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[Dovecot] IMAP subscriptions - how, for what and why?
by Tom Alsberg 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Again, not a Dovecot issua - but can someone clarify better what IMAP subscriptions (SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB) are and what they are used for? I've seen a few times in Microsoft mail clients, the options to subscribe to folders and to "show only subscribed folders". I haven't played much with them, though. But what's the actual point? Except for being returned in the list of LSUB, what else changes when doing a SUBSCRIBE to a mailbox? Are subscriptions supposed to be remembered by the server outside of the context of a session (so a client that connects to the server at some point and authenticates will already see in LSUB what a possibly other client has subscribed to in a previous session)? Clarifications appreciated, regards, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] Outlook Express / Namespaces
by Matthias Rieber 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. Everythings seems fine. I adjust the namespaces to avoid client side changes. This works with Thunderbird, but Outlook Express seems to have problmes with the path "INBOX.", that I've configured in the client settings. I can remove that path, but the folders will be sorted under the inbox. Is there something that I've done wrong? I'm using dovecot 1.0alpha5 matthias

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda: problems compiling
by nospam 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

I am trying to compile the dovecot lda and running into some problems. (compiling most recent version on Fedora core 4). I was able to compile the dovecot imap server just fine. However .. when I try to run configure in the lda package (after running autogen) it gets stuck on this line : + eval 'sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed' ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed Basically it is getting stuck on the sed portion in config.status. Anyone run into this problem before ?

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[Dovecot] Authentication failure - unknown user
by Anne Wilson 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I'm trying to set up a temporary mailserver using Debian Sarge and Dovecot 1.0 with maildir format. My only previous experience has been on a simple imap server with mbox format. I have read the wiki documentation and searched the archives, but can't tie down my problem. The log tells me Info: passwd-file(anne) : unknown user. I have set auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd and created the /etc/imap.passwd file as anne:{plain}mypassword:1000:1000::/home/anne What have I missed? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

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[Dovecot] special variables
by Andrés Pereira 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Are there any plans to extend the special variables you can use for ldap query strings (%u,%n,etc)? For instance, say you have an ldap schema like this with multiple domains in a single top-level-domain: dc=domain_1,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_2,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_3,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_4,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_5,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_6,dc=tld_2 Now dovecot (latest CVS snapshot) offers, among others, the following variable: %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there is no domain But, what if dovecot could offer something like this: %1-9 = domain tokens (%1 = tld, %2 = domain when %d = domain.tld) (actually, these variables are present in auth_ldap module for saslauthd) This way people could create a query like this (just an example): base = ou=some_ou,dc=%2,dc=%1 I know I could modify my ldap schema to: dc=domain_1.tld_1 dc=domain_2.tld_1 .... and it would be solved by using %d, however those "new" variables could be useful, what do you think? Cheers, - -- Andrés Pereira -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDxKDu7iUaNXa3Ta4RAitAAJ9oVoE51QjjSp6sQMe3qtkzwj9tygCcDfkj fnxUHKd/F6i9hjPoVDrHY18= =JdxG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) For everyone else too, attached patch fixes this.

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[Dovecot] Wild Idea for a feature
by Marc Perkel 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

OK - this is a wild idea and wondering what it would take to make it possible. I get a lot of email from a lot of different people about a lot of different issues. What I need is a way to do some server side presorting of email into specific folders. I can build a LOT of Mozilla rules but that is too cumbersome for what I have in mind. Here's what I'm thinking - one classification of email is "customers" and what I want to do is to drag an email into the customers server side folder and once I do that then any incoming email that comes from that person goes into the customers folder. I'm trying to envision how to code this and I think what I would need is if Dovecot were to create an external berkeley db file or mysql database of what is a list of email addresses contained in the folder that could be quickly searched for a match, that might do it. I think I could write a backent in Exim to handle it. This idea isn't yet well though out. I'm just throwing it out there to see if it's feasable. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird, IDLE, mailbox not always SELECTed
by Tom Alsberg 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi there. Although it does not seem to be a Dovecot issue, I'm sending this here as people in this list may know better where exactly the problem is. I am working on Dovecot 1.0 (.alpha5, right now), with the aim that when Dovecot becomes stable we can put that into production. Recently after being more clear with the behaviour (I'm most into namespaces and mbox/maildir mixing issues, as you can see from my past messages), I have adopted a few (two, right now, with the third one gone) "Guinea-Pigs" to use the experimental IMAP server - people who very much want an IMAP service here and thus may help me test bugs. One of them reported, that he does not always see new mail. That user is using Mozilla Thunderbird (1.0.7). Looking a bit with him at the workings, I can see the issue. He has the IDLE extension enabled. However when sniffing the network, I see that sometimes when switching to another mailbox, the SELECT command is not always sent to the server. At the beginning, INBOX is (always) selected. Then another mailbox is selected, and usually a SELECT command is sent and the mailbox is seen. But going back to INBOX again, often no "SELECT INBOX" is seen on the wire. Then of course he sees no "EXISTS" or anything like that. I wonder if anyone else has observed this, or in some other way, that Thunderbird does not always show new mail. Sometimes it appears that a mailbox is selected in Thunderbird, and Thunderbird immediately (remembering from its cache) does a FETCH to show the message in the mailbox/folder, but not SELECT to update the folder itself. Can caching in Thunderbird be completely disabled, so that every action will be done against the server? Regards, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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