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[Dovecot] SASL
by Friedrich Locke 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Dear list members, i am looking for a pop3 server and would like to know dovecot pop3 closer. In my current infra structure all my users have a single login and one password. I have been authenticating unix, web, ldap, smtp against saslauthd server. It is possible to have dovecot pop3 authenticate by contacting saslauthd too ? Another question: All my user information are keeped inside LDAP using qmail.schema. Can dovecot pop3 look into ldap an return information about user mail directory, etc .... ? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] IMAP not working remotely
by Ondřej Bouda 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Hello, I am trying to set up Dovecot 2.0.9 on Fedora 14. The problem I would like to ask for resolution is that IMAP is not working when connecting to the server from another network. More precisely: - POP3 is working entirely OK, - IMAP is working OK when clients are connecting using local network addresses, like 192.168.0.100, - when a client connects from outside, thus using remote IP address, or even from the server itself using the remote IP address of the server, the following happens: the client correctly connects, but the server sends no greeting (neither the configured login_greeting nor the server IMAP capabilities) and does not respond to the commands. In the server log, I get the following record a while after trying to connect (and actually trying to login): Jul 08 23:24:16 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Inactivity (no auth attempts): rip=<remote-server-address>, lip=192.168.0.100 Both routing and firewall are OK. The client really connects to dovecot (hence the log message), as seen from a telnet session: Trying a.b.c.d... Connected to example.tld (a.b.c.d). Escape character is '^]'. (and then nothing else) The most confusing for me is the fact that POP3 is configured quite the same and works fine, as well as IMAP on the local network. I tried to change address in the inet_listener imap configuration, but if a wrong address setting was the cause, the client would not get connected at all. As I have spent a pretty long time unsuccessfully searching for a cause, I am asking for some help. Thanks for your time, Ondrej Bouda dovecot -n output follows: # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 502 first_valid_uid = 502 last_valid_gid = 502 last_valid_uid = 502 log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_greeting = Welcome mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n passdb { args = scheme=plain username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = dovecot-auth } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 110 } } ssl = no userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv }

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[Dovecot] auth_username_chars question
by Linda Walsh 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

I notice there is a space after the = in the default setting: #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ Is that space part of the syntax or required? If not, does that mean 'space' is included in the default list of allowed characters? If not, then is the space after the '=' required? -- If not, the implication would seem to be that space is 'ignored'. If that's the case, how does one include 'space' in the list of allowed characters? Also, how does one include the "\" character in the list of allowed characters? I.e. is anything accepted, literally, after the first non-space char after the '=' sign? I.e. any spaces after the first non-space char would be taken as valid character, and '\' would also be a literal character? (not that'd I'd be using windows's clients or anything that would, on occasion, pass "DOMAINAME\user" as the calling user trying to log into a 'user' account....or anything....*ahem*...) Overrode it w/some hard-coded hacks, but would like dovecot to me more robust and handle weird input and do the right thing with it (I know that's always a challenging concept for some people, since the answers and ability to arrive at 'correct' is always 'contextual', and so many people want absolute rules that apply all the time in all cases, but...I think thats a diagnosable psychological condition ;-) ).

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: gkr-pam: error looking up user information for: IP ?
by babajaga 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

I am receiving a lot of error messages dovecot-auth: gkr-pam: error looking up user information for: <user> Unfortunately, I do not see the IP of the remote client, trying to break in. Is there any possibility to get it ? Would be useful to block the IP. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/dovecot-auth%3A-gkr-pam%3A-error-looking-up-user-info… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] How users subscribe to a shared mailbox ?
by Frank Bonnet 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

Hello I have MBOX format mailboxes and would like to build some shared mailboxes for some groups of users. I've read the doc and I think I've understood the concept but ... how my users will subscribe to the shared mailbox I build for them ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Info: Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin
by Frank Bonnet 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

hello again I have those messages for ONE user the IMAP folders are accessed by several clients at the same time ( this is a special account used by several people ) Thanks for any infos

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[Dovecot] redirect IMAP --> IMAPS
by Frank Bonnet 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

Hello Is it possible to configure Dovecot (2) to "redirect" IMAP connexions to IMAPS ? I know it would be possible with ipfw on the server but I wonder if dovecot has such capability. thanks

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[Dovecot] Possible bug in shared namespace variable?
by Tom Clark 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

As you would have seen earlier I've created a shared mailbox with the following namespace: namespace { type = shared separator = . prefix = Shared.%%n. location = maildir:/var/vpopmail/domains/%%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/Shared/%%n subscriptions = no list = children } This works perfectly, but for some reason the %%n variable in the location maildir is blank. Everywhere else %%n is used works (e.g. the prefix and INDEX). This means for the shared mailbox under support(a)mailbox.com I get a folder Mailder in the domain folder: /var/vpopmail/domains/mailbox.com/Maildir instead of /var/vpopmail/domains/mailbox.com/support/Maildir. Has anyone else come across this?

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[Dovecot] Shared mailbox not showing in list
by Tom Clark 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

I've setup a shared folder on my server which isn't showing in the list command for the user it's shared with. Can someone help? I have done everything correctly I believe. The user sharing their mailbox is support@, while I'm the user being shared with, tom@ namespace { type = shared separator = . prefix = Shared.%%u. location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/Shared/%%u subscriptions = no list = children } mail_plugins = acl protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl } plugin { acl = vfile } # Support for multiple domains plugin { acl_shared_dict = file:/var/vpopmail/domains/%d/shared-mailboxes } This what is in the dict file says: shared/shared-boxes/user/tom@mailbox.com/support@mailbox.com When running a GETACL as support(a)mailbox.com I get: 3 getacl Support * ACL "Support" "tom(a)mailbox.com" lr "support(a)mailbox.com" lrwstipekxacd 3 OK Getacl completed. However when I do a LIST "" * as tom(a)mailbox.com It doesn't have any mention of the Shared maildir. * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent.Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent Messages" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"

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[Dovecot] Trash handling?
by Mason Loring Bliss 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hello, all. I've recently switched over to Dovecot from a long stretch of using Courier IMAP, and there's one thing I don't have working that I'd quite like. With Courier I had a magic trash folder in which things I deleted would live for a specified amount of time, after which they'd be deleted. I see how to get the expiry behaviour I want, but not the magic saving-to-mailbox functionality. lazy_expunge looks similar but not precisely what I want. Is there a default way to get expunged messages moved to a different mailbox but not a different namespace? Thanks in advance for clues. -- Mason Loring Bliss mason(a)blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #(sleep dream) (random 2))) -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

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