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Hi Just u/g to RH FC3 from RH8.0 which seemed to work fine with quotas. I have quotas for usernames set up as /home/domain/domainX/username/ for web space 50MB say 48MB used so 2MB free and /var/mail/spool/username for email. 100MB (60MB used so 40MB is available). /var/mail/username is symbolic linked via to spool/mail under /var dovecot seems to be using the quota for /home/.. and sees

Hi Are there any know issues with dovecot using pop3 & (Calypso or Opera Mail) ? Jul 11 09:14:47 proteus2a pop3(cambcom_brianlj): File isn't in mbox format: /var/spool/mail/cambcom_brianlj Jul 11 09:14:47 proteus2a pop3(cambcom_brianlj): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Error report written to server log. [2005-07-11 09:14:47 there is a file cambcom_brianlj and using

Hi I am trying to install 1.0 stable from source on a test server running 0.99 on FC3. i did basic ./configure etc and get this result Jul 13 17:24:26 proteus4 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec): open(/var/spool/mail/.temp.proteus4.4485.e3eec7b26a559bac) failed: Permission denied Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec):

Hi Having updated the conf file and done a restart i now see 3 account with problems. Mar 30 12:10:37 proteus2a pop3(campusuk): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/campusuk Mar 30 13:08:20 proteus2a pop3(tlccoco_003): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/tlccoco_003 Mar 30 13:16:44 proteus2a pop3(tlccoco_001): Failed to create storage with data:

Hi dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4.i386.rpm on FC3 when i create a user account with pop3 email i find that if i don't send and email to the account (so that sendmail creates the file under /var/spool/mail/testuser) where "testuser" is the users username. If the user logs in with Outlook or Outlook express they get an error and maillog shows. Apr 11 14:18:58 proteus2a pop3(testuser):

Hi my last post got no replies so i am trying again. FC3 dovecot 1.0 stable, 1 user has a lock file using mbox under /var/spool/mail/username from the lock file the pid files are File Descriptor Type File size Inode Path Current dir Directory 4096 6426371 /home/domain/domain127 Root dir Directory 4096 2 / Program code Regular file 1212428 1229832

Hi I have 1 customer who is having issues with pop3 on FC3 telnet mail.hisdomain.com 110 +OK dovecot ready. user beachy -ERR Unknown command. user beachy +OK pass letmein +OK Logged in. list -ERR No INBOX for user. pass & username fake for this example! Mark

Hi what does this mean BOGUS.watasiuk.8B8I (watasiuk is a username). FC3 Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

Hi I just compiled stock beta8 on FC3 with ./configure make make install all looked ok and i changed my dovecot.conf to suit. start dovecot and i see it running May 29 08:18:00 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta8 starting up POP3 to 1 account and May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=xx.xx.xx.xx rip=yy.yy.yy.yy resp=<hidden> May 29 08:18:06 Info:

Hi should this worry me dovecot: POP3(chelan): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 60 (view_sync_get_expunges): assertion failed: (ret == 0) using mbox format under /var/spool/mail/ Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

Hi stable 1.0 on FC3 , first time i have seen this. May 11 19:40:00 proteus2 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files May 11 19:40:05 proteus2 last message repeated 41406 times had to stop and re-start dovecot to free the error. Any ideas what caused it? Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited

Hi I am replacing my current mail system, using Exim/Postgres/WU-IMAP to another host using Dovecot. Everything has gone well, until I have tried to access some test mails via POP. The error message I am getting is Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw at orion-w-t.co.uk): lstat (/home/dovecot/users/orion-w-t.co.uk/simonw/cur) failed: Permission denied Feb 14 03:03:57 wpc1273 pop3(simonw at

My users are complaining that their mail is dissappearing out of folders or if they go into a folder, the mail will be there one minute, the next it isn't. Anybody see this before...and if so..is there a fix? I'm running dovecot 99.11 Brent ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Hi 1.0 stable is there a way to check which locking method is in use. procmail shows Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl() does dovecot use these by default as they are commented out in dovecot.conf Mark

Hi Dovecot 1.0 stable on FC3 i see this in my logs from 1 user Oct 19 07:20:36 proteus2a dovecot(pam_unix)[2937]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=1.2.3.4 user=testuser IP & user changed by me. at other times he has no issues. no other users are reporting this. could it be his ADSL is flaky or is there another scenario. Mark

Hi, I am currently working on a managesieve daemon, so that I can use the squirrelmail plugin avelsieve together with dovecot-lda. Without this I can't migrate from cyrus to dovecot. For several reasons I don't use the timsieved from cyrus and build it from scratch. Is this interesting for somebody else? Gerald

Hi New to CentOS 5.2 today. I cannot get MySQL 5.0.45 (default install) to start. X Fedora user. Mark

Hi I upgraded to 1.0 stable and saw this in the maillog UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /var/spool/mail/thejohns_brian i am using mbox files with default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u Is this a problem that i should worry about? Mark

Hi i am on FC3 and ran yum update dovecot and it offers dovecot.i386 0:0.99.13-3.FC3 i thought there was a 1.X beta4 which i should be using? (i have 1.0 stable running from a while back) Mark

Hi is it possible to have the .imap directory and sub-directory located under the same directory as mbox users. i.e /var/spool/mail/%u is where mbox files are i would like to use /var/spool/maildir/%u/.imap reason being i do not want my users /home/username used for anything otherthan their website. how big do the files under .imap get? Mark