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[dovecot] Re: questions
by Timo Sirainen 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:09, Farkas Levente wrote: > > I don't have much LDAP plans right now .. PAM would likely already have > > existing LDAP plugins, but you'd also have to keep the users in > > /etc/passwd then (without passwords). > why??? that's what I realy would like to avoid!!! is there any reason? PAM can only be used for checking if user/password matches, so it's missing the passwd information that Dovecot needs, at least home dir and uid. Although I had been thinking of making those some global settings in config file, so you could say homedir=/var/user/$USER$ uid=imapusers. > > I've been thinking about SQL database support from the beginning. > > However it'd probably be slower and require a bit more memory than with > > the current indexes. > > ohh? I assume a database should have to be faster, but this is just an > assumption... That's mostly because of a few tricks that Dovecot does with it's index files that aren't really possible with SQL databases. Multiuser mailboxes which are modified a lot are one thing where they could be faster than Dovecot's index files because of better locking. Besides, Dovecot's indexes could be called as a simple database..

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[dovecot] questions
by Farkas Levente 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

hi, I'm look around to find a usable imap server and find dovecot. I read all the docs, but I've got a few questions: - currently we use courier (since we find and install it quickly). can we switch from it to dovecot smoothly? or we have to convert the maildirs somehow? - I've got a few plan in my mind it it possible to do it with dovecot now or in the near future (if yes what is the estimated time)?: - authenticate from LDAP, the best would be trough PAM? - use the same user with different domain. eg: lfarkas(a)bnap.hu, lfarkas(a)bppiac.hu with the same imap server? handle more domains. - use imaps and use Digest-MD5 and/or CRAM-MD5? - put a database backend under imap and store the mails in a database. - use WITHOUT local users? it's very important! most case a user never ever log into the local system and I would not like to put them into /etc/password. - do it all the above at the same time!? thanks. -- Levente http://petition.eurolinux.org/ "The only thing worse than not knowing the truth is ruining the bliss of ignorance."

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[dovecot] Re: sick of me yet?
by Timo Sirainen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 01:37, Kyle Symonds wrote: > x login weasel(a)squeakyweasel.net ******** > x NO Authentication failed: Authentication process died Well, you should definitely see something about this in log files. Like: imap-auth: Dec 01 17:59:32 Warning: Killed with signal 11 And if it was killed with signal 11 or 6 you should also find core file in the directory where you started imap-master?

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[dovecot] Sieve
by hellhound＠geek.be 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi all, I'm using Dovecot for some months now, and I love it! I also saw that there are 'plans' to integrate Sieve support. Well, some days ago I saw the following on freshmeat: libSieve - http://libsieve.sourceforge.net/ libSieve is a standalone library pulled from CMU's implementation of their Sieve mail sorting library in the Cyrus mail server. Either shared or statically linked, libSieve will help to bring mail sorting functionality into your mail server application without the need to reinvent the wheel. As a library, it is not intended for end users expecting a ready-to-run program. Maybe this could ease the Sieve integration ? If I got some spare time I'm going to contribute some code for it myself. greets

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[dovecot] Re: compiling
by Timo Sirainen 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 22:54, Kyle Symonds wrote: > Just thought I'd pass this along. While trying to compile 0.99.4 the following happens: > > restrict-process-size.c: In function `restrict_process_size': > restrict-process-size.c:41: `RLIMIT_AS' undeclared (first use in this function) > restrict-process-size.c:41: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > restrict-process-size.c:41: for each function it appears in.) Thanks. I thought that would have been portable since it was in UNIX98. You could change that to RLIMIT_DATA and it should be somewhat equilevant. I'll change it in CVS so that it does both DATA and AS if it exists.

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[dovecot] 0.99.4 released
by Timo Sirainen 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

This fixes the last weird bugs that I know of. Now just a few more missing features and 1.0 should be there :) v0.99.4 2002-12-01 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> - Command parser had several bugs when it didn't have enough data to parse the full command in one call, ie. network lags etc. triggered those bugs sometimes. This was the last "weird bug" I know of. - Mbox indexes got broken when updating cached fields - Fixed a few memory leaks and unneededly high memory usage while caching envelopes - Fixes to searching from message body and header - --with-ssldir didn't do anything and the default was empty

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[dovecot] dovecot and pop3
by Paul C. Bryan 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Dear dovecotters: I'm becoming interested in dovecot as a replacement for UW-IMAPD. Any project that claims it's the "postfix of ____ servers" deserves a looksee. If indeed I were to going to switch at some point, I'd need to replace the UW POP3 server (which is a part of the UW package). I would prefer one that actually used the dovecot IMAP server instead of going to the filesystem directly. Question 1: Anyone know of such a POP3 daemon that connects to the IMAP server. Question 2: If the answer to Q1 is "no", would anyone be interested in such a package? Yours truly, Paul C. Bryan email(a)pbryan.net

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[dovecot] vpopmail - again
by Kyle Symonds 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

OK, dovecot compiles fine and starts up. I changed the auth_userinfo var to vpopmail, fired up imap-master and tried to login via webmail and my log spits out the following: imap-login: Nov 26 14:50:50 Error: Can't connect to imap-auth at auth: Connection Refused imap-login: Nov 26 14:50:51 Error: Can't connect to imap-auth at vpopmail: Connection Refused Any ideas? --Weasel weasel(a)squeakyweasel.net http://squeakyweasel.net

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[dovecot] rpm and srpm for dovecot
by seth vidal 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

hi, I put an rpm and srpm for dovecot on: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/~skvidal/RPMS/ They are made under rhl 7.3 - should build on 8.x I'd bet. I added an init script to start up imap-master I've done exactly ZERO testing on these and I'd welcome some feedback, thanks. -sv

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[dovecot] 0.99.3 released
by Timo Sirainen 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

OK, this one will be the final release for a while, I promise (or hope). Fixes mbox corruption when expunging mails from the middle of mailbox with mail_read_mmaped=no which is the default. This bug was already in 0.99.0 release. I had been using Dovecot like that for 5 days or so without noticing the bug.. Wonder if I lost any mails.

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