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[dovecot] observations/qestions of mbox concurrency ability (Yay!) on current CVS
by Ian R. Justman 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

Hi, all. Just been testing out the latest "CVS" (in quotes because I'm rsyncing the source tree) versions of Dovecot lately. Tested having Pine on the machine on which Dovecot was running, talking IMAP, as well as another Pine instance, this time from my Windows machine over the wire. Things seem to be working wonderfully. Deleted a message using one instance, then refreshed the list on the other. *poof* Gone. Though I'm seeing periodic "IMAP protocol error" messages in Pine, but they don't seem to be affecting the software's operation that I can see. Anything in particular I should be on the lookout for? Otherwise, you just made my day. Correction; week. :D --Ian.

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[dovecot] Re: still problems gettin it to work
by Korbinian Riedhammer 19 Oct '02

19 Oct '02

well finally it was my own stupidness! i just forgot to set some correct permissions, now everythings fine! thx anyway korbinian

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[dovecot] Re: still problems gettin it to work
by Korbinian Riedhammer 19 Oct '02

19 Oct '02

yeah, the nasty error msgs are gone :) well next question. where looks the dovcot imapd for the mail dir? /var/mail or the homedir? 'cause i saved my Maildir in /home/user

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[dovecot] Re: still problems gettin it to work
by Korbinian Riedhammer 19 Oct '02

19 Oct '02

well i didn't know what to change, cause u wrote that this change u did is pretty useless rinning the prog as root, what i do. next thing that i dont have any idea about cvs (beside knowing its meaning) and dont hav it installed yet.

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[dovecot] still problems gettin it to work
by Korbinian Riedhammer 19 Oct '02

19 Oct '02

i checked all my options again. could it be, that it is a problem with my compiler? does dovecot support gcc3.2 with glibc 2.2.5? korbinian

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[dovecot] still problems getting it to work
by Korbinian Riedhammer 15 Oct '02

15 Oct '02

hi all, after havong some other trouble with my server i finally managed to recompile and install dovecot. installed it in /usr/local (the dafault). below u see a dump of my config file. i want to use "normal" shadow passwords for authentification. i adjustet the pathes from /usr/ to /usr/local/. when i login with outlook express 4 example i get the error: unsupported authentification method. (my system isn't configured for shadow md5). in the error log i get the the /dev/urandom is needed but not found, well but i have it :) maybe a chroot setting? thx bini imap_port = 143 #imaps_port = 993 imap_listen = #imaps_listen = #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/imapd.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/imapd.pem disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/imapd.log log_timestamp = %d %H:%M:%S login_executable = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user = imapd login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_processes_count = 1 max_logging_users = 256 imap_executable = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap max_imap_processes = 1024 first_valid_uid = 1000 #last_valid_uid = 0 first_valid_gid = 101 last_valid_gid = 101 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/run/dovecot maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_check_content_changes = no overwrite_incompatible_index = yes umask = 0077 auth = default auth_methods = plain #auth_realms = auth_userinfo = shadow auth_executable = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap-auth auth_user = root auth_chroot = /var/run/dovecot auth_count = 1 #auth = digest_md5 #auth_methods = digest-md5 #auth_realms = #auth_userinfo = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_user = imapauth #auth_chroot = /var/run/dovecot/auth

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[dovecot] More documentation
by Timo Sirainen 15 Oct '02

15 Oct '02

I just wrote a bit of documentation. Probably not very well organized, improvement suggestions welcome :) http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/doc/INSTALL http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/doc/configuration.txt http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/doc/mail-storages.txt Those are also in the main dovecot.procontrol.fi web page. They also talk about a few features not yet in CVS..

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[dovecot] replacing Courier imapd
by Sean Rima 12 Oct '02

12 Oct '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I currently use courier imapd, exim and ldap on my mail box. There are no users on this box, all info is taken from the ldap server. I note that dovecot does not use ldap as a backend, but curious if this in on the cards, or even mysql backend. Sean - -- Sean Rima http://www.tcob1.net Linux User: 231986 Jabber: tcobone(a)jabber.org THE VIEWS EXPRESSED HERE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF MY WIFE. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GPG for Secure Mail iD8DBQE9qEs4HMnSWn2nApQRAn22AJ4xdGWfpxAuY8dLDuHM/XUAXms0mwCfZJzk ZD8cTK98j7f7CGcu1OENJXI= =BS5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[dovecot] auth problem
by Korbinian Riedhammer 12 Oct '02

12 Oct '02

hi, im facing this problem: Fatal: can't listen in UNIX socket /var/rin/dovecot/login/ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login: No such file or directory Errror: child xxxxx (auth) returned error 98 any idea? - bini

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[dovecot] Benchmarks
by Timo Sirainen 10 Oct '02

10 Oct '02

Just tried Dovecot with 85k mails from Linux kernel mailing list, total of 357MB. I mostly wanted to see if the new binary tree file works well. And it does :) Nothing gets slowed down after deleting messages all around the mailbox. I tried several things with Dovecot, UW-IMAPd and Courier. You'll see that Dovecot is faster in everything else except raw I/O which is a bit strange, have to look why. I think the most important thing anyway is the time spent opening mailbox. Clients are doing "STATUS mailbox (UNSEEN)" very often and that has to be fast. With Dovecot it's so small that I didn't even bother adding it to the benchmarks, with UW-IMAPd it's 16 seconds, with courier 2 seconds. Full results can be found at http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/dovecot-benchmark.txt

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