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Hi, using the latest dovecot with pop3/imap. Using mostly outlook 2003 for pop3 and squirrel mail imap. I have a lot of users reporting back that imap is very slow. We average about 300 imap and another 700 pop session at any given time. Here's my config: disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

Hi List I'm currently in the process of migrating my dovecot imap/pop users to a new server and have to extract their passwords in order to import them into the new system (different password encryption schemes). I've tried enabling auth_* debug parameters in my dovecot.conf in the hope that this would result in logging plaintext passwords to the dovecot log. However dovecot does not log

I'm trying to migrate from qmail to postfix. The original server is combo of qmail and Courier imap (no pop mailboxes) I have a working Postfix config and had imap working with Courier imap on the new server. I thought I would experiment with Dovecot as it has some good press. I have moved the contents of my original maildir's to the new server and ste permissions and group membership

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Have a strange problem with just POP3 users. Their email clients will fail every so often with the following: Logging into POP Server, PASS [09:16:29 PM] There has been an error transferring your mail. I said PASS <shhhh! Don't tell anyone.> and then the POP server (user at mail.engr.colostate.edu) said: ERR Authentication failed. This

As of late our four node dovecot 1.2.13 cluster has been experiencing a massive number of these dotlock errors: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (1295480202 vs 1295479784): /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist These dotlock errors correspond with very high load averages, and eventually we have to turn off all but one server to stop them from occurring. We first

Hello. I'm administrating a CentOS 3.8 linux system (RHEL3) and I just replaced the imap-2002d-12 package that came with the system, with a dovecot 1.01 package I obtained through the dovecot home page. The problem I have, is that many of my POP3 users have jailed user accounts set up through wu-ftpd, where the dir field is of the form /home/group/./pop/user, and wu-ftpd chroots them from

Hi! I'm running 1.1rc4 on a system and this happens occasionally: --8<-- mail.info; dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap lip=NN.NN.NN.NN rip=NNN.NN.NNN.NN lport=143 mail.info; dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(XXXXXXXXXXXX,NNN.NN.NNN.NN): lookup service=imap kern.alert; kernel: grsec: From NN.NN.NN.NN: denied resource overstep by requesting

Hi, I have a FreeBSD 7.0 server with the following version of software's installed: postfix-2.5.4,1 postfixadmin-2.2.1.1 roundcube-0.2.a,1 php5 mysql-server-5.0.67 dovecot-1.1.3_1 Note that pre-reqs for all of the above also has been installed. I have used this guide to walk myself through the setup : http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4 My setup uses virtual domain and

Hello, I am trying to migrate users form courier to dovecot 1.2.6. The main configuration parameters are as follows : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # 1.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 2304). Either grow the limit or change

Hi Folks, I'm fairly new to linux so this message may reflect that. dovecot info (running on CentOS 5.0): protocols: pop3s listen: ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable:

I am thinking of trying out dbox format. I am currently using maildir. Is it possible for me to switch just one user account to dbox while keeping all of my other users on maildir? If so, how would I go about doing that? Here is a copy of my dovecot -n: # 1.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap

Hello all, I'm using dovecot version 1.07 on CentoOS 5 (clone of RHEL 5). When there is no existing mbox file for a user in /var/mail I get the following error: --------------- Jul 31 16:32:32 newnewton dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<testm2>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured Jul 31 16:32:32 newnewton dovecot: IMAP(testm2): open(/var/mail/testm2,

Hi folks, My institute's mail server was upgraded to RHEL5 with dovecot 1.0-2.1rc5 recently. And it uses PAM authentication which points to LDAP server. Now from time to time it gets Error like dovecot: Aug 29 09:23:59 Error: auth(default): pam(joshua,192.168.177.52): pipe() failed: Too many open files and users can not login. My config is like dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir:

What is auth-master, and how do I create it? Using postfix 2.1.5 dovecot 1.0.0 # /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot_error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap):

Hello list, i would like to use master user functionality in dovecot v1.2, but i just cant get it to work: Here?s my configuration: # dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap):

I am running Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP. When I try to delete one of the folders I get a dialog with the following "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Target mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes." I am running dovecot version 1.0.13-6.fc8 under Fedora 8. The output of dovecot -n is below; [root at www knute]# dovecot -n # 1.0.13:

Hi, dovecot --version 1.0.beta8 dovecot -n login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3

I recently am attempting a mbox to Maildir conversion, initially for a single email address, and then for everyone. To further this diagnostic here is the dovecot -n: dovecot -n # 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

Hi, i don't know. Is normal login_max_processes_count > 1024?? Our environment is about 1700 users (imaps + thunderbird or imaps+horde). The server is RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2 User logins different in a hour: # cat dovecot.info | grep 'Nov 11 10' | grep "login: Login" | cut -d'<' -f2 | cut -d'>' -f1 | sort | uniq | wc -l 685 Logins in a hour:

Using Seamonkey as my email client, and IMAP to check mail. If I create a new IMAP folder, and then delete it, I get the error: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Target mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes. Tried a google search, didn't really come up with anything. I have rw permissions on /home/awilliam/Mail/* and delete the files fine using rm