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[Dovecot] uidvalidity file
by Jeff Grossman 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Should I be considered with this log entry? rename(/home/vmail/jeff/dovecot-uidvalidity, /home/vmail/jeff/dovecot-uidvalidity) failed: No such file or directory

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[Dovecot] Virtual mailboxes, howto, examples, help? =)
by Brandon Lamb 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Using 1.2rc3 maildir format maildir /mail/example.com/j/johndoe/{cur,new,tmp} Is there more documentation and examples on how to configure virtual mailboxes, or maybe more info on what it is suppose to do? From what I could understand on the wiki, i could create a fake/virtual folder under /mail/example.com/j/johndoe/virtual/allmail/ and inside that dir create dovecot-virtual with INBOX all And then in my mail client i would see virtual/allmail and when i click that folder it shows me mail from all my normal maildir folders? Is my thinking of how to use virtual mailboxes totally off, or am I trying to use it for what it is suppose to be used for? So far i have been messing with various values = yes/no using the following namespace private { prefix = virtual/ separator = / # location = virtual:~/virtual location = virtual:~/virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ list = yes inbox = no subscriptions = yes hidden = no } # The default namespace that is visible to IMAP clients namespace private { prefix = separator = / location = maildir:~/ list = yes inbox = yes subscriptions = yes hidden = no } I dont know if I am retarded in my lack of ability to figure this out or what

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2 ubuntu horde xi.rename-it.nl
by Robert Schetterer 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi, i used to use http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ experimental-auto main to update dovecot 1.2 with ubuntu horde didnt done for a time now i get broken deps with apt like -- dovecot-common: Hängt ab: libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) ist aber nicht installierbar Hängt ab: libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) ist aber nicht installierbar Hängt ab: libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) ist aber nicht installierbar --- ( sorry german *g ) i updated libkrb53 from jaunty but this doesnt fix it any idea what to upgrade to get dovecot 1.2 updated again its a test server so i am free for unstable packs etc no pruduction services running -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Corrupted Index Cache
by Jeff Grossman 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

I am starting to use Squirrelmail a little bit more to read my mail during the day and I seem to be getting this error more frequently while using Squirrelmail. Just a coincidence or do you think using Squirrelmail might have something to do with it? Corrupted index cache file /home/vmail/jeff/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file I am using Squirrelmail, IMAPProxy, and Dovecot 1.2RC3. Here is a copy of my dovecot -n. # 1.2.rc3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/stikman-godaddy.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/stikman-godaddy.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: sieve

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[Dovecot] possible bug in lib-mail source
by Johann Klasek 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Browsing through the source code to find some properties of deliver I stuck here: --- dovecot-1.2.rc3/src/lib-mail/message-header-parser.c.orig 2009-01-07 19:33:26.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.2.rc3/src/lib-mail/message-header-parser.c 2009-04-23 09:53:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ Exception to this is if the value consists only of LWSP, then skip only the one LWSP after ':'. */ for (pos = 0; pos < line->value_len; pos++) { - if (!IS_LWSP(line->value[0])) + if (!IS_LWSP(line->value[pos])) break; } I'm not clear if this was really indented but the for-loop does not use the variable pos in the loop body. The expression !IS_LWSP(line->value[0]) is invariant and always false if the first character after ':' is a white space, forcing the loop to go through the whole value. This happens only if flag MESSAGE_HEADER_PARSER_FLAG_SKIP_INITIAL_LWSP is active. I saw this in 1.1.4 too. Johann Klasek -- Johann E. Klasek Zentraler Informatikdienst - Kommunikation Technische Universität Wien Tel: +43 1 58801-42049 A-1040 Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/020C Fax: +43 1 58801-42099 http://pgpkeys.tuwien.ac.at/ PGP Key jklasek

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Re: [Dovecot] FTS Plugin design
by rui.carneiro＠portugalmail.net 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:47 AM, <tomas(a)tuxteam.de> wrote: Note that some formats might require to seek to some point in the file [1] (typically the end), so reading from stdin is awkward (it would require stdin to be seekable, so either the app or the caller would have to put the whole file somewhere anyway). [1] Notably PDF has some index tables at EOF - 1k if I remember correctly. I hadn't thought on that before but I think you are right. The only question here is writing data to memory or hd. Thank you all, Rui Carneiro -- Portugalmail, Comunicações S.A. www.portugalmail.net

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[Dovecot] changing architecture
by Giuliano Gavazzi 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Dear all, moving Maildirs from a PPC cpu to an Intel one (MacOS X to FreeBSD) not surprisingly I got: Apr 23 12:08:50 drum dovecot: IMAP(x): Rebuilding index file /usr/home/ x/Maildir/dovecot.index: CPU architecture changed Apr 23 12:08:52 drum dovecot: IMAP(x): Corrupted index cache file /usr/ home/x/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: field header points outside file Apr 23 12:09:01 drum dovecot: IMAP(x): fscking index file /usr/home/x/ Maildir/.Drafts/dovecot.index Apr 23 12:09:01 drum dovecot: IMAP(x): Corrupted transaction log file / usr/home/x/Maildir/.Drafts/dovecot.index.log: file size shrank Apr 23 12:09:01 drum dovecot: IMAP(x): fscking index file /usr/home/x/ Maildir/.Posta indesiderata/dovecot.index Apr 23 12:09:01 drum dovecot: IMAP(x): Corrupted transaction log file / usr/home/x/Maildir/.Posta indesiderata/dovecot.index.log: file size shrank I suppose owed to the endianness change. Can I thus just remove those dovecot.index files, including dovecot.index.cache and dovecot.index.cache.log? I know I could let dovecot do it, but as the cache files in particular are quite large, it would save me band simply not transferring them with rsync from the old server. thanks Giuliano

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[Dovecot] bad maildir location
by denis 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hi, I use dovecot 1.0.15 on Debian Lenny. In my /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf, i use user_query = SELECT path, 33 AS uid, uid AS gid FROM mail_users WHERE alias = '%u' The result is something like this /var/alternc/mail/d/denis_collectifs.net and is the correct location (the Maildir is created by an script) But the problem is that dovecot creates (when you log in for the first time) a directory in the form of the exact address. Here for example, /var/alternc/mail/d/denis(a)collectifs.net And so all connections will be on an empty location. How is it possible to resolve this? As mail_location I have this "maildir:/var/alternc/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir" which is not really correct. Thanks Denis PS: For now, I temporarily symlinks /var/alternc/mail/d/denis(a)collectifs.net /var/alternc/mail/d/denis_collectifs.net

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[Dovecot] server is not imap4 compatible
by marco ghidinelli 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

hello, i have a problem with my dovecot installation. sometimes, the thunderbird clients on windows machines complains about: "server is not imap4 compatible". on the server, at the same time, i found this error: Apr 20 16:21:17 harlock dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: rip=192.168.0.194, lip=10.70.0.1, TLS handshake the imap server is behind a dmz which sometimes drops connections. the server ran without problem until i upgraded from 1.0.rc15 to 1.0.15. after the upgrade i was forced to enhance the proc.sys.fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 1024 because i had error messages about "Inotify instance limit for user exceeded" my question is: does the upgrade triggered a new way of communication between clients and server that exacerbates the problem of dropped connections from the DMZ server? p.s. the dovecot configuration is: $ sudo dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/harlock_digicert_2009.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/harlock_digicert_2009.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_max_processes_count: 256 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/turboden.net/%n/ mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: DOMAIN.LOCAL username_format: %Ln@%Ud passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] Mailbox is locked?
by Kyle Wheeler 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hello, I recently upgraded from Dovecot 1.1.8 to 1.1.14, and I've started to get errors I never got before. Specifically, I'm getting "Mailbox is locked, will abort in xx seconds" errors. My mail client (mutt) will just sit there in the background (presumably in IDLE) and randomly will show this error (I THINK it has something to do with delivering new messages to the folder; I use the dovecot LDA). Nothing else about my configuration has changed, just the version of dovecot. Does anyone know what could be causing these? I assume it has something to do with the index files, but... Nothing interesting shows up in the log files. How do I get rid of these error messages? Or even begin tracking them down? For what it's worth, mail is stored on the server in Maildirs, and the lock_method is fcntl, the mbox_write_locks is fcntl (I don't set mbox_read_locks). ~Kyle -- For to accuse, requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution more resembles justice. -- Hobbes, Leviathan

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