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[Dovecot] help for static user
by JC 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hi everybody, I have been long (for 2 days) trying, but I really need some help. I would like to use virtual static users. I configured my file as indicated in the documentation and then I created the following directory, with the needed rights (mail account) and leave them empty : /var/mail/virtual/<mon_domaine>.fr/toto/ I am not sure that it is the good method, but I understand it as follows : dovecot looks up in the directories and takes them as usernames and domain names. When I try to open the imap box from a client (evolution), I get a "Unknown error - the server closed the connection" message, that doesn't appear in the server's syslog. My dovecont.conf : << base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = pop3s imaps imap_listen = *:143 pop3_listen = * ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login = imap login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 32 login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 login = pop3 login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_uid = 0 first_valid_gid = 1 last_valid_gid = 0 mail_extra_groups = mail client_workarounds = outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls mailbox_check_interval = 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_max_flag_length = 50 mail_save_crlf = no mail_read_mmaped = no maildir_stat_dirs = no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_check_content_changes = no mbox_lock_timeout = 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 umask = 0077 imap_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 imap_use_modules = no imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap pop3_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_process_size = 256 pop3_use_modules = no pop3_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth = cram-md5 auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 auth_realms = auth_userdb = passwd static uid=8 gid=8 home=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/cram-md5.pwd auth_user = dovecot auth_chroot = auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_process_size = 256 auth_count = 1 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ >> Thank you in advance for any help.

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[Dovecot] Secure connection from "localhost" in jails
by Dirk Engling 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear dovecot developers, first: thanks for this really cool imapd, on my server it serves some hundred domains, all in all some thousand users, some having hundred thousand mails in their Maildirs (their spam boxes mostly). Since I put this installation in an FreeBSD geli encrypted disc image I had no choice but to choose an imapd with clever indexes - dovecot was perfect. However, since I reconfigured the disc image to work as a FreeBSD jail, I had some trouble with my web mail solution. Squirrelmail does not work with imaps (or at least not smoothly, out of the box, or whatever) and I didn't like to hack php to support SSL. Plus: there is no point in using ssl for a local connection. In a FreeBSD jail a sockets source address is always rewritten to the jails address, so squirrelmail opening a connection to dovecot will not come from 127.0.0.1 but from the same (jails) address, dovecot listens to. Still, dovecot only considers 'localhost' addresses as secure and allows LOGIN or PLAIN auth. With the little patch below dovecot allows clients from the jail to authenticate via LOGIN, when they connect from the IP it accepts connections at. Something similar is lurking around in pop3 auth code, I am sure, you get the point. Regards erdgeist ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< dovecot-1.0.rc1/src/imap-login 18:59:44 #> diff -u client.c* - --- client.c Thu Jun 29 18:59:39 2006 +++ client.c_new Thu Jun 29 18:59:19 2006 @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ const struct ip_addr *ip) { struct imap_client *client; - - const char *addr; + const char *addr, *local_addr; if (max_logging_users > CLIENT_DESTROY_OLDEST_COUNT && hash_size(clients) >= max_logging_users) { @@ -429,8 +429,10 @@ client->common.tls = ssl; addr = net_ip2addr(ip); + local_addr = net_ip2addr(local_ip); client->common.secured = ssl || (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, "127.", 4) == 0) || + (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, local_addr, strlen(local_addr)) == 0) || (IPADDR_IS_V6(ip) && (strcmp(addr, "::1") == 0 || strncmp(addr, "::ffff:127.", 11) == 0)); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEpmKwImmQdUyYEgkRAmWJAKCISUFtjdwvIZvHucqREHXKmB3s3ACeO7ql phwkh3m/KTjQCKsRetLxORA= =VnV4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] How to use filters with the LDA?
by martin f krafft 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hi, I am trying to deploy dovecot LDA and liking it so far. However, I need to pass the message through some filters before it's delivered to the user (e.g. spamc). I realise I can just set up a chain (postfix delivers to spamc, pipes to foo, pipes to bar, pipes to deliver), but there's no reliable error handling with that approach. Furthermore, I cannot seem to figure out whether sieve can pass messages through external filters, or how you'd do that. How do people approach this? What would be really sweet is an LDA plugin that can call arbitrary filters for each message it processes. Has something (obvious) like this been done? Thanks, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "doesn't he know who i think i am?" -- phil collins

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[Dovecot] some basic questions
by David 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I'm seeking a small IMAP server, and dovecat was recommended by those more savvy than me. (The sign on my monitor is "My programming language is solder..") so I'll be getting help to deploy this, but first... I've read through the wiki docs but still have questions, ones likely too obvious for most readers.... There will be <100 users, the platform will Debian, and I need IMAP/PO over SSL/TSL and locally-hosted Squirrelmail [unless someone has a better webmail client...]. Other boxes here run postfix, so that is a first choice. Clients will be Eudora, maybe TBird/Apple mail; no M$ Outlook. A) I need multi-domain support, with <joe(a)xyz.com> and <joy(a)qbc.net> being separate users. B) I have a problem with storage-abusers & really want the carrot-stick quota system my favorite ISP, Panix, has. You get N bytes {or messages, I can live with either/both} and when you get near, you get nagged until you solve it. When you exceed quota, you get no more incoming mail, just nagging. It's shunted aside until you make room. After D days, if it's still there, the shunted mail is returned. Regular reports as to who's naughty and nice would be great. C) Password changes. How can I have user-changable pw's, with crack/sanity checking of the new ones? Do I have to have accessible shell accounts on the box for each user? [argh] D) Spam: assume I can run spam-assassin and have it move suspected mail into a Junque mailbox; true? E) Non-guru creation/deletion of accounts: It appears from "Virtual Users" that this is possible via a text file, but I'm not sure... Comments?

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[Dovecot] Managesieve daemon
by Luca Corti 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello, some time ago there was dicussion on the list about development of a managesieve daemon to allow users to manage their own scripts. After putting the pieces togheter and having sieve working in the lda with Dovecot I solved the management issue by using Horde's Ingo + FTP to manage scripts for virtual users. This is quite ugly (technically speaking) but works and it is integrated with my webmail system (which is quite nice). Is anyone actively working on this? Which client do support managesieve? Luca

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[Dovecot] upgrade from beta9 to rc1 - lost access to messages and folders
by Joseph W. Breu 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello All, Upgraded a test machine this morning from beta9 to rc1 and lost access to messages and folders. an strace on the imap process shows it accessing the home directory, but not the mail directory. The two queries that I use are: password_query = SELECT email,crypt as password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT homedir AS home, maildir AS mail, 1000 AS uid, 1000 AS gid FROM users WHERE email = '%u' In this example, homedir=/var/spool/mail/filer/storage and maildir=cfu.net/b/r/breu Under beta9, it finds the homedir/maildir correctly as /var/spool/mail/filer/storage/cfu.net/b/r/breu. Under rc1, it accesses /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//mail/ What did I miss during the upgrade? -- Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] Maildir Quota and Trash Folder
by Joseph W. Breu 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Is there an option to instruct the imap_quota plugin to count messages in the Trash folder as used space? Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH]: updated tpop3d UIDL support based on older patch
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi, Here is an updated patch which allows to use tpop3d compatible UIDL in dovecot (it's against 1.0rc1): http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/dovecot-tpop3d-uidl.patch?r… which is based on: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-March/012080.html Please consider merging it. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] Running on HPUX
by Rich Rauenzahn 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I've gotten fairly far into compiling and running dovecot on HPUX. The problem I'm currently having is that the index seems to be mmap'ed at twice after login. The 576 byte mmap is the index file: root@hp46t243 # grep mmap64 /tmp/dovecot.tusc [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM root@hp46t243 # I think multiple mmap's of the same file are verboten -- + In most cases, two separate calls to mmap() cannot map overlapping ranges in a file. The virtual address range reserved for a file range is determined at the time of the initial mapping of the file range into a process address space. The system allocates only the virtual address range necessary to represent the initial mapping. As long as the initial mapping exists, subsequent attempts to map a different file range that includes any portion of the initial range may fail with an ENOMEM error if an extended contiguous address range that preserves the mappings of the initial range cannot be allocated. So, I was trying to look at why the index file is being mapped twice, and why the addr isn't saved and reused. I was thinking of adding it to one of the index structures and skipping the mmap if the addr != 0. I've been poking around for a couple of hours today and am going to call it a day, but I thought I'd ping the list to see if there was something obvious I was missing. Rich

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RE: [Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

On Wed, June 28, 2006 1:02 pm, Apps Lists <appslists(a)neonova.net> said: > I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the > following when trying to APPEND: > "NO Unknown error" > System logs show: > Quota: Couldn't get new message's size > > .... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the > lack of the file is the cause of the error). I am seeing this problem as well. Running this morning's CVS. Bill

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[Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Apps Lists 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi. I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the following when trying to APPEND: "NO Unknown error" System logs show: Quota: Couldn't get new message's size .... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the lack of the file is the cause of the error). I reverted back to dovecot-20060621 and APPEND is now working again. Steve

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[Dovecot] quota not working on delivery
by martin f krafft 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi, I am using the Debian dovecot packages and the deliver LDA from postfix, all version 1.0.beta8. My problem is with quota support, I am using Maildirs. The relevant configuration stuff is included at the bottom of this email. Quota support seems to work with IMAP. However, even when IMAP complains about an account being over quota, the deliver LDA still happily writes new mail to the (correct) Maildirs. I cannot see any warnings or other hints. Can you spot what I am doing wrong? Thanks! dovecot.conf: protocols = imap default_mail_env = maildir:~/.maildir auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } socket listen { master { # LDA path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } } } plugin { quota = maildir } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)seamus.madduck.net mail_plugins = quota } dovecot-sql.conf: driver = pgsql connect = host=localhost dbname=users user=dovecot password=XXXXXXXX password_query = select password from vmail.users where email='%u' user_query = select home, uid, gid, 'maildir:storage=' || quota as quote from vmail.users where email='%u' -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "women love us for our defects. if we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." -- oscar wilde

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[Dovecot] How to startup multi auth daemond
by Xueron Nee 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi all， I want restrict some user to use POP3 and some other to use SMTP. I consider to startup multi Auth daemond and each use a diffenent SQL. For example: for pop3： select .... where pop3_service=1 and ... for smtp: select .... where smtp_service=1 and ... I don't know if this is a good idea and how to setup dovecot to do so. Is there any suggest? Thanks! -- Xueron Nee <xueron(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] question indexes recreations
by Konstantin 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello! Is it correct not to backup index files in the hope that dovecot will recreate them ?

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[Dovecot] Test
by Tom Alsberg 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Test -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] mbox locking
by Thomas Hummel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello, I'd like to make sure my understanding of the mbox locking strategy is correct : - "mbox_dotlock_change_timeout" directive : a process seeing that an already locked (by another process) mbox he want to access hasn't change for this amount of time, allows himself to override the lock ? If it's using fcntl, is it only possible to override ? - when a process abort trying to get a lock after mbox_lock_timeout, does the UA sees anything ? - multiple locking methods in "mbox_write_lock" : if I state, for instance, mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl when does exactly dotlock method get used and when does fcntl get used ? Are both used simultaneously ? Which leads to the wiki's deadlock situation example : # Program A: fcntl locks the mbox # Program B at the same time: dotlocks the mbox # Program A continues: tries to dotlock the mbox, but since it's already dotlocked by B, it starts waiting # Program B continues: tries to fcntl lock the, but since it's already fcntl locked by A, it starts waiting why would A dotlock the mbox since he did fcntl'ed it successfully ? if he's able to perform fcntl, he can use a shared or an exclusive lock : why use dotlock at all ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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New LDA + Sieve (Was Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc1 released)
by Timothy White 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

> - deliver: Fixed plugin handling settings For sieve support, what is the new procedure? From what I could see, compile WITH deliver support, and then get a plugin from CVS? What has changed in the config files then to enable sieve support? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Colon in maildir folder name breaks keywords
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

With maildir, if you have a colon in a folder name, and you try to set a keyword on a message in that folder, the keyword does not get set - and worse, all existing keywords and other status information gets dropped (flagged, seen, replied, trashed). Bill

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[Dovecot] Trash expire plugin
by Timo Sirainen 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dovecot will soon have a plugin which allows running a nightly cronjob to expunge mails from configured mailboxes which have been in there for a configurable amount of time. For example the configuration could be: plugin { # Trash 7d, Spam 30d expire = Trash 7 Spam 30 } It also supports using Dovecot's lib-dict to keep track of the mailboxes and their oldest mail's timestamp, so that the nightly cronjob can quickly go through only those mailboxes that have those old mails. Berkeley DB support has been added to lib-dict for this purpose, but you could use SQL as well. There's however one problem with it that I could use opinions on. Currently there's no way to know how long a mail has been in a mailbox. There are pretty much 3 ways to handle this: 1) When copying to those Trash/Spam mailboxes the message's INTERNALDATE could be replaced with the current time. That way the INTERNALDATE tells how long the message has been in there. The obvious downside of this is that if the user wants to move the message back to another mailbox, the original INTERNALDATE is lost (INTERNALDATE means the time when the message was received and is often the timestamp used to sort messages). 2) Preserve the INTERNALDATE while copying, but still use it anyway. Often the messages are moved to Trash (and especially to Spam) soon after they have been received. If not, then the user has time until the next nightly cronjob to move the messages back before they're lost. 3) Add a new field to index file which contains the date when the message was copied. This could be done only for those Trash/Spam boxes so they don't waste space for other mailboxes. The problem with this is that it won't work if there are no index files. To overcome that problem the time could be stored in yet another place, such as maildir filename and some new mbox header. I don't see supporting those as worth the trouble though, so the fallback could be either the date index file is created or the messages' INTERNALDATE. I think either 1) or 3) would be best solutions. 3) probably, but if index files don't exist nearly permanently, it's not very reliable..

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[Dovecot] Postfix "userlookup" via Dovecot Auth
by Timothy White 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I'm hoping to take advantage of authentication caching via dovecot-auth. I see that posfix can communicate with Dovecot-Auth, via SASL, but from what I can see, postfix only does this for authentication checks. Not 100% sure how postfix handles virtual_transport (I assume it needs to do a lookup via virtual_mailbox_maps), but I can't see anyway to get virtual_mailbox_maps to use dovecot-auth ether. I guess I may just have to get the virtual_mailbox_maps to look up userdata via SQL as well as Dovecot, but I was hoping to avoid what will be 3 similar lookups one after the other (dovecot-lda is in use as well). My intended setup is "Postfix" -- LMTP --> "Dspam" -- DeliveryAgent --> "Dovecot-LDA", with each stage currently doing a SQL lookup for user information. It would be awesome if they all used SASl via Dovecot-Auth so that the Auth cache does it's job! Reading the doc files in Dspam is confusing me, as the relay file seems to be mixed up. Any help greatly appreciated! Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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Re: [Dovecot] maildir quota not including INBOX
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

On Tue, June 27, 2006 5:14 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > >Does this still happen? It should return INBOX always, so maybe your >namespace settings somehow causes it to break.. > > >Yes, it is still happenning with last night's CVS. Mail in the INBOX ~/cur and > ~/new directories are not counted during quota recalculations, and also I am seeing > exactly what Steve describes here: > > Fixed now in CVS. Weird that I always had the .INBOX directory created > in all my tests, guess I still run 0.99.x Dovecot once in a while :) > That fixed it. Thanks. Bill

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[Dovecot] Periodic cleanup of Trash
by Anand Buddhdev 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi dovecot developers, Is there any plan to have a plugin which deletes old messages from certain folders at login time? I am thinking along the lines of the automatic removal of old messages from say, the Trash folder. This functionality exists in courier-imap and cyrus imap, and would be very handy to have in dovecot too. -- Anand

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Re: [Dovecot] maildir quota not including INBOX
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

On Sun, June 11, 2006 1:52 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:02 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >The maildir quota plugin doesn't appear to be including the INBOX in the quota > calculation that is reported by GETQUOTAROOT. > >I took a look at the code and it appears that in this file > "src/plugins/quota/quota-maildir.c", the function "maildirsize_recalculate" relies > on all of the folders being listed when "maildir_list_init" is called. However the > INBOX is not included in that listing, so its current storage size is not > included. > >I couldn't figure out what patch would be needed to fix this, but I'm sure it is > something simple. Any ideas? > > Does this still happen? It should return INBOX always, so maybe your > namespace settings somehow causes it to break.. > Yes, it is still happenning with last night's CVS. Mail in the INBOX ~/cur and ~/new directories are not counted during quota recalculations, and also I am seeing exactly what Steve describes here: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/014318.html My namespace settings are: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = . } Bill

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[Dovecot] POP3 quota trouble
by Anand Buddhdev 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm running Dovecot 1.0 beta8 on CentOS 4.3. In the "protocol imap { }" section, I have enabled the following 2 plugins: imap_quota quota In the "plugin { }" section, I have configured the following: quota = maildir imap_quota = maildir This all works well, and if I use IMAP, Dovecot correctly updates the maildirsize file in user Maildirs. However, I need quota to work for POP3 as well. If I enable the quota plugin in the "protocol pop3 { }" section, I get the following error in the log: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mountpoint_get Along with this error, POP3 logins are not possible. The server crashes, and client connection is closed. Is there a fix for this problem? Regards, -- Anand

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: Maildirquota
by Bill Boebel 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Tue, May 30, 2006 10:02 am, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 20:43 +0800, Timothy White wrote: >userdb static { >args = uid=112 gid=112 home=/var/mail/%1n/%n imap_quota=10485760 >} > > "imap_quota" does nothing. Use "quota" instead. Also its contents should > be something like: > > quota=maildir:storage=10485760 > > If that's correctly configured, then Dovecot creates and updates the > maildirsize file's quota information. Also the GETQUOTAROOT problem Bill > was describing doesn't seem to happen with me if this is correct.. > I am finally getting to test the latest CVS... Yep, our LDAP was returnning a bad quota string. Fixing the quota string corrected the problem I was seeing where calling GETQUOTAROOT would not always recalculate the maildirsize file. Thanks, Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot.beta9
by Roy Marples 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

> I have been upgraded dovecot today and I get following errors: > >Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(adnae at xxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() failed: >Function not implemented >Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(auftrag at xxxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() >failed: Function not implemented >Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(swolf at xxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() failed: >Function not implemented > >I have a 64 bit system (Gentoo [amd64]) and I have enabled this >function on my kernel: > >Kernel: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9: > [*] Inotify file change notification support One of our developers wanted inotify support in dovecot, and look what happens - lol. The error is that you have glibc-2.4 which triggers inotify support in dovecot on linux boxes (in the Gentoo ebuild). However, glibc-2.4 needs to be compiled against linux-headers-2.6.13 or later as they provide the linux/inotify.h header which glibc needs. I've spoken to our toolchain guys and they don't want to remove glibc's inotify.h so they keep their ABI which makes perfect sense to them. So I've hacked up a patch to dovecots configure.in that only enables inotify if it really works :) It also tests for inotify, then kqueue, then dnotify if no notify method is specified. Seems to work well. If upstream (Timo) accepts it then I'll roll it into beta9's ebuild ASAP A better solution would be to have something in the code though as if the kernel suddenly drops to <2.6.13 then you'll get the same errors. In the meantime, I've forced the beta9 ebuild to only use inotify if >=glibc-2.4 and >=linux-headers-2.6.16 are present, and I hope glibc has been compiled against them - lol. Thanks -- Roy Marples <uberlord(a)gentoo.org> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)

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[Dovecot] pop-3 login delay
by Joseph W. Breu 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

We are running Dovecot 1.0.beta9 w/ mysql authentication. Mail storage is a Network Appliance F810 filer and we are using maildir. The only issue that we have run into is that pop3 logins take much longer than imap logins within dovecott and many times longer than a similar connection with courier-imap. For example, dovecot IMAP and courier-imap POP3 and IMAP logins take less than 1/2 second to complete the login. dovecot POP3 takes 2-3 seconds. I have disabled MMAP and am using fcntl. I searched the last few months of the archive, and being new here, didn't know if this had been discussed before or not. Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC1 status #2
by Timo Sirainen 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I've done several fixes since my original RC1 status mail. Most importantly I noticed that SEARCH command has been somewhat broken for a long time if the search condition contained OR or NOT conditions. Then again fixing that caused Dovecot to assert-crash for some searches. That should be fixed now. Hopefully I didn't break the SEARCH in other ways while doing this.. So, again, please test the latest CVS or the latest nightly snapshot from http://dovecot.org/nightly/ Especially I'm interested in: - Does SEARCH work correctly? - Does ioloop checks now work properly? There were mails about it being broken with kqueue and epoll. - Does mboxes with CR+LF linefeeds work correctly? I'm hoping to release the 1.0 RC1 late in sunday or in monday morning (EEST). Then a status update of my life in case you're interested: I got in pretty much everywhere I applied for: CS and biotech in Helsinki university and biotech in Tampere university. For Helsinki's biochem I'm the first in the waiting list, which means I almost certainly would get in there too. So, unless something suddenly changes my mind, I'm moving to Tampere in two months. I'm selling my current apartment, so now's your chance to live in the same place where most of Dovecot was designed and written ;) Or I think it could be a good investment also if you have the money. http://www.igglo.fi/ad.php?card_id=82322 has some information (in Finnish only), I'll get pictures from inside tomorrow. Would be nice if I didn't have to pay real estate agents (?) to sell it for me, so please buy it :) I'll keep my current job so this shouldn't affect the commercial side of Dovecot.

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[Dovecot] loganalyser for dovecot logs ?
by Andreas Schulze 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

hello, I'm looking for any help to analyze my dovecot logs - logins per day - different users - users per protocol - bytes - pop3commands - nice graphs any suggestions ? thanks -- Andreas Schulze DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg Abt. Internet- und Securitydienste Telefon : +49 911 276 2648 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892 Mobil : +49 172 8122883 E-Mail : andreas.schulze_at_datev.de

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[Dovecot] Asterisks (*) in Folder Names disallowed?
by Daniel W 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

As far as I can see the RFC for IMAP should allow the * character in the folder name. This is certainly allowed in UW IMAP. Dovecot seems to object however with: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: COPY 9975:9975 "mail/*myfolder" Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name. Could this restriction be lifted? Best wishes, Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

My BSD wrote: > That was my point. The problem seems to be more a Thunderbird than a > Dovecot bug. > Hmmm, I am not sure. With Cyrus TB seems to work correctly in that case.

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[Dovecot] Configure Dovecot with LDAP
by hpmysql 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Dear All I encountered some problem while i tried to configure Dovecot with LDAP. configuration directory: /usr/local/src/dovecot-1.0.beta8 configure command: ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --with-ldap /usr/local/include# ls -F lber.h lber_types.h ldap.h ldap_cdefs.h ldap_features.h ldap_schema.h ldap_utf8.h openssl/ slapi-plugin.h /usr/local/lib# ls *.a libcrypto.a liblber.a libldap.a libldap_r.a libssl.a My configure output: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: It does not seem to have LDAP configured. Did i miss out something on the configure options? or is there any PATH that i need to specify? Hope to hear from you soon! Thanking in advance. Joshua

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[Dovecot] trying to build dovecot-sieve
by Sergey Ivanov 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi, I'm trying to compile dovecot with dovecot-sieve, both from CVS. There is file dovecot-config.in.in in current dovecot module, which produce dovecot-config.in after ./configure'ing. But dovecot-sieve requires file dovecot-config to be in dovecot's directory. I think it is just typo, because after renaming dovecot-config.in to dovecot-config the building succeeded. -- Sergey Ivanov

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[Dovecot] quotas on shared folders
by Nicolas Boullis 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi, After using dovecot 0.99.14 on a production server with full satisfaction, I'm now giving a try to 1.0beta8 (I know beta9 is out, but it's not yet available within Debian). The new features are great. Maildir++ quotas seem to work fine, and shared folders look promising (despite a few issues). My problem is that I could not fire out how to set quotas on shared folders. Is it possible? Cheers, Nicolas

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC 0/13] OTP: add auth_cache_remove()
by Andrey Panin 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

This patchset add support for One-Time-Password authentication mechanisms, both S/Key (RFC 1731) and OTP (RFC 2444) are implemented. Tested with mutt (uses cyrus sasl library for authentication). Patches were made against CVS HEAD. Please take a look. Add auth_cache_remove() function which will be used by OTP code to evict old entries from auth cache. diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.c dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.c --- dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.c 2006-06-23 13:42:22.122508080 +0400 +++ dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.c 2006-06-23 13:44:30.945923944 +0400 @@ -226,3 +226,22 @@ void auth_cache_insert(struct auth_cache cache->size_left -= alloc_size; hash_insert(cache->hash, node->data, node); } + +void auth_cache_remove(struct auth_cache *cache, + const struct auth_request *request, + const char *key) +{ + string_t *str; + struct cache_node *node; + + str = t_str_new(256); + var_expand(str, key, + auth_request_get_var_expand_table(request, + auth_request_str_escape)); + + node = hash_lookup(cache->hash, str_c(str)); + if (node == NULL) + return; + + auth_cache_node_destroy(cache, node); +} diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.h dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.h --- dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.h 2006-06-23 13:42:22.122508080 +0400 +++ dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.h 2006-06-23 13:44:30.945923944 +0400 @@ -27,4 +27,9 @@ void auth_cache_insert(struct auth_cache const struct auth_request *request, const char *key, const char *value); +/* Remove key from cache */ +void auth_cache_remove(struct auth_cache *cache, + const struct auth_request *request, + const char *key); + #endif

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Re: [Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

My BSD wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:57:00 +0300 > Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:19 +0400, the.buratino(a)rambler.ru wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I have very strange problem with dovecot and thunderbird while >>> deleting messages. The problem is that they are not actually >>> deleted from storage filesystem and if I later run mutt I can >>> perfectly see them, though marked with 'D', so mutt ask to delete >>> them on exit and this time they dissapear from filesystem. I >>> enabled in thunderbird 'remove it iimediately' feature, but this >>> doesn't help. When I delete message from mutt it removed from >>> filesystem just fine. >>> >>> IMAP server: >>> OS: FreeBSD 6.1p2 >>> dovecot: dovecot-1.0.b9 >> Yes, this is a bug in 1.0beta9. If you do the expunging twice it >> should work then. I'll release 1.0rc1 soon which will fix it. >> > > Good day! > > (I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry. I hope I'm not > re-stating the obvious or what some other poster already observed.) > > I'm not so sure that this is only a Dovecot bug. > > As I understand it, upon manual deletion TB's "remove it immediately" > setting removes it from view but not from the server. > > As the.buratino correctly observed, messages are marked deleted on the > server. However, TB does not expunge them until TB is closed (or > sometimes re-started). > I've made some experiments with TB and observed: 1) if message was in INBOX and marked for deletion by TB it _is_ deleted from filesystem after TB restart. 2) if message was _not_ in INBOX but in other IMAP folder it is not deleted even after TB restart. In addition to mutt I've tested sylpheed and it is also delete messages from server correctly, i.e. they are removed from filesystem

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[Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello! I have very strange problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting messages. The problem is that they are not actually deleted from storage filesystem and if I later run mutt I can perfectly see them, though marked with 'D', so mutt ask to delete them on exit and this time they dissapear from filesystem. I enabled in thunderbird 'remove it iimediately' feature, but this doesn't help. When I delete message from mutt it removed from filesystem just fine. IMAP server: OS: FreeBSD 6.1p2 dovecot: dovecot-1.0.b9 Client: OS: Debian sarge Thunderbird: thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (from backports.org) Any suggestions ?

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[Dovecot] Squirrel mail search tool fails
by Paul 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

When I do a search in squirrelmail, it will start giving several results, but then fails. I use squirrelmail via https. maillog reveils: file message-body-search.c: line 391 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) Squirrel mail browser interface reveils: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 ALL TEXT {4} "text" Current versions (all up to date) squirrelmail-1.4.6-5.el4.centos4 dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12 squirrelmail-1.4.6-5.el4.centos4 mod_ssl-2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 Can someone point me in a direction? I just cut-over to CentOS4.3 (fresh install) from FC1 and this is the first bug which I have never seen before. Never have used Dovecot before. Thanks. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^| || \ | Budvar ######|| ||'|"\,__. | _..._...______ ===|=||_|__|...] "(@)'(@)""""**|(@)(@)*****(@)I

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[Dovecot] Dovecot with Imp problems
by Neil Wilson 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi guys, I've run into a strange problem using beta 8 and beta 9 when using the latest version of Horde/IMP Through IMP, I can see that there are messages in the maildir on the sidemenu(popup menu) but the emails don't show in my actual inbox. I thought this was an IMP problem, but then I downgraded to dovecot 99 series RPM and this resolved the problem. I was seeing the following error in my logs, when I tried to log into a mailbox through IMP. Jun 21 09:22:46 mail dovecot: IMAP(davew): file index-mail.c: line 105 (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == data_size) Jun 21 09:22:46 mail dovecot: child 6217 (imap) killed with signal 6 Thanks, I hope this helps. Regards. Neil Wilson Powered by Linux, driven by passion! -- This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.dcdata.co.za/emaildisclaimer.html

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[Dovecot] UID sync errors
by Patrick MacDonald 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello, I recently converted my 300+ email user system over to Dovecot. It is working fantastically, except for UID sync errors. I read everything I could find and only saw others with those problems in version 0.99 below. My log shows errors like this all day long for pretty much all users: dovecot: Jun 25 19:12:46 Error: POP3(nmichel): Maildir /home/rtb/users/nmichel/.Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (42 < 43, file = msg.oP8c:2,) dovecot: Jun 25 19:25:59 Error: IMAP(lcrowe): Maildir /home/dentist/users/lcrowe/.Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (70 > 4, file = msg.AM81:2,) When this happens, IMAP and POP3 drop the connections sending errors to their clients. I use squirrelmail over IMAP and some new emails never appear until I delete the index files. I have tried deleting indexes, and the problem continued. I went from dovecot-1.0.beta3 to dovecot-1.0.beta9 and still happens. The only way it doesn't happen is when I append the INDEX=MEMORY trick as in: default_mail_env = maildir:~/.Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY but then it's all so slow for large mailboxes, it's painful. Here are some of my specs: Linux kernel 2.6.15 Maildir Auth from /etc/shadow Users from /etc/passwd Does anyone have any hints on where I should start? Thanks in advance. I love Dovecot. I really hope I can get this resolved. Patrick MacDonald admin(a)athensguy.com

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[Dovecot] OE pop3 > imap subfolder migration?
by Sysadmin 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello. This isn't actually a dovecot question, but I'm running in clienys servers dovecot mostly as pop3 server and now started to migrate some servers to imap. But as clients uses Outlook Express how to transfer their pop3 settings and mailboxes to imap?. Making a new mail account for imap is easy, and drag & drop the default folders (inbox, outbox etc) messages to imap accounts default folders is easy, but what about subfolders? Some users have hundreds subfolders and creating them & transfering messages by hand is a pain. So have anyone a better and faster solution how to migrate Outlook Express pop3 account to the imap account, preserving the same folders, rules etc. -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] RHEL 3 and quota issues.
by Alan Premselaar 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to code provided by Geo Carncross, I was able to determine what the problem was with v2 quota support on RHEL 3 using ext3 filesystems. I've included a patch file for quota-fs.c <sys/quota.h> on RHEL 3 sets _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 1 if it's not defined by default. I copied <sys/quota.h> to ./sysquota.h and edited it to set _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 2 if not defined since that's the version i'm using on my machine. I don't know if that's necessarily appropriate so I'm not including that file. (I then modified quota-fs.h to load "sysquota.h" instead of <sys/quota.h>) I was able to get it to compile and properly show the quota information now. I'd like to do more testing (like seeing if explicitly setting _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 2 is really necesssary) but my one and only RHEL 3 machine is my production mail server, so I can't really do that. Anyways, since I figured out the problem and fixed it for myself, I thought I would share :) Timo, perhaps if you have the time to look at the patch and if the modifications to the quota.h file are necessary or not and include it into the next CVS update, I'm sure people would appreciate it. Thanks, Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEn0spE2gsBSKjZHQRAs/RAJ9DsqkhHYvRifZYkOcLo8DibQMS0gCdEPDD A4CUiujssDVT5e+pjfuMWow= =+6vU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- quota-fs.c.orig 2006-06-26 11:23:30.000000000 +0900 +++ quota-fs.c 2006-06-26 11:27:52.000000000 +0900 @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ /* BSD, AIX */ root->mount->device_path, QCMD(Q_GETQUOTA, USRQUOTA), #endif - root->uid, (void *)&dqblk) < 0) { + root->uid, (caddr_t)&dqblk) < 0) { i_error("quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, %s) failed: %m", root->mount->device_path); quota_set_error(_root->setup->quota, "Internal quota error"); @@ -211,8 +211,13 @@ return -1; } #endif +#if _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION < 2 *value_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_curblocks * (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4096; +#else + *value_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_curspace * + (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4096; +#endif *limit_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_bsoftlimit * (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4; return 1;

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[Dovecot] Problem with SSL
by Артемьев Артем 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Freebsd dovecot --version 1.0.beta9 In /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf #grep -i ssl /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf |egrep -v '^#' ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/certs/server.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/certs/server.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 When I try to be connected to imaps I get message in maillog: Jun 24 04:00:18 alife dovecot: imap-login: Waiting for SSL parameter file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat Also I deleted a file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat and reboot system. And file rebuild but still ssl doesn't work. I try # /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ssl-build-param /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat SSL parameters regeneration completed And ssl doesn't work and I still get message Waiting for SSL parameter file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat I do not know what to do. I have another server with 1.0.beta8 and ssl work fine.

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[Dovecot] escaping in sqlite
by Jakob Hirsch 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi Timo&all, a recent change in the sql drivers introduced escaping, but sqlite is a different in this aspect: You cannot escape with a backslash, the only character that needs escaping is the quoting character itself (by doubling it, as the SQL standard says). As the escaping function does not know which quote character is used, one should only use the single tick ' (again, as the SQL standard says) and the escaping function double any single quote in the string. (untested) patch for the latter attached. Index: dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c,v retrieving revision 1.5.2.1 diff -u -r1.5.2.1 driver-sqlite.c --- dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c 31 May 2006 11:02:45 -0000 1.5.2.1 +++ dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c 25 Jun 2006 12:53:48 -0000 @@ -92,7 +92,24 @@ static char *driver_sqlite_escape_string(struct sql_db *_db __attr_unused__, const char *string) { - return t_strdup_noconst(str_escape(string)); + size_t newlen = 0; + char *c, *newstr; + + /* check if escaping is needed */ + if (index(string, '\'') == NULL) + return string; + + /* escape ' */ + newstr = t_buffer_get(strlen(string) * 2 + 1); + for (c=string; *c != '\0'; ++c) { + newstr[newlen++] = *c; + if (*c == '\'') + newstr[newlen++] = *c; + } + newstr[newlen] = '\0'; + t_buffer_alloc(newlen + 1); + + return newstr; } static void driver_sqlite_exec(struct sql_db *_db, const char *query)

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[Dovecot] recent dovecot: assertion failed.
by sergey ivanov 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi, today I have built dovecot from cvs sources, and upgraded server from beta-7 to this newer version. Then i got problems with opening INBOX using thunderbird 1.5.0.2. The client says "Opening folder...", then, after about half a minute, blinking "connecting to the server" and returning to "Opening folder..." /var/log/maillog gets the messages: --- Jun 22 17:19:07 parkheights dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<seriv>, method=plain, rip=66.80.117.2, lip=192.168.10.14, TLS Jun 22 17:19:26 parkheights dovecot: IMAP(seriv): file index-search.c: line 845 (search_get_seqset): assertion failed: (ctx->seq1 <= ctx->seq2) Jun 22 17:19:26 parkheights dovecot: child 25812 (imap) killed with signal 6 --- and this lines repeat and repeat. At the same time I can open some INBOX' subfolders at the same server. So, I think it is a problem not with a server's software, but with mail storage. Help me, please, - how can I fix these indexes, or what causes the problem with access to that mail folder? My dovecot's configs are: --- # dovecot -a -n protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login default_mail_env: maildir:/home/%u/.imap lock_method: flock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd --- # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=epoll dnotify ipv6 openssl mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword ldap passwd passwd-file sql static -- Sergey Ivanov

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Re: [Dovecot] Help! Uidlist files are gone and won't come back; imap keeps coredumping!
by Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Timo - The only behavior change that I notice is that when I exit the telnet session the truss also exits. Previously, the truss hung around until I did the "pkill dovecot", after exiting the telnet session. So, that's weird. But, hold on! Now I do seem to have a uidlist file, again! % ls -l total 308 drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 98304 Jun 19 07:44 cur/ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 260 Jun 19 07:47 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 65752 Jun 19 07:47 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 29560 Jun 11 08:42 dovecot.index drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 32768 Jun 19 07:43 new/ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 1188 May 1 07:01 subscriptions drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 61440 Jun 19 07:42 tmp/ Mario Timo Sirainen wrote: > Try if the attached patch changes anything. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Index: src/lib/file-dotlock.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib/file-dotlock.c,v > retrieving revision 1.38 > diff -u -r1.38 file-dotlock.c > --- src/lib/file-dotlock.c 8 Jun 2006 16:42:40 -0000 1.38 > +++ src/lib/file-dotlock.c 19 Jun 2006 12:55:51 -0000 > @@ -664,6 +664,12 @@ > } > } > > + if (dotlock->fd != -1) { > + if (close(dotlock->fd) < 0) > + i_error("close(%s) failed: %m", dotlock->path); > + dotlock->fd = -1; > + } > + > if (rename(lock_path, dotlock->path) < 0) { > i_error("rename(%s, %s) failed: %m", lock_path, dotlock->path); > file_dotlock_free(dotlock); -- I don't need a name; my number's just fine. | Mario.Nigrovic(a)freescale.com It's nobody else's -- just mine, all mine. | 480-413-3578 Internal Use Only

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[Dovecot] BODY.PEEK errors on Beta8?
by Gavin Henry 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: FETCH 1 (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)]) Will try an update just now. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0_beta9 : (auth) killed with signal 11
by Paul Harrington 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I have just upgraded from courier to dovecot and things seem to be working okay (after a few problems getting shared folders working correctly). I notice the following error message in my logs:- Jun 23 11:17:32 calzone dovecot: child 1258 (auth) killed with signal 11 I am using the beta9 ebuild that is available from gentoo portage. I have followed the steps to try to get a core dump but it doesn't seem to be working. My config file is as follows:- =============================================================== protocols = imap imaps protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen = *:993 } mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes auth_debug = yes #mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/%u auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/imap.passwd } passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/imap.passwd } } namespace private { separator = . prefix = Inbox. inbox = yes } namespace public { separator = . prefix = Allstar. location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/shared::CONTROL=/var/spool/mail/virtual/control/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/virtual/control/%u } ================================================================== All users use UID/GID 5000. /etc/imap.passwd contains enteries such as:- paul:rMPY999gvr2kU:5000:5000::/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/paul Any advise on how I can produce a core dump and get this fixed? Thanks Paul

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[Dovecot] LMTP revisited
by Glenn Leavell 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

During the early Dovecot LDA brainstorming discussions, there was some talk about the possibility of including an LMTP interface, and I've noticed that there's an "is it needed?" question about LMTP in Dovecot's TODO file. I'd like to put in a vote for LMTP, and I'm wondering if anyone else has a need for it. Specifically, I'd love an LMTP-enabled LDA that uses hard links when when delivering the same message to multiple recipients (I'm thinking Maildir files), as it would be a nice way to facilitate so-called Single Instance Storage. Glenn

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[Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state
by Patrick Carney 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Can anyone help me with this issue? The CEO of our company keeps getting IMAP time out errors and "mailbox is in an inconsistent state" messages. He uses Outlook 2003. There are errors on the server side. This is what it says: "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't hi gher than existing (2 <= 504)" Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered Dovecot before. Thank You! Patrick

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