January 2007 - dovecot

[Dovecot] 1.0.rc16 released
by Timo Sirainen 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc16.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc16.tar.gz.sig If you've had problems with getting errors about index files sometimes being corrupted, please try if this release fixes it. If you've reported any bugs that this release hasn't fixed, please report them again so I know they still didn't get fixed and that I didn't forget them. * IMAP: When trying to fetch an already expunged message, Dovecot used to just disconnect client. Now it instead replies with dummy NIL data. * Priority numbers in plugin names have changed. If you're installing from source, you should delete the existing plugin files before installing the new ones, otherwise you'll get errors. * Maildir: We're using rename() to move files from tmp/ to new/ now. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir -> "Issues with the specification" for reasoning why this is safe. This makes saving mails faster, and also makes Dovecot usable with Mac OS X's HFS+ (after you also set dotlock_use_excl=yes, see below). + Added dotlock_use_excl setting. If enabled, dotlocks are created directly using O_EXCL flag, instead of by creating a temporary file which is hardlinked. O_EXCL is faster, but may not work with NFS. + If Dovecot crashes with Linux or Solaris, it'll log a "Raw backtrace". It's worse than gdb's backtrace, but better than nothing. + Added maildir_copy_preserve_filename=yes setting. + Added a lazy-expunge plugin to allow users to unexpunge their mails. + maildir quota: Added ignore setting to maildir quota, which allows ignoring quota in Trash mailbox. + dict quota: If dictionary doesn't yet contain the quota, calculate it by going through all the mails in all the mailboxes. + login_log_format_elements: Added %a=local port and %b=remote port + Added -i and -o options to rawlog to restrict logging only to input or output. - Doing a STATUS command for a selected mailbox (not a recommended IMAP client behavior) caused Dovecot to sync the mailbox silently. This could have lost eg. EXPUNGE events from clients, causing them to use wrong sequence numbers. - deliver was treating boolean settings set to "no" as if they were "yes" (they were supposed to be commented out for "no") - Running "dovecot" with -a or -n option while Dovecot was running deleted all authentication sockets, which caused all the future logins to fail. - maildir: RENAME and DELETE didn't touch control directory if it was different from maildir or index dir. - We treated internal userdb lookup errors as "user unknown" errors. In such situations this caused deliver to think the user didn't exist and the mail get bounced. - pam: Setting cache_key crashed - shared maildir: dovecot-keywords file's mode wasn't taken from dovecot-shared file. - dovecotpw wasn't working with PowerPC

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc17 released
by Janne Johansson 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Ouch didn't get the maillist on the receiver list. > > > 2007/1/10, Thomas Zajic <zlatko(a)zlatko.fdns.net>: > > > > * John Peacock, 2007-01-09 19:35 > > > > > [...] > > > When trying to move large numbers of messages to Trash using > > Thunderbird > > > 1.5.0.9, I would get "Lost connection with server" messages at > > anything > > > over about 1500 messages. The strange thing is that when I checked > > the > > > trash folder, the deleted messages were there multiple times, i.e. > > > everytime I attempted to move all messages to Trash, plus everytime it > > > > > failed until I got below the magic number. > > > [...] > > > > I think this is a Thunderbird problem rather than a Dovecot one. I had > > the same thing happening recently when I moved last year's logfiles to > > my archive folder (36000+ messages). > > > > I had this on 1.0rc10, and moved to 1.0rc15 and it went away (or pushed > the limits > over the number of messages I wanted to delete) and I was also using > Thunderbird 1.5.0.x. > I'll report if it happens to me again. > > > -- Some mornings, it's just not worth gnawing through the straps...

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[Dovecot] dovecot cannot access the then new created folders by squirrel mail?
by shamsurrahman 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

hi, i use dovecot and squirrelmail wwbmail to access my mails in fc6, every thing is working ok, but the only thing quirrel mail can create new folders but can't acces or open them for example i created folder accounts by squirrelmail it was created but can't open, this is the permissions for the accounts in the ~/mail/: drwx------ 2 jaan jaan 4096 Jan 8 07:14 accounts -rwxr-xr-x 1 jaan jaan 0 Jan 8 20:35 draftbox any one can help please?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot's deliver trouble (...probably bug?)
by Serge D 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hello everybody! I am a Linux admin trying to move my mail system based on qmail to the software which is more spam-protected: exim4 + dovecot-1.0rc15 + pgsql . I've downloaded and rebuild dovecot from src.rpm (for fc4). During the testing stage I've discovered two troubles: 1) the problem with deliver (...I'm not sure it's a really bug). Here is relevant part of my /var/log/messages : ------- Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge(a)test.net): auth input: serge(a)test.net Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge(a)test.net): auth input: home=/var/spool/mail/test.net/serge/ Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge(a)test.net): auth input: uid=500 Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge(a)test.net): auth input: gid=12 Jan 3 10:40:37 serge deliver(serge(a)test.net): setuid(500) failed: Operation not permitted ------- -- my system is fc4 based Linux. uid/gid are according to /etc/dovecot-sql.conf : user_query = SELECT maildir AS home, 500 AS uid, 12 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%n@%d' AND active='1' I was trying to chown 500.12 /var/spool/mail -R , chmod u+s ...etc, but it does not helps. Please, help. I don't want another MDA, people adviced me dovecot as good and well tested solution. I have already spent about two work days to configure and test it... 2) Because of mentioned above problem deliver generates a bounce message for exim, and here is a bug with e-mail in the header. It was taken "as is" from the queue of Exim -- have a look at "Return-path:", "envelope-from" and "Sender:" Because of these errors exim can not deliver the message back to sender. It freezes it, ...trying again, ...freezes ... etc... -------------------------------------------------- 1H252L-0004jZ-F3-D This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: serge(a)test.net local delivery failed ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <"testuser(a)test.net"@test.net> Received: from serge.lc.test.net ([10.0.0.5]) by serge.lc.test.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <"testuser(a)test.net"@test.net>) id 1H252K-0004jT-U5 for serge(a)test.net; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:16:05 +0200 Message-ID: <459B9E84.9070607(a)test.net> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:16:04 +0200 From: test uset <testuser(a)test.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: serge(a)test.net Subject: =?KOI8-R?Q?=D4=C5=D3=D4_=D0=D2=CF=C8=CF=D6=C4=C5=CE=C9=D1?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: "testuser(a)test.net"@test.net Test message body. ------------------------------------ Here is an original message from e-mail client ( just to make sure that it was made proper way): ------------------------------------ > From - Wed Jan 03 18:18:54 2007 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 Message-ID: <459BD76D.4090903(a)test.net> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:18:53 +0200 From: test uset <testuser(a)test.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: serge(a)test.net Subject: =?KOI8-R?Q?=D4=C5=D3=D4_=D0=D2=CF=C8=CF=D6=C4=C5=CE=C9=D1?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Test message body. ---------------------------------------------------------- As for POP3 with dovecot, it seems working OK. Dovecot generates mail directories according to the user data returned by SQL, and creates index files proper way - everything with given uid.gid = 500.12 ... If you will need some extra piece of information, or my configs or logs -- please feel free to ask for it. Any kind of help: advices, URLs, patches, etc.., are welcome. I badly need to bring up this new system as soon as possible. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Serge www.cis.by

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[Dovecot] deliver rewrites envelop-sender
by Ralf Becker 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hello, we are currently using sendmail, procmail, uwimap and qpopper. We are planing to replace uwimap and qpopper with dovecot. Which seems to be a very good idea :-) But: Sendmail and Procmail will not be replaced. Now I've realized that deliver rewrites existing "From <....> ..." header lines to ">From <...> ..." and adds it's own "From "-line. Example: -------- My procmailrc end with :0 | deliver -d beckerr Mails are deliver to my INBOX, but * From beckerr(a)fh-trier.de Sun Jan 07 17:37:43 2007 * Received: ... * From: ... is rewritten to * From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Jan 07 17:37:44 2007 * > From beckerr(a)fh-trier.de Sun Jan 07 17:37:43 2007 * Received: ... * From: ... Is there a (simple) way to prevent deliver from doing so? OR In case "-f <envelop sender>" is not given, could deliver 1) read the envelop sender address from the "From <...>" line, 2) remove the line and 3) add it's own using the formally extracted sender address? This sounds best for me and would cover the problem most effective... BTW: I've found the "dovecot deliver patch for procmail" and it looks really good (http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-July/014656.html) but it seems to me, that the "From " line problem is solved by optionally removing the whole line, so deliver would use it's own default "From MAILER-DAEMON "-line ... and this in fact the problem Regards, Ralf -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Ralf Becker Rechenzentrum (r/ft) der FH Trier (Network|Mail|Web|Firewall) University of applied sciences Administrator Schneidershof, D-54293 Trier Mail: beckerr(a)fh-trier.de Fon: +49 651 8103 499 WWW: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Fax: +49 651 8103 214 PGP: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr/pgp ICQ: <available> ______________________________________________________________________ Wenn Gott gewollt haette, dass E-Mail in HTML geschrieben wuerden, endeten Gebete traditionell mit </amen>. (Tom Listen)

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[Dovecot] Disable TLS on port 143?
by Jackie Hunt 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hi all, Is there a way to disable the TLS support provided by Dovecot on port 143? I'd like to run SSL on 993, so as far as I can tell I can't use ssl_disable, since the will disable SSL. I'm looking for the equivalent of an ssl_disable_tls setting. Thanks much, Jackie --- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu

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[Dovecot] [minor] stale auth-worker sockets
by Luigi Rosa 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

I was fooling around the /var/run/dovecot directory and I noticed a lot of stale auth-worker.xxxxx sockets, probably left there by unexpected termination of old versions of Dovecot. Just to know who does what, have I to clean up the stale sockets, or a future version of Dovecot will get rid of this unused sockets? Ciao, luigi -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons;

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[Dovecot] dovecot rc7 assert, core
by Jeff A. Earickson 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Hi, Wow, I haven't had an assert/core in dovecot in a long time. Here goes: Setup: Solaris 10, dovecot built with gcc 4.1.1, imap and imaps only. User's home directory lives on a ZFS filesystem, but I don't think that makes a difference. So does every other user here (>3K). Assert: IMAP(mulepri): file message-body-search.c: line 393 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) gdb backtrace and other poking at the core is attached. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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Re: [Dovecot] Automatic mail script?
by Antonio Casado Rodríguez 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Hi, if you use dirsize: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/R/RM/RMALAFAIA/postmmon/ if you use maildir++: http://www.ual.es/personal/acasado/mdsmon/ Andreas Andersson escribió: > Hello! > > I am setting up a Dovecot mailserver for around 2000 people with: > sendmail + dovecot + squirrelmail + spamassassin and some plugins. > > I have the Imap quota working in mboxes with this quota commands: > > plugin { > # 10MB quota limit > quota = dirsize:storage=10240 > } > > It worked good in Squirrelmail, but the person that only use some imap > program (outlook, eudora) don't get the info when theirs account will > be full of mail. > > So can someone give me a good script for a automatic mail. I want to > send a mail to a user when they are nearly exceeded their limits, so > they can start cleaning theirs account. > > Are this possible or how should I solve this problem? > > /Andreas

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[Dovecot] DSA certificate with Dovecot doesn't seem to work.
by Václav Haisman 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hi, I tried to use DSA certificate today and it did not work very well. Is Dovecot supposed to work only with RSA? -- Vaclav Haisman

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