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Hello everyone, I've narrowed down my problem, so this should be an easy one for some smart person out there. I am moving from an old sendmail/Fedora 2 box to a new sendmail/Fedora 4 box and want to try Dovecot for pop3. The problem is, I can't get it to work. I have 9000 email accounts I will be moving to the new box. I've already tried and failed once. The problem is, Dovecot

Nevermind. I figured it out. I left off the INDEX command. Sorry to spam the mail list :( Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches: mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net at dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Cliff Hayes

Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. However I have a permission problem. I added the parameter to 90-sieve.conf and created the directory but now I get the following permissions errors in maillog even though I have the file and directory wide open with 777 permissions: Error: yY/0JHtauVQfPgAAU+Cu/Q: sieve: failed to open sieve dir: stat(/var/lib/dovecot/sieve/after.d/) failed: Permission

Hello all, I have 1.0 Alpha 4. Is it better to shut down sendmail, uninstall dovecot 1.0a4 then install 1.0a5, or just install 1.0a5 over the top of 1.0a4? Thanks, Cliff

Hello all, I have a new installation of Fedora 4 and Dovecot 1.4.Alpha4 A small percentage of my users are getting unable to pop mail from a client (ie: Outlook), they get continually prompted for username/password. The error they get is: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file. When I look in the file, I don't see anything unusual. There's not much info on the Internet about this

Does dovecot have any dictionary attack defenses yet? In the past I have had to implement defense from outside dovecot, but since dovecot is at the front lines and therefore is the first to know I'm hoping by now there is something we can set. For example, a limit on access failures per minut/hour/day or some such. If not why not?

Hello, I have not been using the home directory but I read in MailLocation.txt that I probably should. Does dovecot create each directory? What does it put in there? My server uses mbox format. My users all look like this: [root at sendmail log]# finger chayes Login: chayes Name: 50387.00 Directory: /home/chayes Shell: /sbin/nologin Never logged in.

Hello all, I am running Dovecot v1alpha4 on Fedora 4 from the command line (as opposed to deamon). Is there a recommended way to shut it down gracefully? Or do I just use killall -9 dovecot? I'm not using the included version, so I can't do SERVICE DOVECOT STOP. Thanks, Cliff

Hi! I installed Dovecot from the FreeBSD port. I have about 20 users on this machine and used popper before switching. I get a lot of error messages like: dovecot: Mar 21 10:03:41 Error: pop3(xxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/xxx (37326 > 35874, seq=1, idx_msgs=26) dovecot: Mar 21 10:06:17 Error: imap(yyy): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox

Ok, I think I have that figured out. I made the following mods: disable_plaintext_auth = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv and it seems to work. Now...about those enhanced logging capabilities. As promised, I see the enhanced logging. What does TOP and RETR mean? (I checked the manual first) Cliff -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Hayes [mailto:chayes at afo.net] Sent: Thursday,

Hello! I'm encountering a bug with samba shares, rsync and hard links. I was trying to investigate why on my "linksys" samba share i wouldn't get any hard link transferred and rsyncs to it would take forever. To keep a long story short, here's the output of the command, which should be pretty explanatory :-) mount says that: //192.168.0.105/DISK on /samba/linksys type

I have a sendmail/dovecot imap/pop3 system that has been running with the following mail_location: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u In order to reduce errors and simplify operation I removed imap and am now only responding to pop3. I'd like to also simplify the mail_location to get rid of index errors since I don't need indexes:

Hello Dovecot, Do to a misconfiguration, I have a bunch of users who do not have the standard folders. I can create a routine to cycle through the users and look for the folders and run a command if there is one. Is there a way to create the proper namespace for a user after the user has already been created? Thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

I can't seem to get imap virtual users to work with database authentication on new Scientific Linux 6.5 server with Sendmail 8.14.4 & Dovecot 2.0.9 Apparently I have to also create system users because sendmail/procmail/dovecot want to check directory ownership. So I created a database, made entry for the user, created the user chayes on the system. But %u always contains just chayes

I am setting up a new mail server using imap only on Scientific Linux 6.5 and dovecot 2.0.9. How do I fix this problem? I keep getting these errors regardless of permissions ... even up to 777. Oct 15 13:56:01 avalon dovecot: imap(chayes at domain.tld): Error: opendir(/var/email/chayes at domain.tld/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=497(chayes) egid=12(mail) missing +r perm:

Hi, I am trying to get sieve working with dovecot. Dovecot itself is working fine, and I have the following config: root at master:/var/log# dovecot --version 1.0.rc2 root at master:/var/log# dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable:

Cliff Hayes <chayes at afo.net> writes: > I recently had a user whose mailbox had gone out of sync. > Webmail and client inbox totals had become vastly different and response > times had become unacceptable. > A doveadm force-resync fixed the problem nicely. > > This will no doubt happen again as we grow the service and I would like > to have some type of indication

Thanks. I use dovecot's lda and dovecot's sieve filter. So it looks like I need to compare the index/mailbox mtimes as you suggest. What am I looking for? I see that the indexes are updated when I run the resync. I checked my mailbox (that was not resynced) and noticed that dovecot.index last update was 16 days ago. So am I resyncing if the gap is over x days? If so, is there a way to

I'm hoping to migrate to dovecot from qpopper, with the eventual goal of enabling IMAP. However, my qpopper installation is fairly specialized, so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone could get me headed down the best path. Here's the situation. I'm running FreeBSD and have a virtual domains setup with an extremely hacked LDA to do delivery to mailboxes within hashed

Hello all, I hope someone can help me, I have been testing out Dovecot to switch from popa3d which I use at the moment. When I get several users connecting and disconnection multiple times, the Dovecot process with command Auth uses 50-90% of the CPU for the period which they are connecting. I am wondering if there is something that I may have misconfigured, or if there is something that I can