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[Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion
by Zoong Pham 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi all, Out IMAP client (Outlook and others) use login name like joedirt(a)domainname.com I need dovecot to convert it to joedirt-domainname_com since that is the local login name. Can someone give me a hint how to do that? Is there any simple way to do it or do I have to modify any source code? Thanks, Zoong

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test14: no sendfile() in Solaris 8
by Andreas Jaekel 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Aloha. The current CVS snapshot and 1.0-test14 will not build on Solaris 8 because it does not provide a sendfile() funtion. It just has sendfilev(). Solaris 9 has sendfile(), though. Using the old sendfile-util.c from 1.0-test1 and setting HAVE_SOLARIS_SENDFILEV instead of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE in config.h works. Greetings, Andy.

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[Dovecot] Small change to make dovecot pop3 uw-imap migration friendly
by Oleg I. Vdovikin 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi, today I've finished migration from uw-imap daemons to shiny and fast dovecot. With thanks of dovecot my mail server load average drops by factor of ten even with ancient unix mailboxes. ;-) So, the only thing I've discovered is what POP3 uidls are different than ones used in the uw-imap. Luckily, the difference are only in the format string used in uidl response. So, I've made the following change in the code --- dovecot-0.99.10.4.orig/src/pop3/commands.c 2003-05-28 15:17:15.000000000 +0400 +++ dovecot-0.99.10.4/src/pop3/commands.c 2004-05-27 14:06:48.000000000 +0400 @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ while ((mail = client->mailbox->fetch_next(ctx)) != NULL) { client_send_line(client, message == 0 ? - "%u %u.%u" : "+OK %u %u.%u", + "%u %08x%08x" : "+OK %u %08x%08x", mail->seq, client->uidvalidity, mail->uid); found = TRUE; } and got everything just like in the old uw-imap pop3. I'm current running RH9, but thinking of FC2 which uses dovecot. So, I've rebuild the FC2 rpm for RH9 including this patch. Pop3 users, which do not remove their mails from the server are really happy - they do not receive old mails twice. Probably this small change could be applied to the 1.0, or used as a config option. Any suggestions are greatly appriciated. Thanks, Oleg.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test14
by Timo Sirainen 31 May '04

31 May '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Maildir syncing is still somewhat broken. I can't really figure out what the problem is. Maybe it's in indexes after all which are just causing bugs in syncing. I think I'll finish implementing mbox syncing and see if same problems appear with it. This release has mostly dovecot-auth changes: - Delay reporting failed authentications - Log IP address of failed authentications (if verbose = yes) - Password schemes can now be loaded from plugins. Example: http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/password-scheme-lmpass.c - (now that I think of it, auth mechanisms could be implemented as plugins as well if they were placed in password-scheme directory, I think I'll change the directory name so it's more logical) - SASL initial responses are supported (POP3) - SHA/SHA1 password scheme implemented with OpenSSL - dovecot-auth can run as standalone process now (but that doesn't work with Dovecot itself at least yet) - Changes to make it more easier to use it outside Dovecot (eg. the Postfix patch) Added new variables which can be used: %l - local IP address %r - remote IP address %P - PID Added mail_log_prefix setting where variables can be used. So if you want eg. "imap(user,ip-addr,pid): ", set it to "%p(%u,%r,%P): ". And others: - added maildir_stat_dirs setting - several bugfixes for indexes

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[Dovecot] Dovecot returns everything starting with "." as folder
by Christoph Hohmann 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot imapd 0.99.10.5 from debian unstable and I noticed that dovecot returns everything in the maildir folder that starts with a "." as a folder as the result of LIST "" "%" command without checking if it is really a maildir folder (must contain the directories cur, new, tmp and the file maildirfolder). This is a little bit annoying because it also returns Sylpheed's cache files '.sylpheed_cache' and '.sylpheed_mark' if they exist in the maildir. -- http://reboot.animeirc.de http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/

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Re: [Dovecot] help: Unknown password scheme SHA
by martynas＠inet.lt 30 May '04

30 May '04

I dont want to change over 1500 passwords in ldap;) So, if somebody implement this, i'll change from courier to dovecot. regards, Martynas P.S. Timo, could you drop me email, when dovecot would support this. Thank you. --- Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:54, martynas(a)inet.lt wrote: > > I would like to change my courier to dovecot. When I try to setup ldap au> th, > > I get error: > > dovecot-auth: ldap(martynas): Unknown password scheme SHA > > > > So, how enable SHA scheme on dovecot? > > Sorry, there's currently no SHA support. Should be pretty simple to > implement though, any volunteers? :) > >

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[Dovecot] dovecot API / Virtual Folders?
by James Moser 30 May '04

30 May '04

I was wondering if anyone has done something like this, or knows of any reason it would not work. Would it be possible to use dovecot's API to create virtual folders where when messages are placed in them some other application can be executed on them? With programs like DSPAM and SpamAssassin, and with users who do not have shell access to the machines, it would be nice if there was a way they could do something like this to use dspam/sa-learn, that way they could use it with any mail application. I don't like the idea of using cron to do this. -- James L Moser james(a)powweb.com PowWeb Hosting http://www.powweb.com /(bb|[^b]{2})/, that is the Question. mysql>SELECT * FROM user WHERE clue > 0; Empty set (0.03 sec) Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die... Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...

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[Dovecot] dovecot and nfs
by Dan Stromberg 30 May '04

30 May '04

I configured dovecot on a Fedora Core 2 system - the version that comes with FC2. I was using it with a RHEL 3 NFS server. Dovecot would again and again get stuck trying to grab an fcntl lock, even though I specified that it should only use dotlocks in dovecot.conf. Sometimes it would segfault (leaving things locked?). Often there would be two dovecot imapd processes for the same user. I've since moved dovecot onto our internal NFS server, but we have many (relatively) external imap servers where it might be nice to use dovecot, and in a number of those scenarios, NFS would be a requirement. Thanks. -- Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg(a)dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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[Dovecot] help: Unknown password scheme SHA
by martynas＠inet.lt 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hello, I would like to change my courier to dovecot. When I try to setup ldap auth, I get error: dovecot-auth: ldap(martynas): Unknown password scheme SHA So, how enable SHA scheme on dovecot? regards, Martynas

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[Dovecot] Messages does not appear in OE6
by Mauricio Araya V. 29 May '04

29 May '04

Hi List! I have an issue with dovecot: Outlook express users sometimes can't see some emails (they are not even listed) that can be seen with other IMAP clients, I tested it (and it works) with Evolution, Outlook and SquirrelMail (a web mail). Please note that this is not the client bug reported at http://dovecot.org/clients.html with the message: "Message is no longer available on this server" I have the following configuration: - Postfix as MTA (ver. 2.1), using the Maildir format to store messages. - Dovecot 0.99.10.4_2 serving POP3 and IMAP. Relevant dovecot config: client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle default_mail_env = maildir:/%h/Maildir Something important is that I am using freebsd 4.9, and dovecot is installed from ports (/usr/ports/mail/dovecot) Does anyone has the solution for this problem, or at least an idea of what causes it? Regards, -Mauricio

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