Problem with MBX INBOX
Folks, I have a strange problem with an MBX format INBOX. It contains 6618 messages but only the most recent 33 are being displayed by PINE or any other clients I've tried. Connecting to the INBOX does not result in any error messages so I don't really have anything to go on to make a manual repair. There doesn't appear to be a problem with the message immediately prior to the first one being displayed. Any advice on how to proceed will be gratefully received. Thanks, Clive McDowell Information Services The Queen's University of Belfast -- -- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html --
Re: Problem with MBX INBOX
Does mailutil check mailbox comes back reporting no errors and the correct number of messages? John Landamore School of Mathematics Computer Science University of Leicester University Road, LEICESTER, LE1 7RH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 (0)116 2523410 Fax: +44 (0)116 2523604 Folks, I have a strange problem with an MBX format INBOX. It contains 6618 messages but only the most recent 33 are being displayed by PINE or any other clients I've tried. Connecting to the INBOX does not result in any error messages so I don't really have anything to go on to make a manual repair. There doesn't appear to be a problem with the message immediately prior to the first one being displayed. Any advice on how to proceed will be gratefully received. Thanks, Clive McDowell Information Services The Queen's University of Belfast -- -- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html --
Re: imapd for MacOS X - Authentication errors
Dear Mark,
Thanks for your answer. I've figured out the authentication problems, and
it has to do with PAM. MacOS 10.3 (Panther) uses PAM for all of its
authentication, quite different from 10.2 (Jaguar).
So in addition to starting the imap service on port 143 (and imaps on 993),
which I also hadn't been doing before), I had to add a file 'imap' to
/etc/pam.d/. Something like:
# imap : auth account password session
auth required pam_nologin.so
auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so
auth required pam_deny.so
account required pam_permit.so
password required pam_deny.so
session required pam_uwtmp.so
After this authentication worked, no matter if I compiled with SSLTYPE=unix
or SSLTYPE=nopwd.
I still have problems with the SSL certificate being validated, but that's a
different question for a different mailing list.
I found this page very helpful: http://www.theatrain.net/pantherimaps.html.
Thanks again!
--Matt
On 4/7/05 2:33 PM, Mark Crispin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matthew Leingang wrote:
Now when I try to connect using an IMAP client (even telnet localhost 143)
I can't login. I get the NO LOGIN failed response.
Does this happen when you make an SSL (port 993) connection to your IMAP
server?
Does Entourage do a STARTTLS command? If it doesn't, then you must use
port 993 and not port 143.
I've also tried
building with the arguments SSLTYPE=unix (to allow plaintext logging in,
kind of a no-no). Same problem.
Did you make sure that when the server started, that LOGINDISABLED does
*not* appear in the CAPABILITY list (you'll see it in the server greeting
banner)? If LOGINDISABLED appears, then you are running a SSLTYPE=nopwd
build server.
Note that you must do a complete rebuild (make clean) if you want to
change the SSLTYPE option. There are wizardry ways to avoid this, but
don't distract yourself with that for now.
Please keep me informed of your progress. Unfortunately, greater security
means that there are more things to go wrong, but we'll get you going and
happily IMAPing.
Related question: Once it gets working, I only want to allow connections on
the IMAP port from localhost. Can I do that with the
/etc/hosts.{deny,allow} files?
Yes.
-- Mark --
http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
--
Matthew Leingang
Preceptor in Mathematics
Harvard University
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Re: Problem with MBX INBOX
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Clive McDowell wrote: I have a strange problem with an MBX format INBOX. It contains 6618 messages but only the most recent 33 are being displayed by PINE or any other clients I've tried. That means that the other 6585 messages were deleted and expunged in a shared session. Those messages will be removed (and the space they occupy reclaimed) the next time an expunge or checkpoint is done in an exclusive session. The power tool ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/powertool/unexpunge.c can be used to turn off the expunge bits for those messages. Feed the file to its stdin, and get the unexpunged version on stdout. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Re: Problem with MBX INBOX
Mark Crispin wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Clive McDowell wrote: I have a strange problem with an MBX format INBOX. It contains 6618 messages but only the most recent 33 are being displayed by PINE or any other clients I've tried. That means that the other 6585 messages were deleted and expunged in a shared session. Those messages will be removed (and the space they occupy reclaimed) the next time an expunge or checkpoint is done in an exclusive session. Mark, thanks - that was exactly the problem. This user seems to have a habit of leaving several sessions open. I guess she hasn't run an exclusive session for a while. Once forced to do so the inbox space was recovered. Clive McDowell
