November 2007 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Small typo
by Abhijit Hoskeri 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi, There is a small typo in src/lib/network.c line 624 return "A non-recovable name server error occurred"; should be return "A non-recoverable name server error occurred"; Sorry about the pedantry. BTW, I am getting this error whenever I am trying to resolve a name from inside dovecot, but I can using the system tools. I am trying to get the proxying code to use hostnames as well as IP addresses. -Abhijit.

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[Dovecot] Wanting to seperate MTA and Imap
by Brent Clark 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi Current my set up is that the MTA and Dovecot (maildir) is on the same machine. Ive been asked to seperate the services from the same machine (too would like to add a secondary MTA - but thats future ideas). I read the documentation on NFS, but from other sites i have read. Most say this is NOT the best solution. My question is, how do some of the fellow dovecot users,or other companys, e.g. google etc, pull this off. If you can assist in helping me fine a solution and too help me understand, I would greatfully appreciate it. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] libwrap-ing IMAP and POP logins
by Edgar Fuß 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Since I've been using this for maybe a year now, maybe someone else is interested in restricting IMAP and POP logins via libwrap. In addition to the attached patch (against 1.0.5) to src/login-common/main.c, src/{imap,pop3}-login/Makefile.in have to be modified to link against libwrap. Of course, the option needs to be integrated into configure in the long run.

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[Dovecot] Sieve regex never matches
by frank.kintrup＠fkware.de 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi, I found the following code on the net which should redirect all mails to another address depending on the time of day (useful for forwarding mails to work): require ["regex"]; if allof (header :regex "date" "(08|09|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17):..:..", not header :regex "date" "(sat|sun)") { redirect "address@work>"; keep; } To check and test I simplified the regex to match all mails within a certain hour: require ["regex"]; if header :regex "date" "20:..:.." { redirect "user@domain"; keep; } Both scripts compile fine, but their regex never match. Has anyone an idea why? I'm using Dovecot 1.0.0 on Debian Etch stable. Frank

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[Dovecot] passdb ldap static values
by Harrison Metzger 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hello, In the pass_attrs field one can map ldap attributes to dovecot attributes. I'm wondering if I can map both ldap attribuets and static attributes to a dovecot value in the same passdb section. Also, I can't seem to find what other values (if any) can belong in the: passdb ldap { args = /path/filename } stanza. Are there any other options I can put in that stanza, I can't seem to find any on the wiki. Harrison Metzger

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[Dovecot] Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin
by Kleyton M. 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Bom dia, Pessoal eu tenho um servidor HP Proliant ML 110 com 4gb de memoria e processador Xeon. Minha distribuição é um Fedora Core 7 com Postfix + Procmail e este chama Spanassasim e Clamav Para IMAP, POP3 utilizo dovecot. Estava tendo o erro de Corrupted dovecot.index, atualizei da versao 1.05 para a 1.07 Agora o mesmo problema ocorre algumas messagens ficam presas na caixa e o usuario nao recebe atraves do outlook 2000 (pop3) e quando logo via IMAP alguns usuarios tem menssagens nao lidas que nao foram entregues por pop3 e no Maillog aparece: Nov 23 09:00:43 golf dovecot: IMAP(everli): Maildir /home/everli/Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (89 < 90, file = msg.BAwd:2,) Nov 23 09:00:43 golf dovecot: IMAP(everli): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. Apos isso relogando ou clicando novamente na caixa de entrada e deslogando o dovecot entrega via POP3 essas menssagens nao lidas. Porque isso ? como resolvo esse problema pois a maioria utiliza outlook e não o IMAP Cordialmente; Kleyton Maia dos Santos ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] imap process killed with signal 11
by Daniel 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi! Using the latest cvs from HEAD, I'm experiencing problems after sending a message and the client is trying upload the message to the appropriate (Sent/Queue) folder. I get only one error in dovecot.log: dovecot: Nov 25 14:21:31 Error: child 19554 (imap) killed with signal 11 So my client disconnects, and asks for the password again, and in dovecot.info I get nothing, but the logs of the new connection attempt. What else info should I provide? System is OpenBSD 4.2 $ dovecot -n # 1.1.beta8: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.info protocols: pop3 pop3s imap listen: 212.92.15.17 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot_cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot_key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: _dovecot login_processes_count: 1 login_max_processes_count: 10 max_mail_processes: 100 first_valid_uid: 8000 first_valid_gid: 8000 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 ntlm user: _dv_auth master_user_separator: * verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot.passdb_master pass: yes master: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot.passdb userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot.userdb socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: _postfix group: _postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=100M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=50M -- Lévai Dániel Key ID: 0x4AC0A4B1 (wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net) Fingerprint: D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1

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[Dovecot] recalculation of maildir Quota
by Ingo Rogalsky 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hello, I intend to use maildir Quota for measurement only, not for applying restrictions. Therefore I defined rather high values. That's working as expected. Nevertheless it's not useful, because the recalculation time is to high. This takes some minutes for my own mailaccount with 250.000 mails on a NFS storage. This would be to bad, but whilst this time, the Mailclient hangs. Probably our users woulnd't accept this. Can this be done in the background? Furthermore I noticed that recalculation occurs after the file maildirsize gets longer than 30 lines (around 250-300 bytes) and not after 5120 bytes as the wiki states. Do I do/understand something wrong or is this a bug? Probably a nightly cronjob, which does calculation of Maildir-size would be a more useful alternative. Regards, Ingo Rogalsky

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[Dovecot] migrating from mbox to maildir
by Erick Perez 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi all, I have a locking problem in a Centos 4.4 linux machine with the following config: dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4 postfix-2.2.10-1.1.el4 I use virtual mailboxes with postfix currently I have dovecot with mbox as this: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/virtualmail/%d/%n The problem is that mail is being delivered to mailboxes very very slowly (sometimes up to 4 hours). In my logs, I have tons of these messages: mail postfix/virtual[24965]: CFB8878D04F: to=<REMOVED@REMOVED>, relay=virtual, delay=51, status=deferred (mailbox /var/spool/mail/virtualmail/REMOVEDDOMAINNAME/npitti: unable to lock for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable) then someone told me that I need to change dovecot to maildir format. Is there a reference to change format? Or some comments about this? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] overquota message
by Emiliano Gabrielli (aka AlberT) 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi, is it possible to customize the overquota message ? I'd like very much if it was possible to use the %d in the postmaster mail address (and overquota message) too ... in virtual domain environment it is very likely .. thanks in advance -- <?php echo ' Emiliano Gabrielli (aka AlberT) ',"\n", ' GrUSP founder - ZCE ',"\n", ' AlberT_at_SuperAlberT_it - www.SuperAlberT.it ',"\n", ' IRC: #php,#AES azzurra.com ',"\n",'ICQ: 158591185'; ?>

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