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[Dovecot] Newbie question: configuration for virtual users
by Rory Campbell-Lange 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hi! I'm looking forward to deploying dovecot as an IMAP server. I did some research into the various options and it looks like dovecot is the right daemon for me. I'll be using it with Exim. I am running a few tens of users on my server, most of them small numbers of people part of a small company, e.g. example.com. At present I have exim delivering to mbox in each virtual user's mail folder. So, for chris, john and mandy @ example.com, I have /home/example/Mail/ chris john mandy All of the users in example.com run under the same uid and gid (example). I like to separate these 'virtual' users from the real system users for security reasons. I presently serve up these mboxes via teapop, which allows for per-domain configuration. I couldn't find a similar setup after a cursory read of the config file examples on the dovecot website. I'd like some advice on how to support different non-system users under dovecot, ideally storing mail in a similar configuration to above, except (presumably?) that the user files will be under each user name? Thus: /home/example/Mail/ chris/ john/ mandy/ I may use postgresql to store user configuration data if appropriate. Advice gratefully received. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] 1.0.0-test28 Problem with INDEX
by Tim Southerwood 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hi Using this line in dovecot.conf (ignore linewrap) default_mail_env = mbox:%h/IMAP/:INBOX=%h/.email:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/%n The INBOX indexes are being built correctly in /var/cache/dovecot, but all other indexes for folders are still being built in the user's home directory. I had it working once - but it seems fragile - almost as if the config parser is sensitive to context??? Sorry - seems vague, but I can't pin this down reliably. Anyone else had problems? Cheers Tim -- Tim J Southerwood Senior Programmer CSG, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London

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[Dovecot] Idea to enhance migration from UW-Imap
by Klaus Steinberger 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, i want to migrate from UW-Imap to dovecot, but want to avoid changing clients (that would be really hard to do). All my users have their Mailboxes in ~/Mail. My idea would be now to strip off "Mail" from the imap commands, so that both a client which prepends "Mail" as well as one who doesn't would see the same mailboxes. Can somebody give me a hint where in the dovecot source I could do that stripping (at best some central function, so this stripping has to be done just one time). I would be glad to make the changes and then to contribute that change, I just need a hint where in the sources I will find the right place. Sincerly, Klaus Steinberger -- Klaus Steinberger Maier-Leibnitz Labor Phone: (+49 89)289 14287 Am Coulombwall 6, D-85748 Garching, Germany FAX: (+49 89)289 14280 EMail: Klaus.Steinberger(a)Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE URL: http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~k2/ In a world without Walls and Fences, who needs Windows and Gates

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test29
by Timo Sirainen 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Huh, I almost got stuck with this one. It's boring to do larger rewrites to things that already kind of work. This time it was rewriting how caching headers work. The old way was kind of ugly and it didn't really guarantee the order in which cached headers could be fetched. So there were a few theoretical problems that could have broken things. 0.99.10 didn't support caching headers at all, so it didn't have this problem. I think the new caching code is finally nearly finished. Just a few small things left and it's done. This release also fixes some other crashes and problems. I've been running it nearly an hour now without problems :)

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[Dovecot] Problem with IMAP and MAIL environment
by Luis Miguel Cruz 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Here is the problem: Jul 19 10:40:17 mail1 pop3(master): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/usuarios/master/mail: Permission denied Jul 19 10:40:17 mail1 pop3(master): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/usuarios/master) Jul 19 10:40:17 mail1 dovecot: child 3528 (pop3) returned error 89 Is there anyway to avoid it? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] fix MD5 code buglet
by Andrey Panin 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, md5_final() function contains minor buglet, it clears first 4 bytes of md5_context instead of whole structure. Patch attached. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] fix build error with HAVE_MODULES not set
by Andrey Panin 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, attached trivial patch (against 1.0-test28) fixes build error with unset HAVE_MODULES. Error is caused by missing second argument of module_dir_load() stub. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDAP Auth strange mailbox behavior
by Ryan Bloch 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Hello everyone. I have setup a Debian Sarge server, with openldap, postfix, and Dovecot. I have been able to fix all the problems that have been logged thus far, and it seems to work. I am able to use a mail client to login to the pop3 server. The authentication works, and it logs as a successful login, but no messages download. I get a response: No New Messages. I have checked the user's maildir directory, and there are mails sitting in the new directory, so it should download. Anyone have any clues? Thanks in advance, Ryan

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[Dovecot] init script
by Luis Miguel Cruz 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

Hi all, Can someone send me or tell me where I can find an init script for dovecot? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] login process died too early
by Adrian Roye 18 Jul '04

18 Jul '04

Hi ! I have dovecot working on a SUSE 9.0 machine. Everything works fine. When I boot, I get this message: snip............. Dovecot starting up Login process died too early-shutting down snap........... rcdovecot status : unused a rcdovecot start starts dovecot. What can I do to start dovecot when I boot up ? Adrian Roye

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