March 2008 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Mailbox to maildir conversion
by Aaron Gallagher 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

I just today wrote Yet Another Conversion Script. This one differs from the rest that I've seen in that it will generate a dovecot- uidlist index. I've done some testing, but not any absolutely extensive testing. It works well from what I've tried. Invocation is simple. You pass the script the maildir and the mailbox file and it parses the mailbox file. The index file is generated if there is at least one e-mail with an X-IMAP header which contains the last ID used and the IMAP UIDVALIDITY. My old mail setup was ipop3d + sendmail (now dovecot + postfix) and it had a DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE e-mail with the aforementioned X-IMAP header. This e-mail will not be saved in the maildir. All e-mails with an X-UID header will get an entry in the uidlist file. The script works with python 2.3 or later. I haven't tested it on pre-2.3 python versions as I don't have any installed. http://habnabit.org/mb2md.py.gz I can answer questions about it if needed. I'm also willing to try to add any suggested features.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Startup error on FreeBSD
by Dien Phan 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hi, I have installed latest Dovecot 1.0.13 on a FreeBSD 6.2 with XMail (www.xmailserver.org) It works OK except one thing: error on startup. After each reboot there are lots of such error: dovecot: Mar 28 08:54:38 Error: child 916 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Mar 28 08:54:54 Error: imap-login: No authentication sockets found When I restart dovecot by running startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot.sh restart the problem disappears. I have to manually restart dovecot after each reboot. Below is used conf file $ dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_plugins: antispam imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /var/MailRoot/bin/dovecot_xmail userdb: driver: static args: uid=vxmail gid=vxmail home=/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vxmail plugin: antispam_signature: X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_trash: Trash antispam_spam: SPAM antispam_dspam_binary: /usr/local/bin/dspam antispam_dspam_args: --user;%u I googled and found similar post at http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg01793.html, http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg01798.html and http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg01831.html but answers there don't meet my case. I don't use sql backend. And startup script doesn't delete /var/run/dovecot/ directory after Dovecot is started. After booting when error still there I have in this directory: $ ls /var/run/dovecot auth-master dict-server login master.pid If restart dovecot (working OK): $ ls /var/run/dovecot auth-master auth-worker.960 dict-server login master.pid As we see dovecot works when there appears a file named auth-worker.960 (the number 960 changes each time it restarted). Please help me to fix this. Thanks in advance. Dien Phan

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.rc3 segmentation fault in fetch_bodystructure
by Diego Liziero 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi, another imap crash with latest dovecot. segmentation fault in fetch_bodystructure src/imap/imap-fetch.c static int fetch_bodystructure(struct imap_fetch_context *ctx, struct mail *mail, void *context ATTR_UNUSED) { const char *bodystructure; if (mail_get_special(mail, MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE, &bodystructure) < 0) return -1; ---> before the segfault here we have bodystructure=0 and mail_get_special returns >=0 [..] if (o_stream_send(ctx->client->output, "BODYSTRUCTURE (", 15) < 0 || /*line 461*/ o_stream_send_str(ctx->client->output, bodystructure) < 0 || ---> here o_stream_send_str calls strlen(bodystructure=0), and strlen tries to access "Address 0x0" causing a segfault -- Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core Access not within mapped region at address 0x0 at: strlen by: o_stream_send_str (ostream.c:163) by: fetch_bodystructure (imap-fetch.c:461) by: imap_fetch (imap-fetch.c:309) by: cmd_fetch (cmd-fetch.c:154) by: client_command_input (client.c:546) by: client_command_input (client.c:595) by: client_handle_input (client.c:636) by: client_input (client.c:691) by: io_loop_handler_run (ioloop-epoll.c:201) by: io_loop_run (ioloop.c:301) by: main (main.c:293)

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[Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1
by Alex 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Patch and prepatched version of xexec module to dovecot v1.1 now available from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/xexec. Thanks for patch to Stephan Bosch.

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[Dovecot] pop3 with out LAST command
by Antonio Casado Rodríguez 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi, One user has your client in Yahoo Webmail and he had configured pop3 acount with our servers. The Yahoo Webmail said to him: "The server not have the LAST command." We have dovecot 1.0.10 in linux. ¿This command is in Dovecot? ¿how? Regards.

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[Dovecot] (userdb/ldap) Set home dovecot variable - How?
by k bah 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Dovecot version dovecot-1.0.rc14-7 (opensuse) Postfix is using Dovecot LDA. I'm getting this error message, and I guess it's going to be a problem on my next task, which is to set up sieve scripts. Is there something wrong/contraditory on my config or I forgot something? I want: /var/dovecot-tests/: where user's inbox resides /var/dovecot-tests/home/: home dir (users will not be system users, this home is for sieve) /var/dovecot-tests/data/: mbox --- error msg --- --- --- --- auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=dovecot_machine_ip rip=client_ip auth(default): client out: CONT 1 auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AHRoYWlzY2diAHRyb2NhcjEyMw== auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): bind search: base=dc=mydomain,dc=me filter=(&(object class=inetlocalmailrecipient)(uid=someuser)) auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): result: mail(user)=someuser auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): bind: dn=cn=112345,ou=people,dc=mydomain,dc=me auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=someuser auth(default): master in: REQUEST 9 13177 1 auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): user search: base=dc=mydomain,dc=me scope=subtree fi lter=(&(objectclass=inetlocalmailrecipient)(mail=someuser)) fields=uid, uid auth(default): master out: USER 9 someuser user=someuser uid=1500 gid=12 imap-login: Login: user=<someuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=client_ip, lip=dovecot_machine_ip debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')Effective uid=1500, gid=12 debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')mbox: data=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser:INBOX=/var/dovecot-test/someuser debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')mbox: root=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser, index=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser, inbox=/var/dovecot -teste-mailspool/someuser auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=dovecot_machine_ip rip=client_ip resp=dGhhaXNjZ2IAdGhhaXNjZ2IAdHJvY2FyMTIz auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): bind search: base=dc=mydomain,dc=me filter=(&(object class=inetlocalmailrecipient)(uid=someuser)) auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): result: mail(user)=someuser auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): bind: dn=cn=112345,ou=people,dc=mydomain,dc=me auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=someuser auth(default): master in: REQUEST 10 16172 1 auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): user search: base=dc=mydomain,dc=me scope=subtree fi lter=(&(objectclass=inetlocalmailrecipient)(mail=someuser)) fields=uid, uid auth(default): master out: USER 10 someuser user=someuser uid=1500 gid=12 imap-login: Login: user=<someuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=client_ip, lip=dovecot_machine_ip debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')Effective uid=1500, gid=12 debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')mbox: data=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser:INBOX=/var/dovecot-test/someuser debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')mbox: root=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser, index=/var/dovecot-test/data/someuser, inbox=/var/dovecot -teste-mailspool/someuser debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')Disconnected: Logged out debug ('someuser' 'someuser' '' 'IMAP' '/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB' '1500 ')Disconnected: Logged out auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=dovecot_machine_ip rip=client_ip auth(default): client out: CONT 1 auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AHRoYWlzY2diAHRyb2NhcjEyMw== auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): bind search: base=dc=mydomain,dc=me filter=(&(object class=inetlocalmailrecipient)(uid=someuser)) auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): result: mail(user)=someuser auth(default): ldap(someuser,client_ip): bind: dn=cn=112345,ou=people,dc=mydomain,dc=me auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=someuser auth(default): master in: REQUEST 11 7014 1 --- error msg --- --- --- --- -- dovecot.conf --- --- --- --- login_user = dovecot mail_extra_groups = mail valid_chroot_dirs = /var/dovecot-test mail_location = mbox:/var/dovecot-test/data/%u:INBOX=/var/dovecot-test/%u login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_greeting = login_greeting_capability = yes namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } mail_debug = yes mail_log_prefix = "debug ('%u' '%n' '%d' '%s' '%h' '%i')" auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_~@ auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf_passdb } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf_userdb } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = dovecot-test group = mail } } } -- dovecot.conf --- --- --- --- -- dovecot-ldap.conf (dovecot-ldap.conf_passdb and dovecot-ldap.conf_userdb are symlinks to this file) hosts = ldap.mydomain.me dn = uid=dovecot,ou=someou,dc=mydomain,dc=me dnpass = pass tls = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=mydomain,dc=me scope = subtree deref = never user_global_uid = dovecot-test user_global_gid = mail # user_filter = (&(objectclass=inetlocalmailrecipient)(mail=%u)) # user_attrs = uid=user, uid=home pass_filter = (&(objectclass=inetlocalmailrecipient)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password -- --- --- --- --- thanks = A 2 Z Ozone Generators Top-quality industrial, commercial, and agricultural ozone generator. http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=bf5730137c0a5c2b7dd75c6… -- Powered by Outblaze

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[Dovecot] Moving main inbox file from /var/mail to ~/mail
by Romain 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi list, I am using Dovecot version 1.0.10 in a Debian package. At the moment, i have the main INBOX of each user in /var/mail/%u and others mboxes in ~/mail/. Here is the line coming from my /etc/dovecot/dovecont.conf mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u I would like to move the main inbox in each home folder with the rest of the others mboxes. What should be the process ? Should i only tkahe the network down, update my conf file and move the inbox of every user ? Or do I have to do something different ? Thanks Regards Romain romain(at)abakila(dot)net

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Re: [Dovecot] Howto create maildir in lower case while user login viaimap/pop3?
by Zhang Huangbin 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi, Toms. Toms Trankalis wrote: > I have a similar problem. When mail comes to user(a)domain.com (in > lovercase) dovecot creates directory /vmail/domain.com/user, but if > user types login like User(a)domain.com, then dovecot creates dir > /vmail/domain.com/User and I wonder why dovecot accepts the login name > at all? > > In my sutiation dovecot is auth against mysql database. > I fixed this situation, and sorry for the noise :( Reference: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables#head-010a6461d783547686f70249e820fd6b83fd… %L - lowercase So i set mail_location to: mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/%Ld/%Ln/:INDEX=/%Lh/%Ld/%Ln/ It works. -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - OpenBSD 4.2 -release, i386. - RHEL 5.1 Client

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[Dovecot] Howto create maildir in lower case while user login via imap/pop3?
by Zhang Huangbin 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi, all. I searched mail archives, but no result. I use OutLook Express on Windows XP as MUA, login username is in upper case, such as 'AAA(a)BBB.COM', when login via imap, dovecot create directories: /home/vmail/ |- BBB.COM/ # <- Domain name |- AAA/ # <- User name |- cur/ |- xxx Here, domain name and user name are in upper case. How can i make it create directories in lower case? # # dovecot -n # # /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/%h/%d/%n/:INDEX=/%h/%d/%n/ mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf 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 # # File: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf # hosts = 127.0.0.1:389 ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = yes dn = cn=vmail,dc=openbsdonly,dc=org dnpass = passwd base = o=%d,o=domains,dc=openbsdonly,dc=org scope = subtree deref = never user_filter = (&(mail=%u)(objectClass=qmailUser)(accountStatus=active)) user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,mailMessageStore=maildir:mail,mailQuota=quota=maildir:storage pass_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = userPassword=password user_global_uid = 2000 user_global_gid = 2000 default_pass_scheme = CRYPT -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - OpenBSD 4.2 -release, i386. - RHEL 5.1 Client

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[Dovecot] Manage sieve scripts in squirrelmail
by Alex 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

>Do you know a tool in squirrelmail (or a plugin) for manage sieve scripts? >Or, how permit to my users to create/modify their filter rules? > I must have managesieve daemon on the server side ( look for approriate info in wiki.dovecot.org. And on squirrelmail side you can use avelsieve. I wonder, how you could not find it: http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=73 http://email.uoa.gr/projects/squirrelmail/avelsieve.php

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