similar to: ldap + dovecot

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:

FreeBSD 5.2.1 Upgraded to dovecot 0.99.12.1 After authentication failed, I also upgraded OpenLDAP to 2.2.19 Dovecot and OpenLDAP are now the most recent versions in the ports. I can access the LDAP info through the OpenLDAP client without a problem, so slapd seems to be working fine. Both dovecot and OpenLDAP worked fine before the upgrade. Any help will be appreciated, since several people

hi all, i've built dovecot: Sep 09 18:04:24 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test80 starting up on OSX 10.4.2. in addition to pgsql auth, which is working 4 me, i'd like to step-by-step verify simple passwd-file authentication/testing. unfortunately, i'm having a problem with the login process NOT FINDING the ".../cur" dir. here are the details .... my config includes: ...

Using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8 (same problem find using Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 on OpenBSD 3.7) Log output: _________________________________ dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHl2cmlAbjN1dHJpbm4uaXQAeXVyaW6zgXRyaW1v dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): sql(myuser at

"Using Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 on OpenBSD 3.8 (same problem find using Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 on OpenBSD 3.7) Log output: _________________________________ dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHl2cmlAbjN1dHJpbm4uaXQAeXVyaW6zgXRyaW1v dovecot: Nov 04 11:15:28 Info: auth(default): sql(myuser at

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

Hie Folks, I'm having a little problem with quota + ldap. I want to use per user quota settings. So I configured quota on my /etc/dovecot.conf like this site http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota examples. Here follows my /etc/dovecot.conf: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/pkey.pem

Hi, 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: protocols = imap pop3

I verified that "default_mail_env" on my dovecot configuration file are "maildir:" correctly prefixed and ... permissions of /var/mail/mydomain and /var/mail/mydomain/myuser are 2755 and owner is root:mail. Dovecot user is member of mail group. I'm sure that isn't an authentication problem. I've tried some days to understand and to find over internet but I've

Hi Guys, I've been trying to get this to work for 3 days now, but no luck. I have Dovecot set with an Active Directory back-end. Everything is working properly but I can't get user specific quotas.I tried with both 1.0.13 and 1.0-rc7. All users have the same quota which is set in dovecot.conf dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often

I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users are getting this error message: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this: dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user Looking through the

Hi, I've been struggling with getting dovecot up and running the last hour, but I seem to be stuck. When logging in (which I can do successfully) my connection is dropped, and the following is outputted to my dovecot log: dovecot: Apr 26 09:56:52 Fatal: chdir(/bin/false) failed with uid 513: Not a directory dovecot: Apr 26 09:56:52 Error: child 27345 (imap) returned error 89 .. But

Hello all, I've a problem with maildir, pop3 and relocated indexes. My configuration is: default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/% u:CONTROL=/var/dovecot/control/%u I created the "/var/dovecot/{index,control}/%u" directories, each one have rights 700 and the ownership is assigned to the user. When the pop clients connect, they fail with the error dovecot:

i'm setting up for virtual_users w/ maildir. i have in my dovecot.conf: auth default { passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/imapd.passwd } userdb static { args = static uid=300 gid=300 home=/var/dovecot/mail mail=maildir:/var/dovecot/mail/%d/%n/Maildir nice=10 } } default_mail_env = maildir:/var/dovecot/mail/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/%d/%n in

I'v set the default_mail_env to maildir:/var/maildir/%d/%u where /var/maildir/ is the root dorectory for my maildir tree and I'm getting the folowing error in the maillog : Jan 3 15:16:58 websrv pop3(roi): unlink(/var/maildir//roi/cur/new:2,T) failed: Is a directory Notice that the %d is missing. If I change to 'default_mail_env = maildir:/var/maildir/example.tld/%u' then

Greetings, I am configuring a new Dovecot installation, and the way the valid_chroot_dirs and mail_chroot variables affect the mail processes are a bit unclear to me. I was wondering if anyone could provide me with more specific details than the comments in the configuration file do, or maybe even recommend some values given my configuration. We have a Debian GNU/Linux system and a mix of users

Dear sirs, In the configuration of Dovecot I can?t get autentication of the users. My work environment is: OpenBSD 3.8 Postfix 2.2.5 (instaled thru ports with ldap and sasl support) Opendap 2.2.27 (instaled thru ports with sasl support) Dovecot 0.99.14 (instaled thru source with ldap support) I have two domains in ldap, the postfix is just autenticating in ldap (sending e-mails to users of 2 ldap

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've setup a test machine and have been playing with dovecot-1.0beta7 and dovecot-lda in preparation for a migration from 0.99.x series. (hopefully with the ability to support imap-quotas) anyways, i've got it all compiled fine (as far as I can tell) and following the directions on the wiki for setting up dovecot LDA with sendmail. (I've

Greetings, I am trying to setup a private namespace in dovecot and running in to some troubles. Here is my setup: > default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir > > # default namespace > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = > inbox = yes > } > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = maillog. > location =

hello now that dovecot supports authentication with checkpassword-compatible modules, I tried to get it working for IMAP on a qmail + vmailmgr server. For a subtle detail, while claiming to be "a drop-in replacement for the standard checkpassword", checkvpw (auth module for vmailmgr) is not "drop in". It actually expects 2 args on its command line, not 1. So, a wrapper