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[Dovecot] adding users to passwd-file
by Phil Howard 06 May '10

06 May '10

Is there a tool equivalent to the system "passwd" command (or maybe "adduser" or "useradd") that can support a passwd-file by setting a password, encrypting it with the salted MD5 scheme? The system "passwd" command doesn't have an option to "do it to this alternate file instead of /etc/shadow".

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[Dovecot] dovecot and pigeonhole
by Vasiliy G Tolstov 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello. Today i'm compile dovecot and pigeonhole from hg repo. After start dovecot i get errors in log like this: May 6 12:04:15 selfip dovecot: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_get_log_var_expand_table Google sasys, that this functions added in dovecto 2010-04-26, why a get this error when load sieve plugin? Thnak You. -- Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru> Selfip.Ru

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[Dovecot] !include
by Andre Hübner 06 May '10

06 May '10

dovecot 1.2.11 Hello, i do some tests with: !include /etc/dovecot/conf.d/*.conf dovecot fails to start if /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ is empty. Is this a expected behaviour? !include_try works without error but seems to me to be more usual when explicit, complete filename is given. is a little bit strange in contrast to behaviour of other servertypes which support a include-directive. Thanks, Andre

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Won't start on SLITAZ Linux
by Ludovic LEMARINEL 06 May '10

06 May '10

2010/5/6 Ludovic LEMARINEL <l.lemarinel(a)gmail.com> > 2010/5/6 Tom Hendrikx <tom(a)whyscream.net> > > On 06/05/10 13:40, Ludovic LEMARINEL wrote: >> > 2010/5/6 Charles Marcus <CMarcus(a)media-brokers.com> >> > >> >> On 2010-05-06 4:51 AM, Ludovic LEMARINEL wrote: >> >>> I've just compiled dovecot under Slitaz, but I can't get it to >> >>> run... >> >>> >> >>> It always die with this message in log : >> >>> >> >>> 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.11 starting up >> >>> 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 256): >> >>> Operation not permitted >> >> >> >> Google is your friend. Simply highlighting the above error: >> >> >> >> Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 256): Operation not permitted >> >> >> >> Provides the answer: >> >> >> >> http://tinyurl.com/25rmjod >> >> >> >> > >> > Thanks for your answer, but no, this page does not provide the answer. >> > The error message this guy gets is not the same as me >> >> Your original post says it does. If you receive another error message, >> please add it to your problem report. Also, please try to start dovecot >> from the commandline (as suggested in the url from Charles), and tell us >> about its behaviour, output and logging. >> >> > , and I don't have any >> > "/etc/security/limits.conf" file, so I can't change this setting . >> >> Dovecot tells you only what setting to to adjust. Where you put your >> settings is largely dependant on your OS or distro implementation. >> >> >> Ow, and please do not top-post. >> >> Regards, >> Tom >> > > > I've tried to run dovecot from the command line : it says what was the last > error (see my first post), and then nothing more. > When I do "ps", I can't see any process running, and the log says dovecot > finished... > > No more message than this :( > I'm going to try with 2.0 beta, and if no luck, I'll try to go down to 1.1. > Some news from my problem : I've tried 2.0 beta, 1.1, and both didn't worked. I went down to v1.0.15, and it works... Still haven't found what's wrong with newer versions...

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[Dovecot] 2.0 beta4 (5d76f5b13883): Home directory not recognized
by Thomas Leuxner 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hi, latest Mercurial seems to have problems with the Config Module unloads: May 5 19:18:16 spectre dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.beta4 (5d76f5b13883) starting up May 5 19:18:34 spectre dovecot: managesieve: Error: fd_read() partial input (54/88) May 5 19:18:34 spectre dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Error reading configuration: read(/var/run/dovecot/config) failed: EOF May 5 19:18:34 spectre dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotError: user root: Initialization failed: userdb didn't return a home directory, but plugin setting quota used it (%h): dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. $ tail /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf quota = dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%% acl = vfile:/var/vmail/conf.d/%d/acls:cache_secs=300 } Regards Thomas

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[Dovecot] migrating maildir from 1.1.7 to 1.2.11
by Romer Ventura 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello, I have a SLES server running dovecot 1.1.7 and postfix which happens to be the production server. We are dumping all of the paid OSes so i have configured a Debian Lenny server to run the new mail server. The debian server has everything installed and it seems to be working fine. However, i need to get all the mailboxes from the SLES server, will there be any problem if i just copy the "vmail" folder to the new server...? Thanks ------ Romer Ventura

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin
by Thomas M Goerger 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi, I'm testing out the dovecot expire plugin, and not seeing anything go into the database I've got set up. It's a mysql db. I've gone in and verified that the db is set up correctly. The socket is set up so that deliver should be able to talk to the db, but I'm not seeing anything in the expires table when I look. Is there anywhere that expire can log to so I can see what might be happening? It doesn't look like it logs to the dovecot log. Thanks! ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * *************************************************************************

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[Dovecot] Plugin to handle message saved and handle move from tmp to cur/new
by Alex Baule 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello everyone.... I need to finish my plugin, but i depends from some stuffs in the save/move process that i can't find how its work. In new zlib plugin (2.0) , the message is saved compressed now, but i dont find how is done the process to write the file to tmp, and move it to the cur or new directory (inside .Sent). I need to hook this function, to get access to some variables, like Flags and filename. There is a way to do this ? Tks.

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[Dovecot] [Bug] Case sensitive usernames and variables
by Неворотин Вадим 05 May '10

05 May '10

Today I've found a very irritating bug: I use mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u/ in my dovecot.conf. And if user type Username, username, USERname etc at login dovecot create a different Maildir's for one real user. But LDA works corretly and save all messages to lowercase username mailbox. No problem, add L: mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%Lu/ Then all works good. But I has also such namespace configuration: namespace shared { separator = / prefix = &BCAEMARBBEEESwQ7BDoEOA-/%%u/ location = maildir:/var/mail/%%u:INDEX=/var/mail/%u/shared/%%u subscriptions = no list = children } And here I can't replace %u with %Lu, because dovecot write to dovecot.log: IMAP(malamut): Error: Namespace '&BCAEMARBBEEESwQ7BDoEOA-/%Lu/': shared: Shared namespace prefix contains unknown variables So user has only one mailbox (with lovercase name), but a lot of different indexes for shared mailboxes, eg /var/mail/username/shared, /var/mail/USERname/shared etc. How can I tune dovecot to use always lowercase username? Dovecot 1.2.10

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[Dovecot] 2.0 FTBFS since sqlpool changes when --with-sql=plugin is used
by Michal Hlavinka 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi, yesterday lib-sql got driver-sqlpool with some changes in Makefile.am, but these changes in makefile works only for --with-sql=yes. When --with-sql=plugin is used build fails with: libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,- D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 - m64 -mtune=generic -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations - Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict- aliasing=2 -o checkpassword-reply checkpassword-reply.o ../../src/lib- dovecot/libdovecot.la -lrt libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 - fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic - Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar- subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -o .libs/auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o mech- otp-skey-common.o mech-plain-common.o auth-penalty.o auth-request.o auth- request-handler.o auth-settings.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth- worker-server.o db-checkpassword.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-external.o mech-gssapi.o mech-ntlm.o mech-otp.o mech-skey.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o mech-winbind.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb- cache.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb- pam.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-sia.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-checkpassword.o userdb-nss.o userdb-passwd.o userdb- passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o db-ldap.o passdb-ldap.o userdb-ldap.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-otp/libotp.a ../../src/lib-sql/.libs/libsql.a ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -lcrypt -lpam -ldl -lrt -Wl,-rpath - Wl,/usr/lib64/dovecot libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 - fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic - Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar- subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -o .libs/checkpassword-reply checkpassword-reply.o ../../src/lib- dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -ldl -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/dovecot ../../src/lib-sql/.libs/libsql.a(sql-api.o): In function `sql_init': /home/mhlavink/cvsf/dovecot/devel/dovecot-2.0.beta4/src/lib-sql/sql-api.c:70: undefined reference to `driver_sqlpool_init' Regards, Michal Hlavinka

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[Dovecot] Access filesystem (NFS) as some user
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 05 May '10

05 May '10

Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, My Dovecot server has to access the users Maildirs. Maildirs are on a NFS mount that only a user (vmail/500) may read and write. No one else. How to configure Dovecot so that at least disk read-write are performed as a "vmail" user (that I have created with the right attributes)? Is the workaround of changing dovecot's system UID/GID a not-so-bad one? (I am trying to see if it works, at least...) Misaotra, Thanks, Merci. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33 11 207 36

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot deliver LDA problem
by Noel Butler 05 May '10

05 May '10

bugger sent that direct, please send that output to the list :) On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:04 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: > Alex, > > Please show the output of dovecot -n > > > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 15:23 -0700, Alex wrote: > > > Thanks for the hint. > > > > I enabled 'socket listen' it in dovecot.conf as you pointed it out. > > > > Now dovecot.err log has these error messages: > > > > May 04 14:57:19 deliver(user1(a)some_domain.com): Error: User > > user1(a)some_domain.com is missing UID (set mail_uid) > > May 04 14:57:19 deliver(user2(a)some_domain.com): Error: User > > user2(a)some_domain.com is missing UID (set mail_uid) > > May 04 14:57:25 deliver(user3(a)some_domain.com): Error: User > > user3(a)some_domain.com is missing UID (set mail_uid) > > > > > > I tried to set necessary mail_uid in dovecot-sql.conf in user_query: > > > > user_query = SELECT maildir as mail, 51 as userdb_uid, 51 as > > userdb_gid, > > 51 as mail_uid FROM dovecot_email_maps WHERE email = '%u' > > > >

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[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver LDA problem
by Alex 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello folks, I was trying to set up Dovecot deliver LDA instead of Postfix default virtual LDA In Postfix main.cf I specified: virtual_transport = dovecot dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 In Postfix master.cf I entered: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe user=mailer flags=DRhu argv=/usr/local/mail/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} In Dovecot dovecot.conf I have the following entries: passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } In Dovecot dovecot-sql.conf I have this: user_query = SELECT maildir as mail FROM dovecot_email_maps WHERE email = '%u' password_query = SELECT user, password, userdb_uid, userdb_gid, userdb_home, userdb_mail FROM dovecot_user_maps WHERE user = '%n' After reloading postfix and restarting dovecot I'm getting this type of warnings in dovecot.err log: May 04 10:43:10 deliver(some_address(a)some_domain.com): Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot//auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Could somebody please help me to resolve this mistery. What am I missing ether in configuration file or somewhere else? Many thanks in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] CDB Authentication database
by Luca Corti 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hello, I'd be interested in seeing a CDB based backend for the userdb/passdb lookups. Is anyone working on this? Is there any documentation (other than the wiki Design section and the code itself) on implementing database backends? thanks Luca

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[Dovecot] Dovecot antispam plugin with virtual users
by Philipp 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hi, I'm running dovecot 1.2.11 with the antispam plugin 1.2+20090702-1+b1 installed from the debian repos (squeeze) and dspam 3.9.0+git20100416-1. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work well with my virtual users, stored on a local openldap server: While sending mail manually to dspam does work, there's some trouble when trying to use the antispam plugin. I tried using both sendmail (exim4 in my case) and configuring antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/dspam to point to dspam, with similar results: exim: [15042] Failed to get user name for uid 5001 dspam: dspam[18961]: Unable to determine the runtime user both errors are reproducible by running exim/dspam with sudo -u \#5001 with 5001 being the virtual uid used of the user that is logged in through imap. Of course the uid 5001 is invalid for the rest of the system, so it can't run anything, but as far as I can tell the plugin uses this uid to call the respective programs :\ Now I was wondering if it was possible to keep the plugin from using the imap-uid and instead specifying one elsewhere? I guess this would be of fairly great interest for everyone using virtual users, be it ldap or anything else. Or is there a different way to do this? Do I maybe just miss setting a variable somewhere? Philipp

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[Dovecot] dovecot user
by Timo Sirainen 04 May '10

04 May '10

Any thoughts on this: The primary use for "dovecot" user has been for login processes. But people keep misunderstanding this and try to use dovecot for accessing mails. For years I've been wondering about renaming this user to something else like dovelogin, but it never really seemed practical. So now with v2.0 there are a bunch of new processes, and for example anvil and dict are now run as dovecot user by default. But it's not really good that login processes can just go and kill those processes. And even worse, if drop_priv_before_exec=yes they could ptrace these processes. So I think we need two Dovecot users for v2.0: 1. Completely untrusted user for login processes. 2. Slightly more trusted internal Dovecot user. So "dovecot" could be reused for 2. And it would no longer be a mortal sin to use dovecot user for owning mail files. For 1. there would be a new user. I'd use "dovelogin", but apparently tools still don't much like usernames that are longer than 8 characters. Like ps could show numeric uid instead of 9 character long username. So .. any suggestions? "dovlogin" could be one possibility I guess. It would be nice if the name somehow reminded of login processes, but maybe something else could be used too, like: dovenil, dovenull, dovezero, dovenone, dovevoid, doveint, dovedown, dovein, dove0

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SQL user_query
by Alex 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hello folkz, Is it possible to setup in dovecot-sql.conf file to run user_query twice if its first run didn't yield any values. And likewise don't proceed with the second run if the first user_query execution produced the result. I have to query two tables which specify there email messages shall be delivered via Dovecot deliver LDA depending on the incoming email addresses. Please don't question me about this setup. I inherited this mess from the previous Network Admin. First query should be ran like this: user_query = SELECT concat('maildir:/data/mail/',maildir) as mail FROM folders WHERE email = '%u' If the first query doesn't yield any result the second shall be ran like this: user_query = SELECT maildir as home FROM users WHERE email = '%u' Please advise if such user_query setup is possible at all. Thanks in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] exit codes for 'sievec'
by Jerry 04 May '10

04 May '10

As far as I can tell, 'sievec' always exits with '0' whether there is an error or not. If that is correct, I believe it should be modified to exit with some other code if the conversion and writing of the new file are not completed successfully. I have written a few script files and a 'make' file specifically for sievec. The inability to get an accurate exit code is problematic for me. -- Jerry Dovecot.user(a)seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Fortune's Fictitious Country Song Title of the Week: "How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away?"

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[Dovecot] zlib Plugin Dovecot 2.0 - ostream
by Alex Baule 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hello Everyone... In zlib save mail have it: struct ostream *output; There is a way to get the file descriptor from output used in ostream zlib plugin ? to get in istream is i_stream_get_fd, but don't have o_stream_get_fd......

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Vs Procmail LDA
by Wilberth Pérez 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi everyone: Anyone knows what are the differences (or advantages and disadvantages) between Dovecot LDA with postfix Vs. Procmail LDA with postfix ? -- -------------------------------------------------------- LCC Wilberth de Jesús Pérez Segura CCSA- Administración de Servicios y Seguridad de las TI Correo: wilberth.perez(a)uady.mx Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán Secretaría General Coordinación Administrativa de Tecnologías de Información RIUADY C-59 x Av. Itzáes (999)923-74-28 Ext. 1117 Mérida, Yucatán, México 2010 --------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] [SUGGESTION] Managesieve: Transparent home dir creation
by Felix Leimbach 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi all, I'm using dovecot 2.0-beta4's sieve plugin and it works great but here is an idea for improvement: When creating the first sieve script for an account whose home dir does not yet exist then dovecot *does* create that homedir but the sieve client times out. Tried Thunderbird's sieve addon as well as horde's ingo. The log says: dovecot: managesieve-login: Login: user=<me(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: managesieve(me(a)example.com): sieve-storage: sieve_storage_verify_dir(/mnt/data/vmail/dovecot-homedirs/example.com/me//s… failed: File exists dovecot: managesieve(me(a)example.com): Fatal: Failed to open Sieve storage. Because the homedir was created (great!) when I retry the same action then all works perfectly well. So why not make that homedir creation transparent so that the clients' first try succeeds instead of the second try? Cheers, Felix

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[Dovecot] Migrating domain with diferent default_pass_scheme
by emiliojoel 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi I have now my main mail server using dovecot with diferents domains and for user auth using mysql with default_pass_scheme = PLAIN, Now I am migrating a new domain from other server with dovecot using mysql with default_pass_scheme = MD5. My question is: Is possible have a different default_pass_scheme depending of the domain? could I use dovecot with domains using mysql auth with default_pass_scheme = PLAIN and other with default_pass_scheme = MD5? any sugestion? thanks Emilio -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Migrating-domain-with-diferent-default_pass_scheme-tp… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] dovecot server down, dovecot deliver keeps mail?
by mimosinnet＠gmail.com 03 May '10

03 May '10

My dovecot server was down las friday, and it seems that mails have been lost. This is what I have got in my logs since the server has been down: May 3 03:35:34 generatech dovecot: deliver(mail(a)domain.org): userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory I guess that because the server was down dovecot transport could not deliver the mail. Nevertheless, I am wondering if dovecot deliver agent keeps undelivered mail somewhere. Thanks! I have been using this howto for the configuration: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mail_server_using_Postfix_and_Dovecot This is dovecot 1.2.6, and my configuration: # dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28-hardened-r9 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1 rootfs listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:52003 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_uid: 8 mail_gid: 12 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir/:INDEX=/var/mail/%d/%n/indexes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)generatech.org mail_plugins: quota sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: nobody passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.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: 432 user: mail group: mail plugin: sieve: /var/mail/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/var/mail/%d/%n/sieve -- Ningún Lugar Activisme Cultural per a la Transformació Social Cultural Activism for Social Transformation ningun_lugar(a)riereta.net http://ningunlugar.org/ http://generatech.ningunlugar.org/ http://video.ningunlugar.org

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[Dovecot] courier-imap and dovecot in migration process
by No body ist Perfect 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hello! I plan a migration from courier-imap to dovecot. at now run courier-imap as imaps server only and with perdition as redirector. can i run courier-imap and dovecot at same time on the same server(listing on diferent ports of course), i mean with shared home directory tree (Mailbox dir) ? Maybe access conflict or some problems ? Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] What causes dovecot to rebuild dovecot-uidlist?
by Pat 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hello, In what situations will Dovecot 1.2.11 rebuild its uidlist? I am using the maildir storage format, and I am also modifying the uidlist manually (so it's possible I could jack* things up). I have found some related code in maildir-uidlist.c: maildir_uidlist_next. 1) Blank filename or UID 0 2) Any UID not being greater than the proceeding UID 3) Any UID being greater than ~4 billion. 4) Any UID being greater than the suggested next uid. 6) If a filename contains a / 7) General header line sanity checking. Are there any other sections of the code that do sanity checks on dovecot-uidlist (for Maildir type storage)? And optionally do you agree that maildir_uidlist_set_corrupted is the best place to watch to see if I have mangled the uidlist? Thanks in advance, Pat * I insert into dovecot-uidlist manually when I deliver new messages, or discover a message that is not in uidlist for some reason. For compatability reasons I maintain a completely separate cache. If there is a better way to keep the uidlist up to date when the user isn't necessarily accessing the account via dovecot imap, I'm open to suggestions. However my situation is fairly unique I think.

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[Dovecot] My dovecot does not store Thunderbird flags
by Julien Buratto 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi all, my Dovecot 1.1.20 does not store flags (I mean, Thunderbird Labels like ToDo, Important and so on..) When logging in via telnet, I get: . examine INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk $MDNSent Junk $Forwarded NotJunk receipt-handled $Label7 $label1 $label2 $label3 $label4 $label5 expired_2w expired_2m delete rimandata forwarded) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox. As per Thunderbird mozillazine page about tags (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Tags#IMAP) that's what the issue is. PERMANENTFLAGS should allow /* while in my server it's empty. Could someone point me how can I change this behaviour or some hints ? Thank you -- Julien Buratto PS: In case someone asks for it > dovecot -n # 1.1.20: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL i686 CentOS release 4.7 (Final) log_path: /var/log/maillog info_log_path: /var/log/maillog protocols: imaps imap pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=mbox mbox_lazy_writes: no mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: cache_size: 1024 verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes cache_key=%u%s dovecot userdb: driver: passwd plugin: acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls

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[Dovecot] UK Blackberry BIS and Dovecot - 2-way sync
by Lucio Godoy 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi All; I have search the net and i cannot find any answers or fixes for this issue. I have a RHEL5 server running Dovecot Version 1.2.11 all worked well until i have diceded to subscribe to Vodafone's BIS service (BB Bold 9700). Internally I use outlook, and it does 2-way sync without any issues, but the blackberry only syncs new email and it does not sync deleted emails when I delete them in Outlook. Is there any special setting to allow such synchronisation? My server is secured by a pix firewall with ports 993, and 995 open for email sync (Secure IMAP and Secure Pop), i have setup the blackberry to use port 993. Many thanks for your help. Lucio =========================================================== The Home CCTV Security System made easy! http://www.kaduco.com/our-list-products-services/cctv-security-camera-syste… _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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[Dovecot] zlib Plugin Dovecot 2.0 - ostream
by Alex Baule 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello Everyone. There is possible to rename the email saved by a plugin, like zlib ? i explain.... i need to add 1 line in email header, because of that, i want to rewrite the filename to update the S and W flag. Tks !

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[Dovecot] 1.0.15 --> 1.2.11 --> got too little data
by Andre Hübner 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello, did updates from 1.0.15 to 1.2.11 and is in most cases succesful. Sometimes dovecot leaves errormessage in Log: IMAP(username): FETCH [HEADER] for mailbox INBOX UID 5106 got too little data (copying): 516 vs 528 Until now only Inbox was effected and no other folders. I delete cachesfiles in ~mail/.imap to solve this but is there a way to do this automatical (self healing)? Dovecot could recreate complete caches if there was a difference in calculation. Thanks, Andre

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[Dovecot] convert old configuration file with doveconf : Unknown setting
by de Lafond Guillaume 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi, It happens when I try to convert this config (with the dovecot 2.0 beta4 release) : test-mail:/tmp# dovecot -n -c ./dovecot.old.conf # 1.2.11: ./dovecot.old.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem i686 Debian 5.0.4 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot_info.log protocols: imap listen: 127.0.0.1:30143 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user: aquaray login_greeting: Mail - test v2 login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 96 login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 196 max_mail_processes: 10024 mail_max_userip_connections: 10000 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/:INDEX=/var/mail/dovecot_indexes/%1d/%d/%n fsync_disable: yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: INBOX/ hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)test-dovecotv2.aquaray.com hostname: test-dovecotv2.aquaray.com log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot-socket-auth/auth-master auth default-auth-master: mechanisms: plain login apop cram-md5 master_user_separator: * passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot-socket-auth/auth-master mode: 384 user: aquaray auth default: mechanisms: plain login apop cram-md5 cache_size: 2048 cache_ttl: 2000 master_user_separator: * count: 10 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf pass: yes master: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf plugin: quota: maildir:User quota test-mail:/tmp# /usr/local/dovecot2/bin/doveconf -n -c ./ dovecot.old.conf # 2.0.beta4 (6891d20929ca): ./dovecot.old.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:26: login_dir has been removed doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:29: login_chroot has been replaced by service { chroot } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 29: Unknown setting: chroot doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:32: login_user has been replaced by service { user } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 32: Unknown setting: user doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:36: login_process_size has been replaced by service { vsz_limit } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 36: Unknown setting: vsz_limit doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:39: login_process_per_connection has been replaced by service { service_count } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 39: Unknown setting: service_count doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:42: login_processes_count has been replaced by service { process_min_avail } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 42: Unknown setting: process_min_avail doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:45: login_max_processes_count has been replaced by service { process_limit } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 45: Unknown setting: process_limit doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:48: login_max_connections has been replaced by service { client_limit } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 48: Unknown setting: client_limit doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:75: mail_drop_priv_before_exec has been replaced by service { drop_priv_before_exec } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 75: Unknown setting: drop_priv_before_exec doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:88: max_mail_processes has been replaced by service { process_limit } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 88: Unknown setting: process_limit doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in ./dovecot.old.conf:91: mail_process_size has been replaced by service { vsz_limit } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 91: Unknown setting: vsz_limit It does not understand the old 1.1 setting "ssl_disable". test-mail:/tmp# /usr/local/dovecot2/bin/doveconf -n -c ./ dovecot.old.conf # 2.0.beta4 (6891d20929ca): ./dovecot.old.conf doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.old.conf line 21: Unknown setting: ssl_disable ----------------------------------------------------------- After removing all fatal error (comment all settings that are not understood), it works. If needed, I could test against the another other version (latest hg ?). Regards, -- Guillaume de Lafond Aqua Ray SARL

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[Dovecot] Quota maildirsize and dbox
by luben karavelov 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello, Is there any reason that maildirsize Quota store should not work in dbox folders or any other folder based mailbox stores? I have patched a test version here and it seems to work (added "dbox" check in src/plugins/quota/quota-maildir.c line 785). If there could be any complications or unexpected consequences of this setup? Thanks in advance luben

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin / expire-tool redesign for doveadm
by Timo Sirainen 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Expire plugin / expire-tool seems annoyingly inflexible currently, so I was thinking about a more generic redesign: The expire plugin keeps track of the oldest message in configured mailboxes. Its only configuration is the list of tracked mailboxes. There's no configuration like what the expire timeouts are or anything. There will be a new doveadm command: doveadm expunge [-u user | -A] <mailbox> <search query> So when you want to expunge all mails from Trash older than 1 week for all users, you say: doveadm expunge -A Trash savedbefore 1w This command works even without expire plugin. To optimize it to avoid looking into all users' Trash mailbox, there's a new expire doveadm plugin, which can use the expire dict to filter out users who don't have anything to expunge. This also supports another feature that the plugin can optimize: doveadm move -A INBOX Archive/2009/INBOX since 2009-01-01 before 2010-01-01 And since people have had problems waiting for expire dict to fill, there could be also a new parameter that does the filling immediately. TODO: - dbox altmove feature will be removed from expire plugin. it may need another plugin, or some other way to configure expire plugin for it. it's anyway a special case. - When using multiple mailboxes it would be more optimal to handle all mailboxes for a user at once, rather than using separate doveadm commands. Maybe the command syntax needs some more thinking to support this. Different mailboxes could have different rules though..

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.16 for Dovecot v1.2.11
by Stephan Bosch 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello Dovecot users, Pigeonhole development has slowed down significantly in the last few months due to the fact that I got swamped in work. The plan is now to move active development of Pigeonhole to Dovecot v2.0, meaning that this will be the last release for v1.2 that contains significant development changes and new features. However, if a certain new feature is simple enough and there is a demand for it, I may backport it from v2.0 and release it along with any bugfixes that may still arise. The main thing that this new release adds is full support for the spamtest, spamtestplus and virustest extensions. These extensions implement a uniform means of testing the content spam/virus status headers in mail messages: http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/rfc5235/ Not many people have tested these new features yet and therefore these are currently considered experimental. Test these thoroughly before you start using them! Documentation is available in doc/spamtest-virustest.txt Changelog Sieve v0.1.16: * Finished implementation of spamtest, spamtestplus and virustest extensions. These are not enabled by default and need to be activated with the sieve_extensions setting. Documentation available in doc/spamtest-virustest.txt + Vacation extension: the from address of the generated reply is now by default equal to whatever known recipient alias matched the headers of the message. If it is one of the aliases specified with :addresses, it is used in stead of the envelope recipient address that was used before. + Restructured and optimized the lexical scanner. + Added --with-docs configure option to allow disabling installation of documentation. - Accidentally omitted 'extern' in two declarations of global variables in header files, causing compile failures on certain systems. - Deprecated imapflags extension: fixed implicit assignment of flags. Turns out this never really worked, but the effect of this bug was obscured by the removeflag bug fixed in the previous release. - Fixed various memset argument mixups in enotify extension. This caused warnings on certain systems, but luckily no adverse effects at runtime. The releases are available as follows: Sieve: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.16.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.16.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org for more information. Have fun testing the new releases and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] Again: Occasional problem with POP3-Download
by Andre Tann 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello everyone, in february I posted the mail below[1]. I can now reproduce the problem. When filling up a mailbox with postfix' smtp-source with dozens of identical mails, then it is never possible for me to fetch one single mail out of the mailbox. The process of fetching mail via POP3 always fails. It makes no difference which mail client I use. I have tested KMail, Outlook and Thunderbird. Can anyone confirm this? Is dovecot for some reason unable to deliver such identical mails? Can it be the case that this is a problem with too similar message ids? ~/Maildir/cur$ cat * | grep -i message-id Message-Id: <1024.0003.0008@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0009@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0006@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0007@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0005@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0004@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0003@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0002@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0001@alphamobil> Message-Id: <1024.0003.0000@alphamobil> Thanks and greetings from Munich! AT [1] Hello everyone, I have two mailservers [1] running dovecot. Mail store format is maildir. Every once in a while I have the following problem: When a User downloads his mail via POP3, the client says something like "the server has closed the connection unexpectedly, and gives this reason: [...blahblah...]". One can now cancel the download, and restart it, and the problem shows up again and again. The first few mails get downloaded, and then the process stops. Strange to say the "blahblah"-portion is a piece of text out of the email that doesn't want to get downloaded. Then I remove this single message out of the Maildir/cur-directory, and everything is fine again. It is easy to figure out which mail to delete because it's the first one that is not market as seen [...] filename...:2,S otherfilename...;2, <= this file must be deleted [...] For me it looks as if dovecot had a problem with some byte sequence in this mail, and for some reason it gives an error message to the client which is taken out of the mail. On the SuSE-Machine, before dovecot there was a courier-imapd running, which never showed this kind of problem, so it should not be a client problem. Hopefully my description is clear enough. Does anyone have an idea what's going on here? Thanks. Andre [1] One machine is a openSuSE 11.2 with # rpm -qa | grep dovecot dovecot12-backend-sqlite-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 dovecot12-backend-mysql-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 dovecot12-backend-pgsql-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 dovecot12-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 The other machine is a Debian Lenny with # dpkg -l | grep dovecot dovecot-common 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 dovecot-imapd 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 dovecot-pop3d 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 -- Andre Tann

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[Dovecot] Right way to Dovecot Load Balance
by Proskurin Kirill 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello. I building LB&HA Email cluster based on Exim+Dovecot+LDAP. Now I thinking what the most right way to LB Dovecot(2 nodes with shared storage). HA-Proxy? Dovecot Proxy? Nginx? Else? -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill

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[Dovecot] Question about auth multiple configuration
by Fabrice MATHIEU 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello, My mail system is build with postfix, dovecot and roundcube. In first time users can view and "manage" their mail only on the webmail. So this one (webmail) use IMAP (no tls/ssl at all) authentication to give access to users maildir. This connection is made on the 'loopback' interface and use PLAIN method. This works fine (configuration below without ssl parameters). Now I want to see and send my mail with a MUA (thunderbird). As my system is on an Internet provider I want to add more security "solutions". I use smtps with postfix and SASL/auth by dovecot socket mechanism to send mail. I use imaps with dovecot for managing my maildir. I have added ssl parameters to the configuration file (see below) and I required certificate from the client (to avoid man in the middle attack and to get access only for client with user certificate). To get this "ssl_require_client_cert" is set to yes. Ok, now imaps works perfectly. But since a certificate is required webmail authentication (localhost) and SASL (postfix auth trough dovecot socket mechanism) don't work. Webmail => dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (cert required, client didn't start TLS): method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Postfix => postfix/smtpd[71640]: warning: TOTO[X.A.B.C]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: Client didn't present valid SSL certificate That's normal. But 127.0.0.1 client(network) is considered by dovecot as secure, so won't the auth possible without certificate ? Can't we make two auth policy to make secure (client crt require) for public IP/client and less "secure" (without crt client) for local process (postfix) and local newtwork(127.0.0.1) for roundcube ? I see section "auth default { ... }" and is used by ... default ! But can we make an other one to make this two particular authentication on the same "instance" ? Thank you. And then my configuration : operating system => FreeBSD 7.1 dovecot --version => 1.2.8 dovecot -n => # 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE i386 ufs protocols: imap listen: 127.0.0.1 ssl_listen: X.Y.Z.T ssl: yes ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/CAclient.pem ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/imaps.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/imaps.key ssl_verify_client_cert: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/jails/mails/%d/%n imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@SOMETHING hostname: SOMETHING_ELSE sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%n /jails/mails/dov_pass/%d/usr_pas userdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%n /jails/mails/dov_pass/%d/usr_pas ssl_require_client_cert = yes ssl_username_from_cert = no socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: wheel master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 Best regards, _________________________________________________________________ Consultez gratuitement vos emails Orange, Gmail, Free, ... directement dans HOTMAIL ! http://www.windowslive.fr/hotmail/agregation/

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[Dovecot] Question about dovecot imap proxy
by Monika Janek 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi everyone! I have dovecot (1.2.11) on one our external mail servers acting as a proxy. The client (ifor now, my iphone) connects fine via ssl to the external mailserver but I can't seem to get a secure connection now to the internal destination imap server (between external mail server and internal imap server, it's going through port 143). Running tcpdump, I can clearly see my password being transmitted on our internal network. I read the addition to the documentation about dovecot proxy but I'm not sure where to add these variables: In v1.2.rc4+ the connections to destination server can be TLS/SSL encrypted by returning: * ssl=yes: Use SSL and require a valid verified remote certificate. *WARNING: Unless used carefully, this is an insecure setting!* Currently host must be an IP address, so this setting accepts any certificate signed by a trusted CA. The host name isn't checked in any way against the certificate's CN. The only way to use this securely is to only use and allow your own private CA's certs, anything else is exploitable by a man-in-the-middle attack. * ssl=any-cert: Use SSL, but don't require a valid remote certificate. * starttls: Use STARTTLS command instead of doing SSL handshake immediately after connected. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks so much! :) -- Monika Janek Systems Administrator, Side Effects Software Toronto, Ontario Canada 416-504-9876 x207 www.sidefx.com

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed in mail-search-build.c
by Mark Moseley 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

With Friday's and today's mercurial repo, I'm getting this: Apr 26 12:55:31 master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.beta4 starting up (core dumps disabled) Apr 26 12:58:34 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<mail@box>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.1.1.206, lip=192.168.152.1 Apr 26 12:58:34 imap(mail@box): Panic: file mail-search-build.c: line 59 (mail_search_build_key_int): assertion failed: (sarg->value.subargs != NULL) Apr 26 12:58:34 imap(mail@box): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb76a3ad1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb76a3b4f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0xb76a3e08] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0xb76f859e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0xb76f860f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_search_build+0x82) [0xb76f86f2] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH](imap_search_args_build+0x48) [0x805d8a8] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH](cmd_search+0xbb) [0x805342b] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH] [0x80564dc] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH] [0x8056579] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH](client_handle_input+0x2d) [0x80566ed] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH](client_input+0x5f) [0x805710f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xf5) [0xb76b0115] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x30) [0xb76af160] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2a) [0xb769ca5a] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH](main+0x2b5) [0x805fb95] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb752e455] -> dovecot/imap [mail@box 10.1.1.206 SEARCH] [0x804e951] Apr 26 12:58:34 master: Error: service(imap): child 13220 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Login is working fine, just blowing up on that assert by doing a search. The search is pretty basic, in python: server.search( None, "(ALL)" ) Testing with a previous version (from a couple of days earlier -- I don't have the intervening), I don't hit that assertion. The last changeset on mail-search-build.c in the working copy is 11146:3649ad8c9f9a. Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to try.

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[Dovecot] pop3-login: auth failure -- due to number as first character in login name
by dovecot mail list account 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Seem to have found a error in version 1.2.6 regarding usernames having a number as the first character. Customers with a number as the first character in thier user name can not login via pop3 clients. However they can login through our webmail interface. If we remove the number from the username then the customer can login. # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31.12-desktop-3mnb x86_64 Mandriva Linux 2010.0 protocols: pop3 ssl_listen: * ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/home/mail/%u mail_executable: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xv%08Xu lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80

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[Dovecot] Problems with Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin.
by Daniel Machado Grilo 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Dear Dovecot users, I'm a sysadmin in a company that recently migrated the IMAP from courier-imap to dovecot :-) *urray* Everything with the perl migrating scripts (version 1.0) went with OKs and it was a lot of fun (and pray) to move 400Gb of mails and migrate.. and everything is working even better :-) The problem is for some outside users that use webmails, like: - Squirrel - Roundcube - Horde They claim that the connection is constantly dropping.. You might say now: "Webmail's fault!!!" as I said in the beginning :) But the IMAP logs shows SEVERAL times (almost every 10mins ?!): Apr 28 21:10:48 olive dovecot: IMAP(rcoelho): Maildir /cluster/mail/mailboxes/rcoelho sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (192736 > 192720, file = msg.LDW0C) Apr 28 21:10:48 olive dovecot: IMAP(rcoelho): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. Apr 28 19:14:11 olive dovecot: IMAP(pcorreia): Maildir /cluster/mail/mailboxes/pcorreia sync: UID < next_uid (7874 < 7875, file = msg.5BNVC) Apr 28 19:14:12 olive dovecot: IMAP(pcorreia): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. and so on. I read somewhere on the web that configuring the mbox_lazy_write=no should work .. it did not :-) I have CentOS 5.4 in our mailserver, so the version of dovecot is not the latest (it is 1.0.7).. But of course, this is production environment and I don't want to update if its not needed :-) So my questions are: - Is this a known bug for this version and I have to upgrade ? - Is this a problem in my configs for dovecot ? - Can this be other problem than dovecot ? -- so probably i should be able to add more debug anoying messages to our logs ? - Probably something went wrong in the migration for these maildirs? So now what can we do to fix this ? Our mail is working and, at the moment, I found 3 users with this error.. They have about 10Gb of mail each, I don't think this is a problem for dovecot.. only for our storages.. :-) Tks for your patience, Best Regards!

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[Dovecot] Maildircrypt
by brainstorm 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi guys, I was just wondering if this idea makes sense overall or if there are major impediments (indexing performance ?): http://blogs.nopcode.org/brainstorm/2010/04/28/maildircrypt/ Thanks ! Roman

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[Dovecot] Dovecot headers at start of text returned to KMail
by Barry Scott 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

The attachment show Kmail (kdepim-4.4.2-1.fc12.x86_64) accessing an email from dovecot over imap. From the wireshark-imap-trace.txt you can see at line 77 that the headers do not end cleanly "X-)". And at line 84 there is text from the headers that is not part of the body "-Spambayes-Trained: ham". The email being access by dovecot is in: 1272011889.M384349P30156.f12barry.office.onelan.co.uk,S=6494,W=6606:2,S Because of this bug kmail fails to show the message cleanly on screen. # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 12 (Constantine) 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_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/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 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Barry

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[Dovecot] How can I add change_password
by Yavuz Maşlak 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hello I use dovecot, postfix, mysql and squirrelmail as a mail server. it works well. Meanwhile I am novice at postfix. As you know, there is a change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I wish to add change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I couldn't find how to integrate postfix and change_password. How can I add it ?

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[Dovecot] How can I integrate change_password plugin, dovecot and postfix
by Yavuz Maşlak 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hello I use dovecot, postfix, mysql and squirrelmail as a mail server. it works well. Meanwhile I am novice at postfix. As you know, there is a change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I wish to add change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I couldn't find how to integrate postfix and change_password. How can I add it ?

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Re: [Dovecot] returned error 83 (Out of memory)
by J Contad 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

FYI, sorted out this issue by taking out a specific email manually. Not sure if it helps, but the email had these attributes: - X-Mailer is PHPMailer [version 1.73] - References: header is quite large, and contains email addresses external to the sender and I's conversation. Removing the email fixed the issue. -- John

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Re: [Dovecot] returned error 83 (Out of memory)
by J Contad 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

I tried deleting the file, but got pretty much the same issues. Any other hints on how else to go about it? Cheers! John On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, J Contad wrote: > The folder (which is shared) has about 8 thousand emails in it. I'm not sure > if it's pertinent, but the dovecot.index.cache file is about 8MB. Did you tried to delete the dovecot.index.cache file, maybe it has been corrupted? Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -- John

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[Dovecot] somebody using Net::Sieve (Perl) with dovecot 1.2.11?
by Heiko Schlittermann 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hello, I've just (hopefully) fixed some issue with Net::Sieve (0.05) to cooperate with a current (1.2.11) dovecot managesieve server and STARTTLS. Does somebody use this Perl library? If yes, did it work for you (STARTTLS triggers the problem)? If not, which other (Perl) library do you use? Best regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Grüße aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann -- SCHLITTERMANN.de ---------------------------- internet & unix support - Heiko Schlittermann HS12-RIPE ----------------------------------------- gnupg encrypted messages are welcome - key ID: 48D0359B --------------- gnupg fingerprint: 3061 CFBF 2D88 F034 E8D2 7E92 EE4E AC98 48D0 359B -

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[Dovecot] zlib plugin dovecot 2.0 - write email
by Alex Baule 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello Everyone. There is possible to rename the email writed by a plugin, like zlib ? i explain.... i need to add 1 line in email header, because of that, i want to rewrite the filename to update the S and W flag. Tks !

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[Dovecot] Anyone successfully using expire plugin?
by Thomas M Goerger 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Anyone out there using expire? At this point, I'm not sure that it's even running. It was touching the plugin libraries yesterday, but doesn't appear to be doing so today. The plugin directory wasn't explictly set, so I've done so now, but it's still not touching these. Anyone have a cf file I could take a look at, or any ideas as to what might be happening? Thanks! ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * *************************************************************************

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[Dovecot] How can I make dovecot aware of user's email aliases?
by Ian P. Christian 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Sieve will not reply to mail it doesn't think was sent directly to a user. I use an SQL auth backend, and a user might login as user1(a)domain.com. What method can I use to inform dovecot that user2(a)domain.com is a forward to user1(a)domain.com, such that the vacation auto response will fire when user2(a)domain.com is emailed (therefore, the mail ends up in user1(a)domain.com's mailbox). -- Blog: http://pookey.co.uk/blog Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/ipchristian

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