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[Dovecot] Authentication with lower case username ONLY
by Leander S. 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, how do you guys force your users to authenticate with lower case letters ONLY? Or convert it? Is there a SASL Option to force that - or are you using scripts i.e. a bash script in combination with the command "tr" ... or a third solution I didn't think of yet? I'm using Postfix / Dovecot combination. Postfix is told to use Dovecots SASL Service to authenticate it's users. For my outgoing eMails I already wrote a script with tr which forms upercase usernames to lowercase ones ... but it's not enough. SpamAssassin is still confused and writes uppercase letters in it's Database etc. ... So that's why I'm looking for a more universal solution. P.S. I would basically prefer a convertation - but I would also be fine with a forced lower case auth system. Thanks & Regards

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[Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz.sig As promised last Friday, here's the v2.0.0 release finally. I'm cautiously optimistic that v2.0.1 won't (have to) be released for a few weeks, since there was quite a lot of testing and fixing going on in the RC stage. Remember to read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 before upgrading from v1.x. Although there is automatic config conversion, it can't handle everything, so reserve some extra time for upgrading. If you find an upgrade problem that isn't listed on the wiki page, please add it there or email Dovecot mailing list about it. Pigeonhole Sieve and ManageSieve support can now be installed without patching Dovecot. Unfortunately there isn't a Pigeonhole release yet for v2.0, but its Mercurial code tree should be quite stable. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole There are no changes since v2.0.rc6. The largest changes since v1.2 are: * Dovecot uses two system users for internal purposes now by default: dovenull and dovecot. You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user setting. * Global ACLs are now looked up using namespace prefixes. For example if you previously had INBOX. namespace prefix and a global ACL for "INBOX.Sent", it's now looked up from "INBOX.Sent" file instead of "Sent" as before. * Maildir: File permissions are no longer based on dovecot-shared file, but the mailbox directory. + Redesigned master process. It's now more modular and there is less code running as root. + Configuration supports now per-local/remote ip/network settings. + dsync utility does a two-way mailbox synchronization. + LMTP server and proxying. + Added mdbox (multi-dbox) mail storage backend. + doveadm utility can be used to do all kinds of administration functions. Old dovecotpw and *view utilities now exist in its subcommands. + imap and pop3 processes can now handle multiple connections. + IMAP: COMPRESS=DEFLATE is supported by imap_zlib plugin + director service helps NFS installations to redirect users always to same server to avoid corruption

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[Dovecot] dsync crash
by Василий Шоков 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hello, When I run dsync -u v.shokov -Dv mirror sdbox:/dsync/v.shokov first time, process halting. On second time I receive this error: dsync(root): Debug: auth input: v.shokov system_groups_user=v.shokov uid=10000 gid=100 home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=10000, gid=100, home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/home/v.shokov/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov, control=, inbox= dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=.INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox, control=, inbox=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=10000, gid=100, home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=sdbox:/dsync/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: fs: root=/dsync/v.shokov, index=, control=, inbox= dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=.INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox, control=, inbox=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox dsync(v.shokov): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/v.shokov/mail: mode=0700 gid=-1 dsync(v.shokov): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /dsync/v.shokov: mode=0777 gid=-1 dsync(v.shokov): Panic: file mailbox-list-fs.c: line 150 (fs_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_pattern(_list, name)) dsync(v.shokov): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x224ae0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x45) [0x224bd5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x224168] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x181866] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_get_path+0x1d) [0x14d9bd] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x182724] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(fs_list_iter_next+0x42) [0x182262] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x14da42] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x14ec7f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x14da42] -> dsync [0x80580a6] -> dsync [0x804ed08] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x447) [0x804e067] -> dsync [0x804ef29] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x3f6) [0x804e016] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync_all+0x18) [0x804ec08] -> dsync(main+0x52b) [0x804d06b] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x2e8f90] -> dsync [0x804c951] My Dovecot version is 2.0.2. My config file is: # 2.0.2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.23.15-80.0.120asp i686 Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = yes listen = 10.62.1.250 lock_method = dotlock log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_fsync = never mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/%u mmap_disable = yes namespace { hidden = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes location = maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/%u/inbox prefix = .INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls } service auth { user = root } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 inet_listener imaps { address = * } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 user = dovecot } service pop3-login { client_limit = 3 inet_listener pop3s { address = * } process_limit = 10 process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 1 user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot mail_plugins = acl } protocol lda { postmaster_address = root(a)rittal.ru } Kind regards, Vasiliy Shokov

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[Dovecot] sieve is broken in the latest revision
by interfaSys sàrl 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

All the sudden messages filtered by sieve are delivered to folders named after the recipient instead of sticking to the rules and delivering the messages to the INBOX. Is this an intended change? Instead of Maildir/.INBOX it goes to Maildir/.user(a)domain.com Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] autogen.sh fails
by interfaSys sàrl 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

autogen.sh fails on FreeBSD 8.1 m4 1.4.15 autoconf 2.67 Here is the error message: libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. configure:20543: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FDdnl If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Dsync error, Targer mailbox already exists
by Henrique Fernandes 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hey, why i am getting this error ? dsync(user(a)example.com): Error: Can't rename mailbox VoIP_08300a224c41694c0d0f000020ce4ec5 to VoIP: Target mailbox already exists It happens when i run dsync twice, but it should do only changes right ? dovecot 2.0 I am traying to convert all my user mboc to maildir so i made an script to help. The enveriment: Have dovecot looking into file conf and in mysql. Mysql over rides file conf. in file have mail_location mbox:path:INBOX:path2 so i run this comand: dsync -v -u user(a)domain.com mirror maildir:~/mail/ I run this command to all user in my server, about 8000 After the first dsync it will take a while, but dovecot is still running and looking at mail_location to mbox. So now, i run again dsync, but now i thought it would do only changes, email that arrived while i was converting, but is not doing this and i am getting that stuff, so i get duplicated mailbox. Anyway, my ideia after this second sync that should be much faster i would change in mysql to mail_location maildir:~/mail/ And from now on this user would receive mail to maildir location, and i would run now the dsync but now reversed. like this: dsync -v -u user(a)domain.com mirror mbox:/pathl:INBOX=path And it should be working now right ? Without any down time ? Does any one have a better ideia about how to sync this mails without down time ? Thanks for all! But the bigs quest here is about the error: dsync(user(a)example.com): Error: Can't rename mailbox VoIP_08300a224c41694c0d0f000020ce4ec5 to VoIP: Target mailbox already exists Any one ? []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] quota dict play nice with existing tables
by Miha Vrhovnik 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi, I'm trying to set Dovecot 2.0 with postgresql dict. It's kind of working but not as I'd like to. Dovecot expects to get a dedicated table for quota management. When I've run *doveadm quota recalc -A* I've noticed in the logs that Dovecot tries to run DELETE statements. Fortunately it didn't succeed as I've only given it SELECT and UPDATE permissions on the fields that it needs. I'd like to configure it, in UPDATE only mode as rows already exist and there is no need to issue any other statement. Regards, Miha -- It's time to get rid of your current e-mail client ... ... and start using si.Mail. It's small & free. ( http://www.simail.si/ )

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[Dovecot] need help with shared mailboxes
by alex 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have some problems with setting shared mailboxes . I use dovecot 1.2.11 with following namespaces : mail_location: maildir:~ namespace: type: private separator: . inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: . prefix: shared.%%n. location: maildir:/home/sites/%d/mail/%%n/Maildir/ list: children plugin: acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: proxy::acl dict: acl: mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-share-sql.conf In the private namespace I use to have only INBOX. space because I have migrate from courier and I ahave problemes with duplicate folders. The disk structure looks like : /home/sites/domain.tld/mail/user(withoutdomain)/Maildir What I'am trying to do is to give access to a user (user2(a)domain.tld) some other user mailbox (user1(a)domain.tld) in the /home/sites/domain.tld/mail/user1/Maildir I have created a file dovecot-acl with : owner lrwstipekxa user=user2(a)domain.tld rl - in the dovecot-share-sql.conf I have : connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=xxxx user=xxx password=postfixpass map { pattern = shared/shared-boxes/user/$to/$from table = user_shares value_field = dummy fields { from_user = $from to_user = $to } } and in the user_share table : +-------------------+------------------+-------+ | from_user | to_user | dummy | +-------------------+------------------+-------+ | user1(a)myhost.ro | user2(a)domain.tld | 1 | | user1 | user2 | 1 | +-------------------+------------------+-------+ (not sure what I need %n or %u) Now , in TB under the user2 , if I check subscribe , under the shared, I have a INBOX folder that is always check but nothing else. From what I understand I suppose to see user1 folders and I think it is something wrong with my config (namespaces, paths). If someone have succeeded to configure dovecot with shared mailboxes and namespaces that use . as separator please help me. Alex.

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[Dovecot] DC 2.0.2 | Panic: file istream-crlf.c: line 101
by interfaSys sàrl 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

There is a new error showing up in my logs Sep 14 11:04:57 lda(user(a)domain.com): Panic: file istream-crlf.c: line 101 (i_stream_crlf_read_crlf): assertion failed: (src == ptr + 1) It seems to only happen with one account Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] dspam + dovecot LDA
by Paweł Madej 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hello, Is there any possibility to make dspam transport validated emails directly to dovecot LDA? for now I use such schema: postfix > dspam > postfix > dovecot LDA but wanted to not return emails to postfix. I've found that such configuration is possible with dspam+ cyrus IMAP. Documentation of dovecot is great but I haven't found such solution. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Greets Paweł Madej Poland

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[Dovecot] weird dovecot+outlook problem
by Per Jessen 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have some per-user, read-only mailboxes that I'm auto-subscribing users to. With Thunderbird I have no problems, but with Outlook, the contents of the 'To:' column is not shown until a user actually retrieves the mail. Does this ring a bell with anyone? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] fts plugin for xapian ?
by Per Jessen 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have googled it some, and found a couple of references, but nothing specific - has anyone already started work on such a plugin? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] Problem with Sieve Vacation
by Birger Schacht 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, dovecot version 1.2.12 on freebsd 7.0 with dovecot-sieve-1.2+0.1.17 I have users in ldap and aliases in /etc/aliases and i use postfix. There is an alias testuser@hostname for tuser@hostname. When tuser uses sieve vacation and uses the :addresses options with his email address (tuser@hostname), the response is also sent, if a mail to testuser@hostname is sent. in the postfix master.cf the line for deliver is flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} -a ${original_recipient} is this a bug, or do i have some quirks in my configuration? birger ps: not on this list, so please cc answers to me - -- GPG: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5DF89014F45C1912 GPG FP: 479E 1F02 12BD AA8A C4A9 0F19 5DF8 9014 F45C 1912 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyGC8wACgkQXfiQFPRcGRL0vwCgz/EZveKjTgNPkRvkzSQGd5sH RkEAnAqch133qYi2eCZ85IydBjDNuKWu =NSXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] LMTP Proxy not logging users' IP
by Luca Palazzo 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi All, is there any way to enable logging of users' IP address in dovecot director host? It actually logs only: Sep 14 07:32:29 mailgw-lb dovecot: lmtp(17615): Connect from xx.xx.xx.xx Sep 14 07:32:29 mailgw-lb dovecot: lmtp(17615): Disconnect from xx.xx.xx.xx: Client quit Thanks Luca

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[Dovecot] Lost %d variable
by Aladdin 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I'm trying to set up sieve with dovecot, and for some reason, sieve is not getting the %d variable that is part of the path to where its script should be. Here's the version: ops:/var/log/mail# dovecot --version 1.2.13 And, here's the configuration (I've left it all for reference, but moved the lda & plugins portions together and marked them out): ops:/var/log/mail# dovecot -n # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 i686 Debian 4.0 ext3 log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.info log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:CONTROL=/var/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/mail/%d/%n:INBOX= /var/mail/%d/%n mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 ----------- Start lda/sieve part -------------- lda: log_path: /var/log/mail/deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/deliver.log postmaster_address: aladdin(a)csunv.com mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda mail_plugins: sieve plugin: sieve: /var/mail/%d/%n/.sieve ----------- End lda/sieve part -------------- auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/home/%u userdb: driver: passwd plugin: sieve: /var/mail/%d/%n/.sieve And, here is the log output: ops:/var/log/mail# cat deliver-errors.log 2010-09-11 18:23:46 deliver(aladdin): Error: sieve: failed to stat user's sieve script: stat(/var/mail//aladdin/.sieve) failed: Not a directory (using global script path in stead) 2010-09-11 18:23:46 deliver(aladdin): Error: stat(/var/mail//aladdin/tmp) failed: Not a directory Obviously, the double slashes shouldn't be there; there should be the domain name: /var/mail/csunv.com/aladdin The "regular" dovecot gets the path fine; that is also where it puts the mail, and I'm getting mail just fine. TIA, Allen

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[Dovecot] fetchmail and lmtp -> auth crashing
by Dirk Heinrichs 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, while trying to get new mails into dovecot 2.0.1 via fetchmail and lmtp, auth process crashes: Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: lmtp(29944): Error: userdb lookup(heini@localhost): Disconnected unexpectedly Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox fetchmail[29928]: Nachricht USER@ISP:1 von 2 wird gelesen (2204 Bytes im Nachrichtenkopf) (Log-Meldung unvollständig) Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox fetchmail[29928]: LMTP-Fehler: 451 4.3.0 <heini@localhost> Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): child 29949 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped) Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling # doveconf -n # 2.0.1 (a05834588ffb): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 i586 Debian squeeze/sid auth_debug = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = oldbox.altum.de auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = gssapi auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 user = fetchmail } } ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u driver = static } fetchmailrc: set postmaster "postmaster" set nobouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" set daemon 60 set syslog poll ISP with proto IMAP user 'USER' there with password 'password' is 'heini' here options stripcr fetchsizelimit 0 ssl expunge 500 smtphost /var/run/dovecot/lmtp Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks... Dirk

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[Dovecot] dsync: mbox to maildir hangs
by Burckhard Schmidt 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello, after successfully converting some mailboxes I have a problem: dsync does not finish its work. dovecot 2.0.2. mail-location maildir:~/maildir I have copied the old Inbox and folders into /mailstore1/import-inbox and /mailstore1/import-home to the new server. (used with Dovecot 1.0.13 before) For one account I have now 356 folders containing about 60000 emails. (35 folders with about 40000 emails had been converted without problems) I used: dsync -v -u account mirror mbox:/mailstore1/import-home/~account:INBOX=/mailstore1/import-inbox/account dsync shoes after two minutes a list of all folders like this dsync(account): Info: Mail/folderx: only in dest After about 8 minutes some folders are converted. But then it hangs inside a folder which is just converting. I see entries (emails) inside "folder/tmp" but not all. And the "folder/cur" is still empty. dsync uses about 75% of one cpu all the time. I was waiting more than 50 minutes but no progress. I have to use kill -9 to stop it. If I delete this folder it still happens with a different one. Are there any limitations? Any advice? Regards - Burckhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole proxy errors
by Cassidy Larson 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I'm trying to upgrade my proxy front-ends to 2.0.2. I have the latest Pigeonhole release installed, and whenever I connect to the sieve port this gets logged in the syslog: managesieve-login: Error: auth: connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied (euid=144(<unknown>) egid=144(<unknown>) missing +x perm: /, euid is not dir owner) I dont get any capabilities displayed on the client side. I'm not sure why it's referring to the '/' directory. On 1.2.x, I authenticate the user and proxy to the sieve process on appropriate users back-end storage node. Here is the sieve config in my dovecot config file: ------------ service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = a.b.c.d port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { address = a.b.c.d port = 2000 } } protocol sieve { managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole mail_debug=no } -------- Any help would be great. thanks!

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[Dovecot] It's broke but I can't see why
by Ian macdonald 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi All, My Dovecot was working I made a change and receive this error Sep 13 17:01:42 geomail dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=192.168.1.80, TLS Sep 13 17:01:43 geomail dovecot: dovecot: Relative home directory paths not supported (user user): I had changed mechanisms = plain to mechanisms = plain login I removed the extra login and it still reports the same error, I must have changed something else by mistake, but I just cannot see what I have done, I was stupid and the backup config is older and not working properly with shared files:-( dovecot -n gives # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public/:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u list: yes lda: postmaster_address: user@domain mail_plugins: acl auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: home= socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: deleted_to_trash_folder: Trash acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db Thank you Ian

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.2 compile issues on Solaris 10u8 Sparc
by Jerry K 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I am having compile problems with Dovecot v2.0.2 on a well patched Solaris 10u8 Sparc system using the included gcc compiler. Version 2.0.0 compiled with out any issues using the same configure syntax. My ./configure syntax looks like this: ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-shadow Yahoo and Google searches turned up nothing for me. Reviewing the file mountpoint.c between version 2.0.0 and 2.0.2 shows the files to be identical, so I have a problem somewhere else, I am just not sure where. TIA for any pointers, Jerry \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c -o module-dir.lo module-dir.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c module-dir.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/module-dir.o libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c module-dir.c -o module-dir.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .deps/module-dir.Tpo .deps/module-dir.Plo /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mountpoint.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mountpoint.Tpo -c -o mountpoint.lo mountpoint.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mountpoint.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mountpoint.Tpo -c mountpoint.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mountpoint.o mountpoint.c: In function `mountpoint_get': mountpoint.c:88: error: field `ent' has incomplete type mountpoint.c:89: error: field `ext' has incomplete type mountpoint.c:172: warning: implicit declaration of function `resetmnttab' mountpoint.c:173: warning: implicit declaration of function `getextmntent' mountpoint.c:174: warning: implicit declaration of function `hasmntopt' make[4]: *** [mountpoint.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src/lib' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2' make: *** [all] Error 2

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[Dovecot] using palm pre client with imap server
by zhong ming wu 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello Anyone here tried to use palm pre built-in email client with imap server (TLS)? Mine does not work; only one line in the log. imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=xxx.xxx.19.21, lip=xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-42.ELsmp i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local0 protocols: imap listen: xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/ca.crt.crl ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/private/ssl.crt.key.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/private/ssl.crt.key.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 29 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Mail auth default: user: squab username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567890.-_@ username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf

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[Dovecot] LMTP proxying strategy with multiple recipient delivery
by Luca Palazzo 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi Timo and All, how does Dovecot act when an MTA tries to deliver a multiple recipient message to a LMTP proxied system? Does it uses server affinity table for each recipient? I use lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 setting in postfix to avoid multiple recipient delivery. Is it right? I use lmtp_destination_concurrency_limit = 1 too, but i think that it's useless or, maybe, it can make performance worst. Luca

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Re: [Dovecot] Upgraded dovecot - now it insists on imap TLS
by Alan Brown 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > What am I missing? > dovecot -n output would help. It would, but I found/fixed the problem already. I had to set the following: protocol imap { disable_plaintext_auth=no } The default has changed from "no" to "yes" between 1.1.20 and 2.0.1, but the conversion routine didn't pick it up (the wiki Documentation suggests the default is still "no". Perhaps this should be updated?) This still requires TLS on port 993, so there's no additional hole opened. Ironically, we published plans some time back to disable local-access plaintext imap logins in October and have been warning users to change their settings but 90% of them hadn't yet done so.

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[Dovecot] Virtual mailbox help
by Joy 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Dear All, I am trying to configure Virtual mailbox but having issue my squirrelmail is showing following error:- ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: LSUB "" "*" I have also check Thunderbird but having same issue. Please check my configuration and let me know any issue detected in it, Here is my configuration:- # 2.0.0: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.5 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota acl virtual namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { location = virtual:~/Maildir/.virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ prefix = virtual. separator = . } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot-acl/acl } After doing all configuration i created the following dir under .virtual dir. /home/domain/user/Maildir/.virtual/.Unseen /home/domain/user/Maildir/.virtual/.Unseen/ here created dovecot-virtual file with following text .. INBOX Unseen Restarted and set proper permission on all created directories then tried to login to client and getting the follwoing error in log file .. Sep 09 13:02:47 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<piyush>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=3505, secured Sep 09 13:02:48 imap(piyush): Panic: file strfuncs.c: line 72 (p_strndup): assertion failed: (max_chars != (size_t)-1) Sep 09 13:02:48 imap(piyush): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9fefd9e1] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9fefda5f] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x9fefdd18] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9ff1a2df] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(t_strndup+0x30) [0x9ff1a310] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x9fd32747] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x9ff559f2] -> dovecot/imap [0x8051deb] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_list_full+0x424) [0x8052d34] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_lsub+0x19) [0x8053129] -> dovecot/imap [0x805671c] -> dovecot/imap [0x80567b9] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x2d) [0x805692d] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x805731f] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xf5) [0x9ff0a275] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x30) [0x9ff09250] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2a) [0x9fef672a] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2b5) [0x805ff95] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0x9fd66455] -> dovecot/imap [0x804eac1] Sep 09 13:02:48 master: Error: service(imap): child 3505 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Please let me know the issue ??

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.2 breakes LMTP delivery for me
by Fabian Ruff 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, I'm onboard Debian Lenny (amd64) and just reverted from 2.0.2-0~auto+4 back to 2.0.1-0~auto+1 because LMTP stopped working completly with the above Package. In my setup delivery is done from exim via LMTP to dovecot (Maildir/ext3). The lmtp dovecot config looks like this: > service lmtp { > user = vmail > inet_listener lmtp { > address = 127.0.0.1 > port = 24 > } > > unix_listener lmtp { > } > } > protocol lmtp { > hostname = [...].de > mail_plugins = sieve quota listescape > postmaster_address = postmaster@[...].de > } With the new version I get no LMTP log message at all from dovecot and Exim fails with: > LMTP timeout after initial connection When I do "/etc/init.d/dovecot stop" some process remain alive and I ultimately have to SIGKILL the lmtp process to get rid of it. > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2643 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > dovecot 32368 0.0 0.0 12656 996 ? S 22:40 0:00 dovecot/anvil > root 32369 0.0 0.0 12788 1124 ? S 22:40 0:00 dovecot/log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.9 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:08 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# kill 32368 > trench:/tmp# kill 32369 > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2689 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.8 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:20 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2692 0.0 0.0 8224 764 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.9 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:28 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# kill 32764 > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2700 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.9 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:41 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# kill -9 32764 > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2830 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:51 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log The older version works without any problems for me. Any ideas whats the Problem? Could there be a regression from the LMTP fixes introduced in 2.0.2? Cheers, Fabian Ruff

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[Dovecot] xxxx-login: Error: open(proxy-notify) failed: No such file or directory
by Luca Palazzo 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi All, just noted this error message. What does it mean? System seem to work fine but i get a lot of them. Luca

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[Dovecot] Global ACLs
by Paweł Madej 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello, how can I do this every user have .Spam mailbox and i want user spamadmin to have access to it i got global acl file with content user=spamadmin lrp but I cannot list other users .Spam mailboxes Greets and thanks in advance for any help and suggestions -- Paweł Madej

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[Dovecot] Certificate for outlook 2003
by Richard Gliebe 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi all, We are running "dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5" on a CentOS release 5.5 (Final) box. I know, its an old version, but it cames up with the CentOS release (yum). Anyway. Is there a way to import the certificate, which was generated with "mkcert_dovecot.sh", permanently to the outlook 2003 clients? Every time, when our office 2003 clients fetches there emails (POP3s) from our dovecot server, they will be asked "......, the CN-Name of this certificate doesn't match with the taken Value. Do you want to continue with this server?. sorry for the poor english translation. Here in german (for some german people): Der Server, mit dem Sie verbunden sind, verwendet ein Sicherheitszertifikat, das nicht verifiziert werden konnte. Der CN-Name des Zertifikates stimmt nicht mit dem übergebenen Wert überein. Möchten Sie diesen Server weiterhin verwenden? many thanks for some hints Richard

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[Dovecot] mdbox, doveadm force-resync crashing
by Brandon Lamb 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

doveadm force-resync -u johnh(a)vinemaker.com INBOX doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Corrupted index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (414 > 385) doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Warning: fscking index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Fixed index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index: messages_count 414 -> 385 doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Fixed index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index: seen_messages_count 386 -> 379 doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Panic: file mail-index-write.c: line 188 (mail_index_write): assertion failed: (index->log_locked) doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x39c1a) [0x7f39c4bf5c1a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x37) [0x7f39c4bf5cf7] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f39c4bd3026] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_write+0x793) [0x7f39c56eac73] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_fsck+0xc7e) [0x7f39c56d5cee] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x42577) [0x7f39c56d8577] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x59) [0x7f39c56d8a79] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x3d599) [0x7f39c56d3599] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x118) [0x7f39c56d3938] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0xbc) [0x7f39c5705e9c] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(dbox_mailbox_open+0x61) [0x7f39c5720f61] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x2e161) [0x7f39c56c4161] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409518] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x4095cf] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409aee] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm(doveadm_mail_single_user+0x53) [0x409be3] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409f51] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm(doveadm_mail_try_run+0x141) [0x40a191] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm(main+0x381) [0x40e091] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f39c446dc4d] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409319] Aborted

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[Dovecot] v2.0.2 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.2.tar.gz.sig Many small fixes and logging improvements, but most importantly fixes LMTP with Maildir. * vpopmail support is disabled for now, since it's broken. You can use it via checkpassword support or its sql/ldap database directly. - maildir: Fixed "duplicate uidlist entry" errors that happened at least with LMTP when mail was delivered to multiple recipients - Deleting ACLs didn't cause entries to be removed from acl_shared_dict - mail_max_lock_timeout setting wasn't working with all locks - auth_cache_size setting's old-style value wasn't autoconverted and it usually also caused a crash

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[Dovecot] Upgraded dovecot - now it insists on imap TLS
by Alan Brown 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

This is definitely an operator error issue, but I'm under a bit of pressure. I updated our 1.1.20 installation to 2.0.1 over the weekend and discovered this morning that it's insisting on TLS imap on port 143 as well as port 993 What am I missing? Thanks in advance Alan

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[Dovecot] SSHA256 password too short
by Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi all I am upgrading a mail system. So I installed aside a new server with debian lenny dovecot 1.2 from backports , postfix 2.5, mysql 5. I recovered the database from the actual production system with a dump. But when i started testing I found this in my logs Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Error: ssha256_verify(user(a)domain.tld): SSHA256 password too short Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Warning: Invalid OTP data in passdb Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Warning: Invalid OTP data in passdb But the same users gets connected normally to the production system. I use mysql as driver and my default_schema is md5 Any ideas ?? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Proper use of convert plugin?
by Donny Brooks 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I am trying to convert from mbox to maildir on our mail server here at work. The specs are as follows: Fedora 11 x86-64 dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 postfix-2.5.6-3.fc11.x86_64 dovecot-managesieve-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 We are currently using mbox format with the users INBOX set to /var/spool/mail/username and other mail is in /home/username/Mail. I would like to migrate to maildir format. I tried using the convert plugin as the wiki suggested: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir protocol imap { mail_plugins = convert } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = convert } plugin { convert_mail = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u } When doing this I get this scrolling in the /var/log/maillog... Sep 11 14:41:38 roark dovecot: IMAP(username): Mailbox conversion: Lock creation timeouted Sep 11 14:41:39 roark dovecot: IMAP(username): Fatal: Mailbox conversion failed, exiting Sep 11 14:56:53 roark dovecot: POP3(otheruser): Mailbox conversion: rename(/home/otheruser/Mail, /home/otheruser/Mail-converted) failed: Directory not empty it does this for some users only. Mine for instance never errored and completed perfectly from what I can tell (other than the new mail issue below). The server load has skyrocketed though, so that is most likely part of it. Also, while testing this, new mail was not delivered to the maildir but rather to the old mbox in /var/spool/mail/username. The new mail never showed up until I switched the config back over to the mbox settings. Am I missing something here? Thanks for any insight -- Donny B.

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[Dovecot] Question about LDA+spamassassin
by Javier de Miguel Rodríguez 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello I am using dovecot 1.2.11 (openexchange not still fully supported with dovecot 2.0). In my setup I use ldap to store quota information, and I want to accomplish the following: per-user spamassassin rules (MDA style), but my setup has the following requeriments: mail_uid= entrega mail_gid= entrega LDA & SIEVE: sieve_dir=/buzones/my_domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/sieve/ mail_location=maildir:/buzones/my_domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n I have been reading in the wiki, but I am not sure how I can have in $mail_location/user1 a .spamassassin directory per-user and lda+sieve work together to make spam rules by user Regards Javier

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.2 and Pigeonhole-0.2.0
by Matthias Quernheim 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

I upgraded today to Dovecot 2.0.2 and Pigeonhole-0.2.0 based on debian lenny. Looked not to bad, but when I activated sieve in the lda section the following error appeared for each delivery Sep 11 18:13:11 lda: Error: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tried_default_save Sep 11 18:13:11 lda: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins I found some hints regarding on old versoin of deliver, but it is the current one. Any ideas? Thanks Matthias

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Re: [Dovecot] lda: internal error
by Dirk Heinrichs 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Am 11.09.2010 12:53, schrieb axel Egal: > all files in /etc/dovecot have already 0666 permission. What about the directory? Bye... Dirk

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[Dovecot] lda: internal error
by axel Egal 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi, i'm trying to relay local post from Postfix to Dovecot-lda. It's running on opensuse11.3-64bit with postfix V2.7.1 and dovecot V2.01. sending local message like: echo foo | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f root root gets no logdata in dovecot.err, -.info,-.debug. but the postfix-logfile tells: Sep 11 10:56:12 server postfix/cleanup[3027]: 94027A65BC: message-id=<20100911085612.94027A65BC(a)Server.Firma> Sep 11 10:56:12 server postfix/qmgr[1544]: 94027A65BC: from=<root(a)Server.Firma>, size=277, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 11 10:56:12 server postfix/local[3029]: 94027A65BC: to=<root(a)Server.Firma>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local, delay=0.22, delays=0.14/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: lda: Error: user root: Error reading configuration: net_connect_unix(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: Permission denied lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. ) There is no further loginfo in any other logfiles Is the internal-error a result of wrong parameters?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.1 Quota dict timeout
by David Jonas 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Since an upgrade to 2.0.1 from 1.2.x we're seeing this on (mostly) large mailboxes (Maildir) Sep 4 11:27:25 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to 192.168.dd.dd (accounts) ... Sep 4 11:27:46 kelly-a dovecot: lda(u1(a)example.com):) msgid=<123@xxx>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 4 11:27:47 dovecot: dict: Error: sql dict: commit failed: Not connected to database Sep 4 11:27:47 dovecot: imap(u1(a)example.com): Error: dict quota: Quota update failed, it's now desynced The dict is MySQL on another server, same switch. It does appear that the quota gets out of sync. From the entries I checked an email is often being delivered shortly before the error (as above). But I also see it happen with the lda: Sep 4 08:27:11 dovecot: pop3(u2(a)example.com): Disconnected: Logged out... Sep 4 08:42:48 dovecot: lda(u2(a)example.com): msgid=<123@aaa>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 4 08:43:26 dovecot: lda(u2(a)example.com): msgid=<123@bbb>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 4 08:43:26 dovecot: dict: Error: sql dict: commit failed: Not connected to database Sep 4 08:43:26 dovecot: lda(u2(a)example.com): Error: dict quota: Quota update failed, it's now desynced Sep 4 08:46:14 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<u2(a)example.com>,... This is happening on two different dovecot servers. The only thing they share is the MySQL server, but it has a load of 0.5 at peak. Is there something that can be tuned to keep this from happening? Possibly relevant entries from `doveconf -n`. Any tuning regarding dict can be assumed as default: maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mail_plugins = quota plugin { quota = dict:user:%LTd-%LTn:proxy::quota } Thanks! David

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[Dovecot] nfs director
by Edward avanti 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Halo, Please can you explain why this is advantage over a hardware load balancer. I fail to see advantage if anything it add in more point of failure, with several hundred thousand user, we can ill afford to mess around or add to complexity, sometime keeping it simple is simply way to be, when use qmail/vpopmail, we never had one failure or problem, ever, we very proud of this record so our users. if director service assign 60K user to each front end, how it handle if 5K simultaneous user login, but all 5K happen to be assign to that one machine, it do all work whilst other 7 server sit there do nothing negating what the LB is design for? Is it really worth it? Do we really need this, or just let foundry switch handle it as it does now. We also have 24 front end SMTP server, these deliver mail to netapp filer, all 24 plus 8 pop3 server and 2 webmail imap server all mount /vmail, so all access same maildir. it seem work very effective thus far and for many many year when we use qmail and vpopmail. Thaks

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[Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi again, I just recognized a problem concerning subfolders after converting from maildir to mdbox. Thunderbird and SeaMonkey don´t show folders that are subfolders of subfolders. Have a look at the filesystem: discovery:/var/mail/domain.tld/patrick/mdbox/mailboxes/Folder1/Folder2# ls -l insgesamt 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 5. Sep 23:42 dbox-Mails drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 5. Sep 23:42 Folder3 Using Thunderbird or Seamonkey, Folder1 and Folder2 are listed and can be subscribed to but Folder3 never gets listed. If I create Folder4 as a new subfolder from Folder2 it works, so the problem only exists with existing folders from converted maildirs. I had to use a namespace for the convert from my old Courier IMAP. Any hints? Regards Patrick # 2.0.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.5 auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota } protocols = imap sieve service imap-login { service_count = 1 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } service_count = 1 } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/certs/imap.key userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota }

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.2.0 for Dovecot v2.0.2
by Stephan Bosch 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hello Dovecot users, I have finally finished the first release of Pigeonhole for Dovecot v2.0. The most notable change from previous Dovecot v1.2 Sieve/ManageSieve releases is that all is now integrated in a single package and there is no need to patch Dovecot anymore to gain ManageSieve support. Changelog v0.2.0: * Merged Sieve and ManageSieve packages into a single Pigeonhole package. There is also no need to patch Dovecot anymore to gain ManageSieve support. Version numbering of previous Sieve releases is continued as v0.2.0. The sources originally branched off from Sieve v0.1.5 and ManageSieve v0.11.4, but the NEWS history of much more recent releases for Dovecot v1.2 is included since these changes are all included in this release as well. * The ManageSieve service now binds to TCP port 4190 by default due to the IANA port assignment for the ManageSieve service. When upgrading from v1.2, this should be taken into account. The service can be configured manually to listen on both 2000 and 4190. * The Dovecot configuration now calls the ManageSieve protocol 'sieve' in stead of 'managesieve' because it is registered as such with IANA. The binaries and the services are still called managesieve and managesieve-login. * The binary representation of a compiled Sieve script is updated to include source code locations of all commands and arguments. This is implemented in a similar manner as such debug information is included in some system executables and libraries (DWARF-like). Run-time errors can now always refer to the proper line number in the Sieve source script. * The Sieve plugin is adapted to work properly with the new LMTP service introduced with Dovecot v2.0. The same plugin is used for both LDA and LMTP. * The 'sieve_subaddress_sep' setting for the Sieve subaddress extension is now known as 'recipient_delimiter'. Although the deprecated sieve_subaddress_sep setting is still recognized for backwards compatibility, it is recommended to update the setting to the new name, since the new LMTP service also use the recipient_delimiter setting. * ManageSieve: changed default IMPLEMENTATION capability to from 'Dovecot' to 'Dovecot Pigeonhole'. * Renamed the sieved tool to sieve-dump. The original name was somewhat confusing. * Updated man pages to match style and structure of new Dovecot man pages. * Made testsuite commands more uniform and cleaned up many of the testsuite scripts. Some minor new tests were added in the process. + Simplified string matching API to use abstract string lists as data sources. This will also make implementing the index extension easier in the future. + Significantly improved trace debugging with the sieve-test tool. The full execution of the script can be examined, including the matched values and keys of the respective Sieve test commands. The executed statements are listed with their line number (and code address when requested). The level of detail is configurable from the command line. + The SIEVE and NOTIFY capabilities reported by the ManageSieve protocol can now be configured manually. If left unconfigured, the capabilities are determined from the default Sieve and ManageSieve configuration. User-specific capabilities aren't reported until after authentication. + Significantly improved file error handling. This means that administrators get a more useful and informative log message when file operations fail. The most notable example is that when the LDA Sieve plugin is trying to store a binary for a global script, the resulting failure message also points the administrator towards pre-compiling the script with sievec. + Added runtime argument value checking for several commands (redirect, date, vacation). When variables are used, these checks cannot be performed at compiletime. A proper runtime error now is produced when invalid data is encountered. + UTF8 validity of fileinto command argument is now checked either at compile time or at runtime. Previously, it was not checked until the store action was executed. + Validity of IMAP flags for the imap4flags extension is now checked also at runtime. Previously, it was not checked until the store action was executed. + Simplified and restructured error handling. Also made sure that user-caused errors are no longer written to the Dovecot master/LDA log. - Multiscript: fixed duplicate implicit keep caused by erroneous execution state update. - Prevented assertion failure due to currupt binary string representation. If the string was missing a final \0 character an assertion was produced in stead of a binary corruption error. - Imap4flags: fixed bug in setflag command; when parameter was a stringlist, only the last item was actually set. - Variables extension: fixed :length set modifier to recognize utf8 characters in stead of octets. - Testsuite: prevented innocent warning messages, i.e. those that are part of the test, from showing up by default. - ManageSieve/Sieve storage: fixed error handling of PUTSCRIPT commmand; save commit errors would not make the command fail. - ManageSieve: enforced protocol syntax better with some of the commands; some commands allowed spurious extra arguments. - Fixed Sieve script name checking to properly handle length limit and added 0x00ff as invalid character. - Removed spurious old stdio.h (top) includes; these caused compile issues on specific systems. - Fixed default Sieve capability (as reported by ManageSieve): extra extensions spamtest, spamtestplus and virustest were enabled by default. These should, however, only be enabled when properly configured and there is no default configuration. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.0.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.0.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.0 wiki for more information. Have fun testing this first release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. The bugfixes above are also applied to the Dovecot v1.2 Sieve and ManageSieve sources and I'll produce new releases for those in the next few days. Oh.. and if anyone is wondering what those duplicate notifications are on the dovecot-cvs list.. well.. oops. :) Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] master user login dovecot 2.02 trouble
by Robert Schetterer 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi , i got trouble with master login thunderbird anounces no INBOX there at master login also telnet looks strange normal user login 1 login ...... 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 2 list "" "*" 2 BAD Error in IMAP command : Unknown command. 3 list "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Templates" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Archives" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" 3 OK List completed. 4 logout master login * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] imap, pop ready 1 login .....*...... 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 2 list "" "*" * LIST (\Unmarked) "/" "INBOX" 2 OK List completed. 3 logout * BYE Logging out 3 OK Logout completed. something broken ? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Question on Mail Formats
by Giovanni Giorgi 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi, I am still tuning my dovecot, but I find myself very confortable with it. I am going to structure my imap folder with a new namespace (somthing you cannot do with GMail :) and I can choose the mailbox format. What is the difference between the two mailbox format "mbox" and "maildir"? I know mbox is older, but there is a good reason to use maildir instead? I can get for instance some performance improvement? Better archiving? Thank you! -- Senior Consultant http://gioorgi.com

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[Dovecot] LMTP logging configuration
by Rainer Frey 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi, I'm using Dovecot 2.0.1, and I log to a custom syslog facility (local0) in the main configuration (I want a separate log file, but I want to make use of rsyslogd's capabilities). I overwrite the syslog facility for LDA (mail) to have all delivery related stuff in /var/log/mail.log, and that works fine. I tried to do the same for LMTP with protocol lmtp { syslog_facility = mail } but this has no effect, LMTP logs to local0. Is this supposed to work, or is this not implemented at all? If not, is using a logfile in main config, but syslog in lmtp supported? Thanks Rainer

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and OpenSSO
by Javier de Miguel Rodríguez 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Has anybody tried to use opensso as authentication source for dovecot ? Maybe using PAM+Opensso? Regards Javier

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole and Dovecot2 with custom config file
by Cassidy Larson 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

I start my dovecot with the "-c /path/to/custom/config" option so I can run multiple instances. Been trying out 2.0.1 so I can upgrade my boxes cleanly, but I require managesieve. So after installing the latest sources of the Pigeonhole plugin, I'm getting this when trying to start dovecot: # /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot_custom.conf managesieve(root): Fatal: Error reading configuration: net_connect_unix(/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89 Running Dovecot 2.0.1 on FreeBSD 8.1. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Cassidy

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Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Timo Sirainen schrieb: > Or just from mdbox:~/mdbox to mdbox:~/mdbox:LAYOUT=maildir++ This doesn´t work: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.': Mailbox list driver maildir++: maildir_name not supported by this driver or without namespace: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: Mailbox list driver maildir++: maildir_name not supported by this driver

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[Dovecot] What's %%h ?
by William Blunn 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

What's %%h ? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables says that "%%" expands to "%", so according to that, "%%h" expands to "%h". But I have seen people using "%%h", so it must mean something else. Bill

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[Dovecot] Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
by William Blunn 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ <div style="padding: 0.2em; background-color: #50bead"> This documentation is for<strong>Dovecot v2.0</strong>, see<a href="http://wiki1.dovecot.org/ <view-source:http://wiki1.dovecot.org/>">wiki1</a> for v1.x documentation.</a> </div> After "documentation." there is a closing</a> tag with no corresponding opening tag. A similar issue appears on http://wiki.dovecot.org/ Bill

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[Dovecot] Problems setting up dovecot 2.0.1 with kerberos auth
by Dirk Heinrichs 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi, I'm trying to setup dovecot 2.0.1 on a debian squeeze test box. I want to integrate it into an already working kerberos5 setup, but I don't get it to work. I've added created host/ smtp/ and imap/ service principals with random key for the test machine and added them to its keytab. I can also obtain user credentials using kinit, but when I try to telnet to port 143, I only get the following: # kinit heini Password for heini(a)ALTUM.DE: # klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: heini(a)ALTUM.DE Valid starting Expires Service principal 09/05/10 18:56:30 09/06/10 04:56:30 krbtgt/ALTUM.DE(a)ALTUM.DE renew until 09/06/10 18:56:27 # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=GSSAPI] Dovecot ready. a authenticate GSSAPI a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. ^] telnet> Connection closed. This is in the logs: Sep 5 18:56:47 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Sep 5 18:56:47 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=27684) Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011GSSAPI#011service=imap#011secured#011lip=127.0.0.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011lport=143#011rport=33753 Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): Obtaining credentials for imap@rohan Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): While acquiring service credentials: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): While acquiring service credentials: Permission denied Sep 5 18:57:00 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111#011temp Sep 5 18:57:05 oldbox dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=GSSAPI, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=0, secured My configuration: # doveconf -n # 2.0.1 (a05834588ffb): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 i586 Debian squeeze/sid auth_debug = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = rohan auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = gssapi auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u driver = static } And here's the content of the kerberos keytab: # ktutil ktutil: rkt /etc/krb5.keytab ktutil: l slot KVNO Principal ---- ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 2 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 3 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 4 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 5 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 6 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 7 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 8 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 9 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 10 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 11 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 12 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE I also don't see any connection attempt in the KDC's log file. Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks... Dirk

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