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[Dovecot] Please configure dovecot
by bhagwat swarup 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

hi I am new to linux and dovecot .It is my request that please write the steps to configure 1] dovecot as POP server giving access to a user and controll accesss from to different domains eg block example.com allow nh.com Thanks And Regards Bhagwat Swarup NH India Ltd

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[Dovecot] Imap and quota problem
by Najib Abi Fadel 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi everyone, i am using dovecot 1.0 as IMAP and i am facing the following problem: when a user is overquota he is unable to access his account and thus he can't delete emails ! Is there any workaround for this problem ? thanks for any help. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] SIGSEGV login process
by Maxim 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi all. I recently upgraded from 1.0.0 to 1.0.7 version and found that process imap-login begins randomly crash: pid 29997 (imap-login), uid 143: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) pid 32189 (imap-login), uid 143: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) pid 32121 (imap-login), uid 143: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) pid 31309 (imap-login), uid 143: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) i guess that it happens during high load on CPU (but just guess) no anything upon upgrade changed - traffic, config are the same. can anyone help me? running FreeBSD 6.2, compiled from port with mysql, lda, kqueue, pop3 support. mail# dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 pop3s imaps listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl_mail/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl_mail/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no 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(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 26 last_valid_uid: 26 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mmap_disable: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota 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 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain cram-md5 digest-md5 apop login default_realm: proc.ru passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf mail# grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=/tmp/mysql.sock dbname=exim_users user=exim password=** default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT concat(pw_name, '@', domain) as user, pw_clear_passwd as password FROM vusers WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND domain = '%d' user_query = SELECT pw_dir AS home, 26 AS uid, 26 AS gid, concat('maildir:storage=', quota*1024) AS quota FROM vusers WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND domain = '%d' backtrace from core file: mail# gdb ./work/dovecot-1.0.7/src/imap-login/imap-login /var/run/dovecot/login/tmp/imap-login.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... warning: exec file is newer than core file. Core was generated by `imap-login'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypto.so.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypto.so.4 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x08051e2d in auth_client_request_continue () (gdb) bt #0 0x08051e2d in auth_client_request_continue () #1 0x0804b8db in client_auth_input () #2 0x080562ec in io_loop_handler_run () #3 0x0805599d in io_loop_run () #4 0x0804d963 in main () (gdb) or what anything info should i provide?

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Re: [Dovecot] Variable krb5 cache location
by Timo Sirainen 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 20:24 +0100, Roland Hopferwieser wrote: > First I want to thank you for this great software. > Second, I think it could be a good idea to give the user the chance to > change the location for the kerberos V cache, so there is no potentially > conflict with other processes. With external refreshment of the krb5 > cache, I use the cache also for authentication against the LDAP server > with the gssapi. > Please find attached a little diff file to dovecot 1.0.7. Looks ok, but I hate to add new settings to dovecot.conf nowadays since there are already too many. Also then there would be two Kerberos-related settings that simply set environment variables. I'm beginning to think that maybe something more generic is needed, such as: auth default { .. environment { krb5_ktname = .. krb5ccname = ... who_knows_what_else_in_future = .. } } I think LDAP library also can accept settings from environment. Anyone on mailing list have better ideas?

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[Dovecot] LIST problem with Dovecot1.1beta10
by Dean Brooks 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi, Certain IMAP folder problems started popping up with Squirrelmail with the 1.1beta10 version of Dovecot (and possibly earlier versions). Looked into it and I am seeing odd behavior with the LIST command. Here is how to reproduce problem, unless I'm missing something obvious: a001 login dean <password> a001 OK Logged in. a002 list "" * * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "INBOX" a002 OK List completed. a003 list "" Trash* * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "Trash" a003 OK List completed. a004 list "" Trash a004 OK List completed. <*** What? Shouldn't it have listed Trash instead of returning nothing?> a005 list "" Trash" <*** Unbalanced quote causes total lockup! It appears that Squirrelmail, and possibly others, are using the LIST command to test for the presence of a mailbox, but it seems impossible to get an exact match. Am I missing something here? -- Dean Brooks dean(a)iglou.com

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Re: [Dovecot] imap process consuming 100% CPU (Dovecot 1.0.3)
by Jackie Hunt 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

> > Is this behavior cured, or do you continue to see it? > No, the behavior isn't cured. We still continue to see it with various clients. I have posted a couple of truss outputs, but so far no resolution. Sorry for the slow response. I've been "fighting other fires". Jackie > Jackie Hunt wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 12:37 +0200, Robert Tomanek wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Sunday, September 2, 2007, 22:42:37, you wrote: > >>> > >>>>> 0x0806049d in imap_sync_more (ctx=3D0x80d9770) at imap-sync.c:104 > >>>>> 104 if (ctx->seq =3D=3D 0) { > >>>>> > >>> A short follow-up on this, looks like an infinite loop to me, unless > >>> some threading magic is supposed to happen here: > >>> > >> Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/8e86137a04fb > >> > > > > We also are seeing imap processes consuming 100% CPU. We have > > installed Dovecot v1.0.5 and still see the problem. I have a user > > who can pretty reliably reproduce the problem. It occurs each > > morning after the imap connection has been idling all night. The > > user is running Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (I think) on Solaris. On the > > client side, he see an hourglass that never goes away, has to shut > > down Thunderbird. > > > > Below is a log, which shows how the CPU is being used (the ps commands > > are done one right after another) and a dbx trace of the state of > > the imap process. I'm hoping that's enough info to figure out what's > > happening. > > > > Thanks much, > > Jackie > > --- > > Jackie Hunt > > ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 > > Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 > > Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu > > > > > > $ ps -ef | grep -i xxxxxx | grep imap > > xxxxxx 43004 92942 74 07:15:33 - 38:54 imap > > $ ps -ef | grep -i xxxxxx | grep imap > > xxxxxx 43004 92942 81 07:15:33 - 38:58 imap > > $ ps -ef | grep -i xxxxxx | grep imap > > xxxxxx 43004 92942 120 07:15:33 - 39:01 imap > > $ dbx -a 43004 > > Waiting to attach to process 43004 ... > > Successfully attached to imap. > > warning: Directory containing imap could not be determined. > > Apply 'use' command to initialize source path. > > > > Type 'help' for help. > > reading symbolic information ... > > stopped in pread at 0xd01f06cc > > 0xd01f06cc (pread+0x30) 80410014 lwz r2,0x14(r1) > > (dbx) step > > stopped in istream-file._read at line 120 in file "" > > could not read "istream-file.c" > > (dbx) use src lib src/lib src/lib-storage/index/mbox src/lib-mail src/lib-storage/index src/lib-storage src/imap src/imap-login > > (dbx) use > > src lib src/lib src/lib-storage/index/mbox src/lib-mail src/lib-storage/index src/lib-storage src/imap src/imap-login > > (dbx) where > > istream-file._read(stream = 0x200274a8), line 120 in "istream-file.c" > > i_stream_read(stream = 0x200274cc), line 58 in "istream.c" > > istream-raw-mbox._read(stream = 0x20028ab8), line 160 in "istream-raw-mbox.c" > > i_stream_read(stream = 0x20028adc), line 58 in "istream.c" > > istream-limit._read(stream = 0x20031458), line 56 in "istream-limit.c" > > i_stream_read(stream = 0x2003147c), line 58 in "istream.c" > > istream-header-filter._read(stream = 0x2004aa98), line 234 in "istream-header-filter.c" > > i_stream_read(stream = 0x2004aabc), line 58 in "istream.c" > > i_stream_read_data(stream = 0x2004aabc, data = 0x2ff22630, size = 0x2ff22638, threshold = 1), line 250 in "istream.c" > > message_get_body_size(input = 0x2004aabc, body = 0x2002827c, has_nuls = (nil)), line 107 in "message-size.c" > > index_mail_init_stream(_mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 502 in "index-mail.c" > > mbox_mail_get_stream(_mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 206 in "mbox-mail.c" > > mail_get_stream(mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 107 in "mail.c" > > imap-fetch-body.fetch_body(ctx = 0x200205e0, mail = 0x200281a8, context = 0x20020858), line 331 in "imap-fetch-body.c" > > imap_fetch(ctx = 0x200205e0), line 291 in "imap-fetch.c" > > cmd_fetch(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 163 in "cmd-fetch.c" > > cmd_uid(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 19 in "cmd-uid.c" > > client_handle_input(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 344 in "client.c" > > client_handle_input(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 398 in "client.c" > > _client_input(context = 0x2001e318), line 441 in "client.c" > > io_loop_handler_run(ioloop = 0x2001d0e8), line 199 in "ioloop-poll.c" > > io_loop_run(ioloop = 0x2001d0e8), line 329 in "ioloop.c" > > main(argc = 1, argv = 0x2ff22b50, envp = 0x2ff22b58), line 290 in "main.c" > > (dbx) list > > 58 return _stream->read(_stream); > > 59 } > > 60 > > 61 void i_stream_skip(struct istream *stream, uoff_t count) > > 62 { > > 63 struct _istream *_stream = stream->real_stream; > > 64 size_t data_size; > > 65 > > 66 data_size = _stream->pos - _stream->skip; > > 67 if (count <= data_size) { > > (dbx) dump > > i_stream_read(stream = 0x2003147c), line 58 in "istream.c" > > _stream = 0x20031458 > > (dbx) up > > istream-header-filter._read(stream = 0x2004aa98), line 234 in "istream-header-filter.c" > > (dbx) list > > 234 if ((ret = i_stream_read(mstream->input)) == -2) { > > 235 if (stream->skip == 0) > > 236 return -2; > > 237 } > > 238 stream->istream.stream_errno = mstream->input->stream_errno; > > 239 stream->istream.eof = mstream->input->eof; > > 240 stream->buffer = i_stream_get_data(mstream->input, &pos); > > 241 } else { > > 242 ret = 0; > > 243 } > > (dbx) dump > > istream-header-filter._read(stream = 0x2004aa98), line 234 in "istream-header-filter.c" > > mstream = 0x2004aa98 > > ret = 4094 > > pos = 1 > > (dbx) up > > i_stream_read(stream = 0x2004aabc), line 58 in "istream.c" > > (dbx) list > > 58 return _stream->read(_stream); > > 59 } > > 60 > > 61 void i_stream_skip(struct istream *stream, uoff_t count) > > 62 { > > 63 struct _istream *_stream = stream->real_stream; > > 64 size_t data_size; > > 65 > > 66 data_size = _stream->pos - _stream->skip; > > 67 if (count <= data_size) { > > (dbx) dump > > i_stream_read(stream = 0x2004aabc), line 58 in "istream.c" > > _stream = 0x2004aa98 > > (dbx) up > > i_stream_read_data(stream = 0x2004aabc, data = 0x2ff22630, size = 0x2ff22638, threshold = 1), line 250 in "istream.c" > > (dbx) list > > 250 ret = i_stream_read(stream); > > 251 if (ret > 0) > > 252 read_more = TRUE; > > 253 } while (ret > 0); > > 254 > > 255 *data = i_stream_get_data(stream, size); > > 256 return ret == -2 ? -2 : > > 257 (read_more || ret == 0 ? 0 : -1); > > 258 } > > 259 > > (dbx) dump > > i_stream_read_data(stream = 0x2004aabc, data = 0x2ff22630, size = 0x2ff22638, threshold = 1), line 250 in "istream.c" > > read_more = 0 > > ret = 0 > > (dbx) up > > message_get_body_size(input = 0x2004aabc, body = 0x2002827c, has_nuls = (nil)), line 107 in "message-size.c" > > (dbx) list > > 107 } while (i_stream_read_data(input, &msg, &size, 1) > 0); > > 108 > > 109 i_stream_skip(input, 1); > > 110 body->physical_size++; > > 111 > > 112 body->virtual_size = body->physical_size + missing_cr_count; > > 113 i_assert(body->virtual_size >= body->physical_size); > > 114 } > > 115 > > 116 void message_size_add(struct message_size *dest, > > (dbx) dump > > message_get_body_size(input = 0x2004aabc, body = 0x2002827c, has_nuls = (nil)), line 107 in "message-size.c" > > last_cr = 0 > > missing_cr_count = 83389 > > msg = "dd" > > i = 4095 > > size = 1 > > (dbx) up > > index_mail_init_stream(_mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 502 in "index-mail.c" > > (dbx) list > > 502 message_get_body_size(data->stream, > > 503 &data->body_size, NULL); > > 504 data->body_size_set = TRUE; > > 505 } > > 506 } > > 507 > > 508 *body_size = data->body_size; > > 509 } > > 510 > > 511 if (data->hdr_size_set && data->body_size_set) { > > (dbx) dump > > index_mail_init_stream(_mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 502 in "index-mail.c" > > data = 0x2002820c > > mail = 0x200281a8 > > (dbx) up > > mbox_mail_get_stream(_mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 206 in "mbox-mail.c" > > (dbx) list > > 206 return index_mail_init_stream(mail, hdr_size, body_size); > > 207 } > > 208 > > 209 struct mail_vfuncs mbox_mail_vfuncs = { > > 210 index_mail_free, > > 211 index_mail_set_seq, > > 212 > > 213 index_mail_get_flags, > > 214 index_mail_get_keywords, > > 215 index_mail_get_parts, > > (dbx) dump > > mbox_mail_get_stream(_mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 206 in "mbox-mail.c" > > raw_stream = 0x2ff22780 > > mbox = 0x20024a98 > > data = 0x2002820c > > mail = 0x200281a8 > > offset = 804398928 > > (dbx) up > > mail_get_stream(mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 107 in "mail.c" > > (dbx) list > > 107 return p->v.get_stream(mail, hdr_size, body_size); > > 108 } > > 109 > > 110 const char *mail_get_special(struct mail *mail, enum mail_fetch_field field) > > 111 { > > 112 struct mail_private *p = (struct mail_private *)mail; > > 113 > > 114 return p->v.get_special(mail, field); > > 115 } > > 116 > > (dbx) dump > > mail_get_stream(mail = 0x200281a8, hdr_size = 0x2ff227a8, body_size = 0x2ff227b8), line 107 in "mail.c" > > p = 0x200281a8 > > (dbx) up > > imap-fetch-body.fetch_body(ctx = 0x200205e0, mail = 0x200281a8, context = 0x20020858), line 331 in "imap-fetch-body.c" > > (dbx) list > > 331 body->section[0] == 'H' ? NULL : &body_size); > > 332 if (ctx->cur_input == NULL) > > 333 return -1; > > 334 > > 335 i_stream_ref(ctx->cur_input); > > 336 ctx->update_partial = TRUE; > > 337 > > 338 switch (body->section[0]) { > > 339 case '\0': > > 340 /* BODY[] - fetch everything */ > > (dbx) dump > > imap-fetch-body.fetch_body(ctx = 0x200205e0, mail = 0x200281a8, context = 0x20020858), line 331 in "imap-fetch-body.c" > > fetch_size = 0x20011dd8 > > hdr_size = (physical_size = 843, virtual_size = 843, lines = 15) > > body = 0x20020858 > > body_size = (physical_size = 804398512, virtual_size = 12, lines = 0) > > (dbx) up > > imap_fetch(ctx = 0x200205e0), line 291 in "imap-fetch.c" > > (dbx) list > > 291 ret = handlers[ctx->cur_handler]. > > 292 handler(ctx, ctx->cur_mail, > > 293 handlers[ctx->cur_handler].context); > > 294 t_pop(); > > 295 > > 296 if (ret == 0) > > 297 return 0; > > 298 > > 299 if (ret < 0) { > > 300 if (ctx->cur_mail->expunged) { > > (dbx) dump > > imap_fetch(ctx = 0x200205e0), line 291 in "imap-fetch.c" > > handlers = 0x200206f8 > > count = 3 > > ret = 1 > > (dbx) up > > cmd_fetch(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 163 in "cmd-fetch.c" > > (dbx) list > > 163 if ((ret = imap_fetch(ctx)) == 0) { > > 164 /* unfinished */ > > 165 client->command_pending = TRUE; > > 166 cmd->func = cmd_fetch_continue; > > 167 cmd->context = ctx; > > 168 return FALSE; > > 169 } > > 170 if (ret < 0) > > 171 ctx->failed = TRUE; > > 172 > > (dbx) dump > > cmd_fetch(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 163 in "cmd-fetch.c" > > messageset = "11988" > > search_arg = 0x200205a8 > > ctx = 0x200205e0 > > args = 0x2001e590 > > ret = 536954712 > > client = 0x2001e318 > > (dbx) up > > cmd_uid(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 19 in "cmd-uid.c" > > (dbx) list > > 19 return cmd->func(cmd); > > 20 } else { > > 21 client_send_tagline(cmd, t_strconcat( > > 22 "BAD Unknown UID command ", cmd_name, NULL)); > > 23 return TRUE; > > 24 } > > 25 } > > (dbx) dump > > cmd_uid(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 19 in "cmd-uid.c" > > cmd_name = "fetch" > > (dbx) up > > client_handle_input(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 344 in "client.c" > > (dbx) list > > 344 if (cmd->func(cmd) || cmd->param_error) { > > 345 /* command execution was finished */ > > 346 if (!cmd->param_error) > > 347 client->bad_counter = 0; > > 348 _client_reset_command(client); > > 349 return TRUE; > > 350 } > > 351 > > 352 /* unfinished */ > > 353 if (client->command_pending) > > (dbx) dump > > client_handle_input(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 344 in "client.c" > > client = 0x2001e318 > > (dbx) up > > client_handle_input(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 398 in "client.c" > > (dbx) list > > 398 client_handle_input(cmd); > > 399 } > > 400 > > 401 return TRUE; > > 402 } > > 403 > > 404 void _client_input(void *context) > > 405 { > > 406 struct client *client = context; > > 407 struct client_command_context *cmd = &client->cmd; > > (dbx) dump > > client_handle_input(cmd = 0x2001e35c), line 398 in "client.c" > > client = 0x2001e318 > > (dbx) up > > _client_input(context = 0x2001e318), line 441 in "client.c" > > (dbx) list > > 441 ret = client_handle_input(cmd); > > 442 t_pop(); > > 443 } while (ret && !client->disconnected); > > 444 o_stream_uncork(client->output); > > 445 client->handling_input = FALSE; > > 446 > > 447 if (client->command_pending) > > 448 client->input_pending = TRUE; > > 449 > > 450 if (client->output->closed) > > (dbx) dump > > _client_input(context = 0x2001e318), line 441 in "client.c" > > ret = 2 > > cmd = 0x2001e35c > > client = 0x2001e318 > > (dbx) up > > io_loop_handler_run(ioloop = 0x2001d0e8), line 199 in "ioloop-poll.c" > > (dbx) list > > 199 io->callback(io->context); > > 200 if (t_pop() != t_id) { > > 201 i_panic("Leaked a t_pop() call in " > > 202 "I/O handler %p", > > 203 (void *)io->callback); > > 204 } > > 205 } > > 206 } > > 207 } > > 208 } > > (dbx) dump > > io_loop_handler_run(ioloop = 0x2001d0e8), line 199 in "ioloop-poll.c" > > t_id = 2 > > tv = (tv_sec = 1, tv_usec = 54083) > > msecs = 1055 > > pollfd = 0x2001d148 > > ctx = 0x2001d118 > > ret = 0 > > io = 0x2001e4e8 > > call = 1 > > (dbx) up > > io_loop_run(ioloop = 0x2001d0e8), line 329 in "ioloop.c" > > (dbx) list > > 329 io_loop_handler_run(ioloop); > > 330 } > > 331 > > 332 void io_loop_stop(struct ioloop *ioloop) > > 333 { > > 334 ioloop->running = FALSE; > > 335 } > > 336 > > 337 void io_loop_set_running(struct ioloop *ioloop) > > 338 { > > (dbx) dump > > io_loop_run(ioloop = 0x2001d0e8), line 329 in "ioloop.c" > > (dbx) up > > main(argc = 1, argv = 0x2ff22b50, envp = 0x2ff22b58), line 290 in "main.c" > > (dbx) list > > 290 io_loop_run(ioloop); > > 291 main_deinit(); > > 292 > > 293 io_loop_destroy(&ioloop); > > 294 lib_deinit(); > > 295 > > 296 return 0; > > 297 } > > (dbx) dump > > main(argc = 1, argv = 0x2ff22b50, envp = 0x2ff22b58), line 290 in "main.c" > > (dbx) up > > __start() at 0x100001d8 > > (dbx) list > > no source file > > (dbx) dump > > __start() at 0x100001d8 > > (dbx) cont > > > > execution completed > > (dbx) quit > > $ > > > > -- > ==== > Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources > Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 > sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035 > Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu

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[Dovecot] 1.1beta 10 hang
by Joe Wong 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi Timo, I have installed 1.1 beta 10 today with squat enabled. When I do uid search body "something", the imap will sometimes segmentation fault, or sometime hang. Here is what i found in the log when imap did not hang.. dovecot: Dec 04 17:11:07 Panic: IMAP(joewong99:joew.outblaze.com): file squat-uidlist.c: line 178 (uidlist_write_array): assertion failed: ((uid & ~UID_LIST_MASK_RANGE) >= prev) dovecot: Dec 04 17:11:07 Error: IMAP(joewong99:joew.outblaze.com): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80ca1f0] -> imap [0x80ca0fc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so [0x11b9a9] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so [0x11ba7a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so [0x11bb6b] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so(squat_uidlist_build_add_uid+0x2e2) [0x11c0d2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so [0x11a9cb] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so [0x11acf0] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so(squat_trie_build_more+0x16a) [0x11ae6a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so [0x117b54] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_build_more+0x2e) [0x1125de] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so [0x113f3d] -> imap [0x805d196] -> imap [0x805d518] -> imap(io_loop_handle_timeouts+0x10b) [0x80d0ceb] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x69) [0x80d1509] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80d0bc8] -> imap(main+0x4cc) [0x8066c4c] -> dovecot: Dec 04 17:11:07 Error: IMAP(joewong99:joew.outblaze.com): /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x77df70] -> imap [0x8059571] dovecot: Dec 04 17:11:07 Error: child 32571 (imap) killed with signal 6 --

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[Dovecot] Please solve my query
by bhagwat swarup 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

hi my question is Start a POP3 server on rhel5 with a matching criteria 1) user jack must get mail 2 Allow your network lw.com 3)my133.org domain can not access your server Thanks And Regards Bhagwat Swarup NH India Ltd

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[Dovecot] procmail/formail --> Maildir
by Andre Huebner 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello List, i switched mailformat from mbox to maildir. Now i have a little problem with procmail/formail and headermanipulation of mails. Here an example: 0 * ^From.*gmx.de | (formail -t -I"procmail: gmx.de") >> /var/spool/mail/xxxxxx So, i can add some different headerlines for later evaluation and the result is attached to inbox. Now i have the problem that i don't know name of targetfile, cause it is unique for every mail if maildir is used. I did not found a Option or other workaround to solve this case. I know, it is not a dovecot problem but i hope somebody can give a hint. Could it be a possibility to leave all unchanged? Mails could be transported to /var/spool/mail/xxxxxx and picked up by dovecot if in dovecot.conf the convert-plugin ist always activated? Thanks Andre

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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta10 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta10.tar.gz.sig Changes since beta9: - dotlock_use_excl=yes is now the default. I think this should work in all NFS setups that are in use nowadays. O_EXCL has worked since NFSv3. - fs quota: Added "noenforcing" option - Fixed compiling with non-gcc - Fixed quota plugin crash - Lots of fixes to handling message searches, especially related to non-ASCII searches. And most importantly: It includes the new Squat full text search indexing code. There are a few things left in my TODO for it: - It's currently used only to optimize root level AND searches. So for example SEARCH (OR TEXT hello TEXT world) is still searched the slow way. - Expunged messages are never removed from the indexes. - The index could be updated while messages are being saved, but this isn't done yet. - Indexed substring length is hardcoded to 4 characters. This should be configurable, although I think 4 should work quite nicely. Lucene plugin is probably completely broken now, but it was also in beta9.

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[Dovecot] dovecot process nice value
by Daniel Watts 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting or something going on with my own system configuration somewhere. I know the userdb query can set the nice value but mine (a mysql query) does not... We're having problems with our mail partition being absolutely thrashed and thought over-strong imap processes might be a factor. Many thanks, Daniel

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[Dovecot] De-duplication / Single Instance Storage - WAS: Re: Updated v1.1 and summer plans
by Charles Marcus 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

On 12/2/2007, Timo Sirainen (tss(a)iki.fi) wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:02 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: >> Do you have any idea as to a time frame for when you might be able >> to get to it (Single instance Storage)? Are you thinking post >> v2.0? Even 2.1 or 3.0? > Right now I just want to get v1.1 finished. The main problem with it > is that apparently in some installations it's slower than v1.0 and I > haven't yet figured out why. And I want Squat rewrite to be included > in it too (almost finished! just committed it to hg). > > After v1.1 I'm not sure. I'm more interested in implementing other > features first (like v2.0's config rewrite, replication, etc.), but > once I'm beginning to run out of money I'll start doing pretty much > anything people pay me to do ;) Heh - understood... I'll talk to my boss, but he's - well, to put it politely, its a bit difficult to get money out of him... Actually, I'm looking into some form of file-system level de-duplication, which may negate the need for this... Anyone know of anything available on the cheap/free side? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] mbox File too large error
by Nicolas KOWALSKI 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Hello, I have a rather large (~400MB) INBOX file in mbox format. When using deliver, it complains in the logs: Dec 2 16:47:13 petole deliver(niko): write() failed with mbox file /home/niko/mail/INBOX: File too large I do not see anything related in the configuration. And ulimit shows nothing special: $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited max nice (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) unlimited max rt priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited This is with dovecot 1.0.8, sieve plugin 1.0.2: # dovecot -n # 1.0.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mail/INBOX mbox_write_locks: fcntl auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd What can I do to be able to deliver to large mbox files ? Thanks, -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] 1.0.8 install trouble on Ubuntu dapper (PAM)
by John Gateley 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Hi, I was running the Ubuntu dovecot package until now, and decided to upgrade because of an issue with Thunderbird. I downloaded and compiled 1.0.8, and it's not starting up. The error I'm getting is: Dec 2 15:35:04 jfootoo dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) D I used "./configure" and "./configure --with-pam", both give the same error message. dovecot --build-options gives: uild options: ioloop=poll notify=dnotify ipv6 openssl SQL drivers: Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file static I have a dovecot that I compiled for a different system and it includes "pam" in the Passdb line. I found a page on the web saying I might need the pam-devel package, but that doesn't seem to exist for ubuntu. I saved the output from ./configure, grepped for pam, and got: checking for pam_start in -lpam... no Any ideas? What do I need to get configure to do pam support? Thanks very much j

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[Dovecot] [packages] Debian Etch Packages for v1.0.8
by Brian T Glenn 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 deb http://debian.delink.net/ etch-delink main Packages: dovecot-common, dovecot-imapd, and dovecot-pop3d Repository is signed by the following key. It can be found at hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ pub 1024D/E88EB53D 2007-12-01 Key fingerprint = 842B BC47 E158 4DF1 A385 AA52 EAFD 7923 E88E B53D uid delink.net Internet Services (Debian Signing Key) <postmaster(a)delink.net> sub 2048g/0CAB6F5C 2007-12-01 Thanks, - -- Brian T Glenn http://www.delink.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHU13hFy/L+4MovqIRAnpHAKClw07vODWo1Qwojntx9SUx/W7fQwCgon5Y 7TP6c4J9E9WgtXNJ836EUmc= =SBh8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Updated v1.1 and summer plans
by Charles Marcus 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Timo Sirainen, on 5/21/2007 8:54 AM, said the following: <snip> > Upcoming v1.1 features, more or less implemented in this order: <snip> Hey Timo, I'm loving all of the new functionality - especially the full support for Shared mailboxes and ACLs... but... I don't see any mention of support for SiS (single-instance-storage) as discussed previously on the list, even for upcoming 1.2/2.0 Did this fall through a crack? Or did you decide it was going to be too difficult for the time being? I'd dearly like to get this working, at least for email attachments... Thanks for your consideration, and thanks so much for dovecot! -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] namespaces, shared mailboxes
by Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Hi! I'd like to provide shared mailboxes with maildir that should appear like 'Shared/<mailboxname>' to the clients. Using the namespace configuration below, everything works fine, exept one thing: Mail clients (only tested with Thunderbird) won't allow to put mails directly in 'Shared/mailboxname' (the folder it is greyed out). You currently have to create subfolders and put the mails in those subfolders. Is there any workaround for this problem? -------------------- 8< -------------------- namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } namespace shared { separator = / # hidden = yes prefix = Shared/spamrep/ location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/Shared/spamrep:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/Shared/spamrep:INDEX=~/Mail\ dir/index/Shared/spamrep } -------------------- 8< -------------------- I'm using dovecot 1.0.8. "Server supports folders that contain subfolders and messages" is enabled in Thunderbird's advanced server settings. Thanks in advance, --leo -- e-mail ::: Alexander.Bergolth (at) wu-wien.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: Computer Center | Vienna University of Economics | Austria

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[Dovecot] Tru64 v5.1 with Sia
by J Bacher 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

./configure --with-sia # ./dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll ipv6 openssl SQL drivers: Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file static # ./dovecot --version 1.0.8 # ./dovecot -n # 1.0.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: pop3 listen: *:10100 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd Configuration simplified to determine why authentication is [still] failing. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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[Dovecot] imaptest update
by Timo Sirainen 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

I finally moved imaptest to mercurial repository and added a lot of new tests to it. It now also has its own wiki page: http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest Dovecot v1.1 with dbox or cydir format is the only open source IMAP server that reports no errors with it (haven't tried non-OSS servers). Dovecot with maildir and mbox have some problems with \Recent flag handling. I guess I'll have to figure out why.

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[Dovecot] dovecot sieve confusion
by Bazy 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hi... I use dovecot with postfix. For dovecot's sieve plugin to work, do I need to put in my /etc/postfix/master.cf: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} and postconf -e virtual_transport=dovecot postconf -e dovecot_destination_recipient_limit=1 ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot strange logs
by Guillaume de Lafond 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hello, I have some strange logs entries in my dovecot_info.log (auth_debug=yes & auth_verbose=ye) : dovecot: Nov 27 00:28:09 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(CLIENT_EMAIL,CLIENT_IP): lookup user= domain=??п????? dovecot: Nov 27 00:28:09 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(CLIENT_EMAIL,CLIENT_IP): lookup user=CLIENT_USER domain=CLIENT_DOMAIN dovecot: Nov 27 00:28:09 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(CLIENT_EMAIL,CLIENT_IP): lookup user=CLIENT_USER domain= CLIENT_DOMAIN (replace CLIENT_EMAIL,CLIENT_IP,CLIENT_USER,CLIENT_DOMAIN with real value of course) For each authentication I have the in first line : "lookup user= domain=??п?????" It's working.. but I think that it's not normal :) My dovecot -n : # 1.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: log/dovecot.log info_log_path: log/dovecot_info.log protocols: imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth: no 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(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Mail server login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 96 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 196 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/Volumes/LD1/dovecot_indexes/ %1d/%d/%n mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota 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 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %f pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: INBOX/ inbox: yes hidden: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login apop cram-md5 cache_size: 1024 verbose: yes debug: yes count: 10 passdb: driver: vpopmail args: cache_key=%u dovecot userdb: driver: vpopmail plugin: quota: maildir Regards, -- Guillaume de Lafond Aqua Ray

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[Dovecot] Quick fix for nfs-workarounds.c
by Dean Brooks 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hi, Under Solaris 8, the rmdir() command returns EEXIST instead of ENOTEMPTY if an rmdir() is attempted on a directory with files still in it. Dovecot 1.1beta9 currently gives tons of errors in the logfile as a result of the code not checking for the right error value. The function nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir() in nfs-worksarounds.c probably needs to reflect EEXIST as well as ENOTEMPTY. -- Dean Brooks dean(a)iglou.com

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[Dovecot] imap login messages not logged
by Nikolay Shopik 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

One of my server stop logging such messages when user trying to login. imap-login: Login: user=<username(a)example.com>. I check configuration from another server and it very same. I'm running on debian testing with config below. # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imap ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/new_chained.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/mail.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting_capability: yes mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/store/%u dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: mechanisms: PLAIN CRAM-MD5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/store/%u socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 user: root group: root plugin: sieve: /var/mail/store/%u/sieve

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[Dovecot] locking strategies?
by Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

Any known issues with these locking strategies? (RHEL 4.x default) Dovecot: mbox_locks = fcntl Procmail Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl() We're considering moving to all dotlocking after a recommendation from RedHat, even though we're not using NFS at all. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Received Date vs Date Header
by Jeff Grossman 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

I am trying to figure out why my mail clients are not correctly showing me the received date versus the date header date. I am using Dovecot 1.1B9. Here is a copy of the rawlog from Dovecot when I started up the client. Is Dovecot supposed to be sending the received date and the date header during this conversation? * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2007-11-30 16:48:31 * NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL 3 OK Namespace completed. * LSUB () "." "Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "Deleted Items" * LSUB () "." "Drafts" * LSUB () "." "Ham" * LSUB () "." "INBOX" * LSUB () "." "Keep Messages" * LSUB () "." "Mailing Lists" * LSUB () "." "Sent Items" * LSUB () "." "Spam" * LSUB () "." "Other" * LSUB () "." "Inbox2" * LSUB () "." "Dovecot" * LSUB () "." "MIMEDefang" * LSUB () "." "Beta" * LSUB () "." "Debian" * LSUB () "." "Leafnode" * LSUB () "." "Sendmail" 4 OK Lsub completed. * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" 5 OK List completed. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded $MDNSent Junk NonJu: nk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded $MDNSent Junk NonJunk \*)] Flags permitted. * 19 EXISTS * 2 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 17] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1191346544] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 7608] Predicted next UID 6 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 5) * 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 5707) * 3 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7042) * 4 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7103) * 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7110) * 6 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7183) * 7 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7237) * 8 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7334) * 9 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7353) * 10 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen) UID 7355) * 11 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7364) * 12 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7482) * 13 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7485) * 14 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7496) * 15 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7546) : * 16 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 7555) * 17 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 7605) * 18 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) UID 7606) * 19 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) UID 7607) 7 OK Fetch completed. * 18 FETCH (UID 7606 RFC822.SIZE 4589 FLAGS (\Recent) BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM TO CC SUBJECT DATE MESSAGE-ID PRIORITY X-PRIORITY REFERENCES NEWSGROUPS IN-REPLY-(END) TO CONTENT-TYPE)] {352} Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:24:32 -0800 Subject: x From: x To: x Message-ID: <C375DBB0.416E%x> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" ) * 19 FETCH (UID 7607 RFC822.SIZE 4590 FLAGS (\Recent) BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM TO CC SUBJECT DATE MESSAGE-ID PRIORITY X-PRIORITY REFERENCES NEWSGROUPS IN-REPLY-TO CONTENT-TYPE)] {353} Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:25:23 -0800 Subject: x From: x To: x Message-ID: <C375DBE2.416F%x> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" ) 8 OK Fetch completed. + idling I am using Maildir and the date and time of those files from "ls -l" are "2007-11-30 16:48" and "2007-11-30 16:49". The mail client (Thunderbird) showed the received date/time and date date/time as "2007-11-30 3:24" and "2007-11-30 3:25" Thanks for any help you can offer me. Jeff

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[Dovecot] 1.1.Beta9 deliver problem: Unknown mail storage driver raw
by Velko Ivanov 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

Hello, I'm new to dovecot, trying to configure a Postfix/Dovecot system. Got everything in place - smtp with dovecot SASL and imap working fine, maildir is created, thunderbird logs in successfuly .. but the Dovecot LDA gives me this error on delivery: "Couldn't create internal raw storage: Unknown mail storage driver raw". I tried searching the configuration manual, reference, google and this list's archives, but found no clue. Checked the source, but it will take me some time to figure out what is a storage driver and where is the "raw" one hiding, so if somebody could help, please .. I did it with userdb static initially - uid=dovecot_mail, gid=dovecot_mail, home=/usr/local/storage/mail/%d/%n but after reading, that some passdbs don't work with deliver&static, I moved everything to the db (found out that prefetch isn't working with deliver btw - moans about userdb_ entries not present, while the imap finds them and works happily). It didn't help. # 1.1.beta9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot listen: mail.srv.ivanov-nest.com ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: dbox:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes namespace: type: private inbox: yes hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: dovecot_db passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: dovecot_mail group: wheel

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[Dovecot] last logon time
by Nikolay Shopik 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hi list, How can I detect when user last time logon into their mailbox? For what file I should look and compare change time?

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[Dovecot] deliver+quota assertion
by Andrew Garner 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

When stressing dovecot's delivery agent, I sporadically encountered the following assertion failures and the associated errors. I was trickling in ~50 messages per minute to this mailbox via postal. Nov 30 09:38:41 mail deliver(example(a)example.com): close(/home/vmail/domains//+/example.com/k/example//Maildir/maildirsize) failed: Bad file descriptor Nov 30 09:38:41 mail deliver(example(a)example.com): rename(/home/vmail/domains//+/example.com/k/example//Maildir/maildirsize.lo…, /home/vmail/domains//+/example.com/k/example//Maildir/maildirsize) failed : No such file or directory Nov 30 09:38:41 mail deliver(example(a)example.com): file_dotlock_replace(/home/vmail/domains//+/example.com/k/example//Maildir/… failed: No such file or directory Nov 30 09:38:41 mail deliver(example(a)example.com): Internal quota calculation error Nov 30 09:38:41 mail deliver(example(a)example.com): file index-transaction.c: line 54 (index_transaction_finish_rollback): assertion failed: (t->mail_ref_count == 0) Nov 30 09:38:41 mail deliver(example(a)example.com): Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(i_syslog_fatal_handler+0x2b) [0x80bf0ab] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x80beeba] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x 808f243] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(index_transaction_rollback+0x1a) [0x808f06a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so [0xb7ea2f13] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(deliver_save+0x212) [0x8059412] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(main+0x12cb) [0x805a79b] -> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7ebcea8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x8058611] # dovecot -n # 1.1.beta9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Nationwide Internet Mail Server ready. verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_uid: 89 mail_gid: 89 mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/domains/%h/Maildir mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes lock_method: dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %f pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: login plain cram-md5 digest-md5 username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf 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: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=102400 This is the latest hg sources, somewhat after beta9: $ hg tip changeset: 6877:a5a7d38b6df7 branch: HEAD tag: tip user: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> date: Thu Nov 29 19:38:06 2007 +0200

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[Dovecot] Zimbra benchmarking
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Now that I have a working kvm setup, I thought I'd finally try how Zimbra works. This is mainly some microbenchmarking, so it may not have much to do with actual performance in real life. Setup: - 1GB memory given to kvm (from host's 2GB) - Intel Core 2 6600 (kvm uses only one CPU) - CentOS 5 - 15GB qcow2 image on XFS filesystem - Zimbra 5.0 RC2 RHEL5 x86_64 - Dovecot latest hg, dbox format Both Zimbra and Dovecot were tested running on the same kvm image. All data could be cached in memory, so this didn't really test disk I/O. Dovecot was run with fsync_disable=no. Running with =yes would have made its performance even better. Zimbra features/bugs -------------------- Zimbra's SEARCH command doesn't support substring searching as IMAP requires: 1 search text performance * SEARCH 136 183 227 231 232 233 245 1 OK SEARCH completed 2 search text erformance * SEARCH 2 OK SEARCH completed 3 search text performanc * SEARCH 3 OK SEARCH completed It's possible to search "performanc" in a non-standard way though: 4 search text "performanc*" * SEARCH 136 183 227 231 232 233 245 4 OK SEARCH completed This means that the upcoming Dovecot v1.1 is probably the only IMAP server that supports IMAP-compatible full text search indexes with incremental updates. (Cyrus Squat requires rebuilding the whole index from scratch just for adding one mail, which makes it kind of impractical.) Zimbra doesn't support SORT or THREAD extensions. I had trouble benchmarking more than 5 simultaneous connections in one mailbox. I'm not sure if this is a configurable setting somewhere, or if there's just some bug. The error messages that my imaptest gave looked like Zimbra was buggy, but I didn't look at them too closely. STORE command also seemed to be buggy, giving lots of "STORE failed" errors, even with just one connection. Zimbra uses 500MB of memory just to start up, so it's not exactly for hosting small installations. Login+Logout ------------ Dovecot: ./imaptest - select=0 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Logo 100% 100% 3439 6878 ./imaptest - select=0 secs=10 seed=0 clients=10 Logi Logo 100% 100% 4415 8830 Zimbra: ./imaptest - select=0 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Logo 100% 100% 18032 36064 ./imaptest - select=0 secs=10 seed=0 clients=10 Logi Logo 100% 100% 25519 51056 Looks like Dovecot's imap process creation hurts it a lot compared to Zimbra's thread creation. Luckily IMAP connections are usually long-living, so this shouldn't matter much, except for webmails for which you can use imapproxy in the middle. LIST "" * --------- Dovecot: ./imaptest - select=0 logout=0 list=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi List 100% 100% 1 181411 ./imaptest - select=0 logout=0 list=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=10 Logi List 100% 100% 10 133451 Zimbra: ./imaptest - select=0 logout=0 list=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi List 100% 100% 1 1021 ./imaptest - select=0 logout=0 list=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=10 Logi List 100% 100% 10 972 Yes, Dovecot's LIST is over 100 times faster. STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT) ------------------------------------- 100 messages in INBOX dovecot: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=0 status=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Stat 100% 100% 1 191003 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=0 status=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=10 Logi Stat 100% 100% 10 171171 Zimbra: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=0 status=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Stat 100% 100% 1 3697 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=0 status=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=10 Logi Stat 100% 100% 10 7009 FETCH 1:* (UID FLAGS ENVELOPE INTERNALDATE BODYSTRUCTURE) --------------------------------------------------------- 100 messages in INBOX. dovecot: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Sele Fetc 100% 100% 100% 1 1 2769 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=5 Logi Sele Fetc 100% 100% 100% 5 5 2902 Zimbra: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Sele Fetc 100% 100% 100% 1 1 203 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=5 Logi Sele Fetc 100% 100% 100% 5 5 258 FETCH ? (BODY[]) ---------------- Randomly fetch message body from 100 messages Dovecot: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch2=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Sele Fet2 100% 100% 100% 30% 1 1 51958 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch2=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=5 Logi Sele Fet2 100% 100% 100% 30% 5 5 141397 Zimbra: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch2=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Sele Fet2 100% 100% 100% 30% 1 1 410 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 fetch2=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=5 Logi Sele Fet2 100% 100% 100% 30% 5 5 2291 STORE ? FLAGS.SILENT (random flags and keywords) ------------------------------------------------ Dovecot: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 store=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Sele Stor 100% 100% 100% 1 1 15236 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 store=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=5 Logi Sele Stor 100% 100% 100% 5 5 5533 Zimbra: ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 store=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=1 Logi Sele Stor 100% 100% 100% 1 1 308 ./imaptest - logout=0 select=100 store=100 secs=10 seed=0 clients=5 Logi Sele Stor 100% 100% 100% 5 5 319 Zimbra gave lots of errors: Error: STORE failed: STORE failed APPEND ------ Appends to empty mailbox: Dovecot: 1 client, 5 seconds: 3959 mails 1 client, 5 seconds, fsync_disable=yes: 21889 mails Zimbra: 1 clients, 5 seconds: 222 mails 5 clients, 5 seconds: 322 mails Zimbra is apparently building full text search indexes while appending, so this test doesn't mean much until I can test Dovecot's performance with Squat indexing.

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[Dovecot] squat plugin
by Joe Wong 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hello Timo, I have installed 1.1 beta 8 with fts-squat enabled. I have added the plugin section in dovecot.conf. How can I actually make use of the full text index? Regards, - Joe

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[Dovecot] old mails
by Timo Sirainen 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

I just got a 6 months old mail to this list and wondered for a while why it happened. Looks like the old dovecot.org was rebooted and Postfix went up and started sending queued mails. So just ignore if you got those.

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.1beta9 'make' fails on osx/Tiger
by Jerry Yeager 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:39 PM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:38:19 -0800 > From: snowcrash <schneecrash+dovecot(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.1beta9 'make' fails on osx/Tiger > To: "Jerry Yeager" <jerry(a)scene-naturally.dyndns.org> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: > <70f41ba20711281038q12499454o94a9a221e61c54b2(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > (stuff cut out) > > i'd gather tss would like to know about issues. (it shouldn't be > terribly surprising for a projects' beta release to at least be > _tried_ with _other_ projects' beta releases ...) > > cheers. > > That is usually a good idea, especially if you mention that you are using non standard stuff so that folks who are not aware of that can then get a better understanding of the issues. Or for the elucidation of the folks that are following the list trying to decide what efforts they will have to undertake to make the switch. p.s. The folks at AT&T also recommend that "you" use the newer version of gcc than the older-hacked-to-get-something-for-Tiger version of the Apple Leopard version they (AT&T) are providing -- it is further down the page where they provide links. Jerry

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[Dovecot] autogen.sh fails -> "required file `./config.rpath' not found"
by snowcrash 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

if i run autogen.sh on fresh 1.1.beta9 source, it fails @ ./autogen.sh ... 100%[====================================>] 154,427 115.09K/s 08:45:56 (114.82 KB/s) - `wiki-export.tar.gz' saved [154427/154427] configure.in:16: required file `./config.rpath' not found configure.in:5: installing `./missing' configure.in:5: installing `./install-sh' src/auth/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 per advice, "gettext-related test failures: config.rpath presence" http://www.mail-archive.com/automake-patches@gnu.org/msg00426.html a simple touch config.rpath ./autogen.sh fixes the problem. hth

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[Dovecot] spf record
by Jim Flowers 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Your spf record is broken: dovecot.org. 39942 IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all" -- Jim Flowers <jflowers(a)ezo.net> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.1beta9 'make' fails on osx/Tiger
by snowcrash 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

(Yes, Really .... w/ gcc v4.2.1, like i said in the first place) > Actually, the 1.1 beta v9 builds just fine under Tiger (PPC and > PPC64) if you use the official Apple sanctioned gcc v 4.01 they ship > with both Tiger and Leopard. If you do download and use gcc 4.2.1 from > the GNU folks you might want to pass along the error / bug reports to > them instead of Apple, but I suspect the GNU folks will tell you to > try the current 4.2.2 version or the new 4.3 version. i'm using Apple's gcc 4.2.1: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/gcc_42-5531/ and the v4.2.1 Tiger equiv from the R-project provided at http://r.research.att.com/tools/ both Apple & ATT are _already_ well plugged into both .. er .. Apple & GNU. yes, 4.2.1 is "not distro" ... but it *is* up-n-coming, as evienced by the fact that it *is* offered on the darwinsource page. i'd gather tss would like to know about issues. (it shouldn't be terribly surprising for a projects' beta release to at least be _tried_ with _other_ projects' beta releases ...) cheers.

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.1beta9 'make' fails on osx/Tiger (Not Really)
by Jerry Yeager 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

On Nov 28, 2007, at 10:59 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:49:13 -0800 > From: snowcrash <schneecrash+dovecot(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.1beta9 'make' fails on osx/Tiger, but OK on > osx/Leopard (multiple definitions of symbol _hash_create) > To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> > Cc: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: > <70f41ba20711280749k63a6b099obf09b687e5733422(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> (lots of messages from the digest snipped out) Actually, the 1.1 beta v9 builds just fine under Tiger (PPC and PPC64) if you use the official Apple sanctioned gcc v 4.01 they ship with both Tiger and Leopard. If you do download and use gcc 4.2.1 from the GNU folks you might want to pass along the error / bug reports to them instead of Apple, but I suspect the GNU folks will tell you to try the current 4.2.2 version or the new 4.3 version. Jerry

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[Dovecot] 1.1beta9 'make' fails on osx/Tiger, but OK on osx/Leopard (multiple definitions of symbol _hash_create)
by snowcrash 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

i'm building dovecot 1.1.beta9 on both osx 10.4.11 osx 10.5.1 using Using built-in specs. Target: powerpc-apple-darwin8 Configured with: /Builds/apple/gcc_42-5531/obj/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin8 --program-prefix= --host=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --target=powerpc-apple-darwin8 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5531) on both boxes. configuring as Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local/dovecot File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : kqueue File change notification method ..... : kqueue Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword sql Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file pam checkpassword sql Building with SQL drivers ............:mysql sqlite is OK on both boxes. on Leopard, make completes without error. but, on Tiger, it fails @ make ... make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in master /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/local/ssl/include -L/usr/local/db46/lib -L/usr/local/sqlite/lib -lsqlite3 -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib -liconv -o dovecot auth-process.o askpass.o capabilities-posix.o child-process.o dict-process.o dup2-array.o listener.o log.o login-process.o mail-process.o main.o master-settings.o syslog-util.o ssl-init.o ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib/liblib.a gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/local/ssl/include -o dovecot auth-process.o askpass.o capabilities-posix.o child-process.o dict-process.o dup2-array.o listener.o log.o login-process.o mail-process.o main.o master-settings.o syslog-util.o ssl-init.o -L/usr/local/db46/lib -L/usr/local/sqlite/lib /usr/local/sqlite/lib/libsqlite3.dylib -L/usr/local/lib -lreadline -lncurses -lpthread -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql /usr/local/lib/libiconv.dylib ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib/liblib.a /usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.2.1/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _hash_create /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.2.1/../../../libpthread.dylib(strhash.So) definition of _hash_create ../lib/liblib.a(hash.o) definition of _hash_create in section (__TEXT,__text) /usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.2.1/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _hash_destroy /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.2.1/../../../libpthread.dylib(strhash.So) definition of _hash_destroy ../lib/liblib.a(hash.o) definition of _hash_destroy in section (__TEXT,__text) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 looks like problems with ot at all sure what in Tiger's causing this ... hints/suggestions? thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] imap process killed with signal 11
by Daniel 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:49:01 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 13:39 +0000, Daniel wrote: > > Using the latest cvs from HEAD, I'm experiencing problems after > > sending a message and the client is trying upload the message to the > > appropriate (Sent/Queue) folder. I get only one error in > > dovecot.log: dovecot: Nov 25 14:21:31 Error: child 19554 (imap) > > killed with signal 11 > > Could you get gdb backtrace from this crash? Otherwise I can't really > do anything about it. See http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html > Sure: (gdb) bt full #0 0x1c04af71 in mail_cache_field_exists () No symbol table info available. #1 0x1c04cb4c in mail_cache_field_can_add () No symbol table info available. #2 0x1c041b9d in index_mail_cache_add_idx () No symbol table info available. #3 0x1c041c5c in index_mail_cache_add_idx () No symbol table info available. #4 0x1c04259d in index_mail_close () No symbol table info available. #5 0x1c04298a in index_mail_free () No symbol table info available. #6 0x1c0629cc in mail_free () No symbol table info available. #7 0x035b06ac in quota_mailbox_transaction_commit (ctx=0x8acfa700, uid_validity_r=0xcfbf928c, first_saved_uid_r=0xcfbf9290, last_saved_uid_r=0xcfbf9294) at quota-storage.c:100 qbox = (struct quota_mailbox *) 0x7e27b1e0 qt = (struct quota_transaction_context *) 0x87187bc0 #8 0x1c064810 in mailbox_transaction_commit_get_uids () No symbol table info available. #9 0x1c010a04 in __register_frame_info () No symbol table info available. #10 0x1c010c1c in __register_frame_info () No symbol table info available. #11 0x1c0103e3 in __register_frame_info () No symbol table info available. #12 0x1c078858 in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #13 0x1c077e75 in io_loop_run () No symbol table info available. #14 0x1c01c158 in main () No symbol table info available. Is this useful? Daniel

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[Dovecot] How to find an invalid configuration in dovecot.conf
by Laurent PELLISSIER 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hi, I'm trying to test Dovecot as an IMAP ans POP3 server but I ran into a fatal problem. On the client side (telnet) I'm trying very basic IMAP commands : $ telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN lavande secret 1 OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. The login succeeds but the connection hangs ! On the server side it complains that the configuration file dovecot.conf is invalid (it was copied from dovecot-example.conf) but it never tells what line number is incorrect. dovecot -a or dovecot -n doesn't complain about a syntax error or something. It works for POP3 for the same user/pass. # /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot.conf dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:42 Info: Dovecot v1.0.8 starting up dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<lavande>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 4369 (read from /opt/dovecot-1.0.8/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: child 4380 (imap) returned error 89 Best regards, -- Laurent PELLISSIER @ Ecole des Mines d'Alès

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[Dovecot] quick question about fs quota overhead in plugin
by Adam McDougall 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Last night I enabled imap_quota so dovecot could report usage reported by disk quota. I don't intend to actually use the quota plugin to place any limits anytime soon though. How much overhead does this add to normal operations that allocate disk space? Ideally I'd like a situation where the only overhead is incurred when the user uses the mail client to specifically check their usage. Is that possible, and/or is there a better way to do this? If it does cause general overhead on the NFS filer, I could just accept it until/unless I feel it becomes a burden I cannot bear. mail_plugins = acl fts fts_squat quota imap_quota ... quota = fs ...

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[Dovecot] v1.0.8 released
by Timo Sirainen 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.8.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.8.tar.gz.sig + Authentication: Added "password_noscheme" field that can be used instead of "password". "password" treats "{prefix}" as a password scheme while "password_noscheme" treats it as part of the password itself. So "password_noscheme" should be used if you're storing passwords as plaintext. Non-plaintext passwords never begin with "{", so this isn't a problem with them. - IMAP: Partial body fetching was sometimes non-optimal, causing the entire message to be read for every FETCH command. - deliver failed to save the message when envelope sender address contained spaces. - Maildir++ quota: We could have randomly recalculated quota when it wasn't necessary. - Login process could have crashed after logging in if client sent data before "OK Logged in" reply was sent (i.e. before master had replied that login succeeded). - Don't assert-crash when reading dovecot.index.logs generated by Dovecot v1.1. - Authentication: Don't assert-crash if password beings with "{" but doesn't contain "}". - Authentication cache didn't work when using settings that changed the username (e.g. auth_username_format).

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[Dovecot] IMAP --> Creating Folders --> trailing slash
by Andre Hübner 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hello List, i use Dovecot 1.0.7 for pop and imap on Suse Linux 10.1. I need a little help in understanding something. If i want to create a folder with outlook express or thunderbird which can also create subfolders, then i have to create these folders with a trailing slash. folders created with trailing slash are in filesystem created als real folders, "normal" folders are created as file. Is it possible to change this behavior? I want to create a folders just by typing a name without trailing slash. It should be possible to store messages in this folder or create subfolders. Is there any workaround to achieve this goal? Thank you Andre

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[Dovecot] little submissions feature request
by Netskin | Corin Langosch 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hi! I'm using dovecot for a while now and really like it. Actually dovecot 1.5 on Debian AMD64. Now I have to use a cifs mounted maildir directory and found it to be quite slow, though I already tuned it a lot. The only way to get it fast was to put INDEX and CONTROL files on the local disc and so outside of the maildirs. Performance is great but the problem is with submissions to maildirs. When a CONTROL directive is given, dovecot writes the submissions file to this directory too. Now as I have two dovecots in a loadbalancer my users have to do their modifications to their subscriptions always twice (for each server in the loadbalancer). I now modified dovecot on my own to put the submissions file into the Maildir, everything else is unchanged. This works just great and as desired. Anything I missed in my setup, locking issues, ...? Otherwise it may worth adding a switch for this? A directive like INDEX, CONTROL... :SUBMISSSIONS=path... Regards, Corin

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[Dovecot] 1.1.beta8 crashes with segfault when SIGHUP
by arvids 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hello, dovecot crashes when it receives -HUP signal. It happens always if there was some activity - for example, if I start dovecot, check any account through POP3 and then send -HUP to dovecot process, it crashes with the following log entry: segfault at 00000008 eip 0804d3fb esp bfdd3860 error 4 If there were no activity at all since starting, it does not crash. my dovecot -n output: # 1.1.beta8: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ syslog_facility: local0 protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Server. login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 5 login_max_processes_count: 32 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 95 first_valid_gid: 95 mail_uid: 95 mail_gid: 95 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_enable_last: yes pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop cache_size: 4096 cache_ttl: 28800 cache_negative_ttl: 60 user: doveauth verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:::proxy:/var/run/dovecot/dict-server:quotadict dict: quotadict: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql-dict-quota.conf Regards, Arvids

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[Dovecot] 1.1.beta9 deliver crashes with segfault
by arvids 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hello, after upgrade from beta8 to beta9 deliver process crashes with segfault. Deleting old maildirs does not help. Here is backtrace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0808e36d in mail_cache_field_get_decision (cache=0x8114da0, field_idx=128) at mail-cache-lookup.c:301 301 i_assert(field_idx < cache->fields_count); (gdb) bt #0 0x0808e36d in mail_cache_field_get_decision (cache=0x8114da0, field_idx=128) at mail-cache-lookup.c:301 #1 0x0808f351 in mail_cache_field_can_add (ctx=0x810ca58, seq=1, field_idx=4) at mail-cache-transaction.c:997 #2 0x0808351f in index_mail_want_cache (mail=0x810ce00, field=<value optimized out>) at index-mail.c:597 #3 0x08084046 in index_mail_cache_sizes (mail=0x810ce00) at index-mail.c:618 #4 0x080845a7 in index_mail_close (_mail=0x810ce00) at index-mail.c:971 #5 0x0808510e in index_mail_free (_mail=0x810ce00) at index-mail.c:1166 #6 0x080a8e20 in mail_free (mail=0x810cdcc) at mail.c:18 #7 0xb7e3dd3c in quota_mailbox_transaction_commit (ctx=0x810c6f8, uid_validity_r=0xbfedf444, first_saved_uid_r=0xbfedf444, last_saved_uid_r=0xbfedf444) at quota-storage.c:100 #8 0x080aa525 in mailbox_transaction_commit (t=0xbfedf484) at mail-storage.c:661 #9 0x08059304 in deliver_save (namespaces=0x80f1210, storage_r=0xbfedf558, mailbox=0x80d6918 "INBOX", mail=0x80f8260, flags=0, keywords=0x0) at deliver.c:146 #10 0x0805a6cd in main (argc=1301916, argv=0xbfedf614) at deliver.c:898 my dovecot -n output: # 1.1.beta9: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ syslog_facility: local0 protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Server. login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 5 login_max_processes_count: 32 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 95 first_valid_gid: 95 mail_uid: 95 mail_gid: 95 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_enable_last: yes pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop cache_size: 1024 cache_ttl: 600 cache_negative_ttl: 60 user: doveauth verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:::proxy:/var/run/dovecot/dict-server:quotadict dict: quotadict: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql-dict-quota.conf Regards, Arvids

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[Dovecot] Can't login from Mac OS X Mail.app
by Mike McGonagle 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hello all, I have been working on getting this machine -- Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. —Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), musician

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[Dovecot] Embracing .99
by Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

We're stuck on RHEL 4.x, so we're currently working on a plan to live in harmony with .99 for another year or so. With that said, the plan is below. Let me know if you have any other recommendations. [ ]Convert to high-performance mode vice high-security to reduce overall resource usage. [ ]Implement iptables throttling for new connections to prevent denials of service. [ ]Covert from mbox to maildir to help reduce the likelihood of corruption that lead to mailbox outages. As our overall individual mailbox usage is low, maildir seems to be a good option as mbox corruption has severely impacted a few of our high-profile applications. However, does anyone know of a sane method to use maildir on RHEL 4.x without switching over to Postfix? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Various uidlist and index errors with 1.1 on NFS
by Adam McDougall 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Two nights ago I took a leap and extended my testing of dovecot 1.1 by replacing 1.0 for the approx 15 users I had on 1.0. At that time I also for the first time tried dovecot 1.1 in a load balanced 2 server configuration with indexes on NFS. I was hoping I did this right, using the mail_nfs params and 1.1 so fchown etc would flush the access cache, but I am getting a number of messages and errors that indicate things aren't happy. Attaching error logs. Some of the errors were caused by me running multiple mail clients including mutt, Thunderbird, Outlook Express, other users may be using one or more copies of thunderbird, or possibly other clients. Most commonly thunderbird. Any help or advice would be appreciated. My goal is to have shared indexes between servers since I will eventually have 4. I'd prefer to avoid maintaining some kind of user->server preference mapping in a proxy (haven't looked into it yet). Thanks. # 1.1.beta6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/mail.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/mail.pem 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_extra_groups: postlocal mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_plugins: acl mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ hidden: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Mail/ hidden: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: #shared/decs/ location: maildir:/egr/mail/shared/decs:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/control/decs:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/indexes/decs list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: system_user= socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=10

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[Dovecot] Fwd: Re: Fwd: dovecot bug report (64 bit file offsets)
by markevich＠inbox.lv 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Yes, the problem is the compatibility with the mysql library but I stull can't figure out how this might affect reading/writing. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- No: markevich(a)inbox.lv Kam: Marcus Rueckert <darix(a)opensu.se> Atbildt: markevich(a)inbox.lv Datums: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:15:29 +0200 Temats: Re: [Dovecot] Fwd: dovecot bug report (64 bit file offsets) I agree that it’s kind strange behavior. Also I’ve googled that exactly the same errors (unexpected eof found … on file ‘UNOPENED’) were related to mysql. But how mysql compile options might affect configuration file parsing and read/write operations? (indexes for example) Does any one have any idea why this might happen? “any slight change to the main dovecot.conf file can prevent dovecot from starting (segfault with "Unexpected eof found when reading file 'UNOPENED' (Errcode: 0)" message), whereas i386 packages work somewhat better.” http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-April/012340.html Regards, Andris Quoting Marcus Rueckert : which is funny actually as on opensuse (10.1 -> 10.3 -> factory) has no problem with dovecot running on x86_64. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- Tavs bezmaksas pasts Inbox.lv Links: ------ [1] mailto:darix@opensu.se ---------- End of forwarded message ---------- -- Tavs bezmaksas pasts Inbox.lv

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[Dovecot] dovecot imap hangs
by russ 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

All, I recently did a fresh install/setup on centos 5 to replace my older courier-imap and all seemed to go well until today I started to notice that it simply hangs. I use thunderbird and squirrel mail and after a while it seems like I"m simply rejected. I'm almost guessing that it has to do with the session timing out and then dovecot is unwilling or unable to renew the session. I can't login and there is little or no information in the logs. I've set up a cron job to restart dovecot every 5 minutes to deal with this for now. I'm new to dovecot, what sort of info should I send to you guys? I'm using centos 5, qmail-ldap and Maildir for my mail format. OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.27 dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 my /etc/dovecot.conf =================== mail_location = maildir:%h namespace private { prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } mail_debug = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } } =================== my dovecot-ldap.conf =================== # This file is opened as root, so it should be owned by root and mode 0600. # # NOTE: If you're not using authentication binds, you'll need to give # dovecot-auth read access to userPassword field in the LDAP server. # With OpenLDAP this is done by modifying /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. There should # already be something like this: # access to attribute=userPassword # by dn="<dovecot's dn>" read # add this # by anonymous auth # by self write # by * none # Space separated list of LDAP hosts to use. host:port is allowed too. hosts =127.0.0.1:389 # LDAP URIs to use. You can use this instead of hosts list. Note that this # setting isn't supported by all LDAP libraries. #uris = # Distinguished Name - the username used to login to the LDAP server #dn = dn=cn=Manager,dc=cttechhosting,dc=net dnpass=secret # Password for LDAP server #dnpass = # Use SASL binding instead of the simple binding. Note that this changes # ldap_version automatically to be 3 if it's lower. Also note that SASL binds # and auth_bind=yes don't work together. #sasl_bind = no # SASL mechanism name to use. #sasl_mech = # SASL realm to use. #sasl_realm = # SASL authorization ID, ie. the dnpass is for this "master user", but the # dn is still the logged in user. Normally you want to keep this empty. #sasl_authz_id = # Use authentication binding for verifying password's validity. This works by # logging into LDAP server using the username and password given by client. # The pass_filter is used to find the DN for the user. Note that the pass_attrs # is still used, only the password field is ignored in it. Before doing any # search, the binding is switched back to the default DN. auth_bind = yes # If authentication binding is used, you can save one LDAP request per login # if users' DN can be specified with a common template. The template can use # the standard %variables (see user_filter). Note that you can't # use any pass_attrs if you use this setting. # # If you use this setting, it's a good idea to use a different # dovecot-ldap.conf for userdb (it can even be a symlink, just as long as the # filename is different in userdb's args). That way one connection is used only # for LDAP binds and another connection is used for user lookups. Otherwise # the binding is changed to the default DN before each user lookup. # # For example: # auth_bind_userdn = cn=%u,ou=people,o=org # auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=accounts,dc=cttechhosting,dc=net # LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3. #ldap_version = 2 ldap_version=3 # LDAP base. %variables can be used here. base = ou=accounts,dc=cttechhosting,dc=net # Dereference: never, searching, finding, always #deref = never # Search scope: base, onelevel, subtree #scope = subtree # User attributes are given in LDAP-name=dovecot-internal-name list. The # internal names are: # uid - System UID # gid - System GID # home - Home directory # mail - Mail location # # There are also other special fields which can be returned, see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,qmailUID=uid,qmailGID=gid,mailMessageStore=mail # Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used (see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables for full list): # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(uid=%u)) # Password checking attributes: # user: Virtual user name (user@domain), if you wish to change the # user-given username to something else # password: Password, may optionally start with {type}, eg. {crypt} # There are also other special fields which can be returned, see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password # If you wish to avoid two LDAP lookups (passdb + userdb), you can use # userdb prefetch instead of userdb ldap in dovecot.conf. In that case you'll # also have to include user_attrs in pass_attrs field prefixed with "userdb_" # string. For example: #pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,qmailUID=userdb_uid,qmailGID=userdb_gid # Filter for password lookups pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(uid=%u)) # Default password scheme. "{scheme}" before password overrides this. # List of supported schemes is in: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication default_pass_scheme = LDAP-SHA # You can use same UID and GID for all user accounts if you really want to. # If the UID/GID is still found from LDAP reply, it overrides these values. #user_global_uid = ========================= #user_global_gid = ===================

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