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[Dovecot] Problems with MySQL/PAM authentication
by Allan Joergensen 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Hi, I'm using (or trying to at least) a combination of PAM/passwd and MySQL authentication: auth vmail { mechanisms = plain userdb = sql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf passdb = sql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf user = root } auth system { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd passdb = pam imap user = root } MySQL authentication works without problems but authentication real (system) users dosn't: Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(vmail): sql(alj,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT crypt AS password FROM passwd WHERE id = 'al j' Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(vmail): sql(alj,127.0.0.1): unknown user Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(system): userdb(alj,127.0.0.1): uid=10000 gid=1000 home=/home/alj mail= Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: imap-login: Login: alj [127.0.0.1] Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(system): userdb(alj,127.0.0.1): uid=10000 gid=1000 home=/home/alj mail= Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: imap-login: Login: alj [127.0.0.1] Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(system): userdb(alj,127.0.0.1): uid=10000 gid=1000 home=/home/alj mail= Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: imap-login: Login: alj [127.0.0.1] Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(system): userdb(alj,127.0.0.1): uid=10000 gid=1000 home=/home/alj mail= Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: imap-login: Login: alj [127.0.0.1] Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(vmail): file auth-client-connection.c: line 31 (auth_client_send): assertion failed: (conn->refcount > 1) Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: auth(system): userdb(alj,127.0.0.1): uid=10000 gid=1000 home=/home/alj mail= Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: imap-login: Login: alj [127.0.0.1] Feb 13 02:05:57 coredump dovecot: child 22359 (auth) killed with signal 6 Feb 13 02:05:58 coredump dovecot: auth(vmail): mysql: Connected to (null) (vmail) After a few logins authentication stops working and dovecot needs to be restarted. It seems that the mysql dovecot-auth crashes if the MySQL query does not return anything but only if it is combined with the PAM authentication. -- Allan Joergensen - http://nowhere.dk/ "I believe my plan has a fatal flaw." -- The Brain

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[Dovecot] dovecot-stable: NIL from in envelope request
by Michael P. Cosby 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Using the latest dovecot-stable (20050213) with pine, I get an empty "from" header in my e-mails. This doesn't happen with 1.0.59-test, nor did it happen with the first dovecot-stable (20050131). A partial connection log is below: 1.0-test59: IMAP DEBUG 15:23:32 2/13: 00000007 FETCH 1:41 (UID ENVELOPE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Newsgroups Content-MD5 Content-Disposition Content-Language Content-Location resent-to resent-date resent-from resent-cc resent-subject List-Help List-Unsubscribe List-Subscribe List-Post List-Owner List-Archive Followup-To References)] INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS) IMAP DEBUG 15:23:32 2/13: * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:54:05 -0000" "[rowingdockmembers] Next Wed." (("Charles Barksdale" NIL "cbarksdale" "austin.rr.com")) (("Charles Barksdale" NIL "cbarksdale" "austin.rr.com")) (("Charles Barksdale" NIL "cbarksdale" "austin.rr.com")) ((NIL NIL "rowingdockmembers" "yahoogroups.com")) NIL NIL NIL "<c259kd+rqe4(a)eGroups.com>") BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (NEWSGROUPS CONTENT-MD5 CONTENT-DISPOSITION CONTENT-LANGUAGE CONTENT-LOCATION RESENT-TO RESENT-DATE RESENT-FROM RESENT-CC RESENT-SUBJECT LIST-HELP LIST-UNSUBSCRIBE LIST-SUBSCRIBE LIST-POST LIST-OWNER LIST-ARCHIVE FOLLOWUP-TO REFERENCES)] {76} IMAP DEBUG 15:23:32 2/13: UID 1 INTERNALDATE "03-Mar-2004 13:56:55 -0500" RFC822.SIZE 2722 FLAGS (\Seen)) dovecot-stable 20050213: IMAP DEBUG 15:18:30 2/13: 00000007 FETCH 1:41 (UID ENVELOPE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Newsgroups Content-MD5 Content-Disposition Content-Language Content-Location resent-to resent-date resent-from resent-cc resent-subject List-Help List-Unsubscribe List-Subscribe List-Post List-Owner List-Archive Followup-To References)] INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS) IMAP DEBUG 15:18:30 2/13: * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:54:05 -0000" "[rowingdockmembers] Next Wed." NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL "<c259kd+rqe4(a)eGroups.com>") BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (NEWSGROUPS CONTENT-MD5 CONTENT-DISPOSITION CONTENT-LANGUAGE CONTENT-LOCATION RESENT-TO RESENT-DATE RESENT-FROM RESENT-CC RESENT-SUBJECT LIST-HELP LIST-UNSUBSCRIBE LIST-SUBSCRIBE LIST-POST LIST-OWNER LIST-ARCHIVE FOLLOWUP-TO REFERENCES)] {76} IMAP DEBUG 15:18:30 2/13: UID 1 INTERNALDATE "03-Mar-2004 13:56:55 -0500" RFC822.SIZE 2722 FLAGS (\Seen)) Any help would be appreciated..... Thanks - Michael

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[Dovecot] Messages keep getting resent.
by poohba＠blkpoohba.dyndns.org 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

I have IMAP and POP running and when I log in thru pop from my blackberry which is the only way it pulls all the new emails. When I log into my computer and check email via PINE i guess something is refreshed because very soon there after if not immediately all the emails in the INBOX are sent/pulled from my blackberry again. Why is this happening?

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[Dovecot] Speed up large maildirs
by Leen Besselink 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Hi, I'm very fond of maildirs, they are simple, I like that. But I've never really understood the significance of maildir/new/. The only use I can see is that (for example in the case of dovecot), you'd move a message from new to cur and then update the index-file, that's it. So to make put it more direct, you'd know when and with what to update the index-file, based on where the file resides. I've never been bothered by them, until I found that that is the last hurdle for fast access to a large (and receiving a lot of mail) Maildir. I've been thinking long and hard about what to do to make them work even better. My idea at this point is the following, use maildir/new as little as possible, just use it for what it was intented and spread the time of updates. If someone would make a wrapper-program around the delivery-program (like qmail-local, vpopmaildeliver, procmail or local and virtual from postfix) and the delivery program would print to standard output the path+filename it saved a (or more) message(s) to, the wrapper would be able to send an update-message to a dovecot-daemon. That mean, updates are small, and opening a large maildir would be sped up. How does that sound ? I hope this is a helpfull suggestion. _____________________________________ New things are always on the horizon.

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[Dovecot] Why am I getting more imap folders?
by poohba＠blkpoohba.dyndns.org 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

At one point I was just using what was under ~/mail now I have: ~/mail ~/mail/fedora ~/mail/trash ~/mail/mplayer ~/mail/yahoo ~/mail/Scott ~/mail/.imap/fedora ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index.tree ~/mail/.imap/trash ~/mail/.imap/trash/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/mplayer ~/mail/.imap/mplayer/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/yahoo ~/mail/.imap/yahoo/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/yahoo/.imap.index.data ~/mail/.imap/yahoo/.imap.index.tree ~/mail/.imap/Scott ~/mail/.imap/Scott/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/INBOX ~/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/old_subscriptions/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/old_subscriptions/.imap.index.data ~/mail/.imap/ffmpeg ~/mail/.imap/ffmpeg/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/apache ~/mail/.imap/apache/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/dovecot ~/mail/.imap/dovecot/.imap.index ~/mail/ffmpeg ~/mail/apache ~/mail/dovecot These are not all the files but just the most recently touched files. Can I not just have imap view and use the ~/mail files? Is this normal? Can I have it set up to use the maildir files that are already there? It used to work that way but I guess that is with the other imap server that came with fc1.

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[Dovecot] changing user mail folders
by Jason M. Wilde 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

I have a working dovecot server with user mail in Maildir:~/Maildir What is the proper way to change the location of user mail to /var/mail/username to take advantage of a large /var drive space? Would you recommend adding the creation of new user directories in /var/mail to my Redhat "adduser" script to get the permissions correct? Or via some other method? Also, any idea how to make Postfix deliver mail to the the new user directories? Thank you for any help and for a great product. Jason

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[Dovecot] assertion failed in mail-transaction-log-view.c
by Alan Schmitt 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, After having moved to using Apple mail.app for offline imap reading (served by a dovecot 1.0-test59 server), I noticed the following in the logs: Feb 14 13:52:48 top dovecot: 3102(schmitta): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 86 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq <= max_file_seq) Is this bad? Would upgrading to a newer version of dovecot help in this case? Thanks, Alan Schmitt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCEKDFNIAqM4hFUWgRAjfeAKCRpPafj/Pfhbi4wh1YFHnRxbPx3QCfSMqY S3nnORob3OXAfkDre1o7x5s= =iBoA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Need 2 additional folders like INBOX for JUNK and INFECTED mails
by Mirko Schulze 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi there, i need for JUNK & INFECTED mail two folders like INBOX. The folders must be fixed in naming, permissions and so on. I've adjusted some commands in the ./src/imap folder. But it's work not really fine: Creating a folder works, but deleting too. *smile* Moving a "special-name-folder" (f.e. from Trash) to its correct place, Dovecot says, that the folder is currently there. subsribing / unsubscribing doesn't work, too. ... ... ... I think that this is a "standard" problem for much people, who don't want, that the users will delete files through the imap protocol. Are there any solutions? Thanx Mirko

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[Dovecot] 0.99.14 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

One more change since -rc3 (the last one in list). v0.99.14 2005-02-11 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> - Message address fields are now parsed differently, fixing some issues with spaces. Affects only clients which use FETCH ENVELOPE command. - Message MIME parser was somewhat broken with missing MIME boundaries - mbox: Don't allow X-UID headers in mails to override the UIDs we would otherwise set. Too large values can break some clients and cause other trouble. - passwd-file userdb wasn't working - PAM crashed with 64bit systems - non-SSL inetd startup wasn't working - If UID FETCH notices and skips an expunged message, don't return a NO reply. It's not needed and only makes clients give error messages.

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[Dovecot] Help, problems with permissions
by Simon Windsor 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hi I am replacing my current mail system, using Exim/Postgres/WU-IMAP to another host using Dovecot. Everything has gone well, until I have tried to access some test mails via POP. The error message I am getting is Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw(a)orion-w-t.co.uk): lstat (/home/dovecot/users/orion-w-t.co.uk/simonw/cur) failed: Permission denied Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw(a)orion-w-t.co.uk): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-02-14 03:03:57] The file permissions are drwx------ 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 13 23:24 cur drwx------ 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 14 02:53 new drwx------ 2 dovecot dovecot 4096 Feb 14 02:53 tmp The UID/GID I am using is 1001, and the orion-w-t.co.uk/simonw directories are owned by that uid/gid. Can anyone provide advice on what I have to do to get POP, and eventually IMAP working? Many thanks Simon -- Simon Windsor Eml: simon.windsor(a)cornfield.org.uk Tel: 01454 617689 Mob: 07960 321599

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