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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

hi as i created the rpms: my steps to get a working setup: 1. install postfix,fetchmail,dovecot 2. configure postfix via /etc/sysconfig/mail /etc/sysconfig/postfix 3. run SuSEconfig 4. create a selfsigned cert for ssl (script in /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot) 5. enable ssl in the dovecot config 6. chkconfig dovecot on 7. rcdovecot start 8. configure fetchmail (not a topic on this list) 9. working setup reached at least for system users hope that helps darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] Concerning: in 0.99.10.7 - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks
by chris pickert 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

TSS/Dovecot: I saw the recent change in the ChangeLog about the 'subtraction' of the listing of symlinks. The point showed(minus): - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks Does this truly mean the functionality was removed? I'd tried doing symlink'd maildirs in 99.10.6 w/ no luck and when I saw this change I hoped this was an addition, as it would be great in lieu of Dovecot's lack of ACL/Shared folders. If it was intented to be ADDED in the recent .7 release, it still doesn't work. If it was pulled (which is strange becauase my .6 release didn't do it), why? Are the .conf directives about it I'm missing by chance? (Didn't notice anything) I'm using Dovecot in combo with horde/imp and it's amazingly faster than courier-imap or uwash-imap, well done! What about the aforementioned ACL/Shared folders? I'm getting into a crux that I may need it and courier-imap-/-cyrus-imap will do my trick but, dovecot smokes them on performance! (Especially with horde/imp's preview/info stuff) Thanks! -- Chris Pickert

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Lars E. Pettersson 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 19:08, David Marsh wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this part! > Can anybody offer any advice? A short description on how I did this can be found at my web page: http://www.sm6rpz.se/mailserver.html I use Fedora Core 2, but I do not think that will matter, it should work for SuSE also I think. Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars(a)homer.se> http://www.sm6rpz.se/

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[Dovecot] weakness in hash salt generation
by Joshua Goodall 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Dovecot has routines for password hashing; two of these, crypt_generate and md5_generate, both use sizeof(salt_chars) when reducing a random string to salt. I became suspicious when I noted that all salts generated are composed only of "./01". Unfortunately salt_char is declared static const char * rather than static const char [], and so sizeof(salt_chars) is the size of a pointer. Recommend: diff -u -r1.8 password-scheme.c --- password-scheme.c 30 May 2004 03:57:15 -0000 1.8 +++ password-scheme.c 23 Jul 2004 17:05:36 -0000 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ # include <openssl/sha.h> #endif -static const char *salt_chars = +static const char salt_chars[] = "./0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; static buffer_t *schemes_buf; joshua. -- Joshua Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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[Dovecot] bug in LSUB command
by Geo Carncross 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

RFC 2060 section 7.2.2 and 7.2.3 says the "The LIST response occurs as a result of a LIST command." and "The LSUB response occurs as a result of an LSUB command." Dovecot presently returns the LIST response for the LSUB command. -- Geo Carncross <geocar(a)internetconnection.net> Internet Connection

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[Dovecot] Local + virtual users using Dovecot 0.99.10.6 (from debian testing)
by Alexander 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Hi, I have configured the MTA (exim4) to put the messages for my local users at /var/mail. If the user does not exist as true unix user, it looks at a postgresql database and if the user exists there, it delivers the message at /var/mail/virtual Example: User fred is a unix user, and peter is a virtual user. If i send a mail to fred(a)mydomain.org, the message is stored at /var/mail/fred (im using exim's append for transport). If i send a mail to peter(a)mydomain.org, the message is stored at /var/mail/virtual/peter With the defaul configuration from debian, dovecot is capable serving the local users mailbox (and its working at the moment). Im using only IMAP (i see there is an option for pop3, but im not interested in that atm). I think i know how to change the config file to serve only virtual users using the postgres module. Can anyone tell me how to serve them both at the same time? As I understand it, what i need is to make dovecot try to validate a user againt the local user database (its using pam for that at the moment), and if it fail, try with postres. But i dont know how (or if its possible at all). Thanks.

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[Dovecot] file index-mail-headers.c: line 408 (index_mail_get_header): assertion failed: (ret != 0)
by Dmitry Khrustalev 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE, dovecot-1.0-test29 crashes on sort and thread commands: Jul 25 15:12:08 owl dovecot: imap-login: Login: dima [81.19.64.101] Jul 25 15:12:26 owl dovecot: IMAP(dima): file index-mail-headers.c: line 408 (index_mail_get_header): assertion failed: (ret != 0) Jul 25 15:12:26 owl dovecot: child 20384 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt #0 0x281e0fc4 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #1 0x2822293e in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #2 0x8086c73 in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x8095720 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfbff8cc "\tW\t\b\230\001") at failures.c:374 #3 0x8086827 in i_panic ( format=0x8095720 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #4 0x806d0f9 in index_mail_get_header (_mail=0x80bf41c, field=0x80955ce "Date") at index-mail-headers.c:408 #5 0x806b8fd in index_mail_get_date (_mail=0x80bf41c, timezone=0x0) at index-mail.c:218 #6 0x8059b1c in mail_sort_input (ctx=0x80a1150, mail=0x80bf41c) at imap-sort.c:420 #7 0x80596ae in imap_sort (client=0x80ad180, charset=0x80b1180 "US-ASCII", args=0x80c8010, sort_program=0x80a10d0) at imap-sort.c:252 #8 0x8054ec8 in cmd_sort (client=0x80ad180) at cmd-sort.c:123 #9 0x80560ae in client_handle_input (client=0x80ad180) at client.c:318 #10 0x805614d in _client_input (context=0x80ad180) at client.c:354 #11 0x808a852 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80ab040) at ioloop-poll.c:193 #12 0x808a245 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80ab040) at ioloop.c:248 #13 0x805bc5b in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbffbb0, envp=0xbfbffbb8) at main.c:217 (gdb)

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf: default_mail_env
by Sebastien 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

I just installed Dovecot on Debian and everyting seems to be working fine except for the fact that it can't seem to find my mails when I log in. All my mails are stored in the file ~/mail/Inbox. In the dovecot.conf file I put: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and it's not working. What is the part: mbox:~/mail/ for ? and what is the part: INBOX=/var/mail/%u for ? I read the documentation but I don't understand. Can anyone help me ?

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test30
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Mostly just fixes. Fixed some crashes with cache file. Fixed "randomly" occuring mbox parsing problem. Namespace handling was pretty much rewritten. Non-hidden namespaces will also show up in LIST replies now, so if you have eg.: namespace private { prefix = mboxes location = mbox:~/mail } Then clients would show "mboxes" as normal folder. Subscription file handling also changed and will probably change more.. Currently subscription file is specific to the namespace where the mailboxes are. So in above example subscribing to "mboxes/foo" would use ~/mail/.subscriptions file rather than the default. I'm not exactly sure if this is a good idea or not.. It probably needs to be configurable with some subscriptions = yes|no per-namespace setting.

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[Dovecot] imap folders
by Roger D. Vargas 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Until last week I was using old imap daemon, then i installed FEdora Core 2 and it was replaced by dovecot or cyrus. I decided to use dovecot, and managed to configure it. But I still have a problem, the users imap folders (stored in their home dirs) arent visible, only the inbox. How can I recover those folders? -- Roger Durañona Vargas Linux user #180787 A cada momento nos rodea lo desconocido. Es alli donde uno tiene que buscar el conocimiento. Paul Muad'Dib Atreides. Children of Dune

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