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Jaldhar H. Vyas | 1 Mar 2004 18:20
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Re: severe problem

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Ewald Geschwinde wrote:

> I have debian knoppix and postfix + dovecot imap
>
> My problem is the following:
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> Feb 29 18:51:14 cybserv imap-login: Login: xx <at> xxx.xx [xx.xx.xx.xx]
> Feb 29 18:51:14 cybserv dovecot: child 13959 (imap) killed with signal 11
> Feb 29 18:52:41 cybserv imap-login: Disconnected [xx.xxx.xx.xx]
> Feb 29 18:52:41 cybserv dovecot: child 13952 (login) killed with signal 11
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>
> I'm using the debian package for the version 0.99.10.4-2
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> Always when someone tries to login the server throws this error
>
> I don't know whats going wrong
>
> I'm using a postgresql backend
>

Signal 11 is SIGSEGV which indicates a memory fault.  If you go back a few
days, instructions were posted on this list about how to use GDB to
provide a trace.  This will give more information on where exactly the
problem is occurring.

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Julian Melville | 2 Mar 2004 05:39
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Dovecot failing silently on startup

I'm puzzled... I'm running the Debian package of Dovecot 0.99.10.4 on a
Debian (testing) server, and it's basically doing nothing on startup for
an extended period. After a while (maybe 10 minutes or more) it all
suddenly starts working, all without logging anything untoward. 

All the dovecot processes appear to start OK, and 'Dovecot starting up'
is logged to the syslog. If you telnet to an IMAP or POP3 port at this
point, it will successfully connect but there's no response (i.e. no '*
OK dovecot ready').

Nothing else on this server is failing in this way; e.g. Apache and
PostgreSQL are running fine throughout this period.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Cheers,

Julian.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas | 2 Mar 2004 06:23
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Re: Dovecot failing silently on startup

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Julian Melville wrote:

> I'm puzzled... I'm running the Debian package of Dovecot 0.99.10.4 on a
> Debian (testing) server, and it's basically doing nothing on startup for
> an extended period. After a while (maybe 10 minutes or more) it all
> suddenly starts working, all without logging anything untoward.
>
> All the dovecot processes appear to start OK, and 'Dovecot starting up'
> is logged to the syslog. If you telnet to an IMAP or POP3 port at this
> point, it will successfully connect but there's no response (i.e. no '*
> OK dovecot ready').
>

How are your mailboxes arranged?

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Kai Hendry | 2 Mar 2004 16:03
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Re: debian unstable : mutt polling imap mailboxes

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:19:10PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I use courier IMAP at school, and I have not experienced this problem. A
> > bug with dovecot or mutt?
> 
> It's most likely a Dovecot bug, possibly related to somewhat broken
> RECENT count handling. I can't reproduce it though, do you have to tell
> mutt somehow to check the new mails?

You tell mutt to poll mailboxes with the mailboxes directive in the
configuration file .muttrc:

For example mutt will check poll these mailboxes on my host for new
mail:

mailboxes {hendry <at> daidalos.pannuhuone.org/ssl}                                                                                                                                                                     
mailboxes imaps://hendry <at> daidalos.pannuhuone.org/prazefarm                                                                                                                                                         
mailboxes imaps://hendry <at> daidalos.pannuhuone.org/rss

Doc:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.11

I use maildrop to filter the mail into respective mailboxes.
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Timo Sirainen | 3 Mar 2004 01:20
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Re: UW-IMAP -> Dovecot : patch to remove nasty "internal messages" from UW-IMAP ?

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:55, wired <at> linfe.it wrote:
> >From Timo Sirainen, Feb 25:
>  >I don't really recommend using Dovecot with mbox at the moment. I'll
>  >probably add support for "folder internal data" messages for rewritten
>  >mbox support.
> 
> 
> Well, i am using mbox currently. My mails are at risk?
> Should i switch to maildir? 

I've been using mbox for a year and haven't yet seen a lost mail. Of
course, I'm not sure if I would notice it.. :)

There does anyway appear to be some problems with accessing Drafts mbox.
Probably because it's so often emptied completely by client, or because
of some usage pattern that clients use for it (append, delete, expunge,
append, ..). The result is that sometimes when there's two drafts and
the first one is expunged, the second one is expunged as well.

I've also heard of some actual mbox corruption from one large
installation, but I don't know if it really was Dovecot's problem as
I've never heard of it from others. Might have been some problem related
to their specific environment.
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Timo Sirainen | 3 Mar 2004 01:25
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Re: index file corruption

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:59, mat <at> reynerie.org wrote:
> I'm using Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10p0) on OpenBSD-3.4 for few weeks now.
> 
> When i connect to my IMAP account the connection is often closed by 
> dovecot when i try to delete mails.
> 
> I can see messages like this in log:
> 
> Feb 29 18:47:00 po imap(mat <at> reynerie.org): Corrupted binary tree file
> /home/mat/Maildir//.INBOX/.imap.index.tree: used_file_size larger than
> real file size (1772 vs 1556)

I guess Dovecot doesn't work too well with OpenBSD now. Although I
haven't heard of constant failures with it. OpenBSD-port had a patch
which tried to fix this issue, but I don't think the patch is perfect.

Real fix will be next version..
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Joseph Teichman | 3 Mar 2004 17:54

Re: UW-IMAP -> Dovecot : patch to remove nasty

> I've also heard of some actual mbox corruption from one large
> installation, but I don't know if it really was Dovecot's problem as
> I've never heard of it from others. Might have been some problem related
> to their specific environment.

I have also had a similar problem where there was partial curroption of an 
mbox folder. After that point in time, I could not properly read some messags 
using Openwebmail. I did not have time to fully investigate the exact cause 
and the exact form of the curroption, but I did want to let you know that it 
is an issue.
Thanks,
Joe
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Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen | 4 Mar 2004 10:40
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user

Hi.
I want to test my users.
This means when i login via telnet or other,i can
login into imapo server.
Please guide me.....
Yours,Mohsen.

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Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen | 4 Mar 2004 10:46
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libpam-pwdfile

hi
Where are libpam-pwdfile on my hard?
Please guide me...
Yours,Mohsen.

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Matthias Andree | 4 Mar 2004 13:10
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RFE: more graceful handling of startup errors

Hi,

I've just had a funny (but not amusing) incident after boot-up on a
Dovecot server. rpc.mountd (NFS server) grabbed port 995 (POP3-SSL), and
the whole Dovecot lot (POP3-SSL, IMAP-SSL, IMAP) refused to start up,
rather than just letting POP3-SSL fail with "address in use".

May I request to kindly consider letting Dovecot services fail
individually rather than all of them, at least optionally?

TIA,

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