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I am setting up a new mail server using imap only on Scientific Linux 6.5 and dovecot 2.0.9. How do I fix this problem? I keep getting these errors regardless of permissions ... even up to 777. Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm: /var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir, euid is not dir owner) Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/e...

...to work with database authentication on new Scientific Linux 6.5 server with Sendmail 8.14.4 & Dovecot 2.0.9 Apparently I have to also create system users because sendmail/procmail/dovecot want to check directory ownership. So I created a database, made entry for the user, created the user chayes on the system. But %u always contains just chayes instead of chayes at domain.tld even though I tried different select statements to put the entire username in the username field. This causes the following errors: Oct 16 00:10:26 avalon sendmail[2536]: s9G5APo9002535: forward /var/spool/mail/...

...accounts I will be moving to the new box. I've already tried and failed once. The problem is, Dovecot wants a home directory for each one. We don't use home directories. So, when I try to pop one of the accounts that was moved over, /var/log/maillog shows: Nov 1 14:33:47 sendmail pop3(chayes): mkdir_parents(/home/chayes/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied Nov 1 14:33:47 sendmail pop3(chayes): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-11-01 14:33:47] -or- Nov 1 14:29:18 sendmail pop3(chayes): mbox: Can't create roo...

...3. I'd like to also simplify the mail_location to get rid of index errors since I don't need indexes: mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%n But when I applied the new mail_location I began to get the following five errors: Nov 6 23:17:24 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Warning: UIDVALIDITY changed (1132434125 -> 1205169149) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/chayes Nov 6 23:17:26 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Nov 6 23:17:26 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot...

...3. I'd like to also simplify the mail_location to get rid of index errors since I don't need indexes: mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%n But when I applied the new mail_location I began to get the following five errors: Nov 6 23:17:24 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Warning: UIDVALIDITY changed (1132434125 -> 1205169149) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/chayes Nov 6 23:17:26 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Nov 6 23:17:26 sendmail dovecot: pop3(chayes): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot...

Hello Dovecot, Do to a misconfiguration, I have a bunch of users who do not have the standard folders. I can create a routine to cycle through the users and look for the folders and run a command if there is one. Is there a way to create the proper namespace for a user after the user has already been created? Thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Nevermind. I figured it out. I left off the INDEX command. Sorry to spam the mail list :( Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches: mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net at dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Cliff Hayes Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 4:02 PM To: dovecot at dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Hello, I just installed Fedora 11 with Dovecot 1.2.6 and a...

Hello, I have not been using the home directory but I read in MailLocation.txt that I probably should. Does dovecot create each directory? What does it put in there? My server uses mbox format. My users all look like this: [root at sendmail log]# finger chayes Login: chayes Name: 50387.00 Directory: /home/chayes Shell: /sbin/nologin Never logged in. Mail last read Mon Nov 16 19:56 2009 (CST) No Plan. So each user does have a home directory assigned, but it is never created. Here is my current mail_location: m...

Hello all, I have 1.0 Alpha 4. Is it better to shut down sendmail, uninstall dovecot 1.0a4 then install 1.0a5, or just install 1.0a5 over the top of 1.0a4? Thanks, Cliff

Cliff Hayes <chayes at afo.net> writes: > I recently had a user whose mailbox had gone out of sync. > Webmail and client inbox totals had become vastly different and response > times had become unacceptable. > A doveadm force-resync fixed the problem nicely. > > This will no doubt happen again...

...not resynced) and noticed that dovecot.index last update was 16 days ago. So am I resyncing if the gap is over x days? If so, is there a way to resync just those mailboxes with a doveadm command or do I have to write a program look for that condition and run doveadm when matched? Cliff Hayes <chayes at afo.net> writes: > I recently had a user whose mailbox had gone out of sync. > Webmail and client inbox totals had become vastly different and response > times had become unacceptable. > A doveadm force-resync fixed the problem nicely. > > This will no doubt happen...

> On 09/03/2020 19:22 chayes at afo.net wrote: > > > Hello Dovecot, > Do to a misconfiguration, I have a bunch of users who do not have the standard folders. > I can create a routine to cycle through the users and look for the folders and run a command if there is one. > Is there a way to create the prope...

...doveadm mailbox subscribe -u $username Junk doveadm mailbox create -u $username -s Sent doveadm mailbox subscribe -u $username Sent doveadm mailbox create -u $username -s Trash doveadm mailbox subscribe -u $username Trash From: dovecot <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org> On Behalf Of chayes at afo.net Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 12:22 PM To: dovecot at dovecot.org Subject: how to create Drafts, Junk, Sent, Trash folders after user already created Hello Dovecot, Do to a misconfiguration, I have a bunch of users who do not have the standard folders. I can create a routine to cyc...

This works great for keeping the Trash from overflowing ... doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash before 30d ... but it doesn't delete folders that the user put in the trash. What is the recommended method for erasing folders from the trash? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

...ods: disable_plaintext_auth = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv and it seems to work. Now...about those enhanced logging capabilities. As promised, I see the enhanced logging. What does TOP and RETR mean? (I checked the manual first) Cliff -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Hayes [mailto:chayes at afo.net] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:05 PM To: Chris Wakelin Subject: RE: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events Logs say (with enhanced debugging turned on): Nov 3 12:58:38 sendmail dovecot: pop3-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled -----Original Message----- From: do...

Hello all, I am running Dovecot v1alpha4 on Fedora 4 from the command line (as opposed to deamon). Is there a recommended way to shut it down gracefully? Or do I just use killall -9 dovecot? I'm not using the included version, so I can't do SERVICE DOVECOT STOP. Thanks, Cliff

Does dovecot have any dictionary attack defenses yet? In the past I have had to implement defense from outside dovecot, but since dovecot is at the front lines and therefore is the first to know I'm hoping by now there is something we can set. For example, a limit on access failures per minut/hour/day or some such. If not why not?

Hello all, I have a new installation of Fedora 4 and Dovecot 1.4.Alpha4 A small percentage of my users are getting unable to pop mail from a client (ie: Outlook), they get continually prompted for username/password. The error they get is: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file. When I look in the file, I don't see anything unusual. There's not much info on the Internet about this

Hello list, I recently had a user whose mailbox had gone out of sync. Webmail and client inbox totals had become vastly different and response times had become unacceptable. A doveadm force-resync fixed the problem nicely. This will no doubt happen again as we grow the service and I would like to have some type of indication at the server level so I can run a resync on a per-user basis as

I have a smoothly running dovecot 2.3.7.2 & sendmail IMAP with SSL combo on Fedora 30. However, I see oodles of these when ssl verbosity is turned up: lmtp(25738): Debug: SSL_get_servername() failed Should I be concerned or is there a setting that stops that? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: