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[Dovecot] Not the server can do anything about it, but...
by Stewart Dean 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

WIBNI if the clients' message composition windows displayed the size of the prospective outgoing message as a color-coded BIG number... <50K green <200K yellow <500K orange >1MB red ...or some such.. Idiot clueless users occasionally send inadvertantly huge messages...the problem is that there is currently no feedback loop (like this suggestion)....nobody would mail a 100 pound hardcopy 'quick' USPS note to Aunt Mildred, but they're often doing the equivalent in email. If you bump into any client designers, give them the suggestion -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Just converted to Dovecot
by Marc Perkel 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I'm using Test79 - wish me luck! Seems to be working ....... -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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Re: [Dovecot] Supporting charsets
by Alan Premselaar 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Peter Evans wrote: > Armando Soto Baeza (asbaeza(a)catsanet.com.mx) wrote: > >>We are trying to use support for japanese language, but when composing in >>squirrelmail or while resending either in squirrel or in Outlook, we do >>not get the right symbols. > > > Send me an email, in Japanese. > 私に日本語メール送ってくれませんか？ > > 妻もＤＯＶＥＣＯＴを使っているけどほとんど問題なし。 > > > ぴ > > > I'm also using Dovecot in a Japanese intensive environment with no problems. I would venture to guess that this is either a problem with the squirrelmail installation or the MTA. I'm also using a recent version of Squirrelmail in Japanese without any problems. Earlier versions had some issues (like if you had SM set to english menu mode and tried to read or send Japanese, it would appear as 'mojibake' ... that seems to have been fixed in the most recent release) for what it's worth, this mail that I'm replying to came across without any issues whatsoever. alan

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[Dovecot] Outlook + Outlook Express
by Andrew Gargan 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi I am having problems with users accessing their maildir mail stores through dovecot I am working on version 0.99.11-1 (on fedora core) It seems to be when the email size is large (450KB +) The errors are (the server disconnected unexpectedly) Have turned on the three Outlook and Outlook Express workarounds I found but no luck. Have read through logs and looked for clues but am just getting no where ... All the linux boxes here seem to be able to handle things fine ... (kmail evolution etc.) Thunderbird is also giving me hassles when trying to pull large mail files. The server is a 2.8 P4 HT with 1024 MB RAM 200GB SATA RAID. +- 7 domains and +-1200 users. Squirrel Mail seems fine and users are using that to get around the problem for now but I really need the pop3 access working ... My MTA is postfix and I am using virtual mailboxes using mysql_lookups. I am also running MailScanner and ClamAV and SpamAssassin (using the hold queue method) Regards Andrew Andrew Gargan Developer Interface Media (PTY) Ltd. Tel: 011 507 3003

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[Dovecot] Handling virtual domains
by Phillip Davis 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hello all, I'm Having a sticky problem, and Im pretty sure I've configured dovecot wrong, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have a system running sendmail. I need to sue virtual domains, as several domains will be hosted on this box. I am using squirrelmail for webmail and it has a vlogin plugin that allows me to use virtual domains, and it is working correctly, so far as I can tell. If a user goes to their email domain via http://www.domain.com/webmail/ and logs in, it correctly converts their login from just user that they typed in to user(a)domain.com, and if another domain was domain2.com and they went to http://www.domain2.com/webmail it will send user(a)domain2.com to dovecot. This is where I think I'm doing it wrong. Dovecot seems to just try that username which doesnt exist to the local OS of course, its just user, not user(a)domain.com. I read the part about dovecot using the auth_passdb and auth_userdb but was really confused how it works. if I use those, does it expect sendmail to deliver mail for those virtual domains to a new path I have supplied? also do I have to create a new and separate login and password flat file for it to authenticate? if so, how do I configure sendmail to deliver only those specific mails from each separate user from different virtual domains to be delivered? I'm just trying out the virtual domain thing, and I'm definitely really really confused because it seems each piece of software I have running here wants to do it differently. any pointers, hits or help would greatly be appreciated. -- Phil Phil(a)daviszone.org

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[Dovecot] MySQL authentication
by Andrew Gargan 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hi I am wanting to install : dovecot 1.0-stable I currently have dovecot 0.99.11-1 which came packaged on Fedora Core 3 It is doing auth off a MySQL db an working well I have downloaded the latest stable tarball and extracted ... I don't see how to enable mysql lookups at compile time... Help please ... I am getting a lot of pressure from the people at work ... Regards Andrew Andrew Gargan Developer Interface Media (PTY) Ltd. Tel: 011 507 3003

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[Dovecot] Need Help About My Problem ( Dovecot / Postfix / MySQL / Postfixadmin )
by Pratchaya Chatuphian 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Dear , Dovecot List ( Everyone ) I have some problem about dovecot/postfix/mysql Would u like to tell me about the solution ? sir Thank you very much for advance. Sir Best Regards, Pratchaya ================================== ================================== ================================== This is my problem/error sir 1. ERROR = "" A NO "" and 2. ERROR = "" -ERR No INBOX for user. " I run Dovecot + Postfix + Postfixadmin + MySQL When i work with command line .. i have problem like this ( When i 'm in command line ) ##############################*###### [root@server etc]# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. A LOGIN test...(a)pepocono.com 123456 A OK Logged in. A SELECT inbox A NO A LOGOUT * BYE Logging out A OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host ##############################*###### [root@server etc]# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. USER test...(a)pepocono.com +OK PASS 123456 +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. [root@jenus etc]# ##############################*####### My Config ==============================*======== dvecot.conf ==============================*======== default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%1u/*%u/Maildir auth = plain auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.c*onf auth_passdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.c*onf auth_user = mailusers ==============================*======== dvecot-mysql.conf ==============================*======== db_host = localhost db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db = postfix db_user = postfix db_passwd = postfix db_client_flags = 0 password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' #user_query = SELECT concat('/var/mail/virtual/', maildir) as home, 10000 as uid, 10000 as gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' #user_query = SELECT '10000' AS uid, '10000' AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' #user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE user = '%u' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE user = '%u' AND active = '1' ( i use all case #comment but it'doesn't work ) ==============================*======== main.cf ==============================*======== virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/virtual virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/postfixmysq*l/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.c*f virtual_mailbox_limit = 51200000 virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/postfixmysq*l/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.c*f virtual_alias_domains = $virtual_alias_maps virtual_minimum_uid = 10000 virtual_uid_maps = static:10000 virtual_gid_maps = static:10000 # Additional for quota support virtual_create_maildirsize = yes virtual_mailbox_extended = yes virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/postfixmysq*l/mysql_virtual_mailbox_limit_*maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes virtual_maildir_limit_message = Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn his diskspace quota, please try again later. virtual_overquota_bounce = yes ========================= Note ( more information ) :: ========================= mailusers uid=10000 gid = 10000 home = /var/mail/virtual

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[Dovecot] Preventing IMAP folder removal?
by John R. Dennison 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Is there a way to configure Dovecut (version: dovecot-stable) to prevent the removal of an IMAP folder? We are planning on rolling out the @Mail webmail client to our user base in the next few weeks. This package has an internal Spam folder that we use to deliver spam into to allow our users to get to both their main mailbox and also their spam repository in one location. We are a Maildir shop, so the folder appears as: '~username/Maildir/..Spam' We want to use a sym-link to point '..Spam' to a location on another filesystem. Our testing shows that dovecot will happily follow a sym-link properly and no badness occurs as a result. Our concern, however, is that a user will attempt to remove their Spam folder, which will break the symlink and the next time a spam message is delivered the folder will be re-created as a directory and will reside on the same filesystem as their Maildir. Preventing the removal of the folder would be the easiest solution. If such a restriction is not already present in dovecot, might something be added to allow admins to lock down removal of folders? If this question has already been asked and answered on the list I apologize - I did quickly browse some of the back list and did not see a reference to the topic, but I admit, I may have missed it. Thank you in advance, John -- "I'm sorry but our engineers do not have phones." As stated by a Network Solutions Customer Service representative when asked to be put through to an engineer. "My other computer is your windows box." Ralf Hildebrandt

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[Dovecot] Index File Permissions - Perhaps feature Request
by Marc Perkel 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Trying an experiment to put the index files on a different volume than the mailbox files The idea being that the mailbox files are in a limited space slow raid1 array and the index files are somewhere else that is fast and not backed up. I'm using a virtual file structure as follows: /vhome/%d/home/%n The index files are set to: /nobackup/indexes/%d/%n Upon startup it created the index files correctly making all the missing directories. But I have an issue with the permissions. The problem is that it works for the first user, but the second user will have a permission error on the /%d/ level because of the 700 permissions. So - I would like to specify that directories that are automatically created have 770 permissions instead of 700, and, that perhaps I might want to ser the group permissions to 660 instead of 600. This might make Dovecot more ready for shared mailboxes in the future.

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[Dovecot] Master Password Setup
by Marc Perkel 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

This should be easy but can someone tell me how to do this. I want to set up a master password to read anyone's email account for tech support reasons. How would you do that?

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