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DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
by Mail System Internal Data 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values.

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[dovecot] dovecot RPM for Red Hat Linux
by Warren Togami 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=160 This .src.rpm is dovecot with RH-specific default settings. I modified Jeremy Katz' dovecot-0.99.8.1 package a bit. When I upgraded from 0.99.8.1 it seemed to be broken until I looked at /var/log/maillog. There it indicated that the dovecot cache files were bad, so I erased /home/*/mail/.imap/ and it seemed to work subsequently. There are a few more RH specific tweaks that I plan on doing for this package. If you have any suggestions to default config tweaks for this package please reply or post in that bugzilla entry above. I would like for this package to be a drop-in replacement for RHL's uw-imapd eventually, but there are a number of migration issues that need to be addressed first. This package will eventually be included in the Fedora tree after it goes through our QA. http://www.fedora.us Fedora Linux is a project of volunteer package developers making 3rd party packages specifically for Red Hat Linux. Warren Togami warren(a)togami.com p.s. Keep up the good work. I absolutely love dovecot!

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[dovecot] Something wrong in SSL ?
by Juha Ylitalo 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

Operating system: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10 Dovecot: 0.99.8.1 I've used openssl to generate personal CA and I've used that one to generate certificate for my web server. When I tried to go through same pattern for generating certificate for IMAP server from CA, I ended up in situation, where both mutt and evolution keep on rejecting my certificates.

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[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org>] Re: lua 5.0
by Per Olofsson 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

FYI. /Pelle

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[dovecot] Maildir problem?
by Maikel Verheijen 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

Hey list, Today I cvs updated to the most recent dovecot, to test with the recent improvements on the dovecot-uidlist file, and came acros the following: Apr 11 12:49:36 pc-5-046 imap(): Corrupted index file (in-memory index for /var/mail/mounted/test.com/maikel/Maildir//.Sent Items): Filename mismatch for UID 1: 1050058115.P3401Q0M675362.pc-5-046.test.nl:2,S vs 1050057888.P3371Q0M138398.pc-5-046.test.nl I am using a front-end back-end construction, But I am testing on the backend only (non-nfs), because the subscriptions file isn't nfs safe yet. shouldn't the uidl files be leading over the indexes? And shouldn't the indexes be updated as well? Thank you, Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] Maildir syncing rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

It finally seems to be working. I've done some testing now and it seems to be working fine. If you have time, see if you can get it to break (especially with INDEX=memory or by manually modifying the maildir). The UIDs are kept in Courier-compatible dovecot-uidlist file (so "mv courierimapuiddb dovecot-uidlist" should work). The great thing about this code is that we never wait for lock. If we can't lock, we simply use the old uidlist file to sync whatever we can, which should be everything but the very newest mails just being delivered and processed by another Dovecot. Of course, if they share index files, we're still blocking there. I named the file as "dovecot-uidlist" instead of ".uidlist" because I finally realized that files beginning with dot conflict with the mailbox namespace. I should rename .customflags and .subscriptions files as well. Also if I move .imap.index* files into root dir, I'll have to rename them too. new/ directory is now scanned every time to see if there's new mail. cur/ directory is scanned if index file's timestamp differs from cur/ dir's timestamp. uidlist file is reread if it's device/inode changes. You can get the sources from either CVS, or 0.99.9-test2 from http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/test/

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[dovecot] dovecot-0.99.9-test2 probs
by Mark E. Mallett 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

Hi- Tried 0.99.9-test2 -- had to go back. Various problems in the log. Here's one: Apr 10 08:56:25 mercury mem[10754]: imap(user0): msync() failed with index data file /users/8b/user0/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.data: Cannot allocate memory Apr 10 08:56:25 mercury mem[10754]: imap(user0): Corrupted index data file /users/8b/user0/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.data: Missing location field for record 156 Apr 10 08:56:25 mercury mem[10754]: imap(user0): msync() failed with index data file /users/8b/user0/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.data: Cannot allocate memory Here's another: Apr 10 18:56:59 mercury mem[13376]: pop3(user1): Corrupted index file /users/30/user1/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: index.next_uid (2365) > uidlist.next_uid (2364) And another: Apr 10 19:09:24 mercury mem[10892]: pop3(user2): Corrupted index file /users/39/user2/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: index.next_uid (10422) > uidlist.next_uid (10420) Apr 10 19:09:24 mercury mem[10892]: pop3(user2): Corrupted index file (in-memory index for /users/39/user2/Maildir): Filename mismatch for UID 1: 1050015983.28176.mercury.mv.net vs 1046192106.460.mercury.mv.net Apr 10 19:09:24 mercury mem[10892]: pop3(user2): No INBOX for user And a ton of these, without any other entry for the process ID (which I assume is the number after "child"): Apr 10 19:09:33 mercury dovecot: child 1645 (imap) killed with signal 11

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[dovecot] compilation errors
by Mark E. Mallett 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

Hi- I always encounter the same two minor compilation issues which are easily addressed simply by a quick edit, but this time I figured I'd mention it in case you can work around it. This is on a BSD/OS 4.2 system. First, the generated config.h always creates a definition for OFF_T_MAX which conflicts with the one in the system's limits.h config.h defines: #define OFF_T_MAX LLONG_MAX whereas /usr/include/machine/limits.h defines: #define OFF_T_MAX UQUAD_MAX /* max value for an off_t */ I simply comment out the definition from config.h . Second, in src/lib/mmap-anon.c there's a preprocessor conditional: #if SSIZE_T_MAX >= LLONG_MAX (etc) Unfortunately /usr/include/machine/limits.h defines LLONG_MAX thusly: #define LLONG_MAX (__extension__(9223372036854775807LL)) (evidently to suppress pedantic warnings about the gcc long long constant extension) but the cpp prepreprocessor stumbles over this comparison. This might be fixed in a later gcc, I dunno- it's gcc 2.95.2 here. Yours, -mm-

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[dovecot] dovecot and virtual users
by Jej 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Hello, I set up a virtual smtp with exim (mails stored in /var/virtual/{domain}/{user}, passwd in /etc/virtual/{domain}.passwd). I have a patched pop3 server to deal with these mail boxes. Would it be possible to use dovecot as imap server, or (even better) for imap and pop3, with this virtual domain model ? Thanks, read you. -- jej

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[dovecot] Error: child 12625 (imap) killed with signal 12
by Johan Willard 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hi! I have tried to install dovecot as my imap service on my FreeBSD server. At first all looked fine and worked flawless. But after a while i started to get errors. The imap process dies with signal 12 when the client tries to check the contens of the folder. dovecot: Apr 07 09:55:17 Error: child 12625 (imap) killed with signal 12 Any ideas what may cause this problem? MvH Johan Willard

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[dovecot] New installation - error 89 on connect
by David Knudsen 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

I've recently installed dovecot (0.99.8.1) from the Debian/woody backport at 'deb http://src.braincells.com/debian woody/' Previously, all mail have been delivered to mbox'es in ~/Mail by exim/procmail -- ~/Mail/inbox being my main mailbox. Whenever I attempt to connect with an IMAP client, the connection is closed and the following error is reported in /var/log/syslog: imap-login: Login: dk [192.168.0.2] imap(dk): Unknown client workaround: outlook-idle^I### dovecot: child 17653 (imap) returned error 89 What does error 89 signify? My current configuration is: (non-comment lines only) imap_listen = 192.168.0.2 imaps_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 verbose_proctitle = yes client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mailbox_check_interval = 60 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes In my confusion, I blindly tried changing settings, attempting to get a different error message at least. :-) These are the settings I have tried, without success: default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mail/inbox mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mbox_locks = fcntl auth_passdb = shadow There is no subdirectories in ~/Mail, neither visible nor hidden. I did try to read the docs, and I did browse the mailing list archives, but either I missed something or it is not there. Any ideas? Thank you, David Knudsen

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[dovecot] Re: command line version of dovecot?
by Timo Sirainen 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 18:52, Kyler Laird wrote: > > There's the "imap" binary that should do exactly that. Usually installed > > into /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap > > Ah! That's just the kind of solution I sought. > > Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me. It doesn't > appear (via strace) to read any configuration file. It just > looks in /var/mail/[user] for a Maildir. I need to to go to > the Maildir in the user's home (and follow other behaviors > defined in the config file). It should look into ~/Maildir first, then ~/mail and ~/Mail unless it's overridden in MAIL environment. You probably have MAIL=/var/mail/user set, which is why it looks into there. Currently it doesn't read any configuration file, and I'm not sure if I should make it do that.. Well, it could be useful but I'd have to figure out how to prevent unneeded code duplication for config file parsing. All settings are passed via environment settings, but they're not documented (they're basically uppercased versions of the setting names in config file). > Should I have found all of this in some documentation? I > appreciate the help but I feel like I should be reading > about this on my own somewhere. doc/mail-storages.txt explains the MAIL environment.

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[dovecot] command line version of dovecot?
by Timo Sirainen 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

> From: Kyler Laird <kyler-keyword-dovecot.a0ff9b(a)lairds.org> > I finally have dovecot mostly working and I was thinking that > I'd been saved from having to use UW-IMAPd, but I just now > noticed that there doesn't appear to be any way to run > dovecot over standard I/O; it always wants to listen on a > socket. There's the "imap" binary that should do exactly that. Usually installed into /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap Or did you mean you wanted to run it from inetd? CVS version supports that too if you execute imap-login.

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[dovecot] message order reversed on copying
by Kimura Fuyuki 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hi, I noticed an annoying behavior of dovecot: the message order (sequence numbering) is reversed on COPYing in the maildir. I suspect that the following code in maildir-save.c is working like "pushing". mf->next = ctx->files; ... ctx->files = mf; Later ctx->files is used like this. for (mf = ctx->files; mf != NULL; mf = mf->next) { -- fuyuki

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[dovecot] Patch for passdb-passwd-file.c
by Armin Wolfermann 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Index: passdb-passwd-file.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/passdb-passwd-file.c,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -u -r1.6 passdb-passwd-file.c --- passdb-passwd-file.c 18 Feb 2003 19:24:44 -0000 1.6 +++ passdb-passwd-file.c 8 Apr 2003 15:59:53 -0000 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ crypted_pass = pu->password; scheme = password_get_scheme(&crypted_pass); - if (scheme == NULL) scheme = "DES"; + if (scheme == NULL) scheme = "CRYPT"; ret = password_verify(password, crypted_pass, scheme, request->user);

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[dovecot] Mbox spool; dovecot rewriting and rewriting and rewriting
by Ask Bjoern Hansen 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hi, jaldhar recommended dovecot to me - http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2003/04/07/000286.html ... and so far it seems much nicer than the other imapds. yay. I use the OS X Mail.app client. I tested it with a test account with no problems, but trying to use it with my usual mail folders (~1.3GB; 120MB in the inbox) it's not working at all. It seems like dovecot keeps copying the full inbox into a temp file in mail/.imap/INBOX. It did it at least 10 times while I was watching without any noticable progress doing anything at all in Mail.app. I am running FreeBSD on an ancient box with 384MB ram (but nice SCSI drives). I tried stopping new mail deliveries to the inbox while I testing, but it didn't seem to make a difference. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();

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[dovecot] Why can't hierarchy sep be changed?
by Timo Sirainen 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

>From: Charlie Brady <charlieb(a)e-smith.com> There's something wrong with manually accepting posts from non-subscribed addresses now, they're just left to queue directory for some reason.. Please try to keep the From-address the same as the subscribed one. > >From maildir-storage.c: > > ... > '.', /* hierarchy_sep - can't be changed */ > ... > > Why can't it be changed? Is this just for courier compatibility, or is > there a deeper reason why it can't be changed? Actually I'm going to change it to '/' to allow folders such as shared/timo.sirainen/mailbox. The directory names themselves will still contain '.' separator to stay compatible with Courier's Maildir++ format. So even though new IMAP separator will be '/', '.' still can't be used in mailbox names.

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[dovecot] a few other problem
by Farkas Levente 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

hi, I still has a few other problem with dovecot and mozilla. - when I open mozilla mail I can only see the toplevel folders in the left handside folder list and when I close the imap folder and open it again (click on the arrow left to the imap server in the folder list) mozilla show me all folders and subfolders correctly (but not at the startup). it can be mozilla's bug, but this was worked when I use courier?! - when I'd like to sort the messages by thread than the thread is usualy ok, but I'd like to see the the different threads sorted by date (as it was while using couirer or cyrus) but now it seems to me random:-(( it's very anoying. my be it's mozilla fault again, but may be mozilla use server side thread support. - in OE6 when we only select headers only sometime some message "disappear"! which means we see in OE6 a red line over the message (as it would be deleted), but no one delete it (yes I know you don't belive me, I also don't belive our users, but once I saw it). just click on it to see the message and inmediately become as deleted. while when I look at in the server the file is still there and _not_ deleted. and OE6 show "the message already removed from the server". - what about the ssl (imaps) problem? yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] Re: NFS mounted IMAP dirs
by Maikel Verheijen 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Hi Timo, > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 23:23, Maikel Verheijen wrote: > > While reading through the dovecot documentation, I read > that I could > > do without indexes (well: use memory indexes), > > Currently that's not really good idea, since message UIDs > aren't then stored permanently. In CVS there's support for > this with mbox format, and I've also been writing support for > Courier-like uidlist-file, but that's still not really working. Well: I am working with Maildir mailstores, so I guess I need to have a uidlist kinda file then? Sorry it wasn't clear in my post that I am using Maildir style mailboxes... But I figured maildir was better than Mbox over nfs... > > My problem is now that dovecot writes it's subscriptions to the > > mailstore. Since I want as little difference between my > frondends as > > possible, (and as static as possible), I would love to see dovecot > > handle subscriptions in a database, or perhaps a nfs-safe file. > > Database? SQL? Another problem is also .customflags file > which isn't NFS-safe. With mbox it's not really required, but > with Maildir it is if you want custom message flags. It > wouldn't be too difficult to change the code to use dotlock > files with these files anyway, I've been going to make it > configurable. My current setup is with postgresql and Maildir. So in a way, a lot of info COULD come from my database, if it isn't safe enough via nfs. Can you make all file locking configurable? Or will you do it on a "per-type" basis? (eg: mailbox locking, index locking, flag-file locking, etc). regards, Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] maildir_copy_with_hardlinks doesn't work
by Kimura Fuyuki 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

On my box maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes causes the following IMAP error: Some of the requested messages no longer exist. A possible fix follows. --- src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-copy.c 19 Feb 2003 21:32:21 -0000 1.21 +++ src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-copy.c 5 Apr 2003 09:23:34 -0000 @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ ret2 = index_messageset_deinit(ctx); if (ret2 < 0) ret = -1; - else { + else if (ret2 == 0) { mail_storage_set_error(src->box.storage, "Some of the requested messages no longer exist."); ret = -1; -- fuyuki

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[dovecot] Re: Question about the password field in a postgres ql database
by Maikel Verheijen 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

> Works fine with me.. Only thing I can think of is that it's > some stupid > configuration mistake, like not uncommenting the line :) Hi Timo, I just (double) checked my config files, and it LOOKS ok. My dovecot is from cvs, updated yesterday, and running on Redhat 7.3 (if that matters). Here is my dovecot-pgsql.conf: --8<-- # # Postgress connect string. Similar to PHP connect = host=A.B.C.D dbname=maildb user=mailuser password=****** password_query = SELECT password FROM aliases WHERE alias = '%u' AND password != '' AND locked='f'; user_query = SELECT maildir as home, 100 as uid,498 as gid FROM aliases where alias = '%u'; #default_pass_scheme = PLAIN #default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 default_pass_scheme = CRYPT --8<-- My NON-working DB entry is: --8<-- maildb-> default_pass_scheme = CRYPT maildb-> select * from aliases where alias = 'marc(a)test.com'; ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "#" maildb=> ; maildb=> select * from aliases where alias = 'marc(a)test.com'; alias | maildir | password | locked ---------------+------------------------+----------------------------------- -+-------- marc(a)test.com | test.com/marc/Maildir/ | $1$JJN5H82p$yKs5jnb/csQVYsZZ/4WFS0 | f (1 row) --8<-- and the one that IS working: --8<-- maildb=> select * from aliases where alias = 'maikel(a)test.com'; alias | maildir | password | locked -----------------+--------------------------+------------------------------- ------------+-------- maikel(a)test.com | test.com/maikel/Maildir/ | {CRYPT}$1$JJN5H82p$yKs5jnb/csQVYsZZ/4WFS0 | f (1 row) --8<-- Both strings are crypted versions of 'qwerty' Thank you, Maikel Verheijen

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[dovecot] INBOX at /var in maildir storage format
by Sebastian Pachuta 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi I'm trying to figure out how to set default_mail_env to support such config: INBOX is in '/var/mail/%u/' (note last slash at the end, %u is an folder with new/tmp/cur subdirs - standard maildir structure). Other imap folders are stored as files (in mbox format) in direcotry '%h/Mail/'. Please advise.

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[dovecot] Question about the password field in a postgresql database
by Maikel Verheijen 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi List, When I try to set the default_pass_scheme in dovecot-pgsql.conf to CRYPT, the dovecot does not recognize my crypted passwords. If I prepend my encrypted passwords with {CRYPT}, dovecot DOES recognize it. (even when I set default_pass_scheme to PLAIN). Is this supposed to work, or am I misinterpreting things here? Thank you! Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] Failure in the presence of too many connections
by Mark E. Mallett 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

Had an event today where dovecot refused new connections and would not accept more until restarted, whereupon it worked for a few minutes and locked up again. Looking at the logs it appeared that it had run out of file descriptors. I increased the open files limit and started it again-- which worked but it only pushes off the problem. Does dovecot keep an open file descriptor for every imap or pop3 child? If so, this would argue more towards a tcpserver sort of control. If not, perhaps something is leaking.. -mm- PS: assume you saw recent RFCs 3501 and 3502 ?

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[dovecot] dovecot-0.99.8.1 @ old redhat6.2 box
by Sebastian Pachuta 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi I have some odd problem with running dovecot. Program dies with message in maillog: Mar 31 21:04:02 test-box dovecot: Dovecot starting up Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: child 28870 (login) returned error 84 (exec() failed) Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: child 28869 (login) returned error 84 (exec() failed) Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable System is redhat6.2 (with all updates), kernel is 2.2.25 (with openwall patch). Under rh7.3 dovecot launches fine.

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[dovecot] NFS mounted IMAP dirs
by Maikel Verheijen 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi list, I am trying to build an email system that is using multiple frontends, to a clustered backend using nfs. The backend mounts his filesystems from a central storage, and will be running active-active. While reading through the dovecot documentation, I read that I could do without indexes (well: use memory indexes), and could then be able to run dovecot over NFS. Well: that was until friday, when I was reading a little bit better through nfs.txt. :) My problem is now that dovecot writes it's subscriptions to the mailstore. Since I want as little difference between my frondends as possible, (and as static as possible), I would love to see dovecot handle subscriptions in a database, or perhaps a nfs-safe file. Since I am only a junior programmer (my code is really not far from "Hello world", although I am trying to find some time to teach myself more), I might not be able to be of much assistance to you all in coding stuff, but I am willing to help out where-ever possible. Can anyone help me solve my problem in any way, and how can I contribute as well? Thank you all, Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] FETCH BODY[part]<partial>
by Jesse Peterson 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

2003-03-24 12:59 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> This CVS update didn't actually seem to fix the problem. I still get the problem as before, like this capture: 10 UID FETCH 60 BODY.PEEK[]<8192.1915> * 60 FETCH (UID 60 BODY[]<8192> {1915} ) 10 OK Fetch completed. Not quite 1,915 bytes =). Perhaps the "[]" (without a part) is confusing it? But still, it grabs the first chunk correctly. At any rate, any input would be great.

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[dovecot] Dovecot and Quotas
by Mike Machado 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Is there anything that can be done so that when users IMAP to their inbox and have reached their filesystem quota, that they can still DELETE their mail? They can login, but when they go to delete/expunge this is the error I get in syslog. I have tried mail_read_mmaped to yes and no, and same result. Mar 25 14:54:27 penguin1 imap(bob): file_set_size() failed with index data file /home/bob/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.data: Disk quota exceededMar 25 14:54:27 penguin1 imap(bob): mmap_istream.madvise(): Function not implemented Mar 25 14:54:28 penguin1 last message repeated 65 times When using UW IMAP, sometimes users can delete mail and other times they cannot. I am desperately seeking a solution to have customers be able to delete their own mail when their box is full and not have to call our support center. Any suggestions? Thanks. Debian with kernel 2.4.18. -- Mike Machado mike(a)innercite.com InnerCite Inc. Engineering Director / CTO

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[dovecot] Re: mailbox problem
by Maikel Verheijen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

> Hmm. Unless you're using one UID for everyone, those > directories would have be to be created as root. Also > test.com should be created with different owner as blah and > blah/Maildir. Maybe I could add a new setting for this, but > I'm not sure how to do it without making it too kludgy. There > would have to be separation of where user directory structure > starts, and uid/gid settings what to use for created > directories before them. Something like: I do use 1 UID and 1 GID for everyone. Would that be more simple? > mail_global_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d > mail_global_uid = root > mail_global_gid = mail > mail_user_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d/%n > > Would be better if the mail_user_dir didn't have to be set at > all since it's already in mail_default_env, but the user > directory has to be created while still root, and parsing > mail_default_env there is kludgy too. Or maybe: > > mail_global_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d/%n > > And the last directory would always be assumed to be user > directory. That would prevent creating /var/mail-like shared > directories though, but I guess there's no need to create those.. Maybe there could be a "toggle" to do or don't create the dirs, so you don't need the mail_global_dir setting for "normal" use. My idea was to check the full path to the mailbox, and to create the nonexisting part if necessary. At that point you DO have the full path to the mailbox/maildir, and you can create it, right? Kind regards, Maikel Verheijen.

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[dovecot] inetd/xinetd/tcpserver support
by Timo Sirainen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

I was just thinking how they could be easily supported. This would work, right? : imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login imaps stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login --ssl imap-login would try to connect to master process using some named socket. If it couldn't, it would create the master process itself. Master process would work as usual (executes auth and imap processes), except it wouldn't be executing login processes. This wouldn't require much code changing, and it would still be using all the same privilege separations as the standalone version so it would be just a secure. Only thing I'm wondering is if any of the TCP wrappers care about the created child processes? The master process would have to stay alive after the connection that created it dies. I guess I'll implement this soon and try if it works.

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[dovecot] mailbox problem
by Maikel Verheijen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi list! Since a week I am testing with dovecot, and I must say, I like it a lot :) Keep up the good work :) I do have one questing regarding dovecot: If I login to a mailbox, and the mailbox does NOT exist, and the parent directory does not exist either, I will get disconnected, and dovecot claims it cannot create the directory. (eg: my user blah(a)test.com has mail directory /var/mail/t/te/test.com/blah/Maildir, and all directories up to /var/mail/t/te/ exist, dovecot does not create the directory test.com/ and on.) Is this by design, or should this be created by dovecot? The problem is solved as soon as the user receives his first email, since my MTA creates the directories... Thank you, Maikel Verheijen

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[dovecot] Help
by Barker, Ron, vpe 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi to all, We are a bit of newbes to imap etc, so may be we just not doing it right. Nevertheless, We have compiled dovecot to run under Solaris 8/9 for IPv6 test. We are going crazy. After a successful compilation, the troubles really began. Solaris 9 1. Every´time we reboot- the directory /var/run/dovecot/auth is gone ???? 2. After the dir is created manually, the server starts. However!!! 1. A telnet to host 143 connect to the server fine but no commands are accepted. The server simply returns "bad command" 2. If we try to connect via a e-mail client to the server - we get a login refused - which I suspect is simply the "bad command" error being interpreted as such. We have tried every concivable combination of conf items in the conf file but nothing. Solaris8 Just does not start. Any help apprecialted Ron -- Dr. Ronald Barker Senior Technology Manager Vodafone Group Research & Development - D Vodafone Pilotentwicklung GmbH Chiemgaustrasse 116 81549 Munich Germany Fon: + 49 (89) 95 410-0 Fax: + 49 (89) 95 410-111 mailto:ron.barker@v-pe.de http://www.vodafone-rnd.com <<Barker, Ron, vpe.vcf>>

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[dovecot] dovecot+Solaris 9
by Barker, Ron, vpe 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Does the /dev/urandom issue apply to Solaris 9 as well??? Thanks Ron -- Dr. Ronald Barker Senior Technology Manager Vodafone Group Research & Development - D Vodafone Pilotentwicklung GmbH Chiemgaustrasse 116 81549 Munich Germany Fon: + 49 (89) 95 410-0 Fax: + 49 (89) 95 410-111 mailto:ron.barker@v-pe.de http://www.vodafone-rnd.com <<Barker, Ron, vpe.vcf>>

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[dovecot] a bit better, but...
by Farkas Levente 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

this is the correct list the previous was too fast:-( hi, so after test the today version. works: - squirrelmail works ie. it can send mail (even with attachments) and put the sent mail into the sent folder. - mozilla see the right folder list (ie. there is no anoying empty name folder under the folders which has subfolder) and you can subcribe to these folders too. still not works: - mozilla can put sent mail into the imap server's sent folder at the first try, but at the next try (when I compose this mails) it hangs again:-( - in mozilla can't copy/move mails from local folder's sent into any of the imap folders. - in mozilla can't sem messages to Drafts (when I put the save button in the compose window it's hang). - in mozilla there is a folder called INBOX in the subscribe window:-( - in OE6 with large mailbox with large message with the default "all messages" settings in the indox outlook hang (the "headers only" still work). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] a bit better
by Farkas Levente 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

hi, so after test the today version. works: - squirrelmail works ie. it can send mail (even with attachments) and put the sent mail into the sent folder. - mozilla can put sent mail into the imap server's sent folder - mozilla see the right folder list (ie. there is no anoying empty name folder under the folders which has subfolder) and you can subcribe to these folders too. still not works: - in mozilla can't copy/move mails from local folder's sent into any of the imap folders. - in mozilla can't sem messages to Drafts (when I put the save button in the compose window it's hang). - in mozilla there is a folder called INBOX in the subscribe window:-( - in OE6 with large mailbox with large message with the default "all messages" settings in the indox outlook hang (the "headers only" still work). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] some problem with dovecot
by Farkas Levente 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

hi, yesterday we switch to courir to dovecot the whole company. there is good and bad news. the good one that about 200 people use outlook and outlook works fine (after we make some registry hack to delete the INBOX form imap root folder, which was required for courier but not for dovecot). the bad news we try most of the thing before the switch except outself. since the whole it department use linux and mozilla. and almost nothing is working with mozilla: - first of all the folder list can't be subscribed i.e. only the top level folder can be subscribed. can't subscribe to folder which has subfolders and mail inside. all folders with has subfolders shonw as an empty name folder under itself. and you can't select these folders in mozilla's subscribe window (i.e you are not able to check it even it is there). - you can't send any messages!!! since mozilla can't find the Sent folder and can't move the mail after sending!!! even if you reconfigure mozilla to use that "Sent" folder as Sent folder. - you can't see the mails in a folder which has subfolders i.e. it seem there is no message in that folders. - we store mails in ~/Maildir/. dovecot create a ~/Maildir/.INBOX and put the index files of the ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} into that folder but for all other folders it keep the index files in that folder's directory. it's realy confusing. this is _very_ anoying:-((( is there any dirty trick to use mozilla? when thses will be useable? thanks.

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[dovecot] debian 0.99.8.1 packages available
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

I thought I'd mention it here because a lot of people have been waiting for me on this. My personal situation is getting saner now so I finally was able to package up 0.99.8.1. The package for sid was uploaded last night and should appear in the archive today. A backport for woody is available from http://www.braincells.com/open/ I have not included POP3, LDAP or SASL2 support for now as I didn't want anything to delay the package from entering the archive. That will be the next order of business. The only bug I've seen so far is that when my mbox-format inbox was in /home/jaldhar/mail/inbox dovecot thought it ha 0 messages. It only showed up properly after I moved it back to /var/spool/mail/jaldhar but I suspect this is just a configuration error on my part. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/shailaja/

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[dovecot] more problem with Sent
by Farkas Levente 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

hi, ok it's turn out that not just mozilla not able to put the sent mails into the Sent folder but our webmail frontend (SquirrelMail) can't do it. so those who are using the webmail no longer able to use the mail system:-((( -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[dovecot] Dotlocking doesn't work?
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

A Debian developer had this to say: > >> Files in the above dir are group mail, and the dir is group mail. However, > > > all binaries in /usr/lib/dovecot are root/root. I have set them all to g+s, > > > and group mail, and now the imap process can lock the INBOX. > > > > > imap should be the only one that needs to be setgid mail. > > Actually, I've looked at the dovecot source code. There is no way having > setgid on the executable will work. The source drops the privledges long > before it tries to do a dotlock. > > This is an upstream problem. > > For now, I've disable dotlock, and use fcntl instead, as that is what exim > uses anyways. Is dotlocking still a work in progress or are we missing something here? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[dovecot] Re: some problem with dovecot
by Marcus Rueckert 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

On 2003-03-19 13:52:18 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > >mozilla 1.3b + cvs 2003-03-18 is working well here. with the old > >0.99.8.1 i had some problems with attachments. working well after > >updating dovecot. > > we also use 1.3b but with 0.99.8.1, so I waiting for 0.100.... try CVS. maybe it solves your problems. marcus -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[dovecot] big mail problems..
by Jesse Peterson 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Attachments, large mails & etc. seem to have problems with my installations of dovecot. As we know, Mozilla likes to take it's mail in chunks, and after Mozilla, (or Mail.app, it likes to do this, too) takes its first chunk, it doesn't start getting the rest, even though ethereal tells me that dovecot OK'ed the 10K chunk. 9 UID fetch 4 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY[]<0.10240>) * 4 FETCH (UID 4 RFC822.SIZE 3958069 BODY[]<0> {3958069} <snip> 9 OK Fetch completed. Nothing gets transfered beyond this point. I think this would be mozilla's fault, but I dont think this would happen with a release, and I dont think Mail.app would have the same problem, too. Thanks for any help, - Jesse

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[dovecot] Configure SSL problem
by Leslie Viljoen 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Hi everyone I have been trying to get Dovecot installed with OpenSSL support, but no matter what I do, when I run Configure, it says "Building with SSL support.........No". I have even tried configure --with-ssl=openssl, to no avail. I have built and installed OpenSSL, and libssl.so and libcrypto.so are in the /lib directory - what more does Dovecot want? I have tried figuring it out from the Configure script itself but it's cryptic and I am no shell script boffin! Thanks for any tips Les ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] Failed to create storage with data: ::
by Jesse Peterson 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

# dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps login = imap login_user = mail default_mail_env = maildir:%h/ auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /tmp/imap.passwd auth_user = mail auth_verbose = yes In the log files I get: Mar 15 23:36:30 pos dovecot: Dovecot starting up Mar 15 23:36:37 pos imap-login: Login: testuser [10.0.66.1] Mar 15 23:36:37 pos imap(testuser): Failed to create storage with data: :: Mar 15 23:36:37 pos dovecot: child 23150 (imap) returned error 89 A typical entry in the imap.passwd: testuser:<md5>[34]:12345:12345::/some/home/directory/testuser:0:: -- Jesse Peterson / jesse(a)pixeltechs.com

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[dovecot] missing files...
by Jesse Peterson 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

I'm probably missing something but.. from cvs: gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/erage/dovecot/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-index' source='mail-lockdir.c' object='mail-lockdir.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/mail-lockdir.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/mail-lockdir.TPo' \ depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../../depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c `test -f 'mail-lockdir.c' || echo './'`mail-lockdir.c gcc: ./mail-lockdir.c: No such file or directory gcc: No input files Any ideas?

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[dovecot] dovecot/vpopmail auth problems
by Chris Doyle 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Hello. I am having problems getting dovecot to authenticate correctly through vpopmail. I have used vpopmail for some time, and I understand how it works. vpopmail is using mysql to store it's authentication data. vpopmail's tools can access the user database just fine, and vchkpw is working so far as authentication goes. I took an "strace -f dovecot", in case it can help. It is about 900k, and can be accessed at http://www.narshe.net/~umaro/dovecot.log please help! Thanks Chris Doyle

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[dovecot] Shared Folders?
by Moe Wibble 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Hello everybody (esp. Timo ;)), in an attempt to replace our cyrus imapd with something less bloated I have recently evaluated some of the younger imapd implementations, namely bincimap and also dovecot. Bincimap didn't work properly with mozilla for me, dovecot hasn't failed on any test, yet. Unfornationally, since we have been using cyrus for over 1.5 yrs, we pretty much depend on the "shared folders"-feature. Are there any plans to make shared folders available in dovecot anytime soon? best regards! -- MW

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[dovecot] Starting Dovecot?
by Leslie Viljoen 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Hello! I have laid SSL aside for the time being, and continued compiling and installing Dovecot. Now I don't know how to start it! I have been through the config file and mostly left things as-is. I have created the dovecot user and group and put only dovecot user in the dovecot group. Then I tried imap-master, as specified in the INSTALL documentation, but there is no such file! Under src/master, "dovecot" gets built. I tried running this, and /var/log/messages says "dovecot starting", but this process seems to just end. If I run it twice very quickly, I get told that port 143 is busy - so it seems that it is starting up, but only staying up for a very short while. Messages gives no more clues as to why the server quits. Any ideas? Les PS: I am trying dovecot 0.99.8.1. ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] Sorry (Starting Dovecot)
by Leslie Viljoen 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Sorry, I didn't check all my logs. PAM password DB was not found - it was in syslog. Les ______________________________________ Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522

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[dovecot] SMTP options
by Jesse Peterson 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

I realize this is not an SMTP discussion list, but... here goes: This is my situation. We have mobile users that need a secure (SSL) SMTP+auth gateway that simply forwards rfc822's to our real MTA. All it would have to do is accept SSL connections, authenticate the user, accept his message, then send that to the MTA. Anybody know of a very minimal software package that can do this? -- Jesse Peterson / jesse(a)pixeltechs.com

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