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Hello, dovecot-1.0.3 on Fedora 6 works perfect in general but sometimes the system becomes unresponsive and the log file shows tons of messages like this: ... imap-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: 127.0.0.1, secured ... pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: aa.bb.cc.dd Restarting dovecot helps, but what's behind? What can I do to prevent this? dovecot -n output: #

Hello *, I've the following problem with dovecot 1.0.7: /var/log/messages shows | Dec 13 13:48:27 mailbox kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 143. Sending cookies. and /var/log/maillog shows (Please note: nearly the same time): | Dec 13 13:48:28 mailbox dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files This leads to an unresponsive mail service and requires a dovecot restart. What

Hello *, I'm running dovecot 1.0.10 on a Fedora 6 with this configuration # 1.0.10: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/mailbox.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/mailbox.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default):

Hello *, since the upgrade to version 1.0.5 (from 1.0.3) I observe lines of the form imap(XXXXXXXX): Connection closed: Broken pipe in the logfile, which I've never seen before. What's behind? Should I care about? Regards ______________________________________________________________ Frank Elsner / c/o Technische Universitaet Berlin |

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

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

On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:17:28 +0100 Frank Elsner via dovecot wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:47:27 +0100 Frank Elsner via dovecot wrote: [ ... ] > I narrowed the probelem down to the warnings > > Warning: service auth { client_limit=128 } is lower than required under max. load (768) > Warning: service anvil { client_limit=256 } is lower than required under max. load (643) These

Happy Xmas, when using a post-login procedure the "verbose_proctitle = yes" has no effect. If it is feature then please explain else please fix the bug fi --Frank Elsner

Hi all, I want to use maildir++ quota with dovecot but when starting I get: > service dovecot start Starting IMAP-Service (dovecot 1.1.7) ILoading modules from directory: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap IModule loaded: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so IModule loaded: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so IModule loaded:

Hi to both adressed mailing lists, I followed the instructions in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL exim.conf: | plain: | driver = dovecot | public_name = PLAIN | server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client | server_set_id = $auth1 | | login: | driver = dovecot | public_name = LOGIN | server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client |

Hi, I try to compile dovecot -2.2.24 on Fedora 31 and get the following error: iostream-openssl.c: In function ?openssl_iostream_verify_client_cert?: iostream-openssl.c:118:37: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ?X509_STORE_CTX? {aka ?struct x509_store_ctx_st?} 118 | subject = X509_get_subject_name(ctx->current_cert); | ^~ make[3]: ***

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 |

Hello *, I've a well functioning dovecot.1.2.10 installation. I'd like to migrate to dovecot.2.0.beta. Is it possible to use one (big) dovecot.conf or must I split it into pieces into directory conf.d? What is the best procedure to convert the configuration file? Any pointers welcome. --Frank Elsner

Hello, My "exim" is doing the deliveries, "dovecot" handles POP/IMAP. Exim Log shows: 2009-07-24 14:03:40 1MUJUy-0001Jr-B0 == user at domain.tu-berlin.de R=maildir_user T=maildir_delivery defer (2): No such file or directory: while opening or reading /var/Mail/Boxes/u/user/maildirsize 2009-07-24 14:20:32 1MUJUy-0001Jr-B0 => user <user at domain.tu-berlin.de>

Hello *, strange happening yesterday. See this logfile lines: Sep 10 20:45:52 seymour ntpd[9104]: synchronized to 192.53.103.108, stratum 1 Sep 10 20:58:07 seymour ntpd[9104]: synchronized to 134.34.3.18, stratum 1 Sep 10 21:21:02 seymour dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 434 seconds. [ ... ] Sep 10 21:26:36 seymour ntpd[9104]: no servers reachable Sep 10 21:42:56 seymour

Hi, running dovecot-2.0.14 under Fedora 14 with kernel 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.i686.PA I've found a strange error in log which I've nerver observed before when startung dovecot: auth-worker: Error: dlopen(/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_imap.so) failed: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_imap.so: undefined symbol: o_stream_switch_ioloop Dovecot seems to work normal

... Warning: /media/Backup28a is no longer mounted. If this is intentional, remove it with doveadm mount Hello, the above message appeared when I restarted dovecot. What has dovecot to deal with my USB-Backup-Disk? Dovecot cares about filesystem without any relation to the mail system? Why this? What's bedind? Thanks in advance, Frank Elsner

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

This morning, I noticed in my security email, that my entire /usr/bin directory had setuid diff's set on them. I think I've been hacked. So I installed chkrootkit from ports and ran it. It showed not infected for everything, except NETSTAT. NETSTAT showed infected... I ran chkrootkit for another machine (at my office), and it showed not infected for everything. Both machines are

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