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[Dovecot] Startup errors
by Steven F Siirila 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I just finished setting up a test Dovecot server (1.0-rc15, Solaris 10) and noticed upon start of Dovecot (after rebooting the server) that the imap-login and pop3-login processes spew errors as follows, which I can only assume is due to the fact that dovecot-auth has not fully initialized yet... it seems to me that these login processes are getting started too early, or should at least be waiting for dovecot-auth to get started. Jan 31 15:55:06 hostname dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname last message repeated 1 time Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname last message repeated 1 time Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname last message repeated 9 times Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Jan 31 15:55:07 hostname last message repeated 9 times -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs(a)umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

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[Dovecot] Q on configuring shared mboxes
by Mikhail Teterin 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello! I have the following three types of mailboxes on my server: 1) Regular user mail /var/mail/<user> in mbox format 2) Suspected spam in /var/tmp/spamprobe in mbox format 3) Archived mailing list in /home/mks/mksarch in mbox format I want the 1) to be only accessible to the respective <user>, obviously (POP3 and/or IMAP4). I wanted the 2) to be accessible to all users -- and I want them to be able to move stuff out of it into their own mboxes (IMAP4 is enough). I want the 3) to be accessible _read only_ to anyone, who enters the correct username/password (preferably -- without creating a special Unix account). (IMAP4 or POP3) So far, I have only been able to achieve 1). Could someone, please, help me configure dovecot for the 2) and the 3)? Thanks! -mi

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[Dovecot] Dovecot ACL
by Barry Kwok 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I am using 1.0-rc19 version. I made a global ACL file in /etc/dovecot-acls/Public as: owner lrsi user=manager rl The owner cannot delete/move mail inside his Public folder as I want. But the user "manager" cannot subscribe/view to other's Public folder. What I have missed?

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[Dovecot] lda sieve broken after upgrade
by lenny＠edpausa.com 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

upgraded to rc19. using maildirs. solaris 9/cc. removed all modules from pop/imap/lda subdirs and first upgraded dovecot to rc19 and then used dovecot-sieve-1.0.1 sources to build against the dovecot source directory ( everything now builds nicely on Solaris, thank you Timo ). added "cmusieve" to the list of plugins used by lda. ail_plugins = cmusieve now getting this: deliver(lenny): Error: dlopen(/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda//lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so) failed: ld.so.1: deliver: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda//lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so: symbol deliver_mail: referenced symbol not found anyone ? on the same machine, mbox based dovecot rc19 with dovecot ( sieve ) lda, works and upgraded without any issues, although the prior version must have been different, since the cmusieve statement was already present.

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[Dovecot] Hello, new to the list
by Vikram Goyal 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello Guys! I have just joined the list as I needed some clarifications, help etc. I am not sure what I want is possible and I have been unable to do it myself, read lots of dovecot wiki pages, debian lists, dovecot archives, experimented myself and so on. I have a mail dir ~/Mail where all my mails get distributed to their respective folders through procmail filters. The heirarchy is as follows: ~/Mail/ /inbox --> maildir /trash --> trash maildir /newsletter --> mbox lists/ --> normal dir /dovecot --> dovecot list maildir /some other list maildirs I wanted to access them through dovecot. I have tried namespaces etc but have been unable to accomplish till now. Kindly help. Thanks! -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- o ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795

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[Dovecot] sieve question
by Xueron Nee 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

hi, I am testing deliver with sieve support, and want to use it to filter chinese. But I found it doesn't work. an encoded subject: =?GB2312?B?aSBhbSBhIGNoaW5lc2U=?= decoded content is: i am a chinese and i have such rules: require "fileinto"; if header :contains "Subject" "GB2312" { fileinto "Hello"; } if header :contains "Subject" "chinese" { fileinto "Trush"; } but the first one acts. if a delete the first rule, like this: require "fileinto"; if header :contains "Subject" "chinese" { fileinto "Trush"; } message was delived to INBOX. so, any help? Thanks! -- Xueron Nee <xueron(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] auto-detection of user mailbox type - followup
by John Harper 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

In http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-December/018253.html Timo Sirainen wrote > > You can still change NAMESPACE_* environments. I don't remember how > exactly now, but you can do eg. "set > /tmp/sets" in the script, see > what it has set and modify them in the script. in response to my query regarding setting the mail_location in namespaces from a mail_executable script. The purpose of this is to be able to select on a per-user basis whether they're using Maildir or mbox format (I don't want to convert 12000 users all at once, and some users have no need or desire to change formats - they still use mail/elm etc) and also have the UW-IMAP compatibility namespaces to take care of all the clients currently configured with imap server directory = mail/. This all works, with one small bug left. For reference, here's the gist: In the dovecot.conf file place the usual namespace directives following the Namespaces wiki: namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } #for UW backwards compatibility: namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail/ hidden = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~/mail/ hidden = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~%u/mail/ hidden = yes } define the mail_executable under protocol imap: mail_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/lbin/imap.sh and write the imap.sh script: ------start imap.sh--------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # determine if user is in mbox or Maildir mode # Maildir takes precedence and is identified by the existence of # both a .procmailrc recipe and the Maildir directory. # Without a .procmailrc file, there's no recipe to force delivery in # Maildir format, so any existing Maildir is spurious # The .procmailrc should contain DEFAULT=Maildir/ # Set the absolute path to this script as the mail_executable for # the imap protocol in dovecot.conf. # It appears that this script is run as the user in their home dir if [ -f .procmailrc -a -d Maildir ]; then MAIL='maildir:~/Maildir'; export MAIL else MAIL='mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/.mail'; export MAIL fi # each namespace defined in the conf file needs to have the mail # location defined which is set in environment vars # NAMESPACE_1 etc NAMESPACE_1=$MAIL; export NAMESPACE_1 NAMESPACE_2=$MAIL; export NAMESPACE_2 NAMESPACE_3=$MAIL; export NAMESPACE_3 NAMESPACE_4=$MAIL; export NAMESPACE_4 #debugging to see what else we can play with #set >> /tmp/d exec /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap ------end imap.sh----------------------------------------------------- However, it appears that the root dir '~/mail' string is used at some point before the tilde-expansion takes place. I see a literal ~ directory in the users home, with an empty mail directory inside. After that it picks up the proper location and works correctly. I tried a %h and got a literal %h directory. So for now I made a simple workaround by using the absolute path to the home directory: # use home variable (depends on this script running in users home) # During startup it seems like ~/mail is interpreted as a string and # a spurious ~ folder is created, before the ~ is expanded home=`/bin/pwd` if [ -f .procmailrc -a -d Maildir ]; then MAIL="maildir:$home/Maildir"; export MAIL else MAIL="mbox:$home/mail:INBOX=$home/.mail"; export MAIL fi Thanks, John Harper ------------------------------------------------- Senior Systems Administrator Information and Instructional Technology Services University of Toronto Scarborough harper(a)utsc.utoronto.ca

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[Dovecot] dovecot and libnss-ldap
by Nicolas Boullis 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hi, I've been using dovecot 0.99.14 for a few years, with libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap, and never experienced any problem with those. I expect to soon switch to dovecot 1.0rc15 (or whatever gets available in Debian Etch, hopefuly dovecot 1.0), but I've seen some warnings against dovecot+libnss-ldap... Is the problem with libnss-ldap a recent problem (I mean it was not a problem with older dovecot such as my 0.99.14)? Is it still a problem even with 1.0rc22? Is there any hope to have it fixed before 1.0? Note that while most of the users I have to deal with are in my LDAP directory, a few ones are not and are in /etc/passwd. Hence, "userdb ldap" is probably not an option for me (and I'm quite happy with configuring all my servers with PAM and NSS). Cheers, Nicolas

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[Dovecot] who limit the process deliver number?
by Antonio Casado Rodríguez 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hi, i have postfix-2.3.6, dovecot-1.0-rc19 and dovecot-lda Where i limit the process number deliver, in postfix or dovecot.conf Thanks.

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[Dovecot] DoveCot compression to save HDD space
by Host Expert 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello, I am wondering if there are any possibilities to save HDD space used by emails by compressing content (not just attachements). It would be many 1000s email boxes and probably each using lot of space so would be easier if we can just compress emails somehow. Thanks, Cristian

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