[Dovecot] Calling dovecot deliver from procmail

2009-02-24 Thread Harry Lachanas
I came up with this trick That is Since my previous mail server had a bunch of complex procmail recipies and I am not sure that I can turn them into sieve scripts I am calling dovecot deliver to drop mail in it's final $DEFAULT destination. :0 | /some/path/dovecot/deliver in order to update

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update

2009-02-24 Thread Frank Bonnet
Paul Scott wrote: > Hi All, > > After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the > contents of any emails > > I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I > don't understand dovecot configuration well enough to know how I got it > to go in the first place.

Re: [Dovecot] OT: Fixing Messages To Be RFC 2822 Compliant

2009-02-24 Thread Bill Cole
Neil wrote, On 2/23/09 4:16 AM: Soapparently I have some messages which are not RFC compliant sitting in my mailboxes (mostly older ones), and I have some software which is refusing to handle such messages. 1. Does anyone know of a nice way to verify that all my messages are compliant/find t

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:11:43 -0500 Fra: Timo Sirainent > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:38 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29:17 +0100 > > Fra: Pascal Volk > > > On 25.02.2009 00:25 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > > > The recepie assumes I have a group called secmail

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:36:00 +0100 (CET) Fra: "Daniel Aleksandersen" > Sendt: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:11:43 -0500 > Fra: Timo Sirainent > > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:38 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > > Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29:17 +0100 > > > Fra: Pascal Volk > > > > On 25.02.2009 00:25

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:38 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29:17 +0100 > Fra: Pascal Volk > > On 25.02.2009 00:25 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > > The recepie assumes I have a group called secmail. I don’t. Am I supposed > > > to create > > > a special group for t

Re: [Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:58 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > I am using Opera Mail. The folder is listen over telnet and it is shown in > that test > of your’s as well. I thus assume it is by design. But should I not be able to > rename > it? INBOX does not necessarily mean the same in all la

Re: [Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:44:11 -0500 Fra: Timo Sirainen > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 22:41 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > > What does it contain? Sounds like you have somehow just created a > > > mailbox called INDEX. You can probably just delete it. > > > > It contains new messages. I assume

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Pascal Volk
On 25.02.2009 00:38 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > I created the group and set the permissions to deliver as described in the > recepie. I > then added just about every user to that group. I still get permission errors > when > dovecot tries to access my maildir. Setting permissions of the mail

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29:17 +0100 Fra: Pascal Volk > On 25.02.2009 00:25 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > The recepie assumes I have a group called secmail. I don’t. Am I supposed > > to create > > a special group for this purpose? > > Yes, if the group does not exists, you have to create it.

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Pascal Volk
On 25.02.2009 00:25 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > The recepie assumes I have a group called secmail. I don’t. Am I supposed to > create > a special group for this purpose? Yes, if the group does not exists, you have to create it. You could call it whatever you want. Regards, Pascal -- Ubuntu

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:09:10 +0100 Fra: Pascal Volk > On 24.02.2009 23:54 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > I have tried different options on my maildirs. Dovecot gives me permission > > errors > > unless I set it to 775. I have seen that many mention 660 as the best > > permission > > setting

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Pascal Volk
On 24.02.2009 23:54 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > I have tried different options on my maildirs. Dovecot gives me permission > errors > unless I set it to 775. I have seen that many mention 660 as the best > permission > setting for maildirs when used in setups similar to my own. Can anyone expla

Re: [Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:28:07 +0100 (CET) Fra: "Daniel Aleksandersen" > I am just experimenting with seting up my own email server. I want some tips > and hints on how to secure my setup to prevent unauthorised assess to my > email. > I have read through the wiki and have not found many t

Re: [Dovecot] Read-Only IMAP

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 17:41 -0500, Neil wrote: > Inspired by the "Dovecot as a email storage system" thread... > > Is there a way to instruct Dovecot go into read-only mode for an > account, or a mailbox? ACL plugin would be one possibility. It won't prevent creating new mailboxes though. > Coul

[Dovecot] Read-Only IMAP

2009-02-24 Thread Neil
Inspired by the "Dovecot as a email storage system" thread... Is there a way to instruct Dovecot go into read-only mode for an account, or a mailbox? Could I maybe fake it by setting perms on the maildir directory to 440?

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot1.2 segfault

2009-02-24 Thread Stephan Bosch
Ian P. Christian wrote: 2009/2/24 Timo Sirainen : Looks like the POP3 proxying code was just broken. Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/98e1115cd8f0 Timo, thank you so much for your amazingly fast response - I really appreciate it. Stephan, how often does your apt repos re-bundle t

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot1.2 segfault

2009-02-24 Thread Ian P. Christian
2009/2/24 Timo Sirainen : > Looks like the POP3 proxying code was just broken. Fixed: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/98e1115cd8f0 Timo, thank you so much for your amazingly fast response - I really appreciate it. Stephan, how often does your apt repos re-bundle the source package from R

Re: [Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 22:41 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > What does it contain? Sounds like you have somehow just created a > > mailbox called INDEX. You can probably just delete it. > > It contains new messages. I assume this is the root email directory. My email > client > cannot renam

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot1.2 segfault

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:29 +, Ian P. Christian wrote: > #1 0x00405fdd in proxy_input (input=0x6533a0, > output=0x653528, client=0x64e790) at pop3-proxy.c:210 > line = 0x6271b8 "?qb" > __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "proxy_input" Looks like the POP3 proxying code was just broke

Re: [Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:34:34 -0500 Fra: Timo Sirainen > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:33 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I think there is a technical reason for this, but I am not sure. My IMAP > > client > > shows a folder called INDEX. This is my maildir. I wonder if it is poss

Re: [Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:33 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: > Hi > > I think there is a technical reason for this, but I am not sure. My IMAP > client > shows a folder called INDEX. This is my maildir. I wonder if it is possible to > change the name of this folder to something else? What does

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot1.2 segfault

2009-02-24 Thread Ian P. Christian
Hope this helps Timo, thanks! Hope I'm not doing anything stupid ;) (gdb) cont Continuing. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. i_stream_next_line (stream=0x6533a0) at istream.c:248 248 istream.c: No such file or directory. in istream.c (gdb) bt full #0 i_stream_next_

[Dovecot] Securing mailboxes and passwords

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Hi list I am just experimenting with seting up my own email server. I want some tips and hints on how to secure my setup to prevent unauthorised assess to my email. I have read through the wiki and have not found many tips. I hope to improve the wiki with tips gathered from the emailing li

Re: [Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Sendt: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:12:02 + Fra: "Ian P. Christian" > 2009/2/24 Daniel Aleksandersen: > > I think there is a technical reason for this, but I am not sure. My IMAP > > client > > shows a folder called INDEX. This is my maildir. I wonder if it is possible > > to > > change the name of th

Re: [Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Ian P. Christian
2009/2/24 Daniel Aleksandersen : > Hi > > I think there is a technical reason for this, but I am not sure. My IMAP > client > shows a folder called INDEX. This is my maildir. I wonder if it is possible to > change the name of this folder to something else? This is not typical - perhaps you've som

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot as a email storage system

2009-02-24 Thread Ian P. Christian
2009/2/24 Roderick A. Anderson : > Anyone see problems with doing this? no :)

[Dovecot] Dovecot as a email storage system

2009-02-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I was thinking about all the old email I have and don't want to get rid of and how much space it is taking on my mail server. The idea came to me to install Dovecot on a server at home then I could drop mail into I want to save. It doesn't need to receive mail except what that is moved to it

[Dovecot] Rename INDEX

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Hi I think there is a technical reason for this, but I am not sure. My IMAP client shows a folder called INDEX. This is my maildir. I wonder if it is possible to change the name of this folder to something else? -- Daniel

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot1.2 segfault

2009-02-24 Thread Stephan Bosch
Timo Sirainen schreef: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:14 +, Ian P. Christian wrote: Feb 24 16:06:07 proxy kernel: pop3-login[6825]: segfault at 0128 rip 004107b5 rsp 7fff77bb6520 error 4 Feb 24 16:06:07 proxy dovecot: child 6825 (login) killed with signal 11 (ip=127.0.1.34

Re: [Dovecot] email stuck in outbox

2009-02-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-24-2009 10:46 AM barnaby cockcroft spake the following: > Can anyone here help me out with a client side Outlook issue? I know > outlook is a horrible imap client :( > > We intermittently have a problem where mail gets "stuck" in Outlook > users' outboxes. > > Might have anything to do with

Re: [Dovecot] email stuck in outbox

2009-02-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
barnaby cockcroft wrote: > Can anyone here help me out with a client side Outlook issue? I know > outlook is a horrible imap client :( > > We intermittently have a problem where mail gets "stuck" in Outlook > users' outboxes. > > Might have anything to do with dovecot? I really doubt so. It could

[Dovecot] email stuck in outbox

2009-02-24 Thread barnaby cockcroft
Can anyone here help me out with a client side Outlook issue? I know outlook is a horrible imap client :( We intermittently have a problem where mail gets "stuck" in Outlook users' outboxes. Might have anything to do with dovecot? Is there anyway I can troubleshoot this server side? Are there any

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Scott
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:44 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:31 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Hi All, After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the contents of any emails What exactly d

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot1.2 segfault

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:14 +, Ian P. Christian wrote: > Feb 24 16:06:07 proxy kernel: pop3-login[6825]: segfault at > 0128 rip 004107b5 rsp 7fff77bb6520 error 4 > Feb 24 16:06:07 proxy dovecot: child 6825 (login) killed with signal > 11 (ip=127.0.1.34) You can reprodu

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:31 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi All, > > After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the > contents of any emails What exactly does that mean? Does it list mailboxes? Does it list mailbox contents, but just not open the mail? See if there's anything i

Re: [Dovecot] Broken dovecot-uidlist files

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:59 +0100, Ulrich Zehl wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:08:52AM +0100, Ulrich Zehl wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:10:29PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > I suppose looking at a couple of those could verify if it's really just > > > NFS caching related corruption

[Dovecot] Dovecot problem after last Debian sid update

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Scott
Hi All, After upgrading dovecot for sid Thunderbird no longer displays the contents of any emails I have had a working IMAP setup for as much as a year even though I don't understand dovecot configuration well enough to know how I got it to go in the first place. Here is the output of dovecot -

Re: [Dovecot] "dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line" error

2009-02-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:54 +0530, Dovecot List wrote: > --Note: Based on recommendation, kernel was upgraded from 2.6.18 (- > see below for details) and yet the issue persists. .. > 1) Server spec used for mail Access > OS: Linux 2.6.28 i686 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) > kernel : 2.6.28 > 2

[Dovecot] dovecot1.2 segfault

2009-02-24 Thread Ian P. Christian
I've tried 2 builds of dovecot, based on a amd64 rebuild of the experimental package on http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ I've tried to include as much useful info as possible, sorry if I've missed out anything of use. Let me know as I'm more then happy to assist in any way possible. $ telnet hos

Re: [Dovecot] "dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line" error

2009-02-24 Thread Jigs0027
Please just post output of dovecot -n instead of copy/paste from config file. Output of dovecot -n protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(defaul

Re: [Dovecot] Broken dovecot-uidlist files

2009-02-24 Thread Ulrich Zehl
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:08:52AM +0100, Ulrich Zehl wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:10:29PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > I suppose looking at a couple of those could verify if it's really just > > NFS caching related corruption or something else. > > Okay, I will post results when I have

Re: [Dovecot] "dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line" error

2009-02-24 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/24/2009, Dovecot List (dove...@jigs.in) wrote: > Conf on both the system as follows = Please just post output of dovecot -n instead of copy/paste from config file. -- Best regards, Charles