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[Dovecot] Errors in /var/log/maillog and /var/log/dovecot.log
by Li Cai 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I am trying to migrate from UW imap to dovecot. OS: RHEL 3 X86 MTA: Postfix Auth: PAM (NIS server) Most of the users are fine, but I have some users have problems: " Jan 14 09:18:42 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=X.X.X.X, lip=X.X.X.X, TLS " This happens on dovecot version dovecot-1.0.alpha5-1 and dovecot-0.99.11-1 If anyone else has met such problem? Thanks Li

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[Dovecot] "Discarding bogus continuation" message in pine
by Jesse Chan-Norris 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Running 1.0alpha5 (though I've been having this problem for the past couple of versions), and using mbox for the mailboxes. After I've read my mail using Apple's Mail.app (or Thunderbird) and take it offline, when I try to open the INBOX (or any mailbox) with pine, I get the following message (in pine): [Discarding bogus continuation in msg 1: $Forwarded NonJunk] Quitting and re-running pine does not bring up this message again, and it looks like it's getting confused by the internal mbox message's X-IMAP line: X-IMAP: 1076598957 0000257269 NotJunk JunkRecorded $NotJunk $Junk Junk \ Forwarded $Forwarded NonJunk The "$Forwarded NonJunk" part is the only part of that line that is on a new line, and it gets written out like that after I've read mail using an IMAP client, leading me to believe that pine doesn't know how to handle the newline in the X-IMAP line. I don't know if this is a Dovecot, Mail.app, or pine problem, but I never saw this error in UW-IMAP. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! jcn

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[Dovecot] Upgrade question
by Anne Wilson 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I have 0.99.14 installed. I've downloaded the latest version. Does it install over the old one, in parallel, or need an uninstall of the old one? Anne

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[Dovecot] compiling Dovecot CVS version, 1 problem, 1 wish, 3 questions
by Steffen Kaiser 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hello, today I checked out a new copy of Dovecot (and LDA) from CVS: File: ChangeLog Status: Up-to-date Working revision: 1.2765 Repository revision: 1.2765 /home/cvs/dovecot/ChangeLog,v I could compile them, but my findings follow: - the problem: I copied dovecot-lda below CVS_ROOT/dovecot, the first make attempt failed with this fatal error: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/autofs/fb02/prgdist/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve' /bin/sh ../../ylwrap `test -f 'addr.y' || echo './'`addr.y y.tab.c addr.c y.tab.h addr.h y.output addr.output -- bison -y -d -p addr ../../ylwrap: ../../ylwrap: No such file or directory the "ylwrap" is actually located in the Dovecot directory, hence, one directory up, so running ln -s ../ylwrap . in CVS_ROOT/dovecot/dovecot-lda fixed the problem. - the wish: It would be nice, if one could compile dovecot-lda right in the CVS locations without the need to give any option, e.g. the default "dovecot" path could be "../dovecot". - the questions: running ./autogen.sh results in: configure.in:1562: required file `./config.h.in' not found SUBDIRS: variable `DELIVER' is used but `DELIVER' is undefined ^^ Maybe the 2nd error results in that I passed "--without-deliver" to ./configure? running ./configure results in: checking for shared library run path origin... ./config.rpath: ./config.rpath: No such file or directory done running dovecot-lda/autogen.sh results in: configure.in:4: required file `./lda-config.h.in' not found Neither of these error messages prevent to built Dovecot, but they does not look "correct". Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] dovecot+ldap no auth...
by Joaquim Petiz 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Dear sirs, In the configuration of Dovecot I can´t get autentication of the users. My work environment is: OpenBSD 3.8 Postfix 2.2.5 (instaled thru ports with ldap and sasl support) Opendap 2.2.27 (instaled thru ports with sasl support) Dovecot 0.99.14 (instaled thru source with ldap support) I have two domains in ldap, the postfix is just autenticating in ldap (sending e-mails to users of 2 ldap domains), I have one vmail user and one vmail group with uid e gid 800 to e-mail delivery and one dovecot user for dovecot itself. The Dovecot is not autenticating: # telnet localhost 143 * OK dovecot ready 0 login user(a)domain.com password 0 NO Authentication failed. ldap´s LOGS: Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SRCH base="cn=dovecot,o=organization,c=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=user(a)domain.com))" Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jan 11 13:48:56 ldap slapd[6397]: conn=6 op=4 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=32 nentries=0 text= my slapd.conf: include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/qmail.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/openldap.schema pidfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid argsfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.args access to dn.base="" by * read access to attr=userPassword by dn="uid=vmail,o=organization,c=com" read by dn="cn=dovecot,o=organization,c=com" read by anonymous auth by self write by * none database ldbm checkpoint 1024 5 cachesize 10000 suffix "o=organization,c=com" rootdn "cn=administrator,o=organization,c=com" rootpw {CRYPT}xxxxxxxxxxx directory /var/openldap-data index objectClass eq my user.ldif dn: cn=user,ou=domain1.com,o=organization,c=com cn: user ou: domain1.com sn: user objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: qmailUser homeDirectory: /var/vmail/domains/domain1.com/user mail: user(a)domain1.com mailHost: mail.domains.com mailQuotaSize: 0 mailQuotaCount: 0 deliveryMode: normal uid: user uidNumber: 2000 gidNumber: 2000 accountStatus: active userPassword: {CRYPT}xxxxxxxxxxxx mailMessageStore: domain1.com/user mailAlternateAddress: user(a)domain1.com my dovecot.conf protocols = imap imap_listen = *:143 ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/dovecot/login login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 800 last_valid_uid = 800 first_valid_gid = 800 last_valid_gid = 800 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/vmail/domains/ default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/domains/%d/%u/Maildir auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf My dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = localhost dn = uid=dovecot,o=organization,c=com dnpass = password ldap_version = 3 base = o=organization,c=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(mail=%u)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 800 user_global_gid = 800 []'s

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[Dovecot] New Dovecot installation and OE not POPing problems
by techlist06 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Greetings: Recently I converted my mailserver to Postfix with some local accounts being accessed via Dovecot and POP3S. The clients are OE. The users are reporting that they aren't getting their messages. In the past with my old (IW?) POP server, I just used mail -f /var/spool/user and deleted the "DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE...." message #1 and this cleared any problems with messages being out of sync on what had and had not been downloaded, etc. With Dovecot, I don't know how to "bump" the mailbox to get it "reset" so that OE will download the messages again, and/or get them if it hasn't already. Is this possible? Thanks very much for the time to help, Scott

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[Dovecot] Auth protocol and Perl
by Allan Joergensen 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi, does anyone have at working Perl example of how to use the auth protocol with Perl (I'm planing on making a dovecot auth plugin for qpsmtpd but it would a lot easier to reuse somebody elses code :)) tia, -- Allan Joergensen - http://nowhere.dk/ "All right, so it's impossible. How long will it take?"

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[Dovecot] ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
by Paul Matthews 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

hi there, i'm trying to setup dovecot with squirrel mail at the moment and i'm getting this error message ERROR: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: CREATE "Sent" Reason Given: Permission denied ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SELECT "INBOX" can someone tell me what this means? and what folders i have to change the permissions on? this is out of my /etc/dovecot.conf file if it helps default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u:mbox:~/mail/

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[Dovecot] Patch: More of kqueue() support.
by Vaclav Haisman 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi, the attached patch contains these changes: 2005-12-15 22:18 Vaclav Haisman <v.haisman(a)sh.cvut.cz> * src/lib/ioloop-kqueue.c: Fix IO_ERROR behaviour. * src/lib/ioloop-notify-kqueue.c: New file. * configure.in: Improve kqueue detection and handling. Cleanup. The configure.in changes that are not related to kqueue are there to make autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6 and libtool 1.5.20 are happy. The directory change notification is not really well tested because Dovecot doesn't seem to use it that much. As per Brad's request I have changed all occurrences of FreeBSD to just BSD. Vaclav Haisman

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Re: [Dovecot] Message read not sticking with Apple Mail / dovecot 1.0alpha5
by Andy Cravens 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Yes... I'm seeing this with the Apple mail client on Tiger. Our server is alpha 5/maildir/solaris 9/75 users. The apple user with the problem typically has more that one client open. He tends to leave his home PC connected when he comes in to work. He was able to resolve the last occurrence by closing all clients and resynching his mailboxes. We've also seen this problem on Solaris 9 running Mozilla 1.7.2 and Windows XP running outlook and evolution. These other clients have not seen a problem in over a month. The Apple user has problem every week. One interesting observation on this problem is that it will go away by itself given enough time. It seems that after a few hours to a full day it will go away. -- Andy Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm getting very weird behaviour with Apple Mail on Tiger and > 1.0alpha5 (with Timo's patch for the bug I saw). > > I can read a mail, see Apple Mail flag it as read, quit, come back > later, and find the mail is marked unread again. It seems to also > happen sometimes when I switch folders or get new mail. > > I've not worked out what's triggering it yet. Anyone seen anything > like this? > > Michael > >

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