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Hello, I have a linux system (Ubuntu 7.04 server edition) running Postfix 2.3.8 Today i installed Dovecot through apt-get (got version 1.0.rc17 installed) and configured it to do sasl auth only, (i already have other pop3,smtp and imap servers running) following the howto's at dovecot.org The thing is that if i try to start dovecot or run dovecot -n i get this message: Error: Can't use

Hi, I'm testing/debuging the migration from mbox to maildir in a mailserver running Dovecot 1.0alpha5. I migrated all 472715 emails(in a test server) and later noted that dovecot could not get the same flags/status of the emails as in the mbox. I was using perfect_maildir.pl and I think its not dovecot fault. Seems to me that perfect_maildir.pl convert the emails in a way that dovecot could

I updated to 2.3.0 today, and now I'm getting these entries in my log: Jul 7 14:26:20 mail-cbf dovecot: anvil: Error: connect limit: disconnection for unknown pid 17687 + ident lmtp/backup at backup.invalid Jul 7 14:26:20 mail-cbf dovecot: anvil: Error: connect limit: disconnection for unknown pid 17659 + ident lmtp/backup at backup.invalid Jul 7 14:26:21 mail-cbf dovecot: anvil: Error:

Hallo experts, what is the meaning of the "<" sign in config files as in ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/dovecot.key ^ | ? --Frank Elsner

I am running dovecot 0.99. Everything works great; however, now I am looking at several different tools to convert mbox to Maildir. It seems the tools, mb2md.pl, perfect_maildir.pl, and others all do what they claim; however, when the messages are converted and they are stored in Maildir/cur, the email clients download these messages as new. This typically wouldn't be a problem;

Hello, today I tried to update 2.0.12 to 2.0.13, but I got those messages, only: Aug 1 10:20:27 mail dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.13 starting up (core dumps disabled) Aug 1 10:20:33 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<***@***.**>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.99, lip=192.168.1.1 , mpid=5123, TLS Aug 1 10:20:33 mail dovecot: imap-postlogin: Error: script-login: Error: user ***@***.**:

Hello list, I use currently a non-dovecot pop3 proxy which has the ability to scan all passing mails for viruses. And I like dovecot. I have to combine both. One (and the only) idea is to call a virusscanner a shellscript, installed as PostLoginScript. But I see multiple disadvantages: 1. it's a shellscript which tents to be slow. 2. it's called *on* the mailbox-host, not on a dedicated

Convert plugin seems to have no effect with dovecot-1.0.rc26 and my settings. When a user log, maildir creation is successful, but no mbox conversion occur. New incoming mails are dropped into maildir, but I cant access those in Mbox file. I set the following in dovecot.con as describe on wiki. mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/Maildir/%u convert_mail: mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Any

I have discovered that many times the virus definitions I use for scanning messages (ClamAV, with the unofficial signatures http://sanesecurity.com/usage/linux-scripts/) are updated some time after my server has received an infected email. It seems the virus creators are trying to race the virus definition creators to see who can deliver first; more than half of the infected messages are found

I'm running dovecot-1.0.9 on Gentoo Linux. I recently observed a large increase in disk usage on this dedicated mailserver. I attribute it to high spam traffic and/or large attachments for legit email retained on the server. How can I run a command equivalent to an IMAP client's 'Compact Folder' on the entire tree of maildirs under each /home/(user)? Thanks.

Hello, after switching from version 2.2.7 to 2.2.7 I miss the loglines which say: ssl-params: Generating SSL parameters ssl-params: SSL parameters regeneration completed The configuration has not been changed and reads: | # 2.2.7: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | # OS: Linux 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext3 | auth_mechanisms = plain login |

Hope someone can help me with this as I am presently stuck I am setting up a new server with Dovecot 0.99.10, Redhat 9.0, Postfix, Amavisd-new and maildir's in the users home drive. I am using Netscape mail 7.1 as the main client to access the mail store via imap which works fine and various other imap clients can access the maildirs Ok as well. The problem is when Postfix delivers a

Hello there, We want to move from UW-IMAP to Dovecot (mbox format), works like a charm, but UW-IMAP has that bloody habbit to make a stupid message in all his mailbox files : From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Apr 19 10:30:01 2001 Date: 19 Apr 2001 10:30:01 +0200 From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at mailhub2-vil.isdnet.net> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA

Hi List, what do you think is the best way to migrate (to a new maschine) round about 30000 mboxes (Qpopper) with an amount of 43Gigs data, to maildir format (Dovecot). I think there are two ways: 1. - stop services (smtp and pop3) on the old maschine - copy the mboxes to the new maschine - run a conversion script (for excample: "Perfect_maildir" http://perfectmaildir.home-dn.net/)

Hi, Just wondering for all you people using Dovecot out there. 1. What mailbox protocol are you using? 2. What version of Dovecot? Thanks! ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg at umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone:

Is there some way that message uids can be preserved when converting uw-pop3 mbox mail to dovecot maildir format? We've tried perfect_maildir, mb2md and the convert-tool that comes with dovecot but so far have been unable to preserve the message uids, which for example go from 44333a8500000003 before the conversion to 4434621500000003 afterwards. The quantity of mailboxes involved means

Hello all, I've squirrelmail-webmail-1.4.22, dovecot 2.1.1, dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.0 installed and working. But I've problems to get the avelsieve plugin for squirrelmail working with dovecot. The "Message Filters" show up in "Options" of squirrelmail, but "Could not log on to timsieved daemon on your IMAP server ........." dovecot log shows: Mar 6

Hello, I'd like to generate a filled step-function in R as you can see in the attachement (image is generated by grapher, but I need a freely available alternative). The problem is, that I don't know, how to fill it up. My code right now looks like this: pH <- c(0,6.1,6.1,6.3,6.6,7.3,0) Tiefe <- c(0,0,10,40,80,120,10) plot(pH,Tiefe,type="s",main="Tiefenfunktion

Hi *, running dovecot 1.2.alpha1 I find the following messages in the log: Sep 10 01:28:38 seymour dovecot: IMAP(steffen,192.168.28.31): fchown(/home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions.lock) failed: Operation not permitted Sep 10 01:28:38 seymour dovecot: IMAP(steffen,192.168.28.31): file_dotlock_open() failed with subscription file /home/Mail/steffen/subscriptions: Operation not permitted Sep 10

I know I'm wearing you guys out. I thought I had mail working. It is but it isn't. Mail is stuck in /var/spool/mail. This is a fresh install of dovecot and postfix. I have uninstalled mailscanner as well until I can figure out what's wrong. I sent a test mail from root to tdukes but its not being delivered to ~/Maildir Here's the clip from maillog: Jan 30 18:40:42 ts130