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[Dovecot] maildir, zlib and mtime/internal date
by Richard Platel 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

On the wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib I think there should be a step 5.0. along the lines of "get and remember the original message file's mtime" And a step 5.4 like "Using the touch command or some other method, set the now compressed message's mtime back to the mtime of the original message file." To preserve the message's internal time in case the indices ever get rebuilt. Does this sound right?

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[Dovecot] Sieve fileinto a subfolder fails
by Rich McAllister 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

I'm using Dovecot 1.0.10 on Ubuntu 8.04, using the packages from the distro; exim4 is my MTA and it's configured according to the instructions in the wiki, everything is working fine for delivery into the Maildir INBOX via Dovecot's LDA and reading mail via IMAP using Thunderbird. My habit on previous mail systems was to create a Lists folder and subfolders under Lists for each mailing list I subscribe to. I tried to use Dovecot sieve to sort mail into the folders with sieve filters like require "fileinto"; if header :contains "Subject" "[NCCC]" { fileinto "Lists/NCCC"; } else { keep; } I created Lists/NCCC via Thunderbird (so I could set the "check this folder for new mail property") but when Dovecot tries to deliver into the folder, I get the log message msgid=<...>: Couldn't open mailbox Lists/NCCC: Invalid mailbox name If I use just fileinto "NCCC"; it works fine, going into a NCCC folder not in a subfolder as expected. Is there some other syntax for specifying folder/subfolder names in Dovecot sieve, or do I just have to live with the folders all at the top level? Rich dovecot -n shows: # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/arda/export/mail/%u/Maildir auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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Re: [Dovecot] Lots of assertion PANICs in error log
by Yates Ian Mr (ITCS) 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

This patch seems to have done the trick! Keep up the good work! Cheers. I.

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[Dovecot] Sieve fileinto a subfolder fails -- more info, possible workaround
by Rich McAllister 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

After looking at the way Maildir represents subfolders, I changed the sieve line from fileinto "Lists/NCCC"; to fileinto "Lists.NCCC"; and now it files into the NCCC subfolder of Lists as I wanted. I'm not sure whether this is the expected behavior or just an accident that plugging that string into the file name happens to result in the right name. I haven't tried, but if it's just passing the fileinto argument along with minimal inspection, I'm afraid the answer might be use "Lists/NCCC" if mail is in mbox format but "Lists.NCCC" if mail is in Maildirs, and it certainly seems that users editing their sieve scripts shouldn't have to know that. Rich dovecot -n shows: # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/arda/export/mail/%u/Maildir auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - T-Bird - RETR command failed
by Calvin Gordon 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

I have recently installed new untangle firewalls ( untangle.com) in Bridge mode at two office locations. Both offices collect mail from a Fedora 9, postfix,dovecot server at location #1. Since the install of the untangles i have been plagued by Thunderbird Errors while trying to POP email. The error says "RETR" command failed. If the user logs into the webmail (Squirrelmail) on the mail server and cleans out his inbox by deleting all existing mail, T-Bird starts operating again. This error has repeated itself without a pattern i can identify dozens of time over the last few weeks. No other email client displays errors. T-Bird = 2.0.0.16 on XP or Vista OS UT = 5.3.0~svn20080624r1690release5.3-1sarge Dovecot = Version : 1.0.15, Release : 10.fc9 Postfix = Version : 2.5.1, Release : 2.fc9 Dovecot tail -f maillog | grep 'username' Aug 6 13:37:06 mailserver1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<username>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:128.1.1.5, lip=::ffff:128.1.1.10 Aug 6 13:37:07 mailserver1 dovecot: POP3(username): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=1/2287, del=0/1, size=2270 Has anyone else seen this issue with T-Bird ? Cal G

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[Dovecot] Online backup with dovecot
by Johan 'yosh' Marklund 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi! Do you guys/girls (whichever you prefer) know if it's possible (i.e. in some semitransparent/easy way) to incorporate an online backup system? If the mail is older than a set amount of days it gets compressed. I want my mail storage size to shrink but on the other hand I want to keep the mails I get and have them easily readable :) I'm thinking of symlinks and some kind of gzip fuse filesystem... Please save me ,) /yosh

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[Dovecot] Broken extension introduction / Next message unexpectedly lost from
by Radomir Zoltowski 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hi all, I seem to experience a common problem with the "Broken extension introduction" / "Next message unexpectedly lost from" bug in 1.1.2. Could you email here what is the status of this? I may be of help if you need more info on how to debug this one... Thanks, R. -- _________________________________________________________ Radomir Zoltowski <Radomir.Zoltowski(a)s3group.com> Applications Engineer Silicon & Software Systems Ltd., IT Department South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, IRELAND Tel.: +353 1 291 1224, Fax: +353 1 291 1001 _________________________________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail and in any attachments is confidential and is designated solely for the attention of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you must not use, disclose, copy, distribute or retain this e-mail or any part thereof. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete all copies of this e-mail from your computer system(s). Please direct any additional queries to: communications(a)s3group.com. Thank You. Silicon and Software Systems Limited. Registered in Ireland no. 378073. Registered Office: South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18

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[Dovecot] Any sense of when V1.1.3 might appear?
by Stewart Dean 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

It's been a month since 1.1.2....I'm about to do some V1.0 to V1.1 move work and I'd rather start on the curve instead of behind it.......... -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Problems with namespaces
by tomzu＠buu.lv 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hi, I'm trying to create Shared folder with subfolders "SPAM" and "NOT_Spam". Configuration: namespace public { separator = / prefix = Shared/ location = maildir:/vmail/%Ld/Shared:INDEX=/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Shared hidden = no } Result I get (is exactly what I want): Inbox Drafts Sent Trash Shared --NOT_Spam --SPAM I can select SPAM and NOT_Spam, delete messages etc, but when I select "Shared", it shows: "Mailbox doesn't exist: Shared." As a client I used OE and Thunderbird. How to get rid of that message? I'm running latest Dovecot release 1.1.2 /Tom

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[Dovecot] LDA qmail - vpopmail
by Ron Culler 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

I am trying to setup LDA with qmail/vpopmail to use the expire plugin and I am getting errors about auth-master (Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory) The auth default section of the dovecot.conf is set to use vpopmail(mysql) and that works great for IMAP access. Can anyone share a config for using the expire plugin with qmail/vpopmail? I was wanting to put the preline commands in the .qmail-default files on a per-domain basis. /home/vpopmail/domains/domain1.com/.qmail-default But to start I tried just putting it into the .qmail file for an individual user. Thanks Ron Culler

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