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[Dovecot] dovecot.procontrol.fi anonymous access fails?
by Marco Molteni 13 Jul '03

13 Jul '03

Hi, just started using dovecot on FreeBSD. Nice and easy to configure :-) I then wanted to browse the dovecot mailing list, so, according to http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/mailinglists.html: IMAP archives available from dovecot.procontrol.fi, either use ANONYMOUS authentication or give anonymous as username and empty password. I was using a patched sylpheed that doesn't support ANONYMOUS authentication, so I gave anonymous as username and empty password, but it failed as shown in the following trace: 1 CAPABILITY * OK dovecot ready. * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=ANONYMOUS 1 OK Capability completed. 2 LOGIN anonymous 2 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. 3 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 3 OK Logout completed. Anyway, I also tried a plain telnet and it failed in the same way. what's wrong? thanks marco

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Re: [Dovecot] Permission denied
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jul '03

13 Jul '03

On Saturday, Jul 12, 2003, at 11:13 Europe/Helsinki, Jaime Medrano wrote: > That's the problem. The home dir is exported by nfs. Chdirs should be > done as the user, not as root. Right.. Well, I'll just ignore that error then: Index: mail-process.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/master/mail-process.c,v retrieving revision 1.25 retrieving revision 1.26 diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26 --- mail-process.c 10 Jul 2003 03:04:07 -0000 1.25 +++ mail-process.c 12 Jul 2003 15:45:19 -0000 1.26 @@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ if (*home_dir != '\0') { full_home_dir = *chroot_dir == '\0' ? home_dir : t_strconcat(chroot_dir, "/", home_dir, NULL); - if (chdir(full_home_dir) < 0) + /* NOTE: if home directory is NFS-mounted, we might not + have access to it as root. Ignore such errors. */ + if (chdir(full_home_dir) < 0 && errno != EACCES) i_fatal("chdir(%s) failed: %m", full_home_dir); }

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[Dovecot] CVS state
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jul '03

13 Jul '03

Just a small note that if you upgrade to latest CVS, you'll have to delete old index files or you'll probably get wrong BODY or BODYSTRUCTURE replies. Next release will have index file's version number increased so it will automatically rebuild them when needed. I didn't raise it yet since several other changes are likely to come soon.

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[Dovecot] Permission denied
by Jaime Medrano 12 Jul '03

12 Jul '03

Dovecot is faulting on an error about permissions that it shouldn't do. I've got an user with its home dir with permissions 700, and inside the mail directory with the mboxes. In the error log I can see: 'Can't chdir to /home/user. Permission denied' I wonder why it has to chdir to that directory and why it can't access. Shouldn't it be running as the user?

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD /etc/passwd errors
by James Read 12 Jul '03

12 Jul '03

Hi there, I've currently compiled and running dovecot version 0.99.10 on my FreeBSD 4.8 system from the ports and am having problems with authenticating clients with the imap/pop3 service. The error message i get is: Jul 11 19:26:18 dev dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jul 11 19:27:23 dev dovecot-auth: passwd(james): invalid password field '*' Jul 11 19:27:23 dev imap-login: Disconnected [10.0.0.1] On the client system I am using Outlook Express 6 and the password dialog box keeps on comming up. Im sure its somthing to do with my conf file not being configured right, here are the main bits: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle auth = default auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_user = dovecot-auth auth_username_chars = If its somthing simple please point me in the right direction as I feel increadbly dumb because im sure its something to do with the passwd file but just carnt get pass the last hurdle! Many thanks in advanced. James.

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[Dovecot] Configuration file changes in CVS
by Timo Sirainen 12 Jul '03

12 Jul '03

OK, it's there now. Not much tested yet, so there's probably some bugs. I didn't yet add support for templates, but I probably will later. The new format is like in the two example config files I sent before: http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/list/dovecot/2003-July/001832.html dovecot-example.conf contains the simple configuration now. New code also tries to be backwards compatible with most settings. New code will also try to check that the configuration is valid after SIGHUP before actually using it, so the server won't die anymore if you made a typo somewhere. It doesn't check all the settings though. Namespace configuration comes probably next. Something like: namespace { prefix = INBOX type = private separator = / location = mbox:/var/mail/%u } namespace { prefix = type = private separator = . location = maildir:~/ } namespace { prefix = lists/ type = public separator = / location = mbox:/var/mail/lists/archives }

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[Dovecot] Date sort-order ignoring timezone, and a few Q's.
by Stuart Henderson 11 Jul '03

11 Jul '03

Timo, thanks for writing and releasing Dovecot. I've recently discovered it and have been very impressed at the speed and balance between flexibility and simplicity. I had to make a packet-trace to be sure that encryption with OpenSSL was working correctly, since it all 'just worked' first time without complex configuration, which I don't think I've ever seen before ;-) LDAP too was quite straightforward (after I worked out where my virtual-domain schema differed from what was required). One small glitch I have noticed is that when the client requests a list of messages sorted by date, the timezone is ignored. For example, listed in descending order: 07/07/2003 00:01 +0300 (= 21:01 UT) 06/07/2003 23:15 +0100 (= 22:15 UT) 06/07/2003 19:03 +0100 (= 18:03 UT) I think that this should instead be... 06/07/2003 23:15 +0100 (= 22:15 UT) 07/07/2003 00:01 +0300 (= 21:01 UT) 06/07/2003 19:03 +0100 (= 18:03 UT) It's most noticable when the client (Mulberry in my case) is configured to display all times in the local timezone. (Mulberry has recently added custom flags which work perfectly with Dovecot - I was hoping this would be the case, and was one of the reasons I was looking for something to replace the version of Courier I previously had installed). Mulberry does like to have NAMESPACE otherwise it usually asks for folder locations on connecting, btw. No real problem, though. A little tip: if anyone is interested in having their MDA write Maildir with CR+LF so that sendfile(2) can be used on all messages (not just those created by Dovecot), Exim offers this natively by adding the "use_crlf" option to the appendfile transport which seems to work fine with 0.99.10 (though not 0.99.9.1, maybe because of 2003-06-04 17:39 in Changelog). It seems Dovecot is using the ,W= Maildir tag for some type of size instead of ,S= but I haven't traced far enough to work out what exactly W/virtual_size means, am I right in guessing that it might be 'wire size' i.e. message-size-with-CRLF-line-endings? (If so, use_crlf in exim.conf can be augmented with "maildir_tag = ,W=$message_size" to help keep overheads to a minimum). And, one final question: for a dual-stack machine to listen on both IPv6 and IPv4 sockets, is the currently preferred option simply to start two instances of Dovecot with their own dovecot.conf containing different *_listen parameters? --Stu

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[Dovecot] Re: Uncaught bounce notification
by Timo Sirainen 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

Lots of bounces from you, I'm moving this subscription to new address.. On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:15, mailman-bounces(a)procontrol.fi wrote: > The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce > format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted > from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all > unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s). > > For more information see: > http://procontrol.fi/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/dovecot/bounce > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Joburg_Notes1 <Joburg_Notes1(a)icoc.org> > To: dovecot-bounces(a)procontrol.fi > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LDAP bind questions > Date: 09 Jul 2003 21:13:31 +0200 > > Your email to Leslie Viljoen has been forwarded to his new email address: > lesliev(a)icoc.co.za. Please use this address in future! > > Thanks, > Leslie >

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[Dovecot] Concerns switching from Courier to Dovecot
by marcotte＠panix.com 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

[ I'm posting this again since I wasn't subscribed to the list when I first posted. I'm sorry if this gets posted twice] I was considering replacing Courier-IMAP with dovecot in the future, but have some concerns. I realize that some things simply haven't been finished yet like quotas, but some other things may prevent me from using dovecot as a drop in replacement in the future. Subfolders have different names in the file system. A folder (INBOX.subfolder) is named ".subfolder" in Courier, but "INBOX.subfolder" in dovecot. I can't simply rename all the subfolders, because our customers have direct access to the maildirs, and write to it directly with procmail and mail clients like mutt. Certain files have different names, but contain the same information. For example, the subscription lists and UID files look the same to me but have different names. I suppose they could be converted, but this would make it difficult to run both IMAP servers side-by-side, which I'd like to do until dovecot has all the features I need. I also heard talk of the hierarchy separator being changed from "." to "/". Now, is it possible configuration options could be added to allow for better Courier compatibility? I would be willing to help with this. Thanks! -- - Brian

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Re: [Dovecot] Date sort-order ignoring timezone, and a few Q's.
by Stuart Henderson 09 Jul '03

09 Jul '03

>> One small glitch I have noticed is that when the client requests a >> list of messages sorted by date, the timezone is ignored. > > It's not ignored, I just recently "fixed" it. Now it's properly fixed > :) Heheh.. Yes, I confirm that. (: >> It seems Dovecot is using the ,W= Maildir tag for some type of size >> instead of ,S= but I haven't traced far enough to work out what >> exactly W/virtual_size means, am I right in guessing that it might >> be 'wire size' >> i.e. message-size-with-CRLF-line-endings? > > Yes. S means the actual size of the file, W is the size with CRs. Thanks, that's good. >> And, one final question: for a dual-stack machine to listen on both >> IPv6 and IPv4 sockets, is the currently preferred option simply to >> start two instances of Dovecot with their own dovecot.conf >> containing different *_listen parameters? > > Currently, yes. I'll probably add support for multiple listening > sockets per server some day. There is no problem to have two instances running, though it might be more admin-friendly to allow the listen addresses to be supplied on the command-line, since it would save maintaining a second config file (and I imagine this would be easier for you than changing the socket code), but this is quite a low priority I think.

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