January 2009 - dovecot

[Dovecot] incorrect dovecot-uidlist?
by Stephan Dietrich 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi, I have some problems with my own mail-client. To fix the problem I want to know if my dovecot-uidlist is correct. Here it is: cat dovecot-uidlist 3 V1207893082 N522 519 :1231251810.M890065P5870.SERVER,W=2188,S=2124:2,DS 520 :1231750443.M221593P17335.SERVER,W=2260,S=2211:2,S 522 :1231773105.M510336P24592.SERVER,W=2278,S=2229:2,S 523 :1231773105.M510337P24592.SERVER,W=2280,S=2231:2,S 524 :1231773105.M510338P24592.SERVER,W=2280,S=2231:2,S 525 :1231773105.M510339P24592.SERVER,W=2280,S=2231:2,S 526 :1231773602.M637982P25701.SERVER,W=2471,S=2430:2,S 527 :1231773643.M934651P25801.SERVER,S=778:2,DS 528 :1231773649.M494756P25829.SERVER,S=701:2,DS 529 :1231848752.M95696P23657.SERVER,W=2289,S=2238:2,S 530 :1231848752.M95697P23657.SERVER,W=2289,S=2238:2,S 531 :1231848752.M95698P23657.SERVER,W=2236,S=2187:2,S 532 :1231848752.M95699P23657.SERVER,W=2254,S=2205:2,S 533 :1231848752.M95700P23657.SERVER,W=2280,S=2231:2,S 534 :1231947345.M166356P31040.SERVER,W=14351593,S=14167572:2,S 535 :1231947618.M714791P31657.SERVER,W=14420039,S=14235124:2,S 536 :1231947618.M714792P31657.SERVER,W=3718,S=3638:2,S 537 :1231947618.M714793P31657.SERVER,W=43049465,S=42497522:2,S 538 :1231947618.M714794P31657.SERVER,W=43049475,S=42497531:2,S 539 :1231947618.M714795P31657.SERVER,W=43049475,S=42497531:2,S 540 :1232010788.M924208P9848.SERVER,W=43050148,S=42498189 I read the documentation on http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir?highlight=(UIDVALIDITY) Now I see, that the next UID in dovecot-uidlist is here 522 but the last UID is 540. So I don't know why the dovecot-uidlist is incorrect. Thanks for comments... STEPHAN

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[Dovecot] Autocreate plugin
by Proskurin Kirill 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hello. I found what if you have a something like this: autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Spam *Then I delete autocreate2 string* and... autocreate3 will not work. If I add autocreate2 - all work well. Yes it is seems to be right what they all must go after each otherm but if i have a 20 or 30 autocreate folders and i want to delete autocreate2 for example - all other from 3-20 will not work. For me it is seems like a bug. I think better to remove numbers from this plugin at all. -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill

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[Dovecot] autocreate "bug" with 1.2 solved
by Robert Schetterer 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi Timo i found "the bug" with autocreate in dovecot 1.2 last weeks i tested a lot with namespaces i finally declared shared namespace before private namespace in dovecot.conf by doing a lot of copy paste namespace test variants getting autocreate to work i finally copied my private namespace declaration above the shared namespace in dovecot.conf and now its working. So it simple autocreate parses the dovecot.conf from begin and uses the first namespace found in dovecot.conf , if that namespace doesnt match its going do log namespace not found in the log and stop working so its by design ,not really a bug , but it should dokumented elsewhere if you wont fix that behavior in the future -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Default mbox file ownership and permissions with static userdb
by Christian Kreibich 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi there! I'm using Dovecot 1.1.7 in a simple setup with a static userdb: userdb: driver: static args: uid=50018 gid=50019 home=/home/dovemail When my users create folders via IMAP, the ownership of the mbox file is user dovemail, group dovemail, and permissions are 600. I'd like this to change to user dovemail, group doveusers, permissions 660, but I can't figure out a way to do it. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. -- Cheers, Christian

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[Dovecot] Possible Bug segnalation
by Claudio Prono 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Hi to all, Today i have manually copied at least 250 mail from a mailbox to another and i have encountered some problems with dovecot. When finished to download all the messages, via pop3, at the next check mail dovecot give me that error: dovecot: Jan 15 10:59:55 Info: POP3(michele(a)domain.net): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/29, size=932800 Then, the messages from the pop server was deleted, to the client an error was given but no mail downloaded. I have resolved that deleting all the dovecot files into the mailbox, so: dovecot-uidlist dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log Then, all restarted to works normally, but...the most bad thing is... the lost mails! I use OpenSuSE 11 with dovecot11-1.1.3-5.1 with postfix and virtual users on mysql. Here is my dovecot -n: # 1.1.3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot-err.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-inf.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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 first_valid_uid: 51 last_valid_uid: 51 first_valid_gid: 51 last_valid_gid: 51 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/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/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %Mf auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: maildir quota: maildir:user quota quota_warning: storage=80%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 80 quota_warning2: storage=90%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90 quota_warning3: storage=99%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90 Anyone have some similar experience to mine? Cordially, Claudio Prono. -- ------------ Claudio Prono Systems Development @ PSS Srl, Divisione Implementazione Sistemi Via San Bernardino, 17 - 10137 Torino (TO) - IT Tel +39-011.32.72.100 Fax +39-011.32.46.497 PGP Fingerprint: 75C2 4049 E23D 2FBF A65F 40DB EA5C 11AC C2B0 3647 Disclaimer: http://atpss.net/disclaimer ------------

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[Dovecot] Trouble with %d in args of passwd-file
by Nathan Hüsken 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Hello, I am trying to configure my dovecot folowing this guide: http://www.w3style.co.uk/virtual-domains-with-exim-and-dovecot I append the output of dovecot -n below. I created /etc/vmail/my-domain.de/user containing: test-user:{PLAIN}test:1002:100::/home/test-user:: No I try to login: telnet 127.0.0.1 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. * OK This is Dovecot, and it is ready. a01 LOGIN test-user(a)my-domain.de test a01 NO Authentication failed. It does not work! But when I change the "%d" to my-domain.de, and login without the domain, it works! What am I doing wrong? Thanks! Nathan dovecot -n # 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info.log ssl_cert_file: /etc/exim4/exim.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/exim4/exim.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: This is Dovecot, and it is ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_max_connections: 10 max_mail_processes: 64 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_extra_groups: mail mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir mail_full_filesystem_access: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/vmail/%d/users userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/vmail/%d/users

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[Dovecot] 1.1.9 release candidate
by Timo Sirainen 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.1.9.rc.tar.gz There are a couple of a bit larger changes, so would be nice if a few people tested this on different setups before I released the final v1.1.9. Changes since v1.1.8: + deliver: Added rejection_subject setting, which is used for rejected mails. + pop3: Prevent clients from looping forever trying to fetch an expunged message. + If login process crashes, log the IP address that (maybe) caused it. + If core dump limit is 0, add "core dumps disabled" to startup log line. - mbox: Fixed assert-crash with pop3_lock_session=yes - dbox: Fixes to handling maildir-converted files. - Auth cache wasn't working correctly for all fields (e.g. allow_nets) with blocking passdbs (e.g. mysql). - pgsql: Handle reconnecting to server without failing auth lookups. - Berkeley DB memory/resource leak fixes. - maildir: Fixes to handling over 26 keywords.

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Re: [Dovecot] Can imap IDLE be disabled?
by Timo Sirainen 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Ed Ewing wrote: >> Are you sure disabling IDLE helps with that? AFAIK most clients >> keep persistent connections to server regardless of their ability >> to IDLE. >> >> > No expert here but netstat shows persistent established connections > for users with blackberrys. Ah, ok. I think blackberry is an exception here. But actually you can disable IDLE by changing imap_capability setting manually. Set it to the default CAPABILITY reply you get from Dovecot, just remove IDLE.

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Re: [Dovecot] Can imap IDLE be disabled?
by Timo Sirainen 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Ed Ewing wrote: > On 1/17/2009 10:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Ed Ewing wrote: >> >>> Have looked through all of the config options in the wiki and >>> don't see a reference to turning off IDLE similar to courier's >>> capability. >>> Is it possible? >> >> No. Why do you want to disable it? >> > Prefer not having persistent connections to the server. > May sound backwards but simple as that. Are you sure disabling IDLE helps with that? AFAIK most clients keep persistent connections to server regardless of their ability to IDLE.

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[Dovecot] Can imap IDLE be disabled?
by Ed Ewing 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Have looked through all of the config options in the wiki and don't see a reference to turning off IDLE similar to courier's capability. Is it possible? Thanks for any pointers. Using version 1.1.6

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