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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1 + dovecot-sieve-1.1 deliver backtraces
by Sergey 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hi, I am trying dovecot-1.1 with dovecot-sieve-1.1. First, dovecot -n do not report about deliver settings. They are: --- protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)parkheights.dyndns.org hostname = parkheights.dyndns.org mail_plugins = cmusieve mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot11/auth-master } --- Then, $ sudo /usr/sbin/dovecot11 -n # 1.1.alpha1: /etc/dovecot11/dovecot11.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot11/ log_path: /tmp/dovecot11.log info_log_path: /tmp/dovecot11.debug protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/parkheights.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/parkheights.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot11/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/%n/.imap mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/pop3 auth default: debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=1927 gid=1927 home=/var/spool/imap/%n userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot11/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail --- Couple of backtraces from /tmp/dovecot11.log are here. I will try to attach them as a textfile to this message, so that lines will not be wrapped, but I'm not sure that attachements are not stripped. So, please excuse me for duplication in this case. --- dovecot: Jul 25 01:05:19 Error: IMAP(seriv): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.community-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted cach ed message_part data (physical_pos less than expected) deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Panic: seq = 1587, rec->uid = 0, first_new_seq = 1587, records = 1586 deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46e045] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46dd2c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deli ver [0x44de1e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x44e687] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_finish_commit+0x28) [0x444488] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/de liver [0x41f53f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_commit+0x38) [0x4442f8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(mailbox_transaction_commit+0x11) [0x45f221 ] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(deliver_save+0x107) [0x414267] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab20987b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot1 1/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute_bytecode+0x6b8) [0x2aaaab219dc8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(cmu_sieve_run+0x30 b) [0x2aaaab20a35b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab208806] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(main+0xc4e) [0x41505e] -> /lib64/li bc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2aaaaaee5c14] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x413739] deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Panic: seq = 1587, rec->uid = 0, first_new_seq = 1587, records = 1586 deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46e045] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46dd2c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deli ver [0x44de1e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x44e687] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_finish_commit+0x28) [0x444488] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/de liver [0x41f53f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_commit+0x38) [0x4442f8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(mailbox_transaction_commit+0x11) [0x45f221 ] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(deliver_save+0x107) [0x414267] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab20987b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot1 1/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute_bytecode+0x6b8) [0x2aaaab219dc8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(cmu_sieve_run+0x30 b) [0x2aaaab20a35b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab208806] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(main+0xc4e) [0x41505e] -> /lib64/li bc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2aaaaaee5c14] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x413739] dovecot: Jul 25 06:52:21 Error: IMAP(seriv): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.sisyphus-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted cache d message_part data (physical_pos less than expected) --- -- With best regards, Sergey. dovecot: Jul 25 01:05:19 Error: IMAP(seriv): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.community-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted cach ed message_part data (physical_pos less than expected) deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Panic: seq = 1587, rec->uid = 0, first_new_seq = 1587, records = 1586 deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46e045] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46dd2c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deli ver [0x44de1e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x44e687] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_finish_commit+0x28) [0x444488] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/de liver [0x41f53f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_commit+0x38) [0x4442f8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(mailbox_transaction_commit+0x11) [0x45f221 ] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(deliver_save+0x107) [0x414267] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab20987b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot1 1/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute_bytecode+0x6b8) [0x2aaaab219dc8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(cmu_sieve_run+0x30 b) [0x2aaaab20a35b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab208806] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(main+0xc4e) [0x41505e] -> /lib64/li bc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2aaaaaee5c14] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x413739] deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Panic: seq = 1587, rec->uid = 0, first_new_seq = 1587, records = 1586 deliver(seriv): Jul 25 04:17:26 Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46e045] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x46dd2c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deli ver [0x44de1e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x44e687] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_finish_commit+0x28) [0x444488] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/de liver [0x41f53f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(index_transaction_commit+0x38) [0x4442f8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(mailbox_transaction_commit+0x11) [0x45f221 ] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(deliver_save+0x107) [0x414267] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab20987b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot1 1/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute_bytecode+0x6b8) [0x2aaaab219dc8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(cmu_sieve_run+0x30 b) [0x2aaaab20a35b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2aaaab208806] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver(main+0xc4e) [0x41505e] -> /lib64/li bc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2aaaaaee5c14] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot11/deliver [0x413739] dovecot: Jul 25 06:52:21 Error: IMAP(seriv): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.sisyphus-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted cache d message_part data (physical_pos less than expected)

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[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha3 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha3.tar.gz.sig All kinds of fixes and API changes. Previous alphas had some problems with index handling, now I didn't get any errors after almost 24h of stress testing. As a new feature userdb passwd now supports overriding some fields with templates. http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Passwd

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[Dovecot] logging dovecot-sieve vacation responses
by pod 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

I attach a patch that adds some informational logging for the vacation outcome in a similar style as the 'notify', 'redirect' and 'reject' cases. I considered adding logging for the not-willing-to-respond case since I think that would greatly assist testing/debugging vacation responses, but couldn't see where to put it that wasn't in the CMU code.

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[Dovecot] plain authentication
by Roger D. Vargas 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

After upgrading my server I have found that Im not able to use plain auth for clients conecting from outside server. localhost clients (pine, webmail) works fine, but if I use Thunderbird I got an error saying that server requires TLS or SSL. But if I enable TLS or SSL I got more errors. I have tried sevral combinations, but havent found a working one. Here is my config, can somebody see what Im doing wrong? # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u 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/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd -- Roger D. Vargas http://dsgp.blogspot.com

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[Dovecot] "pipe" plugin
by Nicolas Boullis 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi, Long ago (more than 2 month ago), I told about a "pipe" plugin I had written to perform some spam/ham learning (see the attached message). I'm now proud to say that I can make it available for use by anyone. You can get it from http://nicolas.boullis.free.fr/pipe.tar.gz Note that this is a temporary location. If someone had a good place to host it, feel free to do (and tell). I think it would be great if the feature could be merged into dovecot. I don't care whether my plugin is used or a rewrite is performed... Cheers, Nicolas

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[Dovecot] Inbox re-initialized
by Joshua, C.S. Chen 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi folks, I just replaced my mail server's UW-imap with dovecot yesterday. I use the following folder setting default_mail_env = mbox:/asiaa/home/%u/:/asiaa/home/%u/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/asiaa/home/%u/mail/dovecot_indexes This is a Scientific linux 4.2 with dovecot 0.99.11-2 . Now today the server loading is highly reduced because of the pop3 session impact is low. But users have the following problems: For outlook express users, when they come in the office, the first time they launch outlook express, they found that the previous Inbox is re-transmitted. So they got double the number of all past e-mails (they setup OE setting to keep a copy on the server). And some users also use pine. After the pine session, they get another whole copy of the past e-mails (so some users got 3X or even 4X the past e-mails). Am I missing something for the dovecot.conf setting, here is the entire configurations: Thanks in advance protocols = pop3 pop3s imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:/asiaa/home/%u/:/asiaa/home/%u/mail/:INBOX=/var/m ail/%u:INDEX=/asiaa/home/%u/mail/dovecot_indexes mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root Cheers Joshua

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[Dovecot] using complete email address as username
by WJCarpenter 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

I've been poking around the dovecot wiki, and this idea looks plausible. I'm just double-checking with the assembled experts to see if there is some "gotcha" that will happen to me down the road. I have in mind a deployment of dovecot which will use serve several unrelated domains. My plan is to use the complete email address of the users as the unique userid. So, for example, a user with email address <foo(a)example.COM> is unrelated to a user with email address <foo(a)example.NET>. The "home" directories of such users will look something like: /some/path/foo(a)example.com/ /some/path/foo(a)example.net/ I do also plan to use ACLs for some things, so there could be ACL entries of the form: user:foo@example.com ... I will probably be using the quota plugin for individual users right away and group quotas later when that's officially available. So, is all this likely to work or will it collapse in a miasma of unmet expectations? Thanks in advance for any comments!

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[Dovecot] Deleting deleted eMails
by Michael Weisgerber 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hello 2gether, I am using Dovecot 1.0.rc15 together with Outlook (I apologize) via IMAPS. Now I discovered, that all the old eMails, I marked for deleting, are still there, even the veeery old ones. Dovecot is marking the eMails (I am using maildir configuration) files with an "ST" extension. Is there any switch to turn on garbage collection and maybe a screw to tune the duration until deletion? Thanks for your help! Michael Weisgerber

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[Dovecot] Dovecot shared mailbox folder problem
by Steffen Kaiser 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've set up a namespace to share some mailboxes. When I try to select them, I get an internal error: Client-server chat: * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login dvtest2 x 1 OK Logged in. 2 list "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "test.test2" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "Shared" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Shared.testAccess" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Shared.testNOaccess" 2 OK List completed. 3 select "Shared.testAccess" 3 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-07-04 16:45:31] dovecot: Jul 04 16:45:31 Error: IMAP(dvtest2) [3512]: stat(/mnt/mailcache/shared/.testAccess/cur) failed: Permission denied # l /mnt/mailcache/shared/.testAccess -n total 24 drwxrws--- 5 31045 30005 4096 2007-07-04 15:53 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 0 0 4096 2007-07-04 16:08 ../ drwxrwsr-x 2 31045 30005 4096 2007-06-21 12:19 cur/ - -rw-r--r-- 1 31045 30005 17 2007-07-04 15:38 dovecot-acl - -rw-rw---- 1 31045 30005 0 2007-07-04 15:53 dovecot-shared drwxrws--- 2 31045 30005 4096 2007-06-21 13:57 new/ drwxrws--- 2 31045 30005 4096 2007-06-21 13:57 tmp/ I added chmod o+rx for testing purpose, just in case. stracing the situation results in: gettimeofday({1183560101, 339756}, {4294967176, 0}) = 0 read(0, "3 select \"Shared.testAccess\"\r\n", 3978) = 30 setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [1], 4) = 0 stat64("/mnt/mailcache/shared/.testAccess", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0770, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("/mnt/mailcache/shared/.testAccess/cur", 0xbf8cb470) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, "\1Estat(/mnt/mailcache/shared/.te"..., 72) = 72 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 write(1, "3 NO Internal error occurred. Re"..., 95) = 95 setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [0], 4) = 0 gettimeofday({1183560101, 341458}, NULL) = 0 What do I wrong? # 1.0.1: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ca.crt ssl_cert_file(default): /etc/ssl/certs/imap.pem ssl_cert_file(imap): /etc/ssl/certs/imap.pem ssl_cert_file(pop3): /etc/ssl/certs/pop3.pem ssl_key_file(default): /etc/ssl/private/imap.key ssl_key_file(imap): /etc/ssl/private/imap.key ssl_key_file(pop3): /etc/ssl/private/pop3.key disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_log_format_elements: %p: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 mail_location: maildir:%h/MailDir:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/%i/control:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/%i/index mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes umask: 7 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.1/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.1/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.1/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.1/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_log zlib acl mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_log zlib acl mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_log mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u) [%p]: mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %u pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . inbox: yes hidden: yes namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: Shared. location: /mnt/mailcache/shared:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/%i/sek/control:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/%i/sek/index auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 10 username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890 verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.1/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.1/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 group: mail plugin: quota: fs Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRouzwS9SORjhbDpvAQLJwgf+NJ8bROXIRfoAjQy+eunNOtM+VoQB0I0A 6EUBG0XfTlgJ1hn63FxpQZPmKBMfLEl013DQQzm9Dw5GezrbgI815M+mZrP6BzYB 95ao1lCTo1hlyVGThG6LgE9JJS8BvE5ASaJOu4XD9u+d2LdV8I+MkcMC9o57XBQt nUV0RrNbxcQpuDq1Qpjf0tu9t0HCRoMzHD0p7cOHteSHiGvvrMeFD0JG7Ida7grQ Uzjbuw92qSNinwTE/89pVr3xrgJGmxdy7ix/y4UBeUx8I9YXOHheB7SOM3cQ6q6J KXKS89Fh9ZWZDsgQwmqaOfAhVgLQjyeAwyA6jqfNzg/Rx0J44m905w== =f+1y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Monitorize concurrent sessions
by Jordi Espasa Clofent 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Hi all, ¿Is there some way/method to monitorize and see what users are working at same time? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] dovecot: child 1690 (auth-worker) killed with signal 11
by Thomas Zajic 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Hi there, I've been seeing this for quite a while now, but only today finally got off my lazy you-know-what and did a backtrace. Here's the requested info as per http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html: * Dovecot version [root@airframe]:~# dovecot --version 1.0.3 * Operating system or Linux distribution name Slackware 10.2, both kernel 2.6.21.3 and dovecot self-compiled * CPU architecture (x86 or something else?) x86 (AMD Athlon XP 3200+) * Filesystem you used (especially if you use NFS or not) ext3, local (no NFS) * Some kind of description of what you were doing and with what IMAP client. Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (also happened with earlier versions) mail-notification-4.1 (" " " " " ) * If the problem can be reproduced, it helps a lot if you can tell how. Happens in almost regular intervals, not sure when exactly though. Usually when doing something in TB again (deleting or moving mails) after it has been sitting idling for a while. From the log files going back to July 22nd: [root@airframe]:~# grep "dovecot: child .* (auth-worker) killed with signal 11" /var/log/maillog* | wc -l 258 TB is configured to use TLS and secure authentication, use IDLE, and 5 cached server connections. Mail Notification is configured to use TLS, and to autodetect both the authentication mechanism and IDLE availability. * Dovecot configuration with dovecot -n [root@airframe]:~# dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting_capability: yes verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=/home/%u/Maildir/.INBOX mail_debug: yes fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 cram-md5 debug: yes passdb: driver: shadow args: blocking=yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-passwd userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes * Backtrace [root@airframe]:~# gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth /usr/local/stow/dovecot-data/var/run/dovecot/core GNU gdb 6.3 [...] Core was generated by `dovecot-auth -w'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [...] (gdb) bt full #0 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x08056954 in auth_worker_handle_passl (client=0x8089e18, id=3, args=0x808a082 "user=zlatko-mail\tservice=IMAP\tlip=192.168.1.3\trip=192.168.1.1\tsecured=1") at auth-worker-client.c:242 auth_request = (struct auth_request *) 0x808a3f0 credentials_str = 0x2 <Address 0x2 out of bounds> #2 0x08056c15 in auth_worker_handle_line (client=0x8089e18, line=0x808a078 "PASSL\t1\t2\tuser=zlatko-mail\tservice=IMAP\tlip=192.168.1.3\trip=192.168.1.1\tsecured=1") at auth-worker-client.c:326 id = 3 #3 0x08056ca7 in auth_worker_input (context=0x8085ac8) at auth-worker-client.c:359 client = (struct auth_worker_client *) 0x8089e18 line = 0x808a076 "3\tPASSL\t1\t2\tuser=zlatko-mail\tservice=IMAP\tlip=192.168.1.3\trip=192.168.1.1\tsecured=1" ret = 118 #4 0x0806b841 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80851a8) at ioloop-poll.c:199 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x80851d0 pollfd = (struct pollfd *) 0x80851f0 tv = {tv_sec = 1, tv_usec = 999620} io = (struct io *) 0x8089f88 t_id = 2 msecs = 134765256 ret = 0 call = true #5 0x0806ae89 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80851a8) at ioloop.c:329 No locals. #6 0x0805a04b in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfa36e98) at main.c:321 foreground = false (gdb) Please let me know if you need any additional info (log snippets, etc.). Thanks, Thomas -- =-------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <zlatko(a)gmx.at> Linux-2.6.21 & Thunderbird-2.0 - - "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) - =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=

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[Dovecot] Version 1.1 Alpha 2 Various Stuff
by Jerry Yeager 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Some preamble information… OS X 10.4.10 (all updates) Power Mac Dual G5, 2.0 Postfix with Dovecot SASL, Dovecot LDA, Dovecot imaps (openssl) Mail clients Apple Mail v 2.1 SquirrelMail v 1.4.10a Thunderbird v 2.0.0.6 Mulberry v 4.06 For various versions of Dovecot, from 0.9m up through 1.0.3 things went well, no memorable big problems, with one exception: Mulberry v 4.0.8 would/will not work; i.e. it refuse(d) to connect saying it could not start SSL to begin the connection. Dropped back to version 4.0.6. I switched to version 1.1 alpha 2 (compile and configuration information is attached at the end of this message) 1) Started up Apple mail. Mail boxes disappeared in Apple Mail's list, except for the main Inbox mail box. Fixed by setting mailbox_list_index_disable = yes in the Dovecot.conf file, restarted both Dovecot and Mail, all the mailboxes reappeared and worked correctly. 2) Started up Squirrel Mail using several different browsers. No problems. 3) Started up Thunderbird. No problems. 4) Started up Mulberry. It partially connected, but stopped with the error saying that it had hit the limit for maximum connections. Mail logs show: dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number of connections exceeded: user=<username>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.50, TLS I tried increasing the various limits in the Dovecot.conf file up through a maximum limit of 2048 connections, to no avail. Mulberry will initially connect to several of the mailboxes, but will stop without getting all of them and will throw up the 'over the connection limit' error and will then show you a dialog box that asks you to log-in. Attempting to doing so returns a fatal error 54. I have not tried Mulberry's version 4.0.8. 5) Mail logs had this message suddenly begin appearing: auth-worker(default): pam(username,192.168.1.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Fixed by completely commenting PAM authentication section out; It was: passdb pam { # [blocking=yes] [session=yes] [setcred=yes] # [cache_key=<key>] [<service name>] # ... essentially a placeholder section, since everything inside is commented out # # } now is: #passdb pam { # # ... even the outer block is commented out # #} The error has now disappeared from the logs. Dovecot was build using: CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/openssl LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -R/ usr/local/lib' \ ./configure \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local Dovecot.conf: # 1.1.alpha2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imaps ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_parameters_regenerate: 24 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: Dovecot login_greeting: Hello, Dovecot is ready. valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail/vmail/ mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/spool/vmail/% d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mailbox_list_index_disable: yes lock_method: flock imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/users socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: virtual group: virtual

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[Dovecot] Crash with 1.1alpha2 when lazy_expunge is enabled?
by Rich at Whidbey Telecom 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

I'm seeing a crash in 1.1alpha2 when trying to expunge a folder when "lazy_expunge" is enabled: namespace private { separator = . prefix = .EXPUNGED/ location = maildir:/mailstore/%u/Expunged hidden = yes } ... lazy_expunge = .EXPUNGED/ .EXPUNGED/ .EXPUNGED/ Commenting out "lazy_expunge" prevents the crash and mail is expunged. It happens with and without ACL's. Attached is the log output. The messages never actually get moved to the "Expunged" directory, but there is a "temp" file created each time: /mailstore/testuser/Expunged/ drwx------ 6 testuser users 4096 Aug 9 11:39 . drwxr-xr-x 4 testuser users 4096 Aug 9 10:59 .. drwx------ 2 testuser users 4096 Aug 9 10:59 cur -rw------- 1 testuser users 24 Aug 9 11:39 dovecot.list.index.log -rw------- 1 testuser users 28 Aug 9 11:39 dovecot.list.index.uidmap drwx------ 5 testuser users 4096 Aug 9 11:02 .Junk -rw------- 1 testuser users 0 Aug 9 10:59 maildirfolder drwx------ 2 testuser users 4096 Aug 9 10:59 new -rw------- 1 testuser users 0 Aug 9 11:04 temp.mail4.whidbey.net.8596.7b344a891b2c6691 -rw------- 1 testuser users 0 Aug 9 11:32 temp.mail4.whidbey.net.8761.bfe04f5457e4ba7e -rw------- 1 testuser users 0 Aug 9 11:33 temp.mail4.whidbey.net.8765.44e803d87275348a -rw------- 1 testuser users 0 Aug 9 11:37 temp.mail4.whidbey.net.9031.f4a972591af59e05 -rw------- 1 testuser users 0 Aug 9 11:39 temp.mail4.whidbey.net.9125.d67b160254a01631 drwx------ 2 testuser users 4096 Aug 9 10:59 tmp Lazy expunge works on our production 1.0.0 systems. Anyone else seen this? Rich dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<testuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=209.166.64.35, lip=172.16.125.4 dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Effective uid=40308, gid=100, home=/var/mail/testuser dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Quota rule: root=storage=102400 mailbox= storage=256000kB messages=0 dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): maildir: data=/mailstore/testuser/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): maildir++: root=/mailstore/testuser/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/mailstore/testuser/Maildir dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/adminstore/configs/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=600 dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:25 Error: IMAP(testuser): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl: acl username = testuser dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl: owner = 1 dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /adminstore/configs/dovecot-acls dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): Namespace: type=private, prefix=.EXPUNGED/, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): maildir: data=/mailstore/testuser/Expunged:INDEX=MEMORY dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): maildir++: root=/mailstore/testuser/Expunged, index=, control=, inbox=/mailstore/testuser/Expunged dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/adminstore/configs/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=600 dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl: acl username = testuser dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl: owner = 1 dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:26 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /adminstore/configs/dovecot-acls dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:28 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl vfile: reading file /adminstore/configs/dovecot-acls/Junk dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:28 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl vfile: file /mailstore/testuser/Maildir/.Junk/dovecot-acl not found dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:41 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl vfile: reading file /adminstore/configs/dovecot-acls/Junk dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:41 Info: IMAP(testuser): acl vfile: file /mailstore/testuser/Expunged/.Junk/dovecot-acl not found dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:41 Error: IMAP(testuser): file mailbox-list-maildir.c: line 161 (maildir_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_existing_name(_list, name)) dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:41 Error: IMAP(testuser): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80c5df1] -> imap [0x80c5d0c] -> imap [0x806ba2d] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x46cfab] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_object_init_from_name+0x1d) [0x46b93d] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_backend_vfile_acllist_rebuild+0x1c7) [0x46d627] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_backend_vfile_acllist_refresh+0x1fd) [0x46db5d] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_backend_vfile_acllist_verify+0x1f) [0x46dcdf] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x46cf13] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_object_have_right+0x2d) [0x46bc6d] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_storage_rights_ctx_have_right+0x5a) [0x4703aa] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x470466] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x4707d8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so [0xf5ad3a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_q dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:41 Error: IMAP(testuser): uota_plugin.so [0x51b92a] -> imap(mailbox_open+0x46) [0x80b6ff6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so [0xf5b092] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so [0x51b0e8] -> imap(imap_expunge+0xb4) [0x8060034] -> imap(cmd_expunge+0x43) [0x805a4d3] -> imap [0x805e649] -> imap [0x805e6e3] -> imap(_client_input+0x65) [0x805ecb5] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x10f) [0x80cba3f] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80cb3a8] -> imap(main+0x4ec) [0x806637c] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x707dec] -> imap [0x8058e41] dovecot: Aug 09 11:04:41 Error: child 8596 (imap) killed with signal 6

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[Dovecot] UW-IMAP style mbox snarfing from /var/mail/ to ~/mbox
by Timo Sirainen 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

http://dovecot.org/patches/mbox-snarf-plugin.c Also committed to CVS HEAD. Usage: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u protocol imap { mail_plugins = mbox_snarf } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = mbox_snarf } plugin { mbox_snarf = ~/mbox } If ~/mbox doesn't exist, nothing special is done. If ~/mbox exists, it's treated as INBOX and mails are moved from /var/mail/%u whenever the mailbox is synchronized. If all the messages couldn't be copied, for example because of out of quota, then none of the messages are copied. I suppose that could be a problem. It might be possible to fix that by changing: if (mailbox_copy(dest_trans, mail, 0, NULL, NULL) < 0) { if (!mail->expunged) { ret = -1; break; } } to just: if (mailbox_copy(dest_trans, mail, 0, NULL, NULL) < 0) { if (!mail->expunged) break; } But I'm not sure about that. Try and tell me. :)

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Re: [Dovecot] assertion failed with KMail 3.5.6 and dovecot 1.0.0
by Timo Sirainen 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:07 +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote: > > > IMAP(doudou): file ostream-crlf.c: line 339 (_send_istream): assertion > > > failed: ((size_t)ret <= iov.iov_len) > > Hmm. Can you get Dovecot to dump a core file? > > Probably easiest way to get this fixed would be then if you sent me > > the core file and also the imap binary and I'll debug it further. Or > > I could also send you several gdb commands you could run. > > Here are the imap executable and core dump files (compressed). They are > generated on a powerpc machine, so I'm not sure it will be useful to you. > Moreover, Debian strips its executables, so no line numbers ... Debugging information would have been really useful, but I did fix one bug and added some more asserts: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/bd113e9fe67b If it still wasn't fixed, maybe with this change it gives another assert.

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2000/2003 frequent disconnect issue
by Jeff Ramsey 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

I have been using Dovecot for an IMAP server for a few years now, with no hitch. Even using Outlook 2K/2K3 as a client. Yesterday, I had a user experience the 'Negative UIDs' issue spoken of here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients/NegativeUIDs I performed all of the steps mentioned in this article, and it seemed like it would work properly the first time the user checked their email, and then after that, they would get this error again. I checked to see what the latest stable version of Dovecot was, and decided to upgrade. I was at 0.99.11-8 and the latest stable rpm for my distro was 1.0.2-2. The upgrade went fine. Or so I thought. I am now getting the following message on all Outlook Clients: "Your IMAP Server closed the connection....this can occur if the connection is idle for too long" I have scoured the Internet for this error and have come up with many suggestions, none of which have worked. I have increased Outlook's timeout period to the full 10 minutes, and I have disabled SELinux. None of this seems to have worked. Is there anyone out there who has actually had this issue and resolved it? Can you please help? Thanks, Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator TMI Forest Products, Inc. jefframsey(a)tubafor.com 360.477.0738 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Database server failure causes endless loop
by Andy Shellam 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi, I've just started setting up Dovecot 1.0.1, and made an error in my configuration, which I think has found a potential problem in Dovecot. I'm using PostgreSQL authentication, and set the database host to "localhost", which PostgreSQL doesn't listen on, so libpq is throwing the standard "is the server running?" message. The problem, however, is Dovecot isn't seeming to understand this, and is endlessly looping, trying to query it every 5 seconds. My client (telnet during testing) is simply sitting there waiting for a response, which it's never going to get. After about 5 minutes, Dovecot killed the connection, saying "* BYE Disconnected for inactivity." If this was from an IMAP client, I'm guessing the client would time-out after so long when it doesn't get a response back. Wouldn't it be more sensible for Dovecot to try PostgreSQL, say, 3 times. If unsuccessful, send the client an "internal server error" or something similar? Otherwise if the database server failed, and the client tries to connect, it'd be waiting for at least a minute (or whatever the standard time-out interval is) before failing, whereas it'd be better to see almost instantly if the server's down. Regards, Andy. Log output: dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:03 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:03 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:03 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:08 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:08 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:08 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:13 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:13 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:13 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:18 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:18 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:18 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:23 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:23 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:23 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:28 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:28 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:28 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:33 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:33 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:33 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:38 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:38 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:38 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:43 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:43 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:43 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:48 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:48 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:48 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:53 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:53 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:53 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:58 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:58 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:31:58 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:03 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:03 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:03 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:08 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:08 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:08 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:13 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:13 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:13 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:18 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:18 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:18 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432? dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:23 Error: auth(default): pgsql: Connect failed to <database>: could not connect to server: Connection refused dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:23 Error: auth(default): Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting dovecot: Jul 01 11:32:23 Error: auth(default): TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

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[Dovecot] Moving mboxes around
by tomas＠tuxteam.de 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dovecot gurus, I have a couple of questions for which I haven't found answers in the docs (which may be well more a limitation of my capabilities than anything else). Here they go: - Is it OK to move mailboxes around from under Dovecot? Case in point: I'm using procmail to pass incoming mail through bogofilter (the standard recipe mentioned in their manpage, which more or less funnels spam into a "spam" mailbox, unsure into an "unsure" and non-spam into "inbox"). From time to time I'd like to clear the spam and unsure mailboxes, using logrotate. Dovecot seems to cope with it. Am I tempting my luck? - Is there a way to tell an external application when mail has been moved by a client? Again: dovecot+bogofilter: from time to time a client checks incoming, unsure and sometimes spam and decides to move --say-- a mail from unsure to spam (deciding it's spam, after all) or similar. This is of course important for the training of bogofilter, so I'd like to trigger a backend action. I see basically two possibilities: - create two more mailboxes, say "spam-indeed" and "ham-indeed". User is told to move mail into these. Ham-indeed gets re-funneled to inbox (or something like that). Manual and error prone. - Use the mail_log plugin (seems more attractive). I still have (distro-provided) dovecot 0.99.14, but this would be a good reason to upgrade. (I still don't see where I get the source mailbox in the mail_log messages from, but that's details now). You get the idea, I think. Anyway, I am interested in any ways to combine dovecot and bogofilter in the backend in a way that I can route user feedback to the filter without putting too much burden on the user. Ideas? Thanks - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGtuS4Bcgs9XrR2kYRAkiXAJoDJYZC8DYIxFqCw+HEIn0CCNssQwCfaZjh z533XFMH36c4Lemv/+gSn9A= =s87z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] dotlock file was deleted error
by Joe Wong 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hello, under what situation the error: dovecot-uidlist.lock was deleted (kept it 0 seconds ) will happen? I saw quite some of these in dovecot log. Thanks, - Joe

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[Dovecot] passdb/userdb restart
by Thomas Hummel 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hello Timo, I've noticed that when slapd which I'm using as the passdb and the prefetched userdb is restarted I have to restart dovecot. As a matter of fact, if I don't, I get the following error : -- Jul 2 16:38:39 xxxx dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<xxxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS Jul 2 16:38:46 xxxx dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(xxx,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): passdb didn't return userdb entries Jul 2 16:38:46 xxxx dovecot: auth(default): userdb(xxx,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): user not found from userdb -- I'm using dovecot-1.0.1 on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with openldap-server-2.3.35_1 (bdb backend). Would some cache-related parameters allow to fix that or will restarting dovecot be always mandatory after an ldap restart ? Thanks. -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] 1.1.alpha2 error in logs
by Mike Cisar 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Did a quick-n-dirty install of 1.1.alpha2 on a Fedora Core 6 server... am getting the following message in the maillog, though there seems to be no problem accessing mail. Error seems to be consistent for all users. Running 1.0.3 on the system previously. Aug 8 22:49:26 stage2 dovecot: IMAP(testuser): mkdir(/var/spool/vmail/192.168.0.199/.imap/testuser) failed: Permission denied This is what I'm using for my env in dovecot.conf... default_mail_env = mbox:/vhome/%l/home/%n/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%l/%n And here's what we have in the user's mail directory (from before)... /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/Deleted Items /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/Deleted Items/dovecot.index /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/Deleted Items/dovecot.index.cache /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/Deleted Items/dovecot.index.log /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/INBOX /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.2 /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/sent-mail /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.cache /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log I'm assuming that it's trying to create a folder for the user's INBOX index, but it's trying to create it in the mail spool directory rather than in /vhome/192.168.0.199/home/testuser/mail/.imap/INBOX as previously? Thoughts, comments, something I need to modify in my config? Cheers, >>>>> Mike <<<<<

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[Dovecot] lda: vacation auto-reply for a virtual address
by martin f krafft 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi, I am using Dovecot to manage a complex virtual mailbox setup. It's all working splendidly, thanks to the Dovecot LDA. This morning, however, I needed to create a vacation-style autoreply for one of the virtual addresses. I made use of cmusieve, authored a little sieve script, and had it working in no time... until I discovered how limited sieve's vacation module is. Most importantly: it's hardcoded to use the Return-Path of a message, but in this very case, I need to actually use the address in the from header. So I had to give up on sieve and am now looking for another solution, but without much success. Given that mail is delivered by the Dovecot LDA, is there any way to make deliver pass it off to e.g. procmail in such a way that $HOME is set to /srv/vmail/domain.org/localpart, so that procmail can find the .procmailrc? Cheers, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck "we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death." -- godspeed you black emperor! spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net

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[Dovecot] LDAP and (py|cmu)sieve
by Thibault VINCENT 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hello, Before asking help, i would like thank Timo for this awesome server, it's lite, fast, and has good features. I've read the Wiki, tutorials, and tried various configurations to get the result I expect. My company is running a dovecot 1.0.0 server set up with an LDAP directory, mails are delivered to /var/spool/imap and users do not have a real unix home directory on this system. During my internship, I've installed a sieve server (pysieved) that is working with dovecot. But I encountered a problem with the LDAP setup. Pysieved is using dovecot's auth and client sockets to authenticate the user and get it's home directory where it will store sieve scripts, this home directory is also actually used by cmusieve. With our setup, users do not have /home directories on the mail server but the homeDirectory LDAP attribute is used by other services and cannot be modified for dovecot. I know we have the option to create a new attribute, set it to something like /var/spool/imap/<user> for every mail users, and use this new attribute name in dovecot-ldap.conf with the user_db statement. This is actually working on a test environnement, but we wish we could do it without any modification on the LDAP directory. The very precise question is : How can I tell dovecot to compute the « home » path from the login name when using LDAP userdb ? By example, if a user has login name "jdoe", dovecot will authenticate him against the LDAP directory but won't get the home path from it. Instead, it will use the same mail_location path (if possible) or something similar, like /var/spool/imap/%1u/%u . Can I do this without any modification of the source code of both dovecot and pysieved ? Thank you, -- Thibault VINCENT tibal(a)reloaded.fr thibault.vincent(a)reloaded.fr PGP Key : 0x4BA8A39B

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[Dovecot] HP-UX troubles
by Matthias Luehr 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi there, I got dovecot compiled and running on HP-UX 11.23. It's using LDAPUX and PAM for authentication. So far, it works. But after logging in the connection is closed immediately. It looks like this: telnet <ip> 143 Connected to ... Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. a01 login <user> <pass> Connection closed by foreign host. The dovecot log says: Error: imap-login: fd_send(7) failed: Bad file number Error: child 22629 (login) returned error 89 As far as I can see, the problem seems to reside in dovecot's fdpass.c... dovecot version: 1.0.3 gcc version: 2.9 Any ideas or solutions? Thanks in advance, Matthias

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[Dovecot] UIDL match from 0.99.13 to 1.0-1.2
by Daniel Davidson 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

I am moving from and old FC2 system to a new RHEL5 system and am having trouble getting the UIDLs to move over right, mainly the UID. I copy over the mailbox, and see the x-uid in the message is what it was on the old server, but when I telnet in to check pop, it rewrites x-uid in the message to something new, causing old messages to get downloaded again, which is not what we want I have tried setting pop3_reuse_xuidl to yes, but that did not change anything, probably because that is the wrong header (I do not have x-uidl, but I do have x-uid). I do have pop3_uidl_format set to %v.%u for compatibility. On the old system the first five are: +OK Logged in. uidl +OK 1 1095087961.3092736 2 1095087961.3092737 3 1095087961.3092738 4 1095087961.3092739 5 1095087961.3092740 On the new system the first five are: +OK Logged in. uidl +OK 1 1095087961.3093018 2 1095087961.3093155 3 1095087961.3093156 4 1095087961.3093157 5 1095087961.3093158 Any help would be appreciated, I do not understand how it is generating the UID portion. Dan

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[Dovecot] Userdb and home directories
by Mike Brudenell 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Greetings - I've just discovered an oddity I didn't know I had... We have two NetApp filers: one serves people's home directories; the other their message store and control files filestores. At the moment the first of the two filers is not accessible to my Dovecot system and I assumed all would be well because, as far as I knew, I wasn't using it at all. However in practice Dovecot DOES appear to be using it: it is trying to chdir() to my home directory when I login, finds it can't at the moment (because of a problem giving "Permission denied"), and closes the connection. I've read the pages on home directories and the userdb on the Wiki and it advises that having a home directory is beneficial. I'm happy to create a subdirectory for this within a user's control files directory, but do NOT want it on our normal filestore: we can't have mail inaccessible because a user's home directory is inaccessible because the other filer is out of action. We use shadow for the passdb and passwd for the userdb (see dovecot - n output below). I'm trying to work out how to override the home directory returned from NIS. Ultimately I'd like to use this template: /mailstore/control/%1Ln/%Ln/home but for the time being while I'm trying to work out how to do it have my own area hard-coded in (as it's only me logging in to the test system): /mailstore/control/p/pmb1/home I'm specifying this with the "args" directive in the userdb section as follows: args = home=/mailstore/control/p/pmb1/home but it isn't being picked up. What am I doing wrong, please? (We want to continue using uids and gids etc from NIS so I don't think using the static userdb is the right thing to do?) Cheers, Mike B-) Output of dovecot -n -------------------- # 1.0.3: /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.3/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /logfiles/mail/live/dovecot info_log_path: /logfiles/mail/live/dovecot-info disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.3/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_log_format_elements: user=<%Lu> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability: yes login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 10 max_mail_processes: 10000 mail_location: maildir:/mailstore/messages/%1Ln/%Ln/Maildir:INDEX=/ mailstore/index/%1Ln/%Ln:CONTROL=/mailstore/control/%1Ln/%Ln maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota mail_log_prefix: [%p]%Us(%Lu): imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 1024 cache_ttl: 600 username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890 username_format: %Ln passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd args: home=/mailstore/control/p/pmb1/home plugin: quota: fs -- The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 5DD, UK Tel:+44-1904-433811 FAX:+44-1904-433740 * Unsolicited commercial e-mail is NOT welcome at this e-mail address. *

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[Dovecot] Mails causing imap process to hang.
by Tan Shao Yi 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi Timo, We are getting e-mails from a certain domain that seem to cause the IMAP process to hang. Here's how it looks like if we issued a FETCH 40 FULL: * 40 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "09-Aug-2007 11:50:44 +0800" RFC822.SIZE 803392 ENVELOPE ("Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:09:09 +0800 (CST)" {64} 8¤ë¸¹Âø»x¤C¤Ñ¤W¬[79§é !! SmartÀ°±zÄY¿ï¥|¤j°Ï°ì20ÀÉ³Ì·í¼ö°òª÷±ÀÂË (("=?Big5?B?s9WryKjTpKSk5cL4u3ikS6TruLk=?=" NIL "mailsender" "books.com.tw")) (("=?Big5?B?s9WryKjTpKSk5cL4u3ikS6TruLk=?=" NIL "mailsender" "books.com.tw")) (("=?Big5?B?s9WryKjTuvS49K7RqbE=?=" NIL "mailsender" "books.com.tw")) NIL NIL NIL NIL "<20070809035039.JDYJ10720.mta2.pacific.net.sg(a)mx3.pacific.net.sg>") BODY ("text" "html" ("charset" "Big5") NIL NIL "base64" 801726 10279)) A truss of the process reveals: write(1, " * 4 0 F E T C H (".., 36) = 36 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF2C0, 1, 0xFFBFF2B4) = 65536 close(10) = 0 close(8) = 0 open64("/var/qmail/maildirs/09/44/XXXXXX/Maildir/maildirsize", O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 8 read(8, " 1 0 4 8 5 7 6 0 S\n 6 4".., 5120) = 1188 read(8, 0xFFBFE3FC, 3932) = 0 write(1, " )\r\n 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ".., 33) = 33 pollsys(0x000B0378, 3, 0xFFBFF888, 0x00000000) = 1 read(0, " 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 F E T".., 2769) = 42 close(8) = 0 open64("/var/qmail/maildirs/09/44/XXXXXX/Maildir/maildirsize", O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 8 read(8, " 1 0 4 8 5 7 6 0 S\n 6 4".., 5120) = 1188 read(8, 0xFFBFE4FC, 3932) = 0 open64("/var/qmail/maildirs/09/44/XXXXXX/Maildir/cur/1186631443.M495843P21207V000000940000BF68I000000000030AFC0_0.recess4,S=803364:2,S", O_RDONLY) = 10 fstat64(10, 0xFFBFF2A0) = 0 pread64(10, " A g I C A 8 d G Q g Y 2".., 4096, 58982) = 4096 pread64(10, " R p b m c 9 I j A i P g".., 4096, 63078) = 4096 pread64(10, " O V 8 w M D F f M D M y".., 4096, 67174) = 4096 pread64(10, " Z W M v Y X M v M j A w".., 4096, 71270) = 4096 pread64(10, " 4 K I C A g I C A g I C".., 4096, 75366) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g I C A g I C A g I C".., 4096, 79462) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g I C A 8 L 3 R y".., 4096, 83558) = 4096 pread64(10, " c y 5 j b 2 0 u d H c v".., 4096, 87654) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g I C A g I C A g I C".., 4096, 91750) = 4096 pread64(10, " A 4 N j A i P j x p b W".., 4096, 95846) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A 8 d G Q + I A o g".., 4096, 99942) = 4096 pread64(10, " U j A z L z k v U j A z".., 4096, 104038) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g P H R k I G N v b H".., 4096, 108134) = 4096 pread64(10, " R k P g o g I C A g\r\n".., 4096, 112230) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g I C A g I D x 0".., 4096, 116326) = 4096 pread64(10, " e m l u Z S 9 t\r\n Y W".., 4096, 120422) = 4096 pread64(10, " J 0 Z X h 0 I j 6 q s a".., 4096, 124518) = 4096 fstat64(10, 0x000D6610) = 0 write(1, " * 4 0 F E T C H (".., 38) = 38 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF2C0, 1, 0xFFBFF2B4) = 131072 close(10) = 0 close(8) = 0 open64("/var/qmail/maildirs/09/44/XXXXXX/Maildir/maildirsize", O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 8 read(8, " 1 0 4 8 5 7 6 0 S\n 6 4".., 5120) = 1188 read(8, 0xFFBFE3FC, 3932) = 0 write(1, " )\r\n 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 ".., 33) Err#11 EAGAIN pollsys(0x000B0378, 4, 0xFFBFF888, 0x00000000) = 1 write(1, " )\r\n 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 ".., 33) = 33 pollsys(0x000B0378, 3, 0xFFBFF888, 0x00000000) = 1 read(0, " 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 F E T".., 2727) = 42 close(8) = 0 open64("/var/qmail/maildirs/09/44/XXXXXX/Maildir/maildirsize", O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 8 read(8, " 1 0 4 8 5 7 6 0 S\n 6 4".., 5120) = 1188 read(8, 0xFFBFE4FC, 3932) = 0 open64("/var/qmail/maildirs/09/44/XXXXXX/Maildir/cur/1186631443.M495843P21207V000000940000BF68I000000000030AFC0_0.recess4,S=803364:2,S", O_RDONLY) = 10 fstat64(10, 0xFFBFF2A0) = 0 pread64(10, " J 0 Z X h 0 I j 6 q s a".., 4096, 124518) = 4096 pread64(10, " c v Z X h l\r\n Y y 9 h".., 4096, 128614) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g I C A g I C A g".., 4096, 132710) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g\r\n I C A g C i".., 4096, 136806) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g I C A g I C A g I C".., 4096, 140902) = 4096 pread64(10, " w v\r\n d H I + C i A g".., 4096, 144998) = 4096 pread64(10, " Z H R o P S I 4 M S I g".., 4096, 149094) = 4096 pread64(10, "\r\n b 2 x z c G F u P S".., 4096, 153190) = 4096 pread64(10, " T r u L k v M j A w N y".., 4096, 157286) = 4096 pread64(10, " c j 4 K I C A g I C A g".., 4096, 161382) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g P H R k I G N v".., 4096, 165478) = 4096 pread64(10, " E g a H J l Z j 0 i a H".., 4096, 169574) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g I C A g I C A 8 d H".., 4096, 173670) = 4096 pread64(10, " I i B o Z W l n a H Q 9".., 4096, 177766) = 4096 pread64(10, " I D x 0 Z C B j b 2 x z".., 4096, 181862) = 4096 pread64(10, " M u Z 2 l m I i B 3 a W".., 4096, 185958) = 4096 pread64(10, " l 3 u / m h R z x z P j".., 4096, 190054) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g I C A 8 L 3 R y".., 4096, 194150) = 4096 pread64(10, " Y 2 9 t L n R 3 L 0 c v".., 4096, 198246) = 4096 pread64(10, " R k P g o g I C A g I C".., 4096, 202342) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g P H R y P i A K I C".., 4096, 206438) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g I C A g I C A g".., 4096, 210534) = 4096 pread64(10, " Z W 0 9 U j A z M D A w".., 4096, 214630) = 4096 pread64(10, " M v Y X M v M j A w N z".., 4096, 218726) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g I C A g I C A g P H".., 4096, 222822) = 4096 pread64(10, " P H R k I G N v b H N w".., 4096, 226918) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g I C A g I C A g".., 4096, 231014) = 4096 pread64(10, " I + C i A g I C A g I C".., 4096, 235110) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g I C A g I C A g I C".., 4096, 239206) = 4096 pread64(10, " I D x 0 Z D 4 8 L 3 R k".., 4096, 243302) = 4096 pread64(10, " I C A g I C A g I D x 0".., 4096, 247398) = 4096 pread64(10, " A g I C A g I C A g I C".., 4096, 251494) = 4096 pread64(10, " R 0 c D o v L 2 F k Z G".., 4096, 255590) = 4096 fstat64(10, 0x000CB208) = 0 write(1, " * 4 0 F E T C H (".., 38) = 38 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF2C0, 1, 0xFFBFF2B4) Err#11 EAGAIN fstat64(10, 0x000CB208) = 0 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF4A0, 1, 0xFFBFF494) Err#11 EAGAIN pollsys(0x000B0378, 4, 0xFFBFF888, 0x00000000) = 1 fstat64(10, 0x000CB208) = 0 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF4A0, 1, 0xFFBFF494) Err#11 EAGAIN pollsys(0x000B0378, 4, 0xFFBFF888, 0x00000000) = 1 fstat64(10, 0x000CB208) = 0 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF4A0, 1, 0xFFBFF494) Err#11 EAGAIN pollsys(0x000B0378, 4, 0xFFBFF888, 0x00000000) = 1 fstat64(10, 0x000CB208) = 0 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF4A0, 1, 0xFFBFF494) Err#11 EAGAIN pollsys(0x000B0378, 4, 0xFFBFF888, 0x00000000) = 1 fstat64(10, 0x000CB208) = 0 sendfilev64(1, 1, 0xFFBFF4A0, 1, 0xFFBFF494) Err#11 EAGAIN This goes on and on... consuming all bandwidth on the system. Is there something wrong with this particular e-mail? I will be attaching it in a separate e-mail to you to protect the user's privacy. Thanking in advance. Cheers, Tan Shao Yi

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[Dovecot] courier-dovecot-migrate.pl destroyed my indices... still recovering...
by Ralf Hildebrandt 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

I tried to disable courier-pop3 today in favour of dovecot pop3. Prior to that I ran: find /home -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs --replace /usr/local/scripts/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --overwrite --recursive --convert {} ( /home is hashed two levels deep: /home/a/a/aanton/Maildir/ ) After that, I got lots of errors like: Aug 9 13:02:40 postamt dovecot: IMAP(azenclu): Maildir /home/a/z/azenclu/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1167827929 -> 1058881980) Aug 9 13:03:46 postamt dovecot: POP3(bbuhse): Couldn't init INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error Aug 9 13:03:46 postamt dovecot: POP3(bbuhse): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Aug 9 13:04:14 postamt dovecot: IMAP(bkusma): Maildir /home/b/k/bkusma/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1179153053 -> 1174292827) Aug 9 13:04:19 postamt dovecot: IMAP(am02): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/m/am02/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Aug 9 13:04:28 postamt deliver(avolz): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/v/avolz/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Aug 9 13:04:51 postamt dovecot: IMAP(ck05): Maildir /home/c/k/ck05/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1167893115 -> 1094733247) Aug 9 13:05:11 postamt deliver(agundlfi): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/g/agundlfi/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Aug 9 13:05:50 postamt dovecot: IMAP(asorigue): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/s/asorigue/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Aug 9 13:06:04 postamt dovecot: IMAP(azenclu): Corrupted index cache file /home/a/z/azenclu/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Aug 9 13:06:08 postamt dovecot: IMAP(coneck): Maildir /home/c/o/coneck/Maildir sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1164189070 -> 1058892719) Dovecot would recover from that (deliver would deliver the mail on the next queue run) -- but why is that? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) plonk(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de This message represents the official view of the voices in my head

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[Dovecot] dovecot-sieve vacation changes
by pod 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

I'd like to put forward the following patch for dovecot-sieve. Essentially this just merges in some changes made in CMU sieve 2.3.8 and as such brings the behaviour more in line with RFC 3834 "Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail": - fixes erroneous sender "-request" substring match - checks for existence of a selection of list-* headers - expands "named-as-recipient" header checks to "Resent-To", "Resent-CC" and "Resent-BCC" fields. Note that the appended patch also includes a fix for some missing parentheses in the "resent-to" test which resulted in some extra work being done but was otherwise harmless. The fix has been sent to <cyrus-bugs+(a)andrew.cmu.edu> - prefixes subject in response with "Auto: " rather than (non-expanding) "Re: " I also, mostly for kicks, attach two sieve-like scripts that attempt to encapsulate the when-not-to-respond logic as implemented (if the patch were to be applied) and as advised by RFC 3834 respectively. I wrote these as an exercise to help me gain a better understanding of sieve and the CMU implementation. I'm not sure they are otherwise useful.

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[Dovecot] NFS rquota support
by Timo Sirainen 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

For v1.1, probably applies to v1.0 code pretty easily too: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/078d9dde99c8 The other rquota patches had authunix_create_default() call. Is this needed/useful? The client is now always created+destroyed for each quota lookup. I'd think it would be faster if it was created only once, but does it then break something? If the above isn't done, clnt_create() could be replaced with clntudp_create() and have the struct sockaddr_in cached. Patches welcome. :)

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[Dovecot] Shared folder hierarchies, multiple groups
by Benjamin R. Haskell 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi, I'm trying to set up two shared folder hierarchies on my Dovecot installation for two groups of employees, all of whom should only have access to their own hierarchy. Any employee should be able to create sub-folders and generally have full access to the hierarchy. My initial setup was to create two public namespaces, Shared-One and Shared-Two. Each is a Maildir under /var/mail. The actual shared folders seem to be working fine in terms of adding and accessing folders and messages, and there are no problems at all for the 'admin' user, who belongs to both the shared1 and shared2 Unix groups. The problem is for other users, where trying to (IMAP-) LIST folders fails. (sanitized) IMAP session log: ('user2' is in group shared2) * OK Dovecot ready. A LOGIN user2 pass A OK Logged in. B LIST "" "%" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared-One" B NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-08-02 09:01:23] In the mail logs I find: dovecot: IMAP(user2): stat(/var/mail/Shared-One/cur) failed: Permission denied Relevant permissions: 2770/drwxrws--- shared1 shared1 /var/mail/Shared-One 2770/drwxrws--- shared1 shared1 /var/mail/Shared-One/cur 0660/-rw-rw---- shared1 shared1 /var/mail/Shared-One/dovecot-shared And similarly for Shared-Two. (replace shared1 with shared2 everywhere) Among other things, I've read: http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces I don't want to use vfile ACL's (I think) because I want users to be able to create subfolders at will, and I don't want to have to add a dovecot-acl file per-folder. (Is there a way to set global defaults on a global basis? [not per-folder]) I also think there would be a problem with the hierarchies being similar. (e.g. both have a 'Projects' sub-folder, but there's a pretty clear WARNING on the wiki about mailbox name conflicts.) I can't use symlinked Maildirs, because new subfolders get created under ~user/Maildir/. (Want them under /var/mail/Shared-X/) I can't use hidden namespaces, because employees use Outlook (uggh), and I couldn't figure out how to "find" the namespace when it was hidden. (That seemed like the closest thing to a solution - it solved the LIST problem.) Ideally, Shared-Two wouldn't even be visible to members of Shared-One, and vice versa. But, that's at least an acceptable "problem" I could live with. Any suggestions? Thanks, Ben

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[Dovecot] Bug in Exim->Dovecot auth
by Chris Laif 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi. I'm using SMTP auth with Exim authenticating against Dovecot's auth socket. My (excellent) SMTP test tool "swaks" (http://jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks) tries multiple auth mechanismus consecutively which leads to the following message in Dovecot's log file: Error: auth(default): BUG: Authentication client gave a PID 6738 of existing connection I'm not sure where to report this bug, exim's or dovecot's mailing list, so I'll try here first :) Chris <- 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN <- 250 HELP -> AUTH PLAIN AHh5egBra2s= <** 535 Incorrect authentication data -> AUTH LOGIN <** 435 Unable to authenticate at present *** No authentication type succeeded -> QUIT

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth core dumps
by Cassidy B. Larson 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Seeing a few core dumps on my two proxy servers with dovecot-auth since upgrading to 1.0.2. Example: Jul 30 13:36:51 alora kernel: pid 20234 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Jul 30 13:36:51 alora dovecot: child 20234 (auth) killed with signal 11 Jul 29 19:17:08 marbella kernel: pid 70627 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Jul 29 19:17:08 marbella dovecot: child 70627 (auth) killed with signal 11 Running: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 Dovecot 1.0.2 I'm not proficient in running 'gdb', so I followed the instructions from the wiki for a full backtrace. Output is below. Is there anything else I should be looking for, or any other commands I should send to gdb? Thanks, Cassidy gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth /var/run/dovecot/dovecot- auth.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)... Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpam.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpam.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libasn1.so.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libasn1.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libroken.so.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libroken.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcom_err.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcom_err.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15 Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.3 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/libz.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.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 (gdb) bt full #0 0x180abc22 in gss_delete_sec_context () from /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.8 No symbol table info available. #1 0x08059246 in mech_deinit () No symbol table info available. #2 0x08053f12 in auth_request_handler_unref () No symbol table info available. #3 0x08050bef in auth_client_connection_destroy () No symbol table info available. #4 0x08050ead in auth_client_connection_create () No symbol table info available. #5 0x08065f54 in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #6 0x08065605 in io_loop_run () No symbol table info available. #7 0x0805722a in main () No symbol table info available.

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[Dovecot] Maildir Skeleton
by Sebastian Ganschow 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm setting up a new mailserver with postfix and Dovecot. I'd like to prepare a skeleton for the users maildir to create i.e. a spam folder and a sieve file per default. Is there any chance to realize this with dovecot? Regards Sebastian - -- Sebastian Ganschow Königsberger Str. 17 45770 Marl Germany Phone: +49 2365 9 24 96 76 Mobile: +49 172 2 47 41 44 Mail: sebastian(a)ganschow.name -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGuGdvKWhY+QthhLYRArCQAKCKLAaWetcu84vqnlr+a31K1qhKNgCfVtGL 71lFFadsY+9U1vIdNdhIcZE= =biAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
by Anne Wilson 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

My old server ran v.0.99, and this is the first time I've tried to get v.1 running. When I try to test it with telnet I see telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to david.lydgate.lan (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. x login anne xxxxxx x OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. I assumed it was an authentication problem (I want to use /etc/passwd as the authentication file) but it does say that I managed to log in. If so, what could be causing it to close immediately? Anne

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Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
by Anne Wilson 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location > > > > > setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try > > > > > prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) > > > > > > > > .. > > > > > > > > > I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference. > > > > > > > > That should fix it. Did you forget to restart Dovecot? Or did you > > > > check if the error message had changed? > > > > > > You're right, of course - I had forgotten to restart. However, now I > > > have > > > > > > telnet localhost 143 > > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused > > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > > > That means Dovecot didn't start. It most likely wrote an error message > > to logs. > > [root@david program]# service dovecot status > dovecot dead but subsys locked > > Hmm - > > dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:47 Warning: Killed with signal 15 > dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down > dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb > driver '/etc/passwd' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? > Check with dovecot --build-options) > dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: child 30279 (auth) returned error 89 > > It's 10pm here, and I've wrestled with this most of the day. I'll be back > to it in the morning, but I'm really tired now, and the brain is seizing > up. :-) Any help you can give, I'll follow it up and report back. Thanks > OK - I did the check, which returned dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl SQL drivers: mysql Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file sql static so it has to be my config file. I'll try again to read up on this, but I'll be glad of any help available. Anne

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[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha2 released
by Timo Sirainen 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha2.tar.gz.sig Hopefully the next release can be v1.1.beta1. I'm not aware of any major problems and I think I'm pretty much done with new features (except for dbox). The largest changes since alpha1: * Removed THREAD indexing. It's a bit buggy and I think there's a better chance of releasing a bugfree v1.1 soon if it's not included. I'll fix it after v1.1. * Removed THREAD=X-REFERENCES2 also because it wasn't as easy to implement with the old threading code. I might put this back though if there's enough interest. * PAM always works in blocking=yes mode now. If you have problems with memory leaks, change auth_worker_max_request_count setting. + Filesystem quota backend supports inode limits, group quota and RPC quota for NFS. + SEARCH and SORT finally compare all characters case-insensitively. We use i;unicode-casemap algorithm. + Config files support splitting values to multiple lines with \ + Winbind NTLM and GSS-SPNEGO mechanism patches by Dmitry Butskoy.

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Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problem - or is it?
by Anne Wilson 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > dovecot: Aug 08 18:50:11 Error: IMAP(anne): Ambiguous mail location > > > > setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/anne/Maildir (try > > > > prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) > > > > > > .. > > > > > > > I tried adding maildir:, but it made no difference. > > > > > > That should fix it. Did you forget to restart Dovecot? Or did you check > > > if the error message had changed? > > > > You're right, of course - I had forgotten to restart. However, now I > > have > > > > telnet localhost 143 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > That means Dovecot didn't start. It most likely wrote an error message > to logs. [root@david program]# service dovecot status dovecot dead but subsys locked Hmm - dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:47 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver '/etc/passwd' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) dovecot: Aug 08 21:15:51 Error: child 30279 (auth) returned error 89 It's 10pm here, and I've wrestled with this most of the day. I'll be back to it in the morning, but I'm really tired now, and the brain is seizing up. :-) Any help you can give, I'll follow it up and report back. Thanks Anne

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[Dovecot] Not seeing other folders with some clients
by Yves Dorfsman 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi, With dovecot 1.0.2, depending on the client I can only see inbox, or all the folders. I see all the folders with pine and balsa, but can see only the inbox with squirel mail and thunderbird. Any idea what's going on here ? Thanks. Yves. ---- Yves Dorfsman yves(a)zioup.com http://www.SollerS.ca

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[Dovecot] BUG (and suggested fix) in maildir code
by Tom Vajzovic 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hi all I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc15 to serve a maildir by IMAP. I have an IMAP subdirectory called subscriptions. The messages are in maidir/.subscriptions/cur/ etc. Dovecot is renaming the directory .subscriptions/ to subscriptions/ This means that when my IMAP client requests this directory, it gets the message "no such directory", and dovecot also gives the error message: dovecot: IMAP(tcv): read() failed with subscription file /var/mail/maildir/tcv/subscriptions: Is a directory The two should be able to live happily side by side, with the subscriptions file called "subscriptions" and the maildir called ".subsciptions". The offending function is maildir_subscriptions_convert_099() in src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c Can someone with developer access please change this so that rename() is not called if subscriptions is a directory. Thanks, Tom

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf an <TAB> chars
by Sascha Holzleiter 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hi, I just wanted to "beautify" my dovecot configuration file and as one of the first comments suggests whitespaces and <TAB> should be completly ignored but that doesn't seem to be the case, e.g.: postmaster_address<TAB>= some(a)address.de results in an configuration error as the postmaster_address is not set. Using just a space or replacing the <TAB> char with space chars resolves the problem. This is with dovecot version 1.0.3 on Debian and FreeBSD. Greetings, Sascha

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1alpha2 - (imap) killed with signal 10
by Luca Corti 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

As promised, here is the bug report: # dovecot -n # 1.1.alpha2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/server.pem 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: maildir:/mnt/shared/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u mail_drop_priv_before_exec: 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_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 auth default: passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 436 master: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: root group: dovecot #uname -a Linux ns2 2.6.21-2-sparc64 #1 Thu Jul 12 12:33:00 UTC 2007 sparc64 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/debian_version lenny/sid Mailstore is NFS mounted, indexes on local disk. I'm upgrading from dovecot 1.0.3, the client is Evolution. When accessing any directory besides Inbox I get temporary failure and in the logs I see Aug 8 01:23:39 ns2 dovecot: child 25167 (imap) killed with signal 10 here is a bt full of the core dump: GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian Copyright (C) 2006 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 "sparc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. #0 mailbox_list_index_sync_write_dir (ctx=0xf75e8, sync_dir=0xf7650, offset_pos=<value optimized out>, partial=true) at mailbox-list-index-sync.c:594 594 new_dir->count = nondeleted_count; (gdb) bt full #0 mailbox_list_index_sync_write_dir (ctx=0xf75e8, sync_dir=0xf7650, offset_pos=<value optimized out>, partial=true) at mailbox-list-index-sync.c:594 dir = <value optimized out> recs = <value optimized out> i = <value optimized out> j = <value optimized out> count = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "mailbox_list_index_sync_write_dir" #1 0x0007afdc in mailbox_list_index_sync_write (ctx=0xf75e8) at mailbox-list-index-sync.c:867 ret = <value optimized out> #2 0x0007b270 in mailbox_list_index_sync_commit (_ctx=<value optimized out>) at mailbox-list-index-sync.c:918 ctx = (struct mailbox_list_index_sync_ctx *) 0xf75e8 ret = 0 #3 0x00034384 in index_list_sync_deinit (ctx=0xe13f0, status_items=0, status_r=<value optimized out>) at index-mailbox-list-sync.c:204 box = (struct mailbox *) 0xe0b98 list = <value optimized out> ilist = <value optimized out> view = <value optimized out> tmp_status = {messages = 247, recent = 0, unseen = 0, uidvalidity = 1179084420, uidnext = 248, first_unseen_seq = 0, keywords = 0x0} status = (struct mailbox_status *) 0xffb3d594 uid = <value optimized out> seq = <value optimized out> #4 0x0007f57c in mailbox_sync_deinit (_ctx=0xffb3d6b4, status_items=0, status_r=0x0) at mail-storage.c:509 ctx = (struct mailbox_sync_context *) 0x0 #5 0x0002f078 in imap_sync_nonselected (box=0xe0b98, flags=<value optimized out>) at imap-sync.c:210 ctx = (struct mailbox_sync_context *) 0x0 sync_rec = {seq1 = 4289976032, seq2 = 634052, type = 4289976088} #6 0x0002745c in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0xd9338, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:39 client = (struct client *) 0xd7840 storage = (struct mail_storage *) 0xd5de0 box = (struct mailbox *) 0xe0b98 status = {messages = 666088, recent = 836034, unseen = 1, uidvalidity = 585071112, uidnext = 4160102400, first_unseen_seq = 836008, keywords = 0x1e} mailbox = 0xdc640 "Archivio.storico.2003" #7 0x000275f8 in cmd_select (cmd=0xd9338) at cmd-select.c:93 No locals. #8 0x00028be0 in client_command_input (cmd=0xd9338) at client.c:491 client = (struct client *) 0xd7840 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #9 0x00028cd0 in client_command_input (cmd=0xd9338) at client.c:548 command = <value optimized out> client = (struct client *) 0xd7840 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #10 0x00029348 in _client_input (client=0xd7840) at client.c:584 cmd = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "_client_input" #11 0x00095f10 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:201 ctx = <value optimized out> event = (const struct epoll_event *) 0xd4a30 list = (struct io_list *) 0xd78a8 io = (struct io_file *) 0xd7490 tv = {tv_sec = 9, tv_usec = 945402} events_count = <value optimized out> t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 call = <value optimized out> #12 0x00095184 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0xd49b0) at ioloop.c:303 No locals. #13 0x000311b0 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=0xcc030, envp=0x0) at main.c:299 No locals.

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[Dovecot] OpenBSD and too many open files
by Bryan Vyhmeister 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

I posted some questions a few months back and received lots of great help in getting my dovecot/postfix/LDAP setup working. Initially, I ran into the pipe failed too many open files error. I am running this setup on OpenBSD/sparc64 4.1-stable and so I put dovecot in its own class and upped the maxfiles setting for that class. This was back with dovecot 1.0 and everything worked fine. I just recently upgraded to dovecot 1.0.2 from ports and now I am having the same problems again. I moved kern.maxfiles for that class from 2048 up to 3404 and yet I still run into the error. When I do, I have to restart dovecot to get things running again. Output of: su -c dovecot root -c 'ulimit -a' time(cpu-seconds) unlimited file(blocks) unlimited coredump(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) 1048576 stack(kbytes) 8192 lockedmem(kbytes) 634482 memory(kbytes) 1898080 nofiles(descriptors) 3404 processes 1044 sysctl kern.maxfiles gives: kern.maxfiles=3404 My main IMAP accounts reside on this server and I have somewhere in the 25000 range of stored messages. Could this be causing the issue? I only have maybe a dozen other users using this server right now but I am planning on putting 500 users on it soon. I added another heavy IMAP user shortly before these problems started but I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. Likewise, I am not sure if the dovecot 1.0.2 upgrade had any effect either although it did coincide. Any ideas? Thank you. Bryan

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Re: [Dovecot] OpenBSD and too many open files
by Bryan Vyhmeister 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Quentin Garnier wrote: >> Well, I have not had a single instance of the "Too many files" error >> since. Everything is working smoothly. I'll see about getting the >> patch into OpenBSD if possible. I'll get that tutorial done as well. > > I'll send a mail to bugs(a)openbsd.org with the patch. Sounds great. Thank you. Bryan

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[Dovecot] vfile ACL's
by Benjamin R. Haskell 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

(Sorry for the impatience. This was one of several questions in my email from yesterday. I thought I might have better luck being more direct.) Is there a way to set ACL's, using the vfile backend, on a truly global basis? or hierarchically (i.e. .Maildir.Sub inherits from .Maildir)? The wiki page says: "The default ACLs for mailboxes is to give owner all permissions and other users none. Mailboxes in public namespaces don't have owners, so by default no-one can access them." Is this configurable? Thanks, Ben

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[Dovecot] Best way to change PACKAGE_STRING & VERSION_STRING
by David Favor 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Let me know the best way to change the source tree to add in a time to be output from 'dovecot --version'. I've tried the following with no success: mkdir -p /build/work/dovecot-1.1alpha2 cd /build/work/dovecot-1.1alpha2 export LDFLAGS='-L/common/pkgs/sqlite-3.4.1.1/lib64 -R/common/pkgs/sqlite-3.4.1.1/lib64' export PACKAGE_STRING='dovecot 1.1alpha2-2007-08-07' export PACKAGE_VERSION='1.1alpha2-2007-08-07' export CPPFLAGS='-pipe -O2 -I/common/pkgs/sqlite-3.4.1.1/include' unset CDPATH make distclean ./configure --prefix=/common/pkgs/dovecot-1.1alpha2 --disable-nls --disable-ipv6 --with-db --with-sql=plugin --with-sqlite --with-mysql --with-postgresql --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/pki/dovecot --with-notify=inotify --with-ioloop=epoll --without-vpopmail --with-ldap=plugin --without-gssapi make -e make check rm -rf /common/pkgs/dovecot-1.1alpha2 make install Thanks. -- Like feeling your best ever, all day, every day? Email join(a)RadicalHealth.com for the easy way.

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[Dovecot] Latest 1.1 tree build failure
by David Favor 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Suggestions of how to fix this? mkdir -p /build/work/dovecot-1.1-alpha1 cd /build/work/dovecot-1.1-alpha1 export LDFLAGS='-L/common/pkgs/sqlite-3.4.1.1/lib64 -R/common/pkgs/sqlite-3.4.1.1/lib64' export CPPFLAGS='-pipe -O2 -I/common/pkgs/sqlite-3.4.1.1/include' unset CDPATH make distclean ./configure --prefix=/common/pkgs/dovecot-1.1-alpha1 --disable-nls --disable-ipv6 --with-db --with-sql=plugin --with-sqlite --with-mysql --with-postgresql --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/pki/dovecot --with-notify=inotify --with-ioloop=epoll --without-vpopmail --with-ldap=plugin --without-gssapi make ... ... ... mv -f .deps/auth-master-listener.Tpo .deps/auth-master-listener.Po make[3]: *** No rule to make target `auth-module.o', needed by `dovecot-auth'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/work/dovecot-1.1-alpha1/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/work/dovecot-1.1-alpha1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/work/dovecot-1.1-alpha1' make: *** [all] Error 2 exp=0, got ec=2, abort=1 -- Like feeling your best ever, all day, every day? Email join(a)RadicalHealth.com for the easy way.

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[Dovecot] dovecot + LDAP-SASL ?
by Hadmut Danisch 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hi, just a question: I know that dovecot supports SASL authentication and supports LDAP. Which means that dovecot performs the SASL methods itself and stores the plaintext secret on LDAP. But it is also possible to have the LDAP do the SASL work and dovecot just pass SASL messages through? Even when the LDAP server uses a proprietary SASL method not supported by dovecot? regards Hadmut

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[Dovecot] Ideas for Webmail/OTP
by Frank Behrens 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

I want to discuss some problems/enhancements for dovecot in a webmail/otp setup. For access to an IMAP server like dovecot I see different client types: a) a "normal" MUA installed in a more or less trusted environment b) remote access via "webmail" from untrusted environments For a) I see with dovecot and other IMAP servers no problems, tricky is the setup for b). If you use a webmail client in an untrusted environment the risk is high, that keyloggers and other malware steal your password. One easy solution is to use One-Time-Passwords (OTP). The otp setup for interactive logins (e.g. ssh) is easy, but until now I did not find any easy to use solution for webmail. The main problems I see - In most cases a webmail client does not hold a persistent connection to the IMAP server, but makes a login for every request. - The webmail clients are not prepared to display the otp password challenge to the user. When we say "otp" with IMAP we further have to distinguish a) the OTP SASL authentication mechanism b) OTP configured by PAM. I believe a) is implemented in new dovecot 1.1 version, but I prefer b), because - it works with many clients without special client support - all authentication setup is central in the os. All above described problems are not specially linked to dovecot, but I believe with dovecot there is an easy solution to solve them. :-) Solution 1: When PAM is configured for IMAP the user can use a one-time-password in the same way as before. The problem is, that the user must know the sequence number for the password (otp challenge), so we need a way to display it. The PAM module supplies the otp challenge in the conversation function, but the challenge is not processed by the IMAP server. My proposal: The IMAP server stores the challenge from the conversation function and includes it in the LOGIN response, when the login was not successful. So a user can try a login with a wrong dummy password and get knowlegdge about the current otp sequence. The webmail server should be extended in a way, that it displays the complete IMAP error message, when a login fails. Solution 2: Webmail clients do not use persistent connections in most cases. A OTP login needs different passwords for every displayed web page. My proposal: Use dovecot's login cache and do not ask the os for every login. :-) Solution 3: When we configure PAM we can restrict/allow it's use depending on IP address of client. Unfortunately with a webmail client the IMAP client is always the the webserver. It should be possible, that the webserver forwards the client IP address to the IMAP server. Furthermore to use dovecot's login cache as described above in a safe manner, the IP address should be compared, too. My proposal: Create a new IMAP command "XSETREMOTEIP". With this IMAP extension a client can set the real IP address of remote client. The access to this command is restricted to the webserver with a new configuration parameter "trusted clients", which holds an IP address with mask. I ask to discuss these solutions. It seems to work, I'm making the first tests now. I have patches for dovecot and squirrelmail, but they are very "quick and dirty". They show a possible solution, but not a clean implementation. Do you believe, that we can build a good webmail system this way, or do you have better solutions? Regards, Frank -- Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.

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[Dovecot] A few dovecot 1.1 bugs - sort, flag reset and etc.
by wenjie zheng 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

I installed dovecot 1.1 on our system yesterday, and found a few bugs so far. Here is the list: BUG #1: can't access some folders Details: a select "RSS.A List Apart" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $$$INDEXED###) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $$$INDEXED### \*)] Flags permitted. * 52 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 50] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1166644056] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 65] Predicted next UID a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. a SORT (DATE) UTF-8 UNSEEN imap(jing(a)webmail.us <javascript:void(0);>): Panic: file mail-cache-lookup.c: line 70: unreached imap(jing(a)webmail.us <javascript:void(0);>): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80be647] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80be82f] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x809849b] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_cache_lookup_iter_init+0x6c) [0x809857c] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_cache_lookup_headers+0xf7) [0x8098c77] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x8091ac7] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(index_mail_get_first_header+0x17) [0x8091dff] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_get_first_header+0x12) [0x80b054a] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x8093b5a] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x8093cee] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x8093eff] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(bsearch_insert_pos+0x40) [0x80bd794] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x8094660] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x8094759] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(index_sort_list_finish+0x2f) [0x8094a27] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x119) [0x8093819] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x17) [0x80b21f3] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mailbox_search_next+0x1d) [0x80b21c5] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(imap_sort+0xb5) [0x8064529] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(cmd_sort+0x10e) [0x805e356] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x805fe82] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x805fda1] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x805ff11] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(_client_input+0x56) [0x805ffce] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x100) [0x80c3e38] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(io_loop_run+0x2d) [0x8069339] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(main+0x64) [0x8068d30] -> /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xda) [0x73978a] Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x0074bcdf in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x0074bcdf in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x0074d4e5 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x080be666 in default_panic_handler (format=0x80cdbdd "file %s: line %d: unreached", args=0xbfff9cb4 "MP\r\bF") at failures.c:136 backtrace = 0x8d2ac38 "/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80be647] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80be82f] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x809849b] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap(mail_cache_lookup_iter_init+0x6c) [0x809857c] -> /u"... #3 0x080be82f in i_panic (format=0x80cdbdd "file %s: line %d: unreached") at failures.c:213 No locals. #4 0x0809849b in mail_cache_lookup_offset (cache=0x8d4a9b8, view=0x8d4d460, seq=18, offset_r=0x0) at mail-cache-lookup.c:70 map = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x8d4a898 data = (const void *) 0x8d4f4a4 idx = 148024040 i = -1073767072 ret = 0 #5 0x0809857c in mail_cache_lookup_iter_init (view=0x8d4d558, seq=18, ctx_r=0xbfff9d60) at mail-cache-lookup.c:125 ctx = (struct mail_cache_lookup_iterate_ctx *) 0xbfff9d60 ret = 0 #6 0x08098c77 in mail_cache_lookup_headers (view=0x8d4d558, dest=0x8d52038, seq=18, field_idxs=0xbfff9de4, fields_count=1) at mail-cache-lookup.c:470 cache = (struct mail_cache *) 0x8d4a9b8 iter = {view = 0x8d4d558, remap_counter = 0, seq = 18, rec = 0x0, pos = 0, rec_size = 0, offset = 0, stop = 0, failed = 0, appends_checked = 0} field = {field_idx = 12, data = 0x8d4dbc0, size = 0} ctx = {view = 0x8d4d558, lines = {arr = {buffer = 0x8d2aae8, element_size = 8}, v = 0x8d2aae8, v_modifiable = 0x8d2aae8}} lines = (struct header_lookup_line *) 0x1 p = (const unsigned char *) 0x0 start = (const unsigned char *) 0xbfff9d60 "XÕÔ\b" end = (const unsigned char *) 0x42a5 <Address 0x42a5 out of bounds> field_state = (uint8_t *) 0x8d2aab8 "" i = 1 max_field = 10 hdr_size = 3221200208 want = 1 '\001' buf = (buffer_t *) 0xbfff9d50 ret = 0 #7 0x08091ac7 in index_mail_get_raw_headers (mail=0x8d3d3b8, field=0x80ce56b "Subject") at index-mail-headers.c:568 headers = {0xbfff9e18 "8\236ÿ¿J\005\v\b¸ÓÓ\bkå\f\b", 0x809059c "\213\216(\001"} value = 0x0 headers_ctx = (struct mailbox_header_lookup_ctx *) 0x8d3d3b8 data = (unsigned char *) 0x8d4b1a8 "h³Ô\b *Ó\b\224X\t\b¬X\t\bÐ\200\006\b\204Å\006\b°2\a\b¤3\a\büÇ\006\bÌÈ\006\bTÉ\006\b" field_idx = 10 dest = (string_t *) 0x8d52038 i = 148100024 len = 148100132 ret = 148156840 header_values = {arr = {buffer = 0xac, element_size = 3221200392}, v = 0xac, v_modifiable = 0xac} #8 0x08091dff in index_mail_get_first_header (_mail=0x8d3d3b8, field=0x80ce56b "Subject", decode_to_utf8=false) at index-mail-headers.c:673 list = (const char * const *) 0x6 #9 0x080b054a in mail_get_first_header (mail=0x0, field=0x80ce56b "Subject") at mail.c:96 No locals. #10 0x08093b5a in sort_header_get (sort_type=MAIL_SORT_SUBJECT, mail=0x8d3d3b8, seq=18) at index-sort.c:180 str = 0x8d3d3b8 "¨±Ô\b8ÇÔ\b\022" buf = (string_t *) 0x20 #11 0x08093cee in sort_node_cmp_type (ctx=0x80e62e0, sort_program=0x8d3d334, n1=0xbfff9f20, n2=0x8d3d850) at index-sort.c:223 sort_type = MAIL_SORT_SUBJECT str1 = 0x8d2aa50 "NEVER USE A WARNING WHEN YOU MEAN UNDO" str2 = 0x0 time1 = 32 time2 = 6 size1 = 148023856 size2 = 73276437037062 ret = 148023888 #12 0x08093eff in sort_node_cmp_no_sort_id (p1=0xbfff9f20, p2=0x8d3d850) at index-sort.c:309 No locals. ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #13 0x080bd794 in bsearch_insert_pos (key=0xbfff9f20, base=0x8d3d798, nmemb=46, size=8, cmp=0x8093ee0 <sort_node_cmp_no_sort_id>, idx_r=0xbfff9f1c) at bsearch-insert-pos.c:20 p = (const void *) 0x0 idx = 23 left_idx = 0 right_idx = 46 ret = 0 #14 0x08094660 in index_sort_headers (program=0x8d3d330, last_seq=52) at index-sort.c:590 node = {seq = 47, sort_id = 0} count = 46 idx = 15 #15 0x08094759 in index_sort_build (program=0x8d3d330, last_seq=52) at index-sort.c:637 ibox = (struct index_mailbox *) 0x8d4b1a8 node = {seq = 1, sort_id = 0} data = (const void *) 0x0 i = 6 #16 0x08094a27 in index_sort_list_finish (program=0x8d3d330) at index-sort.c:743 No locals. #17 0x08093819 in index_storage_search_next_nonblock (_ctx=0x8d3d2c8, mail=0x8d50440, tryagain_r=0xbfffa01b) at index-search.c:1058 box = (struct mailbox *) 0x8d4b1a8 count = 12 ret = 0 #18 0x080b21f3 in mailbox_search_next_nonblock (ctx=0x6, mail=0x8d50440, tryagain_r=0xbfffa01b) at mail-storage.c:598 No locals. #19 0x080b21c5 in mailbox_search_next (ctx=0x8d3d2c8, mail=0x8d50440) at mail-storage.c:589 tryagain = false ret = 0 #20 0x08064529 in imap_sort (cmd=0x8d35f40, charset=0x8d3a2e0 "UTF-8", args=0x8d4b7b0, sort_program=0x8d292c0) at imap-sort.c:90 client = (struct client *) 0x8d345d0 wanted_headers = {0x80ce56b "Subject", 0x0} wanted_fields = 0 search_ctx = (struct mail_search_context *) 0x8d3d2c8 t = (struct mailbox_transaction_context *) 0x8d4c738 headers_ctx = (struct mailbox_header_lookup_ctx *) 0x8d3c9b0 mail = (struct mail *) 0x8d50440 str = (string_t *) 0x8d292c0 written = false ret = 148070208 #21 0x0805e356 in cmd_sort (cmd=0x8d35f40) at cmd-sort.c:134 client = (struct client *) 0x8d345d0 sargs = (struct mail_search_arg *) 0x0 sorting = {MAIL_SORT_SUBJECT, MAIL_SORT_END, 3221201096, 7656935, 148070264, 135062878, 20, 18} args = (const struct imap_arg *) 0x8d3a1e8 args_count = 0 pool = 0x8d4b798 error = 0x0 charset = 0x8d3a2e0 "UTF-8" #22 0x0805fe82 in client_command_input (cmd=0x8d35f40) at client.c:488 client = (struct client *) 0x8d345d0 #23 0x0805fda1 in client_command_input (cmd=0x8d35f40) at client.c:545 client = (struct client *) 0x8d345d0 #24 0x0805ff11 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x8d345d0) at client.c:556 size = 27 #25 0x0805ffce in _client_input (client=0x8d345d0) at client.c:616 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0x2 ret = 2 #26 0x080c3e38 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x8d31a68) at ioloop-poll.c:200 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x8d31aa8 pollfd = (struct pollfd *) 0x2 tv = {tv_sec = 4, tv_usec = 199377} io = (struct io_file *) 0x8d340c8 t_id = 2 msecs = 0 ret = 0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- call = 165 #27 0x08069339 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8d31a68) at ../../src/lib/ioloop.c:351 No locals. #28 0x08068d30 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffa264, envp=0xbfffa26c) at main.c:301 No locals. BUG #2: Some flags are reset after they were set a while ago, like messages that has been read are randomly becoming unread again. Bug #3: CRLF in the email file on disk is shown like "=0A", which causes display problem in wireless access. =0A =0A =0A =0A =0AHey all, =0A=C2=A0 Thanks, Wenjie

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