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Frank Leonhardt | 1 Aug 2009 12:00
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Re: E-Mail Encryption

On 25/07/2009 10:37, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:39:25PM +0100, Frank Leonhardt
(t200907 <at> fjl.co.uk) wrote:
> 
>>> How much good do your locks do when police comes and wants to
>>> confiscate your servers because they suspect one of your users
>>> has done something criminal? Do you trust they take as good care
>>> of the machines as you do?
>> How do you know I'm *not* the Police?
> 
> I don't. But I do know dovecot is being used by people who are not,
> and probably also some who have a reason to distrust the police.
> 
>> We're in very interesting territory here, and it's going to depend on
your
>> local laws. In England the police are pretty okay
> 
> Sure. Ditto in Finland. But not everywhere.

<SNIP>

I think we can all agree on that. However, in practical terms it's better if
the email users encrypt their own mail and keep the ISP out of it. If the
mail user is a friend then they're putting you in a difficult situation (you
get tortured instead of them....). If if your a big ISP (e.g. Yahoo) then
commercial considerations mean you don't care anyway.

>> The main reason I'd be in favour of application-based file encryption is
to
>> get around the fact that whole-disk encryption is meaningless as
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Frank Leonhardt | 1 Aug 2009 12:00
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All mail in mbox disappears when using Outlook

I thought I was imaging it but... I have a friend (honestly) that likes to
clear his inbox every month by copying older into a folder (e.g. June-2009).
Every month he complains that all the mail in the new folder has
disappeared. This has happened three times now, and he's sort-of-right. I
now believe it's a bug rather than him.

The setup is Dovecot 1.1.3 on FreeBSD 7.0 and the client is Outlook 2003 SP3
(using IMAP).

What you end up with is a folder called June-2009 with no messages visible.
Outlook reckons it's completely empty - size 0. I don't know how he gets to
this point, but it can't be anything that bizarre - just copying messages.
It's happened three months in a row. However, he can't see the contents and
I can't see the contents using Outlook. Strangely, Eudora and Squirrel have
no problem.

Corrupt mbox file? Probably not. If you copy the problem one, the copy works
fine. The really weird thing is that if you rename the problem file (using
mv) it STILL DOESN'T work. I've considered the possibility that it's got a
bad lock on it, but if so, how come Squirrel and Eudora have no problem?

I've searched as far as I can for any known problems using Outlook.

What next?

Thanks, Frank.

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# 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
log_path: /var/log/dovecot
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Luigi Rosa | 1 Aug 2009 15:09
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Re: All mail in mbox disappears when using Outlook


Frank Leonhardt said the following on 01/08/09 12:00:

> I've searched as far as I can for any known problems using Outlook.

What about the size of the mailbox?

Each version of Outlook has its own issue regarding the maximum size of PST files.

Ciao,
luigi

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Zhang Huangbin | 2 Aug 2009 04:36
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Best way to get login protocol (pop3/imap) in post-login script

Hi, all.

I found doc here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
and use ${USER}, ${IP} to track last-login username and remote ip  
address, but how can i track the mail protocol it used? like pop3,  
pop3s, imap, imaps?

Currently, i wrote shell script as post-login script, and use below  
command to get protocol:

----
$(basename ${MAIL_PLUGIN_DIR})
----

But is it the best way to get it?

Thanks very much. :)

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- Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux,
   CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu:
   + http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/
   + http://www.iredmail.org/forum/
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Zhang Huangbin | 2 Aug 2009 04:51
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Best way to get login protocol (pop3/imap) in post-login script

Hi, all.

I found doc here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
and use ${USER}, ${IP} to track last-login username and remote ip  
address, but how can i track the mail protocol it used? like pop3,  
pop3s, imap, imaps?

Currently, i wrote shell script as post-login script, and use below  
command to get protocol:

----
$(basename ${MAIL_PLUGIN_DIR})
----

But is it the best way to get it?

Thanks very much. :)

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Best Regards.

Zhang Huangbin

- Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux,
  CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu:
  + http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/
  + http://www.iredmail.org/forum/
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Jack Raats | 2 Aug 2009 07:56
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imap error

This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail.
I cann't connect. I'll get the following error:

Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jack>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1,
lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: IMAP(jack): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=44/298

The pop3 is not affected.

Can anyone give me a clue where to look for??

Thanks

Jack
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Timo Sirainen | 2 Aug 2009 07:58
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Re: imap error

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 07:56 +0200, Jack Raats wrote:
> This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail.
> I cann't connect. I'll get the following error:
> 
> Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jack>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1,
lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: IMAP(jack): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=44/298

That's not an error. The IMAP client logs in and then successfully logs
out.
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Jack Raats | 2 Aug 2009 08:02
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Re: imap error

But squirrelmail refuses to connect. It can't authenticate

SquirrelMail version 1.4.19
By the SquirrelMail Project Team
            ERROR
            You must be logged in to access this page.
            Go to the login page

strange.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss <at> iki.fi>
To: "Jack Raats" <jack <at> jarasoft.net>
Cc: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot <at> dovecot.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap error

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 07:56 +0200, Jack Raats wrote:
> This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail.
> I cann't connect. I'll get the following error:
>
> Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jack>, 
> method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: IMAP(jack): Disconnected: Logged out 
> bytes=44/298

That's not an error. The IMAP client logs in and then successfully logs
out.
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Jack Raats | 2 Aug 2009 08:37
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Re: imap error

Thanks for your squick respond.
The error must be in squirrelmail.

Thanks again

Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss <at> iki.fi>
To: "Jack Raats" <jack <at> jarasoft.net>
Cc: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot <at> dovecot.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap error

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 07:56 +0200, Jack Raats wrote:
> This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail.
> I cann't connect. I'll get the following error:
>
> Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jack>, 
> method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> Aug  2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: IMAP(jack): Disconnected: Logged out 
> bytes=44/298

That's not an error. The IMAP client logs in and then successfully logs
out.
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Stephan Bosch | 2 Aug 2009 12:11
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Re: Managesieve configuration problem

listacc <at> gmx.de schreef:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying for a lot of time to make managesieve working with dovecot 1.1.17 and virtual users on openSuSE
11.1. I think I'm doing some misconfiguration, but I can't figure it out. Perhaps it's something with the
paths to the sieve scripts?
> 
> In dovecot.conf I find in the comments:
> 
[...]
> 
> "This must match the SIEVE setting used by deliver", so I have to take a look to LDA section, no?
> But there I don't find any hint for sieve settings:
No, it's for the Sieve plugin. Those settings are located in the plugin 
section.

> I tried to log in to managesieve manually with gnutls-cli, and that was successfull. I was able to authenticate.
> But when I try to put the example script from dovecot wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/Troubleshooting)
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> PUTSCRIPT "hutsefluts" {6+}
> keep;
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> I get no 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> OK "Putscript completed."
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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