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[Dovecot] Multiple Mail Environments?
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

The default_mail_env is very powerful, but .... If you have multiple databases wouldn't it make sense to have a separate mail environment for each database? For example: userdb passwd { default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } # Linuxconf passwd-like file with specified location userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d default_mail_env = mbox:/vhome/%d/home/%n:INBOX=/vhome/%d/home/%n/INBOX:INDEX=/nobackup/imap-cache/%d-%n } Is this possible? If not - perhaps it should be? -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Installation error on "make"
by Lisandro Grullon 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I am not sure what the problem is. I try ./configure as the intallation point out;however, when I try make I am getting the bellow error. PS. I am running Solaris 10 X86, GNU gcc. 1. [04:05:24][root@www:~/dovecot-1.0.alpha1]$ make 2. make all-recursive 3. Making all in src 4. Making all in lib 5. Making all in lib-sql 6. Making all in lib-ntlm 7. Making all in lib-settings 8. Making all in lib-charset 9. Making all in lib-mail 10. Making all in lib-imap 11. Making all in lib-index 12. Making all in lib-storage 13. Making all in index 14. Making all in maildir 15. Making all in mbox 16. Making all in subscription-file 17. Making all in register 18. make all-am 19. Making all in lib-auth 20. Making all in auth 21. if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-sql -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ntlm -DAUTH_MODULE_DIR=\""/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth"\" -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/usr/local/libexec/dovecot"\" -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mycrypt.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" -c -o mycrypt.o mycrypt.c; \ 22. then mv -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" ".deps/mycrypt.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo"; exit 1; fi 23. In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:18, 24. from mycrypt.c:5: 25. /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:332:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" 26. *** Error code 1 27. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `mycrypt.o' 28. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1/src/auth 29. *** Error code 1 30. The following command caused the error: 31. failcom='exit 1'; \ 32. for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ 33. case $f in \ 34. *=* | --[!k]*);; \ 35. *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ 36. esac; \ 37. done; \ 38. dot_seen=no; \ 39. target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ 40. list='lib lib-sql lib-ntlm lib-settings lib-charset lib-mail lib-imap lib-index lib-storage lib-auth auth master login-common imap-login imap pop3-login pop3 deliver util'; for subdir in $list; do \ 41. echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ 42. if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ 43. dot_seen=yes; \ 44. local_target="$target-am"; \ 45. else \ 46. local_target="$target"; \ 47. fi; \ 48. (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ 49. || eval $failcom; \ 50. done; \ 51. if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ 52. make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ 53. fi; test -z "$fail" 54. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' 55. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1/src 56. *** Error code 1 57. The following command caused the error: 58. failcom='exit 1'; \ 59. for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ 60. case $f in \ 61. *=* | --[!k]*);; \ 62. *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ 63. esac; \ 64. done; \ 65. dot_seen=no; \ 66. target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ 67. list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ 68. echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ 69. if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ 70. dot_seen=yes; \ 71. local_target="$target-am"; \ 72. else \ 73. local_target="$target"; \ 74. fi; \ 75. (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ 76. || eval $failcom; \ 77. done; \ 78. if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ 79. make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ 80. fi; test -z "$fail" 81. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' 82. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1 83. *** Error code 1 84. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' 85. [04:05:28][root@www:~/dovecot-1.0.alpha1]$ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.". <Albert Einstein>

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[Dovecot] Authentication with encrypted passwords
by Sebastjan Trepca 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hello, I have a postgresql database which contains users that will access dovecot, but their passwords are hashed and I don't have them in plain text. I was reading documentation that you can add tell dovecot which password scheme should it use. For example: password_query = "select '{MD5}'||password from users where userid=%u" Which would mean that dovecot will hash the password with MD5 from client and match it with the one in database. Did I understand this correctly ? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Namespace Feature
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I've never used namespaces and don't quite know what they do. If I add a namespace then do things like shared folders magically appear to users? Also - I wonder if this is possible. I'd like to create a write only shared folder. I know this is unusual but I have a reason. I'd like to have a folder that people can drag spam into to report missed spam. I want to write only so people aren't reading each other's spam. I have a bot that comes by and reads this to train the bayesian filter. Right now I have to create these folders individually. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Postfix/Dovecot
by Micah Stevens 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, I searched through the maillist archives and the docs, but didn't find anything that directly addresses my question, so here goes if anyone has some time to address it. I'm running a redhat el3 server, with Postfix as the MTA, and I'd like to setup Dovecot to provide IMAP/POP3 services. Postfix uses MySQL lookups to do mailbox lookups, and I configured dovecot to do the same thing. The mail is delivered to /usr/local/virtual/<domainname>/<end.address>/ in maildir format by Postfix. This is working fine. I've setup dovecot, and set it do user auth and user lookups to MySQL. This seems to be working fine as I get no mysql errors from the queries, and my login process (to IMAP from localhost) is fine. Here's a typical scenario: telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.domain (127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1login micah(a)9250x.com "rigid2" 1 OK Logged in. 2 select INBOX 2 NO If I look in the directory for micah(a)9250x.com I find: # ls cur new tmp The permissions are 777 for now to eliminate that possibility. The dovecot log file lists: imap-login: Aug 28 12:27:11 Info: Login: micah(a)9250x.com [127.0.0.1<http://127.0.0.1> ] each time I log in, and nothing after that indicating why it's not seeing any mail. Why isn't it seeing any mail? Do I need to make an Inbox directory and tell postfix to deliver there? From reading the docs, having the delivery into the main maildir directory should be okay, but I might be mis-reading. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.. Thank you, -Micah

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[Dovecot] thanks for changing the name of the alpha tarfile!
by Joakim Verona 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Its much easier to build RPM:s now, thanks :) -- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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[Dovecot] Permission denied changing to mail directory
by Chris Hogan 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail directories to be /mail/mail/%d/%n When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further. Its very odd because (a) it was working up until 16:50 on Thursday & (b) the directories now have 777 access. Each user is (at present) a separate unix user & the directories are owned by root & have a file group of mail. I would have thought that the 777 access would have been enough. I don't know what we did on Thursday evening, but any ideas about how to fix the permissions problem? Chris

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication
by Dave Smith 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

First off, sorry if this has been asked before - I have looked, honest. Is it possible to get dovecot to authenticate users against active directory, treating the AD as a plain ldap server? I have this working with cyrus saslauthd. Currentlt I get a long delay (30 seconds or so) then * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. All I get in the maillog is imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [::ffff:127.0.0.1] I am using dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS 4. If anybody has got this to work then please let me know - otherwise I will be forced to use Cyrus........ Cheers Dave Smith

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Delivery Bug
by Marc Perkel 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Ran into an interesting bug in Dovecot delivery. A friend forwards an email to me as an atachment. When I receive it - it comes in as two separate messages. One is the forwarding message which is empty, and the other is the original message that was forwarded but it comes in as if I had got the email directly. If I use exim to deliver the message to the mailbox it works. But when exim pipes the message into dovecot deliver it gats split. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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Re: [Dovecot] Authenticate user thru PAM
by Chris Wakelin 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Adrian Mak wrote: > my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db. > SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db. > > I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file > it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't > > Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd, > shadow, vpopmail, etc and in my case it is mysql. Right ? Yes, at least in 1.0-alpha1/stable, so I guess the same for 0.99. Dovecot can authenticate via mysql directly, of course (but I've never done it, so don't ask me how!) Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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