December 2004 - dovecot

[Dovecot] IMAP Subdirectories
by Rory Campbell-Lange 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Hi Using Apple Mail I cannot make subdirectories within new directories I have made on a Debian Dovecot-driven IMAP server (version 0.99.11-3). Some users, having used Exchange, expect to be able to do this. However I can't make it happen, even after doing some tests by chmod-ing the top-level directories to 777 and enabling the mail_full_filesystem_access = yes option on a test install. Views, comments and remarks much appreciated! Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test57
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Two important fixes: - Fixes the recently reported dovecot-auth crashes with unexpected client input - Fixes mbox corruption in some not-so-common cases. Hopefully this is the last one. I added more asserts anyway which try to catch similiar mistakes and avoid losing data. Others: - Added oe-ns-eoh workaround for pop3. Fixes outlook/netscape problems with buggy mails. - lock_method = dotlock works now properly - Cache file compression crashed in some situations - auth_cache fixes from Andrey Also I have about 80% of the code written for keywords support. It's about the last major missing feature from v1.0, so naming should change into 1.0-alphas soon. From there on it should be mostly about stabilization, cleaning up the code and maybe some optimization.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SQL auth problem? (1.0-test52-56)
by Andrew Hutchings 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Hi there, We are living dangerously and using the test versions on our production servers which are migrated from 3 different older servers (about 5000 accounts) therefore we have 3 different MySQL auths. All seems to be ok, but a guy in the office is using Thunderbird as pop3 access. The auth is saying: auth(sql): plain(?,xx.xxx.xx.xxx): invalid input I have hidden his IP for security reasons. The login should be user(a)domain.co.uk and his account works fine with outlook. With test 52 this killed the auth child with signal 6 and 11. Anyone have any ideas? Unrelated to this (I hope) we are also getting quite a few child xxxx (pop3) killed with signal 11 several times a minute. -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] KMail + dovecot
by Timothy Murphy 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Is anyone running docecot on a home LAN. to give an IMAP feed to other machines on the LAN? I am running dovecot on my desktop, alfred. I want to collect email on my laptop, william, using KMail. As far as I can tell, dovecot is running perfectly. I can bring email from /var/spool/mail/tim on alfred to the same directory on william by running "fetchmail alfred" on william. I can then read it with KMail on william, so there is not real problem. However, KMail does not seem to be able to collect email directly from alfred, even though I have added an entry in KMail=>Settings=>Configure KMail=>Network=>Receiving giving type imap, Name (dovecot), Login, Password, Host (alfred), Port (143). and Prefix to Folders "/var/spool/mail". I don't see any error message anywhere, but when I click on File=>Check mail in dovecot it says "Checking account dovecot for new mail". but nothing appears to happen. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and PHP
by Don 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Has anyone successfully compiled PHP 5 with the -imap option using Dovecot server? I get the error: "Cannot find rfc822.h. Please check your IMAP installation". It seems that Dovecot has no development libraries so I am stuck? Will I have to scrap Dovecot and use another server like Cyrus? Thanks, Don --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.813 / Virus Database: 553 - Release Date: 12/13/2004

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[Dovecot] dovecot/openldap auth problems?
by Lee 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hi folks. New to both dovecot and openldap. Trying to set up virtual domains using the wanderingbarque howto: http://www.wanderingbarque.com/mailserver.html Platform is RH enterprise 3. Only difference is I'm trying to use phamm instead of jamm: http://phamm.rhx.it/ dovecot doesn't seem to want to play nice with my openldap; everything else (postfix, etc) seems to work alright. So I'm looking for some hints as to what I'm doing wrong. thanks in advance! When I do an /sbin/service dovecot restart, here's the error from /var/log/ldap.log: <snip> Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => access_allowed: auth access to "cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast" "u serPassword" requested Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [1] .*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 1 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [2] .*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 1 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [3] .*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 1 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [4] o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 0 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => acl_get: [5] check attr userPassword Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= acl_get: [5] acl cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast attr: userPassword Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => acl_mask: access to entry "cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast", attr " userPassword" requested Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => acl_mask: to all values by "", (=n) Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= check a_dn_pat: * Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= acl_mask: [1] applying none (=n) (stop) Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= acl_mask: [1] mask: none (=n) Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => access_allowed: auth access denied by none (=n) Anyone see any big,glaring 'yewidiut' errors? Or just hints as to what could be wrong? slapd.conf: # $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/slapd.conf,v 1.8.8.7 2001/09/27 20:00:31 kurt Exp $ # # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options. # This file should NOT be world readable. # include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/autofs.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/kerberosobject.schema # include /etc/openldap/schema/jamm.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/phamm.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/ISPEnv2.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/amavisd-new.schema password-hash {CRYPT} # Define global ACLs to disable default read access. # Do not enable referrals until AFTER you have a working directory # service AND an understanding of referrals. #referral ldap://root.openldap.org # Create a replication log in /var/lib/ldap for use by slurpd. #replogfile /var/lib/ldap/master-slapd.replog schemacheck on pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid argsfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.args loglevel 128 lastmod on database ldbm directory /var/lib/ldap suffix "dc=akforecast" rootdn "cn=manager,dc=akforecast" rootpw x index objectClass eq index cn,mail eq,subinitial # include /etc/openldap/slapd-phamm.acl access to dn=".*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast" attr=userPassword by self write by group/jammPostmaster/roleOccupant="cn=postmaster,jvd=$1,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" write by dn="cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast" read by anonymous auth by * none access to dn=".*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast" attr=quota by group/jammPostmaster/roleOccupant="cn=postmaster,jvd=$1,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" write by dn="cn=phamm,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" read by self read by * none access to dn=".*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast" by self write by group/jammPostmaster/roleOccupant="cn=postmaster,jvd=$1,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" write by dn="cn=phamm,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" read by * none access to dn="o=hosting,dc=akforecast" by self write by dn="cn=phamm,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" read by anonymous auth by * none access to * by * none ----------------------------------------------------------- /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf: [root@salcha openldap]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # NOTE: We don't support "authentication binds", so you'll have to give # dovecot-auth read access to userPassword field in LDAP server. With OpenLDAP # this is done by modifying /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. There should already be # something like this: # access to attribute=userPassword # by dn="<dovecot's dn>" read # add this # by anonymous auth # by self write # by * none # Space separated list of LDAP hosts to use. host:port is allowed too. #hosts = localhost hosts = localhost # Distinguished Name - the username used to login to the LDAP server #dn = dn = "cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast" # Password for LDAP server #dnpass = dnpass = dovecot # LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3. ldap_version = 2 #ldap_version = 3 # LDAP base #base = uid=someone, dc=foo, dc=bar, dc=org base = o=hosting,dc=akforecast # Dereference: never, searching, finding, always deref = never # Search scope: base, onelevel, subtree scope = subtree # User attributes in order: # Virtual user name (user@domain) # Home directory # MAIL environment # System user name (for getting user's groups from /etc/group) # - For virtual users you don't want to use this, so this defaults to none. # System UID # System GID #user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber user_attrs = mail,homeDirectory,,,, # Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used: # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain #user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) user_filter = (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) # Password checking attributes in order: # Virtual user name (user@domain) # Password, may optionally start with {type}, eg. {crypt} #pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_attrs = mail,userPassword # Filter for password lookups #pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) # Default password scheme. "{scheme}" before password overrides this. # Currently supported schemes include PLAIN, PLAIN-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, CRYPT #default_pass_scheme = CRYPT default_pass_scheme = PLAIN # You can use same UID and GID for all user accounts if you really want to. # If the UID/GID is still found from LDAP reply, it overrides these values. user_global_uid = 1051 user_global_gid = 1051 ---------------------------------------------------- /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: [root@salcha openldap]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap imaps #protocols = imap # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port". #imap_listen = * #pop3_listen = * #imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 imap_listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above non-SSL equilevants if not specified. imaps_listen = * #pop3s_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = no #ssl_disable = yes # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/hosting.example/climate_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/hosting.example/climate_private_key.pem # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. #disable_plaintext_auth = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. #login_chroot = yes ## ## IMAP login process ## login = imap # Executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 32 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_user # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 ## ## POP3 login process ## # Settings default to same as above, so you don't have to set anything # unless you want to override them. login = pop3 # Exception to above rule being the executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 first_valid_uid = 1051 last_valid_uid = 1051 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 first_valid_gid = 1051 last_valid_gid = 1051 # 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 = # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See doc/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = valid_chroot_dirs = /vhosts/vmail # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden by # giving /./ in user's home directory (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). #mail_chroot = # 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's a few special variables you can use: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain # %h - home directory # # You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. 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 = default_mail_env = maildir:/vhosts/vmail/%d/%n # Space-separated list of fields to cache for all mails. Currently these # fields are allowed followed by a list of commands they speed up: # # Envelope - FETCH ENVELOPE and SEARCH FROM, TO, CC, BCC, SUBJECT, # SENTBEFORE, SENTON, SENTSINCE, HEADER MESSAGE-ID, # HEADER IN-REPLY-TO # Body - FETCH BODY # Bodystructure - FETCH BODY, BODYSTRUCTURE # MessagePart - FETCH BODY[1.2.3] (ie. body parts), RFC822.SIZE, # SEARCH SMALLER, LARGER, also speeds up BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE # generation. This is always set with mbox mailboxes, and # also default with Maildir. # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, that's why Dovecot by default # only caches MessagePart which speeds up most operations. Whenever client # does something where caching could be used, the field is automatically marked # to be cached later. For example after FETCH BODY the BODY will be cached # for all new messages. Normally you should leave this alone, unless you know # what most of your IMAP clients are. Caching more fields than needed makes # the index files larger and generate useless I/O. # # With maildir there's one extra optimization - if nothing is cached, indexing # the maildir becomes much faster since it's not opening any of the mail files. # This could be useful if your IMAP clients access only new mails. #mail_cache_fields = MessagePart # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never set to be cached. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Workarounds for various client bugs: # oe6-fetch-no-newmail: # Never send EXISTS/RECENT when replying to FETCH command. Outlook Express # seems to think they are FETCH replies and gives user "Message no longer # in server" error. Note that OE6 still breaks even with this workaround # if synchronization is set to "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # outlook-pop3-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. #client_workarounds = # Dovecot can notify client of new mail in selected mailbox soon after it's # received. This setting specifies the minimum interval in seconds between # new mail notifications to client - internally they may be checked more or # less often. Setting this to 0 disables the checking. # NOTE: Evolution client breaks with this option when it's trying to APPEND. #mailbox_check_interval = 0 # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # 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 # Maximum allowed length for custom flag name. It's only forced when trying # to create new flags. #mail_max_flag_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. #mail_read_mmaped = no # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Check if mails' content has been changed by external programs. This slows # down things as extra stat() needs to be called for each file. If changes are # noticed, the message is treated as a new message, since IMAP protocol # specifies that existing messages are immutable. #maildir_check_content_changes = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's three available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use both fcntl and flock too; if you do the order they're declared # with is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using both fcntl # and flock. Some operating systems don't allow using both of them # simultaneously, eg. BSDs. If dotlock is used, it's always created first. #mbox_locks = dotlock fcntl # Should we create dotlock file even when we want only a read-lock? Setting # this to yes hurts the performance when the mailbox is accessed simultaneously # by multiple processes, but it's needed for reliable reading if no other # locking methods are available. #mbox_read_dotlock = no # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. Note that setting # this to yes means that log file is opened as the logged in user, which # might not work. It could also be a small security risk if you use single UID # for multiple users, as the users could ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no ## ## IMAP process ## # Executable location #imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #imap_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #imap_use_modules = no #imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ## ## POP3 process ## # Executable location #pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #pop3_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #pop3_use_modules = no #pop3_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 ## ## Authentication processes ## # An Authentication process is a child process used by Dovecot that # handles the authentication steps. The steps cover an authentication # mechanism (auth_mechanisms, how the client authenticates in the IMAP or # POP3 protocol), which password database should be queried (auth_passdb), # and which user database should be queried (auth_userdb, to obtain # UID, GID, and location of the user's mailbox/home directory). # # You can have multiple processes, though a typical configuration will # have only one. Each time "auth = xx" is seen, a new process # definition is started. The point of multiple processes is to be able # to set stricter permissions. (See auth_user below.) # # Just remember that only one Authentication process is asked for the # password, so you can't have different passwords accessible through # different process definitions (unless they have different # auth_mechanisms, and you're ok with having different password for # each mechanisms). # Authentication process name. auth = default # Specifies how the client authenticates in the IMAP protocol. # Space separated list of permitted authentication mechanisms: # anonymous plain digest-md5 cram-md5 # # anonymous - No authentication required. # plain - The password is sent as plain text. All IMAP/POP3 clients # support this, and the password can be encrypted by Dovecot to match # any of the encryption schemes used in password databases. # digest-md5 and cram-md5 - both encrypt the password so it is more # secure in transit, but are not well supported by clients, and # require that the password database use a matching encryption # scheme (or be in plaintext). # # See auth.txt for more details. # # If you are using SSL there is less benefit to digest-md5 and # cram-md5 as the communication is already encrypted. auth_mechanisms = plain # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # Where user database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # static uid=<uid> gid=<gid> home=<dir template>: static settings # vpopmail: vpopmail library # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf #auth_userdb = passwd auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # Where password database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: PAM authentication # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # vpopmail: vpopmail authentication # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf #auth_passdb = pgsql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf #auth_passdb = passwd auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf #auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. #auth_user = root auth_user = dovecot # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. #auth_chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #auth_count = 1 # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. #auth_verbose = no # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. #auth_debug = no # digest-md5 authentication process. It requires special MD5 passwords which # /etc/shadow and PAM doesn't support, so we never need roots to handle it. # Note that the passwd-file is opened before chrooting and dropping root # privileges, so it may be 0600-root owned file. #auth = digest_md5 #auth_mechanisms = digest-md5 #auth_realms = #auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_user = imapauth #auth_chroot = # if you plan to use only passwd-file, you don't need the two auth processes, # simply set "auth_methods = plain digest-md5"

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[Dovecot] IMAP crashes with signal 10 (SIGBUS)
by Joseph Tam 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Any idea on what's causing this? Description: imap process crashed with SIGBUS. Versions: OS: Solaris 8, 9 Dovecot: 1.0-test57 Gcc: 3.2 Configure options: env CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O -g" ./configure \ --prefix=/var/dovecot \ --disable-ipv6 \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl \ --with-passwd-file \ --without-bsdauth \ --without-checkpassword \ --without-pam \ --without-passwd \ --without-shadow \ --without-vpopmail \ --without-static-userdb \ --without-libiconv-prefix \ --with-storages=mbox \ --with-pop3d Interestingly, eliminating optimisation seems to get rid of the problem, suggesting it might be a compiler problem. I've also tried gcc flags "-m32", "-m64", "-O3", "-O2", "-O1" and configure options "--with-file-offset-size=32 --with-mem-align=4" with no relief. IMAP dialogue: ... deleted cache, just in case ... >> 'MAIL=mbox:/nfs/ono/mail/:INBOX=/nfs/mail/ono:INDEX=/nfs/ono/dovecot/cache' imap << * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as ono >> x1 SELECT INBOX >> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) >> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. >> * 2 EXISTS >> * 2 RECENT >> * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. >> * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1102645397] UIDs valid >> * OK [UIDNEXT 3] Predicted next UID >> x1 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. << x2 FETCH 1:2 (ENVELOPE) >> Bus Error - core dumped INBOX content: From abc(a)hushmail.com Thu Nov 18 18:04:46 2004 Received: from bogus.com ([221.15.172.119]) by mx.fake.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id iAJ24MIs000307; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:04:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <81360434043.65276@abc@hushmail.com> From: <abc(a)hushmail.com> To: <fake(a)fakeu.edu> Subject: blah Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:26 -0700 X-UID: 1 blah blah From def(a)yahoo.com Thu Nov 18 18:48:37 2004 Received: from bogus.com (client-200.121.192.53.speedy.net.pe [200.121.192.53] (may be forged)) by mx.fake.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id iAJ2mCIs001481 for <somebody(a)fakeu.edu>; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:48:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200411190248.iAJ2mCIs001481(a)blah.ca> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:39:36 +0000 From: <def(a)yahoo.com> To: somebody(a)fakeu.edu Subject: blah X-UID: 2 blah blah Backtrace: #0 mbox_file_seek (ibox=0x8d9b0, view=0x8dc38, seq=2, deleted_r=0xffbef40c) at mbox-file.c:119 #1 0x0002afbc in mbox_mail_seek (mail=0x935f0) at mbox-mail.c:48 #2 0x0002b1b0 in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x935f0, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mbox-mail.c:159 #3 0x00034894 in index_mail_get_headers (_mail=0x935f0, _headers=0x93d80) at index-mail-headers.c:540 #4 0x000343e4 in index_mail_headers_get_envelope (mail=0x935f0) at index-mail-headers.c:362 #5 0x000334cc in index_mail_get_special (_mail=0x935f0, field=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_ENVELOPE) at index-mail.c:578 #6 0x0002b118 in mbox_mail_get_special (_mail=0x935f0, field=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_ENVELOPE) at mbox-mail.c:128 #7 0x00020c80 in fetch_envelope (ctx=0x881d8, mail=0x935f0, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:347 #8 0x0002081c in imap_fetch (ctx=0x881d8) at imap-fetch.c:209 #9 0x0001c034 in cmd_fetch (client=0x83f50) at cmd-fetch.c:164 #10 0x0001f2a4 in client_handle_input (client=0x83f50) at client.c:324 #11 0x0001f370 in _client_input (context=0x83f50) at client.c:368 #12 0x000593b8 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x810c0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #13 0x00058d34 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x810c0) at ioloop.c:218 #14 0x000272c8 in main (argc=0, argv=0xffbefa4c, envp=0xffbefa5c) at main.c:224 Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] Tricks to running as normal user?
by Ajaxster 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hi, I'm running on HPUX 11.11 and have installed dovecot 0.99.12 in my home directory. I've been running it at home on FC2 and had no problems. At work, on HPUX, when I modify the dovecot.conf file like is suggested in the wikki <http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Rootless>, it will detach and I can telnet to the port I've chosen, but I don't get any response back after I connect. Not other processes are getting launched when I connect. I can run the libexec/imap and get capability information echoed to the terminal. I tried the test builds and they seem to be hanging during the parsing of the .conf file. The the process never goes into the background. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try to get things running? Thanks very much. -- Jay

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[Dovecot] Verbose logging
by Daniel 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hi How can I make dovecot have very verbose logging? Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] Internal login failure
by Jaeson Schultz 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hello, I am fairly new to Dovecot, so please forgive me if I am missing something obvious here. I have checked the archived dovecot mailing list messages and have Googled for everything I can think of, and I still have not found anything to help me solve this problem. I am running Postfix+Postgresql+Dovecot on my Fedora FC2 box. I have compiled both Postfix and Dovecot from source. I believe I have postfix running properly. No error messages show up in my logs when starting Postfix or Dovecot. Messages are being delivered by Postfix just fine: Dec 12 11:45:42 co-nundrum postfix/virtual[15759]: 15E82F8EF0: to=<jaeson(a)domain.name>, relay=virtual, delay=1, status=sent (delivered to maildir) However, when I try to login to Dovecot over IMAP I get an "Internal login failure" error: [jaeson@localhost jaeson]$ telnet co-nundrum imap Trying 207.7.137.6... Connected to co-nundrum. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN jaeson secret 1 OK Logged in. * BYE Internal login failure. Error report written to server log. Connection closed by foreign host. When I check the dovecot log file I see the following entries: dovecot-auth: Dec 12 01:15:59 Info: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM user_accounts WHERE username='jaeson' imap-login: Dec 12 01:15:59 Info: Internal login failure: jaeson [66.159.231.21] dovecot: Dec 12 01:15:59 Error: child 9845 (auth) killed with signal 11 Here are the entries from my dovecot.conf file. As you can see, I have set both auth_verbose and auth_debug = yes, but I don't seem to be getting any log messages with enough verbosity to indicate just what the problem is. base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 16 login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 65535 first_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_gid = 65535 default_mail_env = maildir:/mail/%d/%u mail_save_crlf = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_check_content_changes = no mbox_locks = fcntl umask = 0077 imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_user = root auth_count = 1 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes Additionally, here are the entries in my dovecot-pgsql.conf file: connect = host=localhost dbname=mail_DB user=mailreader password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM user_accounts WHERE username='%u' user_query = SELECT '/mail/'||mailbox AS home, uid, gid FROM user_accounts WHERE username='%u' Finally, here is the configure command I used when building Dovecot from source: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug --with-pgsql --with-cyrus-sasl2 --with-ssl=openssl --sysconfdir=/etc At this point, I think that the connections to my postgresql tables are all working properly, and the initial authentication with Dovecot appears to be working. Dovecot *does* accept my password and gives me the "OK Logged in." response message, but somewhere before it kicks off the IMAP process it dies with a SIGSEGV. Perhaps I have some file permissions out of whack? Has anyone else encountered this problem, or perhaps has any insight into what might be going wrong or how to find out more information? Thanks, Jaeson Schultz jaeson at jaeson dot net

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