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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.beta5 convert with doveconf -n -c
by Bradley Giesbrecht 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Sorry if I missed the dovecot 2.0.betax managesieve sieve discussions. I have been looking in my list archive and haven't found a reference to this yet. I am trying to convert my dovecot.conf and am getting the following Fatal error: /** doveconf -n -c dovecot/dovecot.conf > dovecot.converted/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:10: protocols=managesieve has been renamed to protocols=sieve doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:10: protocols=imaps is no longer necessary, remove it doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:10: protocols=pop3s is no longer necessary, remove it doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:14: ssl_cert_file has been replaced by ssl_cert = <file doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:15: ssl_key_file has been replaced by ssl_key = <file doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:19: mail_executable has been replaced by service { executable } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:23: mail_executable has been replaced by service { executable } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:33: protocol managesieve {} has been replaced by protocol sieve { } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:35: listen=..:port has been replaced by service { inet_listener { port } } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:35: protocol { listen } has been replaced by service { inet_listener { address } } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:36: login_executable has been replaced by service { executable } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:37: mail_executable has been replaced by service { executable } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:39: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:41: passdb sql {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=sql } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:44: userdb prefetch {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=prefetch } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in dovecot/dovecot.conf:46: userdb sql {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=sql } doveconf: Error: protocols: Unknown protocol: sieve doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file dovecot/dovecot.conf: protocols: Unknown protocol: sieve /** My current dovecot.conf has these sieve related directives: /** protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)pixilla.com hostname = ix.databoost.com sendmail_path = /opt/local/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path = /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path = /opt/local/var/serveza/log/mail/dovecot-deliver.log mail_plugins = sieve } protocol managesieve { disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = *:2000 login_executable = /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve } plugin { sieve_before = /opt/local/var/serveza/mail/filter/sieve/global/ before/ sieve = /opt/local/var/serveza/mail/filter/sieve/%d/%n/active.sieve sieve_global_path = /opt/local/var/serveza/mail/filter/sieve/ global/default.sieve sieve_dir = /opt/local/var/serveza/mail/filter/sieve/%d/%n/sieve sieve_global_dir = /opt/local/var/serveza/mail/sieve/global/ include/ sieve_after = /opt/local/var/serveza/mail/filter/sieve/global/ after/ .... } **/ I list subject addressing this would help if it's already been worked out. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht

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[Dovecot] Exim+Dovecot LDA - How can I catch the crash?
by Odhiambo Washington 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hello list I am testing mdbox with Dovecot from http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0-sis/.and my MTA is Exim. It appears to crash, but I am not sure how to capture the actual crash. What I get in Exim logs is: 2010-07-28 19:55:13 1Oe9uT-000KmG-Oz ** /var/spool/virtual/ titan.co.ke/wash/Maildir <wash(a)titan.co.ke> R=virtual_domains T=dovecot_virtual_delivery: Child process of dovecot_virtual_delivery transport (running command "/opt/dovecot2/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part@$domain -f $sender_address") was terminated by signal 11 (segmentation fault) This crash does not happen with RC3 of Dovecot. I know I shouldn't be using bleeding edge code, but strangely enough, I need to use this one to satisfy my curiosity, and to help me learn one or two new tricks. With rc3, here is what I have in dovecot.log: mail# less /var/log/dovecot.log Jul 28 20:04:36 master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.rc3 starting up Jul 28 20:05:04 lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot Jul 28 20:05:04 lda: Debug: Module loaded: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Jul 28 20:05:04 lda: Debug: auth input: wash(a)titan.co.ke home=/var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash uid=26 gid=26 quota=maildir:storage=0 Jul 28 20:05:04 lda: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota=maildir:storage=0 Jul 28 20:05:04 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: Effective uid=26, gid=26, home=/var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash Jul 28 20:05:04 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: Quota root: name=storage=0 backend=maildir args= Jul 28 20:05:04 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: fs: root=/var/spool/virtual/ titan.co.ke/wash/mdbox, index=, control=, inbox= Jul 28 20:05:04 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Jul 28 20:05:04 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/auth Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 wash(a)titan.co.ke service=lda Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Debug: passwd(wash(a)titan.co.ke): lookup Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Info: passwd(wash(a)titan.co.ke): unknown user Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 wash(a)titan.co.ke home=/var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash uid=26 gid=26 quota=maildir:storage=0 Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/auth Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Info: mysql: Connected to localhost (exim4u) Jul 28 20:05:04 auth: Debug: sql(wash(a)titan.co.ke): SELECT pop AS home, 26 AS uid, 26 AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', quota*1024) AS quota FROM users WHERE username = 'wash(a)titan.co.ke' AND enabled = '1' Jul 28 20:05:04 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Info: msgid=< E1OeA40-000OZ6-2O(a)mail.mediselkenya.com>: saved mail to INBOX .. while with dovecot-2.0-sis, I get: mail# less /var/log/dovecot.log Jul 28 20:08:46 master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.rc3 (8e511be90b4b) starting up Jul 28 20:08:50 lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot Jul 28 20:08:50 lda: Debug: Module loaded: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/auth Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 wash(a)titan.co.ke service=lda Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Debug: passwd(wash(a)titan.co.ke): lookup Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Info: passwd(wash(a)titan.co.ke): unknown user Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /opt/dovecot2/lib/dovecot/auth Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Info: mysql: Connected to localhost (exim4u) Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Debug: sql(wash(a)titan.co.ke): SELECT pop AS home, 26 AS uid, 26 AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', quota*1024) AS quota FROM users WHERE username = 'wash(a)titan.co.ke' AND enabled = '1' Jul 28 20:08:50 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 wash(a)titan.co.ke home=/var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash uid=26 gid=26 quota=maildir:storage=0 Jul 28 20:08:50 lda: Debug: auth input: wash(a)titan.co.ke home=/var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash uid=26 gid=26 quota=maildir:storage=0 Jul 28 20:08:50 lda: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota=maildir:storage=0 Jul 28 20:08:50 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: Effective uid=26, gid=26, home=/var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash Jul 28 20:08:50 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: Quota root: name=storage=0 backend=maildir args= Jul 28 20:08:50 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: fs: root=/var/spool/virtual/ titan.co.ke/wash/mdbox, index=, control=, inbox= Jul 28 20:08:50 lda(wash(a)titan.co.ke): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/virtual/titan.co.ke/wash/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Attached is my doveconf output. I need to find out what is killing the lda. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube

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[Dovecot] Impossible to share INBOX with other users
by Daniel Stoye 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, i am currently testing Dovecot 2.0 rc3 with Maildir format, and it seems _again_ impossible to share the Inbox of one user with another user. user1 shares Inbox with user2 user2 makes List command: 1 login user2 password * 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 ACL RIGHTS=texk 1 OK You are so in 2 list "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "FremdeOrdner" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "FremdeOrdner/user1" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "FremdeOrdner/user1/INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "FremdeOrdner/user1/INBOX/unterInbox" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "FremdeOrdner/user1/testordner" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "FremdeOrdner/user1/INBOX" 2 OK List completed. The Problem is the following line: * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "FremdeOrdner/user1/INBOX" which causes Thunderbird NOT to subscribe and ignore INBOX of user1. There is no difference, if the shared INBOX has any subfolders. Any Ideas on how to solve this? Regards, Daniel Stoye -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxZPmUACgkQwloC3PARqmhhQACeKOa3g9ec2G25uqYVpkp8sVlc zNYAnR6IU376m8JF2PkaXwvK7qsjC6I/ =u+IR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] hunting timeouts
by Iv Ray 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi guys, I inherited a Dovecot 1.0.1, which I will have to upgrade, but until then I need, if possible, to resolve a timeout. - we have about 25 IMAP users - the busiest user has about 100 000 messages (Maildir) in less than 100 folders - the mail server is on HP server with server grade 2.5" HDDs in RAID 5 - the load average of the server is low (the 5/15 minute is under 0.20) - the mail server is in-house on Gigabit Ethernet The timeout we face is that sometimes even small messages take 20-40 seconds to open (i. e. Tunderbird 2 on Windows 7). Or connection to the mail server timeouts. Could you give me a few tips where can I look in order to detect the possible reason for these timeouts. Thank you, Iv

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[Dovecot] moving mail from private inbox to public folder kills the latter
by Tamas Kadar 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi I've ran into something rather nasty: if a user moves a mail from its inbox to a public folder, the folder becomes inaccessible for others, because the moved file will have the the permission 600 instead of 777 (or 666) which the rest of the emails have in the folder. How can I change this behavior so when he moves the mail it automatically becomes world-readable? Also why one mail kills the whole folder? Here's the error I get: Error: open(/home/_shared/projects/.Long.Folder/cur/1281535484.M3B5A7P15183Q0.mail_espell_com:2,Sb) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(ktamas) egid=1000(ktamas) missing +r perm: /home/_shared/projects/.Long.Folder/cur/1281535484.M3B5A7P15183Q0.mail_espell_com:2,Sb, euid is not dir owner) Thanks and best regards Tamas

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[Dovecot] Good bye (and thanks for all the fish)
by Stewart Dean 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

The management decided to switch over to Zimbra so we will no longer be using Dovecot...which served us exceedingly well. May Timo and the Dovecot community prosper. Thanks for all the help from all of you in the years since our switch from UW-IMAP. -- "Grant us, in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding." Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] sieve-plugin: undefined symbol mail_deliver_get_lvar_expand_table
by Peer Heinlein 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

I'm using Dovecot 2.0 rc5, installed by using the deb.packes from xi.rename-it.nl/debian/dists/stable-auto/. When sieve is enabled (see attached config) my imap-process crashs: Aug 12 13:25:11 mail-archiv dovecot: imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/doot/modules Aug 12 13:25:11 mail-archiv dovecot: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieveugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_get_lvar_expand_table Aug 12 13:25:11 mail-archiv dovecot: imap: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins Bug in Dovecot, bug by the build-service or bug in my configuration? Peer -- Heinlein Professional Linux Support GmbH Linux: Akademie - Support - Hosting http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030-405051-42 Fax: 030-405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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[Dovecot] TTY=unknown
by Frank van Amsterdam 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

I'm wondering if TTY=unknown should be consider as a warning or error. I'm busy perfectioning the organisation's mail server. I want it to run without any warning or error message. ==> /var/log/auth.log <== Aug 12 11:37:15 h1690641 sudo: mail : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/var/spool/postfix ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f sender(a)domain.com -d receiver Thanks in advance, Frank

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[Dovecot] More than one private namespace not possible
by Jan Friedrich 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi everyone, Two days ago I migrated from Courier to Dovecot 1.2.13. Everything went smooth until the point I wanted to try some more features of Dovecot. My working configuration contains just the one INBOX. private namespace. Adding any other private namespaces (e.g. SHARE. with the configuration below) produces strange results in Thunderbird 3.0.6 and Evolution 2.28.3: I cannot see the SHARE. namespace but the mail clients create SHARE^^Trunk and other funny things inside the INBOX. namespace (inside die INBOX. Maildir). Changing the name of this private namespace has no effect. Because the devault dovecot.conf tells me I need an default namespace I created one but that did not change anything. In Thunderbird 3.0.6 the namespaces are correctly displayed in the advanced IMAP settings under "private namespaces" but not in the main view. The logs do not show any errors or warnings and the Maildir for the SHARE. namespace is correctly created by Dovecot. System: Ubuntu Hardy with self-compiled Dovecot 1.2.13 with managesieve 0.11.11 patch. SHARE-Namespace: namespace private { separator = . prefix = SHARE. location = maildir:~/shared/Maildir list = yes subscriptions = yes hidden = no inbox = no } Working config (without second private namespace): # 1.2.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.2 x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(managesieve): ssl_cert_file: /etc/courier/host.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/courier/host.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login first_valid_uid: 1 mail_uid: mail mail_gid: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. location: maildir:~/Maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: root(a)domain.de mail_plugins: sieve acl mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda auth default: passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail plugin: acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared/shared-mailboxes.db sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve Regards -- Jan Friedrich jft(a)dev2day.de Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge. Siehe http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html

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[Dovecot] 1.2: Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

>From my log: Aug 10 12:23:39 postamt dovecot: IMAP(megow): Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances # wc -l subscriptions 95 # cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances 128 Why does 95 exceed 128? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] v2.0.rc5 released
by Timo Sirainen 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/rc/dovecot-2.0.rc5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/rc/dovecot-2.0.rc5.tar.gz.sig Unfortunately v2.0.0 has to be delayed a while longer, because I found that there were still problems in plugin hook handling when using more than 2 plugins. Hopefully it's now finally fully fixed, but I'd like to be sure and wait for one more week to see if people can find a problem with some plugin combination. - Using more than 2 plugins could have caused broken behavior (more fixes for this) - Listescape plugin fixes - mbox: Fixed a couple of assert-crashes - mdbox: Fixed potential assert-crash when saving multiple messages in one transaction.

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[Dovecot] sessions accounting and monitoring
by Xavier Pons 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi, we would have some accounting/monitoring of pop and imap sessions in our dovecot servers, which are the 'best' and fair way to do it? using some post-login scripts, parsing the log file, using netstat ... I know in the 2.0 version exists the doveadm who, but only relates to imap sessions... some recommendations? thanks Xavier

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Sieve with Dovecot 2.0
by Roman Sergey 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hello Timo and everybody! Sorry, I was googling but haven't found an answer on my simple question: Does the latest release of Dovecot Sieve work with Dovecot 2.0rc? Thank you in advance. -- Best regards, Roman

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Re: [Dovecot] moving mail from private inbox to public folder kills the latter
by Tamas Kadar 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

On 8/11/2010 6:52 PM, Jerrale G wrote: > On 8/11/2010 12:49 PM, Tamas Kadar wrote: >> On 8/11/2010 6:45 PM, Jerrale G wrote: >>> On 8/11/2010 12:02 PM, Tamas Kadar wrote: >>>> Also, it's weird that the mail we have since we migrated to dovecot is >>>> either 700 or 755, most user's mailboxes are 777, so it shouldn't be >>>> 700... >>>> >>>> (Yeah, I know, not very secure, however no user has shell access, only >>>> by mail) >>>> >>>> Best regrds >>>> Tamas >>>> >>>> On 8/11/2010 5:52 PM, Tamas Kadar wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> I've ran into something rather nasty: if a user moves a mail from its >>>>> inbox to a public folder, the folder becomes inaccessible for others, >>>>> because the moved file will have the the permission 600 instead of 777 >>>>> (or 666) which the rest of the emails have in the folder. >>>>> >>>>> How can I change this behavior so when he moves the mail it >>>>> automatically becomes world-readable? Also why one mail kills the >>>>> whole >>>>> folder? >>>>> >>>>> Here's the error I get: >>>>> Error: >>>>> open(/home/_shared/projects/.Long.Folder/cur/1281535484.M3B5A7P15183Q0.mail_espell_com:2,Sb) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(ktamas) egid=1000(ktamas) missing >>>>> +r perm: >>>>> /home/_shared/projects/.Long.Folder/cur/1281535484.M3B5A7P15183Q0.mail_espell_com:2,Sb, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> euid is not dir owner) >>>>> >>>>> Thanks and best regards >>>>> Tamas >>>> >>> make sure you have the namespaces specified for the public folders so >>> that the correct permissions will be set. >>> >>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces >>> >>> J. G. >>> >>> J. G. >>> >> >> I think I set it right, here are my namespaces: >> >> # User's mailbox >> namespace { >> inbox = yes >> location = >> prefix = >> separator = . >> type = private >> } >> >> # The public namespace >> namespace { >> location = maildir:/home/_shared/projects:INDEX=~/Maildir/_shared >> prefix = shared. >> separator = . >> subscriptions = no >> type = public >> } > That is fine as long as you don't have a mysql query, berkeley, or > passwd file looking up the user's homedir, password, and such as well. > If you do, take out the namespace for private as this will defined > another way. > > J. G. Users are authenticated through PAM. No SQL or BerkeleyDB involved. Do you mean that I should disable the private namespace and only define the public? Tamas

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird IMAP woes
by Tamas Kadar 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi, I'm a new dovecot user. We've actually just migrated our email system from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot (2.0 rc5) cause we were choking on IO and resources, and dovecot's cache and indexing really seems to help, not to mention the awesome amount of options, tweaks, and extra features, so far, I'm lovin' it. However, we're having a few issues with Thunderbird and I wonder if anyone could help. I know it's probably not dovecot's fault (some issues we already had with Courier...) but maybe some tweaks or settings could help. So here it goes: We have about 40 users, with their own mailboxes. About half of them have access to a HUGE public folder with many many subfolders (think 60 GB of email in Maildir format), it's organized into divisions and clients and projects (and subprojects and whatnot). We have ACLs controlling the public folder's access (courier-acl file). It goes like this, for a typical user that has access to the public part: - Inbox - Drafts - Trash - Sent - Some important folter - Some other important folder + SHARED |-- Finances |--|-- PriceWaterhouseCooper |--|-- ErnestandYoung |--|--|-- First project |--|--|-- Second project |--|-- Deloitte |--|--|-- Some project |--|--|-- Super important project |-- Health Care |-- Automotive |-- IT |--|-- Microsoft |--|--|-- That Windows 8 project |--|-- IBM |--|--|-- Reviving OS/2 project |--|--|-- What's eComStation project |--|-- HP (not the actual structure, but a very close analogy to what we have here) So yeah, a public folder with lots of subfolders, sub-subfolders, sub-sub-sub-subfolders, sub-sub-sub-sub-subfolders... Now, the problem is that to a lesser extent, Thunderbird 2, and to a larger extent Thunderbird 3 is having serious issues when I go (want to go) deeper than two levels of nesting. Like, in the Subscribe dialog sometimes I see the third level subfolders, sometimes I dont. If is subscribe to a second-level folder, then create a subfolder in it, the other subfolders suddenly appear. It's all very random, unfortunatelly, then only way I can use the system right now is to uncheck 'Show subscribed folders only' in Account Settings, and even then, sometimes folders disappear or reappear that are highly nested. Other clients seem to work fine, but we like Thunderbird cause of the add-ons, for example. Output of dovecot -n: # 2.0.rc5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.5 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = ~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/_shared/projects:INDEX=~/Maildir/_shared prefix = shared. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile } protocols = imap pop3 service imap-enable-acl-groups { executable = script-login /home/enable_acl.sh user = root } service imap { executable = imap imap-enable-acl-groups } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl } Thanks for the help in advance, and keep up the good work, Tamás Kádár

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[Dovecot] Error message Apache
by Frank van Amsterdam 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

I've setup Apache 2.2.9 for SOGo 1.3.2 on Debian 5.0.5. I know that the developers of Debian 5.0.5 are sometimes making choices which are not handy. Which modules in Apache do I have to enable to make SOGo 1.3.2 working? That's what I understand from the error message here under. Greetings, Frank Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request POST /SOGo/so/test/preferences. Reason: Error reading from remote server

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[Dovecot] Subscription to folders and subscription file
by Fabio Ferrari 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hello, I'm using dovecot 1.0.7 and have a problem with subscription files. The documentation says that this file ("subscriptions" or ".subscriptions" in the root of the maildir, I've tried both) holds the informations about the subscribed folders. I've created such a file with these lines: Trash Sent Drafts INBOX.prova INBOX.prova4 And configured a client (Thunderbird) with INBOX.prova and INBOX.prova3 subscribed. So, I have 2 different configurations: one for the client and one for the server. Then, I turned off the first PC and configured with default options a second client in a second PC. I expected that - it subscribed with the entries in the subscriptions file or - it subscribed with a default option, that is All Folders or None But it subscribed exactly the entries subscribed by the first client in the first PC. So, since I grepped "prova3" on all the directory structure and I found nothing, I think that dovecot is saving these informations in a binary format somewhere. Is it right? And, if it is right, how can I configure it to use the "subscriptions" file (or any other text file) as said in the documentation? Maybe I have to upgrade dovecot to do this? thank you in advance Fabio Ferrari

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[Dovecot] Certificat Outlook 2003
by Richard Gliebe 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi, next problem with outlook 2003 On the IMAP Server (dovecot.x86_64 1.0.7-7.el5) I created a certificate with "mkcert_dovecot.sh". Some entries as be written to "/etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf". plaintext paswords are disables. IMAP Serverport: 993 Server needs SSL Now the outlook 2003 clients meens "the server uses a security certificate, which could not be verified" I can only click on "yes" or "no" On the thunderbird clients, I can use "use this certificate temporary " OR "use this certificate permanent" thats going on with this §@#! outlook 2003 clients. many thank Richard

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[Dovecot] Vacation - out of office
by Richard Gliebe 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi all, is it possible to install/activate a "out of office" messages for each user in dovecot? I've read about the Sieve scripts, but can't find a howto to install it on your dovecot 1.0.7 installation. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve ... With v1.1 it's possible to include other Sieve scripts in your script ... I know, its an old release, so don't treat me like a dog ;-). Upgrade to the newest version will be done at the next maintenance windows. many thanks Richard

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 Client
by Richard Gliebe 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi all, my dovecot IMAP Server (1.0.7-7.el5) is now up and running ;-) Now I want that all clients have to save there sent messages in the IMAP folder on the server. no problem with the thunderbird clients. BUT, I can't configure the office 2003 clients to save there send messages to the imap folder. Some people told me, that outlook 2003 isn't able to do that. The send messages folder have to be a "local" folder and not a folder on the IMAP server. I can't believe. The only way on outlook 2003 is to create a messages filter .... very strange .... many thanks Richard

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[Dovecot] dot-containing foldernames \HasNoChildren bug ?
by Samuel Kvasnica 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hello, we experience problems with dovecot configuration using the listescape plugin to allow dots in foldernames. In some mail clients, dot-containing folders won't show any subfolders. This seems to be related to the fact that the \HasNoChildren flag is set on such folders even if subfolders do exits. Here is an example from telnet session: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/aaa" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/folder.first" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/folder.first/sub.sub.folder" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/folder.second" when we rename my.test to my_test everything works as expected: * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "my_test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/aaa" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/folder.first" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/folder.first/sub.sub.folder" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/folder.second" Could somebody look into this issue or give us some more debugging hints ? We use dovecot 1.2.13 + maildir + acl+quota+listescape, the config is: # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31.13-18-xen x86_64 openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) xfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_processes_count: 5 mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:/data/vmail/%u/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /etc/dovecot/gmember.sh mail_executable(imap): /etc/dovecot/gmember.sh mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): fts fts_squat acl imap_acl quota imap_quota listescape mail_plugins(imap): fts fts_squat acl imap_acl quota imap_quota listescape mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: Shared/%%u/ location: maildir:/data/vmail/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=/data/vmail/%u/index/shared/%%u list: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/data/vmail/Public:CONTROL=/data/vmail/%u/index/public:INDEX=/data/vmail/%u/index/public list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)xxx.co.at hostname: imap mail_plugins: acl sieve quota listescape mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/lda log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail master_user_separator: # passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.deny deny: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd.masters master: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap_pass.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap_user.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: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=16G quota_rule2: Trash:storage=100M quota_rule3: Junk:ignore quota_warning: storage=85%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warning.sh 85 %u quota_warning2: storage=90%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warning.sh 90 %u quota_warning3: storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warning.sh 95 %u acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db sieve: /data/vmail/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: /data/vmail/%u/sieve fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=7

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird namespace handling
by Thomas Hummel 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hello, I've noticed that Thunderbird (3.0.3) seems to wrongly "repeat" the namespace prefix when selecting the top level maildir of a namesapce. It doesn't occur if "list=yes" and TB has no clue about the namespace prefix. But it seems to happen only when TB is aware of the namespace prefix, either via the NAMESPACE command (so in "hidden=no" setups) or via hard setting it up in the "Account Settings". For instance, if location = maildir:/courriel/boites/test:CONTROL=/courriel/meta/test hidden = no list = yes Trying to select the mailbox which appears as "#test" in the UI gives 4 select "#test/#test" in rawlogs, giving for the user a "Mailbox doesn't exist" error, whereas, via telnet, I can : x select "#test" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 2 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1271768576] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 3] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 3] Highest x OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. The same happens with any combination of (hidden=, list=, "Allow Server to override [the namesapce] settings") where TB knows about the namespace. Any ideas ? Thanks. -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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Re: [Dovecot] Panic: file ioloop-iolist.c: line 25 (ioloop_iolist_add):assertion failed
by Computer Department (Watchtower South Africa Branch) 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi, Reverting http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/raw-rev/2cdfcca171d8 solves this problem. Is there a preferred way to fix this issue? Duane Hughes -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+computers=za.jw.org(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+computers=za.jw.org@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Computer Department (Watchtower South Africa Branch) Sent: 06 August 2010 09:59 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Panic: file ioloop-iolist.c: line 25 (ioloop_iolist_add):assertion failed Hi, I receive the following message after running "/etc/init.d/dovecot reload": Aug 06 02:00:11 dovecot: Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration Aug 06 02:00:11 dovecot: Panic: file ioloop-iolist.c: line 25 (ioloop_iolist_add): assertion failed: (list->ios[idx] == NULL) I'm running dovecot version 1.2.13, compiled against uclibc on the Alpine Linux distro, version 1.10.6. This problem started to occur since upgrading to dovecot 1.2.12 from dovecot 1.2.11. No configuration has been changed in between these versions. # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.16-grsec i686 rootfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/lighttpd/server-bundle.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/lighttpd/server-bundle.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no 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 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/domains/%d/%n 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): 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 lda: postmaster_address: admin(a)windhoek.zaf.wtbts.net mail_plugins: quota auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:user::proxy::quotadict dict: quotadict: pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf The init.d script can be found here: http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/dovecot/dovecot.initd?h =1.10-stable&id=a3087eff06dff4a69b2914cdc1bbe76dce29b448 Any ideas? Thanks for any help you can provide. Duane Hughes

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Ldap Problem
by Aravind Divakaran 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi All, My server is running with Dovecot 1.2.11 and openldap 2.4.17 it was working fine but suddenly my dovecot auth started to failing sometimes. After restarting dovecot everything will work fine. The slapd log file is showing "deffering operation: too many executing". When i googled i have seen that if the client is not properly disconnecting the connection slapd will give this error. Can you please let me know whether it is a dovecot problem and if so why it is occuring. -- Rgds, Aravind M D aravind.divakaran(a)yukthi.com Helpdesk Team Yukthi Systems Pvt Ltd Ph:- 08042351119 08042351120

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[Dovecot] Why p_strdup and other string functions uses loops instead strlen? (dovecot 2.0.rc4)
by Len7hir 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

I did Dovecot profiling on huge e-mail system, and p_strdup was very high on list. I do minor change: p_strdup: /* for (len = 0; (str)[len] != '\0'; ) len++; len++; */ len = strlen(str) + 1; p_strndup: /* len = 0; while (len < max_chars && ((const char *) str)[len] != '\0') len++; */ len = strnlen(str, max_chars); And after changes strdup drop down on the profile list. This is output from oprofile: samples % symbol name 28000 10.9764 p_strdup 8507 3.3349 safe_memset 7857 3.0801 .plt 7627 2.9899 buffer_write 6871 2.6935 parse_body_add_block And after (about four times smaller samples, but shows everything): samples % symbol name 9595 26.2625 parse_next_body_to_boundary 8247 22.5729 parse_body_add_block 772 2.1130 .plt 672 1.8393 buffer_write 658 1.8010 __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx 614 1.6806 safe_memset 586 1.6039 pool_alloconly_malloc 559 1.5300 p_strdup 533 1.4589 hash_table_insert_node I wonder why You use loops instead strlen, which is optimalised on every platforms. Redgards, Len7hir

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[Dovecot] maildirsize having incorrect content, how to recreate/correct?
by Thomas von Eyben 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi List, I have (otherwise successfull) migrated a server from cyrus to dovecot (Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 to 10.6.4 [dovecotd version to be 1.1.20apple0.5]). There are ca. 300+ users of which a very small handfull (ca. 1 %) are having reported a usage size that is very different to what 'du' reports. How can I rebuild the maildirsize and why might it be wrong in the first place(?) Will the maildirsize files be regenerated if deleted and when will this then happen ( at the next time of the user logging in or…) >From what I can read here: http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html The maildirsize file contains (in linenumber > 1) "bytecount SPACE filecount" I also have one (perhaps more) user with one line having a negative value in maildirsize (-138204393 -2294) how can that happen / be corrected? Here's the info for one user with an much to high reporting of usage: sh-3.2# pwd /Volumes/RAID-06-low/Mail sh-3.2# cat 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/maildirsize 0S 281470373004731 4966 ### <- THIS LOOKS VERY WRONG 12113561 138 20047924 204 13553876 334 8064 1 8308 1 25240 1 26117 1 sh-3.2# du -hc 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE 12M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages/tmp 12M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts/tmp 4.0K 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts 20M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages/tmp 20M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages 14M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail/tmp 14M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail 747M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/cur ### <- WHEN COMPARING TO THIS 76K 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/tmp 792M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE 792M total sh-3.2# ls -l total 352 drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .Deleted Messages drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .Drafts drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .Sent Messages drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .U&APg-nsket e-mail drwx------ 4966 jja mail 168844 Aug 7 21:56 cur ### <- AND WHEN COMPARING TO THIS -rw-r--r-- 1 jja mail 11 Aug 7 21:56 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 jja mail 108509 Aug 9 15:01 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 jja mail 24808 Aug 9 14:26 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 jja mail 25288 Aug 9 15:01 dovecot.index.log -rw-r--r-- 1 jja mail 147 Aug 9 15:01 maildirsize drwx------ 6 jja mail 204 Aug 9 15:01 new -rw-r--r-- 1 jja mail 76 Aug 7 21:56 subscriptions drwx------ 2 jja mail 68 Aug 9 15:01 tmp - TvE

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[Dovecot] ssl-build-param
by Yves Goergen 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hello, what does the Dovecot process ssl-build-param do? It has just eaten all my CPU for a minute or so. When I run it myself with "--help", it just does it all again and says "SSL parameters regeneration completed". What parameters? -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.list(a)unclassified.de> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de

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[Dovecot] network_biopair_interop
by Leander S. 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi, since I use TLS I'm getting the following waning when I send mail to somebody in the internet:| "warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer|" ... Mail seems to be delivered & sent as usual. I found a post about it: http://de.postfix.org/pipermail/postfix-users/2009-March/000891.html but it didn't help to involve: "smtpd_tls_ask_ccert=no" Did anybody face that issue before? I'm using self signed certs. Regards

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[Dovecot] restricting access by reverse domain name
by Phil Howard 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Is there a feature or plugin to restrict access to IMAP/POP service by the domain name in reverse lookup? It would be even better if this restriction can exclude certain users (e.g. some users can access IMAP from certain networks but other users cannot). -- sHiFt HaPpEnS!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.rc4 not generating ssl-parameters.dat on first start
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Dear Dovecot lovers! When starting Dovecot 1.x the first time, it runs "ssl-build-params" to generate a file named "ssl-parameters.dat". This takes a couple of minutes. During this time users have no access to their mail, but this can be planned in advance and users can be notified. This is explained in http://wiki.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration With Dovecot 2.0.rc4, the new command "ssl-params" seems to do this job, but unfortunately it isn't run on first start of Dovecot but the start is delayed until a user connects to port 993 (or does STARTTLS in 143). According to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration it should behave the same way as Dovecot 1 did. So, with Dovecot 2.0.rc4 it hits the first user who wants to establish a secure connection. It's hard to explain this to users. ;-) Of course, I could simply run "telnet <imaphost> 993" manually after installation. I also tried running "ssl-params" manually before starting Dovecot but it stays in foreground forever and doesn't seem to finish (what is it waiting for?) So it would be really great if Dovecot 2 could do this on its own like Dovecot 1 did. Besides that, Dovecot 2.0 runs like a charm ... Andreas

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[Dovecot] quotactl failed with disk quotas and dovecot 2.0
by Patrick McLean 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi, I have a machine running dovecot 2.0 rc4 and I can't seem to get the imap_quota plugin working, every time I try to read the quotas, I get the following in my log: > Aug 7 11:58:43 talyn dovecot: imap(chutz): Error: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, rootfs) failed: No such file or directory > Aug 7 11:59:53 talyn dovecot: imap(chutz): Error: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, rootfs) failed: No such file or directory > Aug 7 11:59:54 talyn dovecot: imap(chutz): Error: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, rootfs) failed: No such file or directory (Once for each try) Here is the output of dovecot -n: > # 2.0.rc4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r3 i686 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1 > listen = * > mail_location = mdbox:~/.mdbox > mail_plugins = acl quota zlib trash imap_quota > 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 spamtest spamtestplus virustest > passdb { > args = * > driver = pam > } > plugin { > quota = fs:User quota:user > quota_warning = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u > sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve > sieve_dir = ~/.sieve > } > protocols = imap lmtp > service auth { > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > group = postfix > mode = 0660 > user = postfix > } > } > ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem > ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key > userdb { > driver = passwd > } > verbose_proctitle = yes > protocol lda { > mail_plugins = sieve quota > }

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[Dovecot] OT Thunderbird
by Benny Pedersen 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

some senders on this maillist use a version of thunderbird that adds more then one references header and this imho breaks threading :( -- xpoint

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[Dovecot] IMAP namespace and Courier migration
by Yves Goergen 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hello, the migration guide from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot says that I should change the folders namespace to "INBOX." if I want a seamless migration. Isn't it that e-mail clients determine that namespace automatically? At least I never needed to enter one in Thunderbird and then it was there. What happens if I copy the database, all the Maildir files, run the migration script to convert the special files and don't change that namespace - will clients show an error message and stop working or will it still work? -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.list(a)unclassified.de> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.rc4 core dumped with Alpine 2.00
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi Timo and all others! The current Dovecot 2.0.rc4 did really well with Mutt 1.5.20 and Thunderbird 3.1.2, but a user with Alpine 2.00 crashed it immediately. I'm running Fedora 13 (Linux) and compiled Dovecot 2.0.rc4 manually like I did before with Dovecot 1.2.13. When switching from 1.2 to 2.0 I removed all those ".imap" folders with internal cache data (didn't know for sure if it's compatible between both version). All folders are in mbox format. When Alpine is started, the first crash happens. Alpine notifies the user that there was a problem connecting the IMAP server. No mail is display. And then the second crash happens. Looks like Alpine starts a second try to connect to the IMAP server before displaying the (empty) screen with (no) folders. Excerpt from syslog: Aug 8 18:07:56 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mailuser>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=138.201.2.2, lip=138.201.2.2, mpid=2676, TLS Aug 8 18:07:56 mailserver dovecot: imap(mailuser): Panic: file istream-header-filter.c: line 81 (read_mixed): assertion failed: (pos > 0) Aug 8 18:07:56 mailserver dovecot: imap(mailuser): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x350c1) [0xa410c1] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3512f) [0xa4112f] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0xa1b46e] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1f373) [0xa2b373] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1f4ff) [0xa2b4ff] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read+0x77) [0xa47967] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read_copy_from_parent+0x9a) [0xa47dfa] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x60520) [0x1ef520] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read+0x77) [0xa47967] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read_data+0x3e) [0xa47c8e] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parse_header_next+0x78) [0xa2eb08] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x2472a) [0xa3072a] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_next_block+0x32) [0xa2fc82] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_header+0x2c) [0xa2fe8c] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_parse_headers+0x102) [0x1f40d2] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x6571a) [0x1f471a] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_first_header+0x3d) [0x1f4a6d] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_get_first_header+0x25) [0x1ab2a5] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x61a31) [0x1f0a31] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_date+0x68) [0x1f2008] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_get_date+0x25) [0x1ab1f5] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dov Aug 8 18:07:56 mailserver dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 2676 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Aug 8 18:08:02 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mailuser>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=138.201.2.2, lip=138.201.2.2, mpid=2682, TLS Aug 8 18:08:02 mailserver dovecot: imap(mailuser): Panic: file istream-header-filter.c: line 81 (read_mixed): assertion failed: (pos > 0) Aug 8 18:08:02 mailserver dovecot: imap(mailuser): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x350c1) [0x81d0c1] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3512f) [0x81d12f] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f746e] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1f373) [0x807373] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1f4ff) [0x8074ff] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read+0x77) [0x823967] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read_copy_from_parent+0x9a) [0x823dfa] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x60520) [0x1a1520] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read+0x77) [0x823967] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read_data+0x3e) [0x823c8e] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parse_header_next+0x78) [0x80ab08] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x2472a) [0x80c72a] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_next_block+0x32) [0x80bc82] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_header+0x2c) [0x80be8c] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_parse_headers+0x102) [0x1a60d2] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x6571a) [0x1a671a] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_first_header+0x3d) [0x1a6a6d] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_get_first_header+0x25) [0x15d2a5] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x61a31) [0x1a2a31] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_date+0x68) [0x1a4008] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_get_date+0x25) [0x15d1f5] -> /usr/local/Dovecot-2.0.rc4/lib/dov Aug 8 18:08:02 mailserver dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 2682 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Is this information enough to track down the problem or do you want me to run additional tests? Just let me know what you need. Greetings, Andreas

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory separate domain data stores.
by Andrew Bruce 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi, I've got Dovecot setup to auth my AD users fine via Winbind and I've also tried it using LDAP and can get this working also. The problem lies in the way we store our email for our virtual users in this setup. We run a flat domain for AD (lets call it newzealand.local), and then under each users account that gets email, in the E-mail field in AD, they have an email address like user1@auckland, user2@wellington, user3@chch and so on. With Postfix, I've set it up so that each email domain ends up being stored in a different path - /mail/auckland/user1, /mail/wellington/user2, /mail/chch/user3. This was done using a query filter that returned a person's email address from AD, chopped it into separate user/domain parts around the '@' symbol and using these to determine where the mail should be stored. This seems to work well for our purposes. But now I need to get Dovecot to be able to do the same thing in order to present the email to the user. I'm fairly certain this isn't going to work with Winbind, so I implemented the LDAP passdb and got that working, but I can't seem to quite work out how to get it to work with the domain part from the email address. Could someone give me a pointer in the right direction if this is possible. I'm thinking it has to do with the user_attrs variable, but can't quite workout how I would split this. Or is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Andrew

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[Dovecot] Setting up webmail in DMZ
by Phill Edwards 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

I have a Smoothwall server on my network and am running three network interfaces off it. 1) local LAN 192.168.0.0 with PCs and an internal dovecot server on 192.168.0.154. 2) internet interface 3) DMZ 192.168.2.0 which has a linux web server 192.168.2.1 on which I want to install a webmail so I can access my email remotely. Originally 192.168.2.1 couldn't see the 192.168.0.0 network but with some help from the Smoothwall forums I have fixed that. The problem now is that 192.168.2.1 can't connect to the dovecot server on 192.168.0.154. When I "telnet 192.168.0.154 993" or "telnet 192.168.0.154 143" I get a "Connection refused" error. But these commands work fine from PCs on the 192.168.0.0 network. I'm pretty sure there's no firewall on the dovecot server and /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty. Is there a default setting that I need to change in Dovecot that only allows connections from machines on the same subnet?

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[Dovecot] dovecot v2 rc build and run dependencies
by Bradley Giesbrecht 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

I'm building a dovecot v2 Portfile for MacPorts. Where can I read up on dovecot v2 build and run dependencies? Are they the same as dovecot v1? Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht

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[Dovecot] piegonhole seg fault with NULL user
by Eray Aslan 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

dovecot-2.0-piegonhole commit cac6acdc4d0e: Crash when USER is NULL. Backtrace is below. Perhaps, we should check for NULL and bail out early? Eray [...] (gdb) cont Continuing. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. t_strcut (str=0x0, cutchar=64 '@') at strfuncs.c:277 277 for (p = str; *p != '\0'; p++) { (gdb) bt full #0 t_strcut (str=0x0, cutchar=64 '@') at strfuncs.c:277 p = <value optimized out> #1 0x4009c28b in get_var_expand_table (service=<value optimized out>, input=<value optimized out>) at mail-storage-service.c:478 static_tab = {{key = 117 'u', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f12ce "user"}, {key = 110 'n', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f0966 "username"}, {key = 100 'd', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f096f "domain"}, {key = 115 's', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f129c "service"}, {key = 108 'l', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f0976 "lip"}, { key = 114 'r', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f097a "rip"}, {key = 112 'p', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f097e "pid"}, { key = 105 'i', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x400f8aec "uid"}, {key = 0 '\000', value = 0x0, long_key = 0x0}} tab = 0x85f737c #2 0x4009c364 in user_expand_varstr (service=0x8603cf4, input=<value optimized out>, str=0x8603e88 "0") at mail-storage-service.c:501 ret = 0x85f71f0 __FUNCTION__ = "user_expand_varstr" #3 0x4009c8fc in mail_storage_service_next (ctx=0x8603470, user=0x8603cf0, mail_user_r=0x8601e40) at mail-storage-service.c:835 user_set = 0x8603d90 home = <value optimized out> chroot = <value optimized out> error = <value optimized out> len = <value optimized out> temp_priv_drop = <value optimized out> #4 0x4009dde4 in mail_storage_service_lookup_next (ctx=0x8603470, input=0xbfb98524, user_r=0x8601e3c, mail_user_r=0x8601e40, error_r=0xbfb9855c) at mail-storage-service.c:925 user = 0x8603cf0 ret = <value optimized out> #5 0x08055e35 in sieve_tool_init_finish (tool=0x8601e10) at sieve-tool.c:210 storage_service_flags = 144 service_input = {module = 0x80586c7 "mail", service = 0x8601e58 "testsuite", username = 0x0, local_ip = {family = 0, u = { ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, remote_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = { __u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, userdb_fields = 0x0} username = <value optimized out> errstr = 0x4013d4cc "\205\300u%\203\304\020[^]\303\307D$\004" #6 0x08054f5b in main (argc=2, argv=0x85ff1c0) at testsuite.c:147 svinst = 0x4001da98 scriptfile = 0x85f7058 "./tests/testsuite.svtest" dumpfile = 0x0 tracefile = 0x0 tr_config = {level = SIEVE_TRLVL_ACTIONS, flags = 0} sbin = <value optimized out> sieve_dir = <value optimized out> log_stdout = false ret = <value optimized out> c = <value optimized out>

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Re: [Dovecot] Searching dovecot Maildir
by emdeex 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Thanks Jerrale, I'm currently running the following dovecot packages: dovecot-plugins-sieve-1.2.6-1.1mdv2010.0 dovecot-1.2.6-1.1mdv2010.0 I don't use mysql with dovecot. I do use sieve. Any help with the 2.0 packages very much appreciated. regards, Murray On 7 August 2010 16:42, Jerrale G <jerrale(a)sheltoncomputers.com> wrote: > On 8/6/2010 11:05 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> Hmm. Last I heard, Mandriva died.. >> http://www.osnews.com/story/23276/Mandriva_S_A_For_Sale >> >> If something happened since then, I've no idea. >> >> On 7.8.2010, at 3.53, emdeex wrote: >> >> >> >>> Thanks Timo, upgrading to v2.0 seems like a good move, and thanks for the >>> example of doveadm, that makes me even happier I'm using Dovecot. >>> >>> Do you know if Mandriva has released a v2.0 rpm package ? >>> >>> regards >>> >>> On 6 August 2010 21:36, Timo Sirainen<tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: >>> On 6.8.2010, at 4.16, emdeex wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I want to search my Sent mail folder for all messages with a certain >>>> subject, then "grep" out a certain line that has a dollar ($) figure, >>>> and >>>> add up those figures. The idea is to just add up all the values of >>>> quotes >>>> I've sent in a month. >>>> >>>> >>> a) Do it via IMAP protocol by using some IMAP library for >>> Perl/Python/whatever. >>> >>> b) Upgrade to Dovecot v2.0.0 and do it via doveadm: >>> doveadm fetch body mailbox Sent subject something body $ | grep '\$' | >>> etc script processing >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > NO rpms are available for dovecot 2.0 as it is in BETA. For running web > servers, most recommend Centos/Redhat enterprise or Ubuntu Server and not > the outdated Mandriva with 1000's of security flaws. > > Tell me what you want to use with dovecot (sieve mysql managesieve) and I > will compile you some rpms customized to mandriva. > > Jerrale G. > Senior Administrator > Shelton Computers >

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf: mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 | Windows Live Mail: CRAM-MD5 authentication failed. This could (NOT) be due to a lack of memory on your system
by Jerrale G 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

/etc/dovecot.conf: auth default { mechanisms=plain login cram-md5 passdb { #.............. Windows Live Mail: CRAM-MD5 authentication failed. This could be due to a lack of memory on your system. Your IMAP command could not be sent to the server, due to non-network errors. This could, for example, indicate a lack of memory on your system. Configuration: Account: Sheltoncomputers (testuser) Server: mail.sheltoncomputers.com User name: testuser(a)sheltoncomputers.com Protocol: IMAP Port: 993 Secure(SSL): 1 Code: 800cccdf The console I'm using is 4 GB ram; so, this dumb error of windoze dead mail is irrelevant. The other mechanisms of TLS/no tls plain login work fine. The passwords are stored in mysql as md5(password) but this works on others not using cram-md5 (secure login of the client). I'm trying to support a plethora of mechanisms for the convenience of the customer and . Jerrale G. Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 rc4, doveadm: referenced symbol not found
by Burckhard Schmidt 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Hi, I used /usr/dovecot-2/bin/doveadm -Dv expunge -u userx mailbox AutoCleanSpam savedbefore 30d doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/dovecot-2/lib/dovecot/doveadm doveadm(root): Error: dlopen(/usr/dovecot-2/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so) failed: ld.so.1: doveadm: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/dovecot-2/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: symbol expire_set_init: referenced symbol not found doveadm(root): Error: dlopen(/usr/dovecot-2/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so) failed: ld.so.1: doveadm: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/dovecot-2/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so: symbol quota_user_module: referenced symbol not found However old mails have been deleted. -- regards - Burckhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Searching dovecot Maildir
by emdeex 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Hi All, Loving Dovecot after several years with Cyrus. This might be more a general question, but this seemed the best place to ask. The idea is to just add up all the values of quotes I've sent in a month. I want to search my Sent mail folder for all messages with a certain subject, then "grep" out a certain line that has a dollar ($) figure, and add up those figures. The idea is to just add up all the values of quotes I've sent in a month. Can it be done? Any help appreciated. regards, Murray Dovecot 1.2.6

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[Dovecot] Making both folder and .folder available to dovecot-lda but not imap
by Stand H 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Hi, I'm looking for a way to deliver mail to both 'folder' and '.folder'. I put LAYOUT=fs to mail_location, sieve recognize both 'folder' and '.folder', but I don't want dovecot-imap to show 'folder' to imap client. The purpose is to send some emails to 'folder' and don't let user to see the folder and email in it. I'm using dovecot-1.2.13 and dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.17. Can someone help me with the configuration. Thank you. Regards, Stand

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.rc4 (a30a30d1e25a): LMTP dies intermittently
by Thomas Leuxner 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hi, not sure what change caused this but it first appeared when building HG a30a30d1e25a. LMTP dies intermittently. Aug 6 16:00:57 spectre dovecot: lmtp(5509, alias(a)domain.tld) b9ESKJkVXEyFFQAAqZii3w: sieve: msgid=<1281102852.6211.447.camel(a)kurkku.sapo.corppt.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'Public/Mailing-Lists/Dovecot' Aug 6 16:00:57 spectre dovecot: lmtp(5509): Disconnect from local: Client quit Aug 6 16:17:05 spectre dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): child 5509 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped) Let me know if you need more details. Regards Thomas

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[Dovecot] assertion failure with 2.0rc4
by Ryan Murray 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Ran into an assertion error on login with 2.0rc4, with kmail and the N900 mail client: OS: Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.1 LTS FS: ext4 arch: x86-64 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rmurray>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.9, lip=192.168.1.1, mpid=31843, TLS dovecot: imap(rmurray): Panic: file istream-header-filter.c: line 85 (read_mixed): assertion failed: (pos > 0) dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 31843 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) #0 0x0000003e9fa33a75 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x0000003e9fa375c0 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007f419e3bdd34 in default_fatal_finish (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0) at failures.c:164 backtrace = 0x1542898 "ot.so.0(+0x26793) [0x7f900d292793] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read+0xbb) [0x7f900d2b6979] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read_data+0x61) [0x7f900d2b7676] -> /usr/lib/do"... #3 0x00007f419e3bf01c in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x7f419e3e9778 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0x7fff6244c100) at failures.c:593 No locals. #4 0x00007f419e3be05c in i_panic ( format=0x7f419e3e9778 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:230 args = {{gp_offset = 0, fp_offset = 0, overflow_arg_area = 0x0, reg_save_area = 0x0}} #5 0x00007f419e3a1a4d in read_mixed (mstream=0x1598d20, body_highwater_size=0) at istream-header-filter.c:81 data = 0x0 pos = 0 ret = -1 __FUNCTION__ = "read_mixed" #6 0x00007f419e3a1e92 in read_header (mstream=0x1598d20) at istream-header-filter.c:164 body_highwater_size = 0 hdr = 0x0 highwater_offset = 0 pos = 0 ret = 0 matched = false hdr_ret = 0 __FUNCTION__ = "read_header" #7 0x00007f419e3a2793 in i_stream_header_filter_read (stream=0x1598d20) at istream-header-filter.c:351 mstream = 0x1598d20 v_offset = 22292552 ret = 22634928 #8 0x00007f419e3c6979 in i_stream_read (stream=0x1598d80) at istream.c:115 _stream = 0x1598d20 old_size = 1 ret = 140734842061776 __FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #9 0x00007f419e3c7676 in i_stream_read_data (stream=0x1598d80, data_r=0x7fff6244c3b0, size_r=0x7fff6244c3a0, threshold=1) at istream.c:417 ret = 0 read_more = false __FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read_data" #10 0x00007f419e3a7c91 in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x159b440, hdr_r=0x7fff6244c408) at message-header-parser.c:89 line = 0x0 msg = 0x0 i = 0 size = 0 startpos = 0 colon_pos = 0 parse_size = 0 ret = 32767 continued = false continues = false last_no_newline = 127 last_crlf = 65 no_newline = false crlf_newline = false __FUNCTION__ = "message_parse_header_next" #11 0x00007f419e3a9e3c in parse_next_header (ctx=0x159b078, block_r=0x7fff6244c480) at message-parser.c:480 part = 0x1591558 hdr = 0x0 size = 22613672 ret = -1 __FUNCTION__ = "parse_next_header" #12 0x00007f419e3aaa05 in message_parser_parse_next_block (ctx=0x159b078, block_r=0x7fff6244c480) at message-parser.c:768 ret = 22615384 eof = false full = false __FUNCTION__ = "message_parser_parse_next_block" #13 0x00007f419e3aabc6 in message_parser_parse_header (ctx=0x159b078, hdr_size=0x1590f60, callback=0x7f419e68e1f8 <index_mail_parse_part_header_cb>, context=0x1590d48) at message-parser.c:807 block = {part = 0x0, hdr = 0x0, data = 0x0, size = 0} ret = 0 __FUNCTION__ = "message_parser_parse_header" #14 0x00007f419e68e575 in index_mail_parse_headers (mail=0x1590d48, headers=0x0) at index-mail-headers.c:437 data = 0x1590ea8 input = 0x1598d80 old_offset = 0 #15 0x00007f419e68b648 in index_mail_init_stream (mail=0x1590d48, hdr_size=0x7fff6244c640, body_size=0x7fff6244c620, stream_r=0x7fff6244c668) at index-mail.c:849 data = 0x1590ea8 input = 0x0 ret = 1 #16 0x00007f419e6b8377 in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x1590d48, hdr_size=0x7fff6244c640, body_size=0x7fff6244c620, stream_r=0x7fff6244c668) at mbox-mail.c:363 mail = 0x1590d48 #17 0x00007f419e62fb06 in mail_get_stream (mail=0x1590d48, hdr_size=0x7fff6244c640, body_size=0x7fff6244c620, stream_r=0x7fff6244c668) at mail.c:179 p = 0x1590d48 #18 0x00007f419e68a4b6 in index_mail_get_virtual_size (_mail=0x1590d48, size_r=0x7fff6244c6f8) at index-mail.c:389 mail = 0x0 data = 0x0 hdr_size = {physical_size = 0, virtual_size = 0, lines = 0} body_size = {physical_size = 4333341, virtual_size = 22595280, lines = 51875} input = 0x0 old_offset = 0 __FUNCTION__ = "index_mail_get_virtual_size" #19 0x00007f419e62f8cc in mail_get_virtual_size (mail=0x1590d48, size_r=0x7fff6244c6f8) at mail.c:114 p = 0x1590d48 #20 0x0000000000419d85 in fetch_rfc822_size (ctx=0x157d388, mail=0x1590d48, context=0x0) at imap-fetch-body.c:888 size = 22595280 #21 0x0000000000416af6 in imap_fetch_more_int (ctx=0x157d388) at imap-fetch.c:471 h = 0x157d708 _data_stack_cur_id = 4 client = 0x157cb78 handlers = 0x157d6e0 count = 5 ret = 1 __FUNCTION__ = "imap_fetch_more_int" #22 0x0000000000416d4d in imap_fetch_more (ctx=0x157d388) at imap-fetch.c:523 ret = 0 __FUNCTION__ = "imap_fetch_more" #23 0x000000000040b964 in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x157d238) at cmd-fetch.c:227 client = 0x0 ctx = 0x0 args = 0x0 next_arg = 0x0 list_arg = 0x0 search_args = 0x158b708 messageset = 0x157fb88 "51875:51896" ret = 0 #24 0x000000000041187e in cmd_uid (cmd=0x157d238) at cmd-uid.c:27 command = 0x154b710 cmd_name = 0x157fb80 "FETCH" #25 0x0000000000413507 in client_command_input (cmd=0x157d238) at imap-client.c:660 client = 0x157cb78 command = 0x7fff6244c870 __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #26 0x0000000000413766 in client_command_input (cmd=0x157d238) at imap-client.c:710 client = 0x157cb78 command = 0x154b6c8 __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #27 0x0000000000413891 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x157cb78, remove_io_r=0x7fff6244c90e) at imap-client.c:751 size = 92 #28 0x0000000000413911 in client_handle_input (client=0x157cb78) at imap-client.c:763 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ret = false remove_io = false handled_commands = false __FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #29 0x0000000000413a87 in client_input (client=0x157cb78) at imap-client.c:802 cmd = 0x154a7e8 output = 0x157d158 bytes = 92 __FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #30 0x00007f419e3cef4a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x154a5c0) at ioloop-epoll.c:212 ctx = 0x0 events = 0x0 event = 0x0 list = 0x0 io = 0x0 tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999898} events_count = 6 t_id = 2 msecs = 1800000 ret = 0 i = 0 j = 0 call = true #31 0x00007f419e3cdb31 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x154a5c0) at ioloop.c:350 No locals. #32 0x00007f419e3b635c in master_service_run (service=0x154a490, callback=0x41f592 <client_connected>) at master-service.c:496 No locals. #33 0x000000000041f7fc in main (argc=1, argv=0x154a370) at main.c:358 set_roots = {0x422ee0, 0x0} service_flags = 0 storage_service_flags = 0 postlogin_socket_path = 0x0 username = 0x0 c = 0

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[Dovecot] Strange behaviour when add new mailbox to IMAP (v 1.2.13)
by Alexander Chekalin 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hi, I think I need to ask you for advice. Personally I face that for the first time and hardly imagine this could be possible at all, but... My setup is simple: I have one mail server where all of my mail accounts are stored, and another one to store backup of all mailings. The scheme is simple, SMTP on first server forwards a copy of each message to address catchall(a)secondserver.my-domain. So whenever I need to restore any message I'll simple search for it on second server. Both servers are have Dovecot 1.2.13 as IMAP servers. First server's Dovecot is sql-backed one, the second server's (in fact it serving just one box) is using passwd-style text file auth. Other than this, setup is pretty similiar, and everything is well, but here is the mystery: I use Thunderbird (yesterday it was 3.1.1 and now it is 3.1.2) as my IMAP client. When I connect to my IMAP account on second server, and create mailbox, I see that there appears greyed folder named #virtual^Sent , and my new mailbox is in it. When I do the same thing on first server, everything works just as I expect it (new mailbox created right under root of my IMAP account). If I create on second server new mailbox right under any existing (say, under Inbox) everything is fine also. To check the problem I simplified my Dovecot config to the bare minimum, and it also won't work (#virtual^Sent still there). When I see on server disk, I see there .#virtual^Sent.NewTestMailbox dir (NewTestMailbox is the test mailbox I created), but there is no .#virtual^Sent dir. I rebuilt Dovecot, and also tried to build 1.2.12, none worked. May there be any solution for that? Yours, Alexander Chekalin

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[Dovecot] Problem creating sockets after Solaris Live Upgrade
by Jürgen Obermann 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hello, I use Solaris Live Upgrade to install solaris patches in an alternate boot environment. Unfortunately the dovecot sockets /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server and /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default are created as normal files in the ABE. After switching to the ABE dovecot will not start because of the existence of these two files. After removing these files dovecot starts normally. I think that dovecot should create the sockets even if there exist files with the same names. Here is the protocol of this: Dovecot uses two sockets in the running system: # ls -al /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:07 /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server srw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Aug 4 10:07 /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default In the Alternate Boot Environment created with Solaris Live Upgrade there are normal files instead of the sockets: # ls -al /a/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default /a/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default -rw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Jul 7 17:01 /a/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default -rw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Jul 7 17:01 /a/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default During booting this ABE dovecot will not start, unless both files are removed: Aug 6 06:55:30 hostname dovecot: Fatal: Socket already exists: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server # ls -al /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 4 10:09 /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server # rm /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server # /etc/init.d/dovecot start Last died with error (see error log for more information): Socket already exists: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server Aug 6 06:57:50 hostname dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] Dovecot v1.2.12 starting up Aug 6 06:57:50 hostname dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] net_listen_unix(/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address already in use Aug 6 06:57:50 hostname dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] Fatal: Couldn't create auth process listener # ls -al /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server srwxrwxrwx 1 root other 0 Aug 6 06:57 /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server # ls -al /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default -rw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Aug 4 10:09 /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default # rm /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default # /etc/init.d/dovecot start # ls -al /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default srw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Aug 6 07:00 /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default Both sockets are created by dovecot if they don't exist. Greetings, Jürgen Obermann -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann/ Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 rc4, expire, sqlite
by Burckhard Schmidt 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hello, I will use expire like described within wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire with sqlite for a folder AutoCleanSpam. If I copy a message (with TB) into that folder, I get an error if there exists no entry for that user and that folder within the database: dict: Error: sqlite: exec(INSERT INTO expires (expire_stamp,username,mailbox) VALUES ('1281016832','userx','AutoCleanSpam')) failed: unable to open database file (14) dict: Error: sql dict: commit failed: If I make an initial entry manually first no error occurs. Anymore there is a problem concerning acl of the base directory of the expires.db: dict: Error: sqlite: open(/addons/expire/expires.db) failed: unable to open database file dict: Error: dict sql lookup failed: out of memory It was necessary to give "other" r-x permissions for directory /addons/expire. I use mail_uid = sysdov and mail_gid = sysdov. That is uid 29. Furthermore I work with userdb ldap and uid/gid mapping: user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=29,gidNumber=29 So usually it was sufficient using acl like this drwxr-x--- 2 sysdov sysdov 5 Aug 5 16:00 /addons/expire As which user expire, dict, sqlite access are running? -- Regards --- Burckhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs
by Jonathan Siegle 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Should this be doable with the current design? Is there a good reference to do this? Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth process crashed during pam login
by Elmar Rudigier 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hello! We experienced crashes of the dovecot-auth process during user verification with pam_ssh. After a little debugging I saw that pam_ssh and dovecot both provide a buffer_free() function. During cleanup of pam_ssh the buffer_free() from dovecot was called. The members of the buffer had all "out of bound" addresses. After rename the buffer_free() in dovecot the pam login works fine. Cheer, Elmar

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