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Here is the log over a 12 hour period: pid 91923 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 98265 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 95547 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 235 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 239 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 318 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 386 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 415 (pop3), uid 25039:

Hi all, 1.0-test76 is crashing about every two weeks. Got this in the log file: pid 76217 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 61724 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 52961 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 81257 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Also a bunch of these around the same time...

Hi all, We're running dovecot without a chroot (mail admin's request), but we're running it as a non-priv'd user with proper firewall setup. Does this seem to be an OK and average setup? Or is it considered a MUST to chroot something like the imapd daemon, etc. Thanks! -Matt

Hi all, I originally posted this on postfix's mailing list but then realized that this COULD be a pop3 server problem since that downloads and deletes mail. This has only been happening since I upgraded from .99 to 1.0-7 ... Our users have been reporting double messages in their inbox, as well as emails that they deleted a long time ago reappearing. The only thing in my maillog is a

Hi all, I really don't know where to go from here. I've traced and pasted, but never heard responses.... I'm getting the following (see bottom of this email) in a single day of dmesg....most of the time the error message in the log file is something like: Oct 5 09:21:43 mail1 dovecot: imap(*****): file mbox-save.c: line 280 (mbox_save_init_file): assertion failed:

Hi all, We're using the mbox format and I tried setting up IMAP on my boss's computer tonight. He likes subfolders, and although they work, he can't seem to remove subfolders once he created them, nor create new folders without using something other than his mail client (like mkdir from the command line). Any ideas on this? Does dovecot just not officially support IMAP and

Hi list, In our platform we have a lot of machines in which the system is a single disk image loaded on RAM from PXE. The problem is quite simple : if I install puppetd on the image, I will end up using the same certificate for 100 different servers with different names (the hostname is setup at boot time from dhcp) and I guess the puppetmaster won''t allow that. In other words : what

Mar 9 16:15:19 bob dovecot: imap(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106(mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < data_size) Getting these errors like crazy. Any ideas? Thanks! Regards, Matt Juszczak

Hi all, We're an ISP, and are currently looking for a way for our tech support guys to access customer's email without having shell access to the server, or knowing the customer's password. We'd like to install a custom webmail client that would only show the user's inbox and the ability to delete the messages. The problem is, that we would have to know the user's

Receiving a lot of the following messags with 1.0-76: pid 633 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Any ideas? Sometimes, our entire port 110/143 servers begin refusing connections. Hardware checks out fine. Thanks in advance, Regards, Matt

Hello all, I am doing some work for a public library that is still running Samba 2.2.7aif you can believe it. When checking the log files I see this error. I believe it is generated when the domain administrator is loging off. The workstation seems to be working fine, I would just like to know why I am getting this error. If anyone could please point me in the right direction or a least give

Hi I run a mirror service where for gentoo I run rsync as a daemon. Currently the daemon runs root to get the 873 port opened. And when transfers then run, they run as nobody. I would like the rsync daemon to connect to 873 (as root) then possibly do a chroot and then run always as something else than root (maybe nobody). It this advisable? Is it possible? best regards keld

Hi folks, I have recently installed rsync.2.6.9. on CentOS4.x boxes. That was my first backup yesterday. But I notice that some hidden (or dot files) are not copied to the other host on the network. And group and ownership of the files are changed to ?nobody? while files and folders permission are copied properly. So what am mission here can anybody shed light please? Here is the result;

Hi I met problem developing plug-in under FreeBSD 6.1. First I tried to use internal plugins like quota and acl but I got: IMAP(xxx): module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so: dlsym(acl_plugin_init) failed: Shared object "nss_dns.so.1" not found, required by "imap" This library doesn't exist on FreeBSD 6.1 Same story when u mention any plugin in

Hi all, Trying to setup a test copy of dovecot on my box before I "really" use it. I have it installed into a test dir (/usr/local/dovecot instead of /usr/local), and I've got a config file with valid dirs, etc. Only thing is ... I can't find a way to set the port in the protocol pop3 {} section. Its documented in the "listen" directive area at the top of the

Hi all, My mail spools (mbox format) keep getting corrupted with .99.x. I was thinking of running dovecot-stable-20050709.tar.gz ... is this fairly stable? Also, can I use the .99 config file with that code? Thanks! -MAtt

Our dovecot process died out of no where today, with no sign of reasons why. I'm running a beta from a few weeks ago of 1.0 ... are there any security vulns I should know about that might have caused this crash (someone trying something?) Thanks, Regards, Matt

As a release manager asked us to do that, we should remove the kernel patch from the packaging... As I said I'm not completely against removing it, if we distribute it on our website and point people to it in some documentation! The internet is just there, so what would the matter be? If nobody is against this course of action I'm going to move the patch outside of the debian directory,

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p8 postfix-current-2.4.20060903,3 dovecot-1.0.r7 I am experiencing a problem with dovecot as an LDA. It will not deliver mail unless the mail directory is chmod'd to 1777. Below is an example of the log file output. The dovecot.log file had over a hundred entries similar to this: deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1123.cd38cd4d82e1368f)

hi all, "uncle"! i've thrown up my hands with cyrus, and am looking for a 'better alternative' ... i'm brand new to dovecot (haven't even built it yet ...), and have spent the last while reading through the LIST archives here. apart from the TECHNICAL aspects, which seem _more_ than adequate/competitive, i'm most attracted by a comment abt this