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What does the "mail process isn't allowed for root" error means? How can I fix it? Faw

I am trying to follow http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless to set up a personal dovecot server that does not use 'root' and does not need to change uids/gids. I'm trying to set it up on a Cygwin personal system. The problem I'm running into though, the directions say to set "user" and "auth_user" to be the same in this setup. However when you do this, Dovecot

I configured dovecot with Postfix with mysql Now I have directory /home/mail/virtual User/group postfix.postfix I added one domain, and one user. I login is successful but it gets interupted because of this. pop3(xx at private-projects.net): Aug 11 00:48:53 Error: lstat(/home/mail/virtual/private-projects.net/xx at private-projects.net/cur) failed: Permission denied pop3(xx

I'm having problems with dovecot and OpenLDAP. I installed both, and configured both. /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf exists and I modified dovecot.conf to have... auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf ...but the log displays the following: Jun 19 13:59:15 backup dovecot-auth: Unknown userdb type 'ldap' Jun 19 13:59:15 backup dovecot: Auth

Hi! After upgrading from dovecot 0.9.14 to 1.0 crashes immediately after starting when using ldap as userdb and passdb. You can find more information here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320388 I'm confused with two users: login_user and auth_user. Witch of them has to be in ldap? If anyone here has a working dovecot+ldap configuration, could he show me his configuration?

I have tried to configure dovecot to use passwd-file authentication and I havent been able to. I changed the following in the dovecot.conf file (I want to have all the mailboxes in one directory): default_mail_env = maildir:/opt/mail/%u auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap auth_verbose = yes It gives me the following error (I hoped it would be

Hi, I'm attempting to proxy lmtp using director to hash to the same backend as pop3/imap. My pop3/imap users are of the form: username and my lmtp users are of the form: <username at domain> Where domain is fairly redundant but does carry some useful information. Now, I can proxy lmtp using user=%{username} and destuser=%{orig_user}, and this all appears to work correctly.

I'm getting imap-login: Internal login failure: bob whenever I try to check mail. I'm new to mail server setup, new to IMAP, and I don't know a heck of a lot about authentication schemes. I've set up Dovecot as an IMAP server on FreeBSD 4.8. I've got OpenLDAP running on the same system. Users will access mail via Eudora on Windows and Macs, so that's how I'm

I am trying to set up Dovecot so that it uses LDAP, but I keep getting this error message in /var/log/syslog: Dec 12 03:38:17 mydomain dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_search() failed (filter user_filter = (mail=user at mydomain.tld)): Bad search filter Relevant configuration files: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = localhost dn = cn=dovecot,ou=sysAccounts,dc=mydomain,dc=tld dnpass = password

Hey- I'm kinda new to Dovecot and I'm trying to do something and it seems I've hit a wall. I put together a server with Fedora Core 2, Exim 4.34, and Dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I need support mail for multiple domains so this is how I have my virtual setup: Virtual Aliases Files: /var/virtualdomains/$domain/etc/aliases Virtual Accounts Passwd File:

Hi list, I have a question on auth caching in 2.2.18. I am using acl_groups for a master user, appended in a static userdb file # snip ############################### master at uma:{SHA}XXXX=::::::userdb_acl_groups=umareadmaster allow_nets=127.0.0.1 # snap ############################### and use this group in a global ACL file. I discovered this only works on first NOT-cached login

Hi, I just installed dovecot. The installation went well and i configured dovecot to user ~/Maildir. When I tested imap via telnet the login work, but right after that the connection is cutted: Trying 192.168.0.14... Connected to op. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . login jerik password . OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. And the log says: dovecot:

hi timo, I checked out the commit causing this. its this one: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/diff/5e445c659f89/src/auth/auth-request.c#l1.32 if I move this block back as it was. everything is fine diff -r a46620d6e0ff -r 5e445c659f89 src/auth/auth-request.c --- a/src/auth/auth-request.c Tue May 05 13:35:52 2015 +0300 +++ b/src/auth/auth-request.c Tue May 05 14:16:31 2015 +0300 @@ -618,30

How would I go, If I wanted ACL processing to start with %{auth_user} instead of %{user} when determining rights? -- peter

Hi, Busy with dovecot on a linux server with not very much RAM in it (512 MB max total). On this server dovecot will only handle about 12 users, with never more than 3 IMAP webmail users at a time, and a maximum of 2 POP3 users at a time using it. I'm going all secure later on, but first I would like your opinion on what configuration best to use with, say, max 5 users busy at one time, and

Hi all, I've installed rc23 in a new testing machine, and i've had some permission problems related to dovecot-master.conf. As I have my master passwords in that file, I don't want it to be world readable. dovecot -n shows that auth_user is nobody, so setting the permissions to nobody.whatever 640 solves the problem. Anyway, I've tried to change the auth_user setting with no

Hi, I need some help I am currently setting up my FC5 box with ldap + samba + postfix + dovecot support as prescribed in howto http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html My problem is in starting the dovecot server. I get the following error Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 16: Unknown setting: passdb My dovcot.conf file:

Im using the login generator and I want to make it so that only users that are in a DB table called auth_users can access /auth_user. Is there a way to do this without making another login generator? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi there, I've currently compiled and running dovecot version 0.99.10 on my FreeBSD 4.8 system from the ports and am having problems with authenticating clients with the imap/pop3 service. The error message i get is: Jul 11 19:26:18 dev dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jul 11 19:27:23 dev dovecot-auth: passwd(james): invalid password field '*' Jul 11 19:27:23 dev imap-login:

hi there, I?m getting such a headache today, I?ve added myself to three mailing lists trying to figure this out, okay here it goes. I?ve got a Fedora Core 4 box running dovecot imap, squirrel mail, postfix, samba/winbind. I?m running winbind to authenticate against Active Directory, I?ve edited my ?/etc/pam.d/dovecot? pam module so to let my users login with there Active directory password, but