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[Dovecot] Dovecot using static uid gid
by Alexandru Ionescu 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Hi All I have postfix deliver the mail in virtual maildirs using the UID of user dovecot. I authenticate users trying to access their mailboxes via IMAP through winbind. The authentication is successfull but dovecot logs imap(username): Date "Error: openidir (vmail/domain/username) failed: Permission denied. I tried to insert in dovecot.conf: static uid=97 gid=97 home=/vmail/domain but I get a report that parameters are missing. Does anybody know the the exact syntax for the static directive? Alexandru

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[Dovecot] Making dovecot and postfix play together
by Anne Wilson 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

I am encountering 'transport problems' in postfix, and I can't tie them down. I'm beginning to wonder whether I have conflicting settings in the various parts of the mail server. I have been advised separately by a number of people, so it is entirely possible. I am, therefore, attempting to check every detail of my setup. I was advised to put 'MAIL=/home/$USER/MailDir:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER' into /etc/profile 'because that's the way that dovecot likes it'. Is this correct? I'm using 0.99.14 on Fedora Core 4. Dovecot does appear to be working correctly. I can drag messages to the mailboxes. The problem appears to be in postfix. Fetchmail can download the messages, but they are sticking in postfix's queue. I'm still working on that, but would like confirmation that I was right to follow the advice given above. Anne

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[Dovecot] Problem with folders, dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 and Eudora 7.0.1
by Davide Bolcioni 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Greetings, the Eudora client is attempting to create a subfolder of an existing folder, using the "Make it a folder option" which creates a directory under /home/<user>/mail/<a few paths>. Eudora is seemingly stuck in attempting to create the directory, but there is nothing under /var/log which seems useful in diagnosing the problem. Thank you for your consideration, Davide Bolcioni -- There is no place like /home.

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[Dovecot] Locking strategy?
by Gerhard Wiesinger 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Hello! I run the following environment: UW imapd pine sendmail procmail mbox format I migrated from UW imapd to dovecot. It is pretty faster than UW imapd. To ensure a compatible environment I did the following configuration changes in /etc/dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps default_mail_env = mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl But I don't think that locking works well. In pine I get the following error messages: Unexpected changes to folder (try restarting) Also when I delete a file in the imap inbox I can't see that immediatly in pine (even when I restart pine the message is still there with a "Deleted" flag. With UW imapd locking worked perfectly but performance was very bad. What is the best configuration in a dovecot/pine/sendmail/procmail/mbox format environment. Thank you for the answer. Ciao, Gerhard

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildirquota
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

On 2006-01-24 10:42:23 -0600, Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez wrote: >> I'd like to use dovecot+postfix (with Maildir) for several virtual email >> servers, but one requirement is quota support. I'm aware about the lack >> of maildirquota support in dovecot, and I found a patch in the >> "unofficial patches" section which is said to provide maildirquota > > 1.0.beta2 has a quota plugin. > see the wiki about it. Hi darix, I'm reading it, but it says: "Software quotas Dovecot 1.0 supports quota using a quota plugin. It's currently discussed in Dovecot LDA page and it supports only very simple quota calculation which is suitable only for mboxes. Maildir++ quota support will come later." And in http://www.dovecot.org/patches/1.0/ there's the patch only, the link http://www.dovecot.org/patches/1.0/quota.tar.gz is broken. The page http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#head-de783575628d0e78c0e594931f173493fd8257d0 doesn't state if the plugin works for Maildir++ quotas (which is what I need). Thanks for your answer, Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] 1.0beta2: mbox_sync assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Timo, My first assert in beta2. Syslog said: Jan 24 09:57:16 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(user): Cached message offset 94625 is invalid for mbox file /var/mail/m/user Jan 24 09:57:16 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(user): file mbox-sync.c: line 1471 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (!sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty || (flags & MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) == 0) Gdb analysis on the core file is attached. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format, mbox on NFS filesystem (also S9), index files on local UFS filesystem. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] RPM spec file
by Timo Sirainen 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

What would you think if I just removed it completely from tarball? It doesn't look like it works currently properly, and it probably needs to be changed a bit for each different distribution?

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[Dovecot] Connection refused
by ohp＠pyrenet.fr 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Dear Timo et all, I wanted to put dovecot on production on my real server but, be it with the beta1 you left on my machine yesterday on beta2, when I launch dovecot, I have tons of messages in syslogs like : imap-login: can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused. What did I do wrong?? TIA -- Olivier PRENANT Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work) 15, Chemin des Monges +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax) 31190 AUTERIVE +33-6-07-63-80-64 (GSM) FRANCE Email: ohp(a)pyrenet.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your life a dream, make your dream a reality. (St Exupery)

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Re: [Dovecot] Major CPU spike for SSL parameters?
by Peter Chiu 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Jan 23 00:38:03 foxmulder dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta2 starting up Jan 23 00:38:03 foxmulder dovecot: 1137994456 + 172800 (1138167256) < 1137994683, size=230, uid=0 vs 0, gid=87 vs 0 Jan 23 00:38:21 foxmulder dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 23 00:48:04 foxmulder dovecot: 1137994701 + 172800 (1138167501) < 1137995284, size=230, uid=0 vs 0, gid=87 vs 0 Jan 23 00:48:32 foxmulder dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jan 23 00:58:04 foxmulder dovecot: 1137995312 + 172800 (1138168112) < 1137995884, size=230, uid=0 vs 0, gid=87 vs 0 Jan 23 00:58:39 foxmulder dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 23.1.2006 01:11, "Peter Chiu" <pc8888(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I tried your patch again b2 and I am still having the same problem. >> >> Jan 22 17:57:30 foxmulder dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta2 starting up >> Jan 22 17:57:30 foxmulder dovecot: ssl_parameters_regenerate = 48 >> Jan 22 17:58:30 foxmulder dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed >> Jan 22 18:07:31 foxmulder dovecot: ssl_parameters_regenerate = 48 >> Jan 22 18:07:43 foxmulder dovecot: SSL parameters regeneration completed > > Hmm. Maybe the file's timestamp is wrong or the uid/gid. Try this patch: > > http://dovecot.org/tmp/ssl-regen-debug.diff > >

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[Dovecot] Compiling Dovecot with-notify=inotify
by Nicolas STRANSKY 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi, I'm trying to compile Dovecot beta2 with inotify support, but this is unsuccessfull. First, it seems that the configure script is looking for inotify.h in /usr/include/sys, whereas it is in /usr/include/linux on my Debian Sarge system. But that's a minor point, let's make a symlink. % dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/inotify.h linux-kernel-headers: /usr/include/linux/inotify.h % dpkg -l linux-kernel-headers ii linux-kernel-headers 2.6.13+0rc3-2 Linux Kernel Headers for development Then the compilation fails with the following error : i386-linux-gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -L/usr/lib -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lresolv -lldap -lpq /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so -lz -ldl ../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x185): In function `io_loop_notify_add': /home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:102: undefined reference to `inotify_add_watch' ../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x26d): In function `io_loop_notify_remove': /home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:145: undefined reference to `inotify_rm_watch' ../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x2de): In function `io_loop_notify_handler_init': /home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:163: undefined reference to `inotify_init' Am I missing something ? What should be done to compile Dovecot with inotify support ? Thanks in advance, -- Nico L'homme est intelligent parce qu'il a une main. -+- Anaxagore -+-

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