similar to: Bug#175509: dovecot: init.d script should add some syslog statements on startup/shutdown (fwd)

This bug was reported to Debian but I feel it is an upstream issue. On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Amelia A Lewis wrote: > If dovecot is misconfigured, such that imap-auth cannot find passwd.imap > (which probably needs to get copied; maybe need more docco in the config > file? This happens if the digest-md5 auth method is uncommented and the > auth_userinfo is set to passwd-file

I thought I'd mention it here because a lot of people have been waiting for me on this. My personal situation is getting saner now so I finally was able to package up 0.99.8.1. The package for sid was uploaded last night and should appear in the archive today. A backport for woody is available from http://www.braincells.com/open/ I have not included POP3, LDAP or SASL2 support for now as I

Does dovecot support shared folders, maildir style? I've set it up, using the maildirmake from debian maildrop to create folders. I have a number of as-yet unresolved issues, so I haven't been able to test with many clients. It's interesting that dovecot manages to present folders as siblings (rather than children) of INBOX. But mutt, at least, doesn't seem to see the shared

Heylas! I've been copying mailboxes from one dovecot server (on an alpha running debian testing, 0.99.10-9) to another (on an i686 running debian unstable, 0.99.10-9). I encountered a weird problem, which I seem to have resolved by moving a message with a To: line from hell out of the mailbox. Both machines are running maildir. They're not exactly identical, but they're fairly

Heylas, So, okay, I've had this lovely IMAP server running, and adore the ease of configuration, among other things. Problem, though. I'm trying to set up SquirrelMail, so that some folks with accounts on my box can use it without having to set up a proper imap client (or can check mail when they're at a cafe, or like that). However, I *won't* turn off the

Heyas ... Hope you aren't tired of me already .... I have a very strange problem, I think. Having become happy-happy with dovecot, I decided to install it on another machine that runs on an internal network and provides mailboxes for system monitoring. The setup is, or should be, quite straightforward. TLS is disabled, plaintext is not (I'll change this later, probably; this way is in

I finally got some free time and uploaded 1.0alpha4. It will arrive in the archive by tomorrow afternoon. Together with the most recent libssl0.9.8 upgrade I think this will fix the SSL problems users have been facing. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

Hi, I'm the Debian maintainer of UW-Imap. Like many I'm somewhat frustrated with the limitations of it so I am very pleased to see that Dovecot is becoming a strong alternative. I have uploaded packages of 0.99.4 to the Debian unstable distribution (sid). Because this is a new package it has to be added by hand so it may be a while before it shows up in sid. In the mean time, I have

In what must surely be the first sign of the apocalypse, Debian is actually freezing in preperation for a new release. Probably the last day for uploads will be August 17. Is there likely to be another dovecot release by then? In the event of 0.99.10.9 being the released version, are there any other patches Debian users would like me to include? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at

I've packaged 0.99.10.4. Owing to the continued downtime on the Debian servers, I've temporarily put the .debs up on my own site. The URL is http://www.braincells.com/debian/ A backport to woody is also available. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

Well, the backports.org people finally installed my backport of the latest stable version of dovecot. Please remove the Braincells apt source form /etc/apt/sources.list and add these lines instead. deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable dovecot openldap2 postgresql openssl deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian stable dovecot (If you are using other backports you can merge dovecot etc.

I uploaded 0.99.10.8 to Debian but I needed the patch below to get it to compile. --- dovecot-0.99.10.8.orig/src/auth/db-mysql.h +++ dovecot-0.99.10.8/src/auth/db-mysql.h @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ #ifndef __DB_MYSQL_H #define __DB_MYSQL_H -#include <mysql.h> +#include <mysql/mysql.h> +#include <mysql/errmsg.h> struct mysql_connection; struct mysql_request; -- Jaldhar H. Vyas

Dear Timo, What do you think of this? Fyi, I've been getting the same thing lately and I'm wondering if gnutls is to blame? (i've had inexlicable SIGSEGVs in other apps before due to it.) Tomorrow I'll try with openssl but I was wondering if you had any other ideas? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

A Debian developer had this to say: > >> Files in the above dir are group mail, and the dir is group mail. However, > > > all binaries in /usr/lib/dovecot are root/root. I have set them all to g+s, > > > and group mail, and now the imap process can lock the INBOX. > > > > > imap should be the only one that needs to be setgid mail. > > Actually,

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote: > Package: dovecot-imapd > Version: 0.99.10.4-2 > Severity: normal > > When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of "only subscribed > folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as mail > folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it > aborts halfway

As the freeze for Debian sarge slowly approaches I want to make sure the Dovecot packages are in as good condition as possible. I see there have been a number of patches since 0.99.10. I have added the following patches: * segfault when user home directory is empty * Proper PAM service name * Make suid work on 2.6 kernels Any other patches thatI ought to add. Or better yet, will there be a

Heyas ... I'm trying to use dovecot to set up a 'closed server' (actually, mixed) sort of environment, for a box to be deployed co-located. I wanted to talk about some of that, and see if some of my experience qualifies as 'bug'. Note that I'm notoriously verbose, so if that bothers you, read no further .... Since it's a more-or-less closed server, I didn't want

Just wondering: Has anyone, or is anyone planning to, build debs for 0.99.12? Jaldhar Vyas, are you still around and doing such things? Paul

I uploaded 0.99.10.6 to sid. Owing to the importance of the dot lock fix, I've tried to have this pushed to sarge quickly. Let's see how that goes. I've prepared a backport of 0.99.10.6 to woody which should be showing up on www.backports.org soon hopefully. In the meantime, if you desperately need it and don't mind working out dependencies yourself, you can find it at

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, David McBride wrote: > Package: dovecot-imapd > Version: 0.99.14-1 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I think I've identified a bug in Dovecot 0.99.14 as packaged and > distributed by Debian Sarge. I believe the bug lies in the original > Dovecot source, not with any modifications made by Debian. > > Specifically, this bug deals with