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Hello Timo, I'm running dovecot-1.2.11/Maildir and plan to migrate to single UID mailboxes some day, but for now, I've got "system" users and I'm testing permissions handling in order to set up shared mailboxes. The private namespace mailboxes location is location = maildir:/courriel/boites/%u:CONTROL=/courriel/meta/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot-test/indexes/%1u/%u I've

I'm also having beginner's troubles with shared mailboxes with dovecot 1.2.11. I've used the TestInstallation instructions for connecting to the imap port via openssl and issuing the setacl/getacl commands. Those appear to be fine. I'm having real difficulty with the acl_shared_dict configuration. I'd prefer to just use a flat file, as I don't anticipate using

Hello, I thought mdbox was production ready, but it seems to me that (in 2.0.4) it's quite broken. 1) The documentation only running this to convert from maildir to mdbox: *dsync mirror maildir:~/Maildir* but based on my experience and on posts on the mailing list, it's not enough. A namespace has to be defined and it's not clear whether / or . should be used as a separator. I

Hello, Just like when upgrading to 1.2, upgrading to 2.0.1 confuses RIM's BIS servers and users don't have instant email anymore on their Blackberrys. Under normal conditions, the BIS servers keep one open connection per email account with Dovecot. They're using IMAP IDLE to monitor changes and push them to devices very quickly. After an upgrade, all changes. The BIS servers can't

Hi all, Firstly, thanks for all your effort with this software. Much appreciated. I am having a slight issues trying to enable reading of other users mailboxes. The docs are a little sparse for those that aren't mailadmin heros, I wonder if anyone could please help me see where I am going wrong. I would like to allow some users to list and read the mailboxes of others. E.g: When

Hi, I've recently migrated a server from a Qmail/VPOPMail setup to a Postfix/system accounts setup. Everything worked pretty much out of the box after just changing the passdb and userdb to pam and passwd. However, I cannot get my shared folders to work. In the logs I will always see something like Jul 21 07:24:10 mybox dovecot: IMAP(foobar): Namespace 'shared/': Could not lookup home

Hi, I would like to enable mailbox sharing for my users. I'm using dovecot 2.1.9 with vpopmail authentication. For security reason shared mailboxes should be available only for users of the same domain. Dovecot's wiki suggest to enable acl like this: plugin { # assumes mailboxes are in /var/mail/%d/%n: acl_shared_dict = file:/var/mail/%d/shared-mailboxes.db } but in vpopmail,

Hello, list! I am in the midst of configuring a new Dovecot IMAP server, and I'm preparing to setup shard mailboxes as part of the ocnfiguration. In order to get these setup the way I want, I've figured out that I'm going to have to setup an acl_shared_dict. This is where things start to get confusing for me, as I have had difficulty finding thorough explanations of dictionary

Hello, I am using dovecot 1.2rc series on my mail server combined with postfix ( virtual users with postgre ). I have setup separate home and mail locations. It works fine ( with sieve etc. ). The user home folders are in /home/vmail/%d/%n and mailboxes are in /srv/mail/%d/%n . The permissions are fine and everything is working except in the following case : If a user does not have a home dir

Hello, sievec segfaults when it reads a file. I've tried with both the standard and gold linker. I've tried with various sieve files and they all make it crash. I've compiled pigeonhole with -ggdb, but I'm not getting much info Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000800b8e587 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.7 (gdb) bt full #0 0x0000000800b8e587 in strlen ()

Hello, There is a big problem with 2.1.10. Here is what I saw in the logs: Sep 18 22:22:23 imap(): Panic: file buffer.c: line 86 (buffer_check_limits): assertion failed: (buf->used <= buf->alloc) Sep 18 22:22:23 imap(): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 26833 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Reverting to 2.1.9 with the exact same config file works just fine Cheers, Olivier

Hello, One account couldn't get emails all the sudden. dovecot-lda was crashing with "signal 11 (segmentation fault)". There was absolutely nothing in the dovecot logs, even with mail_debug=yes. I found out that it was because of the following lines in a sieve script that were generated by a script generator (Ingo). if true { keep; stop; } I'm using the latest

Hello, I've just noticed that when Horde is connecting to Dovecot 2.1, it crashes the imap service if Dovecot is configured to use the ACL plugin. I'm not sure what's so special about the command Horde sends, but it shouldn't make Dovecot crash. Everything is fine when using Thunderbird. Here is the message in Dovecot's logs "Fatal: master: service(imap): child 89974

Hi Aki, they are. > 3. The permissions for the file are: > root at dal-notify-01 Maildir]# ls -la /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db > -rw-rw-r--. 1 operations sharedusers 197 Aug 26 20:33 /var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db > 4. Users I'm testing with are part of the sharedusers group in /etc/group The dir /var/lib/dovecot/db has this for permissions: drwsrwsrwx. 2

Hello, I'm having a "path" problem with master users. When logged on as a master user, I can't see the user's folders. I'm trying to use system users as master users, so I'm using something like this: # Master password auth_master_user_separator = * passdb { driver = passwd master = yes pass = yes } # System users passdb { driver = passwd } # Virtualusers

Hi Timo, wiki says --------- Shared mailbox listing ..... You could use any dictionary backend, such as SQL or Berkeley DB, but a simple flat file should work pretty well too: plugin { acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db } .... -------- could you include an example for having acl_shared_dict in sql ? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

Hi Aki I see what you are saying, and no I don?t believe so. I?m using typical /etc/passwd for the user db. I reviewed https://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields <https://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields> but I?m not clear on how to actually return system_user userdb attribute. I also have set mail_user_groups = sharedusers in dovecot.conf and then in /etc/group put all

I just set up my server with MySQL support for authentication/authorization compatible with Postfix Admin. Initially, I was getting the "Relative home directory paths not supported" message, and it's easy to see why - Postfix Admin stores the maildir as "$domain/$userpart@$domain". But the directories in 10-mail.conf are set as mail_location =

For shared (between users) mailboxes, I am using a file dict. plugin { acl_shared_dict = file:/etc/dovecot/acl_shared_dict/shared.db } What is the format of this file? I would like to manage it directly rather than have SETACL update it. I see lines which describe a sharing entry (the format of those looks obvious) but also lines with just a '1'. Do I just need to separate entries

We experience the same problem between Horde and Dovecot 1.0 beta 6. Beta 3 is still the only working solution right now. Best regards, Olivier Paroz interfaSys s?rl