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[Dovecot] Setting up a local shared mailbox
by Peter Clark 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

One: I have never set up an IMAP server before, so I thought I would ask first before blindly stumbling around. The problem I am want to solve is this: my wife and I have a "joint" email account that we both want to access (we also have our own personal accounts, but that's beside the point.) I posed the question to my local LUG, and several suggested setting up a local IMAP server so that we can both access it through KMail. Would you concur? If so, is there a tutorial or something similar that gives instructions for setting up dovecot locally? As I said, I've never set up an IMAP server before, and I'm not really sure how to go about it. (I'm running Debian Sid, so the packages are already installed, but I don't know what additional steps need to be taken.) Thanks for your help, :Peter

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[Dovecot] Patch for auto-creating home directories
by David S Madole 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

I've created a patch that adds a feature that is helpful to my setup. If 'parent_dir_umask' is set in the configuration file, any missing directories in the home directory path are created. The home directory itself is created according to the 'umask' setting, 'parent_dir_umask' is only used for intermediate directories that might need creating. This is useful to me, as I pull user information from a PostgreSQL database. This allows a new account to be created just by populating the database. The directory gets created the first time the user logs in (by Dovecot) or mail is received (by the MTA). As the patch is of modest length, I have included it below. I hope my meager skills are not an insult to the beatiful Dovecot code base! Thanks, David *** ./src/master/mail-process.c.orig Wed Sep 10 10:14:04 2003 --- ./src/master/mail-process.c Wed Sep 10 12:16:06 2003 *************** *** 95,100 **** --- 95,136 ---- return str_c(str); } + static int create_directories(const char *directory, mode_t mask) + { + char *chunk, *slash, *path; + mode_t oldmask; + int result; + + if (mkdir(directory, 0777) == 0 || errno == EEXIST) + return TRUE; + + if (errno != ENOENT) + return FALSE; + + path = t_strdup_noconst(directory); + + oldmask = umask(mask); + + for (chunk = path; (slash = strchr(chunk, '/')); chunk = slash + 1) { + + if (slash > chunk) { + + *slash = '\0'; + result = mkdir(path, 0777); + *slash = '/'; + + if (result != 0 && errno != EEXIST) { + umask(oldmask); + return FALSE; + } + } + } + + umask(oldmask); + + return (mkdir(path, 0777) == 0 || errno == EEXIST); + } + int create_mail_process(int socket, struct ip_addr *ip, const char *executable, const char *module_dir, unsigned int process_size, int process_type, *************** *** 156,164 **** --- 192,205 ---- restrict_process_size(process_size, (unsigned int)-1); + (void)umask(set->umask); + if (*home_dir != '\0') { full_home_dir = *chroot_dir == '\0' ? home_dir : t_strconcat(chroot_dir, "/", home_dir, NULL); + if (set->parent_dir_umask != 0777 && + !create_directories(full_home_dir, set->parent_dir_umask)) + i_fatal("mkdir(%s) failed: %m", full_home_dir); if (chdir(full_home_dir) < 0) i_fatal("chdir(%s) failed: %m", full_home_dir); } *************** *** 188,194 **** env_put("MAILDIR_CHECK_CONTENT_CHANGES=1"); if (set->mail_full_filesystem_access) env_put("FULL_FILESYSTEM_ACCESS=1"); - (void)umask(set->umask); env_put(t_strconcat("MBOX_LOCKS=", set->mbox_locks, NULL)); env_put(t_strdup_printf("MBOX_LOCK_TIMEOUT=%u", --- 229,234 ---- *** ./src/master/master-settings.h.orig Wed Sep 10 12:13:45 2003 --- ./src/master/master-settings.h Wed Sep 10 12:13:47 2003 *************** *** 51,56 **** --- 51,57 ---- int mbox_read_dotlock; unsigned int mbox_lock_timeout; unsigned int mbox_dotlock_change_timeout; + unsigned int parent_dir_umask; unsigned int umask; int mail_drop_priv_before_exec; *** ./src/master/master-settings.c.orig Wed Sep 10 12:13:59 2003 --- ./src/master/master-settings.c Wed Sep 10 12:14:40 2003 *************** *** 67,72 **** --- 67,73 ---- DEF(SET_BOOL, mbox_read_dotlock), DEF(SET_INT, mbox_lock_timeout), DEF(SET_INT, mbox_dotlock_change_timeout), + DEF(SET_INT, parent_dir_umask), DEF(SET_INT, umask), DEF(SET_BOOL, mail_drop_priv_before_exec), *************** *** 180,185 **** --- 181,187 ---- MEMBER(mbox_read_dotlock) FALSE, MEMBER(mbox_lock_timeout) 300, MEMBER(mbox_dotlock_change_timeout) 30, + MEMBER(parent_dir_umask) 0777, MEMBER(umask) 0077, MEMBER(mail_drop_priv_before_exec) FALSE,

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Linux 2.6.0-test1-ac1
by Kyler Laird 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

I've been using Dovecot on 2.6.0-test1 for quite awhile but today I jumped ahead to test5 and it broke in the way you described. http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/list/dovecot/2003-July/001943.html I used your workaround and now everyone is back in business. Thank you for the help! (I was sweating there for a bit.) --kyler

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[Dovecot] Web administration tool
by Timo Sirainen 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Any suggestions for a small web based tool to manage virtual domains/users? I tried to look but didn't really find anything that didn't seem to be tightly integrated with Courier or Cyrus, and I'd rather not spend time writing yet another one of those. I would be using Postfix and Squirrelmail with LDAP or PostgreSQL. On a somewhat related thought, I've been thinking about writing some kind of performance and statistics tool which would at least show the users who are logged in and how much CPU, memory and disk I/O they're eating so that you could see what's happening when load is too high. From Dovecot side that'd be done using a plugin. I'm not sure what the client side would be.. HTML might not be enough. Java maybe. Would Flash be too evil? :)

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[Dovecot] Problem with mbox files.
by David Röhr 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

I have trouble to get my INBOX-mbox to work properly. I have set the default_mail_env, to this.. "default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" Since my users are using thier home-dirs to store folders and old mails, and recieving them in /var/mail/username. But when logging in i get this.. Sep 9 12:25:23 angelica imap-login: Login: username [217.151.192.103] Sep 9 12:25:23 angelica imap(username): stat() failed with mbox file /var/mail/username : No such file or directory Just like the file wasn't there?! But checking.. .~ > ls -l /var/mail/username 1200 -rw-rw---- 1 username mail 1222055 Sep 9 12:16 /var/mail/username I can see that it is there, and containing mails.. It's not corrupt or anything like that. And its not a link of any kind. Why am I getting this error? And how do I solve it? I've tested to disable chroots, but get the same error... /d -- ... david röhr | o_ .. unix systems consultant | o/ /\ Solaris, AIX, HP-UX . qbranch system management | /|_, \\ and GNU/Linux Certified. www.qbranch.se / `

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[Dovecot] what is the current state
by Farkas Levente 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

hi, what is the current state of dovecot? is it worth to upgrade now or wait for some release in the near future? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] squirrelmail + dovecot + qmail + vpopmail error
by Warren Togami 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: COPY 99:99 "INBOX.SPAM" Reason Given: [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.SPAM Running latest stable version of squirrelmail, dovecot, qmail and vpopmail with Maildir storage in virtual users. One of my users reports seeing this yesterday, then it went away for a few hours, then early in the next day it happened again on the same account, but went away a little while after that. Any idea what could be happening here? Warren Togami warren(a)togami.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not starting
by Antonin Karasek 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

Hello everybody, sorry for stupid qustion, but I have following problem: I succesfully installed Dovecot on Debian (from source). Now I want to run it. I tryed: # /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot # but nothing happened: # ps -Af | grep dove ....... ps -Af | grep dove # What is wrong? I want Dovecot to serve POP3 over SSL. Many thanks and sorry again :o)

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[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot not starting
by Antonin Karasek 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

Thanks for fast response :) This is copy of syslog: Sep 5 17:58:40 cernunnos dovecot: Dovecot starting up Sep 5 17:58:41 cernunnos dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Sep 5 17:58:41 cernunnos dovecot: child 4327 (auth) returned error 11 Sep 5 17:58:41 cernunnos pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Alejandro Martinez writes: > Did you see the logs ? > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Antonin Karasek [mailto:lists@ceskyserver.cz] > Enviado el: viernes, 05 de septiembre de 2003 12:46 > Para: dovecot(a)procontrol.fi > Asunto: [Dovecot] Dovecot not starting > > > Hello everybody, > sorry for stupid qustion, but I have following problem: > I succesfully installed Dovecot on Debian (from source). Now I want to > run > it. I tryed: > # /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot > # > but nothing happened: > # ps -Af | grep dove > ....... ps -Af | grep dove > # > > What is wrong? > > I want Dovecot to serve POP3 over SSL. > > Many thanks and sorry again :o)

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[Dovecot] still getting weird .{inbox} folder creations with latest -test7
by Charlie Allom 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

Hi, I am still getting strange creation and mailbox lookups from 0.99.11-test7. dovecot creates in ~/Maildir/ .INBOX/ .imap.index .imap.index.cache .imap.index.log .customflags dovecot-uidlist .INBOX seems to be a reference to ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} yet I cannot get an IMAP client uo pick up my other maildir, located at ~/Maildir/mi/{cur,new,tmp}. In Apple's Mail.app, it picks up a file called ~/Maildir/.procmaillog as if it were a maildir directory! This is with the Mail.app preference for "IMAP Path Prefix" set to null. mutt just seems plain confused. I have these settings: # imap styleee set folder=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/ set mbox=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/mbox set record=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/sent set postponed=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/postponed set spoolfile=imap://yeled@lazy.spodder.com/ set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates set mail_check=10 set timeout=10 set imap_home_namespace="" set imap_pass="foo" I have included the tcpflow files to show what the clients are doing.. Is it normal to search for folders starting with "." ? Why won't it just pick up my normally nested maildir folders? C. -- charlie(a)rubberduck.com - http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/

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