August 2006 - dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot imap with Postfix and using Thunderbird as client
by Shawn Needham 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of the mysterious fix to this problem that Curtis describes in his followup: "I vaguely remember something like this, but I don't recall the fix" I recently installed dovecot on a server running RHEL4-AS-U2 and have updated to RHEL latest dovecot package, dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1. Seeing as this is close to the version Curtis is running (dovecot-0.99.14) I was wondering if anyone had some insights. There seems to be a Thunderbird specific problem when trying to retrieve messages from the server. Other imap clients (Mac OSX Mail, squirrelmail, etc) don't experience this problem, however Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 experiences it on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows boxes. In thunderbird, new messages don't reliably appear and the retrieval button doesn't work when new mail is present. Clicking on an email which isn't cached retrieves new ones as well as waiting around an hour to retrieve messages. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide. Shawn Curtis Maloney wrote: > Ben Ware wrote: >> Hi, >> I just recently installed dovecot, and I am having the following problem: >> If I send an email to my account on this new machine, I can log in via SSH >> and use the unix mail command, and instantly my email is visible. If I turn >> on Thunderbird, it will show my new message. If Thunderbird was already on >> and had already checked the mailbox, even if I click on get new mail for >> that specific mailbox, the new mail does not show up until I restart >> thunderbird. Is there something that I have set wrong in the config files >> that is preventing the IMAP part of dovecot from refreshing the messages >> quickly for me to see? I dont see anything in the log files at all except >> for it showing me logging in. >> Thanks, >> Ben > > I am using pretty much the same setup - Dovecot (0.99.14), Postfix and > Thunderbird. I vaguely remember something like this, but I don't recall the > fix. What happens when you click on another folder, and back to the folder > with the new mail? Does it show then? > > -- > Curtis Maloney

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[Dovecot] Can't move messages
by Paul van Erk 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi, I use dovecot with IMAP over SSL and with Plain Text authentication. I've been using that for quite a while, but now (with my new PC), it's not working like it should (I tried several 1.0* releases, including 1.0-rc6. The problem is that I can't move messages from one IMAP folder to another, no matter which mail client. When I use KMail, I get: "The connection to the server parena was unexpectedly closed or timed out. It will be re-established automatically if possible." But everything still works. The messages hasn't moved (deleting (so send to Trash folder) also doesn't work), it stays where it is. With Thunderbird, it just goes nuts in the status bar saying "Connecting..." and some other messages: clearly it tries to move, loses the connection and tries again and again... An extra weird thing is when I move a message from my IMAP account to a local folder, it works. And then I can move that message from the local folder to my IMAP account. It only doesn't work when moving messages within the IMAP account. I use: openssh 4.3_p2-r1 openssl 0.9.7j I hope someone can help me, 'coz my wife will soon start to find it just as annoying as I already do. ;) Paul van Erk

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[Dovecot] rc6 compilation problems (obsd 3.9 stable)
by Michal Soltys 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Starting with rc6, there seem to be problem with compilation on openbsd 3.9, (possibly due to autoconf 2.60 switch mentioned in other thread ?). Either way, this is what configure reports at some point (further compilation fails of course): checking for crypt... yes checking for dlopen... yes checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no ./configure: echo $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/libstorage_maildir.a: not found ./configure: echo $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/libstorage_mbox.a: not found ./configure: echo $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/dbox/libstorage_dbox.a: not found checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes

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[Dovecot] quota plugin
by lenny＠edpausa.com 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

I keep getting this when enabling quota plugin for pop/imap dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 22990 (imap) killed with signal 10 protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota } quota = dirsize:storage=1024000 the user has only 40+mb in the home dir and the quota plugin properly shows 4% usage. However, messages can not be deleted or moved.

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[Dovecot] dovecot and mysql replication
by Joseph W. Breu 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hello, How does one go about configuring dovecot to use 2 mysql servers. The code looks like it may handle it - but I have not found a config guide that answers my questions. Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] Dynamic server address
by Kresimir Tonkovic 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alan Premselaar <alien(a)12inch.com> Date: Aug 8, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dynamic server address To: kresimir.tonkovic(a)gmail.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kresimir Tonkovic wrote: > > > On 8/8/06, *Johannes Berg* <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net > <mailto:johannes@sipsolutions.net>> wrote: > > Kresimir Tonkovic wrote: > > My mail server (ubuntu breezey badger) is connected by ADSL and has a > > dynamic address. I have noticed that, every day after the IP address > > changes, dovecot is no longer reachable from the net. Iguess this is > > because dovecot doesn't register this change and continues to listen > > on a non-existing interface/address. > > > Any comments? > Just make it listen on 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0>? > > johannes > > > Not an option. I want local users to connect by pop3 and remote by pop3s. > > -- > kresho Kreshmir, You should still be able to achieve that by using tcpwrappers or iptables to restrict access on the appropriate networks. Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE2EPDE2gsBSKjZHQRAv/jAKDkf/E2nlZ5+aNeTHuMdX2iw46tyACfTp5w lnQZjQnRtG6O0hB6gFq0tjk= =xgKj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Alan, I believe we should keep the discussion on the list :-) Please "reply all" Correct me if I'm wrong, by default POP3 and POP3+SSL both work at the same port, 110. I want to let local users connect by plain POP3 and external users to use POP3+SSL. I don't see how I can set this up using iptables and tcpwrappers. Can you please provide more details? -- kresho

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[Dovecot] Dynamic server address
by Kresimir Tonkovic 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi! My mail server (ubuntu breezey badger) is connected by ADSL and has a dynamic address. I have noticed that, every day after the IP address changes, dovecot is no longer reachable from the net. Iguess this is because dovecot doesn't register this change and continues to listen on a non-existing interface/address. I'm trying to solve this problem by putting a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up/ dovecot --===--- #!/bin/sh # By kresho # dovecot ip-up script (/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/dovecot) # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart ---===--- So far, it seems to work. I doubt I'm the first one to come across this problem, yet I couldn't find anything similar on google. Any comments? -- kresho

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[Dovecot] [1.0.rc6] Bug in deliver (still exists)
by Claus Alboege 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi, The bug reported in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-July/014786.html still exists in 1.0.rc6 % grep "$ ./configure" dovecot-1.0.rc6/config.log $ ./configure --prefix=/srv/software/dovecot Install prefix ...................... : /srv/software/dovecot File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: I'm letting 'qmail' deliver one copy of the message and dovecot's 'deliver' another copy to the same maildir. % cat /home/csa/.qmail |preline /srv/software/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver ./Maildir/ Then I'm sending this mail to myself. % cat /tmp/mail.txt From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:01:49 2006 This part of the body will be zapped by Dovecot's deliver... This is bad.... Injecting the message: % cat /tmp/mail.txt | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject Having qmail process the message: % sudo /var/qmail/rc status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 new msg 1596241 info msg 1596241: bytes 364 from <csa(a)csa-net.dk> qp 23105 uid 1000 starting delivery 1: msg 1596241 to local csa(a)csa-net.dk status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 1: success: did_1+0+1/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 1596241 Looking at the result: % cd /home/csa/Maildir/new/ % ls -l total 8 -rw------- 1 csa csa 423 2006-08-07 10:21 1154938875.23114.silver -rw------- 1 csa csa 334 2006-08-07 10:21 1154938875.P23113Q0M326713.silver First one (delivered by 'qmail') looks good: % cat 1154938875.23114.silver Return-Path: <csa(a)csa-net.dk> Delivered-To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Received: (qmail 23105 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Date: 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20060807082102.23104.qmail(a)csa-net.dk> From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:01:49 2006 This part of the body will be zapped by Dovecot's deliver... This is bad.... /Claus A Second one (delivered by Dovecot's 'deliver') doesn't look good: % cat 1154938875.P23113Q0M326713.silver >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:21:15 2006 Return-Path: <csa(a)csa-net.dk> Delivered-To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Received: (qmail 23105 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Date: 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20060807082102.23104.qmail(a)csa-net.dk> From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail -------------------- As we see, Dovecot's 'deliver' zapped everything in the message from and including the MBOX From line.... If more info is needed, please let me know. Regards /Claus A

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[Dovecot] Purging old mails
by Dave Hatton 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hi all, Firstly if this is a FAQ and I've missed it - let me apologise in advance. I use dovecot as a backup mail store and would now like to purge all mails over a certain age. Is it as simple as using find and rm'ing the results or is there more to it? I'm using maildir if that make a difference? Thanks in advance. Daveh

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[Dovecot] RC6 startup failure: "Login prcess died too early"
by S JList 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Greetings. I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last couple of weeks. No problems. However, when I installed RC6 this morning, Dovecot refused to launch completely. Here's the relevant snippet from /var/log/maillog: Aug 7 10:08:36 mercury dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26127 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26128 (login) killed with signal 11 Both RC2 and RC6 compiled cleanly with "--with-pop3d". For reasons beyond my control, I have to set protocols = imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes I do have a valid /etc/pam.d/dovecot file (we're using PAM). I made certain that the localized settings for /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf matched what they were in RC2 for RC6. (I did use the RC6 dovecot-example.conf as source for RC6, then made the local changes. I also tried testing RC6 with my old RC2 config file--same failure). So, RC2 starts just fine. RC6 fails to start with the messages logged above. Can anyone give me any pointers? RHEL (Linux Kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp), built from source, nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Right now, I've reverted back to RC2. TIA. S JList sjlist(a)heidelberg.edu

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