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[Dovecot] error starting dovecot
by Avery Day 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

I am running redhat 9.0. I have been using uw-imap for some time now and wanted to try our dovecot. After installing dovecot and trying to start it up I am getting an error ------------------- Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory ------------------- Thanks for any help.

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[Dovecot] UW-IMAP -> Dovecot : patch to remove nasty "internal messages" from UW-IMAP ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hello there, We want to move from UW-IMAP to Dovecot (mbox format), works like a charm, but UW-IMAP has that bloody habbit to make a stupid message in all his mailbox files : From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Apr 19 10:30:01 2001 Date: 19 Apr 2001 10:30:01 +0200 From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON(a)mailhub2-vil.isdnet.net> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message-ID: <987669001(a)mailhub2-vil.isdnet.net> X-IMAP: 0987630138 0000000001 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. Is there any patch / trick / whatever to avoid that such "stupid" message to be not served by dovecot ? Thanks, /Xavier

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[Dovecot] IMAP error with squirrelmail - how to debug?
by Raymond Scholz 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

When moving messages with squirrelmail (or kmail), I get the following error: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: COPY 3 "INBOX" Reason Given: Unexpected EOF According to the config I switched on rawlog: # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap rawlog.c was altered in order to have /tmp as HOME. But I see no logfiles being generated. Environment: lastest dovecot from CVS, vpopmail and local users (error with both types). Another issue: Ocassionally the auth process dies: Feb 26 21:08:49 servername dovecot: child 28641 (auth) killed with signal 11 Cheers, Ray -- Raymond Scholz - rscholz(a)zonix.de - GnuPG/PGP - http://www.zonix.de/

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[Dovecot] dovecot tls configuration
by Johannes Berg 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hi, I looked through the web and the list archives, but couldn't find how to set up the following: - dovecot with ssl/tls enabled - login from localhost allowed with and without tls - login from remote hosts only allowed via tls Is that possible at all? I'm using debian/unstable so its version 0.99.10.4-3. Thanks, johannes -- http://www.sipsolutions.de/ Key-ID: 9AB78CA5 Johannes Martin Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.de>

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[Dovecot] Process died to early
by Steven Stern 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

After several days of operation, POP connections fail to my server. The log message is Mar 27 15:51:46 ciscy dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Linux ciscy.sterndata.com 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ]# /usr/sbin/dovecot --version 0.99.10 # /etc/init.d/dovecot status dovecot (pid 6900) is running... Killing the dovecot process, deleting /var/lock/subys/dovecot, and restarting the process gets POP3 and IMAP working again. Suggestions? -- Steve

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[Dovecot] RE: Lock problem - take 2
by Alex S Moore 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

I deleted the index folder to fix a lock problem described on my previous post. I still cannot access the folder. Now, I have a file in the maildir folder named dovecot-uidlist.lock that must be corrupt. How do I fix this? I can remove this particular maildir folder and there is no great loss. But I want to know how to fix it, in case this problem occurs on an important folder. Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] RE: Locking problem
by Alex S Moore 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Running dovecot on Solaris 8 sparc with SylpheedClaws as the MUA. I tried moving to many messages from a folder to my maildir folder, which is a local directory on the dovecot server. Now, I cannot open the folder due to this message: 'Mar 20 10:26:15 sws601.mcsun.local imap(amoore): [ID 702911 mail.error] Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /var/indexes//amoore/.Spam.Spam Archive/.imap.index' How do I get the lock released? I changed some timeout settings in dovecot.conf, but that did not help. Every time that I click this particular folder in my MUA, the screen locks up. Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Case insensitive user names
by andrew fresh 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

I am trying to set up the Dovecot pop3 server for some virtual hosting I am doing and it is going well, I am generating a passwd file that points dovecot to the virtual users mailspool. The only thing that I don't have working is that my current pop3 server (NTMail) has case insensitve usernames. Dovecot doesn't. I was hoping there was just an option to turn on, but I didn't see one, and unfortunately I don't know enough C to change to lc($submitted_user) eq lc($database_user) like I would in perl :-) I do have control over generating the passwd file, and it is currently generating the users to lowecase in the file, so just lc($submitted_user) eq $database_user would work well enough. Unfortunately I don't know enough C to do that, so I thought I would ask if anyone has done this. So, does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Thank you, -- andrew /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | ICQ# | Proud Member of Mad-Techies.org | | 253198 | http://www.mad-techies.org | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | There are two ways to write error-free programs; | | only the third one works. | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/

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[Dovecot] chdir() on NFS
by Christian Andersen 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hi, I'm having problems accessing home directories though NFS. This setup uses LDAP and Kerberos. Users defined on the local host work fine. This is what dovecot writes in the logs while trying to log in as the user johndoe: ---- Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) Mar 19 14:10:54 jack imap-login: Login: johndoe [10.0.0.30] Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: chdir(/home/johndoe) failed: Permission denied Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: child 3525 (imap) returned error 89 ---- The authentication is OK, but dovecot fails to get access to the home directory. What username does dovecot try to chdir() as? If I 'su' from to that user I have access to /home/johndoe, and a quick test with Courier IMAP worked fine. Postfix has no problem delivering mail in the users maildir using procmail. Some relevant config options: default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root -- Christian Andersen <http://phuzz.org>

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RE: [Dovecot] Dovecot failing silently on startup
by Julian Melville 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

> Can you do an strace of a running dovecot process so we can > get a better idea? (You ought to cc the list as well.) Sorry for the slow reply, it's taken me a few days to get back to this and observe the problem again. I've placed a tarball of the output of "strace -ff -o dovecot dovecot" here: http://rimu.tiddly-pom.com/dovecot-strace.tar.gz To my (admittedly untrained) eye, it's looking for and not finding /etc/ld.so.nohwcap, and then repeatedly not finding /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat. At that point there is a /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp - is that where the SSL stuff is being generated? Is it just that Dovecot is stalled until the ssl-parameters.dat file appears? Thanks, Julian.

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