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[Dovecot] Patch for rawlog.c
by Andreas Schulze 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

hello The homedirectories are stored as a relative path in my userdb One problem ocoures with rawlog: rawloging occures only if a directory $HOME/dovecot.rawlog exist. this is checked with lstat for me $HOME is always "username/". This is relative to /var/mail and works. in rawlog.c lstat should now check "username//dovecot.rawlog" which fails. lstat can check "/var/mail/username//dovecot.rawlog" or "./dovecot.rawlog" ( All checks test the existence of the same dir. ) I patched rawlog.c for me to force always the test of "./dovecot.rawlog" I think, this is no problem, because imap-auth / pop3-auth always change to the correct location. mayby I am wrong, because I'm _NOT_ dealing with mboxes, only maildirs. then you may discard this ... --- snip diff -Naur dovecot-1.0.beta9.orig/src/util/rawlog.c dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/util/rawlog.c --- dovecot-1.0.beta9.orig/src/util/rawlog.c 2006-02-26 11:05:31.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/util/rawlog.c 2006-06-23 08:37:57.684368256 +0200 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #define TIMESTAMP_WAIT_TIME 5 #define TIMESTAMP_FORMAT "* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\n" +#define RAWLOG_DIRNAME "./dovecot.rawlog" static struct ioloop *ioloop; @@ -261,20 +262,14 @@ static void rawlog_open(bool write_timestamps) { - const char *home, *path; struct stat st; int sfd[2]; pid_t pid; - home = getenv("HOME"); - if (home == NULL) - home = "."; - /* see if we want rawlog */ - path = t_strconcat(home, "/dovecot.rawlog", NULL); - if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) { + if (lstat(RAWLOG_DIRNAME, &st) < 0) { if (errno != ENOENT) - i_warning("lstat() failed for %s: %m", path); + i_warning("lstat() failed for %s: %m", RAWLOG_DIRNAME); return; } if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) @@ -305,7 +300,7 @@ dec2str(getppid()))); ioloop = io_loop_create(system_pool); - rawlog_proxy_create(0, 1, sfd[0], path, write_timestamps); + rawlog_proxy_create(0, 1, sfd[0], RAWLOG_DIRNAME, write_timestamps); io_loop_run(ioloop); io_loop_destroy(&ioloop); ---- snap -- 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] courier imap features I miss in dovecot
by Andreas Schulze 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

hello, courier imap has two features: ##NAME: IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH:0 # # Set IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH to move expunged messages to Trash. This # effectively allows an undo of message deletion by fishing the deleted # mail from trash. Trash can be manually expunged as usually, and mail # will get automatically expunged from Trash according to IMAP_EMPTYTRASH. # # NOTE: shared folders are still expunged as usual. Shared folders are # not affected. # IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=1 ##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0 # # The following setting is optional, and causes messages from the given # folder to be automatically deleted after the given number of days. # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of folder:days. The default # setting, below, purges 7 day old messages from the Trash folder. # Another useful setting would be: # # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30 # # This would also delete messages from the Sent folder (presumably copies # of sent mail) after 30 days. This is a global setting that is applied to # every mail account, and is probably useful in a controlled, corporate # environment. # is this possible with dovecot too ? -- 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] different locations for different reals
by Arne Van Theemsche 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi I've been reading a lot, but I think I'am confused about namespaces. We are planning a migration of our pshychical mail storage. This will mean that subfolders are moving from /home to /var/spool/mail. I was thinking, for the migrations of creating a realm. I would like that if a user logs in with his username, the old location is used, if the user logs in with username@REALM, the subfolders are to be searched in the new location, is this possible? Can I use a different mail location per realm? thx in advance Arne

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[Dovecot] Large mbox files.
by Kevin Warren 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I'm very sorry if this is a faq. I've spent considerable time reading documentation and doing Google searches to no avail...and the mailing list archive isn't searchable as far as I can tell. Anyway, the question: When I try to open a large mbox file from Squirrel Mail I receive the following Dovecot error: Jun 23 10:47:55 jetta dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(kevin): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 400 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): ass ertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) Jun 23 10:47:56 jetta dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 28535 (imap) killed with signal 6 Not sure what other information you will need. (There's no posting guideline for the mailing list) Here's my guess: Dovecot version: 1.0.beta9 OS version: Solaris x86 v10 I'm guessing a listing of non-default values in dovecot.conf would be useful too: $ grep -vE "^ *#" dovecot.conf | grep -E "^ *[a-z\}]" ssl_listen = *:993 first_valid_uid = 100 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } plugin { }

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[Dovecot] dovecot and thunderbird
by Mark Davies 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

We've been using dovecot for a while now (currently 1.0beta7) and it works nicely. We have just one reoccuring problem: When using thunderbird as the imap client sometimes when messages are moved from the inbox to other folders (including Trash) they shortly thereafter reappear in the inbox - this can happen multiple times to the same message. We have multiple namespaces set up so that inbox is mbox format in ~/.poffice/username and other folders are maildir in ~/Maildir - both of these are on NFS. Indexes are on local storage. The problem only seems to happen with thunderbird. kmail, mac mail, outlook, pine all work fine. If we effectively move a user so that their inbox is also maildir then the problem doesn't happen. The inbox being mbox format is for historic reasons and medium to long term this should change to maildir but in the interim can anyone see anything different that thunderbird does to other imap clients that might be tickling an underlying bug? cheers mark

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[Dovecot] beta9 (auth) killed with signal 11 - backtrace
by Paul Harrington 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Further to my previous email I managed to find the core file. Version: 1.0.beta9 OS: Gentoo x86 Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt full #0 0xb7d575ba in strcasecmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x0805b091 in passdb_get_credentials () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available.

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[Dovecot] 2nd Question on v1.0 setup and maildir
by Patrick Carney 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

_____ From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick@castandcrew.com] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:55 AM To: 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Subject: Question on v1.0 setup and maildir Hello all. I appreciate the responses to my problem on v0.99.14. Thank you all. We have built a new server running version 1.0-0_15.beta9.el4. The mail delivery agent is sendmail. We seem to have gotten it up fairly easily. But we have one problem. We are using the maildir feature instead of mbox and when ever mail gets delivered, it is not sending it to the \maildir\new folder. It seems to be dumping it in the root of the maildir directory, thus when a client checks for email, it appears nothing is there. Here is a sample from our config. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Forgive me if this is elementary question, but I am new to dovecot. ## Mailbox locations and namespaces ## # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There are a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. #namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. #separator = / # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". #prefix = # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. #location = # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no ##

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[Dovecot] This store does not support subscriptions, or they are not enabled...
by Dan Stromberg 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi folks. I'm using evolution 2.2.3 on Fedora Core 4 with simap to dovecot 1.0beta9. I had the same problem with dovecot 1.0alpha1. The problem is that I can't seem to subscribe to any folders. Nor can I seem to get this combination to list all of my folders. I'd be fine with either. It used to be, that if I just toggled "show only subscribed folders" a few times, I'd start getting folders, but not anymore. Of course, sometimes the behavior would be the opposite of what I'd selected, but I wasn't too worried about that. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] maildir++ Quotas - bizarre behavior.
by Apps Lists 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi Timo et al. I've been trying to track down why Dovecot recalculations of maildirsize are so wildly different (lower) than what Maildrop comes up with. I think I've found some bizarre behavior in Dovecot -- this is in beta9 as well as CVS from yesterday. It appears Dovecot isn't looking at /Maildir/cur ... /Maildir/new and /Maildir/tmp. It is, however, looking at /Maildir/.Drafts, /Maildir/.Sent, and /Maildir/.Trash. None of these folders contain any messages, but Dovecot seems to count the existence of . and .. as message files. Worse, it's coming up with actual usage data for these empty (of messages) folders. Presumably it's counting the log and cache files. I've attached a diff to quota-maildir.c which will enable some verbose logging. Also attached is a ls -lR of the Maildir in question as well as the output of the aforementioned debugging. Please help. Steve

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[Dovecot] Authentication problems with mysql 5
by Gianfranco Bartolini 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hello, this is my first post here, so hi to all! I've just configured a new Suse Linux 10.1 distribution that comes with: - postfix 2.2.9 + mysql tables - dovecot 1.0.beta3 - mysql 5.0.18 - kernel 2.6.16.13-4-bigsmp i386 on a Intel Xeon 2.0Ghz with 3Gb RAM I've also added postfixadmin 2.1.0 to build an IMAP server with virtual users/virtual hosts management, and ran the script DATABASE_MYSQL.TXT to build correctly database/tables and user/permissions. The problem is that dovecot fail to access to mysql tables with the following error: =================== dovecot: Jun 12 18:40:28 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up dovecot: Jun 12 18:40:29 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to 127.0.0.1 (postfix): Access denied for user 'postfix'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry =================== I've tried to connect to mysql using the socket instead of the local ip address, but i've got the same error: =================== dovecot: Jun 12 18:55:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up dovecot: Jun 12 18:55:20 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (postfix): Access denied for user 'postfix'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry =================== In mysql the user "postfix" is correctly created with access granted from either localhost and 127.0.0.1 If i do the same from the command line it works perfectly: =================== server01:/ # mysql -h localhost -u postfix -p Enter password: secret Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 136 to server version: 5.0.18 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> =================== Here is my dovecot.conf: =================== default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mbox/%d/%n protocols = imap pop3 auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } } first_valid_uid = 51 ssl_disable = yes listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log =================== And my dovecot-sql.conf: =================== driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' user_query = SELECT maildir AS mail, 51 AS uid, 51 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' =================== I'v tried also all the password mechanisms (PLAIN, PLAIN-MD5, MD5, CRYPT) with no success. My google searches ended with no results. Btw, the same configuration on a Suse 9.3 professional works perfectly :( Please anyone can help me? Thanks in advance for all the kindly support Saluti G.Bartolini Linux User #333064

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[Dovecot] Re: entered bc_action_emit with filelen:
by Alex Pimperton 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi, I'm still getting the errors below on Debian Etch with Dovecot 1.0.8-4 and Dovecot LDA. Is this something that's fixed in 1.0.9? It doesn't seem to have an effect but I'm wary of messages I don't recognise! Regards, Alex Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 16 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 112 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 240 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 368 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the MailScanner at Placet.co.uk, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] problem with kqueue
by Alessandro de Manzano 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hello, I'm a new user of Dovecot (since 1.0b8) and I'ld report about a possible bug. Situation: Dovecot 1.0beta9 with kqueue support FreeBSD 6.1-Release x86 machine (IBM x206, P4 3.2 Ghz) local filesystem UFS2 This is an internal, experimental, mail server running Postfix and Dovecot configured with Maildirs e IMAP-only access. Clients are quite few, now, just because it's an experiment. However are near all Outlook Express 6. Running with dovecot 1.0 beta8 _without_ kqueue support for few weeks was fine, no problems at all. A couple of days ago I updated to beta9 (using FreeBSD's portupgrade tools) and in the _same_time_ I enabled the kqueue support. Since then I've seen about 3-4 of these in the log: (note that process traps apparently after reporting the unrecognized event) Jun 20 10:38:53 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = 1, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x0000, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data = 0x00008322} Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): mode: 0x004x Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue kernel: pid 18426 (imap), uid 1004: exited on signal 6 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: child 18426 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Any ideas ? Any one else got these messages ? I'ld try recompiling beta9 without kqueue support, probably the issue would disappear, but IMHO is not the best way to "correct" things :) Many thanks in advance! -- Alessandro de Manzano System & Network Administrator Playstos - TIMA S.p.A. Corso Sempione 63 20149 Milano, Italy tel.: +39-023314153 fax : +39-02315678 email: demanzano(a)playstos.com http://www.playstos.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot servers / SAN
by Dean Manners 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hey guys, Wondering if anyone out there has any input on running Dovecot with SAN storage. Its coming to the time where we need to run load balanced servers, and past experiences steer us away from a NAS. Tips / pitfalls ? Regards __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state
by Patrick Carney 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

So how do I delete his indexes? Is there somewhere a step by step procedure? Timo, please help? Forgive me, I am new to all this. Thanks much, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Graves [mailto:jeff@image-src.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:34 AM To: 'Patrick Carney' Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state I haven't used 0.99 in a while but it shouldn't destroy the subscriptions. I think the next login may be delayed some while the index is rebuilt. Might want to check with Timo. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick@castandcrew.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:23 PM To: 'Jeff Graves'; dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Will that destroy his folder subscriptions? Will I loose anything? Thanks PAtrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Graves Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:18 AM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state The only quick and easy band-aid I can think of is to delete the indexes and let dovecot recreate them. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Carney Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:44 PM To: 'Timo Sirainen' Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Yes. I was afraid of that. But the weird thing is it only happens with One particular user. And at that, it wasn't doing it for the longest time. It just started recently. Is there a band-aid for this. I ask because we are not in a place to upgrade at the moment. Thanks Patrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:37 AM To: Patrick Carney Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:07 -0700, Patrick Carney wrote: > "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 higher 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. You're using 0.99.x Dovecot and there's not much point anymore in trying to figure out why it's broken. I'd suggest upgrading to 1.0beta versions as the first step. If it still breaks after that I can help debug it further. Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot

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[Dovecot] Reading the index / log files
by Raymond Lillard 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Dear Dovecot, I have a user who claims his mail is being lost. I can find the message marked as having been accepted for delivery in the maillog. I am hoping there is a tool which will let me read his IMAP transactions. We are delivering the messages with procmail and storing them as Maildir files. I read mail on this very same server and process about 500 mails per day. (Its the machine where all of my mail lists are collected.) I use T-bird, he uses LookOut. My working theory is that he (or his MUA) is somehow deleting some of his mail. Being able to read a log of his IMAP transactions would be most helpful. I see nothing about this in the Wiki. Regards, Ray

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[Dovecot] Dovecot --IMAP
by Clovis Tristao 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I am using dovecot-0.99.14-8.fc4 in Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz), and is appears this message: maillog -------- imap(testelabin): file mbox-rewrite.c: line 429 (mbox_write_header): assertion failed: (hdr_parsed_size.physical_size == hdr_size) When I try to have access a very great mailbox(mbox) (99 MB) via Webmail SquirrelMail. My quota of record is of 250 MB, some suggestion? Thanks a lot, Clóvis -- Clovis Tristao - UNICAMP/Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola Administrador de Redes - Secao de Informatica (SINFO) E-mail: clovis(a)agr.unicamp.br http://www.agr.unicamp.br Fone(0xx19) 37881031-37881038 ou FAX(55xx19) 37881005/37881010

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[Dovecot] repairing mbox files
by Dominic Lepiane 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi folks, Is there a good tool for repairing/working with mbox files? I'm trying to get a user moved off of Entourage (Outlook for Mac). Entourage actually exports the mail (was pop, will be imap) as mbox files, however, I can't just drop them in place even after fixing the line-endings. many of the messages with attachments come up with the correct header info but no message body or attachment. But some work so it's clearly a problem that a lot the messages are malformed somehow. Server is RHEL 4, dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 Current client is Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) in Mac OS X 10.4.6 using IMAP. Previous client was MS Entourage (OS x 10.4.6) using POP. Thanks in advance. -- Dominic Lepiane Simon Fraser University/IRMACS dlepiane(a)irmacs.sfu.ca (604)268-7369

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[Dovecot] strange behaviour: connecting to mysql, but no queries after upgrade on ubuntu...
by dstrayer＠sadt.com 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

> hi all, > > I'm having trouble using dovecot with mysql after upgrading to 1.0.beta3 on > ubuntu. according to the mysql log, dovecot connects but doesn't issue any > queries.. > > any hints what might be wrong or where I should look? > -- > Cheers, > > Nikl I'm seeing the same behavior under Debian Sid. (First time I've tried it, so I don't know whether the problem is connected to a particular update.) I can make an imap connection using passwd-file authentication. When I switch to mysql, the mysql log shows a connection when dovecot starts but no further activity. The reply to the imap client is NO Temporary authentication failure. In the mail.log, I see: Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.1.2^Irip=192.168.1.3^Iresp=AGd1ZXN0QHNhZHQuY29tAGZvbw== Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: child 4951 (auth-worker) killed with signal 11 Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=foo(a)sample.com^Itemp Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<foo(a)sample.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.2, lip=192.168.1.3 Any clues?

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[Dovecot] Problem compile dovecot-sieve under Debian
by Dominique Feyer 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

I get the source from CVS: # cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot-sieve Edit configure.in to change - AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([dsieve-config.h]) + AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(dsieve-config.h) Launch autogen.sh, and I have some errors: configure.in: 4: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' configure.in: 11: automake requires `AM_PROG_LEX', not `AC_PROG_LEX' automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file `../map.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file `../imparse.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: lex source seen but `AC_DECL_YYTEXT' not in `configure.in' If i try to build: # ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-1.0.beta9 No error: ... configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/libsieve/Makefile config.status: creating stamp.h config.status: creating dsieve-config.h config.status: dsieve-config.h is unchanged # make gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o sievec sievec.o libsieve.a /usr/src/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/lib/liblib.a libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xa23): In function `sieve_script_load': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:435: undefined reference to `map_refresh' libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xaf0): In function `sieve_script_unload': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:462: undefined reference to `map_free' libsieve.a(sieve.o)(.text+0x1e6e): In function `verify_flag': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/sieve.y:951: undefined reference to `imparse_isatom' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [sievec] Erreur 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Erreur 2 I try to install cyrus-dev or cyrus21-dev with apt-get, but nothing change, always the same error. Does someone have success with plugin dovecot-sieve ? Thanks -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot, search and i18n
by Timo Sirainen 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 13:19 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:45 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> Does dovecot support i18n'd search? > >> > > > > It supports searching with all the character sets that your system's > > iconv supports. Case-insensitive matching unfortunately works only for > > A-Z characters for now. > > > > > Hmm... Attempt to plainly use squirrelmail's search resulted in no > success at all. Imap command was quite plain, > > SEARCH ALL SUBJECT {10}[russian letters here] > > The problem is that Cyrillic has at least two widely used encodings. > Maybe I need to specify them exactly somehow? I don't know much about Squirrelmail configuration, but SEARCH command should specify character set if using non-ascii characters in search string. Otherwise Dovecot will just try to search them from the mails without any charset conversions. So correct way would have been something like: SEARCH CHARSET cyrillic ALL SUBJECT {10} Maybe someone in this list knows more about Squirrelmail..

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[Dovecot] Question about acls
by Stian Jordet 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, Is it possible to have a maildir-folder with an acl letter "i", but not "r"? I mean, the folder always seems empty for the user, but he can copy mail there? (which of course might be readable for another user..) Regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] dovecot, search and i18n
by Alex Povolotsky 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hello! Does dovecot support i18n'd search? Alex.

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[Dovecot] Shared Folder's, Separate Index's, not 'Working'
by Timothy White 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Looking back through the mail, I found the following from March --- On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:15 +0000, Mark Lidstone wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if the above was possible. I know that the "seen" > flag is stored in the filename, but was wondering if anyone knew of a > way to separate it out? I know this would strictly-speaking break > maildir compatibility, but it would be extremely useful for shared > folders. The way this worked at one point was by making each user have separate index file for the mailbox, then keeping the \Seen flag only inside that index file and ignoring the maildir's seen flag completely. Then I rewrote the maildir syncing code and this part was dropped out. Probably wouldn't be too difficult to make it work again.. Yea, looks like it wasn't. Works now in CVS. --- I'm trying to do a similar thing now, but without 100% luck. I have the following namespaces defined namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/scouts/public:CONTROL=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/public/control:INDEX=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/public/index hidden = no } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Official/ location = maildir:/var/mail/scouts/official::INDEX=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/official/index hidden = no } Even though I have separate INDEX's for the second public namespace, the SEEN flag doesn't seem to be picked up from the users' INDEX's. BUT, for the first namespace, when I have CONTROL defined as well, it IS picked up! The reason I don't want CONTROL defined for the second name space, is I discovered that I can force all users on the system, to be subscribed to mailboxes in the 'Official' name space, if I keep CONTROL with the mailbox, instead of separate, and ensure that once I have set up the subscriptions file, I ensure it can't be changed. The counter side of this 'subscriptions' hack, is that I can't do hidden=yes. Ideally, I want a method of forcing a subscription on every user, that they can't change, but still preserving the SEEN flag. The closest I have come to, is, separate CONTROL, INDEX, and hidden=yes. This requires though, that I use the SquirrelMail forced subscriptions extension, which I've not yet tested. The other idea I had, was a method for having subscriptions come out of a database, seeing as I already have a large block of user data in the SQL database, and if I could have subscriptions in there as well, that would be a huge bonus! (Even better if it was only for the namespaces I wanted, cause I don't need to put each users personal subscriptions in a database). Anyway, it's mainly ideas, other than the SEEN flag issue I described above. Hope someone has ideas for getting it to work. Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] About RH patches and 1.0beta8
by Oliver Schulze L. 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I just started building dovecot 1.0beta8 on RHEL4.3 based on atrpm.net .spec file. I noted that 3 patches are included in the .src.rpm and wanted to discuss them. I'm interested in knowing if those patches are relevant to all dovecot users and if they can be applied to dovecot. From: http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.src.rpm patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-mkcert-permissions.patch calls 'chown root.root', is good to have the certs owned by root? patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-pam-setcred.patch is dissables the call to pam_setcred() because there is no other call to pam_setcred() in order to release the resources patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-pam-tty.patch it add a call to pam_set_item() I don't to attach the patches to the list, but I can if anyone could not extract them from the .src.rpm Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] "GETQUOTA" Working?
by richs＠whidbey.net 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Using beta9, I've tried "quota = dirsize:storage=10240" and "quota = maildir:storage=10240", but I can't seem to get the IMAP commands to respond: * OK Dovecot ready. a LOGIN user pass a OK Logged in. b CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS b OK Capability completed. c GETQUOTAROOT INBOX c BAD Error in IMAP command GETQUOTAROOT: Unknown command. d GETQUOTA "" d BAD Error in IMAP command GETQUOTA: Unknown command. e LOGOUT * BYE Logging out e OK Logout completed. (Per http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2087.html) Apparently "QUOTA" isn't being advertised, and none of the commands are accepted. Any ideas? Rich

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta9 released
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Fixes a lot of bugs. The next release will be the first "release candidate" instead of a beta. * PAM: Don't call pam_setcred() unless setcred=yes PAM passdb argument was given. * Moved around settings in dovecot-example.conf to be in more logical groups. + Local delivery agent (deliver binary) works again. + LDAP: Added support for SASL binding. Patch by Geert Jansen + ssl_verify_client_cert: Check CRLs. If auth_verbose=yes, log invalid sent certificates. If verbose_ssl=yes, log even the valid certificates. When using the username from the certificate, use CommonName. Based on patch by HenkJan Wolthuis + PAM: Set PAM_TTY which is needed by some PAM plugins + dovecot --exec-mail ext <binary path> can now be used to start binaries which want dovecot.conf to be read, for example the convert-tool. - Expunging needed to be done twice if client used STORE +FLAGS.SILENT command to set the \Deleted flags - Added sql_escape_string() to lib-sql API and use it instead of normal \-escaping. - ACL plugin fixes - DIGEST-MD5: Trying to use subsequent authentication crashed dovecot-auth. - Fetching BODY when BODYSTRUCTURE was already cached caused the reply to be broken in some cases - Lots of fixes for index file handling - dbox fixes and changes - mbox syncing broke if some extraneous/broken headers were removed (eg. extra X-IMAPbase headers in mails) - Running Dovecot from inetd work now properly with POP3 - Quota plugin fixes for calculating the quota correctly

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[Dovecot] Help! Uidlist files are gone and won't come back; imap keeps coredumping!
by Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Folks - Some time ago as I migrated to dovecot 1.0, I ran into all sorts of problems with file locks, and I tried various solutions. Apparently, in the process, I got a bit careless and removed all my dovecot-uidlist files. They're gone. My understanding, however, is that they should come back, but this doesn't happen. I've been forced to run with index=MEMORY in 1.0 for the entire time I've been using it, but I would really like to get back to a more standard configuration. Yet, anything I do to try and actually use index files, whether (locally) on /var or (via NFS) in /home, I run into problems. The log files say: dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<rvvk40>, method=plain, rip=10.69.75.131, lip=172.16.26.151 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): Effective uid=10019173, gid=21 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): maildir: data=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): maildir: root=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir, index=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir, control=, inbox= dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21207 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21208 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21211 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21212 (imap) killed with signal 11 and a truss says: 29146: execve("/home/mario/tools/SunOS/libexec/dovecot/imap", 0x000407D8, 0x00052850) argc = 1 29146: argv: imap ... 29146: write(1, " * 1 2 4 5 F E T C H".., 2091) = 2091 29146: write(1, " * 1 2 9 5 F E T C H".., 2059) = 2059 29146: write(1, " * 1 3 4 6 F E T C H".., 2056) = 2056 29146: poll(0x000AEC90, 3, 9912) = 1 29146: read(0, " 4 U I D f e t c h ".., 4037) = 173 29146: open64("/home/mario/.mail/Maildir/.Freescale.ATIC.CMOS65/dovecot-uidlist", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT 29146: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0xFF133218 29146: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 29146: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default] 29146: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 29146: *** process killed *** Some background info: dovecot is running only for me, so it runs under my UID, from my home directory. % tools/SunOS/sbin/dovecot --version 1.0.beta8 % tools/SunOS/sbin/dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll openssl Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static % uname -a SunOS velocity 5.8 Generic_117350-06 sun4u sparc What do I have to do to recreate the uidlist files? Mario -- 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] beta8 + mbox + Thunderbird
by Thomas Hummel 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm still using beta8 (on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE). Recently I put a co-worker who's using Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) on it and he seemed to have lost some messages (which were delivered on the spool since seen on procmail logfile). I switched him on another server to play safe and tried to test it myself but failed to reproduce the issue. I myself use mutt on a daily basis with no problem with that beta8. Did someone experienced the same (I read about some similar issue on the list but with maildir format - I'm using mbox) ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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RE: [Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem
by Xavier Romero 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Ok, patched and working perfectly !! Thank you!!! Xavier Romero. -----Mensaje original----- De: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] En nombre de Timo Sirainen Enviado el: lunes, 19 de junio de 2006 12:49 Para: Xavier Romero CC: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Asunto: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 12:43 +0200, Xavier Romero wrote: > But it seems that the way Exchange talks to our server, dovecot gets > confused, and password is used instead username for user lookups, so > authentication fails. Fixed in next version, or use a patch: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-June/005765.html

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[Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem
by Xavier Romero 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hello, I'm using dovecot & postfix to bring smtp auth to our customers. Normal mail clients have no problem at all and I'm so satisfied. However, we're having problems with Microsoft Exchange server clients. We're using our postfix-dovecot server as smarhost for several Exchange Servers, and we wish to use TLS + basic authentication for these outgoing mails. But it seems that the way Exchange talks to our server, dovecot gets confused, and password is used instead username for user lookups, so authentication fails. Info: auth(default_with_listener): client in: AUTH 5 login service=smtp resp=bXlfdXNlcm5hbWU= //(resp=my_username) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client out: CONT 5 VXNlcm5hbWU6 //(Username:) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client in: CONT 5 bXlfcGFzc3dvcmQ= //(my_password) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client out: CONT 5 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 //(Password:) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client in: CONT 5 bXlfcGFzc3dvcmQ= //(my_password) Info: auth(default_with_listener): sql(my_user): query: SELECT user, password FROM users WHERE user = 'my_password' Info: auth(default_with_listener): sql(my_user): unknown user Info: auth(default_with_listener): client out: FAIL 5 user=my_password Any clue if there is a way to make it work, either modifiying Exchange or dovecot settings? Thank you very much! Xavier Romero.

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot LDA / Postfix
by Dominique Feyer 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Thanks. The log is really useful ;-) **** deliver(info(a)lda.net4all.ch): Fatal: Running as root isn't permitted **** So it's not possible acutally to use LDA to deliver mail with different UID/GID So I need the change all the owner for my mail storage ... update the DB and restart the service ... it's bad !!! I need a lots of downtime to change the owner of 80Go data storage. So beafore that, I need to test the dovecot-sieve plugin from CVS. Next month a lot of my customer are in holiday and the need auto responders ;-) I try the dovecot-sieve plugin from the CVS and I have this error when i start make (configure as no error): libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xa23): In function `sieve_script_load': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:435: undefined reference to `map_refresh' libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xaf0): In function `sieve_script_unload': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:462: undefined reference to `map_free' libsieve.a(sieve.o)(.text+0x1e6e): In function `verify_flag': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/sieve.y:951: undefined reference to `imparse_isatom' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [sievec] Erreur 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Erreur 2 I have the same error last week when I try to build dovecot-lda with sieve script support from the CVS. I use Debian Sarge. I think the macro imparse_isatom is from the cyrus-imapd project. I try to install cyrus-dec and cyrus21-dev with apt-get ... but always the same error. Do you have a idea ? Le vendredi 16 juin 2006 à 10:44 -0400, My BSD a écrit : > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:44:51 +0200 > Dominique Feyer <dfeyer(a)net4all.ch> wrote: > > > I have only postfix log (in syslog mail facility), no dovecot log from > > the LDA deliver binary (with mail_debug = yes), this is strange ... > > > > Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/pickup[6014]: 5407F7FF3: uid=0 > > from=<root> Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/cleanup[6073]: 5407F7FF3: > > message-id=<20060616123758.5407F7FF3(a)mail2.clm.net4all.ch> > > Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/qmgr[6015]: 5407F7FF3: > > from=<root(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=326, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > > Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/pipe[6076]: 5407F7FF3: > > to=<info(a)lda.net4all.ch>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced > > (Command died with status 89: > > "/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver") > > > > Can i activate log for the LDA in the configuration file or deliver > > command argument in master.cf ? > > > ... > > My dovecot setup logs to a file, settings below: > > ---------------------------------------------- > mail_debug = yes > log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot > info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.info > ---------------------------------------------- > > Make sure that the socket user has write access to the file, otherwise > it won't work (and thinking of it, also make sure that the socket user > also has access to the socket itself -- that was one of my biggest > problems before I got it to work). > > You may also want to add the following until you get it working: > > ---------------------------------------------- > auth_verbose = yes > auth_debug = yes > auth_debug_passwords = yes > ---------------------------------------------- > > Good luck! > -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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[Dovecot] Problem with default_mail_env in beta9
by Andreas Schulze 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hallo, I am playing arround with dovecot I hat version 1.0.beta7 running fine. After installing beta9 there is a problem with default_mail_env setting. I have all users in ldap. there is an attribute "mailMessageStore" which contains a relative path to users maildir mailMessageStore: sca/ my mailer completes this relative pathinformation to /var/mail/sca/ therefor I setup default_mail_env to "maildir:/var/mail/%h" dovecot-ldap.conf includes "user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid" all fine in beta7 in beta9 I got this in my log: dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:22 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=random dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): bind search: base=o=datev,c=de filter=(uid=sca) dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=sca dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 30400 1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): base=o=datev,c=de scope=subtree filter=(uid=sca) fields=mailMessageStore,uidNumber,gidNumber dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 t02985a home=sca/ uid=30014 gid=30007 dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<sca>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Error: POP3(sca): dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Fatal: chdir(sca/) failed with uid 30014: Permission denied dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Error: child 30407 (pop3) returned error 89 If I change user_attrs to "user_attrs = mailMessageStore=FOO,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid" I got dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:36 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=random dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): bind search: base=o=datev,c=de filter=(uid=sca) dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=sca dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 30475 1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): base=o=datev,c=de scope=subtree filter=(uid=sca) fields=mailmessagestore,uidNumber,gidNumber dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 sca uid=30014 gid=30007 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<sca>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: POP3(sca): Effective uid=30014, gid=30007 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: POP3(sca): maildir: data=/var/mail//HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: POP3(sca): maildir: root=/var/mail//HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB, index=/var/mail//HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB, control=, inbox= this inicates to me, that 1. homedirvariable is unset OK, because I assigned mailMessageStore to local FOO 2. default_mail_env is correct evaluated to maildir:/var/mail/%h Question: Why is default_mail_env not correct evalueted to maildir:/var/mail/sca/ if sca/ is set as homedir ? As mentions above, this worked fine with beta7 ... What do I wrong ??? My I provide more Informations ? -- 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] building dovecot lda on solaris 9
by lenny＠edpausa.com 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Trying to build the latest CVS code of LDA against dovecot beta 9. Running autogen script I'm getting this message. I added the contents of /usr/local/share/aclocal/ to /usr/local/share/libtool/libltdl/aclocal.m4 #aclocaldir = /usr/local/share/aclocal/ aclocal_DATA = libmcrypt.m4 libtool.m4 ltdl.m4 but no luck. any advise ? /usr/local/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBMCRYPT run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal autom4te: unknown language: Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 autoheader: `lda-config.h.in' is unchanged You should add the contents of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'. configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: library used but `RANLIB' is undefined src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: The usual way to define `RANLIB' is to add `AC_PROG_RANLIB' src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: to `configure.in' and run `autoconf' again. /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL

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[Dovecot] LDA - Return-Path missing
by Timothy White 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

I seem to have a problem... Deliver relies on Return-Path headers? I tried sending emails from SquirrelMail, and Gmail, and both have caused the same issue (on the recieving end). (I am trying to test this part, the quota exceeded stuff). deliver(joeblogs): Return-Path missing, rejection reason: Quota exceeded I can post email headers, and stuff if needed. Does it need the Return-Path header, shouldn't it rely on the From address, if there is no Return-Path? Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Dovecot randomly stops responding
by Miguel Saturnino 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi! I'm running Dovecot 1.0beta7 on FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) and it randomly stops responding. To mitigate the problem I made a little ruby scripts which logs in to the POP3 server every 3 minutes and, in case of error (the errors are usually timeout or end of file errors), restarts Dovecot. Although this keeps this keeps things working, I'd like to figure out what is causing Dovecot to stop responding. Looking at the logs, nothing stands out except that there is always one or more of these messages just before Dovecot stops responding: Apr 20 19:25:00 zeus dovecot[62881]: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=209.123.xxx.xxx, lip=64.21.xxx.xxx Any help debugging this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Miguel Saturnino <miguel.saturnino(a)teiadigital.pt>

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[Dovecot] Maildir++ implementation issues.
by Apps Lists 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi Timo and crew! I'm doing more testing with Dovecot and Maildrop today and have run across some strangeness. It appears as if Maildrop stores updates to the maildirquota file in a way that causes Dovecot to ignore them. In my test scenario, Dovecot just rebuilt my maildirsize file to the following: 0S 86213796 108 After delivering a few messages through Postfix -> Maildrop and have the following maildirsize file: 0S 86213796 108 5102 1 387708 1 5093 1 382406 1 3550 1 268337 1 Note the pretty formatting. These are spaces. Unfortunately, Dovecot seems to ignore these when reading the maildirsize file in maildirsize_parse(). It appears to be using sscanf to look for numeric entries: if (sscanf(*lines, "%lld %d", &bytes_diff, &count_diff) != 2) I've read and re-read the maildir++ specification at http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html and can't understand why Maildrop implements things this way. Steve

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[Dovecot] asserts and cores in beta3
by Jeff A. Earickson 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

My setup: Solaris 9, built with gcc 4.0.2 (I now have gcc 4.1 installed on my system, but have not rebuilt dovecot). A couple of asserts and cores in the last few days: Mar 1 09:25:13 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(tmwillia): file mbox-sync.c: line 1471 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (!sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty || (flags & MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) == 0) Mar 1 09:58:44 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(eewilson): file mbox-sync.c: line 1471 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (!sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty || (flags & MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) == 0) Mar 3 16:18:54 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(tmwillia): file mbox-sync.c: line 1471 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (!sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty || (flags & MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) == 0) Backtraces from the two cores in hand are attached. I can do further poking at the cores if that would help. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0 beta3 not preserving X-Keyword header?
by Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

We've been putting 1.0 Beta 3 through the paces on our test system, and one of our users pointed out to me that Thunderbird's "labels" behave strangely on the new server. In fact, there used to be a header added to the message via IMAP when Thunderbird placed a label on a message, but as of the switch from 0.99.11 to 1.0beta3, this label header is no longer placed in the message. Specifically, Thunderbird adds the "X-Keyword: $LabelN" header when you add a label to the message in tbird, where "N" is [1-9]. This works on dovecot 0.99.11 (RHEL4), but not on 1.0beta3. 1.0b3 doesn't seem to add this header at all, but rather seems to keep this information somewhere else. Perhaps in the .imap indexes? We're using mbox stores on the server. This was tested with both Thunderbird 1.0.7 (most widely deployed) and Thunderbird 1.5. Aditionally, we've found that if the .imap index directories are removed, all the Thunderbird labels on messages seem to get "confused", too. I.e., if the user uses multiple machines throughout the day, changes in one client may not be reflected in another, when the user moves to a different system. I'm still trying to get more details from the users, but have been doing preliminary testing that verifies this. One of the users complaining about this is my manager, who makes extensive use of Thunderbird's "Label" feature, so he's a bit nervous. :\ Another thing we've noticed is the potential for bad behavior if a use switches from the old dovecot to the new dovecot, which seems to be resolved if the .imap indexes are removed... Let me know what other information is needed, and I'll do my best to collect it. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3b 1216 Phone: (858) 822-2625 E-mail: gkra(a)ucsd.edu

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[Dovecot] RHEL 3 and quota problems...
by alan premselaar 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just installed 1.0beta9 on my RHEL 3 system and am still getting the problems with the quota-fs returning "invalid argument". I think i've traced the problem down to differences in the quota versions based on the <sys/quota.h> files on RHEL 3 compared to FC3. on the system itself i'm using v2 quotas (with aquota.user and aquota.group files) however a diff of sysquota.h (copied from FC3 /usr/include/sys/quota.h) and <sys/quota.h> produces only the following: diff -u sysquota.h /usr/include/sys/quota.h - --- sysquota.h 2006-06-16 23:48:03.000000000 +0900 +++ /usr/include/sys/quota.h 2005-11-22 21:57:15.000000000 +0900 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * - - * Version: $Id: quota.h,v 1.7.6.1 2005/07/18 02:07:37 roland Exp $ + * Version: $Id: quota.h,v 1.7 1999/10/19 03:05:21 drepper Exp $ */ #ifndef _SYS_QUOTA_H @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ /* * Select between different incompatible quota versions. - - * Default to the version used by Linux kernel version 2.4.22 - - * or later. */ + * Default to the version used by Linux kernel version 2.4.21 + * or earlier (in RHEL version 1 is AS2.1, version 2 is RHEL3 and later). */ #ifndef _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION - -# define _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION 2 +# define _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION 1 #endif /* if I edit the quota-fs.h file to load "sysquota.h" instead of <sys/quota.h> for the linux quotas, it won't compile. (i tried this instead of editing system header files directly) so I suspect the problem lies deeper than just the _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION number being set incorrectly. incidently, the error I get compiling is this: quota-fs.c: In function `fs_quota_get_resource': quota-fs.c:214: structure has no member named `dqb_curblocks' make: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 I haven't done any C programming in more than 20 years so I think I'm pushing the boundaries of my capabilities here, but I'm hoping this might just be enough information to help someone more qualified easily fix the problem and allow me to start using the FS based quota plugins to dovecot on my mail server. here are some details of my system if they're useful: # uname -a Linux <hostname_goes_here> 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22:22:39 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # more /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 7) Thanks, Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkshYE2gsBSKjZHQRAgrZAJ0cbZjSuPLV0T8C432EniCrkNw6tACgwKkz UZiSXsgXRb8w1Cc1XXXHWXs= =3CGX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Better detection for ioloop and notify
by Roy Marples 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi List! Attached is a patch to configure.in to test that epoll, poll, inotify, kqueue and dnotify actually work. It also attempts to select the best one for you if none specified. This supercedes my previous patch in the re beta9 thread. Hopefully get this in Gentoo's beta9 ebuild soon. Thanks -- Roy Marples <uberlord(a)gentoo.org> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)

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[Dovecot] Plain and MD5 passwd for the same user?
by M. Fioretti 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello, I'm running dovecot 1.0-0_12.beta8. Since I have only a very small number of user on that server, I have their names and password in text files, no databases. imap works both via webmail and via Kmail Is it possible to have, for the same user, a plain unencrypted password when connecting via imap on the local interface (needed, as I understand it, to be squirrelmail compatible) and a DIGEST-MD5 one when connecting via pop3s or imaps remotely? TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -- John Naisbitt, Megatrends

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[Dovecot] Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain
by M. Fioretti 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello, I have seen via google that this very problem was already discussed on this and other lists some months ago, but the archives report no solution. I have dovecot 1.0-0_12.beta8 on Centos 4.3. IMAP works just fine: I can read email from both Squirrelmail via web and Kmail. Now I have created an ssl certificate and I'm trying to use it via pop3. When I launch fetchmail I get the error below. Is it caused by dovecot? If not, where is the problem, on the server or here in my home PC? TIA, Marco marco@polaris:~> fetchmail -vv fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.vps.fqdn.name (protocol POP3) at Tue 13 Jun 2006 05:22:50 PM CEST: +poll started fetchmail: Issuer Organization: SomeOrganization fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost.localdomain fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost.localdomain fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != my.vps.fqdn.name fetchmail: my.vps.fqdn.name key fingerprint: 20:93:B4:D8:CB:75:AD:72:F6:00:A8:DC:CE:F2:53:6E fetchmail: my.vps.fqdn.name fingerprints do not match! 23942:error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify +failed:s3_clnt.c:894: fetchmail: SSL connection failed. fetchmail: socket error while fetching from remoteuser(a)my.vps.fqdn.name -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Only boring people ever get bored Anonymous

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[Dovecot] 1.0 beta 9 problems
by Peter Chiu 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Two problems with this new beta not found in beta 8. 1. mbox_from_create error This is the configure string I use, and I paste the make error message below. I have to use "--with-storages=maildir,mbox" to get around the error. ./configure \ --prefix=/opt1/dovecot \ --localstatedir=/var \ --without-shadow \ --without-cyrus-sasl2 \ --without-pop3d \ --without-gssapi \ --disable-ipv6 \ --disable-debug \ --with-storages=maildir \ --with-ssl=openssl mkdir .libs gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o deliver auth-client.o deliver.o duplicate.o mail-send.o smtp-client.o ../lib/mountpoint.o ../lib/str-sanitize.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir/libstorage_maildir.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a ../../src/lib-index/libindex.a ../lib-storage/libstorage.a ../lib-storage/subscription-file/libstorage_subscription_file.a ../lib-imap/libimap.a ../lib-mail/libmail.a ../lib-dict/libdict.a ../lib-charset/libcharset.a ../lib/liblib.a deliver.o(.text+0xa28): In function `main': /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/deliver/deliver.c:301: undefined reference to `mbox_from_create' *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/deliver. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9. 2. I have to specify the following in the dovecot.conf or server wont start as others have pointed out alreay. protocol imap { ssl_listen = *:993 }

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[Dovecot] APPEND command truncates message
by Chris Rodgers 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi, I have been debugging a small perl script (see ShowBug2) that I use. In doing so, I think that I may have uncovered a problem with the dovecot IMAP server. Attached are two packet traces for connections to two different IMAP servers. On both servers I run the script: i.e. I login, select a folder, search for messages and append a message. On the fvs5 server (Courier IMAP?), everything works as expected. However, on the dovecot server, the message that is saved into my mailbox has been truncated at the end of the line containing "26". I attach a copy of the saved message in MessageAsOnIMAPServer.txt. I hope that this report might be useful. Please let me know if you require any further information. Chris. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN] fvs5 IMAP4rev1 2003.339p-cpanel at Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:50:06 +0000 (GMT) 1 Login "*******" {7} + Ready for argument ******* 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] User Rodgers authenticated 2 SELECT IT-Lilac * 0 EXISTS * NO Trying to get mailbox lock from process 32317 * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1145396966] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags 2 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed 3 UID SEARCH HEADER Subject "lilac gpg message" * SEARCH 3 OK UID SEARCH completed 4 APPEND IT-Lilac {717} + Ready for argument >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21:49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT 4 OK APPEND completed 5 LOGOUT * BYE fvs5.freevirtualservers.com IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection 5 OK LOGOUT completed * OK dovecot ready. 1 Login "*******" {8} + OK ******** 1 OK Logged in. 2 SELECT IT-Lilac * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk Junk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk Junk \*)] Flags permitted. * 117 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 116] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1136428693] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 344] Predicted next UID 2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 3 UID SEARCH HEADER Subject "lilac gpg message" * SEARCH 3 OK Search completed. 4 APPEND IT-Lilac {717} + OK >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21:49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * 118 EXISTS * 2 RECENT 4 OK Append completed. 5 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 5 OK Logout completed. >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21: 49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test Content-Length: 113 Status: O X-UID: 344 X-Keywords: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use Mail::IMAPClient; use Term::ReadPassword; # Check that username, password and server have been provided my $Server = "imap.pcl.ox.ac.uk"; my $User = `whoami`; chomp $User; my $Password = read_password('Mail password: '); my $INBOX = "IT-Lilac"; unless ($Server) { die "You must provide a server!"; } unless ($User) { die "You must provide a user!"; } unless ($Password) { die "You must provide a password!"; } print "Connecting to $User\@$Server\n\n"; my $IMAP = Mail::IMAPClient -> new (Server => $Server, User => $User, Password => $Password, Debug => 1) or die "Could not connect to your IMAP server, stopping"; if (!$IMAP->IsAuthenticated()) { die "Could not log in to your IMAP server, stopping"; } $IMAP -> Uid(1); # Use UID's for messages. $IMAP -> select($INBOX); my @msgs = $IMAP -> search("HEADER","Subject","lilac gpg message"); my $MessageBody = <<'EOM'; >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21:49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 EOM print "Length is: {" . length($MessageBody) . "}"; $IMAP -> append("IT-Lilac",$MessageBody); # BUG: For some reason, we lose a bit of the message! print "\n"; $IMAP = $IMAP -> disconnect(); exit;

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[Dovecot] Dovecot's as ip/user based login filter?
by Sysadmin 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello. I'm facing a problem, I need to give access to internal mailserer for some people only, but can't figure out how to do it. Opening the 993 port for whole word gives access to everyone who have account. Can Dovecot act as login filter or etc for that purpose. Or does anybody have idea how to do it? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not responding to CAPABILITY command
by Ryan Hinton 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Thank you for the patch, my mail server is up and running again. Now I am back to my previous problem: I am not able to log in with Thunderbird. Thunderbird issues the capability command which is not answered by Dovecot. Here is a session transcript using openssl s_client. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 capability * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. 2 CAPABILITY * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. quit * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. QUIT DONE The first time I tried it worked fine. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 capability * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=PLAIN 1 OK Capability completed. QUIT DONE But every other time I tried it failed like the first example. Any suggestions? --- Ryan Hinton iobass(a)email.com

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[Dovecot] Plugin Docs (Trash)
by Timothy White 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

I searched, and couldn't find much in the wiki, or the mailing list... What is the trash plugin? How do we use it? I notice that none of the plugins have much documentation, other that bits on the wiki, which is getting out of date. When I get the chance, I'll make sure the wiki quota stuff, is right, and post working examples. Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Dovecot+NFS: Copying messages causes failures (possible SIGABRT)
by Tony Kay 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Environment: Dovecot 1.0beta8 Host: 64 bit Red Hat AS4 Linux (2.6.9-34.0.1) Disks: NFS netapp In the case below, the two connections were going through two separate servers sharing disks via an NFS NetApp. Here is the sequence of operations: 1. Open a connection to a folder (say mail/Trash) 2. Open a connection to another folder (say Inbox) 3. Move messages from Inbox to Trash using this sequence on Inbox: uid copy #,# "mail/Trash" uid store #,# +flags (\Deleted) check expunge 4. Next, access open connection to Trash: noop (completes OK, but does not see new messages) ...wait a few seconds... noop (connection drops...no response) Attempt to reconnect: mailbox locked. Will override in 270 seconds. The dovecot logs contain the following for the exact time when the connection drops: dovecot: IMAP(tkay): file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 686 (mail_index_sync_update_index): assertion failed: (view->hdr.messages_count == map->hdr.messages_count) I cannot correlate this to the user/folder, but this message is usually nearby: child 22915 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Perfection uncanned Like a beautiful redhead Fresh from her trailer from Spam-Ku : Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf by John Cho

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[Dovecot] check pass; user unknown in logs
by james edwards 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I am seeing lots of these in my logs and there are often a hundered or so imap/dovecat process running. I am running RC Core3. Can anyone shead some light on how to correct this ? Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27653]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27653]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27657]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27657]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27658]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27658]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:26 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27684]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:26 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27684]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27690]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27690]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27693]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27693]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:29 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27712]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:29 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27712]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27713]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27713]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27716]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27716]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= -- James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards(a)nmcourts.com

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[Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot LDA / Postfix
by Dominique Feyer 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Our setup is ok with Postfix / Dovecot. I just need to add dovecot LDA. I use the 1.0beta9 LDA Configuration: protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)clm.net4all.ch #hostname = #mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } auth default-socket { mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta8/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vmail group = mail } } user = dovecot count = 1 } Postfix configuration, like the dovecot LDA wiki page Master.cf: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} Main.cf default_destination_recipient_limit = 1 Log: Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 postfix/qmgr[4226]: 31FA27FF2: from=<root(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=343, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): master in: USER^I1^Iinfo(a)lda.net4all.ch^Iservice=deliver Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): sql(info(a)lda.net4all.ch): SELECT '/var/spool/mail/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'info(a)lda.net4all.ch' Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): master out: USER^I1^Iinfo@lda.net4all.ch^Ihome=/var/spool/mail/lda.net4all.ch/mails/info^Iuid=1999^Igid=1999 Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 postfix/pipe[4314]: 31FA27FF2: to=<info(a)lda.net4all.ch>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 89: "/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver") The status 89 is for default error ... so no more informations with this. Permision on deliver is setuid (we use a different UID per domain) mail2:/etc/dovecot# stat /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver File: `/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver' Size: 2507575 Blocks: 4912 IO Block: 4096 fichier r�gulier Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 65010 Links: 1 Access: (6755/-rwsr-sr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2006-06-15 19:15:43.314434576 +0200 Modify: 2006-06-15 13:46:15.000000000 +0200 Change: 2006-06-15 19:18:32.821665560 +0200 Can anyone help me ? Thanks, -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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