December 2005 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 32, Issue 42
by Daniel 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

If its too hard for them to setup the pop3 catch all, we can probably put some mapping in place to smtp froward mail to their server. This is more complex on our part so would prefer not to do it that way, but its an option and will require not setup on their part other than make sure their server does not accept mail for anyone other than our server. dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Send dovecot mailing list submissions to > dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of dovecot digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? (Marc Perkel) > 2. Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks > (Bob Gustafson) > 3. Re: Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named > 'dqb_curblocks (Bob Gustafson) > 4. Re: Dovecot & pam_mkhomedir (Stroller) > 5. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? (Andy Cravens) > 6. Re: LDAP schema for mailLocation? (Aiko Barz) > 7. Authentication trouble. (Michael Peters) > 8. Re: LDAP schema for mailLocation? (Karl Latiss) > 9. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? > (Erik Petersen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:26:11 -0800 > From: Marc Perkel <marc(a)perkel.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? > To: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick(a)colby.edu> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <43A2F8B3.8080405(a)perkel.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I'm sure some of my customers would also freak if they knew I was using > "Alpha" code. Besides, who expects a 1.0 version to be perfect? > > Jeff A. Earickson wrote: > >> For political reasons, I would like to see alphaX promoted to "1.0". >> My boss had a cow the other day when I told her we are running alpha >> code in production. My defense was "you hadn't noticed because it >> works." Or at least call alpha6 something like "beta1" instead. >> >> Jeff Earickson >> Colby College >> >> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:42:09 -0800 >>> From: Marc Perkel <marc(a)perkel.com> >>> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >>> Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? >>> >>> I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with >>> an official version 1.0. >>> >>> Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be >>> using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the >>> previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as >>> all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0. >>> >>> The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x version being >>> obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created >>> confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less >>> ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label. >>> >>> Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it up. >>> I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think that >>> the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in >>> production. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com >>> >>> Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com >>> My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com >>> >

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[Dovecot] Two-phase delete/expunge ?
by Jan-Piet Mens 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Is it possible to have messages which have been marked for deletion or which are to be expunged, moved into a "secret" directory on the IMAP server? The IMAP client would consider the message as deleted, but an administrator could easily restore single messages (without having to retrieve tapes) by moving the message back into inbox. I understand there are patches floating around somewhere enabling that for Cyrus, but I'd love to see Dovecot do that as well. Is anyone aware of such functionality? Thanks, -JP

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[Dovecot] strange connection NG
by Yi Xuan 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Dear all, I have a devocot server based on fedora core 3 in Japan. When my users are in Japan, there is no any problem reported.Devocot works very well. But when my users are in China, sometimes the following problem occured. Sometimes the user can not download mails, after that all connections attempt to server(e.g http/ssh) failed. the user has to close OutLook, and wait for about 10 minutes, then access the webmail to read mail. Maybe the POP NG is due to the network , but what is the possible reason of 10-minute other connection NG? Is there any solution? Because users in China share the same outside IP, when one user occures POP NG, all users occures server access NG, that is a big puzzle. Thanks in advance. Best regards,

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[Dovecot] Patch: ioloop using kqueue/kevent for FreeBSD
by Vaclav Haisman 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hi, I would like to submit the attached patch. It implements IO loop using FreeBSD's kqueue/kevent syscalls. It is based on snapshot of CVS HEAD as of 2005-12-12. I could only give it limited testing on FreeBSD 5.4 but it works fine so far. Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha5 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

We have now some new big features: - Beginnings of dbox mailbox format. It should work, but if you happen to delete/break index files, the mails aren't found again. So really not a good idea to use it for more than testing. - GSSAPI (Kerberos 5) support by Jelmer Vernooij with some fixes by pod(a)herald.ox.ac.uk - Added dictionary API to Dovecot, similar to what Postfix has. It can be used for getting/setting key=value pairs, which can be useful for many different purposes. For example it could be used to store mailbox metadata for ANNOTATEMORE extension. Implemented SQL backend for it. In future there should be berkeley DB backend at least. Also there could be some kind of proxy backend which would use UNIX socket to connect to dictionary server doing the actual work. This way each imap/lda process wouldn't have to connect to SQL server themself. - Quota plugin is now included. We also have now dictionary based quota support, which means the quota limits and values can be stored in SQL. However I haven't actually tested these changes yet, so there's a good chance the quota plugin doesn't actually work at all. - Created a new trash plugin which works only together with quota plugin. The point of it is to expunge mails from a list of configurable mailboxes whenever saving new mails would cause the account to go over quota. The oldest mails are expunged first, and only as many mails are expunged as is needed to save the new mail. For configuration it first looks up for ~/.dovecot.trash.conf, and then fallbacks to /etc/dovecot-trash.conf. The file format is "<priority> <mailbox name>". It's possible to have multiple mailboxes with same priority. Lower number = higher priority. This plugin is also currently untested. The plugins are currently installed as shared libraries to plugin directory. At some point I'll add a configure option to select which plugins to compile directly into binaries. Possibly even do it by default for some plugins (quota). And smaller new features: - If LDAP lookup fails because connection gets closed, try retrying it again after reconnect. This is however untested, hopefully didn't break LDAP code completely.. - %w variable in dovecot-auth contains password. Can be used to do eg.: password_query = select null as password from users where userid = '%u' and password = password('%w') - syslog_facility setting And fixes: - auth_cache was quite broken - adding keywords caused sometimes assert-crash - If login_greeting_capability = yes we could have sent the capability before dovecot-auth returned what auth mechanisms were available, forcing clients to use plaintext authentication - Lots of mbox fixes again.. - userdb prefetch wasn't supposed to be uncommented in dovecot-example.conf in alpha4. Comment it out if you don't need it. - Don't crash with "out of memory" in 64bit systems - IDLE command might have crashed when finishing itself if there were lots of external changes - pop3_reuse_xuidl setting wasn't actually working

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[Dovecot] Logging IMAP deletions
by Jan-Piet Mens 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I'm using dovecot-1.0.alpha5 and I'd like to be able to log the fact that a message has been deleted (or marked for deletion) in order to prove to end-users that they actually deleted a message. Is that possible? -JP

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[Dovecot] messages_count too large (1121 > 1115)
by Moritz Willers 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I've seen this was mentioned before but remains unsolved. I upgraded Dovecot from 0.99 to v1.0.alpha4 yesterday and it rendered my inbox inaccessible: Dec 15 00:09:07 sand dovecot: imap(willers): Corrupted index file /home/willers/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (1121 > 1115) I've since moved that inbox away so I can view my new mail again. The error has moved with the mbox file: Dec 15 00:27:41 sand dovecot: imap(willers): Corrupted index file /home/willers/mail/old-inbox/.imap/200407-200512/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (1121 > 1115) Dec 15 00:27:41 sand dovecot: child 83886 (imap) killed with signal 11 This is on FreeBSD 4.8 (yes, yes ... but: "up 687 days" which is quite nice) all running on local disk. So earlier suspicions about NFS or MacOS X are out of the window. One day I'll move move from mbox to dir format and the problem will go away, in the meanwhile, I thought it would be good to resolve this issue. Let me know how I can help to get to the bottom of this. - mo

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[Dovecot] Best way to upgrade from 1.0a4 to 1.0a5
by Cliff Hayes 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hello all, I have 1.0 Alpha 4. Is it better to shut down sendmail, uninstall dovecot 1.0a4 then install 1.0a5, or just install 1.0a5 over the top of 1.0a4? Thanks, Cliff

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[Dovecot] Variable '%r' doesn't transfomr in Postgres query
by Sebastjan Trepca 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hi, i'm using postgres for authorization. When I switched from a4 to a5 authorization stoped working. Query in conf file for postgres looks like this: password_query = select password from auth('%u','%r'); But in logs, the transformed query looks like this: Performing query: select password from auth('test','%r'); Looks like you don't transform that remote IP parameter? Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] writing an MDA, help me avoid corrupted indexes
by Lee Howard 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hello. First, I want to thank those responsible for Dovecot IMAP as it was a real treat to implement in comparison to my mostly-failed attempts with Cyrus. The passwd-file authentication was exactly what I needed as I really didn't want to have to deal with PAM or LDAP but where I am setting up a server with virtual accounts. I'm using Postfix as an MTA, and it quite handily passes the mail off to SpamAssassin. From there I need an MDA to dump any mails detected as spam into a common spam folder, discard any mails with viruses (antivir) and send a notification to me, and then drop good mail into the appropriate maildir directory for the virtual users to get via both POP3 and IMAP. I could conceivably use procmail to do that MDA, and I've done similar things with procmail in the past, but my growing experience with procmail indicates that procmail is too ferocious for what simple work I need done, and too difficult to make work right in a virtual-user environment. So I've written my own little MDA with a few lines of shell that will take the mail from Postfix+SpamAssassin and ultimately deposit mails in the maildirs. So far so good, except that I keep seeing corrupt indexes... probably because I'm not touching the indexes at all with the MDA. My guess is that in order for the MDA to properly deal with maildir it needs to adjust the indexes after depositing new mail. Okay. So can someone either give me a pointer to the proper documentation on this, including the index file formats, or perhaps just explain it to me? Maybe I'm missing a larger picture of maildir handling? I've glanced through http://www.dovecot.org/doc/index.txt but I notice that the index files are not ASCII, so I'm not sure where to start at understanding that documentation. Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks, Lee.

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