- dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] /etc/init.d init script for RedHat?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Is anybody using dovecot on RHEL 3? I'd sure appreciate an init script for it. Thanks! Ben

2 2

[Dovecot] Trying to install Test43 with rpmbuild
by Benjamin J. Weiss 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi! I'm using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3.0, which is a re-compile distro of RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0. I'm installing a new mail server and would like to use dovecot as it supports Maildir, which the default imapd does not. I've downloaded test43's tarball, and would prefer to use RPM to manage it. To that end, I've tried to do an rpmbuild, but get an error: [root@www src]# rpmbuild -ta dovecot-1.0-test43.tar.gz error: line 7: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 1.0-test43 I tried untaring the tarball and looking at the dovecot.spec file, and sure enough on line 7 is a reference to "Version: 1.0-test43". The problem is that if I take out the '-', and try rpmbuild, I get more errors. I'm not an expert in this stuff...has anybody else managed to get this working? It would sure make my life easier (I think). Ben

2 2

[Dovecot] Mac Eudora and POP
by Chris Alexander 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

I didn't get much joy in the list archives... Has anyone seen an instance of Mac users (OS9) using Eudora not being able to pop their mail? They can imap ok, just not pop (non-ssl btw). Nothing special in the logs... I'm not a Mac guy per se, maybe I'm missing something obvious? -- Chris Alexander UNIX Network Administrator, Information Networks and Systems Division Communications Research Centre [ http://www.crc.ca ] Government of Canada [ http://www.gc.ca ]

2 1

[Dovecot] New Postfix + Dovecot + OpenLDAP + Jamm + SASL + TLS HOWTO
by Peter Lacey 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

All, That's a lot of plusses, but if anyone is interested in how I managed to get all these packages working together, I just posted this HOWTO to: http://wanderingbarque.com/mailserver.html The Postfix - Dovecot - OpenLDAP marriage is nothing new, the twist is integrating these packages with Jamm, a web-based interface for creating a managing virtual domains and users. Regards, Pete

1 0

[Dovecot] Weird behaviour with multiple accounts pointing to same maildir
by Bill Moran 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

I'm finding this a little strange. I'm putting together a mail server that will (someday, hopefully) serve a lot of email addresses for a lot of domains. To make life easy, each account name is the full mail name ... i.e "joe(a)domain.com" instead of just "joe" Mail is stored in Maildirs, and the user account information is all in MySQL. Delivery is handled by Postfix. Everything seems nice and clean, except ... If I create multiple accounts that all use the same Maildir for delivery (i.e. joe_smith(a)domain.com, js(a)domain.com, js(a)otherdomain.com) it seems to work well. Except that the user can _only_ log in as the first record in the database via IMAP. (i.e. in the example above, the user could log in as joe_smith(a)domain.com, but not the others) Logging in as the others does not produce any erros (that I can find, anyway) but the user can't see his/her mail. I'm rather stumped as to why this is happening. Each record in the database that points to a particular Maildir is identical except for the userid. In the example above, logging in as the 2nd or 3rd account shows folders created, but not the mail in them. For example, the above db records would look like: +----------------------+----------+-----------------------------+-----+-----+--------+ | userid | password | home | uid | gid | active | +----------------------+----------+-----------------------------+-----+-----+--------+ | joe_smith(a)domain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | | js(a)domain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | | js(a)otherdomain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | I'm assuming this is some sort of bug, but if I'm wrong, please correct me. Any ideas? Using Dovecot dovecot-0.99.10.9 on FreeBSD 4.10, talking to mysql-server-4.0.20. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

2 2

[Dovecot] FreeBSD port of Dovecot
by Viren Patel 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Hello. I am trying to install Dovecot 0.99.10.9 on a FreeBSD 4.10 system from the ports collection (latest via cvsup). When running make, I get the message: dovecot-0.99.10.9 Currently incompatible with security/gnutls This is in contrast to the Dovecot web page which states that it does support GNUtls and OpenSSL. I am not really interested in gnutls/openssl support at this time. Is there a way I can install this port without gnutls/openssl?. My apologies if this is not the appropriate forum but I couldn't find info. on the port maintainer. Thanks. V. Patel Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Texas at Austin

3 2

[Dovecot] Logging IMAP transactions
by Kenneth Porter 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Mulberry has the ability to log the IMAP exchange client-side. Is there an equivalent logging feature in Dovecot (0.99) to log the IMAP exchange server-side? My problem is that Mulberry is displaying some complex MIME structures incorrectly (eg. nested/forwarded messages) but it seems to go away if I close a folder and re-open it. I'm suspecting that Dovecot is reporting the wrong structure on first access and then fixes something on subsequent accesses. I'd like to log the FETCH result with the structure information to see if I can spot this happening.

3 3

[Dovecot] 1.0-test43
by Timo Sirainen 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ People who have had problems with downloading large mails, please try if this release helps. Also fixed one mbox syncing crash and several compiler warnings/errors with some. Not much else for now, been busy with work and other things..

2 1

[Dovecot] RE: compile from cvs source
by Alex S Moore 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

On Solaris 9 and using Sun's compiler. I get the following error when building from the cvs source. Can you fix this? '"mail-index-transaction-view.c", line 21: void function cannot return value' Thanks, Alex

1 0

[Dovecot] Fedora Core 2, dovecot, and Outlook Express
by Joe Hartford 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

After the aging harddrive in my Redhat 7.2 server died, I decided it was time to upgrade. I bought a new harddrive and did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2. I've managed to get www, ssh and sendmail reconfigured, but I'm having a heck of a time with imap. I first fooled around with cyrus-imapd, and couldn't make head or tail of it, so I downloaded a fedore core 1 imapd rpm and installed it. That almost worked, but I could only see the INBOX. Next I tried dovecot. Via Outlook Express from my winXP box, I can Refresh the IMAP folder list, and see the INBOX and the sent-mail and saved-messages folders that were created when I first ran pine. However, if I try and mark sent-mail or saved-messages as Visible, I get an "Invalid mailbox name: saved-message/" error. And when I try and view the contents of Inbox, I get "Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/". I tried running evolution on the server, and I could subscribe and view the INBOX. But when I try and make a new folder, it gives me a "Cannot create the specified folder. Generic error" I'm hoping I just have something misconfigured, potential due to messing around with cyrus-imapd and imapd, or perhaps even pine. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty close to giving up on fedora core 2 and installing core 1, or perhaps mandrake. --Joe Hartford

1 2