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[Dovecot] Configuration Update From v1.x To v2.0.1-2
by Carlos Mennens 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I just upgraded my Dovecot IMAP package on my mail server and when I restarted the service, I got the following warnings... doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:12: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:14: passdb pam {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=pam } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:16: userdb passwd {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=passwd } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:18: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } The list was much longer but I was able to self resolve them. I was wondering if someone here can assist me in converting my 'dovecot.conf' file? Below is how my dovecot.conf file appears: protocols = imap disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:~/mail auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root socket listen { client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client user = postfix group = postfix mode = 0660 } } } ***doveconf -n*** [root@mail /]# doveconf -n # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:12: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:14: passdb pam {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=pam } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:16: userdb passwd {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=passwd } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:18: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } # OS: Linux 2.6.35 x86_64 auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:~/mail passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep }

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[Dovecot] How to pipe to external program
by Egbert 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi, Second try... I have mailsystem with virtual users only (/home/vmail/domain/user). I need to integrate RT3.x (a ticketing system). I have installed the RT-client but I need to send the mail to an extrnal program. Rt wants me to insert: |/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bla --action bla --url http://bla.bal/ In /etc/postfix/aliases. That does not work for me becase my local delivery agent is dovecot. The Sieve plugin seems not capable to forward to a external program. What is the right way to achieve that mail to rt@mydomain is sent to the pipe? TIA Egbert Jan

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Re: [Dovecot] Investigating suspected cache corruption
by Maria Elinger 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi David and all, I´ve read the mail you posted in the Dovecot list. We´re are having this same problem in a site which is very similar to yours. We also migrated from Courier to Dovecot nearly 9 months ago, and every now and then users complain about slowness in the imap connection. We fix it by removing the index files in the user's maildir. We use Horde as webmail, but the problem appears with any imap or pop connection, so we feel that the problem is in Dovecot. Did you find any solution or workaround at your site?, it would be very useful if you gave us a hint on this. Thanks in advance, María Elinger [Dovecot] Investigating suspected cache corruption David Warden Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:18:17 Hi All, I'm running Dovecot 1.1.11 for a site of about 7000 active users with a Squirrelmail frontend. We migrated from Courier (big shout to everyone who worked on the wonderful part of the Dovecot wiki that deals with Courier migration) and I have been extremely happy with the performance gains Dovecot has given us. Not only is the IMAP part of Squirrelmail faster, but our same hardware is under far less stress than it was before the migration. To date, the only problem we have experienced is a seemingly random but significant slowdown in Squirrelmail's loading of the messages in a user's Inbox. Each time, I have been able to fix the problem by deleting the user's dovecot.index, dovecot.index.cache and dovecot.index.log files in the user's INDEX directory for their dovecot Inbox. I tried having users experiencing this problem log in to a test Squirrelmail box with mail_debug on, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary and they report the same slowness on the test server. I don't see anything but normal login/logout IMAP lines in the production dovecot logs. I have hesitated a bit in posting to the list since this seems to be happening to a small percentage of users and it technically may be a problem with Squirrelmail, but the fact that I'm able to fix the problem by nuking Dovecot's index files has me concerned - does anyone have any suggestions for troubleshooting? My first idea when I get another one of these is to do a telnet IMAP session to Dovecot on one of the Squirrelmail boxes and see if I can get it to slow down when retrieving messages from the Inbox. We are using Maildir over NFS with the control/index files stored on NFS as well. We're doing FS quota over NFS using rquotad to query the NFS server for each user's quota. Here's the output of dovecot -n: # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1536). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 512 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 0 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:CONTROL=/Mail/mailhome/ %u/.dovecot:INDEX=/Mail/mailhome/%u/.dovecot mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_logout_format(default): bytes(in/out)=%i/%o imap_logout_format(imap): bytes(in/out)=%i/%o imap_logout_format(pop3): bytes=%i/%o pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(pop3): top(count/bytes)=%t/%p, retr(count/bytes)=%r/ %b, del(deleted/pre-deleted)=%d/%m, mailbox-size(bytes)=%s namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs:Mail Quota:user Many thanks, David Warden

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[Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.
by David Woodhouse 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Aug 18 22:07:31 twosheds IMAP(dwmw2): : Panic: file mail-index-transaction.c: line 637 (mail_index_transaction_lookup): assertion failed: (seq >= t->first_new_seq && seq <= t->last_new_seq) * PREAUTH [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] Logged in as dwmw2 0 enable condstore qresync * ENABLED CONDSTORE QRESYNC 0 OK Enabled. A00131 SELECT lists.bluez (QRESYNC (1154090296 1861 1:* (1,120,1578,2064,2226,2280,2298 1,120,12037,12523,12685,12739,12757))) Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00000034ace326c5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-9.fc12.x86_64 glibc-2.11.2-1.x86_64 keyutils-libs-1.2-6.fc12.x86_64 krb5-libs-1.7.1-9.fc12.x86_64 libcom_err-1.41.9-8.fc12.x86_64 libgcc-4.4.4-10.fc12.x86_64 libselinux-2.0.90-5.fc12.x86_64 nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.6-2.fc12.1.x86_64 openldap-2.4.19-4.fc12.x86_64 openssl-1.0.0a-1.fc12.x86_64 zlib-1.2.3-23.fc12.x86_64 (gdb) bt #0 0x00000034ace326c5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00000034ace33ea5 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00000000004a2698 in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:160 #3 0x00000000004a273b in i_syslog_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at failures.c:315 #4 0x00000000004a1d86 in i_panic (format=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>) at failures.c:207 #5 0x00000000004787f0 in mail_index_transaction_lookup ( t=<value optimized out>, seq=<value optimized out>) at mail-index-transaction.c:637 #6 0x000000000047be45 in tview_lookup_uid (view=<value optimized out>, seq=<value optimized out>, uid_r=<value optimized out>) at mail-index-transaction-view.c:162 #7 0x00000000004580fb in index_mail_set_seq (_mail=0x7282b8, seq=1578) at index-mail.c:1229 #8 0x0000000000423eb4 in expunges_drop_known (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:178 #9 get_expunges_fallback (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:269 #10 imap_fetch_send_vanished (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:291 #11 imap_fetch_begin (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:314 #12 0x000000000041e8e2 in select_qresync (cmd=<value optimized out>, ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- readonly=<value optimized out>) at cmd-select.c:243 #13 select_open (cmd=<value optimized out>, readonly=<value optimized out>) at cmd-select.c:320 #14 cmd_select_full (cmd=<value optimized out>, readonly=<value optimized out>) at cmd-select.c:382 #15 0x0000000000420ead in client_command_input (cmd=0x70a458) at client.c:612 #16 0x0000000000420f8d in client_command_input (cmd=0x70a458) at client.c:661 #17 0x00000000004211b5 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x709ff0) at client.c:702 #18 client_handle_input (client=0x709ff0) at client.c:714 #19 0x0000000000421a5c in client_input (client=0x709ff0) at client.c:753 #20 0x00000000004aa7cd in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 #21 0x00000000004a9c38 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x707cc0) at ioloop.c:335 #22 0x0000000000429726 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>, envp=<value optimized out>) at main.c:327 It's a public mailing list folder, so I've uploaded it to http://david.woodhou.se/bluez-maildir.tar.gz Filed as Red Hat bug #625907: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625207 -- dwmw2

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[Dovecot] New problem with migration to 2.0
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi guys After fixing my master_auth problem i have one error message left and i don't know what to do. The message from dovecot -n is: service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0666 } } My conf file looks like userdb { driver=static args = uid=10000 gid=10000 home=/mail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } As you can see pretty simple, but for me it looks like that the driver=static won't be accepted. Does anyone know which driver to use here ? Mit freundlichem Gruß Carsten Laun-De Lellis Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Hauptstrasse 13 D-67705 Trippstadt Phone: +49 (6306) 992140 Mobile: +49 (151) 27530865 email: carsten.laun-delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] migration to dovecot 2.0
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi everyone I am not the dovecot guru and i would appreciate if anyone could help me on my problems. I am running a mail server on dovecot 1.2 and want to migrate to dovecot 2. I have edited the conf file and now using the new keywords and got everything fixed but the following error message still exists, when i try to start dovecot. doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1036: Unknown setting: auth_socket doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89 doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.conf line 1036: Unknown setting: auth_socket My conf file looks like auth_socket listen { master { # Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically # used to give Dovecot's local delivery agent access to userdb so it # can find mailbox locations. path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = vmail #group = } client { # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups # using it. path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } I would appreciate any hints and help. Mit freundlichem Gruß Carsten Laun-De Lellis Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Hauptstrasse 13 D-67705 Trippstadt Phone: +49 (6306) 992140 Mobile: +49 (151) 27530865 email: carsten.laun-delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] Does Dovecot support the use of the INDEX directive for mdbox?
by William Blunn 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Does Dovecot support the use of the INDEX directive for mdbox? e.g. mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u Bill

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[Dovecot] Table mail.users doesn't exist (using built-in default iterate_query: SELECT username, domain FROM users)
by Jerrale G 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

connect = host=127.0.0.1 user=mail password=thecorrectpass dbname=mail map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = mail.expires value_field = expire_stamp fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } dovecot: auth: Error: mysql: Query failed, retrying: Table 'mail.users' doesn't exist Aug 26 05:16:24 server1 dovecot: auth: Error: sql: Iterate query failed: Table 'mail.users' doesn't exist (using built-in default iterate_query: SELECT username, domain FROM users) Why isn't the expire dict trying to use the defined working mysql auth instead of using the built-in default? The howto doesn't say how to override this, at wiki2.dovecot.org, and I didn't know the expire dict wanted to lookup the mailbox table; I thought it only wanted to lookup the expire table and use that soley for deleting messages as all info needed was stored, in the expire table, by the expire plugin on message delivery or copy. Jerrale G rrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] best way something thinks to upgrade dovecot to 1.2.* 2.0.*
by fakessh 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

hello all hello dovecot network hello timo What are your tips for successful migration for dovecot (atrpms , atrpms-testing depot for centos ) the page of wiki http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 explains the method to upgrade I tried on my personal machine and the command cites wiki returns errors on the terminal what to do with errors: correct the error in the configuration file ? the question may seem simple but it is not pointless many returns are welcome something thinks are welcome thanks

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1 to 2 migration FreeBSD
by Frank Bonnet 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hello is there some specials recommentations to migrate from dovecot 1.1.x to 2.0.1 with FreeBSD boxes ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Home directories
by Timo Sirainen 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I've noticed that a lot of people are using e.g.: mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n Then either they don't have home directory set, or their home directory is the same as the maildir. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home explains all the problems of not separate home and mail directories. Also whenever I try to suggest using a separate home and mail directory, the answer is way too often: "But I'm using virtual users. (They don't have home directories.)" So I started wondering. Maybe simply renaming the "home" to something else would help here at least some. Make all of the documentation use only the new word, and add alias for userdb so that the new name and the "home" both work (I guess docs would need to keep using the "home" as field name for some more years). So far I've only come up with "vhome" as the replacement name. Other ideas?

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[Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation
by Marc Perkel 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Started looking into the dsync utility and the doc are seriously incomplete. I can of course scour the internet looking for the missing information but that doesn't fix the problem with the docs. I might try to rewrite the docs myself once I figure it out.

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[Dovecot] Pure virtual user and RT3.x
by Egbert 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi, I have mailsystem with virtual users only (/home/vmail/domain/user). I need to integrate RT3.x (a ticketing system). I have installed the client but I need to send mail to a pipe. Rt wants me to insert: |/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bla --action bla --url http://bla.bal/ In /etc/postfix/aliases. That does not work for me. What is the right way to achieve that mail to rt@mydomain is sent to the pipe? Should I install, configure and use a Sieve filter? I have none installed at the moment. Or are there other (simpler?) ways? TIA Egbert Jan

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Re: [Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4 (Timo Sirainen)
by Eric Boltz (MMI / UPC) 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > Two potential problems I see with this: > 1. If users can do any changes on the secondary server (flag changes, > saving new mails, etc), you're going to have problems syncing the > changes back (without losing any changes or causing other problems). > > 2. If users can access the secondary server via IMAP clients, the > clients could become confused if the secondary server isn't completely > up-to-date. > > With v2.0 dsync would help with the first problem. Change in strategy. Primary rsyncs regularly to the secondary which keeps all mail services off. When primary fails email services are started manually until primary back online. Then I (or another ITer) manually stop the backup, rsycn and restart services on the primary. A bit labor intensive, but it should work.

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[Dovecot] Problems compiling Dovecot 2.0.0 on Solaris 10 x86
by Drew Schatt 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

I'm having issues getting Dovecot 2.0.0 to compile - I get the following error: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-master -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/usr/local/libexec/dovecot"\" -DEXAMPLE_CONFIG_DIR=\""/usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example-config"\" -DMODULEDIR=\""/usr/local/lib/dovecot"\" -DSSLDIR=\""/etc/ssl\"" -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -D_XPG6 -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -KPIC -lm -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xc99 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -D_XPG6 -xstrconst -KPIC -lm -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c doveconf.c "config-request.h", line 6: warning: useless declaration "doveconf.c", line 554: undefined symbol: optarg "doveconf.c", line 554: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: arg #2 "doveconf.c", line 560: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "=" "doveconf.c", line 581: undefined symbol: optind "doveconf.c", line 583: undefined symbol: optind "doveconf.c", line 584: undefined symbol: optind cc: acomp failed for doveconf.c gmake[3]: *** [doveconf.o] Error 2 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/schatt/code/evaluation_src/dovecot-2.0.0/src/config' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/schatt/code/evaluation_src/dovecot-2.0.0/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/schatt/code/evaluation_src/dovecot-2.0.0' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 Anyone have any idea on how to resolve this one? -Drew

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[Dovecot] Signal 11 - can't get core dump?
by Marty Anstey 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi all, We have been running Dovecot for over a year now in our moderate volume mail environment (>4000 mailboxes) and it's been running great. However, over the past month or so we've begun to experience issues where IMAP clients will appear to "hang" for a period of time, we then see a sig 11, and afterwards mailflow returns to normal. This usually happens a few times a day. Naturally, our first instinct was to try and get a core dump, but after following the instructions at http://www.dovecot.org/bugreport.html we now recieve this warning: 2010-08-24T13:33:56-07:00 mail dovecot: child 9728 (login) killed with signal 11 (core not dumped - add -D to login_executable) (ip=208.98.210.13) Adding -D to the login_executable lines didn't seem to have any effect, we are still receiving the same message. Did we perhaps misinterpret the hint? As we've been trying for over a week now to find a way to get a dump without any success, we figured posing this to the list might help us shed some light on the issue. Any suggestions would be appreciated! dovecot -n -- # 1.1.20: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) nfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ listen: 208.98.210.10 ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/sunwave.net.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/sunwave.net.key ssl_parameters_regenerate: 1 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login -D login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login -D login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login -D mail_max_userip_connections(default): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 first_valid_uid: 200 last_valid_uid: 200 first_valid_gid: 200 last_valid_gid: 200 mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%Ld/%1Lu/%Ln/Maildir mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/bin/mailtools/mail_imap.sh mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/bin/mailtools/mail_imap.sh mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/bin/mailtools/mail_pop3.sh mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: do_not_reply(a)sunwave.net mail_plugins: quota cmusieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: sunwave.net verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 511 user: vmail plugin: sieve: /var/spool/mail/%Ld/%1Lu/%Ln/Maildir/.sieve quota: maildir:Quota quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% quota_warning: storage=70%% /usr/local/bin/mailtools/quota-warning.sh 70 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/mailtools/quota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning3: storage=90%% /usr/local/bin/mailtools/quota-warning.sh 90 trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf Thanks, Marty

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[Dovecot] Help needed with plugin - Read Only access to IMAP mailbox
by Chris Moules 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

System info: # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem i686 Debian squeeze/sid .. mail_plugins: readonly .. I have a requirement to have read-only to a mailbox. I have been researching through the wiki, the mailing list archives and good old Google. There was a number of similar questions with no real definitive answer. Option 1: ACL This can work, but not if the mailbox(s) can change without you knowing how. I.E. a online read-only archive of someone else's mailbox. There is no wild-card or recursive ACL options. Rsync style backups don't allow for easy creation of custom ACL files per mailbox. Option 2: Read-only filesystem (Linux) This seems easy, but it's not. 1) how do you update your archive? I tried with a bind mount, this does not let you set the 'ro' option *directly*. You must then use "-o remount,ro" to get your read-only bind mount. This is a little messy (needs custom init scripts for mounting on boot), but do-able. 2) Dovecot needs write access to CONTROL and INDEX files. This lead me to using the "CONTROL" and "INDEX" options on the mail_locaiton. Setting these to the original 'rw' mount and the rest to my 'ro' bind mount. Again, messy but do-able. 3) Clients try to move messages from 'new' to 'cur' for Maildir. Every time I opened a maildir I got an error per mail (dovecot log) about read-only filesysem as the client was trying to set the Seen flag and dovecot was trying to move the 'new' mail to the 'cur' folder. My test client, mutt, has a 'read_only' option when connecting. This eliminates this issue, but I cannot get everyone to use this archive with a correctly configured mutt. This sent me looking for 'read only' options in other clients. I could hardly find any. I noted that mutt send an EXAMINE and not a SELECT to open the mailbox when in read_only mode and this set me thinking about doing this in another way. Option 3: Dovecot Plugin I started looking into the dovecot plugins. Being more a systems administrator than developer I have cobbled together a working plugin. It nearly does what I want, but not quite, and I don't know why. NOTE: I no longer use the setup that I had to test Options 1 and 2. I thought that this plugin can either be used server-wide or with the 'mail_plugins' userdb option. The plugin forces the MAILBOX_OPEN_READONLY flag in a mailbox_open() call. The plugin returns an error for all mailbox_create() calls. Testing in mutt: - I am unable to delete a mail - I am unable to create a new folder So far so good. However: - I am able to move/copy a mail to an *existing* mailbox (note, the move operation makes the copy but fails to set the 'delete' flag) I do not understand why this works. I have been grep-ing through the source of dovecot and the plugins to find some answer, but without luck. Attached is the full source to my plugin and the Makefile (adapted from Johannes Berg's antispam plugin Makefile) When finished, I will be happy to release this to the dovecot community under the GPL/LGPL or whatever. Regards Chris

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[Dovecot] v2.0.1 released
by Timo Sirainen 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.1.tar.gz.sig Some small fixes mainly, but since people aren't reporting much bugs for v2.0.0 anymore maybe v2.0.1 release will change that. :) Some of the more important changes since v2.0.0 are: * When dsync is started as root, remote dsync command is now also executed as root instead of with dropped privileges. - IMAP: QRESYNC parameters for SELECT weren't handled correctly. - UTF-8 string validity checking wasn't done correctly (e.g. mailbox names in Sieve fileinto) - dsync: Fixed a random assert-crash with remote dsyncing

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[Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4
by Eric Boltz (MMI/UPC) 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

I want to set up mirrored postfix/dovecot servers using two mac mini servers (OSX 10.6.4) located in different locations (Canada and the US to be specific) for redundancy. The idea is to have one as the primary MX ("mail.corp.com") and the other as the secondary ("webmail.corp.com"). If the primary goes down clients would revert to webmail until the primary is back up. The plan is to use rsync for this. My challenge, however, is what all I need to rsync to have a "live" backup. Rsync for backup isn't an issue, but I will need to rsync users (system and virtual). Anyone have experience with this? So far it seems that apple puts things in lots of non-standard locations. I suppose I could to a blanket rsync on /var, but that seems a bit much. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Fully kerberized mail system
by Dr Matthew Williams 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, Is it possible to use Dovecot in a fully kerberized mail system? We have configured authentication via kerberos, now we would like the imap deamon to access a kerberized nfs file system. Has any one any experiences? Regards, Matthew. -- Dr Matthew Williams MEng PhD MBCS Systems Administrator - IT Services - Bangor University Prifysgol Bangor Tel: (44) (0)1248 382414 Adeilad Deiniol Mob: (44) (0)7979 778269 Ffordd Deiniol URL: www.bangor.ac.uk Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UX EMail: matthew.williams(a)bangor.ac.uk

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[Dovecot] Messages causing an error from Solr.
by Erik Hetzner 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, I am trying to use the fts_solr plugin, and having some success. Unfortunately some spam messages I had lying around generate an error from Solr, e.g.: HTTP/1.1 400 ParseError at [row,col]:[5,29] Message: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xd84e) was found in the element content of the document. While I assume that these messages do indeed contain bad unicode, my searches seem to hang when they get an error back from Solr, causing other problems, so it would be nice if these messages did not cause an error from Solr. I isolated some of these messages and have attached them. I hope that the problematic characters come through properly. I have more messages that cause this problem (sometimes with difference unicode codepoints than the one in the message above), but I don’t want to clog the list up. Thank you for your help. best, Erik Hetzner Config: # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps login_dir: /usr/local/stow/dovecot-1.2.13/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/stow/dovecot-1.2.13/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_plugins: virtual fts fts_solr namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: virtual/ location: virtual:~/Maildir_virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: fts: solr fts_solr: url=http://localhost:8080/solr/ break-imap-search debug

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[Dovecot] PATCH: SQL connect crash
by Leandro Santi 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi! Dovecot 2.0.0 auth process seems to crash while attempting to connect to a nonexistent SQL database. A shallow look at the code reveals that NULL module->conn in passdb-sql.c is being erroneously dereferenced while trying to clean up after a failed connection attempt: (gdb) bt #0 0x0806240e in sql_query_callback (result=0x8076c40, sql_request=0x808ff90) at passdb-sql.c:70 #1 0x08069b66 in sqlpool_request_abort (_request=<value optimized out>) at driver-sqlpool.c:114 #2 0x0806ab2a in driver_sqlpool_deinit (_db=0x808b970) at driver-sqlpool.c:448 #3 0x0806970a in sql_deinit (_db=0x808b5bc) at sql-api.c:87 #4 0x0805a3ac in db_sql_unref (_conn=0x807fc60) at db-sql.c:119 #5 0x08062be2 in userdb_deinit (userdb=0x807fc48) at userdb.c:177 #6 0x0804ff4b in auths_deinit () at auth.c:213 #7 0x0805b7bc in main (argc=1474660693, argv=0xec835356) at main.c:160 gdb) print ((struct sql_passdb_module *) _module)->conn $20 = (struct sql_connection *) 0x0 It seems that module->conn for passdb is being zeroed at auth_deinit(), passdb_deinit() completes succesfully but then userdb_deinit() does the illegal access. The following hack seems to eliminate the symptom, however I'd strongly recommend to take a deeper look at the issue. I suspect that a higher level fix would be more appropriate. --- dovecot-2.0.rc6.orig/src/auth/passdb-sql.c 2010-07-21 14:13:29.000000000 +0000 +++ dovecot-2.0.rc6.patched/src/auth/passdb-sql.c 2010-08-18 21:07:05.000000000 +0000 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ ret = sql_result_next_row(result); if (ret < 0) { - if (!module->conn->default_password_query) { + if (!module->conn || !module->conn->default_password_query) { auth_request_log_error(auth_request, "sql", "Password query failed: %s", sql_result_get_error(result)); Leandro

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[Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root
by Ralph Seichter 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

I'm currently trying to set up a Dovecot 2.0.0 server for backup purposes. There's an existing server which I successfully migrated to Dovecot 2.0.0, and it uses LDAP for authentication. For the backup server, which will not be exposed to users, I tried both PAM and PASSWD authentication, but all I are syslog entries like these: dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo>, method=PLAIN, rip=[...], lip=[...], mpid=20059, TLS dovecot: imap(foo): Error: user foo: Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root dovecot: imap(foo): Error: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Here is my current configuration: # doveconf -n # 2.0.0: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r1-v3 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1 auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir passdb { args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap ssl_cert = </usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/server.crt ssl_key = </usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/server.key The password file contents: # cat /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd foo:{CRYPT}xxx:1000:1000:Foo Backup:/home/foo:/bin/bash I searched the Dovecot Wiki and also tried MARC and Google, but I can't seem to find a solution for this problem. Could you please point me in the right direction? I have probably missed something. Thanks! -Ralph

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0 and BSDI 4.X
by The Doctor 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

All right, I am trying to migrating to 2.0 but running into problems. from my typescript: Script started on Wed Aug 18 23:24:58 2010 doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/home/doctor$ tail -f /var/log/maillog | egrep dovecot Aug 18 23:25:31 doctor dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.0 starting up (core dumps disabled) Aug 18 23:25:31 doctor dovecot: log: Error: net_accept() failed: Invalid argument Aug 18 23:25:31 doctor dovecot: master: Warning: service(anvil): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped quit ^C doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/home/doctor$ /usr/doc veo cot/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.0: /usr/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: BSD/OS 4.3 i386 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600 s base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100 listen = * login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_log_prefix = %Us(%u): mdbox_rotate_size = 2048 passdb { args = /etc/master.passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = pop3 imap service auth { executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/auth user = root vsz_limit = 256 } service imap-login { chroot = login client_limit = 256 executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login inet_listener imaps { address = 204.209.81.1 } process_limit = 128 process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 1 user = dovecot vsz_limit = 64 } service imap { executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap process_limit = 512 vsz_limit = 256 } service pop3-login { chroot = login client_limit = 256 executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login inet_listener pop3s { address = 204.209.81.1 } process_limit = 128 process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 1 user = dovecot vsz_limit = 64 } service pop3 { executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 process_limit = 512 vsz_limit = 256 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_idle_notify_interval = 120 s imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugin_dir = /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugin_dir = /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_enable_last = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_save_uidl = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } You have new mail in /var/mail/doctor doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/home/doctor$ exit exit Script done on Wed Aug 18 23:26:07 2010 telneting into the ports work, but the clients seem to stuck in an infinite loop. -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee Australia!! Vote to throw the REpublicans to the sharks!

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[Dovecot] Over-quota bounces seeming to lack sender
by Dave Brenner 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

We're seeing an issue with 1.2.12 where over-quota rejection messages are appearing in the logs with <> as the sender. The sender of the original message sees the appropriate sender (postmaster@) on the rejection, but as the message makes its way through the postfix/amavis chain, I can see that the sender address is missing. Aug 20 10:55:56 inet1 amavis[21822]: [ID 702911 mail.info] (21822-05) Checking: rGDWxOHFPBdY <> -> <xxxx(a)toledotel.com> Aug 20 03:12:39 inet1 amavis[9724]: [ID 702911 mail.info] (09724-37) skip local delivery(3): <> -> <bad-header-quarantine> Aug 19 10:15:47 2010 (1570) xxxxxxxx-users: bounce message w/no discernable addresses: <dovecot-1282238146-79394-0@inet1> (that last one is from Mailman logs) Has anyone else run into this? -- Dave Brenner - david(a)toledotel.com The Toledo Telephone Company, Inc.

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[Dovecot] imap, imaps, ports; config for secure-only service
by Ronald Leach 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hello, having difficulty setting up a 'secure-only' service on a non-standard port. Objective is to open a secure Dovecot service on an internet-visible port, while also using an insecure service for hosts on an internal network (so that one particular client which is not SSL/TLS-capable can continue to use the service). Checking wiki1 and wiki2, I think that port 143 can be used for a service in both encrypted and unencrypted operations. (Wiki2 describes how port 143 can be used with or without STARTTLS.) I've managed to run both TB/Vista, and KMail/Debian on 143 from local machines, and they seem to work fine. (Though they do only work if the clients are set to use 'unencrypted logins' such as KMail's 'clear text' setting, and TB's 'don't use secure authentication'.) Dovecot's SSL certificate on the server expires in 2028. But I cannot get my 'secure-only service' working at all. I've chosen port 10943 for that service, and have been testing from both KMail on the server, and TB/Vista on another local machine. Here's the config: protocol imap { # inet users, and also users presented from offsite via an SSH tunnel, # will use IMAP (any capability) on 143. listen = *:143 # 143 will not be reachable from outside the internal network (except # via an SSH tunnel) # # External users will be allowed only to use port 10943 (as forwarded # from the gateway), and will have to use SSL ssl_listen = *:10943 } Other settings include: #other settings protocols = imap imaps disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = no ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW ssl_require_client_cert = no ssl_username_from_cert = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir #log and debug settings mail_debug = yes auth_debug = yes Log from a successful session on port 143: Logs (using port 143, KMail on the server) 14:43:22 auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Isecured^Ilip=127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=<hidden> 14:43:22 auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=ron 14:43:22 auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I1^I4057^I1 14:43:22 auth(default): master out: USER^I1^Iron^Isystem_user=ron^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001^Ihome=/home/ron 14:43:22 IMAP(ron): Effective uid=1001, gid=1001 14:43:22 IMAP(ron): maildir: data=/home/ron/Maildir 14:43:22 IMAP(ron): maildir: root=/home/ron/Maildir, index=/home/ron/Maildir, control=, inbox= 14:43:22 imap-login: Login: user=<ron>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS Unsuccessful session Logs (using 10943, KMail on the server) - absolutely no sign of any authentication, and the client reports a timeout. 17:03:30 imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshake 17:04:06 imap-login: Disconnected: rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshake 17:05:08 imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshake 143 works fine, so Dovecot is (of course) perfectly good at managing the auth and service, so I must have something wrong in the config. I cannot see it. Could anyone share a config they've used for *secure-only* IMAP service on an internet-visible port? I'd like to compare the settings. regards, Ron

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[Dovecot] Build failure building dbox and gnutls
by Elisamuel Resto 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hello! I'm having two issues building dovecot, one is with dbox storage, and another building gnutls as the SSL backend (builds fine with openssl). Software versions are Dovecot v2.0.0, GnuTLS 2.8.6 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a Configure: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules --with-zlib --with-sqlite --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-gssapi --with-pam --with-bzlib --with-docs --without-mysql --without-vpopmail --without-sia --without-bsdauth --with-libcap --with-ioloop=epoll --with-storages=maildir,mbox,dbox,mdbox For the dbox build error, the log states: libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `dbox_storage' Configure: http://pastie.org/1106301 - Make: http://pastie.org/private/qtt76kxomhmwqwii20oroq Configure: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules --with-zlib --with-sqlite --with-ssl=gnutls --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-gssapi --with-pam --with-bzlib --with-docs --without-mysql --without-vpopmail --without-sia --without-bsdauth --with-libcap --with-ioloop=epoll For the gnutls build error, the log states quite a few errors, so see the linked logs. Configure: http://pastie.org/1108356 - Make: http://pastie.org/private/dxmmmopnodptut77o6fx2g -- Elisamuel Resto <ryuji(a)codemages.net> http://www.simplysam.us/ - Simply Sam Blog

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[Dovecot] Mobile phone client detects 'PUSH' server
by Ron Leach 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Does Dovecot really provide a 'PUSH' email service? The mobile phone client (standard with SonyEricsson C510, in this case) reported that the server (our Dovecot installation) offered PUSH email service. I hadn't seen that in the documentation that I'd read and had understood the client-server protocol to be a client-PULL service, in that the clients decide which folders to retrieve, and check what messages there are and fetch any new messages. The clients we've used so far have settings for frequency of these checks. I didn't explore the option further, yet, being unsure whether there was a genuine PUSH service from our server or whether the phone was using a proxy somewhere (not ours) which would provide an intermediate fetch/aggregation/'pull then push' service of some sort - perhaps similar to the public offers from Yahoo etc. regards, Ron

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[Dovecot] sieve rule help
by Piyush Joshi 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Dear All, I am using dovecot-2.0.0 version and all my sieve filters are working perfectly except the following one. I am trying to flag message coming from jagdish(a)example.net mail id. require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imap4flags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","body","date"]; if address :contains "From" "jagdish(a)example.net" { keep :flags ["Flagged"] ; } Is it possible to make it work without using addflag to add a flag ?

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[Dovecot] dsync and active-active fault tolerance mail servers
by Luigi Rosa 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I would like to set up an active-active fault tolerance couple of mail servers. Is the following procedure correct? Let's suppose I want to set up two servers for acme.com, mail1.acme.com and mail2.acme.com I declare both servers as MX in DNS configuration. Mailbox are stored in maildir with a single UID/GID owner for all the maildir files Userbase is MySQL, user tables are replicated using MySQL tools; in this case, the replica is one way, that is mail1.acme.com holds the "master" copy of MySQL tables and mail2.acme.com hold the "copy". The replica is done via dsync with a procedure like this executed on mail1.acme.com server: foreach mailbox { dsync mirror mailbox } Where mailbox is the full mail address, used also as a login name for authentication. My goal is to allow users to connect the mail servers they like and have all their mail (a 10/15 minute of sync delay is acceptable). This is the theory, now some questions. 1) Use Linux user/group owner of the files and directories are the same on both hosts (they are both foobar), but have different numeric ID, in one host foobat has UID 1234 and on the other host foobar has UID 2345. Is this an issue? 2) Mail location path is the same on both hosts, but where does dsync get it? Does dsync get all the information from the userbase defined in dovecot.conf (and other included files)? 3) Have I to scan the entire userbase and execute dsync for each user, or is there a trick to do for every user with a single command? 4) How often is good to run the synchronization? 5 minutes? 10? 15? 5) What is the correct command line to invoke dsync in this scenario? 6) Does anyone else tried this? :) Thank you. Ciao, luigi -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes.

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[Dovecot] sieve_after scripts with virtual domains
by Ciro Scognamiglio 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, first of all I am new to the list, so hello everyone :) I recently encountered an annoying problem with sieve, I am using dovecot version 1.2.13 on centos 5.5, the packages installed are the following: dovecot-sieve-0.1.17-5.el5 dovecot-managesieve-0.11.11-0_4.el5 dovecot-1.2.13-1_111.el5 the mail server is configured with virtual hosts (mysql), also the sieve plugin and managesieve are active. Users can create their own filters through roundcube and everything works fine. I also put two script to be executed before all sieve scripts in sieve_before, they just move any SPAM or VIRUS tagged message to a Junk folder. The problem is that while this works for my domain (that is also the server domain) it doesn't for the others domains, it seems the sieve_before scripts get ignored. I made many tests with the domains I am hosting, if I send a spam message (I am using the spamassassin test messages) it gets marked as SPAM, but gets only moved to the junk folder if the recipient is @cslash.net (that is my domain). here is some config extracts: === dovecot.conf === plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_before = /srv/mail/sieve-before sieve_after = /srv/mail/sieve-after } ======= /srv/mail $ cat sieve-before/spam.sieve require "fileinto"; if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { fileinto "Junk"; } P.S. The sieve scripts are all compiled.

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole sieve imapflags bug
by Tim Traver 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, ok, I just instealled the dovecot 2.0.0 release, and the latest mercurial pigeonhole source. All is well, except for a particular sieve rule that may not be working right. It is a simple rule that looks like this : require ["fileinto","imap4flags"]; # rule:[Past Due Notices] if allof (header :contains "Subject" "Account Past Due Notice") { fileinto "Billing"; setflag "\\Seen"; stop; } Anyways, what happens is the message that matches that rule does indeed get moved to the "Billing" folder, but it does not get marked as read. BUT! if I change the order of the actions to mark it as read first, then move it to the "Billing" folder, it does both of those actions... Is that the way it is supposed to work? or is that a bug? Thanks, Tim.

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[Dovecot] Logged out format in log
by Jerrale G 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I was naive to not check the log more thoroughly for changes. I need "dovecot: imap(jerrale(a)sheltoncomputers.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=1921/2983" to say the rip (ip address) as 1.2.x did; how do I accompish such? Jerrale G SC Senior Admin SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Mobile phone client - first access
by Ron Leach 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning! With my first post to the list, may I begin by saying how impressed I have been by Dovecot's performance on our Debian server. We've configured it to run with Exim and Fetchmail, using Dovecot to manage professional and domestic emails for a small home office, serving a number of Windows and Linux clients both on the internal network and, when working overseas, via SSH tunnels back to the Debian server. Dovecot's performance has been, simply, rock-solid; a very impressive piece of work by Timo and all those supporting him. My ordinary mobile phone - a Sony Ericsson C510 - includes an email client with IMAP capability (and none, TLS, or SSL encryption). Configured to access our server across the mobile carrier's network, the results surprised me; they were not what I expected. The first surprise was, it worked. More seriously, the messages it retrieved were not what I expected; the phone received around 58 messages, but from the 'inbox', the 'junk' box, and a couple from a 'project' box. I had expected to only retrieve the messages that were in the 'inbox'. How does Dovecot 'decide' what messages to give the phone client? [I think I may have the wrong 'mental model' of what should have happened, and would appreciate being put right.] Is it possible to configure Dovecot to only serve specific boxes? The mobile phone client is extremely simple - it does not have the facility to 'browse' the folders, it only has an inbox, sentbox, etc; I have wondered whether there might be a 'jar' email client that is richer, and which might help - I will look for something anyway. But I was impressed that my mobile phone could check our home and office email while offsite; if I can get that working it will save having to fire up the laptop at each opportunity. Thanks very much for reading this far, and, also, thanks everyone who takes the time to contribute to the list, regards, Ron

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[Dovecot] Director mailserver health monitoring script
by Brad Davidson 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Timo et al; The last bit of functionality that the Dovecot director is missing compared to our existing load balancers is mailserver health monitoring. As I understand it, if a mailserver goes down, Dovecot does not take any action to route connections around the offline node, and will keep trying to proxy clients to it. Since we're hoping to cut over to Directors soon, but don't want to lose any functionality, I've hacked up a script that: * Polls the local director for a list of mailservers * Performs health checks against a list of ports on each mailserver * Disables or enables mailservers (by altering the vhost count) as necessary I've published the script on github in hopes that it might be useful to others: http://github.com/brandond/poolmon/ Maybe someday Dovecot will do something like this internally and I won't need the script any more, but for now I'm pretty happy with it. -Brad

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[Dovecot] Weird Problem with subscriptions
by Harry Lachanas 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Dovecot Version 1.2.11 Created Public Namespaces and folders idx and control are created in each users Maildir/ aka namespace public { prefix=Public/ separator = / location = maildir:/home/Public-Folders-Mail/Public-RO:INDEX=~/Maildir/p1-idx:CONTROL=~/Maildir/p1-ctrl hidden = no subscriptions = no inbox = no } The problem occurs after a user has subscribed to The Folder dovecot complaints about ... dovecot: IMAP(grharry): open(/home/grharry/Maildir/p1-idx/.production/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=1004(grharry) egid=1000(vmail) missing +x perm: /home/grharry/Maildir/p1-idx/.production) After changing manually the perm in the above dir +x all works fine. I've tried unsubscribing and deleting the p1-ctl p1-idx dir structures The same problem occured ( This hapens in the users own Maildir ) Your help will be appreciated Regards Harry

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[Dovecot] Disable APOP challenge in POP3 login greeting
by Brad Davidson 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Timo, It looks like Dovecot 2.0 appends an APOP challenge to the POP3 greeting even if APOP is not an enabled auth mechanism. Is there any way to disable this? We don't support APOP, and the challenge includes the private hostname of the server, which we'd rather not have in the banner. It looks like get_apop_challenge in 1.2 returns NULL if APOP isn't supported, which causes auth_client_ready to omit the banner... but I see no such check (in fact, no way for get_apop_challenge to return NULL) in 2.0, even though pop3_client_send_greeting tests for it. Thanks, -Brad

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[Dovecot] mailbox utilities
by Terry 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hello, Are there any utilities that will spit out statistics about some mailboxes I have on my server? For example, how many messages are in each mailbox? They appear to be in mbox format (default?). Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities
by Kádár Tamás 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

P.S. It's not *exactly* what you are looking for -- but it can still spit you out some useful and semi-related statistics. -----Original Message----- From: "Kádár Tamás" tamas.kadar(a)espell.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:37:01 To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Reply-To: tamas.kadar(a)espell.com Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities If you happen to use Postfix, you can use pflogsumm which is crude, but works. ------Original Message------ From: Terry Sender: dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell.com(a)dovecot.org To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities Sent: Aug 19, 2010 21:25 Hello, Are there any utilities that will spit out statistics about some mailboxes I have on my server? For example, how many messages are in each mailbox? They appear to be in mbox format (default?). Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities
by Kádár Tamás 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

If you happen to use Postfix, you can use pflogsumm which is crude, but works. ------Original Message------ From: Terry Sender: dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell.com(a)dovecot.org To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities Sent: Aug 19, 2010 21:25 Hello, Are there any utilities that will spit out statistics about some mailboxes I have on my server? For example, how many messages are in each mailbox? They appear to be in mbox format (default?). Thanks!

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2 and quota_rules from AD
by Christian Lyra 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi I´m trying to figure how to proper configure postfix+dovecot to enforce quotas from a AD (ldap). I´m using the following configuration: dovecot.conf: ... protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota .. } auth default { passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-pass.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } ... } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota #quota_rule = *:storage=2M // tried with and without this line } dovecot-ldap.conf: ... user_attrs = sAMAccountName=mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%$/Maildir, quotaMail=quota_rule=*:storage=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(|(mail=%u)(sAMAccountName=%u))) pass_attrs = sAMAaccountName=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(sAMAaccountName=%u)) Quotas are set by the quotaMail in AD. And here is the log: Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): master in: USER#0111#011testeti(a)teste.mydomain#011service=deliver Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): user search: base=dc=mydomain scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=person)(| (mail=testeti@teste.mydomain)(sAMAccountName=testeti@teste.mydomain))) fields=sAMAccountName,quotaMail Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): result: sAMAccountName(mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%$/Maildir)=maildir:/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0111#011testeti@teste.mydomain#011mail=maildir:/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): auth input: mail=maildir:/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args= Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): maildir: data=/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): maildir++: root=/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/testeti/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): msgid=<201008091142.53089.lyra(a)pop-pr.rnp.br>: saved mail to INBOX There´s no quota_rule in logs... uncomenting the line quota_rule = *:storage=2M I got quota, bu only this static one, and not per-user. What I´m doing wrong? Btw... with static configuration the maildirsize file is created, but without static configuration it´s not (well.. no quota_rule...). thanks in advance, -- Christian Lyra POP-PR - RNP

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole and utf-8 error
by Xavier Pons 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi, now, I'm working with the last version of dovecot and pigeonhole sieve, and when apply a sieve filter on a new message, and it try to move this mail to a folder with special character like accent give me the error 'mailbox name not utf-8: ...' >Aug 17 09:22:40 imap1 dovecot: lmtp(19629,miel): Error: kea6K484akytTAAAJBW4rA: sieve: msgid= ><1099311971.505.1282029699154.JavaMail.open-xchange(a)o.uib.es>: failed to store into mailbox 'atenció': >mailbox name not utf-8: atenció dovecot it's working without problem on this folder. I suppose it's a misconfiguration, but I don't find where... Xavier

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[Dovecot] Dovecot lda with qmail
by Piyush Joshi 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Dear All, According to my setup i can not call |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda from my /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery file, Instead making a perl file which will call the same for delivery of mails. If i put the following code in my mail.pl |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda then it throws error in running file from command line. Warning: Use of "-f" without parentheses is ambiguous at /var/qmail/bin/mail.pl line 2. syntax error at /var/qmail/bin/mail.pl line 2, near "|" Execution of /var/qmail/bin/mail.pl aborted due to compilation errors. content of mail.pl #!/usr/bin/perl |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda Any help will be useful for me. Thanks

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[Dovecot] EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN: Thanks, Administrators of Dovecot!
by Jerrale G 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

With the release of dovecot 2.0, the community of the Dovecot mailling list, and us at Shelton Computers, would sincerely like to thank the developers of Dovecot. For, if it were not for you, we would be stuck with Courier and would not have the impressive features of Sieve, as opposed to the unmanageable scripts, by end users, of maildrop. *Our gratitude goes to, but not limited to:* *Timo Sirainen and Charles Marcus* *We apologize if we have missed anyone and ask that EVERYONE using dovecot would express their thanks and gratitude by signing this thread, to also include any people beyond the mentioned.* Please, Mr. Sirainen, make a donation link as we have tried to find one on dovecot.org! Sincerely, Jerrale Gayle, Senior Technical Admin of Shelton Computers

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda logging
by Nishant Limbachia 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi everyone, I'm using Postfix and Dovecot with dovecot-lda used for local delivery. I've successfully migrated from 1.2.13 to 2.0.0 however I have a little problem with dovecot-lda logging. With version 1.2.13, I use to log dovecot-lda to /var/log/dovecot-lda.log with world-writable mode. With version 2.0.0, postfix complains: "Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: permission denied". This is understandable because my dovecot.log file is 0600 mode. My question is how do I retain the 1.2.13 functionality of logging dovecot-lda to /var/log/dovecot-lda.log. I've read the LDA.txt in the wiki documentation and it states I can override log_path & info_log_path like this: protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log } What I don't know is where to add that segment. Should I add it to 10-logging.conf or 15-lda.conf? Right now I've added that to both the files but I still see the postfix permission denied message. I will appreciate if someone can help out. Thanks! BTW, Great work Timo!!! Thank you very much for a great piece of software!

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[Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows
by Dennis Clarke 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

>From a "Standards" thread I saw this : "Linux should be as easy as Windows" I would like to point out that this is a thinking problem. A shift in thinking is required. That should say : "Open source and Free software should be as easy as Windows" In this way we allow someone running BSD, Solaris or some port of Debian to an old Dec AlphaServer will have the same level of functionality provided standards are adhered to. Once programmers begin to see everything in the light of Linux then we can also kiss goodbye the opportunity for portability to other OS types. Dennis

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole: error while loading shared libraries
by Sebastian Köhler 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi, I built pigeonhole from the hg repo for Dovecot 2.0. Local sieve scripts work fine. But as soon as I try to connect via managesieve I get this errror: managesieve-login: Error: dovecot/managesieve-login: error while loading shared libraries: libdovecot-login.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory My dovecot install is in /usr/lib/dovecot and I had to symlink the libs in the dovecot folder to /usr/lib to make managesieve work. My configure options were: "--prefix=/usr --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot" Sebastian -- The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

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[Dovecot] OT [Fwd: Fwd: Re: EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN: Thanks, Administrators of Dovecot!]
by Noel Butler 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

CharlesMarcus LOL, you kinda contradicted yourself here charlie boy and personal RBL? yup, but its not just used by me, its used by a few if you read the link, a few involving millions of emails a day, but shouldnt be a problem giving the geographical locations... and lied? list msgs caught in spam rules, I guess you dont know how to configure SA URI's... now, please stop trying to avoid bans or i shall notify your isp you have violated their T%C ------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Charles <libertytrek(a)gmail.com> To: noel.butler(a)ausics.net Subject: Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN: Thanks, Administrators of Dovecot! Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:52:35 -0400 So, you're a liar as well. You lied when you said my messages were getting caught in your anti-spam filter. They weren't, they were getting blocked by your silly little personal rbl. If you weren't blocking list traffic, you would have seen that I already corrected the record on that myself. Don't bother replying - I won't be rejecting your messages on this account, I just give them the attention they deserve (straight to the shit-can).

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[Dovecot] Unexpectedly lost message
by Tom Goerger 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, We're having some issues with certain messages not being able to be read by Dovecot. Can anyone tell me under what conditions the error messages below could be caused? Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu imap(user): : [ID 887855 local6.error] Next message unexpectedly lost from 1913995 Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu last message repeated 2 times Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu imap(user): : [ID 107833 local6.crit] Panic: file istream.c: line 76: assertion failed: (_stream->skip != _stream->pos) Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu dovecot: [ID 684838 local6.error] child 13169 (imap) killed with signal 6 Thanks, -- Tom Goerger University of Minnesota - Internet Services

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[Dovecot] rare index cache error with dovecot 1.2.10
by Wolfgang.Friebel＠desy.de 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, since some time for a single user updating the Maildir/dovecot.index.cache file produced errors whenever it needed to be updated: Aug 15 04:16:40 imapsrv dovecot: deliver(user): pwrite() failed: File too large Aug 15 04:16:40 imapsrv dovecot: deliver(user): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/mail/mamuzic/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: File too large The file itself was 55115776 bytes and a test program using pwrite with any reasonable size or offset does not produce the EFBIG error. Looking to the file contents the start of the file looks correct to me ( according to src/lib-index/mail-cache-private.h ) and despite of the error message the file gets updated and contains always the headers of the most recent incoming mail near the end of the file. After removing the file the cache was rebuilt properly (currently at 9MB). As this happened only for a single user out of approx 500 and after more than one year of using dovecot without any other problems I guess this is a very rare case. As pwrite tests do not show the error this seems not to be an issue with low file limits (as suggested in another mail on this topic) but maybe a lookup of corrupt addresses from the index.cache. I have saved the dovecot.index.cache, but as it is rather large (55MB) and does contain a lot of privacy information I would rather not make it accessible. Is there something I can further check to see whether dovecot is missing a sanity check? -- Wolfgang Friebel Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Phone/Fax: +49 33762 77372/216 Platanenallee 6 Mail: Wolfgang.Friebel AT desy.de D-15738 Zeuthen Germany

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