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RE: [Dovecot] dovecot + Fedora core 1
by Villalovos, John L 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed dovecot-0.99.10.5 using the rpm from Dag Wieers, > but when I start it all I get is nothing (but none of the processes > are running). > > I checked the config file and set it up (I'm trying to use it > with mysql support, but it doesn't work with traditional config) Did you look at the output of /var/log/messages? John

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[Dovecot] breakin' dovecot
by Tom Allison 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

I know this is cruel, but I figured out a way to break dovecot, temporarily. The really great news is that it recovers nicely. I'm also not sure if anything can be done about this, since I've seen the same thing happen with courier-imap, uw-imap, and maybe cyrus-imap. I used cyrus-imap for such a short period of time that I didn't get to really test it much. how to... (this was done on a fast ethernet network) get a folder with some 1,000+ unread/unseen emails. pop in with mozilla mail and wait for it to download all the mail information from ther server. press and hold the delete key. After about 300 emails being deleted, the imap server will appear to "freeze" and the "M" will keep cycling as if it's doing something. This will not recover until I move off the directory and return to it. hold delete key and repeat. If you do anything less than holding it down, it probably won't fail. It's a timing issue. I'm really not sure if it's even worth looking at. I'm not trying to identify this as a bug/defect/anything. But when I get a new piece of software I am really interested in what it does when it chokes. An old boss of mine would take my user applications and test them my rolling his hands across the keyboard for about a minute and if it hadn't crashed or entered bad data, it was a success. Please note that when I did this under courier-imap, it would stop refreshing itself from any/all directories until I logged out ( quit mozillia ) and logged back in again. So I would consider this to be a vast improvement in that regard. I should check what it logs when this happens, my guess is...nothing because it's frozen.

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[Dovecot] Fedora dovecot Testing Needed
by Warren Togami 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/dovecot/ dovecot-0.99.10.5 binary packages for FC1 and FC2 are available here. I need feedback from Fedora users with THESE ACTUAL BINARIES before pushing them to official updates. Note: This does not solve the SSL related crash issue. That requires a patch to OpenSSL or kernel. I am still trying to convince the maintainers to patch it. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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[Dovecot] folders via softlink
by Chris Barnes 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I have recently switched from the UW imap server to dovecot and things seem to be working nicely. One thing that I can't seem to figure out however, is how to get dovecot to show folders that are a softlink. We run SpamAssassin. Users can use both their own personal spam folder as well as a shared spam folder. For messages that everyone would consider spam, the user can simply drag the message to the shared spam folder (messages that are only "spam to them" would go into their own spam folder). sa-learn is then run nightly for each user against both the shared spam folder and their personal spam folder. The shared spam folder is simply a file that everyone has rwx access to and is softlinked to ~/mail/SharedSpam. This used to work fine with UW imap because it didn't seem to care that this was a softlink. However, apparently Dovecot DOES care because when the user resets their folder list and the user selects the folder and chooses "show", they get the error message: Could not show "SharedSpam". The server refused to show it. The folder might already be shown. I have tried editing the .subscriptions file by hand and it does cause the folder to show up, but when the user trys to use it, they get the same error. Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing? -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris-barnes(a)tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University

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[Dovecot] some messages showing up twice
by alan premselaar 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I've recently installed dovecot 0.99.10.5 on a redhat 7.3 machine. Everything seems to be running fine and smoothly for the most part, however in the past few days I've seen a couple of duplicate emails (and so have a few of my users) which don't appear to have been processed twice by sendmail. also, on one of my IMAP sub-folders my mail client (mozilla thunderbird version 0.6+ (20040610) nightly) reported 1 unread email, but it didn't show up in the list. it appears that the index for that subfolder got corrupted (i moved all the .index* files to a backup directory and when i checked that folder, it recreated the index files and then showed me the one unread email) I realize that i'm using a nightly build of a beta mail client, but some of my users reporting similar troubles are using Mail.app and other clients. does anybody have any suggestions as to what I might do to get some useful debug info and/or find the cause of this problem? thanks, alan

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[Dovecot] 'append aborted'
by Tom Allison 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I'm copying all my archives from one imap server on one machine to the imap-ssl dovecot server on another machine. After a bit, there's an error that's tossed up on my mozilla client that says the imap server couldn't complete the operation with the message append aborted. It keeps popping up after anything from 50 to 300 emails. Last night I was able to move ~12000 emails from one machine to the other without the ssl enabled. Any hints on what to look for?

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RE: [Dovecot] tcp wrappers?
by Villalovos, John L 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > How can I secure dovecot listening on port 143 to specific machines > only? > > Squirrelmail suggests using non-ssl if the imap daemon > is on the same host... > > Otherwise squirrelmail could use TLS but what about other > clients wanting to use SSL on port 993? (sorry I don't know enough > about TLS). I use iptables so that only 127.0.0.1 can access IMAP. Everyone else has to use IMAPS. John

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[Dovecot] IMSP server that works with Dovecot
by Mark Williamson 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

Hi All, Is there a IMSP server that can work with Dovecot, or would I have to change to Cyrus Imap server to have a server component that will integrate. Cheers Mark

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[Dovecot] tcp wrappers?
by Roman Bogoyev 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

How can I secure dovecot listening on port 143 to specific machines only? Squirrelmail suggests using non-ssl if the imap daemon is on the same host... Otherwise squirrelmail could use TLS but what about other clients wanting to use SSL on port 993? (sorry I don't know enough about TLS). Thanks, Roman. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Roman Bogoyev, I.T. Manager School of Mathematics and Statistics email: roman(a)maths.uwa.edu.au University of Western Australia tel: +61 8 6488 3379 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009 fax: +61 8 6488 1028 Western Australia

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

here is the full error output as in my log file dovecot-auth: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: Can't open configuration file /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf: Permission denied dovecot: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Error: child 9341 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe pop3-login: "Jun 11 14:48:42 "Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:34 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Let me give a bit more infor > > Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc > and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing > > So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file > or a mistake i did during compiling OK, to avoid ambiguity, can you show the output of: # ls -ld / /home /home/dovecot /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf Then check you get the same log error as before. Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

builind the rpm worked great still don't know what it was though ***************8 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 03:23 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home > drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot > -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf > > this what you wanted Yep. I am stumped as to why open(path, O_RDONLY) fails on that with EACCES, as it appears to be doing. 'cat /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf' works, I presume? Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'pgsql'
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

I R Stupid I can just unzip edit the spec file and atr zip again go figure -----Original Message----- From: Nico De Beer - MWEB [mailto:NDeBeer@mweb.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 05:46 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'pgsql' i build an rpm and now gets this i builed the rpm with rpmbuild -ta --define 'XFlags --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-pop3' dovecot-0.99.10.5.tar.gz Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit area code dialling? To find out how this will affect your M-Web connection in the not too distant future, click here <http://www.mweb.co.za/ten> . M-Web JUST LIKE THAT

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[Dovecot] Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'pgsql'
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

i build an rpm and now gets this i builed the rpm with rpmbuild -ta --define 'XFlags --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-pop3' dovecot-0.99.10.5.tar.gz Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

cat works i see when building an rpm from tar.gz it req gettextopenssl-devel and pam-devel i did not compile with these during atr gz but can't see that it makes a diffrence so i'll try via rpm once the packages is installed -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 03:23 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home > drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot > -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf > > this what you wanted Yep. I am stumped as to why open(path, O_RDONLY) fails on that with EACCES, as it appears to be doing. 'cat /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf' works, I presume? Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf this what you wanted -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:34 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Let me give a bit more infor > > Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc > and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing > > So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file > or a mistake i did during compiling OK, to avoid ambiguity, can you show the output of: # ls -ld / /home /home/dovecot /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf Then check you get the same log error as before. Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

the error originates in the source C file setting.c as fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); - if (fd < 0) - i_fatal("Can't open configuration file %s: %m", path); + if (fd < 0) { + i_error("Can't open configuration file %s: %m", path); + return FALSE; + } so it is posible that i don't have a lib or header file that is required I did not get any errors on install doning a tar.gz install on Fedora core2 minimal install -----Original Message----- From: Nico De Beer - MWEB [mailto:NDeBeer@mweb.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:40 To: Brian Candler Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 11 14:29 / drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 11 12:47 /home drwxr-xr-x 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 2656 Jun 11 13:08 /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf this what you wanted -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 02:34 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Let me give a bit more infor > > Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc > and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing > > So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file > or a mistake i did during compiling OK, to avoid ambiguity, can you show the output of: # ls -ld / /home /home/dovecot /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf Then check you get the same log error as before. Brian. Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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RE: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Let me give a bit more infor Originaly i had it in /usr/local/etc and moved it to home/dovcot so i can give fulle access in a pah where there is not other info residing So i'm thinking it is something i specified in my config file or a mistake i did during compiling -----Original Message----- From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Sent: 11 June 2004 01:36 To: Nico De Beer - MWEB Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't open configuration file On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:22:43PM +0200, Nico De Beer - MWEB wrote: > Jun 11 13:12:46 "Fatal: Can't open configuration file > /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf: Permission denied > this file have fulle permissions and has belonged to dovecot and root > but still no joy What about the directory /home/dovecot ? Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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[Dovecot] Can't open configuration file
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi I'm getting Jun 11 13:12:46 "Fatal: Can't open configuration file /home/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf: Permission denied this file have fulle permissions and has belonged to dovecot and root but still no joy what am i missing must be something stupid on this side Thanks for the previos comments about scripting I am swithcing to postgress for the mail env and will look at mysql when they support translation Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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[Dovecot] auth failure
by Tom Allison 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

well, with some help I've made a fair amount of progress on my box. It's working out much easier than I had anticipated and perhaps my notes will be useful some day. I have two questions... Here is where I am: cling:~# egrep -v "^($|\#)" /etc/dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps login = imap login_max_processes_count = 16 login = pop3 max_mail_processes = 512 verbose_proctitle = yes default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir mailbox_check_interval = 1 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes cling:~# egrep -v "^($|\#)" /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf connect = dbname=dbmail user=dbmail_reader password=SECRET default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT passwd AS password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' I've created working passwords using 'mkpasswd --hash=md5' and plugged the results into my database. I can login and everything looks pretty cool. Except, as near as I can tell, I'm sending plaintext authentication over the wire. My best guess is that my password gets munged into digest-md5 format before it goes over the wire. At this point I'm of the opinion that I'm reasonably secure. True so far? My guess is that the next step in security is to go for imaps and ssl configuration. But my debian installation doesn't appear to have the dovecot-openssl.cnf file referenced in the configuration.txt file. Is this missing from dovecot or am I looking at a debian problem?

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index file
by Niilo Kajander 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi, I've been wondering for a while if reiserfs is dovecot+maildir safe or not. I get this too often (and my imap session gets disconnected): Jun 9 08:42:32 sun imap(nk): Corrupted index file /home/nk/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap .index: UIDVALIDITY changed in uidlist This happens always when a new mail arrives in maildir. It's a Fedora Core 2 box running dovecot-0.99.10.4-4 (redhat) package. Could the reason for these corruptions be something else than reiserfs? I know there has been some problems with Fedora+dovecot but I haven't seen this one reported here. TIA, -- Niilo Kajander <nk(a)kajander.fi>

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[Dovecot] bleah
by Tom Allison 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Not to be a bitch, but I've asked several times about some basic questions or examples to clarify the essentials for configuration. What do some of the parameters mean? Expecially the ones that are mentioned only one in a paragraph and no where else in the documentation or wiki. (ie: login_process_per_use) And there have been a few others as well. that I won't bother to repeat. But I've been sitting on this list for a while yet and have found that when it comes to configuration, none of the emails posted have been answered or addressed. The closest I got was a suggestion to use views instead of tables in postgres. But technically nothing was ever said about dovecot itself. So I have to ask. Is the sketchy documentation in the source file, the web page, wiki, and limited reponse on the mailing list a matter of "I haven't gotten around to it yet" or a deliberate move to promote the commercial support potential for Procontrol? I've run into this kind of environment twice before (cyrus and razor) and in the case of cyrus they just didn't believe in doing the documentation but suggested I write it myself. That may be the case there as well ("I haven't gotten around to it yet". That's OK but cyrus has the difficulty of no one still not providing any answers to how anything was done, configured, functioned, or why. So documentation was kind of a reverse-engineering project in itself. In the case of razor it's a mix of no time and they would rather support the company than the project. I went back and re-read the emails that I had posted earlier and am pretty sure that they weren't too stupid (ie: how do I test an imap connection), difficult, or obscure (well, maybe one). I'm just trying to find more information on how to correctly configure this server such that I can retain the concept of keeping security in mind. I'm trolling through the archives and there doesn't seem to be much discussion from anyone else. So maybe I'm really stupid and can't do authentication schemes. I'm sure by this point I've really pissed a few people off and for that I mostly apologize. I'm a little bent here myself. It just that I didn't plan on having to set up sniffit to track my IMAP traffic in order to verify that things were actually working securely. I'm going to plug along and do it myself and probably get something to work. I have plain_text authentication working now, but was really hoping to actually get something secure. At this point I really don't expect an answer, but do hope that after 1.0 is released there will be time available to get some documentation in order. IMHO the level of documentation that is available on a software project is critical to it's use.

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[Dovecot] pgsql documentation
by Tom Allison 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

From dovecot-pgsql.conf # Examples: # connect = host=192.168.1.1 dbname=users # connect = host=sql.example.com dbname=virtual user=virtual There is a reference to identify the rest of the parameters via libpq in the postgres documentation. From postgres, libpq says the connection environment variables are: hostname:port:database:username:password http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/libpq-pgpass.html Should the dovecot-pgsql.conf docs be changed from "dbname=users" to "database=users" ??

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[Dovecot] "virgin" mail accounts
by Christian Balzer 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hello, I'm willing to swear that with the 0.99.10.4 Debian package in my rather extensive tests with mailbox format dovecot created not only any missing parental directories but also the INBOX file, but the later I can't prove/test now as I upgraded all respective boxes. However 0.99.10.5 will still create (if needed and possible) missing directories for mbox storage, just not an empty INBOX. But with maildir, it will not even do that, from a test with pop3 and imap login attempts to a freshly created account that had not received any mails yet: --- Jun 10 12:58:03 mb01 pop3-login: Login: test [203.216.5.92] Jun 10 12:58:03 mb01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050ce0 (0) Jun 10 12:58:03 mb01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084aa0 (1) Jun 10 12:58:49 mb01 imap-login: Login: ttest [203.216.5.92] Jun 10 12:58:50 mb01 last message repeated 3 times Jun 10 12:58:50 mb01 dovecot: child 9193 (imap) killed with signal 11 --- It died not very graceful in either case, esp. the later. Unless there are very RFC'ish and imperative reasons, I'd suggest that dovecot creates all missing bits if possible no matter what the storage method or pretends to have encountered an empty mbox file or maildir cur/new respectively. The rationale should be obvious, no frantic user calls about "My mail is not working" when the answer is "Duh, that's because you never ever received one yet". ;) Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/

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[Dovecot] Scripting
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

You metioned previosely that one can do character translation with postgress with mysql you can also do so but can use it as the table name Is there anyway to write something outside dovecot to do the lookup in say c++ Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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[Dovecot] 2 problems
by Cor Bosman 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hi all, im testing dovecot as a replacement imap server and noticed 2 problems in 0.99.10.5. if you use dovecot/pop on an account who's quota is fully used, dovecot will ungracefully stop. This will only happen when the account is first accessed by dovecot (for instance, when offering IMAP to an existing userbase using dovecot, or when the index files have inadvertently been deleted). +OK dovecot ready. user scorpio +OK pass xxxxxxxx +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. The same goes for imap: * OK dovecot ready. . login "scorpio" "xxxxxxx" . OK Logged in. . select INBOX . NO Out of disk space This is a bit of a problem because one of the remedies of solving an out of disk space problem is deleting email, which you cant now. Cor

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[Dovecot] mbox configuration
by Nina Pham 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hi, I change the dovecot.conf default_mail_env = mbox:/Mail/IMAP/%u/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u After I did the change, I restart dovecot with the hope that folder that I create will be stored in /Mail/IMAP/%u. Then I use Mozzila as my email client and change the IMAP server directory to ~nina/IMAP/ which is the link to /Mail/IMAP/nina/. But then I can not create folder anymore from Mozzila, or view any thing other than inbox. I am still able to see message in inbox since I haven't change the location of inbox. Please help. Nina

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[Dovecot] authentication configuration
by Tom Allison 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

I've included the non-defaulted bits of my dovecot.conf file at the bottom of this email. As I understand my set-up it's using unix authentication methods (/etc/passwd via pam?). Considering disable_plaintext_auth and auth_mechanisms, what exactly is being passed? I was hoping to get auth_mechanism = digest-md5 but that's not working out very well right now. It seems I can only do plaintext authentication. I got stuck on the userdb/auth_passdb settings. Can someone give me an example of how to configure for md5-digest authentication? My current guess is: disable_plaintext_auth = yes auth = digest-md5 auth_mechanism = digest_md5 auth_passdb = /etc/mydigestfile How would I set this for pgsql? auth_passdb = /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf ### non-default config settings. protocols = imap imaps disable_plaintext_auth = yes login = imap login_max_processes_count = 16 login = pop3 max_mail_processes = 512 default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir mailbox_check_interval = 1 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root

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[Dovecot] configuration
by Tom Allison 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

I've noticed that there are some parameters mentioned in the docs that aren't identified therein (ie: login_process_per_use). Is there a more generic set of docs that can identify what each of the parameters and what they do, or at least something that will allow me a simple how to to avoid embarrasing situations. I supposed I should only settle for ssl based connections (imaps/pops) but I will be open to digest-md5 if I could. I'm also curious to see how I can use pgsql authentication with dovecot. I think this would be great to work with since I'm basing all my postfix settings around postgresql as well. But for now I'm not sure how to use postfix authentication with the file directories I'll need to use for the maildirs (and procmail!).

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[Dovecot] pgsql configuration
by Tom Allison 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

from the pgsql configuration file: # Query to retrieve the password. # # The query should return one row, one column. If more than one row or column # is returned, authentication will automatically fail. # # Available substitutions: # %u = entire userid # %n = user part of user@domain # %d = domain part of user@domain # # Query to retrieve the user information. # # The query must return only one row. The columns to return are: # home - Home directory # mail - MAIL environment # system_user - System user name (for getting user's groups from /etc/group) # uid - System UID # gid - System GID # # Either home or mail is required. uid and gid are required. If more than one # row is returned or there's missing fields, login will automatically fail. # I'm a bit slow here, so if someone could just nod if I'm in the right direction: I want to support IMAP for at least two domains. Therefore I have to use the authentication string of: SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' and the user must enter their entire email address for their login name. (I can do this!) I want some portion of these domains and users to be consistent with existing accounts in my /etc/passwd database. I don't expect to use passwd information for the username and password, but I want the information returned for joe(a)domain2.com to be for the user:joe in my passwd file and have his email in /home/joe/Maildir. Similarly, I want others (either fred(a)domain2.com or jane(a)domain1.com) to be (ideally) all driven under a non-local account name and login. For this second one, I'm thinking I need to do something like this in the user information query (this is mostly a guess): for joe(a)domain2.com (/etc/passwd) :: jane(a)domain1.com (no passwd) home - /home/joe --or-- can I use ~/ :: /var/spool/imap/%d/%n ?? mail - maildir:~/Maildir :: maildir:/var/spool/imap/%d/%n ?? system_user - joe :: (a guess -- adduser dovecot-imap to passwd maybe) uid - joes uid (1002) :: dovecot-imap uid (510) gid - joes gid (1001) :: dovecot-imap gid (510) with seperate group This is where I get fuzzy. If someone could help me figure out where I went wrong I would appreciate it. If I did this correctly, then in theory I could pass email delivery to procmail and have one set of rules (/etc/procmail) do some additional filtering for all the email under my domain1.com (spam filtering mostly) and perform a final delivery to maildirs in /var/spool/imap/doamin1.com/jane/ Or am I sleep deprived?

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[Dovecot] dovecot newbie question about "invalid key" problem
by Joakim Verona 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hello list, I've trying to migrate a small uw-imap server to dovecot. It works somewhat, and speed seems greatly improved, so thats great. However, I get an "invalid key/Internal Error" problem when connectiong to my INBOX with thunderbird. According to google this is a well known problem with mozilla mailers. Dovecot is not lenient with this bug in thunderbird. Is there some workaround for this? I noticed that its possible to turn on some client bug workarounds for outlook. Does the same go for mozilla? I tried one described remedy, which was to delete the account information and re-register the account. This didnt help. The problem seems to be only with INBOX, which I have mapped to /var/spool/mail/<username>, not my other imap mailboxes. Im running gnus as well and the problem doesnt seem to occur there. My configuration: Redhat 9 dovecot 0.99.10.5 (from DAG repository RPM:s) Another question: Would it be possible to run uw-imap on one port, and dovecot on another? Or would that corrupt the mailstores? Regards, /Joakim

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[Dovecot] Feature request?
by Stephen K. Gielda 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

I'd like to toss a feature request on the table for consideration. We currently use a different popd because of a feature that allows us to restrict pop access based upon an allowed users list. This is the only thing that keeps us from using the popd in dovecot currently. It's a simple text file of usernames that are allowed to use pop, if the name isn't in that list then pop access is denied. Is this something that can be considered for a future feature addition? Would anyone else also find this useful? /steve

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[Dovecot] Help: RH9 upgrade (mbox)
by Guy Davis 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

I just upgraded my RH9 server with UW-IMAP to Fedora Core 2 and after a short try with Cyrus, I'm hoping to get Dovecot configured. My problem is getting Dovecot to recognize my old mbox mail folders. It correctly shows the INBOX contents from the /var/spool/mail/davis mbox. However, I also had a bunch of mboxes such as: /home/davis/Mail/Sent /home/davis/Mail/Lists/list1 Reading the documentation, Dovecot indicates it will recognize mbox files within the ~/mail directory. So I moved my mail over giving: /home/davis/mail/Sent /home/davis/mail/Lists/list1 Unfortunately, after restarting Dovecot and restarting my IMAP client (Mozilla), I don't see anything other than my Inbox. If I create a file (/home/davis/mail/.subscriptions) with 'Sent' in it, and restart things then I can see Inbox and Sent. This would let me have a single directory with multiple mbox files in it. However, I'm not able to get Dovecot to recurse and let me see mboxes in subfolders such as: /home/davis/mail/Lists/list1 As well, when I first connect to Dovecot via Mozilla, I get an error saying: 'The current command did not succeed. The mail server replied "Invalid mask"'. What does this mean and how do I correct it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Guy

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[Dovecot] scripting or translation in config
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

> Hi Is there nay way to do translation on a char > > Exp > > tr ( "." ,"_",$domain) > > so mysql statement can lokk some thing like this > > select * uid,gid,home,.....from `tr ( "." ,"_",$domain)` where uid='$local' Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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[Dovecot] FW: scripting or translation in config
by Nico De Beer - MWEB 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

> Hi Is there nay way to do translation on a char > > Exp > > tr ( "." ,"_",$domain) > > so mysql statement can lokk some thing like this > > select * uid,gid,home,.....from `tr ( "." ,"_",$domain)` where uid='$local' Are you ready for Telkom's 10-digit dialling? To find out how this will affect your Internet connection in the not too distant future, go to www.mweb.co.za/ten

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[Dovecot] failure to create lock
by Javi Pardo (DAKOTA) 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: P ermission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file / var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: P ermission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file / var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050b08 (0) Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x807c2b4 (1) Jun 8 23:14:09 dakota pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8062520 id dovecot uid=97(dovecot) gid=12(mail) grupos=12(mail) [root@dakota root]# su dovecot bash-2.05b$ touch /var/spool/mail/dakota.lock bash-2.05b$ ls -la /var/spool/mail/dakota.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 dovecot mail 0 jun 8 23:16 /var/spool/mail/dakota.lock bash-2.05b$ i have probed all options ... dovecot no create the lock, the user dovecot works, but no the program i need help for this problem.. :( regards dakota(a)dakotabcn.net Administrador Servidor dakotabcn.net LINUX Registrered USER 93707 :) P.o Box 579 08913 Badalona (Barcelona) SPAIN firmas GnuPG en http://pgp.escomposlinux.org/ dakota(a)menta.net || dakota(a)escomposlinux.org - Equipos PIV 2.2 Ghz - 1.5 Gb RAM - W-XP Pro Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz - 1 Gb Ram - Linux Fedora Core 1 Firma para spammers: test(a)spamout.com.ar (no usar!!!)

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[Dovecot] Setting IMAP root as user's home directory. How?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

I'm trying to set up dovecot to use /home/username as IMAP root, but it keeps creating /home/username/mail. I need /home/username in order to migrate with the least changes from uw-imap, just by copying .mailboxlist without the INBOX line in it into .subscriptions I tried each of these, one at a time: default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u default_mail_env = mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u In each case, dovecot was stubornly creating /home/username/mail Please CC me, I'm not on the mailing list. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] dovecot and fc2
by Javi Pardo (DAKOTA) 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Hello I am migrate FC1 to FC2, in FC1 i use ipop3d, but in the migration to FC2 this programa is obsolete, i decide migrate to dovecot, but i have problems with the old mail i have the mail stored into /var/spool/mail/USER and this error appears with examine the mail with Oulook Express: Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/dakota: Permission denied Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050b08 (0) Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: I/O leak: 0x807c2b4 (1) Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3: Timeout leak: 0x8062520 into dovecot.conf i have proved differents options ###default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u #mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u #maildir:/var/spool/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir default_mail_env =mbox:~/mail/imap/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u with pine not have problem to read the mail, but i need pop3 and imap for the external users i need help, i have 1 week without email :( regards and sorry for my english dakota(a)dakotabcn.net Administrador Servidor dakotabcn.net LINUX Registrered USER 93707 :) P.o Box 579 08913 Badalona (Barcelona) SPAIN firmas GnuPG en http://pgp.escomposlinux.org/ dakota(a)menta.net || dakota(a)escomposlinux.org - Equipos PIV 2.2 Ghz - 1.5 Gb RAM - W-XP Pro Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz - 1 Gb Ram - Linux Fedora Core 1 Firma para spammers: test(a)spamout.com.ar (no usar!!!)

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[Dovecot] Errors and periodic corruption using 99.10.5 release with mbox
by Stephen K. Gielda 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Hi, I'm seeing these errors in our logs periodically: file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: (stream->v_size == 0 || stream->v_offset + count <= stream->v_size) Timeout leak: 0x8069328 Any idea on what may be causing these? System is freebsd, format is mbox. I'm also seeing periodic corruption of mailboxes. It's easily fixed because it's always a few stray lines of text left at the beginning of the mbox file above the From I'm currently trying to find out more about what actions may cause it. /steve

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[Dovecot] Corrupted Indexes
by Fred Mulharin 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

I am using the latest Stable version of Dovecot on a Redhat 9.0 box with the Squirrelmail Webmail Client, and my Indexes seem to be getting corrupted. Here is an example of what is showing in the Error Logs Error: Corrupted index data file /home/user/mail//.imap/releases/.imap.index.data: Missing location field for record 271 When they Try to access the corrupted folders thee get an IMAP Login error ERROR: Connection dropped by imap-server Query: THREAD REFERENCES ISO-8859-1 ALL thanks Fred -- Fred Mulharin Systems Technology Supervisor Times Herald-Record fmulharin(a)th-record.com ..We are the trusted leader in news and information for the communities we serve ..because we all live here

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[Dovecot] mta/mda config
by Jure Pecar 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Hi all, I'm at the stage of planning our new mail system and am evaluating dovecot for it. For large mailstore setups, it makes sense to split maildirs across many directories. I see that setting default_mail_env to something like maildir:/var/imap/domain/%1d/%d/%1u/user/%u/ would create almost identical on-disk layout as multidomain cyrus setup. Now, as dovecot does not have its own mda or lmtp daemon, how does one configure mta (eg. postfix) to deliver mail in such maildirs? Related question ... any cyrus to dovecot migration tales? :) -- Jure Pečar

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[Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. So far so good. But I would like to convert my system to start using the Maildir format. How easy is this to accomplish? Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox format and have my other folders as Maildir? What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use Maildir for the Inbox? Can procmail support Maildir? Any pointers or help would be much appreciated? John

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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

John Duino wrote: > That was the one question I haven't had answered (and it's > mostly just out of pure paranoia that I ask it :) Yes. POP email works fine with Maildir for me. I am using dovecot-0.99.10.5-1 which was on the development tree of Fedora. Though I would think the one that came stock with Fedora 2 should work as well. I have no reason to think it won't. One note. I don't use POP that much. I have one person who uses it and they haven't complained. > So if all the mail is moved to Maildir (thus eliminating the typical > mailspool), and somebody pop's onto the server, Dovecot will use the > Maildir/Inbox for the pop? Yes it will. If you read the mail-storages.txt documentation file it talks about it. I would read the section on "Detecting what to use". I did NOT set the default_mail_env variable in my /etc/dovecot.conf and it figured it out automagically :) Good luck, John

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.5 imap flag update issues
by Hauke Fath 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi, there is an issue left in 0.99.10.5 which (I think) is a problem with imap status flags. It shows up in two places: (1) When new mail is delivered to the inbox, the last read mail changes to "unread". (2) When you move mails from the inbox to another folder with Mozilla (1.6 on win32, Linux, NetBSD), they are not removed from the inbox, effectively performing a copy instead of a move. And, while I am at it, (3) I see a regular log entry from a MS Outlook 2000 SP 3 Jun 3 10:26:23 bounce imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [130.83.XXX.XXX] The setup here: OS NetBSD 2.0beta, MTA sendmail 8.12.11, LDA maildrop 1.3.9, dovecot 0.99.10.5, OpenSSL 0.9.7d Any ideas? hauke -- Hauke Fath /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Institut für Nachrichtentechnik \ / No HTML/RTF in email TU Darmstadt X No Word docs in email Ruf +49-6151-16-3281 / \ Respect for open standards

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RE: [Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > According to my understanding of the documentation I changed > the protocols > line in dovecot.conf to: > > #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s Did you really just change the commented out line? If so then you didn't do anything :( You will need to uncomment the line and restart it. The "#" at the beginning of the line is a comment. John

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[Dovecot] Getting POP3 up and running
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! Now that I happily smiling have Squirrelmail working on the new setup (Fedora Core 2), the next hurdle seems to be getting POP3 to work. According to my understanding of the documentation I changed the protocols line in dovecot.conf to: #protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s then restarted dovecot, but still can't connect to pop3 (not even after rebooting the whole system). Doing an nmap on my server does not show port 110 as open. Any clues as to what I may be overlooking? Thanks for your support, Antonio There is a world of difference between searching for happiness and choosing to be happy!

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RE: [Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to > this. A client > has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to > dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir > format over > mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is > what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to > make sendmail > write to Maildir. > > My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and > imap/maildir. My suggestion would be to use Dovecot as your POP and IMAP server. And convert everything to use Maildir unless there is some special reason you want to keep mbox format for. Setup procmail to deliver all mail to the maildir folders. See my previous message on how to do it. John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Loggin error with Squirrelmail on Fedore Core 2
by Antonio Nunes 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hi! I am switching a mail server setup to a new machine which has RHL Fedore Core 2 installed, which uses Dovecot. I managed to get Squirrelmail to work on my personal account, but when logging in with some other accounts I get the following error as response: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: Capability I did a web search on this and found a message from Tim Middleton who experienced the same problem. He also suggests a workaround: "I put in a chron job to touch into existance any non-existing mailboxes for everyone in the passwd file periodically, which mostly eliminates the problem. But I'd still like to know why the server is having the problem, if anyone can make any suggestions." I would like to try this, but I am still fairly new to Unix. Could anyone show me how to set up such a chron job? Are there other, manual, ways to touch the mailboxes? Thanks, Antonio Nunes Don't let who you can be keep you from being who you already are.

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[Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail
by John Duino 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Greetings! I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to this. A client has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir format over mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to make sendmail write to Maildir. My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and imap/maildir. While running dovecot in imap-only it will use mbox format to read the /var/mail/user as the Inbox and then create the full imap structure under ~user/mail but in mbox format, not maildir. If/when I turn on both pop and imap in dovecot will it allow this with the current config? Or will I still need to convert sendmail output to maildir...and then I assume dovecot/pop will read from ~user/Maildir/Inbox even though it is in Maildir format? Basically, if I'd prefer to not have to convert sendmail to Maildir format, have dovecot always treat /var/mail/user as the Inbox for both pop and imap, and for those who switch to imap, have it store their other folders in ~user/Maildir. Asking too much? Thanks! John

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RE: [Dovecot] Advice on converting from Mbox to Maildir?
by Villalovos, John L 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

To recap what I have learned :) dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to > convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? > > I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered > that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. > So far so > good. > > But I would like to convert my system to start using the > Maildir format. > > How easy is this to accomplish? Fairly easy on the small system I had. I only have around 8 people using email off of my system. > Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox > format and have > my other folders as Maildir? Timo says that it is NOT available in the version that comes with Fedora Core 2. It will be available in the 1.0 series by defining multiple namespaces. The current 1.0-tests allow this. > What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use > Maildir for the Inbox? Sendmail does NOT need to be changed. > Can procmail support Maildir? Yes and that is what you need to change. I setup /etc/procmailrc to have the line: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ Make sure there is the terminating / on that line. What this will do is make all new mail that is delivered via procmail go to each user's Maildir folder. But what you need to do first is convert your existing mbox mail into maildir format. I used the program that was recommended to me: mb2md http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ This program worked great to convert my /var/spool/mail/user_name stuff and also folders that I had created under ~/mail/ So now my whole system is using Maildir format. If you had a big system this might be a big pain :( John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[Dovecot] Lost messages when "Moved to Trash"
by Fred Mulharin 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

We are using Dovecot 0.99.10.5 on a Redhat 9.0 Box. We are using the Squirrelmail Webmail client, and have occasionally had a problem with users move messages from their Inbox to the "Trash" folder. The Selected messages move to the Trash folder, but the rest of the messages in the INBOX disappear. Fred -- Fred Mulharin Systems Technology Supervisor Times Herald-Record fmulharin(a)th-record.com ..We are the trusted leader in news and information for the communities we serve ..because we all live here

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