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[Dovecot] How to setup dovecot under MACOSX?
by CHENG Gao 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

I have built Dovecot 1.0 test 67 under MACOSX. But I can not find any tutorial on how to setup it. Please allow me to explain my need. I want to setup a local imap server, and then import all my email from Mail.app and Gnus into it. Thus I can choose to read emails with any client. It's only a single user environment. Could anyone instruct me if there is any tutorial for Dovecot MACOSX setting? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] maildir creation
by Renzetti Federico 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hi all, this is my first post to the list and sorry for my english. I have a mail server based on qmail+dovecot+ldap with virtualdomains and maildir stored in /var/vmail/<DOMAIN>/<USERNAME>/Maildir. When I create a user on LDAP I don't create maildir too. So if I log-in with dovecot (143,110) I hope dovecot creates maildir for users but this is not I get: maildir are not created... dovecot.conf .... default_mail_env = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir .... There is a way to create automatically maildir for users? Thanks all. -- Renzetti Federico System/Network Administrator RedHat Certified Engineer Fabaris S.r.l. Tel. +39 0765 22181 - Fax +39 0765 410100 Via G. Mameli, 90 02047 Poggio Mirteto (RI) Filiale: Viale dell'Università, 25 00185 Roma (RM) www.fabaris.it

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[Dovecot] 1.0 release
by Patrick Avery 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

I'm dying to use the 1.0 capability to use more than one mysql user pasword database. However, I'm too chicken to use 1.0-test in a production environment. Does anyone know if there is a planned release date for 1.0? Or can anyone say how risky it is to use 1.0-test?

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[Dovecot] Disable multiple POP3 logins
by Jesus Salvo Jr. 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hi, With some POP3 servers, when you login more than once, the POP3 server says "Err: multiple login". How can I achieve that with dovecot ? For example: I login to my POP account that is hosted by the ISP: $ telnet pop.x.com 110 Trying x.x.x.x... Connected to pop.x.com (x.x.x.x). Escape character is '^]'. +OK <25628.1113981451@bne022mfe> USER mb13536d +OK PASS testcase +OK LIST +OK 1 4608 . STAT +OK 1 4608 While that pop3 login is still active, I run another telnet session to login again to the same account. $ telnet pop.x.com 110 Trying x.x.x.x... Connected to pop.x.com (x.x.x.x). Escape character is '^]'. +OK <11709.1113981546@bne021mfe> USER mb13536d +OK PASS testcase -ERR multiple login Connection closed by foreign host. Thanks, John

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[Dovecot] assertion failed in 1.0-stable
by Martin Preen 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hello everybody, I get the following assertion error with dovecot 1.0-stable when accessing a large folder: file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) There is no error when using dovecot 0.99.14. Any ideas ? Martin ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universitaet Freiburg, Institut fuer Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee, Geb.52, Zi.00-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 preen(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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[Dovecot] message status changed from new to old on read
by Andrew Pimlott 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hi. I'm new to IMAP, but just tried uw-imapd and then dovecot in conjuction with offlineimap. I'm using Debian package version 0.99.14-1 and have my mail in mbox format. One of the first things that annoys me about both programs is that as soon as you read a mailbox over imap, the imapd changes all "new" messages to "old". It seems to have the assumption that the IMAP client is "reading" the messages, but particularly in the case of offlineimap, this assumption is not justified: I might not read the message on the client on which I've just synced, I might read it on the server or another client. So I would like dovecot to leave the mailbox alone, and leave it up to the client to write any changes to message status. Is there any option to dovecot that would accomplish this? While experimenting, I noticed that dovecot sometimes doesn't notice changes to the status made directly on the server. For example, if I create new mbox mailbox with one message (initially "new"), and access it with imap (using mutt in this example), it shows up "new" in the client. When I next access it with imap, it shows up "old", because dovecot modified the status as described above. If I then run mutt directly on the mailbox and change the status back to "new", then access it with imap, it still shows up "old". If I then remove the .imap directory containing the caches, it is back to "new". I assume that dovecot is supposed to pick up changes made directly on the server, right? Thanks for your help, Andrew

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[Dovecot] minimial maildir++ quota for dovecot-0.99
by David Harris 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hello, I'm using dovecot-0.99.14, and I wonder if anyone has created patch for *minimal* Maildir++ support. By minimal Maildir++ support, I mean the following: (1) New messages created by dovecot will include the ,S=nnnnn string in the unique identifier so that Maildir++ clients don't have to stat the file to know the size. (2) Dovecot will append to the maildirsize file when a message is deleted or added. If maildirsize gets larger than the 5120 limit, then just delete it and let someone else recalculate the quota. My goal isn't full Maildir++ support in dovecot, but just to make it play nicely with my Maildir++ aware delivery agent. (If someone has full Maildir++ support, I'd be glad for that too!) If what I describe above doesn't exist, I am interested in paying someone to make this quick patch. E-mail me off list if you are interested. Thanks, David

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[Dovecot] dovecot ssl problem
by Alexander Heuer 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi there, I am having a weird problem with dovecot and ssl. If I am accessing the dovecot imap server with for example sylpheed-claws or evolution, everything works fine. If it is accessed via windows either by outlook or thunderbird, we get occassional timeouts. It's working fine for a few hours, then for 5 to 20 minutes, every attempt to connect from the outside results in "Connection to server timed out". Added to that, the problem only arises, if a direct SSL connection to Port 993 is used. Using Sylpheed with STARTTLS to Port 143 from the outside works fine as well. It's not a firewall Problem, since port 993 and 143 are open, the config files have been checked over and over for 2 weeks and are good as well. Dovecot log says: imap-login: Apr 20 13:26:05 Warning: SSL_read() syscall failed: Connection timed out [83.104.224.142] Doing uber verbose output doesn't bring up any extended information, syslog stays clean as well. The Problem is not directly reproducable by a certain action, it just arises from time to time. There can be 3 working days without problems, or 6 timeouts > 20 minutes within one day. System is Debian Sarge unstable with a custom 2.6.10 Kernel. During the timeouts, mail is still received and put into the users mailboxes by exim, it's just that you cannot access the imap server for approx 20 minutes. Dovecot version is 0.99.14 Regards Alexander Heuer

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[Dovecot] MySQL and dovecot
by Anders Kongsted 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi, I have some problems with my connection from outside to POP3/IMAP... As far as I can see every should be set corret. Currently I use version 0.99.11-1.FC3.4 installed from an RPM-file. I tried to debug the signin process. It's always saying bad password... What encryption can DoveCot read? Currently my password is encrypted with md5crypt... Regards Anders

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[Dovecot] dovecot-sasl license
by Marcus Rueckert 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

hi, i talked to timo about re-licensing the sasl part of dovecot under a more liberal license (bsd/lgpl e.g.). it would allow the integration of it in bsd base systems. another reason i would be interested is adding sasl support to svnserve [1]. so here is my question: what is your oppinion about this issue? any objections from contributors? darix [1] http://subversion.tigris.org/ -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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