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[Dovecot] dovecot only answers to imap connections
by Mitch Pirtle 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hey list, Finally got up and running, and now am trying to figure out why dovecot would only accept imap connections - I have people that are happy with pop, but they can only authenticate when they use imap. Is there a conf setting for this somewhere that I am missing? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test54
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixing crashes and other index problems with test53.

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[Dovecot] Entourage on Dovecot 09.11, is 1.0-test the answer?
by Michael Maggard 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Background: I'm running a RH9 box with Dovecot 0.99.11. Dovecot was installed using yum and the rpm found on http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/. With two exceptions I've been enormously happy with Dovecot. I'm even happier having recently successfully installed pop-before-smtp sop one exception down. However the other problem I've experienced is becoming critical. I've an ongoing issue with MS Entourage clients, a MS for Mac product, unable to authenticate to Dovecot. This had been attributed to MacOS 9/MS Entourage 2001 but with new systems in place I'm having the same issue with MacOS X/MS Entourage 2004 being unable to authenticate to Dovecot. MS acknowledges the issue in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/871016 with the errata: > 5 Known issues > 5.1 NTLM v1 authentication support > Entourage no longer supports NTLM v1 authentication. Entourage does support NTLM v2. Where I am now: There has been previous references to an Entourage authentication issue on the mailing list but it was resolved by "after I tried everything else with no success, upgrading from Dovecot 0.99.10.2 to 0.99.10.4 solved the problem." Well, I'm at 0.99.11 so apparently this is back, or something else is going on. >From several hours going over the mailing list it appears that Dovecot 1.0-test is the solution with it's extended NTLM support. However I'm not a very sophisticated sysadmin and so it was with trepidation I downloaded dovecot-1.0-test52 and started following the instructions. After a quick "yum install openssl-development" I thought I was good to go but alas "./configure --with-ssl=openssl" resulted in: > ./configure: line 26374: pkg-config: command not found > checking for SSL_read in -lssl... yes > checking openssl/ssl.h usability... no > checking openssl/ssl.h presence... no > checking for openssl/ssl.h... no > checking openssl/err.h usability... yes > checking openssl/err.h presence... yes > checking for openssl/err.h... Yes and make failed with a cascade of errors after: > In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, > from ssl-proxy-openssl.c:14: > /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory Why I'm posting: So, hoping I've given enough detail to be useful, here are my questions: * Am I correct that MS Entourage 2004 can't authenticate with Dovecot .99.11? Are there folks it does work for (how)? * Am I correct that Dovecot-1.0-test has support for NTLMv2 and would thus authenticate MS Entourage 2004? * Does anyone have a prebuilt (yum suitable) rpm of a recent Dovecot 1.0-test for RH9? Dag appears to only carry released versions, is there a source for -test ones? * Is there something trivial I'm overlooking in trying to build dovecot-1.0-test52? I'm assuming I'm missing /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h, is this correct? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I was pushing my skillset getting pop-before-smtp working. While I'm good at following directions and learning from them I'm just that; learning. -- Michael <michael(a)michaelmaggard.com>

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53, sig11 when sorting by thread
by Nicolas.Kowalski＠imag.fr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello. When trying to sort a folder by thread (with pine4.61), I get a sig11. The mailstore is Maildir, indexes stored in /var/indexes/%u. The syslog on the server shows this: Nov 29 11:37:55 olan dovecot: IMAP(kowalski): Corrupted index cache file /var/indexes/kowalski/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file Nov 29 11:37:56 olan dovecot: child 14344 (imap) killed with signal 11 A backtrace of the core is attached. Thanks. PS: I tried with mbox mailstore, and got the same sig11. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] test53 and signal 11 errors
by Sean Porter 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

I installed test53 tonight, and I've begun to see the following error in my maillog every time I attempt to retrieve mail from an imap client: dovecot: child 46128 (imap) killed with signal 11 I built from source on FreeBSD 4.9 with the following: ./configure --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl A little bit of Googling seems to indicate that this is a hardware issue(http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/), but I've not had this error under any other circumstances. What other information would be helpful to sort this out?

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53
by Timo Sirainen 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Sorry for not answering any questions for past two weeks, I'll try to get around answering them in next few days. I've also been thinking about if I should switch from CVS to Darcs. It seems to be exactly the kind of reversion control tool I had wanted to use. Anyone have comments for or against it? I'd still have read-only CVS repository generated from it, although I couldn't yet find a way to do it. Anyway, test53: - Recent flag counters should finally be correct - dovecot-shared file actually works correctly now - Cache file works with mmap_disable = yes (still some small issues though) - Lots of internal changes in indexing code, especially for mmap_disable = yes - DIGEST-MD5 authentication works again - etc. It's been running with me for 45mins without breaking. Guess it should work. :)

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AW: Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap whe n nonetwork
by valo＠valo.at 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> This script is what I use -- note that you need to have it on the > server, and then call ssh to execute that script (on the server) > immediately. > #!/bin/sh > # arch-tag: dbfe44f6-0d80-40c4-948a-bac05a804bf5 > > export MAIL=/home/johannes/Maildir > export MAILBOX_CHECK_INTERVAL=60 > exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap Hi. IIRC you should exec dovecot as a whole, to use it properly. Also edit your dovecot.conf to only serve imap. christian

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[Dovecot] Orientation and configuration help
by J Moore 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

This sounds to me like a "RTFM" question, but I've read the Wiki, and looked through the m.l. archives as far back as July... I still don't have a clear answer, so I'm posting here :/ I'm currently using mutt as my mail client. It runs on the same host that runs the sendmail MTA for my domain. So sendmail "delivers" my mail to /var/mail/<username>, and I read it from that location w/ mutt, transferring the "new" mail to a folder in my home directory if I want to save it (/home/<username>/Mail/<foldername>). This arrangement has been convenient, useful and reasonably secure (I think): I can check mail from anywhere via SSH, and I don't have to worry about downloading virus-laden spam/shit to my Windoze (corporate) laptop. Now, I want to change; I want to use dovecot to provide IMAP access to my mail. I'd like to do this in such a way that I can still access mail using mutt when I want/need to do so. I've installed dovecot, and reviewed /etc/dovecot.conf. I think I need to do the following to get underway: 1) create a directory for Maildir-formatted folders: mkdir /home/<username>/Maildir 2) start the dovecot daemon Is that it? Will dovecot "take over" from mutt, and put mail in my home directory? Or do I need to configure sendmail to deliver to dovecot? Also, there are other users/email accounts on the mail server that I would like to leave "as-is". Over time, I may want to migrate them to dovecot as well, but I'm reluctant to switch everything over until I've had a chance to evaluate it. Should I run dovecot as a "rootless" installation to get it for a single user, or should I just set my single UID in dovecot.conf? Thanks, Jay

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[Dovecot] Which is the imap root directory? Conflicting documentation...
by Tom 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

So, which is the imap root directory? I am getting conflicting definitions from the documentation (copied below)... ------------------------ mbox storage requires detecting INBOX location and IMAP root directory. If MAIL environment points to file (+rw) it's treated as the INBOX file. If it points to directory (+rwx) which contains .imap/ (+rwx), inbox (+rw) or mbox (+rw) it's treated as IMAP root directory. If INBOX isn't known, imap_root/inbox file is used by default. If root directory isn't known, we try to find it from /, ~/mail or ~/Mail. Files created by Dovecot ------------------------ .subscriptions: One folder per line listing subscribed IMAP folders. There's only one of these files in the root mail directory (~/Maildir/ or ~/mail/.imap/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ My .subscription file is located in ~/mail/ but the documentation states only one should be in ~/mail/.imap/ !!!! Thanks, OOOrah

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[Dovecot] problem setting up dovecot server
by Tanim Islam 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi all: I have a problem running my dovecot server. I get the following error message when trying to get mail from my account with INBOX in /var/spool/mail/tanim (username tanim). Nov 22 19:23:00 phobos imap(tanim): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/tanim: Permission denied What permissions should I set for the mailbox? I am running dovecot-0.99.11-1.1. Tanim -- Astronomy 109, Department of Astronomy P. O. Box 3818, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903

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