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Starting at 05:32 this morning, one user on my dovecot server is receiving hundreds of copies of old email. This is a short excerpt from my dovecot.log showing the problem: > dovecot: Nov 03 05:27:02 Info: pop3-login: Login: > user=<howard at obfusca.ted>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:81.44.31.210, > lip=::ffff:zz.zz.zz.zz, TLS > dovecot: Nov 03 05:27:02 Info: POP3(howard at

...hen it attempts to find the virtual user, which it then successfully authenticates in the passwd-file. Is there a way to prevent PAM from loggin this spurious error and having dovecot log an authentication failure only if BOTH methods fail? -- Jim Garrison (jhg at acm.org) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88

...f the Wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxLocking?action=show&redirect=MboxSoftwareLocks Does the description of Dovecot mbox locking still apply to current versions? If yes, it should be linked from the "Troubleshooting" page. -- Jim Garrison (jhg at acm.org) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88

...ess a share on the Samba server. The Windows service is set to run as "LocalSystem" instead of a specific userID. What userID do I need to define on the Samba server to allow "LocalSystem" to access files on a Samba share? -- Jim Garrison (jhg@acm.org) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88

> [jhg at helios RPMS]$ rpm -q dovecot > dovecot-1.0-1_42.rc21.fc5.at but: > dovecot: Feb 05 10:49:21 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc19 starting up

The following is occurring consistently on users in only one vhost domain. Other vhost domains are not having the problem. The email client in use is the same (in both the working and non-working domains). dovecot: Jan 29 21:19:18 Error: POP3(user1 at mydomain.tld): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user1 (5629 > 5423, seq=2, idx_msgs=5) dovecot:

After upgrading a working system from FC5's beta8 to rc21, one vhost is failing with: > dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Error: POP3(user at mydomain.com): > open(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.com/david/user, O_CREAT) failed: Not a > directory > dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Error: POP3(user at mydomain.com): > mkdir_parents(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.com/user/.imap/INBOX) failed: > Not a