November 2007 - dovecot

[Dovecot] IMAP outlook express error
by Hannibal Ndlovu 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi Am running debian etch + exim4 + dovecot 1.0.rc15-2etch with both an IMAP and a POP3 server The issue is when i try and get my mail using the IMAP protocol outlook gives and error "cannot find Inbox on 192.0.0.1" its happens with thunderbird and with Kmail - I assume i have misconfigured it some how and my mail is set to "mail_spool" in Exim4 I have pasted the output of "dovecot -n" # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 imap listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: The Chisipite Mail Server is ready. login_processes_count: 5 max_mail_processes: 100 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_extra_groups: mail Debian-exim mailbox_idle_check_interval: 5 mail_debug: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: /etc/passwd passdb: driver: shadow args: /etc/shadow userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Dovecot I/O scheduling (all versions)
by mikkel＠euro123.dk 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

I have experienced this on all versions of Dovecot that Ive used (1.0 - 1.1b6) using IMAP (its difficult to test if its also there with POP3). What I see is that if there is a peak in disk usage at the time of a specific request that requests stalls. The saturation of disk I/O is momentary but when its done (maybe after one or two seconds) Dovecot still waits for its I/O operation instead of continuing as soon as resources are available. Now, I would expect Dovecot to only wait until there are resources available and not stall for at long time (sometimes it stalls for like 10 seconds, and sometimes completely). This could be OS specific (Im using ZFS and Solaris 10 on Sparc) but it may also be due to the way dovecot is programmed. Theres always plenty of RAM and CPU available so thats not whats causing troubles. Is anyone else familiar with this issue? Regards, Mikkel

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[Dovecot] IDLE with Leopard Mail
by Scott Murman 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

imap IDLE is now built into the apple mail client in Leopard (finally!!). anyone looked at compatibility issues with dovecot? -SM-

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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta7 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta7.tar.gz.sig Changes since beta6: - Beginnings of unit tests, as I mentioned in a previous mail - Message parsing fixes - Cache file handling fixes Known bugs: - Cache file doesn't keep track of how much it contains deleted data, which means it could grow infinitely. This worked at some point, so I'm not sure what I did to break it. I'll figure it out later. - Apparently for some use cases v1.1 is still slower (about 2x) than v1.0. Probably more or less specific to NFS + mmap_disable=yes.

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Re: [Dovecot] Unit testing
by Alan Ferrency 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > I finally added beginnings of unit tests to Dovecot v1.1 code tree: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/4e4a5d6bb2cb Great! Unit testing is good, even though it's boring and not very glamorous. I wonder if you have seen or considered libtap, possibly as an optional dependency for those who care about running the tests? http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap It looks like it could almost drop in, in place of some of your existing test helpers. It is also compatible with a variety of end user test tools. However, I could see hesitation in adding external dependencies where they aren't really necessary. If you had TAP compatibility through libtap or other means, I could easily drop dovecot into our existing suite of nightly smoke tests on FreeBSD. > I'm probably going to be pretty lazy at adding more of those tests, so > if you've ever wanted to get your own code to Dovecot, now would be a > great time to do it! :) With a 5 month old and a 4 year old on hand, "copious free time" isn't my strong point, but I'll at least attempt to provide tests with any future bug reports. Thanks! Alan Ferrency

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[Dovecot] How to set multi backends (with same type)
by maximatt 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

hi..... i don't know if its posible. i have two ldap directories, and i want use them to use as my dovecot users backend... so i have two configurations files... "dovecot-ldap1.conf" and " dovecot-ldap2.conf" and i try setting like: Test 1: (simil postfix ) :D This dont work auth default { : : passdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf, /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } userdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf, /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } } Test 2: This dont work auth default { : : passdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf/etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot- ldap2.conf } userdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf/etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot- ldap2.conf } } Test 3: (looking "passbd ldap" as a set) :) this work, but dovecot-ldap2.conf override dovecot-ldap1.conf (the set vision, none) auth default { : : passdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } userdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } } ¿How could i do this? :( Thanks in advance :) -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] imaptest update
by Timo Sirainen 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c now keeps track of messages' metadata and complains if they change. It relies on Message-ID: header being unique in the source mailbox, otherwise it'll give bogus errors. I might fix that some day. I changed the code from using simple line-based parsing to Dovecot's imap-parser code. Unfortunately it looks like it's pretty slow. At least I'm pretty sure imaptest didn't take more than a few % of CPU before, while now it's showing 35% CPU usage.. I guess I'll have to profile it a bit to see what's eating the CPU. And yes, looks like it found a couple of bugs from Dovecot 1.1's MIME parsing (BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE replies change). That was actually why I wrote this code in the first place, I was trying to figure out how to reproduce a bug. I'm getting closer to my stress testing dream tool. :) http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2007-March/000413.…

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[Dovecot] Unit testing
by Timo Sirainen 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

I finally added beginnings of unit tests to Dovecot v1.1 code tree: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/4e4a5d6bb2cb There are currently just a couple of tests implemented in test-lib (lib/ functions) and test-mail (lib-mail/ functions). I'm probably going to be pretty lazy at adding more of those tests, so if you've ever wanted to get your own code to Dovecot, now would be a great time to do it! :)

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[Dovecot] index corruption
by rosenfield＠users.sourceforge.net 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Hi people Just switched to Dovecot yesterday, and I've already got about five reports of users with duplicate mail in their inbox :-/. Not as bad as lost email, mind you, but pretty annoying still. Checking the server log, it says: postfix/smtpd: disconnect from unknown deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error unionfs: new lower inode mtime (bindex=0, name=maildir) dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error IMAP: Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. This is dovecot version 1.0.3, the log presented here relates to only one user; user name snipped for anonymity purposes. Afterwards things just get worse and worse with the affected user: dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (1 >= 1) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index dovecot: IMAP: Transaction log file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (2 >= 2) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (1 >= 1) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index dovecot: IMAP: Transaction log file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (2 >= 2) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error What could be the problem? How do I go about debugging an issue such as this?

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[Dovecot] IMAP - Empty attachments error
by Tomáš Klandra 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hallo, I have one problem with the following configuration: - server: debian, dovecot used as an IMAP server, version 0.99.14. - stations: windows 2k/XP, mailer seamonky 1.1.4 Sometimes (let's say once in 20 attemptes) when saving attachments, they are empty (zero size files). Simple re-saving them helps. I was looking on mozilla forums if it's not a bug in SeaMonkey, which looked more likely to me, but didn't find anything, so I got the idea it could be a bug in dovecot. If someone saw this as well or have any ideas, I would really appreciate any help about it, as the error is really annoying. Thank you, Tom

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