June 2005 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] performance problem?
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'm running dovecot on a small server. I put all my mail from the last 10 years on it (approx. 160 mb). I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several minutes to display a message. This is with mutt, thunderbird and evolution. Copying an outbound message to the Sent IMAP folder (15k messages) typically takes a few minutes, but can be quite fast on occasion (Thunderbird). How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] AUTH patch for Postfix 2.3?
by /dev/rob0 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

The 2.2.1 patch works fine on Postfix 2.2.3 but not on the 2.3 snapshots. Any plans to update it for 2.3? On a similar subject, Timo, are you going to try again to get it accepted by Wietse? If so I'd try to help out with the documentation part. I'm just not sure he'll accept it anyway, what with Dovecot auth only being used by Dovecot ... Thanks, BTW ... it works nicely and was very easy to set up. Postfix 2.2.x is good enough for me, for now. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] POP3 download problem
by Eddie du Plessis 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi All I am experiencing a mail download problem with dovecot's pop3 protocol. We use outlook XP 2002 mail clients and I have setup a mail system with pop accounts on a Fedora 2 installation using dovecot. Some of the clients download email fine but others do not download email and also do not give any error messages. I have enabled the "verbose" options in the /etc/dovecot.conf and all the logged messages appear the same for those who get email and for those who don't. I listed the /var/spool/mail directory and can see mail in the accounts who do not seem to download. We are running an 80 - 90 user system. I have even tried IMAP on the clients with no success. There is nothing viable in the system log. I would appreciate it if you could help. Thank you Kind regards, Eddie Eddie du Plessis IT Administrator Now Media(PTY) Ltd 32 Fricker Road Illovo Boulevard Johannesburg Cell: 082 777 8110 Tel: 011 214 7302 Fax: 011 327 4094 www.nowmedia.co.za _________ "This e-mail, its attachments and any rights attaching hereto are, unless the contents clearly indicate otherwise, the property of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. It is confidential, private and intended for the addressee only. Should you have received this email in error, kindly notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Do not disclose or use this e-mail in any manner whatsoever. Views and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, unless clearly stated as those of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited accepts no liability for any loss or damages whatsoever and howsoever incurred or suffered, resulting or arising from the use of this email or its attachments. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited does not warrant the integrity of this e-mail or that it is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference."

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[Dovecot] failed to create storage data
by Alex 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hello, I have a problem. I get the message 'Failed to create storage with data' I have 2 emailaccounts which are working perfect and that worked fine. But now I want to add another account and now it said 'Failed to create storage with data' What is the problem? I have the same rights on the directory and it worked first fine. I didn't changed it. Can any one point me in the good direction? I use dovecot with mysql and postfix. thanks in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] Maildir
by Jason P Buscema 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

I've spent most of the morning looking through the archives. Great information, however, I'm still unable to get my issues figured out. I believe I am missing something quite simple. From what I have read, I want to use maildir, mainly because it will allow the use of subfolders for my clients. My clients are running Mail.app (mostly) on 10.3 clients. I'm planning on using imap and my clients must be able to create sub folders to organize their email. I'm running into a couple problems. First, when I send an email to myself I see in the procmail log that it writes that message to: Folder: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse/Maildir/new/msg.ZAgKB However, when I send a message to another user on the same server it writes the message to: Folder: /var/mail/someuser I don't understand why the home directory changed. I don't believe I have anything custom in my account vs anyone else. My second issue/question.. how do I get Mail.app and SquirrelMail to see the email now that is not no longer in ~/mail ? Home directories are in this format on the server: /home/users/j/jp/jpbuse Users are authenticated via LDAP and their home directory actually is: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse I have a symlink that takes care of this and from what I can tell, works just fine. Changed the following line in /etc/dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:%h /etc/procmailrc looks like: # .procmailrc PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new PMDIR=/tmp/procmail LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail # Use SpamAssassin INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc dovecot-0.99 procmail-3.22 sendmail-8.13

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[Dovecot] can't get md5 stored passwords to work
by Benjamin Engle 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

In my mysql database everyone has plain passwords. I set the password don my account to {PLAIN-MD5}md5sum but when I go to login it wont let me. But I can log in with "{PLAIN-MD5}md5sum" it's like it ignores the whole {scheme} thing. So I changed my dovecot-mysql.conf to: default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 In the password field for my username I just used the md5sum. I stopped dovecot and killed all remaining processes and then started it. But it doesn't try to do md5 it is still doing plain text. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I looked and there are no compile time options that I need for this to work... Dovecot Version 0.99.13

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf %d problem
by Martins 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hello, I have got a problem ir dovecod.conf. I would like to use %d in default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u/Maildir but %d seems to be empty. I need it for Postfix virtual domains. If I use default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/DOMAIN.ORG/%u/Maildir mail folders could be accessed. I wonder, where Postfix virtual domains need to be passed to Dovecot? more config info: auth_userdb = static uid=100 gid=100 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/pass Thanks in advance, M.

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[Dovecot] SSL Certificate Chain Support
by Matthew P. Cox 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Greetings. I was wondering if there were any plans to add support for an SSL certificate chain file? This is useful to provide a valid certificate chain for lower cost signing authorities. I'm afraid that I'm not 100% positive of the implementation requirements. Although it does seem that OpenSSL supports this concept. I am aware that Apache HTTPD (via mod_ssl) and Courier-IMAP offer support for this feature. Here's a link to information from the Apache HTTPD manual: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcertificatechainfile Thank you for the continued development of a great project. Matt

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 26, Issue 5
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: >Am Samstag, 4. Juni 2005 01:31 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > >>> I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several> > >(...) > >>> How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini >> (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). > >mbox or maildir? Maildir. Listing or opening the directory via the OS is rather slow, btw, maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ time du 220240 ./cur 0 ./new 0 ./tmp 234776 . real 1m35.207s user 0m0.060s sys 0m1.850s maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ >I'm using an Am486DX4-100 with 64 MB to serve my personal mail. (about >650 >MB distributed over about 100 imap folders) indeed, so 160 mb on a beefier machine shouldn't be a problem. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] pam mysql authentication
by radus＠smartpost.ro 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hello I am trying to use pam to authenticate dovecot again a mysql database. In /etc/pam.d/dovecot i have: auth optional pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 account required pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 I have the same file for smtp and it works ok. However when i try to log in dovecot i get: Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: is Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: NULL Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: and Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: deleted Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: = Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: ''" Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"disabled)' at line 1 I am running dovecot 0.99.14 Thanks, Radu

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