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Hi all - Im new to dovecot and actually all things email serverish. I spent last week wrestling with exim4, and this week its dovecots turn. I'm trying to connect as an imap user (from evolution) and not actually able to make a successful login. I have default_pass_scheme=PLAIN, and am using pass authentication in evolution client. Its the only one available after it queries the server for

hi I read ( I think in dovecot wiki) that ext2 or ext3 fs on a 2.4 kernel can get slow due to the number of files in a directory. Does anyone know if kernel 2.6 has similar limitation? I'm not at that point now, but before the box goes live, I'm wondering if I should resolve that. Glenn

Hi, Here is a new wording for the "Exim4 on Debian" part of the web page on http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualhostingWithExim. It's immutable, so I cannot directly change it. I e-mailed Florian, but he cannot log in to the wiki any more. Can somebody with appropriate privileges change the page? --------------------- If you are using the exim4 packages on Debian, you need to pay

Hi, I'm using mime-construct to send fax files (from an Asterisk server). mime-construct is using exim4 to have its job done. Trouble is I'm not pleased with the way I can link mime-construct and exim4 jobs (whenever an exim4 job fails, mime-construct exit code is still 0) : all I'm doing at the moment is reading exim4 and syslog log files for events matching. In syslog, I've

hi! i'm trying to do smtp authentication using dovecot and exim4 by following this guide http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL. for the exim4 part, i got an authenticator dovecot: cannot find authenticator driver "dovecot" ?error after i entered the codes in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template and reloaded exim4 with the update-exim4.conf command. i'm running debian

Hi I'm getting this error with my attempt at setting up dovecot for virtual mail accounts: Failed to create storage with data: /home/vhostpath/usersname/Maildir/ I cant establish any cause. I dont think its permissions as it was saying 'Permission denied' till I fixed that and the UID and GID are those of the directories owner. I was prompted bythe log files to set the minimum and

Hi all - Does anyone know how far off beta2 is from getting into debian testing? thx Glenn

Hello, I just thought I would write this in case its useful to anyone. I've used dovecot for a while, as its so easy to set up, its fast and it and just "works". I recently wanted to be able to send via my server after pop3s authentication. I'm also running debian (testing) which utilises exim4 by default. I found no information about how to do it with this combination of

HI, I have a working exim4 + dovecot system that uses system user folders for the inbox. exim4: domains = dsearch;/etc/exim4/virtual dovecot: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u - I would like to add additional virtual accounts using the method described in this post: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/302 exim4: /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/360_exim4-local_vdom_aliases

Hi, I have configured the MTA (exim4) to put the messages for my local users at /var/mail. If the user does not exist as true unix user, it looks at a postgresql database and if the user exists there, it delivers the message at /var/mail/virtual Example: User fred is a unix user, and peter is a virtual user. If i send a mail to fred at mydomain.org, the message is stored at /var/mail/fred (im

Murray Collingwood put forth on 4/20/2011 8:29 PM: > Hi Stan > > I only have the one account on this server, everything else is relayed > elsewhere. If this is an SMTP relay server, I'm surprised you bothered to install an IMAP server at all. It would have been easier to simply alias postmaster@ to another account on another machine where you do store mailboxes. I.e. simply

Hello, I have a Debian machine that is virtual-hosting 6 domains with exim4. I finally got exim4 working well enough where I can send and receive mail using the mail command on my machine. I would eventually like to have SquirrelMail (which requires IMAP) working on my website. For whatever reason, exim4 doesn't seem to support IMAP. I found out that Dovecot is a prominent IMAP server.

I'm using RC15 on Solaris 9. The wiki indicates that when a dovecot-shared file exists, "Dovecot uses the same permissions and GID when it creates index files, dovecot-uidlist file, new mail files, etc." In my case, Dovecot *is* creating new index files based on dovecot-shared, but dovecot-uidlist and individual message files don't completely match the permissions/group

Hello I have just spent a happy day (!) configuring Exim4 to accept authenticated connections from full blown Outlook clients. That works. Unfortunately, by ticking the "Use SPA" box in Outlook it now demands SPA on the POP3 server as well. The existing POP3 server doesn't support this style of authentication. I believe Dovecot will. We're already using it as an IMAP

Hi! Me and two friends are trying to get a VPN working, but we cant get routing between two tunnels. This is how it looks, all servers (192.168.*.1) are running IP Masquerade to enable the other computers behind them to access the internet. Both elayne and glenn are connecting to melc, and the tunnel between melc and glenn are running TCPOnly because that glenn doesnt have a public IP (it's

Hi! I have a problem involving Samba4, exim4, fetchmail, dovecot and PAM... I have setup a "maildrop" machine, which fetches mail from an external POP3 server for multiple accounts and then serves them locally via IMAP. On the same machine, I am currently running Samba 4.0.9 over Debian Wheezy. The idea is that fetchmail gets the mail, passes it to exim4, gets delivered to the "AD

I finally fixed my problem by removing samba completely removing samba and reinstalling it. What I discovered is it appears to be an issue with rights. When I reinstalled samba the /var/lib/samba had rights like this. drwxrwxr-x+ 5 root root 4096 2010-01-11 23:27 samba On my original install where the 5 is it was a 6. After the reinstall the rights the rights on /var/lib/samba was reset to 5

Hi all, Please find below a complete transcript of the emails between debian/kernel-mm mailing lists. I've had a response back from someone on the deb mailing list stating: ==================================== The bug seems to be that sshd does not reset the OOM adjustment before running the login shell (or other program). Therefore, please report a bug against openssh-server.

Hello all, I have a little problem. I'm trying to set up Dovecot deliver (1.0 beta 3) as the LDA for Exim4 on Ubuntu 6.06 with MBOX, and I'm running into permissions problems. Exim typically wants to run pipes as the user to whom the mail is being delivered (as per the "check_local_user"). deliver needs access to the auth socket and needs to be able to create files in /var/mail.

Hi, I have an exim4 and dovecot system. The system has multiple accounts. Exim4 is receiving emails in the /var/mail/user files and dovecot is configured to use /home/user/mail (mbox) folder. I have one account that dovecot is not processing replies/bounces/etc... The data is being written in the /var/mail/user file by exim4 but as far as dovecot is aware there is nothing in the pop3 inbox.