June 2004 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] POP3 LAST command?
by Christian Balzer 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Hello, any plans to support this in the future? Seems the inability to use LAST breaks that Yahoo remote mailbox slurper thing, not that I care too much about that, but some mail clients might miss it as well. ;) Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/

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[Dovecot] Return (revenge?) of the "pop-lock".
by Christian Balzer 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Hello, The users here have been migrated to the new mail system with dovecot 0.99.10.5 (Debian package) on the backends. Storage is maildir, only pop3 access for now. I see very seldom occurrences (compared to the session wide pop lock of qpopper on the old system) like this: --- Jun 16 14:35:52 mb01 pop3(user(a)gol.com): Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /mail/spool/mb01/9ef/f73/af.user/.INBOX/.imap.index --- These are people with slow connections and at least one large mail in the box, with their client aborting w/o terminating the session properly. I presume the timeout for this is hardcoded, as all the config parameters for timeouts are mbox related, rite? Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/

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[Dovecot] /var/mail dotlocking workaround
by Timo Sirainen 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

I added "mail_extra_groups" setting which can be used to give imap/pop3 process access to additional groups. So what this means is if you set it to "mail" you can finally remove o-w access from /var/mail directory. Leaving the sticky bit could still be a good idea, so there's no way users to be able to delete each others inboxes. Here's a patch against 0.99.10.5: http://dovecot.org/patches/mail-extra-groups.diff

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[Dovecot] dovecot non-local users
by Tom Allison 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

From the docs: System without local users -------------------------- <snip> Having one uid per user would mean that in case of a security hole in Dovecot, the user still couldn't read other peoples mails. Use this if possible. ----- I don't quite understand this one. If you aren't a local user, what's the uid all about? Do I do something like: create a user for mydomain in /etc/passwd (eg: user:domain_dude, home:/var/dovecot) with a valid home/uid/gid. Plug in the uid/gid/home for domain_dude in the authentication and have a data structure of /var/dovecot/%d/%n/Maildir or %h/%d/%d/Maildir where %h = "/var/dovecot" via /etc/passwd. Something like that?

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[Dovecot] review of my configuration
by Tom Allison 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Over the last week I've set up dovecot and imap and imaps support. I've even tried to break it but it's been doing very well. Now I'm trying to set up a webmail interface. Rather than use the common squirrelmail, I thought I would try openwebmail. Mainly because it's written in perl, of which I am a big fan. However, I ran into some errors in openwebmail that actually may tie back to dovecot. Here's how: dovecot configuration userdb = /etc/passwd passdb = pgsql.... ---this allows me to use the $HOME, uid, gid from the passwd file and not have to carry two copies of it (/etc/passwd and pgsql) However, under openwebmail I don't seem to have this option as they are really determined to require a home, uid, gid for each user that logs in. As witnessed by the following line: Tue Jun 15 20:23:34 2004 - [31572] (unknown) tallison - userinfo error - auth_pgsql.pl, ret -3, Can't execute SQL statement: ERROR: column "uid" does not exist Sure looks familiar doesn't it? (see, it's relevant!) Since I was thinking that maybe it might be interesting to do some email set up to support multiple domains and users some day, and I want to try out the openwebmail sooner than that. I'm getting the impression that it might be easier if I just made the leap today and started to reconfigure everything for multiple domain hosting and all the cool stuff. Now, I can probably muddle through this without too much internal damage. But I keep getting stuck on one point. How can I filter the delivery of email like I do with procmail, when I am delivering mail to many users, none of whom have a /etc/passwd entry? Are there any alternative ideas on how to do this?

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[Dovecot] cvs changelog
by Geo Carncross 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

FEI: the CVS changelog is no longer updating. cras's commits look like this: date: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS +TZDD; author cras; state Exp; lines +1 -0 but cvs2cl.pl (2.50) demands: date: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS; author cras; state: Exp; lines +1 -0 cvs2cl.pl version 2.55 still can't parse these lines. I patched my cvs2cl.pl so I could still follow dovecot, but I'm not certain these changes actually belong in cvs2cl.pl --- /s/2.55-orig/cvs2cl.pl 2004-06-15 18:58:54.000000000 +0000 +++ /s/2.55/cvs2cl.pl 2004-06-15 18:59:14.000000000 +0000 @@ -2286,7 +2286,7 @@ my ($year, $mon, $mday, $hours, $min, $secs, $author, $state, $rest) = $line =~ - m!(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)\s+(\d+):(\d+):(\d+);\s+ + m!(\d+)[/-](\d+)[/-](\d+)\s+(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)(?:.*?);\s+ author:\s+([^;]+);\s+state:\s+([^;]+);(.*)!x or die "Couldn't parse date ``$line''"; die "Bad date or Y2K issues"

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[Dovecot] SSL problems with imap-login
by Terje Rosten 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

I am using dovecot-0.99.10.5-1 on RHEL 3 for x86-64: $ uname -a Linux localhost 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:09:01 EDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The client is Horde-2.2.5/IMP-3.2 on Fedora Core 2 on i386. At random imap-login fails with the following error message: $ grep imap /var/log/maillog: Jun 15 18:01:08 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:01:17 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:15:25 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:15:25 anne imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:15:47 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:15:47 anne imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:16:00 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:16:00 anne imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:16:25 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:17:35 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:19:43 anne imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:52:01 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:52:01 anne imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:52:31 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:52:53 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:53:33 anne imap-login: Login: terjeros [10.0.0.1] Jun 15 18:54:30 anne imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [10.0.0.1] The box has plenty of memory: $ free | grep Mem Mem: 4016976 3696888 320088 0 731608 2279704 Any ideas? OpenSSL or dovecot issue? - Terje

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[Dovecot] flat file mailbox formats
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

I've tried to write the new mbox code in a way that it could be moved into generic flat-file library with mbox-specific code being implemented on top of that. The code would be useful for all formats that require modifying message headers to store the metadata. How many such are there? I suppose all such formats could be implemented by separating mails into 3 logical parts: - header ("From ...\n") - mail data (headers and body) - footer ("\n") Except keeping a separate header and footer is kind of annoying, my current code uses: - mail separator ("\nFrom ...\n") - first message header's skip counter: how many characters to remove from mail separator for the first message (1, for \n before the "From ..") - last message's footer Somewhat uglier, but I think all needed formats could be implemented with it? It's also simper and more efficient to implement.. Besides mbox, I know at least two variations which are used: AAAA-box: - I remember seeing this somewhere years ago, but I'm not sure if it's still used or if it has a real name.. - separator is four ^A characters (ascii 1) and LF - header skip counter is 5 - last message footer would be the same ^A^A^A^A\n dotbox: - mails are stored in SMTP format, ie. lines beginning with '.' are prefixed with another '.'. the '.' prefixes will have to be removed for IMAP, so this isn't as simple as others to implement. - separator is ".\n" - header skip counter is 2 - last message footer is ".\n" Any thoughts?

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[Dovecot] dovecot + Fedora core 1
by Pablo Endres 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Hi, I've installed dovecot-0.99.10.5 using the rpm from Dag Wieers, but when I start it all I get is nothing (but none of the processes are running). I checked the config file and set it up (I'm trying to use it with mysql support, but it doesn't work with traditional config) Any ideas -- Pablo Endres <epablo(a)comvoz.com> ComVoz Communications USA: +1 954 343-2085 Ext 199 Venezuela: +58 212 7713195 Ext 199 Colombia: +57 1 3256840 Ext 199

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[Dovecot] Shared folders?
by Villalovos, John L 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

I haven't seen any info on this so I thought I'd ask. Is there support for shared IMAP folders? Quite a few people at work subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I thought it would make more sense if there could be a shared LKML folder that they all could use. This would save disk space. Is this posssible? If so how? I am also looking into the idea of doing a local newsgroup of the mailing list but I don't have a news server software setup at the moment. John

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