[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 on a Mandriva 2007 box
I installed the RPM, and fought with it for days before realizing the packaged config file is incorrect. So I downloaded the latest tarball and used the sample dovecot.conf file. I was finally able to get dovecot to run as long as I leave the mail_location line commented out. If I uncomment the line dovecot complains that "mail_location" is an "unknown setting". What am I missing?
Thanks, JB
On 1/30/07, Charles Marcus <CMarcus@media-brokers.com> wrote:
Dovecot configuration file
protocols = pop3 pop3s listen = *
#mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
#mail_debug = no
protocol pop3 {
Login executable location.
login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
POP3 executable location. See IMAP's mail_executable above for examples
how this could be changed.
mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is
mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files
from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header.
#pop3_no_flag_updates = no
Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been
removed
from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this
makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages.
#pop3_enable_last = no
If mail has X-UIDL header, use it as the mail's UIDL.
#pop3_reuse_xuidl = no
Keep the mailbox locked for the entire POP3 session.
#pop3_lock_session = no
POP3 UIDL (unique mail identifier) format to use. You can use following
variables:
%v - Mailbox's IMAP UIDVALIDITY
%u - Mail's IMAP UID
%m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only)
%f - filename (maildir only)
If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use:
UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu
Courier version 0 : %f
Courier version 1 : %u
Courier version 2 : %v-%u
Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u
Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u
Older Dovecots : %v.%u
tpop3d : %Mf
Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which
was
Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good
idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe.
NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old
default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing
installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new
installations.
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu
POP3 logout format string:
%t - number of TOP commands
%p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command
%r - number of RETR commands
%b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command
%d - number of deleted messages
%m - number of messages (before deletion)
%s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion)
#pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space
separated
list of plugins to load.
#mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
Workarounds for various client bugs:
outlook-no-nuls:
Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters.
This setting replaces them with 0x80 character.
oe-ns-eoh:
Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is
missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing.
The list is space-separated.
#pop3_client_workarounds = }
auth default {
Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi
mechanisms = plain login passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } }
Well, I solved my own problem. It turns out that the RPM that comes with Mandriva 2007 is for 1.0rc07, which uses the old format instead of "mail_location".
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: hackhound <hackhound@gmail.com> Date: Jan 30, 2007 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 on a Mandriva 2007 box To: dovecot@dovecot.org
On 1/30/07, Charles Marcus <CMarcus@media-brokers.com> wrote:
Dovecot configuration file
protocols = pop3 pop3s listen = *
#mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
#mail_debug = no
protocol pop3 {
Login executable location.
login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
POP3 executable location. See IMAP's mail_executable above for examples
how this could be changed.
mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is
mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files
from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header.
#pop3_no_flag_updates = no
Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been
removed
from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this
makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages.
#pop3_enable_last = no
If mail has X-UIDL header, use it as the mail's UIDL.
#pop3_reuse_xuidl = no
Keep the mailbox locked for the entire POP3 session.
#pop3_lock_session = no
POP3 UIDL (unique mail identifier) format to use. You can use following
variables:
%v - Mailbox's IMAP UIDVALIDITY
%u - Mail's IMAP UID
%m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only)
%f - filename (maildir only)
If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use:
UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu
Courier version 0 : %f
Courier version 1 : %u
Courier version 2 : %v-%u
Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u
Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u
Older Dovecots : %v.%u
tpop3d : %Mf
Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which
was
Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good
idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe.
NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old
default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing
installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new
installations.
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu
POP3 logout format string:
%t - number of TOP commands
%p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command
%r - number of RETR commands
%b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command
%d - number of deleted messages
%m - number of messages (before deletion)
%s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion)
#pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space
separated
list of plugins to load.
#mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
Workarounds for various client bugs:
outlook-no-nuls:
Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters.
This setting replaces them with 0x80 character.
oe-ns-eoh:
Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is
missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing.
The list is space-separated.
#pop3_client_workarounds = }
auth default {
Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi
mechanisms = plain login passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } }
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