February 2007 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Fwd: RE: pid stamp on log entries?
by bhayden＠umn.edu 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

On Feb 26 2007, Bill Boebel wrote: >On Mon, February 26, 2007 2:40 pm, bhayden(a)umn.edu said: > >> Hi folks. Is there a way to modify the log stamp to include pid as well >> as time? > >Take a look at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables > >%p = pid > >I use: mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u)(%p): " > >Syslog adds the timestamp though. Thanks for that. A more specific question: is there a way to have imap/pop-login processes log the PID of the child imap/pop process? This would be for the purpose of connecting a specific authentication with its own session activity in the case of multiple logins by a single user. -Brian

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[Dovecot] relay-ctrl works
by Amitai Schlair 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

In case anyone still cares, relay-ctrl works with Dovecot. Dovecot's end of the bargain requires a dirty little script to set TCPREMOTEIP based on the arguments passed from imap-login: #!/bin/sh TCPREMOTEIP=`echo "$@" | sed -e 's|.* ||' -e 's|]$||'` export TCPREMOTEIP exec "$@" And this (long) line in dovecot.conf: mail_executable: envdir /etc/relay-ctrl /usr/local/bin/relay-ctrl- chdir /usr/local/bin/dovecot-settcpremoteip /usr/local/bin/relay-ctrl- allow /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap For the SMTP end of the bargain, relay-ctrl has docs for qmail-smtpd and mailfront.

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[Dovecot] stability?
by K. Clair 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi, I'm having trouble figuring this out from any of the documentation or website pages: is dovecot v1.0 considered to be stable, or is it still testing/beta? If the latter, is there any timeline for a "stable" release? Thanks, Kristina

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[Dovecot] how to configure quota in horde
by juan carlos 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

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[Dovecot] Migrating to dovecot: non-empty mboxes
by Alexander Shikoff 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hello, I migrate from cucipop to dovecot. Thus I move users' mailboxes (mbox format) to another location. Some POP3 client (for example Outlook or TheBat!) use flag 'Do not delete messages from server'. After the user's mailbox have been moved to a new location all old messages is retrieved again and user get duplicates. Is there a way to avoid such issue? Thanks a lot! -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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[Dovecot] rc23 Problem - Assertion Failed
by chandler.lists＠chapman.edu 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Feb 27 14:17:46 wurfel dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<USER>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Feb 27 14:17:46 wurfel dovecot: IMAP(USER): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 387 (mbox_sync_update_header): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid != 0 || ctx->pseudo) This is happening for dozens of users. Anyone have a suggestion of what to adjust? It was happening somewhat less frequently in RC22, and I believe the line number was in the 4hundreds there...

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Re: [Dovecot] rc23 Problem - Assertion Failed
by chandler.lists＠chapman.edu 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I don't think this was touched from 23 to 24... Also, 24 hasn't hit the FreeBSD ports tree yet, so I'm not certain what would break if I built it manually... --J > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:19:45 -0800 (PST) > chandler.lists(a)chapman.edu wrote: > >> Anyone have a suggestion of what >> to adjust? > > rc24? > > -- > > Brian Morrison > > bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk > > "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud; > after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it." > > GnuPG key ID DE32E5C5 - http://wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html >

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth (1.0rc24) on Solaris seems broken.
by Stephen Usher 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I've trying to get dovecot-auth to talk to exim and have been running debugging on both sides. I've added the line: i_info("auth_client_input: client disconnected: %s", strerror(errno)); just after the "case -1" in the first switch statement in: auth-client-connection.c: auth_client_input() and get this in the logs: dovecot: Feb 27 13:35:09 Info: auth(default): auth_client_input: client disconnected: Illegal seek Now, on the exim end if I don't have the i_info() call in the routine the call to fgets() which exim is using never returns. If I put the i_info() call in there it does and gives an error, e.g. 2007-02-27 13:35:09 dovecot_plain authenticator failed for vanguard.earth.ox.ac.uk [163.1.22.82]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket protocol error Now, the istreams code in dovecot seems rather too obscure for me to debug any further. According to the read(2) man page under Solaris 10, the only version of read which can possibly return ESPIPE is pread(). Any ideas what's going on? Steve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Systems Administrator, E-Mail:-steve@earth.ox.ac.uk Department of Earth Sciences, Tel:- +44 (0)1865 282110 University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, UK. Fax:- +44 (0)1865 272072

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[Dovecot] Capability dropping support patch
by David 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi, A week ago I submitted an early patch, please ignore it. The patch attached to this email has been tested and seems to work for me. I have also attached instead of inline to solve problems with spaces/tabs. The patch will, on systems that have libcap support, drop capabilities that Dovecot doesn't need. For example there is no need for CAP_SYS_MODULE, which enables module loading or CAP_SYS_PTRACE/CAP_SYS_ADMIN/etc. If libcap isn't installed then nothing will change, this is a compile-time only enhancement that isn't configurable. Personally I did not find that CAP_SYS_CHROOT was needed in order for me to authenticate and access my mailbox, but I haven't configured anything special with chrooting (yet). I added it because I see chroot() is used in src/lib/restrict-access.c. The patch was generated against 1.0-rc24 and tested with clients imp and Thunderbird. My configuration uses a virtual passdb, requires TLS for AUTH and exports auth-master under a different account. All of this appears to work correctly. I'd appreciate any comments, perhaps this will help safeguard the 1000EUR on non-hardened systems :) David

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Re: [Dovecot] Quota stored in LDAP
by Stian Jordet 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

On tir, 2007-02-27 at 13:12 -0300, Venilton Junior wrote: > default_mail_env = maildir:/var/lib/imap/vmail/domains/%d/%n/mail::INDEX=/var/run/dovecot/indexes/%n I don't really know, but have you checked whether the maildirsize file is in the index-location? > plugin { > convert_mail = maildir:/var/lib/imap/vmail/%d/%u/mail > #quota = maildir:storage=102400 (If I uncomment this line, quota start to work, but for everyone equally) > quota = maildir (After putting this line, all messages starts to get at the filename the ,S=) > } You don't need to have a quota line in the plugin section. > Here follows my dovecot-ldap.conf: > > user_attrs = mail,homeDirectory,,,,quotaStorage=quota And your ldap attribute is called quotaStorage? > But it's not creating the control file... should I use dirsize instead of Maildir++ ? > My quota ldap entry is: maildir:storage=102400 No, you should not use dirsize. That's terribly slow (and does for sure not make the maildirsize-file). The only thing I'm unsure of is whether your ldap attribute is called quotaStorage? You could post some debug output from the log, with debug enabled. -Stian

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