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[Dovecot] passwd + shadow auth problem
by T'aZ 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi! here is the problem , i have local users some have shadow password, some not, so i must create two auth one to login via shadow , and one via passwd so here is my config file (stripped comments): protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = 192.168.0.2 pop3_listen = 192.168.0.2 imaps_listen = 192.168.0.2 pop3s_listen = 192.168.0.2 login = imap login = pop3 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow auth_user = root auth_count = 1 auth_verbose = yes auth = truc auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_verbose = yes if i try a user with shadow, it works, but if i try a user without shadow, it fails in the log with dovecot-auth: shadow(taz): unknown user what's wrong, why doesnt it use the second auth option ? where is my error ? i'm using 0.99.10.6 thanks in advance -- T'aZ |Jabber:taz-007@jabber.org|GPG keyID:E051925D|http://taz.prout.be *They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.* Benjamin Franklin 1759 *Beaucoup,vite,loin,mal.* http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

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[Dovecot] invalid mask
by Adrian Roye 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi ! I still get the message: "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: invalid mask" I am using the Netscapes mail client. Adrian

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[Dovecot] phpGroupWare
by Avery 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

Anyone here using phpGroupWare with dovecot? Does anyone know if it is possible? Thanks -- Avery

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[Dovecot] Locked index file
by Kevin Cramer 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I have docevot 0.99.10.6 installed on OpenBSD 3.5 and I'm using it with Squirrelmail. I tried to empty my Trash folder and it timed out. It looks like the process or thread died but the lock wasn't removed: Jun 25 09:16:30 plato imap(kevin): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /home/kevin/Maildir/.Trash/.imap.index How can I free this lock? I have tried stopping and re-starting dovecot already but that didn't help. Also, is there something I should do to prevent this in the future? The OpenBSD package sets the default locking to fcntl for mbox. I'm not sure if that is the setting that also controls the locking mechanism on the index files. Thanks, Kevin

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[Dovecot] Locked index file
by Kevin Cramer 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I have docevot 0.99.10.6 installed on OpenBSD 3.5 and I'm using it with Squirrelmail. I tried to empty my Trash folder and it timed out. It looks like the process or thread died but the lock wasn't removed: Jun 25 09:16:30 plato imap(kevin): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /home/kevin/Maildir/.Trash/.imap.index How can I free this lock? I have tried stopping and re-starting dovecot already but that didn't help. Also, is there something I should do to prevent this in the future? The OpenBSD package sets the default locking to fcntl for mbox. I'm not sure if that is the setting that also controls the locking mechanism on the index files. Thanks, Kevin

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[Dovecot] IMAP mailing archives back online
by Timo Sirainen 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Read-only mboxes seem to be working nicely now, so I installed latest CVS Dovecot to dovecot.org again to serve them. Allows either ANONYMOUS SASL logins, or plaintext logins with "anonymous" user and empty password.

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[Dovecot] Sym links to subfolders?
by Kevin Cramer 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I just installed dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I'm trying to use symlinks for subfolders. I have my mail in ~/Maildir and I want to make symlinks such as from .Sent to ~/Mail/Sent. All of these folders are maildir and the permissions are correct. I've searched the list and I cannot find anything stating that it should not work. In fact I've seen posts that claim it should work. However, it does not work for me and looking at maildir-list.c around line 101, it appears that it is only checking for directories and not for links. I'm doing this because I have it setup so I can use mutt directly against the maildir folders and so IMAP will work against them. It's worked great for over a year but I want to move it to a different machine and I wanted to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. Can anyone confirm that it works or not? Any ideas on how to address this issue? Thanks, Kevin

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[Dovecot] Re: [ismail] Re: using Dovecot
by Steven Stern 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:26:01 +0000, "Kelley Reynolds" <kelley(a)insidesystems.net> wrote: > >I've never used dovecot, but I know that those directories aren't what IMAP servers generally expect when looking for a rootfolderpath. > >For example, courier is always 'INBOX', uw-imap is usually but not always 'mail', and sometimes it's just a blank string. My guess is that for you, it's one of those three. If your mail is in a 'mail' directory, I suggest just putting 'mail' and not '~/mail'. > >Kelley Reynolds >President >Inside Systems, Inc > >___________________________________________________________________ I'm going to cross post this to the dovecot list in case someone there has an idea. To bring those people up to speed: I'm evaluating ISMail (www.insidesystems.net) as a replacement for IMP. I'm having problems configuring the IMAP settings to work with Dovecot. === I've got some progress. I set rootmailfolder to "~/mail". When I login to ISMail, it creates the directory ~/inbox as follows: mail Sent Items then dies. If I set rootmailfolder to as "rootmailfolder=" with no argument, it creates .imap INBOX .customflags .imap.index.data .imap.index.tree .imap.index .imap.index.log then dies If I set rootmail folder to "INBOX" INBOX Sent Items .subscriptions .imap INBOX .customflags .imap.index.data .imap.index.tree .imap.index .imap.index.log -- Steve

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[Dovecot] customflags considered a folder?
by Peter Schuller 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello, i just switched from courier-imap to dovecot on a machine. The transition was painless except for one issue - when using the "Check mail" feature of kmail, one gets the message: "Unable to get information about folder customflags. The server replied: internal error..." So it looks like the server isn't properly hiding the .customflags file for some reason. I googled and only found one person who had seen something similar, but no solution. This is with dovecot 0.99.10.5. Similarly, 'customflags' does show up as a folder when using mutt. How would I go about preventing this problem? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller(a)infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey(a)scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller(a)infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test20
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ One more for today :) Again mostly mbox fixes and optimizations. Don't try it with maildir because it crashes with COPY and APPEND commands. This release supports now UIDPLUS extension. It was mostly a side effect of making saving mails store the X-UID header immediately to mbox and adding the mail to index. So, a Dovecot LDA would finally make sense now. Besides keeping indexes updated, it could also ask user's home dir, uid and gid from dovecot-auth. Now, that combined with postfix-dovecot-auth patch, Dovecot would be very simple to install with Postfix :)

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