drafts sent .trash.index.ids .drafts.index .sent.index ##### I'm not sure just where it all goes wrong. Yes, I feel stupid about that, but what did, then, did I misunderstand? The only relevant thing in /etc/dovecot.conf I guess would be "default_mail_env" which I have set to "maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mail/inbox". Documentation may be sparse, it'd still make me sad to be the cause of it being extended for use by the clueless. :-/ Grateful for any corrections, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Predominance - Luftschiffe (flac)

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[Dovecot] File synchronization friendly indexes
by Aredridel 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

I've been doing some tests of file synchronization with Unison (think "two way rsync"), and run into one problem: Synching between servers has conflicts on the index file. I can manually exclude, but what seems to me to be a really wonderful feature would be to, preferably, make the indexes somewhat atomic, so that files, once written, don't change (this is a feature of maildirs in general), and barring that, that they include the machine name as part of the filename, so there's no conflicts. Also, on a completely unrelated and somewhat offtopic note: I'd love to hear some brainstorms on how to prevent duplicate messages when maildirs are synched, files are moved from new on one or more ends, flags are changed inconsistently, and synched back. Ari

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[Dovecot] More Benchmarks, and a question about indexing
by Anthony Wendell Kay 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Hi, We are thinking of converting to Dovecot to lighten our I/O load. I have done some performace tests comparing UW-IMAP to Dovecot when using mbox format if anyone is interested. They primarily examine the I/O improvements that can be gained from using Dovecot over UW when staying with mbox format: http://whizzo.uoregon.edu/public/src/mailperf/results.html I had too much cached for this set of tests, and I am going to re-run some with the recommended cache settings...so stay tuned. Anyway, we are stuck with the mbox format for the forseeable future, and I noticed how hard hitting Dovecot is on initial access to a large mailbox, so we need a way to pre-create some of those indexes. I saw in the docs that such an indexer has been planned, but does anyone have a hack for doing it now? -- Anthony Kay Phone: (541) 346-1719 Student Consultant Key Signature: 7195 40B9 FC4F 6F43 C04A University of Oregon Computing Center B4D9 BAF1 C76E AB6E 33E5 "Don't wish your life away." - Mom's best advice

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[Dovecot] LDAP configuration
by Giacomo Cariello 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

Hello, I've just installed dovecot to replace courier-imap and I've found out it didn't support some of the typical LDAP userPassword schemes, so I've written some based on OpenSSL API. Furthermore I noticed that the MD5 one seems broken. If it isn't a requirement to ship its own implementation of a crypto algorithm, I would send in a patch to replace schema checks with those based on libcrypto. I also noticed that if I try connecting to an account that doesn't contain a real maildir (es. maildir:%h/.mail, but .mail doesn't exist), the imap segv's. I suppose it would be cool to ship a maildirmake program and have imap use it whenever necessary, if a flag allows it to do so. Giacomo Cariello, jwk(a)bug.it KeyID: 3072/1024/0x409C9044 Fingerprint: 7984 10FD 0460 4202 BF90 3881 CDE4 D78E 409C 9044 "Put that mic in my hand and let me kick out the jams!" - MC5

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[Dovecot] Basic questions concerning mail...
by Tom 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hey all, A few minutes ago, I installed Dovecot, hoping things would get clear by just looking at the relevant config files, but since they don't, I hope someone here could give me a clue... What I want to achieve is really only basic functionality. It's just for personal use, so it shouldn't get too complicated. Up til now, I have been using fetchmail to get my mail off of several POP3-accounts, exim to hand it over to procmail and procmail to drop it in the mail directories of my girlfriend and I. I'd like to be able to remotely use a webmail program of some kind to check mail without having to use ssh to login. So I thought an IMAP-server might be the way to go, but, embarassing though it may be, I can't quite grasp how Dovecot (any IMAPd of course, for that matter) fits in the whole. Should Dovecot receive mail from fetchmail and put in it it's proper place in the user's home directories? Or does Dovecot merely read any mail that might belong to users, told where to look by dovecot.conf? Since I now notice my questions are put in a way that is equally embarassing as the questions themselves, I'll keep it short: could anyone enlighten me about the role of Dovecot / an IMAPd it the whole of a mail system (mail directories for each user, fetchmail, procmail, an MTA, a MUA)? Sincerely apologizing for wasting your undoubtedly valuable time, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Vive La Fête - Assez (flac)

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[Dovecot] your /etc/dovecot.conf
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi. Please send me your /etc/dovecot.conf what edited. Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] SOS
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi,When i run "service dovecot start",I receive following line: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Please guide me until i can make a key file.... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Configure dovecot.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hi. I installed dovecot,via RPM.But i don't know that i how to configure it. Please guide me...... ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] dovecot..
by Cami 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi All.. Has anyone got any experimental patches for mysql auth? Regards, Cami

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[Dovecot] Error While compiling with the Mysql patch
by Xavier Orduña 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hi! When I'm trying to compile the source-code I get this error message: mycrypt.o: In function `mycrypt': /root/soft/dovecot-0.99.10.4/src/auth/mycrypt.c:11: undefined reference to `crypt' /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o): In function `my_compress_alloc': my_compress.o(.text+0xb4): undefined reference to `compress' /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o): In function `my_uncompress': my_compress.o(.text+0x12a): undefined reference to `uncompress' I Included the FLAGS: AUTH_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/mysql -DPASSDB_MYSQL -DUSERDB_MYSQL" \ AUTH_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient" \ Before to compile, and I'm using a Debian woody. Do you know what happens? Thanks Xavi

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[Dovecot] dovecot-IMAP-SSL-StartUp
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Hi everybody. I downloaded RPM of dovecot for RH9. & i installed it with "rpm -ivh ThatFILE.rpm" then i ran "service dovecot start" & i receiving following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Then i go to /usr/share/ssl/certs/ & i ran make dovecot.pem then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Then i ran "cp /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem /usr/share/ssl/private/" Then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): [ OK ] But i after it,I ran "service dovecot status" & i received following line: dovecot dead but subsys locked Please guide me...... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Configuring MySql Patch
by Xavier Orduña 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hi! I have installed the patch, compiled and installed Dovecot. But how I modify the dovecot.conf to use it? I've been searching in the mailing list archive but I did'nt find anything. Thanks. Xavi

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[Dovecot] Quitting list
by Ted S. Garaventa 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

I have tried all the methods outlined in the original email received from the list on unsubscribing and none work. Can someone tell me how to unsubscribe. All the links in the email sent to me when I subscribed are broken.

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[Dovecot] The problem is in the folder, not in the messages
by Karl Eklund 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

About my problem with "dovecot crashes on certain spam messages", I have found that deleting the mail it is working on when it crashes just makes it crash on some other message, but deleting .imap.index.* from the directory of the folder in question makes everything good again.

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[Dovecot] How to use Mysql Patch
by Xavier Orduña 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hi Sorry to post something that could be trivial, But how I apply the patch to use Mysql? Or is better that I wait to the new version? How long it will take to see the version with the patch inside? I have thinked about to use (vpopmail with MySql)+Dovecot. What about this option? Thanks a lot Xavi

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on FreeBSD 4.9 - "Invalid Password Field"
by Jamie Heckford 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hi, I am attempting to get dovecot up and running on FreeBSD 4.9..... Tried with the default config file and my own one (below) but when trying to login I get the following: Feb 10 17:59:53 cobain dovecot-auth: passwd(jamie): invalid password field '*' It seems like it is trying to read straight from /etc/passwd? I thought it called getpw(). Is this a common error and could anyone shed some light on how to fix it? Thanks :) Jamie -- dovecot.conf ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file base_dir = /var/dovecot/ protocols = imap imap_listen = 192.168.120.7 login_dir = /var/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes ssl_disable = yes ## IMAP login process login = imap login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 16 ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. max_mail_processes = 300 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 8000 first_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_gid = 5100 default_mail_env = maildir:/u/home/%u client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mail_save_crlf = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mbox_locks = fcntl ## IMAP process imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 ## Authentication processes auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_user = root auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes

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[Dovecot] a newbie question.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi, I'm a newbie.Sorry for my question. I have RH9 & downloaded rpm of dovecot for RH9. I installed it: rpm -ivh nameOfthatrpm & when i ran #service dovecot start ,I recieved following lines: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Please guide me........ ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Start-up
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi. I dovecot RPM on RH9,Of course,I used RPM fro RH9,But when i run "service dovecot start" I receiving a OK But when i run "service dovecot status" I receiving folloing line: dovecot dead but subsys locked & even when i run "ps -A |grep dovecot" ,i'm not receiving anythings. Please guide me..... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] Again SSL.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi. I uninstalled dovecot.After it,I build a rpm from dovecot.org ,& installed it. Now,when i run service dovecot start ,I received following line: Starting dovecot: Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory [FAILED] Please guide me... ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] SSL certificate.
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi. I had generate a SSL cetificate. I performed following actions: mkdir /opt/LocalCA cd /opt/LocalCA mkdir certs mkdir private chmod 700 private echo '01' > serial touch index.txt cd /opt/LocalCA PATH=/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH export PATH OPENSSL_CONF=/opt/LocalCA/LocalCA.cnf export OPENSSL_CONF openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa -out cacert.pem -outform PEM -days 1825 Then made following files: /opt/LocalCA/cacert.pem # CA public certificate /opt/LocalCA/private/cakey.pem # CA private key Then i performed 2 actions: mv /opt/LocalCA/cacert.pem /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem mv /opt/LocalCA/cakey.pem /usr/shar/ssl/private/dovecot.pem Now,I run service dovecot start & i received following line: Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): [ OK ] But now i run service dovecot status & i recieving following line: dovecot dead but subsys locked PLEASE GUIDE ME......... ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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[Dovecot] ANNOUNCE: Mailadmin - New web interface for virtual domains
by John Thompson 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hey there, I've written a(nother) web front end for postfix + dovecot + mysql, it's called Mailadmin. (I'm sure you could use it with another POP/IMAP server, I haven't though) You can download it at: http://waste.org/~jello/mailadmin/ Some features are: o Licensed under the GPL o Written in perl o Written with security in mind o Supports regular mailboxes, forward-only boxes, and catchalls. o Ability to undelete deleted users (You'll have to do this manually for now (see TODO)) o You can add as many admins as you want, and they can only see or modify their own domains/users. o Uses HTML::Template, so you can edit the pages to appear as you want without having to muck through a bunch of code There are still a few features left to add (deleting domains for instance), but it's been working great for me for a while. Also, Debian Sarge (or later) users can use the install script and brief instructions to go from a bare-bones install to fully working postfix + dovecot + mysql virtual domains with web front-end in 5 or 10 minutes. Guaranteed! (ok, maybe not _guaranteed_, but it's quite easy). Feedback is much appreciated.

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[Dovecot] Bugzilla
by Kenneth Porter 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

--On Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:32 AM +0100 Lars Skovgaard <lars(a)misterp.dk> wrote: > Thanks a lot. Wow, I didn't even know about Bugzilla ...what a great site. Yep, a great thing. It grew out of Mozilla. I've installed it at my office for bug tracking. You just need Perl and MySQL. Timo, do you get Bugzilla's for Dovecot from Red Hat forwarded to you? It looks like Jeremy Katz of Red Hat is the component owner, but you could get listed as "QA contact" so that you get cc'd as new bugs are entered. The following query shows all bugs against the Dovecot component in all Red Hat "products": <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=dovecot>

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
by Lars Skovgaard 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

>> As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which >> of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail >> to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. > > That looks like this procmail bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62859 > > Upgrading to procmail 3.22 should fix the problem. > > Paul Thanks a lot. Wow, I didn't even know about Bugzilla ...what a great site. I've upgraded to procmail 3.22, and the problem is solved! /Lars On 8/2-2004, at 11.00, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: >> As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which >> of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail >> to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. > > That looks like this procmail bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62859 > > Upgrading to procmail 3.22 should fix the problem. > > Paul >

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[Dovecot] CRAM-MD5 support?
by S Tanaka 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

Hi, I'm wondering what is dovecot's support for CRAM-MD5? The mailing list for November 2003 seems to indicate that Timo has included it into the CVS tree, however the ChangeLogs in the latest version does not say anything about it. The online docs has indicated that it's supported, but the doc files in 0.99.10.4 doesn't seem to mention about it.... Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Re: Illegal characters in message names
by Paul Adams 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

> As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which > of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail > to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. That looks like this procmail bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62859 Upgrading to procmail 3.22 should fix the problem. Paul

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[Dovecot] Illegal characters in message names
by Lars Skovgaard 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

Hi all I've set up Dovecot to use maildir-storage according to the previous hint from Blair Zajac, and it's working perfectly. However, I still have a problem with the way procmail wants to name the received emails. The following is a slightly modified extract from my logs: procmail: [5373] Thu Feb 5 23:59:14 2004 procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/Users/name/Maildir/" procmail: Assigning "ORGMAIL=/Users/name/Maildir/" procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=/Users/name/Maildir/" procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/Users/name/Library/rc.myrules" procmail: Match on "^From:.*someone@somewhere.com" procmail: Error while writing to ".Folder/tmp/1076021954.5373_0.y/rc.myrulessomewhere.com" procmail: Couldn't create or rename temp file ".Folder/tmp/1076021954.5373_0.y/rc.myrulessomewhere.com" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/Users/name/Maildir/new/ 1076021954.5373_1.rp.comsomewhere.com" procmail: Notified comsat: "name@0:/Users/name/Maildir/new/1076021954.5373_1.rp.comsomewhere.com" As you can see, procmail puts a slash in the middle of the name, which of course is not allowed. This causes the rule to break, and the mail to be delivered to the default mailbox instead of the intended. Does anyone know how to control which characters are allowed in procmail, or how to control the naming eg. by way of grep? /Lars

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[Dovecot] Password prompt
by Zachary Schneider 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

When checking multiple POP3 accounts against Dovecot + ldap AUTH with outlook XP and Mail.app password dialogs randomly request that you reenter the password. I see stuff like this in the logs: Feb 4 19:02:25 geonosis dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) Feb 5 08:53:19 geonosis dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) and: Feb 4 12:00:41 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050cc0 (0) Feb 4 12:00:41 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x80848d0 (1) Feb 4 12:02:05 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050cc0 (0) Feb 4 12:02:05 geonosis pop3: I/O leak: 0x80848d0 (1) and: Feb 4 11:35:02 geonosis dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (125s) requests, killing it. Feb 4 11:35:50 geonosis dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (123s) requests, killing it. This is the most recent version of Dovecot. IMAP appears to work pretty flawlessly. Please advise Thanks z

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[Dovecot] Newbie question: How to make dovecot read /var/mail/user while using Maildir
by Lars Skovgaard 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Hi I've been trying to figure out how to make dovecot read the system standard /var/mail/user, which is in mbox-format, while at the same time using Maildir as the preferred method of storage. When in Maildir-mode, I can store mail on the server without a hitch, but I don't receive mails. When in mbox-format, I can read and write, but the risk of corrupting mails is to high for me to consider mbox as an option. I would appreciate to hear from anyone who has a possible solution to this. Info about my system: MacOSX 10.2 Jaguar Apache 2.0.47 running Squirrelmail 1.4.2 PHP 4.3.2 Sendmail 8.12.9 Procmail v3.21 /Lars

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crashes on certain spam messages
by Karl Eklund 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Dovecot crashes. I think it's because of some message in my spam folder. It has happened once before, and that time I solved it by deleting that folder. It happens when I start gnus ("Checking messages in folder spam" or something like that), which makes gnus just stop, or when I try to enter that folder in mutt. Jan 30 17:07:09 kalle imap(ke): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 278 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Is there something I can do to determine which message it crashed on? Maildir format, version 0.99.10.4.

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[Dovecot] dovecot crash on sendfilev64 on solaris 8 (32bit) (WORKAROUND)
by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hi, related to my previous email i found that setting "mail_save_crlf = no" instead of yes make dovecot working. However if enabled on solaris 8 it doesn't work hanging on sendfilev64() call. I noticed that maildir file names are still different from maildrop and dovecot but now works. However moving bigger mailbox from local storage to remote imap server i receive "Disconnect for inactivity while waiting for command data" error triggered by client_input_timeout function in imap/client.c . The timeout is defined as CLIENT_CMDINPUT_TIMEOUT which is defined as CLIENT_OUTPUT_TIMEOUT which is 1 minute (60*1000) . I think that could be usefull to have this timeout tunable because when you tranfer into the imap server large quantity of data if it takes more than 1 minutes, process goes timeout ( altought with mutt 1.4i client ) . Regards -naif

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[Dovecot] dovecot crash on sendfilev64 on solaris 8 (32bit)
by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hi, i'm running dovecot on a SMP sparc 32bit server with solaris 8(latest patch installed). Dovecot with ssl. Postfix+imap+maildrop . Dovecot work fine with every email and folders delivered by maildrop, but now i'm trying to move all my local folders (i'm using mutt and i'm storing my emails locally on my pc) to the imap server . The upload of an entire 12000 mails folders worked fine, when i try to access that folder i can see "fetching headers" and all it's ok but when i attempt to read a message dovecot imap process crash. Dovecot crash even if i attempt to read one single email moved from my local inbox to remote imap INBOX maildir. Dovecot work fine on every folder created by maildrop. I made some debugging with truss and found that he die on sendfilev64 call: 5113: 0 7 O K S t a t u s c o m p l e t e d .\r\n 5113: poll(0x0008B450, 1, 204) = 0 5113: poll(0x0008B450, 1, 0) = 0 5113: poll(0x0008B450, 1, 999) = 1 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: read(0, 0x000925AC, 3796) = 35 5113: a 0 0 0 8 U I D F E T C H 1 2 5 1 3 B O D Y . P E E K [ 5113: ]\r\n 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: fcntl(4, F_SETLKW64, 0xDFFFF510) = 0 5113: open64("/mailboxes/pietrosanti.it/lists@pietrosanti.it/.Cyber-Rights/cur/1075891040.P3168Q12514M511660.supertolla.itapac.net:2,S", O_RDONLY) = 14 5113: fstat64(14, 0xDFFFF550) = 0 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: write(1, 0x00093488, 40) = 40 5113: * 1 2 5 1 3 F E T C H ( U I D 1 2 5 1 3 B O D Y [ ] 5113: { 1 9 5 7 }\r\n 5113: sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xDFFFF3C0, 1, 0xDFFFF3BC) Err#124 EAFNOSUPPORT 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: fcntl(4, F_SETLKW64, 0xDFFFF5F8) = 0 5113: close(14) = 0 5113: time() = 1075892017 5113: close(9) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF230000, 1608) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF220000, 10264) = 0 5113: close(10) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF1A0000, 1560) = 0 5113: close(12) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF190000, 2576) = 0 5113: close(13) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF1B0000, 5) = 0 5113: close(11) = 0 5113: close(4) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF4C0000, 330120) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF240000, 2563740) = 0 5113: close(5) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF1C0000, 330072) = 0 5113: close(7) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF520000, 2576) = 0 5113: close(8) = 0 5113: munmap(0xDF790000, 5) = 0 5113: close(6) = 0 5113: fstat(3, 0xDFFFFAE0) = 0 5113: close(3) = 0 5113: alarm(0) = 16 5113: sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xDFFFFA48, 0x00000000) = 0 5113: llseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR) Err#29 ESPIPE 5113: _exit(0) I noticed that maildir files created by dovecot have the following file names format: 1075891040.P3168Q12514M511660.supertolla.itapac.net:2,S and maildrop one are in this other format: 1075893689.M267966P5215V01540032I001B6706_0.supertolla.itapac.net,S=1381:2,S I'm working on SPARC 32 bit architecture with the following compile options: CC=gcc CXX=gcc CFLAGS="-O9 -msupersparc -mcpu=supersparc -mtune=supersparc -fno-omit-frame-pointer -m32" CXXFLAGS="-O9 -msupersparc -mcpu=supersparc -mtune=supersparc -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -m32" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include/ -I/data/chroot/mysql/mysql/include/mysql" LDFLAGS="-L/data/chroot/mysql/mysql/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/ssl/lib" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/data/chroot/mysql/mysql/lib/mysql export CC CXX CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./configure --prefix=/dovecot --without-passwd --without-passwd-file --without-shadow --without-pam \ --without-ldap --without-vpopmail --without-pgsql --without-cyrus-sasl2 --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --without-pop3d --with-mysql --with-static-userdb vi config.h #define PASSDB_MYSQL 1 #define USERDB_MYSQL 1 vi src/auth/Makefile add -lmysqlclient to LIBS LIBS = -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -lsendfile -lmysqlclient Regards -- Fabio Pietrosanti ( naif ) - f.pietrosanti(a)inet.it I.NET SpA - ( Operation Group, Network Security ) Sede: Via Darwin, 85 20019 Settimo Milanese (MI), Italy Tel: +39 02 32863.1 - Fax: +39 02 32863.7709 PGP Key avaiable on request -- Free advertising: www.openbsd.org - Multiplatform Ultra-secure OS

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[Dovecot] Dovecot died due to some SSL related error
by Christof Baumgärtner 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hi, Dovecot (pre-compiled version of Fedora Core 1, configured for Maildir) is running fine for me since a few days. It happened now twice to me that dovecot died with the following error message in /var/log/maillog: Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette imap-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down As these previous log messages indicate the login was working before without any problem: Feb 4 11:02:37 hundehuette imap-login: Login: andrea [192.168.2.138] Feb 4 11:05:56 hundehuette last message repeated 30 times Feb 4 11:09:02 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:12:08 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:15:15 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:18:21 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times Feb 4 11:18:26 hundehuette last message repeated 12 times Dovecot is running as user "dovecot" who does not have a ~/.rnd file Any idea? Thanks, Christof

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot crashes on certain spam messages
by Dan Sully 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

I'm also seeing this - I wasn't able to get a core dump, but was able to get info from strace/lsof to track down the message: strace shows in a continuous read loop, as it's trying to go past EOF. pread(9, "", 3502, 30524) = 0 pread(9, "", 3502, 30524) = 0 pread(9, "", 3502, 30524) = 0 I've attached the problem message (gzipped). -D -- <dr.pox> does whistling in the dark make me go blind faster?

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[Dovecot] SpamAssassin
by Kenneth Porter 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

--On Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:16 PM +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > I don't yet really even want Dovecot to be too well known, it's not > ready yet. When 1.0 comes (this spring I hope) I'll start publicizing it > more. After that I should only need to add new features - existing ones > should be perfect and better than anyone else's ;) Just a heads-up, then. A regular FAQ on the SA-Talk list is how to integrate SA into someone's IMAP/POP3 server, and once Dovecot gets popular, you'll start seeing that question here. I run SA from sendmail via MIMEDefang (to reject the egregious stuff), and from procmail on delivery (to tag and quarantine the borderline stuff). I'm not sure why people would use it in the IMAP server, but the question does come up.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot dies on startup????
by Mitchell Baker 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system... I get the following.. I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might help he as well.. Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127 Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Thanks... See-ya Mitch -- /####################################################################/ /# Mitchell "Buzz" Baker "To Infinity And Beyond..." #/ /# Sr. Systems/Security Admin Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology #/ /# Mitchell.D.Baker(a)rose-hulman.edu www.rose-hulman.edu #/ /# For PGP Public key, check out www.keyserver.net #/ /####################################################################/

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[Dovecot] Assert in Fedora dovecot-0.99.10.4-1
by Blair Zajac 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello, I'm seeing this in my dovecot log file: imap(blair): Dec 16 13:53:06 Panic: file istream.c: line 93 (i_stream_set_read_limit): assertion failed: (stream->v_size == 0 || v_offset <= stream->v_size) I get this consistently when I search for the string "unknown C primitive" across 10 mailboxes using the Windows Netscape 4.80 client. If there's any more information I can provide, please let me know. Best, Blair -- Blair Zajac <blair(a)orcaware.com> Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/

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[Dovecot] Migrating from UW: mbx detection and conversion
by Kenneth Porter 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I want to migrate my big mail folder hierarchy in preparation for converting from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. I've got a bunch of mbx format folders but some remain mbox. Has anyone done this? Any scripts out there for automating the conversion to all-mbox? I believe the only format conversion available is mailutil (part of UW-IMAP) and it works by opening an IMAP connection to the server and moving messages from one folder to the other. Is there any simpler method?

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[Dovecot] dovecot crash
by Simon Bell 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I woke up this morning and my dovecot server had died with the following in the dovecot.log file: pop3-login: Jan 23 10:23:08 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: child 16321 (login) returned error 89 How can I find out whats going wrong?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not creating dirs
by marko sarunac 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I have looked trough the archives and found similar scenarios but mine is a bit diff I got dovecot running (0.99.10.4-2) on debian testing and what is happening is that i created /home/marko/mail directory and configured my postfix to deliver mail to ~/mail/Inbox my default mail env is default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=%h/mail/Inbox:INDEX=%h/mail/.indexes Now when i first started my mozilla imap client what happened was! Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): Can't create temp index /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.temp.limbic.7523: No such file or directory Jan 26 21:46:34 imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory after i manually :~/mail$ mkdir .indexes :~/mail$ cd .indexes/ :~/mail/.indexes$ mkdir .imap :~/mail/.indexes$ cd .imap/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ mkdir INBOX :~/mail/.indexes/.imap$ cd INBOX/ :~/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX$ i only get Jan 26 22:06:34 limbic imap(marko): utime() failed with index file /home/marko/mail/.indexes/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory On the other note...when i try to delete any mail from Inbox using IMAP client i get "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: trash" This obviously shows that dovecot can't create neither files nor directories I am using non system wide readable directories and just to try things i did chmod -R 777 mail from /home/marko didn't help any ideas and comments are greatelly appreciated!!!

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[Dovecot] State of MySQL authentication
by Ian Armstrong 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I am looking for a pop3 server that can authenticate via MySQL. It also needs to be able to do a POST_LOGIN_QUERY. I want to be able to update a "date" field in the database, so that I can see which accounts are active, and which are not. Please let me know more about Dovecot and MySQL. Thanks Ian. Ian Armstrong ---------------------------------- ika(a)expressmail.dk

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[Dovecot] Problem starting dovecot..
by Mitchell Baker 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Sorry if this is newbie question.. but I'm a newbie to dovecot.. Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system... I get the following.. I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might help he as well.. Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127 Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Thanks... See-ya Mitch -- /####################################################################/ /# Mitchell "Buzz" Baker "To Infinity And Beyond..." #/ /# Sr. Systems/Security Admin Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology #/ /# Mitchell.D.Baker(a)rose-hulman.edu www.rose-hulman.edu #/ /# For PGP Public key, check out www.keyserver.net #/ /####################################################################/

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[Dovecot] pgsql-dovecot auth problem
by Ewald Geschwinde 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Jan 28 13:55:48 bachata dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Query "SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'foo(a)foo.bar'" failed: I have this error in /var/log/mail.log I have installed a debian machine with dovecot debian packages in my test environment it runs perfect I have used the tutorials on wiki.dovecot.org And there is nothing in the postgresql log about this query And I'm logging queries HAs anyone encountered this error? Postfix send the mail in the right maildir Only the IMAP login does not work. Regards Ewald Geschwinde

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[Dovecot] Customflags problem?
by Rick Johnson 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I'm new here, but I'll just jump right in. I've been using Dovecot with Fedora for a bit with the default mbox format. I recently transitioned to the Maildir format since some users were getting mailboxes in excess of 1GB in size, which made expunging and flagging no easy task. Anyway, it appears now with Maildir, that customflags are "added" instead of "replaced". I.E. in Thunderbird or Mozilla, if I set a message label of 5 (Later), and then change it to 3 (Personal), all's fine. However, if I switch it back to Later, or attempt to remove it, the flags are not removed. When I examine the flags on the filename, I see something like :2,FSag. If I attempt to change to additional labels and/or flag the message, I'll end up with aefg on the same message. Unfortunately only the first flag is accepted, and Moz/Tbird keeps label 5 as "a" was "read" delivered first. If I mark label as none, the flags remain, meaning I have to manually rename the file to remove the flags. This wasn't a problem using the mbox format, since the flags were stored in the file itself. Is this something broken in how the reader is requesting or is it a fault in the dæmon itself not removing old customflags before adding new? I suspect something inside src/lib-index/maildir/maildir-index.c Also of note, Evolution can seem to remove them, but only does so upon exit. I've reproduced it in 0.99.10-6 (fedora core 1) and 0.99.10.4-1 (fedora devel) versions. I filed a Bugzilla report at bugzilla.redhat.com under 114230 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114230) -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson(a)medata.com Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc

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[Dovecot] Internal error during expunge
by Tim Jakobsen 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot-0.99.10.4_1 on Freebsd. CPU architecture is i386. When ever I try to move messages og delete dem i get an internal error. Below I've tried to show what dovecot says. Mail gets stored using mbox format. After giving the internal error you kan try to expunge the mail again and it works without error. Any suggestions or ideas as to what could be wrong? is it a bug? A003 STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Deleted) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) A003 OK Store completed. A004 expunge imap(foo): Error: Error indexing mbox file /home/foo/Mail/INBOX.Drafts: LF not found where expected A004 NO Internal error [2004-01-14 14:08:13] Tia. -- Regards, Tim

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[Dovecot] Certificate Authority-signed certs in dovecot?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi! Sorry if this has been covered. I've just started using dovecot and I've searched via google and I've downloaded the maillist archives, but I haven't found a solution. I'm using Fedora Core 1, with dovecot-0.99.10-6. When I'm at work, I access my home mail server using Outlook Express (I know, I know, but it's the only client I'm allowed to use at work). Now, I'm able to get to my email, but I get a warning popup box each time I connect to the server, that the authenticity of the certificate can't be verified. I'm assuming that that's because I am using a self-signed certificate. Now, I'm also using postfix, and it allows for me creating my own CA certificate, and using it to sign my own certificates. The /etc/postfix/main.cf entries are: smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/newreq.pem smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/newcert.pem smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem but while I see the following two lines in /etc/dovecot.conf: ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem I don't see how to specify my CA cert. I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to openssl, but I've been able to follow directions to get the TLS working in both postfix and dovecot. I just want to get rid of that annoying message. I figure that there's a way to sign my dovecot certs with the ca cert I've already created for postfix, and tell dovecot about it somehow. Has anybody done this? Thanks! Ben

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2002 sp-2 and initial connection after OS reboot
by David Crisp 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

I have a strange problem that I have been experienceing with dovecot: Dovecot version : 0.99.10.4-1 Using IMAP: When I restart the OS (windows XP) and open up Outlook 2002 SP2 I don't automatically get my IMAP folders on the DOVECOT imap server. (the one on the uw_imap server open up straight away) When I click on inbox I cam given a message saying : unable to connect to imap folders When highlight the inbox and go to "file" "connect to <imap server>" I get the error again.. "unable to connect to imap folders" If I just leave Outlook open for a while the folders mysteriously connect themselves. Has anybody seen this before and does anybody have any ideas on what to do to fix things. Is this an Outlook problem or a dovecot problem? I searched the archives and theres been nothing recently about this kind of problem. I need to get this system running in production very soon. --- David Crisp IT Systems Administrator WSL Consultants Pty Ltd dcrisp(a)wsl.com.au 2-8 Harvey Street Richmond Vic 3121 Australia Phone: +61 3 9429 4666 Fax: +61 3 9429 2294 Web: www.wsl.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WSL Consultants Pty Ltd www.wsl.com.au Head Office: 2-8 Harvey Street, Richmond VIC 3121 Ph: (03) 9429 4666 Fax: (03) 9429 2294 Bendigo Office: Gate 6, Sharon Street La Trobe University, Bendigo PO Box 106, Strathdale VIC 3550 Ph: (03) 5444 7890 Fax: (03) 5444 7895 This message is intended solely for the individual(s) and entity(s) addressed. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. The use, copying or distribution of this message or any information it contains, by anyone other than the addressee, is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify wsl(a)wsl.com.au. The mailbox address from which this message has been sent is for business mail only. Mail sent to it may be subject to security scanning and delivery of non-business messages sent to this address may not occur. Please note that the opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and are not necessarily those of WSL Consultants Pty Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ###################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal http://www.marshalsoftware.com ######################################################################

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