December 2008 - dovecot

[Dovecot] confused about deliver
by Neal Becker 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

I have dovecot serving a maildir in ~/Mail.imap. In Mail.imap I have cur/ new/ tmp/ .maillist1/ .maillist1/cur .maillist1/new .maillist1/tmp ... I made a sieve script, which looks like: require "fileinto"; if header :is "Subject" "test" { fileinto "test"; } ... with no final else clase. When mail is delivered to a maillist, caught by my sieve script, it goes into the correct subdir of maildir. But, when not caught by the script, I get: Dec 14 11:53:27 localhost deliver(nbecker): msgid=<d9f848520812140850q190f104fva5f586e43fa03994(a)mail.gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX I can't find this mail saved to INBOX. There are no modified directories under maildir that I can find. Where did this mail go? I wanted it to go into the toplevel cur/, which is where my client finds them.

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[Dovecot] SIEVE resources ?
by Xavier Maillard 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi, Do you any good SIEVE resources for a poor beginnner ? I'd to translate some of my current procmail rules into SIEVE. I have, for example, a "generic" rule that is able to sort almost any message from/to a mailing-list into a dedicated folder -i.e one rule for almost all my lists. Any recomendation ? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Source patches from Apple
by Mike Abbott 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hello Dovecot developers, Apple has made and tested significant changes to Dovecot v1.1 and now is ready to contribute them back to your open source project. The changes include: Scalability and performance: allow pop/imap mail processes to handle multiple clients larger listen queues Stability and maintenance: fix to allow cross-compilation workarounds for Mac OS X bugs a couple general bug fixes symbol conflict resolution Features: Open Directory integration back off after failed auth attempts Mac OS X-specific handle dynamic host name changes I could contribute these as one giant patch or as a sequence of discrete patches. How would you prefer to receive them?

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[Dovecot] Mailbox name
by Xavier Maillard 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi, I am using SIEVE to filter/sort my incoming mails. I am subscribed to tens of mailing lists and I would like to file messages into folder of this pattern: INBOX/list/<tld>/<domain name>/<list name> So for example help-gnu-emacs(a)gnu.org would be filed under: INBOX/list/org/gnu/help-gnu-emacs The problem is Dovecot is telling me that this mailbox name is invalid. What can I do ? Cheers

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[Dovecot] Imap logging and inetd
by Jonathan Siegle 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

When I ran /usr/local/sbin/dovecot, the variable login_log_format_elements from dovecot.conf was honored. Now when I run /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login from /etc/inetd.conf, it isn't. How do I get imap-login to write log lines that use login_log_format_elements for the format? This is dovecot-1.2.alpha3 soon to be alpha4. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Panic in 1.1.6 file ioloop.c: line 206
by Laurent Blume 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi all, I just had a panic with dovecot 1.1.6, two days after replacing 1.0.15 with it in production. Here are the logs immediately preceding the panic, I think they're related. It seems the user connected simultaneously from two different clients, from his own computer and a webmail running on the server, then manipulated mail folders on one side, and logged out. The panic occurred 3 seconds after the logout. Is there a setting I might have missed that could avoid that? TIA, Laurent Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.error] IMAP(user): stat() failed with mbox file /home/user/r&AOk-union-DA: No such file or directory Nov 27 19:25:59 balif last message repeated 1 time Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.info] IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=436/4810193 Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.error] IMAP(user): file_dotlock_open() failed with file /var/dovecot/index/user/.imap/R&AOk-union-DAFC-DCBE-DMCT/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Nov 27 19:25:59 balif last message repeated 1 time Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.error] IMAP(user): stat() failed with mbox file /home/user/R&AOk-union-DAFC-DCBE-DMCT: No such file or directory Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.info] IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=494/314696 Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.error] IMAP(user): file_dotlock_open() failed with file /var/dovecot/index/user/.imap/r&AOk-union-directeurs/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Nov 27 19:25:59 balif last message repeated 1 time Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.error] IMAP(user): stat() failed with mbox file /home/user/r&AOk-union-directeurs: No such file or directory Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.info] IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=470/1138733 Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.error] IMAP(user): file_dotlock_open() failed with file /var/dovecot/index/user/.imap/NACRE/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Nov 27 19:25:59 balif last message repeated 1 time Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.error] IMAP(user): stat() failed with mbox file /home/user/NACRE: No such file or directory Nov 27 19:25:59 balif last message repeated 1 time Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.info] IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=2429/174842484 Nov 27 19:25:59 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.info] IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=467/10178 Nov 27 19:26:02 balif dovecot: [ID 107833 local2.crit] Panic: file ioloop.c: line 206: assertion failed: (tv_r->tv_sec >= 0 && tv_r->tv_usec >= 0) Nov 27 19:26:02 balif dovecot: [ID 398108 local2.error] Raw backtrace: 0x24d90 -> 0x2851c -> 0x286ac -> 0x28728 -> 0x28de0 -> 0x2877c -> 0x1f56c -> 0x15c40 -- / Leader de Projet & Communauté | I'm working, but not speaking for \ G11N http://fr.opensolaris.org | Bull Services http://www.bull.com / FOSUG http://guses.org |

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[Dovecot] proxy and master user
by Matthieu Herrb 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi For some application we need a master user on our IMAP servers. We use dovecot 1.1.7 in proxy mode, with proxy_maybe (some mailboxes are on the proxy itself, others are on remote servers, also running dovecot). But the proxy removes the '*master' suffix from the username when using the master user to log in on the proxy. So the base name of the user with the master password are submitted to the real server, which of course fails. Is there a way to tell the proxy to forward the master user to the real server, without forcing it in destuser, since we also need to have regular (non master) logins? Thanks in advance. -- Matthieu Herrb

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin with PostgreSQL
by Jon Harvie 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Is it possible to use the dovecot 1.1 expire plugin with postgresql and if so how?

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[Dovecot] qmail and LDA: passdb didn't return userdb entries
by Alessio Cecchi 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi, i'm testing Dovecot LDA to works with qmail and vpopmail. I have added into a .qmail for a users this line: root(a)test.com: /home/vpopmail/domains/test.com/0/test# cat .qmail | /var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $EXT@$USER This is my dovecont conf: # dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24-21-server x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04.1 log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-err.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log protocols: imap listen: *:143 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: Ready login_process_per_connection: no first_valid_uid: 89 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw userdb: driver: prefetch args: uid=89 gid=89 home=/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%u socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vpopmail group: vchkpw plugin: quota: maildir I have added protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)test.com mail_plugins = quota log_path = /tmp/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot-deliver.log } and socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vpopmail group = vchkpw } } But in the log file i find this errors: dovecot: Dec 02 15:28:04 Error: auth(default): prefetch(test(a)test.com): passdb didn't return userdb entries I have read in the wiki that deliver needed to know some much information about users, like HOMEDIR, but this information are not returned by vpopmail authentication? IMAP authentication works fine instead. What is wrong? Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi is: @ ILS -> http://www.linux.it/~alessice/ on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi GNU/Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it @ LOLUG -> Socio http://www.lolug.net

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[Dovecot] Broken sorting(?)
by Michael M. Slusarz 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Somewhere between revision f5554ae61732 (12 days ago) and the release of 1.2a4 (f53952ac4285; 9 days ago) sorting appears to have broken. With the older revision, I see the following (using Maildir): a sort (ARRIVAL) US-ASCII ALL * SORT 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 2 1 With the newest code, I see this: a sort (ARRIVAL) US-ASCII ALL * SORT 124 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 2 1 Obviously, that duplicate sequence number (124) is not a good thing (shouldn't the sequence numbers be in order for an arrival search anyway?). Deleting any message in the mailbox always makes the last sequence number appear at the beginning. I can verify that another IMAP server on the same machine views the mailbox just fine: a sort (arrival) US-ASCII ALL * SORT 124 123 122 121 120 119 118 117 116 115 114 113 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 100 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 michael

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