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[Dovecot] Two "pre-migration" questions
by Alan Mead 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

I have read the migration docs. They seem to relate to migrating from one imap product to dovecot on the same server. I'm interested in migrating my Maildir-formatted email from one server to another. 1. Can I tar my ~/mail directory on serverX.com, untar it on a different physical serverY.com (initially with a different domain name), and still see my mail when I access imap.serverY.com <http://imap.serverY.com> (dovecot's running on serverY.com .. but let me know if there are any tricks that I need to make this work). 2. If I maintain large mailboxes and check my mail frequently, how does the dovecot server load compare to something like apache or Samba? I ask because I have a vanity domain that I mostly use for email and I want to ensure that I can migrate my precious emails to a new service provider. And the provider that I'm considering offers low-cost virtual dedicated servers but meters usage (including RAM and CPU). One of the reasons I have question #1 is that the server name seems to be part of the email file names... amead:/home/amead> ls mail/cur | head -2 2022292282.22297_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S 2022312282.3225_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S (rootr.net <http://rootr.net> is my current provider, not my vanity domain; vulcan is the name of their mailserver) I don't know what effect this will have, if any? Thanks! -Alan

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Dovecot disconnecting users at login for inactivity]
by Chris Liljenstolpe 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

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[Dovecot] choosing syslog facility?
by Dominik Werder 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hello! How can I log dovecots messages into a separate file? Is it possible to set a custom syslog facility name somehow? I can't set the log file in dovecot because dovecot does not automatically rotate the logs like syslog does.. thank you! Dominik

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[Dovecot] alpha4 - Unknown passdb driver 'pam'
by Willem Riede 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Does anybody see this? Oct 24 19:41:44 athena dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: child 3374 (auth) returned error 89 This is on Fedora FC5-devel x86_64 (opteron), which is certainly pam based. FWIW, if I switch to passwd dovecot alph4 runs fine (so far). Regards, Willem Riede.

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[Dovecot] Pop3 Pipeing
by Mark Smith 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Does anyone know how to pipe with dovecot-pop3d? Please help Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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[Dovecot] debian dovecot upgrade
by Brent Clark 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi all I find this highly upsetting, I just upgrade my debian dovecot, and I specified that I dont want to upgrade the conf file. and on restarting, I get this in my syslog. Oct 24 17:33:33 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: child 5983 (login) returned error 89 Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: child 5985 (login) returned error 89 mail:~# Wierd thing is, at no time am I asking for ssl, and in my conf file I have it hashed out. mail:~# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | grep ssl # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl #ssl_listen = #ssl_disable = no #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem #ssl_ca_file = #ssl_verify_client_cert = no #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 #ssl_cipher_list = all:!LOW #verbose_ssl = no #ssl_require_client_cert = no mail:~# I tried on the command line # dovecot -F -c dovecot.conf my version is: mail:~# dovecot --version 1.0.alpha3 mail:~# Would anyone perhaps know why I cant get the daemon started. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] dual auth with real users and virtual users
by Erick Perez 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi, im using 0.99 stable in RPM form, Im using this for postfix+dovecot+real unix users, now i tried to enable virtual support with this: protocols = imap pop3 ssl_disable = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info login_user = dovecot mail_extra_groups = mail auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pam auth_userdb = passwd auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/userdb auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/passwd The above configuration works for local users but is not working for virtual users, it produces the error: dovecot-auth: Oct 21 00:19:14 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(erickperez) failed: Authentication failure obviously the user erickperez exists in /etc/vhosts/userdb so PAM will fail. Im using 0.99 release. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4: drowning in asserts/cores
by Jeff A. Earickson 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Timo, I have had to drop back to alpha3 because I found a pile of core files on my imap server this morning, from the weekend. They are all from the assert: imap(user): file mbox-lock.c: line 379 (mbox_lock_fcntl): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_UNLCK) I reported this issue to the list last Friday. Help... Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Case of %n (feauture request)
by Alexander Shikoff 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hello, I'm using dovecot not for a long time but I've newer seen most powerful and handy POP3/IMAP server. Thank Timo for dovecot; thank community for help! I would like to notice that %n is case-sensitive: it always stores user part of login without case conversions. As a result there are some inconveniences with virtual user organization, for example: password_query = SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = '%u' user_query = SELECT "mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY" AS `mail`, 101 AS `uid`, 101 AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login = '%u' In this example authentication works perfectly but user can not access it's mailbox because all mailbox names are lower-case. I think it would be more handy to make %d, %n and %u aliases lower-case and introduce three new aliases %D %N %U which store values without case conversions. But I'm not enough skilled in C to write a patch... and now I'm waiting for comments on this and answer from the developer. Thanks in advance, Alexander. -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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Re: [Dovecot] Same email recieved
by Bob Hope 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Andrew Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Hope wrote: > >> They are using Outlook. I'm not seeing anything about UIDs of mails >> in dovecot.conf. I'm using dovecot 0.99.14 presently. >> >> Regards, >> >> Savage >> > > > Ah, afraid I can't really help then, I haven't used the .99 series of > Dovecot for over a year now and there seem to be quite a few issues with > it. > > 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 1: "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. > NO (or Linux) is the answer." - Unknown > > > > Well, I suppose I could upgrade to 1.0 then. I'll give that a try and drop a note here if it works. Thanks, Savage

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