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[Dovecot] Large IMAP operations tend to timeout and cause problems?
by Alen Salamun 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hello all! I have moved from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot some month ago. It is quite stable on everyday use (1.0alpha4) but it has constant problems with large IMAP/SSL operations. We use Maildir format. For example if I select 400 messages, mark them deleted and use "purge command" in Thunderbird (to actually delete them) TB starts to do something and runs and runs and runs....Then I get script timed out errror and I have to restart TB. That never happened with Courier-Imap. Same thing happens for example moving 1000msgs to another folder or something like that. Another thing is still that from time to time dovecot indexes get corrupted and users can't access some folders. Then I have to delete dovecot* in that Maildir folder and it works again. Any thoughts on that please? BR, Alen

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[Dovecot] Alpha1..2.. and 3 with Tru64
by Alfonso Sparano 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hi all, I've found a little problem to compile dovecot on a tru64 os v5.1. The problem is the lack of the "inttypes.h" into the included header in the project. Without this include the make process will fail because it can't find the uint32 type. So is sufficient to add the line '#include <inttypes.h>' in the src/lib/lib.h of the tgz distribution package. Alfonso Sparano

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[Dovecot] passwd and virtual users
by Erick Perez 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hi, im runnign dovecot 0.99.14 with standard pop3 auth and a default .conf file. Everything works fine. But now I need to enable virtual users for several domains in the same server while keeping the local auth. my postfix is already working for the virtual domains. What do i need to modify to enable /etc/passwd auth (already done) and virtual domains auth? in the virtual part, i have no idea. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez

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[Dovecot] Failed authentication to a mysql database (bug or PEBKAC?)
by jigen 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, dovecot has a little crazy behaviour connecting to a mysql db: if you specify "127.0.0.1" as host instead of "localhost" it seems to work, also with a password. BUT, if you assign host=localhost without a password, it works too (as Ger Visschers says).... One more question: how I can specify more different mysql-db conteining different users? I try in the following way: passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_django.conf args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf } and also: passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_django.conf } but it always seems to remember only the last args value and it tries to connect only one db... bye jigen -- jigen <jigen(a)metalabs.org> MeTA~LAbS

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[Dovecot] Message not found errors
by Andrew Hutchings 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, I'm getting a very small amount of users getting message not found errors while downloading mail via POP. By the time they inform me and I switch on rawloging for them it works again. Any ideas where this is going wrong? Or at least a way I can diagnose it? It seems to have been happening since Alpha 1. Currently using pre-release of Alpha4. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 192: Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed. - The way that MicroSoft's trainers view technical staff.

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[Dovecot] 1 user has random pam auth issues
by Obantec Support 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi Dovecot 1.0 stable on FC3 i see this in my logs from 1 user Oct 19 07:20:36 proteus2a dovecot(pam_unix)[2937]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=1.2.3.4 user=testuser IP & user changed by me. at other times he has no issues. no other users are reporting this. could it be his ADSL is flaky or is there another scenario. Mark

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[Dovecot] Pocket Outlook weirdness
by Vadim Zaliva 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi! I am trying to access my IMAP server running dovecot from my Pocket PC running PocketOutlook. I observe very strange behavior: it starts to fetch messages from INBOX and shows list them on the screen as it fetches, then all messages disappear from the screen and it says "fetching folders". After the end of update operation it shows me empty list of messages. Have anybody have seen such problem? In general, are there reports of successful pocket outlook + dovecot users? Any suggestions are appreciated! I really want to make this thing work. Sincerely, Vadim

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[Dovecot] v. minor bug alpha4pre
by Andrew Hutchings 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, When upgrading to Alpha4pre I also changed UIDL format from %08Xv%08Xu to %08Xu%08Xv to be in line with future dovecot default. This caused the following error to happen on about 1% of mailboxes: file ostream-file.c: line 370 (stream_send_io): assertion failed: (fstream->io != NULL) Deleting dovecot-uidlist and indexes fixes this so its more of an FYI really. I always delete indexes on an upgrade anyway so I'm pretty sure interpretation of the uidlist file if the problem. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 3: "We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." - Unknown

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[Dovecot] Moving old files
by Jon 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi, I wish to automatically remove mail files not accessed for some time. I have done this in the file system and it works fine although it is a bit slow when the mail client access the mailbox after changes. Are there any way of having dovecot moving the files so that index and subscriptions are kept more same? Can one use Dovecot from the command line? Best Regards - Jon

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[Dovecot] POP Question
by Marc Perkel 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently whatever keeps track of that is broken. So - how is it determined with POP what is new and what is read?

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