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[Dovecot] Dovecot and file permissions
by Spectron International, Inc. 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

I have some questions about some parameters in dovecot.conf, I have them configured as this: # User to use for the login process. The user must belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process # named sockets login_user=postfix # User to use for the process. Only shadow and pam authentication requires # roots, so use something else if possible auth_user=postfix It seems to me that all files created and used by Dovecot as long as they were created by the postfix user, they would be accesible. Right? My maildir shows as this: drw------- 6 postfix postdrop 65 Jun 26 09:40 Maildir so I guess postfix has full access to the maildir. Wouldn't setting login_user and auth_user to postfix let Dovecot access the Maildir? In the logs I get permission errors, if I chmod to 777 it works ok. This is what I get in the logs: Jun 26 09:24:23 backup imap(f_rojas): opendir(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 09:24:31 backup imap(f_rojas): stat(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir/.Drafts) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 09:24:31 backup imap(f_rojas): lstat(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 09:24:31 backup imap(f_rojas): stat(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir/.Sent Items) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 09:24:31 backup imap(f_rojas): lstat(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 09:26:52 backup imap(f_rojas): lstat(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 10:06:09 backup imap(f_rojas): lstat(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 10:06:15 backup imap(f_rojas): opendir(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 10:08:38 backup imap(f_rojas): opendir(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir) failed: Permission denied Jun 26 10:13:03 backup imap(f_rojas): stat(/opt/mail/f_rojas/Maildir/.Sent Items) failed: Permission denied Faw

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[Dovecot] mutt and dovecot
by Charlie Allom 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Hi, I setup squirrelmail with dovecot and everything worked. I moved users Maildir directores to ~/Maildir/INBOX.directory/ and updated the .subscriptions file to something like ^INBOX.directory squirrelmail picks this up, but I can't seem to get mutt to read this style. In fact I would have assumed that dovecot would read ~/Maildir/ as INBOX and everything under it as it stands, without having to shuffle things about. Does anyone use mutt and have any words fo advice? I am not sure that courier-imapd does this sort of munging? C. -- charlie(a)rubberduck.com - Melbourne, Australia http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/ PGP: 0x14AA7941 || finger yeled(a)lazy.spodder.com

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-rc4
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Again all the recently reported bugs fixed. Hopefully last rc. http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/rc/

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[Dovecot] Help with new install on Mac OSX
by Roger Cates 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Can anyone tell me what's going on and how I can fix it? bash-2.05a# make make all-recursive Making all in src Making all in lib make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in lib-settings make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in lib-charset make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in lib-mail make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in lib-imap make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in lib-index Making all in maildir make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in mbox make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. Making all in lib-storage Making all in index Making all in maildir make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in mbox make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. Making all in subscription-file make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in register gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-imap -I../../../src/lib-storage -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c mail-storage-register.c rm -f libstorage-register.a ar cru libstorage-register.a mail-storage-register.o ranlib libstorage-register.a make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. Making all in auth /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth -export-dynamic auth-module.o db-ldap.o db-pgsql.o db-passwd-file.o login-connection.o main.o master-connection.o md5crypt.o mech.o mech-cyrus-sasl2.o mech-plain.o mech-digest-md5.o mycrypt.o passdb.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-pgsql.o password-scheme.o userdb.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-pgsql.o ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib/liblib.a -lpam -L/usr/vpopmail/lib -lvpopmail -ldl gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth-module.o db-ldap.o db-pgsql.o db-passwd-file.o login-connection.o main.o master-connection.o md5crypt.o mech.o mech-cyrus-sasl2.o mech-plain.o mech-digest-md5.o mycrypt.o passdb.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-pgsql.o password-scheme.o userdb.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-pgsql.o ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib/liblib.a -lpam -L/usr/vpopmail/lib -lvpopmail -ldl ld: Undefined symbols: ___udivdi3 ___umoddi3 restFP saveFP ___divdi3 make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 I am on Mac OS X 10.2.6 and the latest Dovecot release 0.99.9.1. Sincerely, Roger Cates

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[Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] current cvs can't login]
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

So, evolution 1.4 upgrade lost my reply-to-list defaulting. Was supposed to send this here..

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[Dovecot] a new bug
by Farkas Levente 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

hi, withe the latest cvs (and a few days ago) I've got a lot's of such process on the maiul server (and the number of such processes just growing:-(((). anyway the login problem disapear as I use dovecot as pam module name (both for impa and pop3). ------------------------------------------ root 18923 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18925 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18939 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18942 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18943 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18945 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18947 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18950 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login dovecot 18953 0.3 0.1 3424 1488 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18954 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] ------------------------------------------ -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] a new bug
by Farkas Levente 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

hi, withe the latest cvs (and a few days ago) I've got a lot's of such process on the maiul server (and the number of such processes just growing:-(((). anyway the login problem disapear as I use dovecot as pam module name (both for impa and pop3). ------------------------------------------ root 18923 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18925 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18939 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18942 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18943 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18945 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] root 18947 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] dovecot 18950 0.0 0.1 3420 1492 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login dovecot 18953 0.3 0.1 3424 1488 ? S 17:35 0:00 imap-login root 18954 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:35 0:00 [dovecot-auth <defunct>] ------------------------------------------ -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-rc3
by Timo Sirainen 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Fixed all the reported bugs. Changed PAM service to "dovecot". Anything left? http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/rc/

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[Dovecot] current cvs can't login
by Farkas Levente 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

hi, the current cvs don't allow to login with mozilla just such messages: imap-login: Jun 25 01:29:30 Info: Aborted login [192.168.0.50] imap-login: Jun 25 01:29:39 Info: Aborted login [192.168.0.50] even the today afternoon messages was correct (or at least able to login to the imap). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] Bug? Folder tree confusion
by Dominic Marks 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Can anyone else confirm this behaviour: o Open an IMAP mailbox o Make a new folder (foo/) o Make another new folder under foo (foo/bar) o Delete foo o Bar will go away and foo will remain (Outlook bug ?) o Try and delete foo, you won't be able to because Dovecot thinks foo is not empty and Outlook thinks it is. This is using Dovecot 0.99.10-rc2 and MS Outlook 2000. Don't know if a bug lies within here somewhere (not nessarily in Dovecot), just something I noticed while playing around. Thanks, -- Dominic <dom at cus.org.uk> <dominic.marks at npl.co.uk>

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