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[Dovecot] Requested xxxx scheme, but we have a NULL password after upgrade
by PhilQ 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

I'm having an issue I can't seem to work around after upgrading from Dovecot 1.0.7 to 1.2.17. After getting Dovecot 1.07 working on CentOS 5.9, I decided that it might be wise to upgrade to a later version, so I stuck with 1.x and went with 1.2.17, which I had to compile from source. CentOS was originally using /etc as the starting path for Dovecot files but the source distribution puts most of the stuff under /usr/local/etc. After the usual config>make>make install dance I made the necessary changes to point to the new libraries, modules, etc. and the "imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v1.2.17, login is v1.0.7...." messages went away. After doing this though I cannot login, I get the following error messages: Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 7 NTLM service=imap lip=192.168.2.102 rip=192.168.2.100 lport=143 rport=1470 Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 7 Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 7 TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAB4IIogAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFASgKAAAADw== Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 7 TlRMTVNTUAACAAAAMAAwADAAAAAFAooATj7XW6ve2hwAAAAAAAAAADgAOABgAAAAUwBlAHIAdgBlAHIAMQAuAGgAZQByAHMAYwBoAGwAYQB1AHIAZQBuAC4AYwBvAG0AAwAwAFMAZQByAHYAZQByADEALgBoAGUAcgBzAGMAaABsAGEAdQByAGUAbgAuAGMAbwBtAAAAAAA= Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 7 TlRMTVNTUAADAAAAGAAYAGoAAABoAGgAggAAAAAAAABIAAAAEAAQAEgAAAASABIAWAAAAAAAAADqAAAABQKIAgUBKAoAAAAP*CENSORED*bgBiAFEAUwBFAC0AVwBJAE4AWABQAEXO6p/WuopqQ02x1kzJGW3NoQELKw32N88JqkbMOYOVErhiS492elwBAQAAAAAAA*CENSORED*ysN9jcAAAAAAwAwAFMAZQByAHYAZQByADEALgBoAGUAcgBzAGMAaABsAGEAdQByAGUAbgAuAGMAbwBtAAAAAAAAAAAA Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: cache(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): miss Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: passwd-file(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): lookup: user=pquesinb file=/etc/dovecot.users Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: password(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): Requested NTLM scheme, but we have a NULL password Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: cache(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): miss Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: password(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): passdb doesn't support credential lookups Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: cache(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): miss Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: password(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): passdb doesn't support credential lookups Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: cache(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): miss Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: password(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): passdb doesn't support credential lookups Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: cache(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): miss Feb 13 15:50:40 auth(default): Info: password(pquesinb,192.168.2.100): passdb doesn't support credential lookups Feb 13 15:50:42 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL 7 user=pquesinb Looking at the log from the old version while it was working, I was getting messages like the following: dovecot: Feb 04 14:14:21 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<pquesinb>, method=NTLM, rip=192.168.2.100, lip=192.168.2.102 dovecot: Feb 04 14:14:21 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<pquesinb>, method=NTLM, rip=192.168.2.100, lip=192.168.2.102 dovecot: Feb 04 14:15:03 Info: IMAP(pquesinb): Disconnected: Logged out dovecot: Feb 04 14:15:03 Info: IMAP(pquesinb): Disconnected: Logged out dovecot: Feb 04 14:15:23 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<pquesinb>, method=NTLM, rip=192.168.2.100, lip=192.168.2.102 dovecot: Feb 04 14:15:23 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<pquesinb>, method=NTLM, rip=192.168.2.100, lip=192.168.2.102 dovecot: Feb 04 14:16:05 Info: IMAP(pquesinb): Disconnected: Logged out dovecot: Feb 04 14:16:05 Info: IMAP(pquesinb): Disconnected: Logged out /etc/dovecot.users contains a list of usernames. Is this error the result of additional security which has been incorporated into the later version of Dovecot, or is it because my installation of the later version from source is broken, somehow incompatible, etc? Dovecot was configured to use PAM and it appeared to know the password of my account, failing when it was entered incorrectly so I'm assuming that it was successfully using PAM. I kept the same syntax in the later config file. >From dovecot.conf: passdb pam { # [session=yes] [setcred=yes] [failure_show_msg=yes] [max_requests=<n>] # [cache_key=<key>] [<service name>] # # session=yes makes Dovecot open and immediately close PAM session. Some # PAM plugins need this to work, such as pam_mkhomedir. # # setcred=yes makes Dovecot establish PAM credentials if some PAM plugins # need that. They aren't ever deleted though, so this isn't enabled by # default. # # max_requests specifies how many PAM lookups to do in one process before # recreating the process. The default is 100, because many PAM plugins # leak memory. # # cache_key can be used to enable authentication caching for PAM # (auth_cache_size also needs to be set). It isn't enabled by default # because PAM modules can do all kinds of checks besides checking password, # such as checking IP address. Dovecot can't know about these checks # without some help. cache_key is simply a list of variables (see # doc/wiki/Variables.txt) which must match for the cached data to be used. # Here are some examples: # %u - Username must match. Probably sufficient for most uses. # %u%r - Username and remote IP address must match. # %u%s - Username and service (ie. IMAP, POP3) must match. # # The service name can contain variables, for example %Ls expands to # pop3 or imap. # # Some examples: # args = session=yes %Ls args = cache_key=%u dovecot #args = dovecot } If anyone could give me some ideas on where to go from here, I'd really appreciate it. If there's little chance of getting the newer version to work with CentOS 5 then I'm ready to just drop back to the older version. Thanks a bunch. - Phil Config info follows: [root@Server1 lda]# dovecot -n # 1.2.17: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-348.el5.centos.plusxen x86_64 CentOS release 5.9 (Final) log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes: 64 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir maildir_very_dirty_syncs: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 100 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): lda: mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda auth default: mechanisms: ntlm plain login digest-md5 cache_size: 16 cache_ttl: 90 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot.users passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%u dovecot passdb: driver: passwd passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Requested-xxxx-scheme-but-we-have-a-NU… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Dovecot] Authentication with many Windows AD
by Antonio Alberola 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hi, > You can set as many databases as you want. Check this: > > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases This solution is valid if I have only one domain. In case you have more than one domain, you need authenticate in the appropriate LDAP server. Is That correct? I'm going to explain my particular case. I have five Windows domains with some users who belong to those domains. I also have other users who are authenticated with local UNIX accounts. The only thing that I can do (I think) is using a Radius server. But, I'd rather not use it.

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap process crash: assertion failed: (full_fs_access)
by Joseph Tam 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> writes: >>>> Any guess at what would cause this? >>>>> Feb 7 21:20:53 server dovecot: imap(user): Panic: file >>>> mailbox-list-fs-iter.c: line 447 (fs_list_get_roots): assertion >>>> failed: (full_fs_access) >>> LIST command that had invalid parameters that somehow got through the >>> first validity check. What namespace config do you have? >> >> namespace { >> alias_for = >> hidden = yes >> list = no >> location = >> prefix = / >> separator = / >> } > > This one causes these crashes. Fixed in v2.2 now: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/fb367a977077 Thanks for diagnosing this. I'll probably remove this namespace or limp along until 2.2 becomes the latest stable release. I added this namespace alias in an abundance of caution: this was to prevent users from trying to peruse the entire file space e.g. /etc. A poor man's chroot. I didn't test this thoroughly to see if it actually did what it was supposed to. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Authentication with many Windows AD
by Antonio Alberola 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Dear All, I'm a new user of Dovecot and I need support with the authentication process. I use Dovecot 2.0.9 and Postfix 2.6.6 on host x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) I need to select the validation method depending on the user. I have users that have to be authenticate with UNIX account, and I have others thats have to be authenticate with Windows AD. For example, some sysadmins and special accounts needs validate with Unix accounts. Other normal users have to authenticate with Windows AD, I have many Windows controllers. Some users authenticate to a specific Windows AD and other users are validated in another one. How I can do this? Thank you very much. Antonio Alberola

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD, Dovecot and ZFS
by Jason Lock 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Mail Issues - FreeBSD Hello, my apologies if this may be the wrong forum but hoping that maybe someone might be able to provide some insight. Have a very sporadic and strange issue with our mail servers running Dovecot on FreeBSD. There are three servers hosting Dovecot with FreeBSD as the underlying operating system. All three connect to a NAS server, again running FreeBSD and ZFS. When the specific issue occurs, clients connecting to check mail via POP3 or IMAP experience long delays and timeouts. To the point where POP3 Logins fail due to the timeouts. The issue is further compounded by clients increasing the number of attempts to check mail. Part of the frustration in attempting to diagnose the issue is not knowing the root cause or symptom that initates the issue. Wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar, or suggestions on ways to help identify the root cause

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[Dovecot] dovecot-uidlist crashing and re retriving messages by pop3 clients
by Piotr Rotter 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hello, I have issue with dovecot (v. 2.1.13)configuration after implementation dovecot-lda (I used maildrop earlier). Now i have 9 servers with storage by NFS v3. My problem is frequently dovecot-uidlist crashing. 2013-02-13T13:34:02.447969+01:00 k1 dovecot: imap(user(a)domain.com): Error: Broken file /path_to_mailbox/dovecot-uidlist line 3170: Invalid data: 2013-02-13T13:34:34.527715+01:00 k1 dovecot: pop3(user(a)domain.com): Error: Broken file /path_to_mailbox/dovecot-uidlist line 367: Invalid data: It happens few time in minute for diferent users and has effect to re retriving messages by pop3 clients. This my NFS mount options: (rw,tcp,vers=3,actimeo=0) 10-mail.conf options: mmap_disable = yes dotlock_use_excl = yes mail_fsync=always mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = yes lock_method = dotlock I do not know what I did wrong and how solve this issue. Maybe NFS v4 or fcntl locks or migration to pop3_uidl_format = %g will by solution. Please some hint. Please any help for solve this issue and sorry my english.

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[Dovecot] backing up maildir dovecot files
by David Mehler 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hello, I'm having to migrate servers. Both are dovecot2 systems. I'm wanting to copy over my mail store from one system to the other. I'd like to preserve dates/times of emails. These are maildir setups on both boxes, I'd like to be as transparent to the end user as possible. I currently have the first dovecot system offline and the second dovecot system is offline. Recommendations? Thanks. Dave.

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[Dovecot] dsync 2.1.10 does not correctly handle renames of mailbox subtrees
by Karol Jurak 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi, It seems that dsync 2.1.10 does not correctly handle renames of mailbox subtrees. The scenario is as follows. There are two servers, A and B, both running dovecot 2.1.10 and configured to use mdbox. Automatic replication between them is disabled, ie. replication plugin is not active and replicator service has process_min_avail = 0. I perform the following actions: 1. On A: doveadm mailbox create -u test_user a a/b a/b/c d 2. On A: doveadm sync -u test_user -d The result is as expected: on both A and B there are a/b/c and d mailboxes. Now I connect to A via IMAP and rename a/b to d/b. The result is as expected: on A there are a and d/b/c mailboxes. Next I execute on A 'doveadm sync -u mailstoragetest -d' and now the result is not as expected: there are a/b/c and d/b subtrees on both A and B and a/b is just a directory, ie. it does not contain dbox-Mails (the rest are proper mailboxes). dovecot.mailbox.logs have the following records appended to them: A: #2112: rename 33259783092361d18c60ba1c7cfe973c (2013-02-12 10:42:55) - this probably is the rename of a/b to d/b (recursive, ie. including children - in this case a/b/c => d/b/c) by the IMAP client #2136: rename ee2be6da91ae879476b152d7ca041f1b (1970-01-01 01:00:00) - rename of d/b/c to a/b/c by dsync (unexpected/incorrect) B: #1104: rename 33259783092361d18c60ba1c7cfe973c (1970-01-01 01:00:00) - rename of a/b to d/b (non recursive) by dsync What seems to be missing is the record in A's dovecot.mailbox.log describing the rename of a/b/c to d/b/c (or in general case the set of records describing the renames of all the children of a/b). Would appending such records allow dsync to make correct decisions as to which mailboxes and on which servers to rename? Thanks for any help. # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.1 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_username_format = %Ln default_vsz_limit = 2 G dotlock_use_excl = no dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -l%{login} %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u -l5 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_access_groups = mail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:ALT=/var/vmail/alt/%n mail_plugins = acl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile } protocols = imap lmtp pop3 service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { mode = 0666 } unix_listener replication-notify { mode = 0666 } } service auth { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/auth unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } user = root } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0666 } } service doveadm { process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 1024 } service imap-login { chroot = login executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } service_count = 0 user = dovecot } service imap { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } process_limit = 48 } service pop3-login { chroot = login executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 110 } service_count = 0 user = dovecot } service pop3 { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_plugins = acl } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { mail_plugins = acl } -- Karol Jurak

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap process crash: assertion failed: (full_fs_access)
by Joseph Tam 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> writes: > > Any guess at what would cause this? > > > > Feb 7 21:20:53 server dovecot: imap(user): Panic: file > > mailbox-list-fs-iter.c: line 447 (fs_list_get_roots): assertion > > failed: (full_fs_access) > > LIST command that had invalid parameters that somehow got through the > first validity check. What namespace config do you have? I got more info from the user that had this problem. He reported that he was was setting up a new Email client (Nexus4 Android) and he sent me a screenshot of his setup. Everything look ordinary except perhaps the IMAP prefix set to "mail". My setup documents inform users to leave it blank, but sometimes they use "mail/", a holdover from the uw-imapd days. I provide some aliases for that, but I don't know what would happen if you leave off the trailing "/". My namespace settings as reported by dovecot -n: namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } (The following are aliases to keep backward compatibility) namespace { alias_for = hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = / separator = / } namespace { alias_for = hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = mail/ separator = / } namespace { alias_for = hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = ~/mail/ separator = / } namespace { alias_for = hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = ~%u/mail/ separator = / } I've asked the user to change his prefix, and he'll probably report back. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Is there any way to mask or hide the INBOX label for Dovecot 1.2.x Shared Mailboxes?
by Jason Discount 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hello, I'm setting up a new Dovecot sever to replace an old Cyrus server, and need to keep things as consistent as possible. I have a couple local accounts, like junkmail and notjunkmail that users get shared access to, and can drop things in to train sa-update. However, when users share over junkmail's inbox, it's displayed in the hierarchy: • Other Users • junkmail • INBOX Is there any way to get junkmail's INBOX to just show up at Other Users/junkmail and not require that extra depth? • Other Users • junkmail I'm running Debian Squeeze and the standard dovecot package available therein: > # uname -a > Linux internet.digitalquay.com.au 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 13:49:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux > #dovecot --version > 1.2.15 I'm running in a configuration where all mail is owned by the vmail user, due to the impression I'm under, that it's a better way if there is to be shared mailboxes. Relevant bits of dovecot -n: > mail_uid: vmail > mail_gid: vmail > mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/user/%u > mail_plugins: acl imap_acl > namespace: > type: private > separator: / > inbox: yes > list: yes > subscriptions: yes > namespace: > type: shared > separator: / > prefix: Other Users/%%u/ > location: maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/user/%%u:INDEX="/var/spool/dovecot/user/%u/Other\ Users/%%u" > list: children > auth default: > passdb: > driver: ldap > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf > userdb: > driver: passwd > args: uid=vmail gid=vmail blocking=yes mail=maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/user/%u Am I barking up the wrong tree, or is this possible? Thanks, Jay

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[Dovecot] Marking messages read / retaining date with Sieve
by Bret Martin 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

I'm trying to mark several hundred thousand messages as read as they are delivered via dovecot-lda(1). (I'm importing some mail from another format for migration purposes.) I've been able to do this with Sieve, but it has the side effect that the messages' received and saved dates are set to the current date, and Apple Mail (at least) uses one of these to display the message date. Without the Sieve filter in place, the dates are retained based on the From_ line as I would like. Does anyone know of any way I can either - retain the date when delivering using Sieve? - systematically mark a specific set of messages as read *after* delivery instead, perhaps with doveadm(1)? (even marking *everything* read would work in this particular case. I couldn't find any way to set flags with doveadm) Thanks, --Bret

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[Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?
by Timo Sirainen 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Currently if user is 1MB under quota and someone tries to deliver mail that is over 1MB, Dovecot rejects the mail. But smaller mails aren't rejected probably for days. So user might not even realize that they didn't receive one of the mails. Also having a user "almost over quota" is a rather strange state I think. So what do you think about v2.2 allowing delivery of one last mail even if it brings the user over quota? Except add a limit that if the message size is as much as the user's entire quota limit it wouldn't be added (or 50% or ..?). Also IMAP wouldn't allow this, since user would get an error anyway. I could make this also optional, but if nobody really wants to keep the old behavior there's really no point in adding the option.

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[Dovecot] I can't sync with dsync and imapc
by Angel L. Mateo 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hello, I am deploying a new dovecot server to replace and old one, both of the with dovecot 2.1.9. Now I want to synchronize imap mailbox from the old to the new one. So, in my new server I run (whith a $ sudo dsync -v -D -o imapc_host="<oldserver>" -o imapc_password="<master password>" -o imapc_features=rfc822.size backup -R -f -u myuser(a)um.es imapc: doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol: expire_set_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fts_backend_rescan (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota_rule=*:storage=10G doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Effective uid=2012, gid=204, home=/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: No acl_shared_dict setting - shared mailbox listing is disabled doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:file:/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/quota doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=10737418240 messages=0 doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=+1073741824 messages=0 doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: dict quota: user=myuser(a)um.es, uri=file:/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/quota, noenforcing=0 doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mdbox:/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/mdbox:INDEX=/home/indexes/i1/an/myuser:ALT=/home/alt/a1/an/myuser doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: fs: root=/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/mdbox, index=/home/indexes/i1/an/myuser, control=, inbox=, alt=/home/alt/a1/an/myuser doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: acl username = myuser(a)um.es doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: owner = 1 doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=BORRADOS., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes location=mdbox:/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/expunged doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: fs: root=/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/expunged, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Namespace BORRADOS.: Using permissions from /home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/expunged: mode=0700 gid=-1 doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: acl username = myuser(a)um.es doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: owner = 1 doveadm(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Effective uid=2012, gid=204, home=/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: No acl_shared_dict setting - shared mailbox listing is disabled dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:file:/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/quota dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=10737418240 messages=0 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=+1073741824 messages=0 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: dict quota: user=myuser(a)um.es, uri=file:/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/quota, noenforcing=0 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=imapc: dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc(myotis30.um.es:143): Looking up IP address dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc(myotis30.um.es:143): Connecting to 155.54.211.169:143 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc(myotis30.um.es:143): Server capabilities: IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc(myotis30.um.es:143): Authenticating as master for user myuser(a)um.es dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc(myotis30.um.es:143): Server capabilities: IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc(myotis30.um.es:143): Authenticated successfully dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: acl username = myuser(a)um.es dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: owner = 1 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=BORRADOS., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes location=mdbox:/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/expunged dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: fs: root=/home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/expunged, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: Namespace BORRADOS.: Using permissions from /home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/expunged: mode=0700 gid=-1 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: acl username = myuser(a)um.es dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: owner = 1 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/mdbox/mailboxes/dovecot-acl not found dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Error: Failed to sync mailbox INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2013-02-12 13:52:29] dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/buzones/b1/an/myuser/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot-acl not found dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX: INBOX can't be deleted. dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Info: INBOX: only in dest (guid=edd76012063b1a5138270000a9061514) dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Error: Trying to open a non-listed mailbox with guid=edd76012063b1a5138270000a9061514 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Error: msg iteration failed: Couldn't open mailbox edd76012063b1a5138270000a9061514 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Error: Trying to open a non-listed mailbox with guid=edd76012063b1a5138270000a9061514 dsync(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: imapc(myotis30.um.es:143): Disconnected In the old server I get the error: Feb 12 13:52:29 myotis30 dovecot: imap(myuser(a)um.es): Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox INBOX: Permission denied Feb 12 13:52:29 myotis30 dovecot: imap(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: Mailbox not in dovecot-acl-list: Archives Feb 12 13:52:29 myotis30 dovecot: imap(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: Mailbox not in dovecot-acl-list: Archives.2012 Feb 12 13:52:29 myotis30 dovecot: imap(myuser(a)um.es): Debug: acl: Mailbox not in dovecot-acl-list: Sent Items So it seems dsync is trying to create a mailbox in the original server. What am I doing wrong? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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[Dovecot] Migration to Gmail ...
by Frank Bonnet 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hello Anyone has migrated Dovecot IMAP only mailboxes server to GMAIL ? We use MBOX format. Any feedback welcome ... Thanks you

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.2: doveadm-server crash in latest hg
by Oli Schacher 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hi Timo With the current hg (ed5fa76f0dc7), I get a crash as soon as I append a single message to a dsync replicated mailbox. Setup is the same as in the thread "dsync replication errors" ( http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-January/070574.html ) Feb 11 15:01:19 doco1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.23.130, lip=192.168.23.61, mpid=1709, session=<roTpV3PV1wDAqBeC> Feb 11 15:01:32 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Fatal: master: service(doveadm): child 1713 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Feb 11 15:01:56 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Fatal: master: service(doveadm): child 1715 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) bt full is attached. Thanks, Oli -- message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons

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[Dovecot] Keyword Flags
by David Woodfall 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

I mostly use Mutt to read mail but today I fired up Thunderbird. I have a shell script that looks for new mail, which looks for files in cur/ and new/ ending with the server hostname or a comma. When I fired up TB it seems that all new mail has been given a flag of ,a which I gather means it matches a keyword. My questions are: How did this happen? Did TB do something strange to my mail when it fetched headers? If I change my search parameters to ',[a-z]' will this only catch new mail? Cheers -- When all you have is a Swiss Army Knife, every problem looks like email. -- Peter da Silva

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[Dovecot] Disabling auth caching just from one passdb
by Angel L. Mateo 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hello, I'm using various password databases (one of them is a ldap database, which is the used for users connecting with email clients, and the other with pam, using a pam module integrated with our SSO that is used from our webmail). I would like to disable password caching in my pam database (because 'passwords' provided by our SSO are single use tokens, so caching them has no benefit), but not in the ldap. As far as I know, auth_cache_size is the option to enable caching in all databases. But, is there any option I could use to disable it in a specific password database? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap process crash: assertion failed: (full_fs_access)
by Joseph Tam 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Any guess at what would cause this? Feb 7 21:20:53 server dovecot: imap(user): Panic: file mailbox-list-fs-iter.c: line 447 (fs_list_get_roots): assertion failed: (full_fs_access) (Sorry, no core dump) According to my logs, this user couldn't start an IMAP session for a 2 hour stretch for hundreds of connections. Then the problem seemed to have went away. I logged back as that user using a master password, but couldn't recreate this problem. The backtrace is just hex numbers (stripped executables) and I didn't drop privileges, so it refused to drop core, so that's no help. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Moving index files on another disk: no troubles but need more assurances
by Paolo Miotto 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.2.15 on debian squeeze with maildir, and I want to move index files out of the mailboxes disk to reduce disk I/O. I need to get the assurance that the switch is completely transparent to my clients (IMAP and POP). I read the wiki documentation and have found this thread (http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2009-September/042665.html) which makes me confident, even if it speaks of a older version and only pop3. So I set up a test server, copied a true mailbox and changed mail location from: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir to mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/srv/indexes/%1n/%n (all users under the same domain, no need to use %d). On the IMAP side all seems to work fine, new indexes are created in the new location (dovecot.index.log on 1st access, dovecot.index.cache on message manipolation). A test client (evolution) doesn't notice at all, and I have verified via a telnet imap session that UIDs don't change. But I see that when I move the indexes the IMAP HIGHESTMODSEQ response changes and is reset to 1. Can this baffle the clients? On the rfc I don't found reference to this status walking backwards. Need I to verify that all messages have the virtual size (W=nnnn) in the file name (the mailboxes are from a previous cyrus installation, then we switch to dovecot 1.2)? What other test you suggest that checking UIDL on the pop3 side? What happens if the indexes disk disappears (broken or removed from bay or all paths down for FC/iscsi)? Can dovecot 1.2 continue with INDEX=MEMORY as for a disk full? Sorry for the many questions.... Paolo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SEMEL (SErvizio di Messaging ELettronico) - AINF, Universita' di Udine

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[Dovecot] dovecot, postfix and sieve - broken by Ubuntu upgrade 10.10 -> 12.04
by Johan Helsingius 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hi! In upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04, my mail setup (dovecot using sieve and postfix) broke pretty badly. Have gotten teh imap server working, but local delivery doesn't work. - sieve gets called, but all "fileto" actions result in "failed to store into mailbox 'zzz': Mailbox doesn't exist: zzz Dovecot version is 2.0.19, configuration is: # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic i686 Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Mail server ready. mail_location = maildir:/srv/mail/%u mail_max_userip_connections = 256 mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 10 mins mbox_lock_timeout = 20 mins mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = /home/julf/sieve } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 } user = root } service imap-login { chroot = login user = dovecot } service managesieve-login { chroot = login user = dovecot } service pop3-login { chroot = login user = dovecot } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd }

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[Dovecot] cPanel && Dovecot 2.x
by Marc Jauvin 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

I would like to know if dovecot 2.0.9+ can work with cPanel. I know there is a template for it in cPanel 11.34.1, but when I tried to switch to 2.0.9 (from 1.2.17), it didn't work. I didn't put too much time to test it since I only have one live system to test it with, and I have many customers hosted on this server and I cannot disrupt the service. Has anyone been able to make this work, and if so, is there anything special to do other than rebuilding the config with "/scripts/builddovecotconf" ? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] GSS-SPNEGO with dovecot and Outlook without Samba
by Julian David Rath 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

I am trying to configure a dovecot2 IMAP server to inter-operate with a active directory to authenticate users. The users should be able to login without a password on a domain-joined client(Outlook). Is it possible to do this only with kerberos? I don't want to put a crappy winbind on my mailserver... I already configured my server to authenticate via kerberos(GSSAPI), but Outlook does not even try to authenticate using GSSAPI, it rather uses PLAIN. I would appreciate any help, many thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.2.beta1
by Mark Sapiro 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Just an FYI, I have been running 2.2.beta1 for a few days now with no problems, but I'm not using any of the new features ;) -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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[Dovecot] GSS-SPNEGO with dovecot and Outlook without Samba
by Julian David Rath 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

I am trying to configure a dovecot2 IMAP server to inter-operate with a active directory to authenticate users. The users should be able to login without a password on a domain-joined client(Outlook). Is it possible to do this only with kerberos? I don't want to put a crappy winbind on my mailserver... I already configured my server to authenticate via kerberos(GSSAPI), but Outlook does not even try to authenticate using GSSAPI, it rather uses PLAIN. I would appreciate any help, many thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] dsync timeout?
by Micah Anderson 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

I'm using dsync for a regular backup. The backup system flocks so that two cannot run at the same time, which is generally a good thing. The problem is that it seems like dsync sometimes goes off into the weeds and never comes back, leaving a process running and doing nothing forever, hogging the lock and causing my backups never to run again. I just finally figured out that was what was causing the backups not to run on this system was this process: root 17836 0.0 0.0 40888 1600 ? S 2012 0:00 ssh -i /root/.ssh/backmaildir_id_rsa backmaildir@arg /usr/bin/dsync -u foobar server yeah, that has been running since 2012 :( root:/tmp# strace -p 17836 Process 17836 attached - interrupt to quit select(8, [4], [], NULL, NULL very exciting... There doesn't seem to be a timeout in dsync, but perhaps there should be? At this point my only option is to write a cronjob that will look for dsync processes that are over a certain amount of time old and then kill them, after I do that I will need to take a shower because that is a very dirty solution :P thanks for any ideas, or help! micah --

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-2.1.14 - pop3 processes always hangs forever - a follow-up
by Axel Luttgens 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Suspecting a problem with the "virtual" uids/gids, I've tried with a real user for the mail user: # 2.1.14: /_ETC/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 12.2.1 x86_64 auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_gid = dovemailer mail_location = mbox:~/mboxes:INBOX=~/mboxes/inbox mail_uid = dovemailer passdb { args = /_ETC/dovecot/db.conf driver = sql } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } Of course, the db queries do not return uid/gid pairs anymore. And the pop3 processes now seem to work as expected; connecting for the first time as user1: $ telnet 127.0.0.1 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user user1 +OK pass pass1 +OK Logged in. list +OK 0 messages: . quit +OK Logging out. Connection closed by foreign host. Hmmm... Axel

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-2.1.14 - pop3 processes always hangs forever
by Axel Luttgens 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hello, I'm currently experimenting with the 2.1.x series and am facing a behavior I can't explain; I must be doing something wrong and probably miss the obvious... ;-) This is a very basic build on Mac OS X 10.8.2: ./configure --prefix=/_COD/dovecot-2.1.14 --sysconfdir=/_ETC --localstatedir=/_VAR --with-sqlite --with-ldap=yes (Yes, I know, a strange layout, yet very convenient for testing various things here.) Dovecot's configuration is very basic too: # 2.1.14: /_ETC/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 12.2.1 x86_64 auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mboxes:INBOX=~/mboxes/inbox passdb { args = /_ETC/dovecot/db.conf driver = sql } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } It is started from launchd with the -F flag. Two users are defined in the database, user1 (100002/100002) and user2 (100003/100003), with "virtual" uids/gids. Connecting for the first time as user1 through imap: $ telnet 127.0.0.1 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login user1 pass1 a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE] Logged in b logout * BYE Logging out b OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. In mail.log: dovecot[2997]: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=3006, secured, session=<EOWWzjbVxQB/AAAB> dovecot[2997]: imap(user1): Debug: Effective uid=100002, gid=100002, home=/_Data/Mailstores/100002 dovecot[2997]: imap(user1): Debug: Home dir not found: /_Data/Mailstores/100002 dovecot[2997]: imap(user1): Debug: fs: root=/_Data/Mailstores/100002/mboxes, index=, control=, inbox=/_Data/Mailstores/100002/mboxes/inbox, alt= dovecot[2997]: imap(user1): Debug: Namespace : /_Data/Mailstores/100002/mboxes doesn't exist yet, using default permissions dovecot[2997]: imap(user1): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /_Data/Mailstores/100002/mboxes: mode=0700 gid=-1 dovecot[2997]: imap(user1): Disconnected: Logged out in=8 out=362 While logged in (ie after the login and before the logout), "doveadm who" shows: username # proto (pids) (ips) user1 1 imap (3093) (127.0.0.1) So far, so good. Now, let's connect as user2 for the first time, through pop: $ telnet 127.0.0.1 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user user2 +OK pass pass2 and the session hangs forever. This is written in the log: dovecot[2997]: pop3-login: Login: user=<user2>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=3113, secured, session=<GTOlMjfV3gB/AAAB> dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Effective uid=100003, gid=100003, home=/_Data/Mailstores/100003 dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Home dir not found: /_Data/Mailstores/100003 dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: fs: root=/_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes, index=, control=, inbox=/_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes/inbox, alt= dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Namespace : /_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes doesn't exist yet, using default permissions dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes: mode=0700 gid=-1 dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Namespace : /_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes/inbox doesn't exist yet, using default permissions dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes: mode=0700 gid=-1 dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Namespace : /_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes/inbox doesn't exist yet, using default permissions dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /_Data/Mailstores/100003/mboxes: mode=0700 gid=-1 while "doveadm who" pretends nobody is connected: username # proto (pids) (ips) To get rid of the pop3 process, I have to send it a KILL signal: no other way. But this is noticed by the master process: dovecot[2997]: pop3(user2): Fatal: master: service(pop3): child 3113 killed with signal 9 Note that it is possible to connect afterwards as user2 through imap. On the other hand, trying to connect as user1 or user2 through pop always hangs. TIA, Axel

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[Dovecot] test
by Timo Sirainen 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

mailman archive process seems to have crashed and hasn't been writing to archives. lets see if it works again after restart..

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[Dovecot] v2.1.15 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.15.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.15.tar.gz.sig v2.1.14's dovecot.index.cache fixes caused Dovecot to use more disk I/O and memory than was necessary.

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[Dovecot] user uknown
by Harford, Ken 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi, I upgraded to version 2.1.1 from version 1.0.7 and I am having issues with postfix and dovecot reading my userdb file. Here is my dovecot config: # 2.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb default_internal_user = vmail default_login_user = dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no auth_mechanisms = plain log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot.ctctmon/%d/userdb driver = passwd-file } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem Here is what I am seeing in logs: Dovecot: Feb 07 17:05:27 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 ctctsc9@p2-ctctmon.<domain> service=lda Feb 07 17:05:27 auth: Debug: passwd-file(ctctsc9(a)p2-ctctmon.constantcontact.com): lookup: user=ctctsc9@p2-ctctmon.<domain> file=/etc/dovecot.ctctmon/p2-ctctmon.<domain>/userdb Feb 07 17:05:27 auth: Info: passwd-file(ctctsc9@p2-ctctmon.<domain>): unknown user Feb 07 17:05:27 lda: Debug: auth input: Feb 07 17:05:27 auth: Debug: master out: NOTFOUND 1 Postfix: Feb 7 17:07:51 p2-ctctmon101 postfix/pipe[17969]: C91831C8168: to=<ctctsc1(a)p2-ctctmon.domain>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.1, delays=0.09/0/0/0.02, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (user unknown) Userdb: ctctsc1:$1$e3k3Xp.u$QdSaJMh79dhivHUuaToDO0:::ctctsc1 Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!! Ken

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[Dovecot] dsync: Invalid server handshake
by Dusan Zivadinovic 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi list, I recently tried to backup mailboxes from an older server machine to a new one in order to move the service to the new machine. Both machines are in the same LAN, I used this command: dsync -R -u username backup ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa username(a)192.168.1.11 /opt/local/bin/dsync and I get this error: dsync-local(dz): Error: Invalid server handshake: dsync-server 2 dsync-remote(dz): Error: Invalid client handshake: dsync-client 1 # lokal machine: dovecot 2.0.19apple1 running on Mac OS X 10.8.2 Server using standard Apple-Dovecot-Configuration # remote machine: 2.1.12 running on Mac OS X 10.4 using PAM authentication I cant seem to find any documentation to this error, nor do I find any dsync entries in the logs of both machines. Does anyone have a hint? Thank you, Dusan

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[Dovecot] File permissions used for automatically created mailbox
by Frerich Raabe 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi, I'm running Dovecot 2.1.12 on FreeBSD (quite successfully so, thanks for this nice piece of software!). One thing which is slightly annoying though is that automatically created mailboxes (I have lda_mailbox_autocreate set) don't have the file permissions I'd like them to have. I'm using a vmail-based system, i.e. all mail is owned by vmail:vmail; another member of the vmail group is called 'backup', which has read access to all mail in order to create backups. All mail is stored beneath /home/vmail, e.g. /home/vmail/frerich/Maildir Right now, newly created mailbox directories (e.g. /home/vmail/bob) have 0700 permissions, but I'd like to have 0750 for all directories and 0640 for all files so that all files and directories are group-readable for backup purposes. Does anybody know whether this is configurable somehow? Right now, my workaround consists running this cron script every night: #!/bin/sh chown -R vmail:vmail /home/vmail/ find /home/vmail/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0750 find /home/vmail/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0640 -- Frerich Raabe - raabe(a)froglogic.com www.froglogic.com - Multi-Platform GUI Testing

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Re: [Dovecot] Per user special-use folder names
by Joseph Tam 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On a related topic, what's the easiest way to alias various common >> mailbox names to one physical mailbox? For example, mapping "Trash", >> "Deleted Messages", "Junk" to the same mailbox? >> >> Would you use the SPECIAL-USE, or is there a better way to do this? >> Namescape configuration? Virtual plugin? > > Ideally SPECIAL-USE will take care of it in future. For now you should > configure it, but also realize that it won't work for all clients. > There's also mailbox_alias plugin in v2.1.10+: > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias (the link will work in a > few minutes). Perfect. I added a link to this page to the parent Plugins page Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Subfolders problem
by Adam Maciejewski 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

I have moved from dovecot 1.x to 2.x and I have big problem with subfolders. When I'm moving subfolder with other subfolders is moving only main subfolder, without subfolders, example : mail-storage-1 /var/vmail/home/adamskitest/mdbox/mailboxes # find | egrep -e "janusz|jarek" ./jarek ./jarek/dbox-Mails ./jarek/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./jarek/jarek2 ./jarek/jarek2/dbox-Mails ./jarek/jarek2/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./jarek/jarek2/jarek3 ./jarek/jarek2/jarek3/dbox-Mails ./jarek/jarek2/jarek3/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./janusz ./janusz/dbox-Mails ./janusz/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./janusz/janusz2 ./janusz/janusz2/dbox-Mails ./janusz/janusz2/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./janusz/janusz2/janusz3 ./janusz/janusz2/janusz3/dbox-Mails ./janusz/janusz2/janusz3/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log And now I'm moving jarek2 with jarek3 as subfolder to janusz2 subfolder, result : mail-storage-1 /var/vmail/home/adamskitest/mdbox/mailboxes # find | egrep -e "janusz|jarek" ./jarek ./jarek/dbox-Mails ./jarek/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./jarek/jarek2 ./jarek/jarek2/jarek3 ./jarek/jarek2/jarek3/dbox-Mails ./jarek/jarek2/jarek3/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./janusz ./janusz/dbox-Mails ./janusz/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./janusz/janusz2 ./janusz/janusz2/dbox-Mails ./janusz/janusz2/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./janusz/janusz2/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache ./janusz/janusz2/janusz3 ./janusz/janusz2/janusz3/dbox-Mails ./janusz/janusz2/janusz3/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log ./janusz/janusz2/jarek2 ./janusz/janusz2/jarek2/dbox-Mails ./janusz/janusz2/jarek2/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log As You can see there is jarek2 subfolder but jarek3 havent been moved. I can see this folder in Thunderbird, after clicking error message pops out saying folder dosent exist. -- Adam Maciejewski

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[Dovecot] Sieve also filter outgoing messages
by Marcio Merlone 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Greetings, A probably simple question and answer: can a sieve script be executed on outgoing messages? I already use deliver on postfix, perhaps the sieve script could be executed when saving to the Sent folder? Regards, -- Marcio Merlone

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[Dovecot] Per user special-use folder names
by Radek Novotný 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi all, let me ask a question, please. Is it possible in dovecot to set up per user special-use folder names? Imagine situation with two users where first prefere another language that second. mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } for english speaking users and mailbox "Odeslaná pošta" { special_use = \Sent } for czech speaking users. Thanks for your answers. Radek

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Re: [Dovecot] Per user special-use folder names
by Joseph Tam 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Michael M Slusarz wrote: > Quoting Patrick Ben Koetter <p(a)sys4.de>: > >> That's part of what makes SPECIAL-USE so sexy. It is language independent. >> All it does is say "This mailbox is reserved for that particular usage." How >> you call it, is up to you (client). > > Well.... not quite. The problem comes when you have *multiple* sent > mailboxes on your server, which is perfectly acceptable and quite > useful (e.g. an MUA allows multiple identities, and each identity uses > a separate sent-mail mailbox). You can't just blindly show the local > translation for "Sent" for all of the mailboxes, or else you've now > eliminated the user's ability to differentiate between them. On a related topic, what's the easiest way to alias various common mailbox names to one physical mailbox? For example, mapping "Trash", "Deleted Messages", "Junk" to the same mailbox? Would you use the SPECIAL-USE, or is there a better way to do this? Namescape configuration? Virtual plugin? Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] saving to imap folders and namespace settings
by Gustavo Sansone 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

hello everyone, i'm new to this list im running dovecot as imap+pop (2.1.12) and roundcube (0.8.4) as client. having problems on saving to imap folders, with errors on some accounts my folder structure is as follow: /home/user/.maildir /home/user/.maildir/.Drafts /home/user/.maildir/.Junk /home/user/.maildir/.Sent /home/user/.maildir/.Trash /home/user/.maildir/.Archives /home/user/.maildir/.Archives.2010 ... i'm very confused with the namespace settings. i don't understand what is the correct way to configure it. don't need public or shared folders. on dovecot.log i can see this error with my account (and all the others), but it seems to work ok using roundcube: imap(gsansone): Error: autocreate: No namespace found for mailbox: Junk with a few accounts, i have this on roundcube log: IMAP Error: Could not save message in Drafts in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mail/program/steps/mail/sendmail.inc with error on saving to imap folder in roundcube UI send you attached the output of 'dovecot -n' and the roundcube configuration related to folders. does anyone have any suggestion? thanks in advance. -- G. Sansone

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[Dovecot] Trouble when set mail_nfs_index = yes
by Rafael VOlpe TI 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi Buddies, dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=postfix user=postfix password=secret default_pass_scheme = plain password_query = SELECT username as user, password \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = 1 user_query = SELECT concat("/var/vmail/", maildir) as home, 125 as uid, 125 as gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' Version: 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf:157: fsync_disable has been renamed to mail_fsync # OS: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = no first_valid_gid = 125 first_valid_uid = 125 last_valid_gid = 125 last_valid_uid = 125 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/:INDEX=/%Lh/ mail_nfs_storage = yes mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocols = " imap pop3" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/mail.hiway.com.br.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/mail.hiway.com.br.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins mail_max_userip_connections = 150 } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } ##EOF I use mailbox in nfs share. When i set the option "mail_nfs_index = yes" the dovecot fails to start. Looking at logs, only prompted this: "Feb 6 11:07:25 picapau kernel: [ 1436.376023] init: dovecot main process (4177) terminated with status 89" without more info.

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[Dovecot] Sieve not filtering
by Nicolas Mora 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hello, I installed a few weeks ago the Dovecot package on a Debian stable along with postfix, everything works fine except the sieve filter. I followed the howto found on the internet (google: debian postfix dovecot sieve). I'm able to view and modify sieve rules with roundcube or thunderbird plugins, but the rules are not applied when a message arrives and all messages arrive in INBOX. Here is the content of my configuration files concerning sieve : dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps managesieve protocol managesieve { listen = *:2000 } protocol managesieve { mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)babelouest.org mail_plugins = sieve mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda log_path = info_log_path = syslog_facility = mail } plugin { sieve_dir=~/Maildir/sieve } And the postfix/main.cf config file contains for dovecot sieve the following maibox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -a "$RECIPIENT" dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot I also tried the command mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver it didn't work either... Is there somthing so obvious that I didn't see it ? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] move mail from server with v1.0 to server w. v2.1?
by Frank Lienhard 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

I'm about to replace my old server. Both servers are on my internal network. The old one ist running debian lenny(32bit) with dovecot 1.0.15 and the new one debian Wheezy with dovecot 2.1.7. I set up the users on both systems identically (same gid uid). My first attempt was tho simply rsync the Maildirs along with the homes. Both deovecot versions are set up with the maildir format, but this results in ~30% doublicated mails on the new server. I then learned about doveadm/dsync, only to figure out that this isn't available in v 1.0.15 and therefor won't work. So which could be the most painless way to solve that?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot main process killed by KILL signal
by For＠ll 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi, I have a dovecot 2.0.7 installed on ubuntu 12.10 and often in dmesg I see "init: dovecot main process (7104) killed by KILL signal", I must restarted dovecot, because I can't access to mailbox. Server hardware: 2x1TB disks 4GB memory 1xCPU 2,4GHz HARDWARE RAID 1 Mailbox ~ 1k dovecot.conf # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.10 xfs auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 1500 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n/ maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve_dir = /var/mail/virtual/%d/%n/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/mail/virtual/sieve } protocols = sieve imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } process_limit = 512 } service imap { process_limit = 512 service_count = 0 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 33919 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } } ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/rssl/ssl.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/rssl/ssl.key userdb { args = uid=1003 gid=1003 home=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda-errors.log mail_plugins = sieve } protocol sieve { disable_plaintext_auth = no } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Any ideas what's wrong, where is the problem?

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[Dovecot] dsync backup questions
by Joe Beaubien 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi, I'm currently trying to setup remote backups of my emails but i'm running into issues (mdbox format, indexes and storage in the same folder hierarchy). Local backup command: dsync -u "my_user" backup /backups/my_user (1) Recently, I noticed that the local backup takes up twice the size as the original mail location (8gb vs. 4gb). I purged alot of emails from the original location, so the size shrunk, but the local backup just keeps on getting bigger. I couldn't find any dsync option that would delete extra emails. - Question: Why isn't the local backup synced properly and remove the extra emails? (2) What is the best why to copy this local backup to a remote location that does NOT have the possibility to run dsync. - Question 1: is rsync safe to use and will this data work for restore? - Question 2: Would it be safe to simply rsync the original mail_location to the remote server? I searched the net, but it seems that mdbox is tricky to backup. Thanks in advance, -Joe

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[Dovecot] Out of memory after upgrading to dovecot 2.0.21
by Arnaud Abélard 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hello, I've upgraded our servers and now dovecot seems to be running out of memory when accessing my own mailbox (and only mine, which is in a way pretty fortunate): dovecot: imap(abelard-a): Error: mmap() failed with file /vmail/a/b/abelard-a/dovecot.index.cache: Cannot allocate memory imap(abelard-a): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(131072): Out of memory /vmail/a/b/abelard-a/dovecot.index.cache is 224MB big and my mailbox is 72% full of 8GB. any idea of what is happening? Thanks in advance, Arnaud -- Arnaud Abélard jabber: arnaud.abelard(a)univ-nantes.fr / twitter: ArnY Administrateur Système DSI Université de Nantes -

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[Dovecot] Using Mutt - folder atime/mtime etc
by David Woodfall 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Version 2.1.10 For some reason Mutt doesn't list any info about IMAP folders and seems to ignore folder_format. My questions is does anyone have any workarounds for this?

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[Dovecot] Upgrade from 2.1.13 to 2.1.14 and load doubled
by Alessio Cecchi 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hi, during the weekend I upgrade my mail servers from dovecot 2.1.13 to dovecot 2.1.14 (and rebuild dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.3). After upgrade all works fine, but today the load avarage un MXs is doubled. Mailboxes are in Maildir/ on NFS and I'm using dovecot as LDA and dict quota only for quota usage. May be a problem with the new version? This is my configuration: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-2.1 --with-vpopmail --with-mysql --with-bzlib --with-zlib # cat /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve require ["vnd.dovecot.duplicate", "fileinto", "mailbox"]; if header :contains "X-Spam-Status" "Yes" { fileinto "Spam"; } if header :contains "Subject" "TEST 123" { fileinto "Spam"; } if duplicate { fileinto "Trash"; } ##################### # 2.1.14: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 auth_cache_size = 512 k auth_worker_max_count = 60 default_login_user = nobody dict { acl = mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-share-folder.conf expire = mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext quota = mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = quota acl zlib expire maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave vnd.dovecot.duplicate mmap_disable = yes namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = cache_key=%s%u webmail=192.168.113.215 driver = vpopmail } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl expire = Trash expire2 = Spam expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = maildir:UserQuota quota2 = dict:User quota::noenforcing:proxy::quota quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_default = /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.duplicate } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service imap-login { service_count = 0 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { service_count = 0 } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/scripts/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vpopmail } user = vpopmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/wildcard.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/wildcard.key submission_host = localhost userdb { args = quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log mail_plugins = quota acl zlib expire sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins mail_max_userip_connections = 18 mail_plugins = quota acl zlib expire imap_quota imap_acl } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 5 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi is: @ ILS -> http://www.linux.it/~alessice/ on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi GNU/Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it

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[Dovecot] lmtp-proxying in 2.1 slower than in 2.0.14 ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

We upgraded our two dovecot directors from v2.0.14 to dovecot-ee 2.1.10.3 this week, and after that mail seems to be flowing a lot slower than before. The backend mailstores are untouched, on v2.0.14 still. After the upgrade we've been hitting process_limit for lmtp a lot, and we're struggeling with large queues in the incoming mailservers that are using LMTP virtual transport towards our two directors. I seem to remember 2.1 should have a new lmtp-proxying code. Is there anything in this that maybe needs to be tuned that's different from v2.0 ? I'm a bit scheptical to just increasing the process_limit for LMTP proxying, as I doubt running many hundreds of simultaneous deliveries should work that much better against the backend storage.. ###### doveconf -n ########## # 2.1.10.3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) default_client_limit = 4000 director_mail_servers = 192.168.42.7 192.168.42.8 192.168.42.9 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.28 192.168.42.29 director_servers = 192.168.42.15 192.168.42.17 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * lmtp_proxy = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y driver = static } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service anvil { client_limit = 6247 } service auth { client_limit = 8292 unix_listener auth-userdb { user = dovecot } } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 5515 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director process_limit = 4096 process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 24 } process_limit = 100 } service managesieve-login { executable = managesieve-login director inet_listener sieve { address = * port = 4190 } process_limit = 50 } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/pop.example.com.cert.ca-bundle ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/pop.example.com.key protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } ################ -jf

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[Dovecot] dsync-local(user): Error: proxy client timed out
by Metro Domain Admin 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hello, I have an intermittent but frequent problem using dsync backup. The command outputs: dsync-local(user): Error: proxy client timed out Then dies with exit code 75. Any subsequent attempts to re-run the backup invariably fail like this: dsync-local(user): Warning: Destination mailbox INBOX has been modified, need to recreate it before we can continue syncing dsync-local(user): Error: read() from worker server failed: EOF dsync-local(user): Error: msg-copy returned invalid input: dsync-local(user): Error: remote: dsync-remote(user(a)domain.com): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX: INBOX can't be deleted. dsync-remote(l_user(a)domain.com): Error: command MSG-SAVE failed dsync-local(user): Warning: Mailbox changes caused a desync. You may want to run dsync again. The syntax I am using is: dsync -u $user backup \ ssh -i <idfile> <user@host> \ dsync -u l_$user We have this running in a script that loops through all users. The error happens mostly on the larger mailboxes but I've seen it succeed on the largest ones then fail on smaller. One mid-sized account now fails consistently. The backup is running from a Mac OS PPC server running 2.1.12 The target is a Linux Intel box running 2.1.13, but I had the same problem sending to a Mac OS Intel on 2.1.12. Mdbox in all cases. Thanks, Tony

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[Dovecot] METADATA / ANNOTATE extensions
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

According to the roadmap http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Roadmap implementation of the METADATA / ANNOTATE extensions is fairly high on the list. I was just curious if there is a target release in mind for this functionality?

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[Dovecot] Overloading IMAP Server
by Harford, Ken 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Hi All, I am having an issue with dovecot IMAP reading and writing to one specific mailbox. I have a check email delivery script that sends out a email and then logs into dovecot to check if the mailbox that the message has been delivered to. However, the servers that send these messages send them in bunches depending on how many postfix spools it is checking. So I could get 60 messages all being sent to 1 mailbox and then having to read that same mailbox to check if the message actually got delivered. I am using postfix as the MTA and dovecot is actually delivering the message to the mailbox I am getting a lot of errors such as the following: Could not connect to IMAP server imap failed: IMAP RECEIVE CRITICAL - Could not select INBOX Any ideas as to what I can tweak in dovecot to allow these messages to be verified. Thanks for any information or help you could provide!! Ken

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