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[Dovecot] [PATCH] POP3: Fix RFC1939 non-compliance in STAT, LIST and UIDL commands
by Nic Bellamy 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi all, attached is a patch against 0.99.10.4 that fixes the STAT, LIST and UIDL POP3 command output in the case that they're issued after one or more messages have been deleted. Examples of incorrect behavior (bad spots marked with '***') C: STAT S: +OK 2 806 C: LIST S: +OK 2 messages: S: 1 403 S: 2 403 S: . C: UIDL S: +OK S: 1 1076749908.12 S: 2 1076749908.13 S: . C: DELE 1 S: +OK Marked to be deleted. C: STAT *** S: +OK 2 806 C: LIST *** S: +OK 2 messages: *** S: 1 403 S: 2 403 S: . C: UIDL S: +OK *** S: 1 1076749908.12 S: 2 1076749908.13 S: . What it should have been is: [snip] C: DELE 1 S: +OK Marked to be deleted. C: STAT S: +OK 1 403 C: LIST S: +OK 1 messages: S: 2 403 S: . C: UIDL S: +OK S: 2 1076749908.13 S: . It's unlikely the above issue has been causing much in the way of problems, as it's very rare for mail clients to use any of the faulty commands after they've deleted messages (they tend to do it once at the beginning of the POP3 session and cache the results). Regards, Nic. -- Nic Bellamy <nic(a)bellamy.co.nz> Bellamy Consulting -- Software & Security -- http://www.bellamy.co.nz/ -- Phone: +64-6-377-4957 Fax: +64-6-377-0505 Mobile: +64-21-251-8954 --

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[Dovecot] RE: Question on folders
by Alex S Moore 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

I have read and read the dovecot docs on maildir folders and think that this is what I want. However, the MUA programs that I use, SylpheedClaws, Evolution, Mozilla seem to react differently to how I setup the folders. Is there a good FAQ on this subject somewhere? I think that I want to setup a virtual domain and am looking for documents. Alex

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[Dovecot] too large imap.index.data files
by Network Wizards 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi, I have noticed that imap.index.data are often too large files (several MiBs). Is there a way to limit their size or to shrink dimension or to assign another directory where those file are stored? thank you will

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Re: [Dovecot] Pam trouble
by Benjamin Dabelow 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi Alex, > Are you using Solaris 9 native ldap? What configure options did you use > when building dovecot? I'm using OpenLDAP, but I think it's a pam rather than ldap problem. Dovecot check for the existance of a user alright, but fails when checking the password. My build script is enclosed. Cheers Benjamin Buildscript----------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash ## Defaults CC="gcc" CXX="g++" LDPATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/sfw/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/sfw/lib" CFLAGS= #SSL LDPATH="$LDPATH:/usr/local/ssl/lib" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto" #BerkeleyDB LDPATH="$LDPATH:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib -ldb" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -ldb" AUTH_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib -ldb" AUTH_LIBS="-ldb" #GDBM LDPATH="$LDPATH:/usr/local/gdbm/lib" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/gdbm/include" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/gdbm/lib -lgdbm" #LDAP LDPATH="$LDPATH:/opt/OpenLDAP/lib" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/opt/OpenLDAP/include" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/OpenLDAP/lib -lldap -llber -lresolv" #Finishing LDFLAGS="-R$LDPATH $LDFLAGS" export LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS CFLAGS echo -e "\nLDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS" echo -e "\nCPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS" echo -e "\nCFLAGS=$CFLAGS" cd dovecot-0.99.10.4 echo -e "\nPress RETURN to configure or CTRL+C to cancel." read ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot --with-ldap=/opt/OpenLDAP --with-ssl=openssl --with-storages=maildir echo -e "\nPress RETURN to make or CTRL+C to cancel." read make -- Benjamin Dabelow benja.dabelow(a)gmx.net Staufenbergstr. 88 benja-dabelow.gmxhome.de/start.html 74081 Heilbronn Germany

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[Dovecot] IMAP subfolders
by Manuel Moran Vaquero 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi: I am using dovecot since the first day on my server (so I have no other mailbox formats). I can't create any subfolders under any IMAP folders. Is this still an issue of dovecot? In mozilla, the operation is simply ignored. With outlook, you can't even click "Accept" if you select to create a subfolder, rather than a top level folder. I have Fedora Core 1, and didn't touch anything special in the configuration file (just one line which enabled pop3 and imap). I have seen the list archives but the existing thread about the issue seems to say that the problem is solved. (?) Thanks in advance for replies Manuel Moran

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Re: [Dovecot] ":" in filenames
by Timo Sirainen 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 05:57, Lars Hansson wrote: > dovecot seems to have an issue with :'s in pathnames: > imap(test.user): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /home/ > hosted/example.com/users/test:user > > This causes a bit of a problem with vmailmgr since it, by default, > replaces .'s in maildir path with :'s. > I'm curious as to why :'s in paths are an issue? Do they have special > meaning to dovecot? Hmm.. They do. default_mail_env format is: "storage_format:data" and both mbox and maildir in "data" part treat it as "path:option:option2:..". So, Dovecot above thought "/home/hosted/example.com/users/test" was the storage format and "user" the data part for it. You could change default_mail_env = maildir:~/ but then Dovecot would think "user" as being unknown option.. I'm not sure what to do about this.. ':' was selected because it's PATH separator as well, so people rarely have directories containing ':' in it's name. Maybe it could be escaped as "\:"..

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[Dovecot] ":" in filenames
by Lars Hansson 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

dovecot seems to have an issue with :'s in pathnames: imap(test.user): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /home/ hosted/example.com/users/test:user This causes a bit of a problem with vmailmgr since it, by default, replaces .'s in maildir path with :'s. I'm curious as to why :'s in paths are an issue? Do they have special meaning to dovecot? --- Lars Hansson

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[Dovecot] dovecot-nightly/NetBSD - Fwd: CVS commit: wip/dovecot-nightly
by tom＠replic8.net 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

hello everybody, i just commited a pkgsrc for dovecot nightly cvs-snapshots to the pkgsrc-wip repository for NetBSD - this will hopefully go into base pkgsrc, soon. please see http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/ on how to obtain pkgsrc-wip. ----- Forwarded message from Tom Hensel <tomhensel(a)users.sourceforge.net> ----- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:18:52 -0800 From: Tom Hensel <tomhensel(a)users.sourceforge.net> Reply-To: pkgsrc-wip-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: CVS commit: wip/dovecot-nightly To: pkgsrc-wip-cvs(a)lists.sourceforge.net Module name: pkgsrc-wip Committed by: tomhensel Date: Sun Feb 22 19:18:52 UTC 2004 Import into wip/dovecot-nightly Log Message: Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Although it's written in C, it uses several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. A nightly CVS-snapshot is available at http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/nightly/ which includes major changes from Dovecot 0.99.10.4; please see the ChangeLog file inside the distribution archive. For more information on Dovecot see http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ Status: Vendor Tag: tomhensel Release Tags: tomhensel_20040222 N wip/dovecot-nightly/PLIST N wip/dovecot-nightly/distinfo N wip/dovecot-nightly/Makefile N wip/dovecot-nightly/DESCR N wip/dovecot-nightly/files/dovecot.sh N wip/dovecot-nightly/patches/patch-aa N wip/dovecot-nightly/patches/patch-ab No conflicts created by this import To generate a diff of this commit: Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ pkgsrc-wip-cvs mailing list pkgsrc-wip-cvs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pkgsrc-wip-cvs ----- End forwarded message -----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot -- basic setup
by Tom 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hey all, After some kind soul made me understand what I can expect from Dovecot, I feel really embarassed for not being able to set it up correctly. What I already had was ~/Mail, containing about six maildirs. Exim got mail, delivered it to procmail, and procmail dropped it in my inbox; a needless extra step that I keep for future, ehm, needs that I might start to care about when I can just succesfully use the most basic mail configuration I can think of. As far as I understood, I just have to point Dovecot to my maildir for it to serve my mail when I connect appropriately with a client. When I test that with KMail connecting to localhost, I get a bizarre overview of my mailfolders, that looks like this: http://www.xs4all.be/~verbreyt/img/scrots/dovecot-kmail.jpg The error message on top is what I get when I try to catch up with any possible new mail: "Unable to get information about folder antwort.index. The server replied: Internal error." Syslog says "lstat(/home/tom/Mail/.antwort.index/cur) failed: Not a directory". Could be, of course: the directory should be ~/Mail/antwort/cur. After I ran KMail and got those errors, ~/Mail, previously only containing some folders, each in turn containing cur/, new/ and tmp/, is stuffed with index files, and three new folders (cur/, new/ and tmp/) directly in the toplevel. ##### $ ls -a Mail . .drafts.index.ids .sent.index.ids .. inbox sent-mail antwort .INBOX .sent-mail.index .antwort.index .inbox.index .sent-mail.index.ids .antwort.index.ids .inbox.index.ids spam check .inbox.index.sorted .spam.index .check.index new .spam.index.ids .check.index.ids outbox tmp cur .outbox.index trash .customflags .outbox.index.ids .trash.index drafts sent .trash.index.ids .drafts.index .sent.index ##### I'm not sure just where it all goes wrong. Yes, I feel stupid about that, but what did, then, did I misunderstand? The only relevant thing in /etc/dovecot.conf I guess would be "default_mail_env" which I have set to "maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mail/inbox". Documentation may be sparse, it'd still make me sad to be the cause of it being extended for use by the clueless. :-/ Grateful for any corrections, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Predominance - Luftschiffe (flac)

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[Dovecot] File synchronization friendly indexes
by Aredridel 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

I've been doing some tests of file synchronization with Unison (think "two way rsync"), and run into one problem: Synching between servers has conflicts on the index file. I can manually exclude, but what seems to me to be a really wonderful feature would be to, preferably, make the indexes somewhat atomic, so that files, once written, don't change (this is a feature of maildirs in general), and barring that, that they include the machine name as part of the filename, so there's no conflicts. Also, on a completely unrelated and somewhat offtopic note: I'd love to hear some brainstorms on how to prevent duplicate messages when maildirs are synched, files are moved from new on one or more ends, flags are changed inconsistently, and synched back. Ari

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