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[Dovecot] Problems reading mbox
by James Brown 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

I'm having problems getting dovecot to read my mbox file. I have turned on mail_debug. Log says: Jul 28 11:03:20 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jlbrown>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.10, lip=192.168.1.9 Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): Effective uid=501, gid=501 Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mbox: data=/ Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/ jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/:INDEX=/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/ Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/mbox.index Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/ Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/inbox Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mbox: root=/ Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/ jlbrown/INBOX.mbox, index=/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/ Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/mbox.index, inbox=/ Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/ jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/inbox Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): mkdir_parents(/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/ Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/mbox.index/.imap/INBOX) failed: Not a directory Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2006-07-28 11:03:36] Jul 28 11:03:36 Bordo-Mail-Server dovecot: POP3(jlbrown): No INBOX for user top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 In dovecot.conf my mailbox location is: default_mail_env = mbox:/Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/ Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/%u/INBOX.mbox/:INDEX=/Applications/ 4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/Mailboxes/%u/INBOX.mbox/ mbox.index Contents of Applications/4DWebSTAR/MailboxServer/Mail_DefaultSite/ Mailboxes/jlbrown/INBOX.mbox/ are: inbox (created by dovecot) mbox mbox.index mbox.info Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] updated ubuntu packages
by Jeff Kowalczyk 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

I'd like to deploy an ubuntu-6.06 server running dovecot-1.0rc2 and postfix-2.3.0. Unfortunately, their dovecot packaging has not been recently updated: dovecot-common-1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.2 dovecot-imapd-1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.2 dovecot-pop3d-1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.2 postfix-2.2.10-1ubuntu0.1 I have 'universe' enabled. Does anyone know of an alternate repository for bleeding-edge dovecot and postfix packages? As a debian/ubuntu newbie, I don't expect that rolling my own properly secure package is practical or advisable at this early stage. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] dovecot vs gnu-mailtools?
by Mike 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

I'm about to implement dovecot and got to thinking about gnu/mailtools. What are the advantages of dovecot over gnu/mailtools? Does gnu/mailtools support maildir? Mike

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[Dovecot] Problem copying Dovecot 0.99 - Dovecot 1.0rc2 IMAP messages
by Stephan Holl 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Dear List, I have a problem copying lots of IMAP-messages from one server running Dovecot 0.99 over to my new server running dovecot 1.0rc2. It is damn slow and after a minute only 1 or 2 messages are copied. I tried with thunderbird and sylpheed-claws as email client. I guess it has something to do with the connections which terminates after each copy?! Perhaps someone has a clue? My new config: mbox-storage grep -v "#" /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf |tr -s "\n" protocols = imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_greeting = Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { args = session=yes dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { } Thanks for any tips. Cheers Stephan -- Stephan Holl stephan(a)holl-land.de http://www.holl-land.de/blog

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[Dovecot] LDA sieve logging
by Luca Corti 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hello, using the cmusieve plugin with the postfix + dovecot-lda. Filtering works, and dovecot logs, but for sieve filtering I see no message in the syslog about performed actions. How do I set this? thanks

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[Dovecot] dovecot-smtp connection?
by J Moore 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

This may be a dumb question, but I'll ask because... :) I've got dovecot installed and running successfully on OpenBSD 3.9 (this *really* was an easy setup, my hat's off to the developer(s)). And the other employees can now use MS Access to read their mail (they didn't like mutt and pine via SSH - go figger'). So my final challenge is to get things configured so that they can also *send* mail through the same host that dovecot is installed on. I *think* this has to be configured in sendmail, but I'm hoping that someone can confirm that before I start reading. Thanks, Jay

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[Dovecot] Corrupted Indexes - again...
by Joseph W. Breu 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

I am still getting these in my maillog: Jul 13 07:39:38 pop5.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 09:35:03 pop5.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 11:48:40 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 12:05:36 pop1.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 12:07:45 pop1.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.log: end_offset (30280) > current sync_offset (30244) Jul 13 12:08:46 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 12:29:44 pop5.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Jul 13 14:06:18 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 14:16:42 pop4.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/.lists.dovecot/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 14:23:52 pop4.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/.work.cron/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted Jul 13 14:51:20 pop6.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/.lists.bugtraq/dovecot.index.cache: field header names corrupted -- Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] Problem starting the daemon...
by Hostmaster 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I have successfully run dovecot on three out of four of the servers I use. They all run Fedora Core 2 or 4. But when I installed dovecot on a Mandrake server I have using urpmi, I can't start dovecot there. I get: imap-login: Jul 25 07:36:22 Fatal: setuid(77) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable dovecot: Jul 25 07:36:22 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 25 07:36:22 Error: child 1829 (login) returned error 89 imap-login: Jul 25 07:36:22 Fatal: setuid(77) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Any help is appreciated... /s/ Harley Puthuff, Hostmaster "Master and Commander--the Far Side of the Internet" mailto:hostmaster@yourshowcase.com http://www.yourshowcase.com

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[Dovecot] IMAP issues?
by J Moore 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I've probably done something dumb, but a quick search on Google, etc has turned up nothing I recognized as useful. I just installed dovecot on an OpenBSD 3.9 box. It is working fine with secure POP3 (after changing the config file to "mbox_write_locks = fcntl"). I also selected secure IMAP as a protocol, but it is proving to be more resistant to working. I am trying to connect to dovecot using Outlook as a client (sigh). Outlook's error messages are to the effect that it is unable to connect to the server. Looking in /var/log/maillog indicates that a connection was not even attempted! I've configured the client to use SSL (port 993), and tried diddling with some of the other parameters to no avail. I also tried to connect using the Thunderbird IMAP client with similar results. I've obviously missed something in my dovecot setup, but just don't see it... can anyone offer a clue? Thnx, Jay

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[Dovecot] Permissions issue in OpenBSD
by J Moore 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I jumped right in and followed the "Quick Configuration" guide after installing dovecot (dovecot-1.0.beta3.tgz) on my OpenBSD 3.9 box. I had previously been using akpop3d (which worked, but was flaky). I am getting the following errors in /var/log/maillog: Jul 23 22:40:29 kingcull dovecot: pop3(jm): open(/var/mail/.temp.myserver.mymail.com.19038.10090e2f3cc51a4b) failed: Permission denied Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3(jm): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/jm: Permission denied Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3(jm): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 Jul 23 22:40:29 myserver dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jm>, method=PLAIN, rip=67.33.58.194, lip=67.33.58.195, TLS Could someone offer a clue as to what is needed to fix this? Thanx, Jay

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