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[Dovecot] Assertion Failure
by Todd Burroughs 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Here's an assertion failure that just happened. Unfortunately, I don't have a core file so this may be useless... This is with CVS version from 2005-11-03. It looks like he expunges all of his mail. dovecot: Nov 21 17:37:20 Error: 13261 imap(username): mbox sync: Expunged message reappeared in mailbox /mailhome/new/b/n/username/mbox (UID 1008 < 1606, seq=816, idx_msgs=1238) dovecot: Nov 21 17:37:23 Error: 13261 imap(username): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 129 (mail_index_buffer_convert_to_uids): assertion failed: (*seq != 0) dovecot: Nov 21 17:37:24 Error: child 13261 (imap) killed with signal 6

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[Dovecot] What's the best way to do this?
by Michael Segel 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi, Got a situation where I have a couple of mailing list subscriptions as well as system generated e-mails from my clients' computers sending me warning messages. (Along with my normal load of personal e-mail). Does it make sense to set up virtual mailboxes (maildirs) one for each mailing list or group? Then using an IMAP client to subscribed only to the lists that I *want* to read? My biggest problem is that I have a blackberry and I don't want to get interrupted for non-critical e-mail. Or is there a better solution? TIA! -Mikey -- Michael Segel Principal MSCC 312 952- 8175 [M]

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[Dovecot] How to add the footer to multipart emails
by Magnus Holmgren 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I recently lerned that Mailman adds its footer to MIME multipart messages by putting the original message in the first part of a new multipart/mixed entity and the footer in the second part, with Content-Disposition: inline. It works well in Thunderbird at least, i.e. the footer is visible; the glitch is that the footer shows up as an attachment as well, as does my PGP/MIME signature. Would this be something for EoC to adopt? It would allow non-ASCII characters as well (but not in text/plain messages). -- Magnus Holmgren Linköping, Sweden

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Re: [Dovecot] messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Help!
by Rob Frohne 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi Everyone, I found that I could "fix" the problem by moving all my messages from Maildir/cur/ to a temporary location and then try and load the inbox using Thunderbird which then saw no messages, and then moving them all back into Maildir/cur/ and then Thunderbird loaded them fine. I have had this funny business with messages_count to large happen twice tonight now. Both times after I deleted dovecot* in the Maildir/ folder. Hope this helps someone else if they end up with the same issue, or perhaps it might help Timo figure out what is happening. Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro

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[Dovecot] Big THANKYOU to Dovecot development team
by Will Blake 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Time for a positive message. As a (very) part time administrator of a small network running on an ecclectic bunch of machines I'd like to thank the dovecot team for developing such an easy to use and faultlessly functional product. Having been forced into finally replacing my UW IMAP server, I'm glad to have hit on Dovecot after struggling with mailbox transfer issues with cyrus and almost tearing my hair out. On my Fedora4 server, Dovecot was running withing a minute and reading all my folders in five further minutes, thanks Guys, Will.

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[Dovecot] I'm a Fool
by Mark Smith 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hey All, Having issues with 2 Accounts who can't receive mail but can send mail and read it sucessfully by internal or external email accounts. Any ideas what to do? Commands, Tricks, Tips, Permissions, Files etc etc? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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[Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes, Per User SEEN flag and Mailing lists
by Reikan - Sidney Ferreira 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hi! Im making a small research about IMAP servers and it's features. As the subject suggests, I want make a shared mailbox, with per user \seen flag to work like a mailin-list works. The reason to use 1 shared folder is simple: Imagine 12k users sending 1KB messages each week, it will be 12+ MB of useless information. Many people told me that IMAP could do this, but now seem that it is a little harder then what they made it look like. Finally, some EXIM users told me that Dovecot could handle it a little better than Courier, so, Im here to try to find more information about it. Follows the mail that I received from an EXIM user. Sidney Bill Hacker wrote: > Reikan - Sidney Ferreira wrote: > >> Does Exim works as IMAP? >> Does it allow public folders? >> The SEEN control is made by USER or MESSAGE? >> >> > > Exim is an MTA, not an IMAP (or POP) server. > > It works well with most, perhaps all, POP and IMAP servers. > > Two widely-used IMAP partners are courier-IMAP and Dovecot. > Both of these support POP as well as IMAP. > There are several others known to work. > > Folder sharing can be complex. IMAP is more appropriate than POP, even > if other users are on POP. > > Exim can use Maildir MBox, and other storage types, can use several at > once, can select the storage location, storage type, UID, GID, and > privilege mask from hard-coded, flat-file, db or RDBMS lookup, and can > create the storage if it does not already exist. > > All/any of the above can be done on a per-user, per-domain or per-sender > basis, and/or on combinations of the above. > > The rest is up to the IMAP and client configuration(s). > > Dovecot can handle Maildir, MBox and other. Courier-IMAP is optimized > for Maildirs. > > Message state assignments are the responsibility of the retrieval agent > (IMAP/POP + MUA). > The MTA is not involved once the message has been delivered to storage > 9or distant server). > > As an MTA may process multiple valid messages per valid connection, not > all for the same valid user, or even same destination server, Exim does > routing and delivery in an area that is essentially per-user OR > per-destination sensitive, but always per-message relevant, i.e. - > normally handled one at a time at the 'decision making' points. > > HTH, > > Bill Hacker

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[Dovecot] Upgrading from 0.99 to 1.0alpha
by Jim Trigg 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Since FreeBSD has decided to drop Dovecot 0.99 and only provide a port for 1.0alpha4, what are the considerations for upgrading from 0.99.14 to 1.0a4? Thanks, Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator, X HELP CURE HTML MAIL All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \

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RE: [Dovecot] I'm a Fool
by Mark Smith 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

I think it uses MTAto mbox how can I check this to confirm? If it's not a Dovecot issue is it an issue with Postfix? Regards, >From: "Ted Strzalkowski" <tedski(a)tedski.net> >To: "'Mark Smith'" <funkiedudeuk(a)msn.com> >Subject: RE: [Dovecot] I'm a Fool >Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:15:21 -0800 > >Is the mail being delivered by the MTA or LDA to the mbox or maildir file? >If so, its not a Dovecot issue, unless you are using Dovecot LDA. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Smith [mailto:funkiedudeuk@msn.com] > > Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 3:10 PM > > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > Subject: RE: [Dovecot] I'm a Fool > > > > Not really much to go on. I'm using Debian's apt-get version. > > No Error > > message is received. The two account names are hostmaster and abuse i > > removed the forwarding in /etc/aliases but still didn't work. > > > > Regards, > > > > > > >From: "Ted Strzalkowski" <tedski(a)tedski.net> > > >To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > > >Subject: RE: [Dovecot] I'm a Fool > > >Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:46:10 -0800 > > > > > > > > >Dovecot has nothing to to with sending mail. Therefore, > > your question has > > >no background information as to what's going on. You should > > give us some > > >amplifying information such as what version Dovecot you are > > using, a brief > > >synopsis of how the problem is encountered and what (if any) > > error messages > > >are returned. Also, some relevant information from the > > maillog and/or the > > >conf files would be helpful. > > > > > >TedSki > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Mark Smith [mailto:funkiedudeuk@msn.com] > > > > Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 2:34 PM > > > > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > > > Subject: [Dovecot] I'm a Fool > > > > > > > > Hey All, > > > > Having issues with 2 Accounts who can't receive mail but can > > > > send mail and > > > > read it sucessfully by internal or external email accounts. > > > > > > > > Any ideas what to do? > > > > Commands, Tricks, Tips, Permissions, Files etc etc? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free > > > > newsletters! > > > > http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. > > http://messenger.msn.co.uk > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. http://messenger.msn.co.uk

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[Dovecot] Sorting messages by date
by Stephen Allen 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

I've recovered a load of messages from a different mail server without it's index file (it was corrupted). I now have thousands of messages which display in Outlook Express (yes, you may puke at this), all as today's date. However when I read them in Pine, the date of each message is displayed correctly, but they're in no particular order whatsoever. There are several questions here, some of which aren't suitable for this list, but for completeness... 1. Does Dovecot store what it thinks is the date the message arrived, in it's index file? 2. Can I fake Dovecot into thinking the messages arrived on a different date by including something in the message headers, or changing the date/time stamp of each file (but I don't know how to do this)? 3. Pine correctly picks out a date from the message (although it doesn't sort by this order), and Outlook Express just displays everything as the date which it (or Dovecot) first saw the message. Does Outlook rely on Dovecot's sorting/date information or does it do it's own? Many thanks, Steve :)

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