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I have Dovecot 1.0 in trial use by the IT staff, and have some locking questions Background, the mail server runs procmail, sendmail and NFS exports the user homedir and mailbox to a) a login shell host and b) a mailing list services host. It runs UWIMAP on the usual ports and dovecot on a arbitrary port number. Because of concern with NFS and file access contention. I have the following

Last Wednesday at 12:21 I made this switch, which seemed to be uneventful. In any case, no user has reported problems since the migration. Not content to leave well enough alone, this morning I scanned the syslog and maillog for dovecot related errors. What I found was that: Before the Migration=========================== I saw a lot of SSL errors that look like this: > Jan 14 11:49:23

I am bringing more people onto Dovecot...and am beginning to see syslog error messages I've never seen before...what are they/are they critical? 1 =========================== > Jun 12 09:53:21 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(gregory): Corrupted index c > ache file /var/dcndx/gregory/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed This has the same date stamp as the user's

As I explained, I want to be able to run a second instance of DC through another port to do testing while not interrupting the users using the primary instance in the the regular port. I was instructed to create a second config file with different listen ports and a separate base_dir. I did so and invoked dc with -c pointing to dovecot2.conf. Jun 7 10:04:23 mercury mail:info dovecot:

After V1.2 had been up for a while, I started seeing tons of syslog error messages like this: Nov 5 09:11:52 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): stat(/var/dcindx/sdean/.imap/DadEstate) failed: Permission denied (euid=202(sdean) egid=200(hcrc) missing +x perm: /var/dcindx) Ownernship and Permissions are: The index filesystem 2726 root at mercury:/var/dcindx ## ls -ald drwx--S---

Our DC has been using a Verisign certificate. Over the past year, we've been using a Digicert Wildcard Plus certificate for almost all of our machines, and I wanted to switched over our DC mailserver. I used the following command to generate the CSR and key: openssl req -new -newkey rsa:1024 -nodes -out star_bard_edu.csr -keyout star_bard_edu.key -subj "/C=US/ST=NY/L=ourtown/O=Bard

Hi I am trying to install 1.0 stable from source on a test server running 0.99 on FC3. i did basic ./configure etc and get this result Jul 13 17:24:26 proteus4 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec): open(/var/spool/mail/.temp.proteus4.4485.e3eec7b26a559bac) failed: Permission denied Jul 13 17:24:35 proteus4 dovecot: POP3(obantec):

dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<kartagis>, method=plain, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2 dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Error: IMAP(kartagis): open(/var/mail/.temp.kunduz.org.14095.855b9feb950c2c78) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Error: IMAP(kartagis): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/kartagis: Permission denied Hi, I get these

I recently had a system crash and my inbox became inaccessible via IMAP. ls -ld /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Sep 1 07:54 /var/spool/mail ls -l /var/spool/mail/ignacio -rw-rw---- 1 ignacio mail 7222021 Sep 1 07:54 /var/spool/mail/ignacio /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED

Oct 5 22:51:59 ns6 dovecot: POP3(aewhale): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/aewhale: Permission denied Any suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABS Computer Technology, Inc. <http://www.ABS-CompTech.com> - Email,

I have just upgraded to dovecot 1.0.13. All the documentation I can find in the example .conf file and the NEWS and ChangeLog files seems to say that the mail_privileged_group = mail setting is all I should need to make dovecot use group mail to create dotlock files. My understanding from what I read is that mail_privileged_group is used to set the group used while creating dotlock files in (in

Hello I am migrate FC1 to FC2, in FC1 i use ipop3d, but in the migration to FC2 this programa is obsolete, i decide migrate to dovecot, but i have problems with the old mail i have the mail stored into /var/spool/mail/USER and this error appears with examine the mail with Oulook Express: Jun 6 23:24:10 dakota pop3(dakota): open(/var/spool/mail/dakota.lock) failed: Permission denied Jun 6

In V1.1.15 that I fell back to. Again: # 1.1.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200

I am using the base AIX Unix authentication with NIS. There is a base /etc/password file (though the passwords are in a funny, IBM-peculiar file, /etc/security/passed) of just 18 lines...since NIS is in use, the last line is the standard for-anything-you-don't-find-here-try NIS indicator: +::0:0::: When I start up DC, I get these error massages: Apr 9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error

Some empirical testing shows that if I am using the idmap_ad module the template homedir parameter in smb.conf is ignored. I would just like to determine if this is the correct behaviour or if I am doing something wrong. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom.

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p8 postfix-current-2.4.20060903,3 dovecot-1.0.r7 I am experiencing a problem with dovecot as an LDA. It will not deliver mail unless the mail directory is chmod'd to 1777. Below is an example of the log file output. The dovecot.log file had over a hundred entries similar to this: deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1123.cd38cd4d82e1368f)

I'm trying to replace procmail with deliver but I'm having problems with the group part of things. I keep getting: Aug 29 16:44:19 dingbat deliver(mimo): open(/var/mail/.temp.dingbat.3969.d1689935a308e0dd) failed: Permission denied Aug 29 16:44:19 dingbat deliver(mimo): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/mimo: Permission denied My primary group is mimo and I think

well, now that I have moved to dovecot, I'm not getting any spam... in fact, I'm not getting e-mail at all. default_mail_env =mbox:~/IMap2/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u when I first tried to access my inbox, I was told I had permission problems: Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): open(/var/spool/mail/esj.lock) failed: Permission denied Aug 14 17:47:22 harvee imap(esj): file_lock_dotlock()

Hi all: I have a problem running my dovecot server. I get the following error message when trying to get mail from my account with INBOX in /var/spool/mail/tanim (username tanim). Nov 22 19:23:00 phobos imap(tanim): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/tanim: Permission denied What permissions should I set for the mailbox? I am running dovecot-0.99.11-1.1. Tanim --

Hello, I'm trying to set up dovecot as the delivery agent for postfix. I configured postfix with: mailbox_command = = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver In the logs I see the following error: Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: open(/var/mail/.temp.zalm.8045.65c09c28953ea20c) failed: Permission denied Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file