November 2009 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Maildirs++ on ext4
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, happy after migrating from Courier to Dovecot without major issues, and saving 3 Gb of RAM after the migration, now I'm going to move everything to a 5 Tb RAID6 array. There's another thread on SATA and cluster fs, but for now I'm looking for the best filesystem in your experience. Currently I use Reiser, but I'd like to know if someone has worked with ext4 and Dovecot's maildir++. Thanks. P.S. I have UPS and generator, but my RAID card doesn't have backup battery.

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Re: [Dovecot] expire_dict - Folder names with spaces
by michael＠euroinfissi.eu 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Yes but how to setup the expire tool for foldernames that contain spaces? expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy?usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 does not work... and expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 produces the following: Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] Starting Dovecot Imap: ☺ILoading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so ☺IEffective uid=99, gid=99, home=/tmp ☺IQuota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::quota ☺IQuota rule: root=user mailbox=* bytes=1073741824 messages=0 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=1020054732 (95%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=858993459 (80%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci type=expunge secs=604800 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Elementy type=expunge secs=0 ☺Iexpire: pattern=7 type=expunge secs=0 ☺Fexpire: Missing expire days for mailbox '365' Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf

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[Dovecot] Web-Interface for Dovecot-Sieve?
by Daniel Spannbauer 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello, is there anywhere a web-interface for managing sieve-filters with dovecot? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Software Entwicklung marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4 - 6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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[Dovecot] cache auth clear
by Juan Carlos Sanchez 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello: Have found probably auth cache clearing is not working well. I get this log after issuing several SIGUSR2 and SIGHUP from command line: Nov 18 13:56:26 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.6 starting up Nov 18 13:56:33 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 5/14 (35%) Nov 18 13:56:33 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 9 1213B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:57:40 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 47/112 (41%) Nov 18 13:57:40 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 65 8322B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:58:00 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 25/45 (55%) Nov 18 13:58:00 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 21 2721B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:58:24 auth(default): Info: SIGHUP received, clearing cache Nov 18 13:58:57 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 58/121 (47%) Nov 18 13:58:57 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 63 8223B, negative: 0 0B As you can see after the SIGHUP and supposed cache clearing, then cache stats continue growing as if nothing had been cleaned. Is this normal behaviour ? Dovecot version is 1.2.6 Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Juan Carlos Sanchez Hernandez Responsable de Seguridad y Correo Electronico Servicio de Planificacion Informatica y Comunicaciones Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Rectorado Avda. Ramiro de Maeztu 7 28040 Madrid ------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001
by Jürgen Herrmann 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

hi there! i'm trying to run dovecot 1.2.4 managesieve service with mysql auth. authentication is obviously going fine, i have debug_auth set to on and can see log lines indicating auth success: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=10100 rport=42497 resp=<hidden> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT alias as user, password, home as userdb_home, vuid as userdb_uid, vgid as userdb_gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=jh(a)new.xlhost.de 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 1 27482 1 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): SELECT home, vuid AS uid, vgid AS gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 1 jh(a)new.xlhost.de home=/home/mail_virtual/2001 uid=2001 gid=2001 2009-11-18 16:04:24 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<jh(a)new.xlhost.de>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured however then managesieve tries to chdir to the user's homedir, which fails: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001) 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Error: child 27589 (pop3) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) the user's homedir /home/mail_virtual/2001 ist set to 705 (also tried 700, 755, 770, 775 and 777) but still not write access. the mail/homedirs are definitely writeable by their respective (virtual) owners because postfix/maildrop is delivering to it and courier imap is currently reading from it just fine. any hints, please? best regards, jürgen herrmann -- >> XLhost.de - eXperts in Linux hosting ® << XLhost.de GmbH Jürgen Herrmann, Geschäftsführer Boelckestrasse 21, 93051 Regensburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Volker Geith, Jürgen Herrmann Registriert unter: HRB9918 Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE245931218 Fon: +49 (0)800 XLHOSTDE [0800 95467833] Fax: +49 (0)800 95467830 WEB: http://www.XLhost.de IRC: #XLhost(a)irc.quakenet.org

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Search Folder failures
by Michael Durket 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

In converting everyone at our site from UW-IMAP I've run into another problem with Thunderbird users that I'm hoping someone can help me with. The dovecot version I'm running is old (1.0.13 - we don't do production upgrades that often but I'm perfectly willing to install a newer version). The affected Thunderbird users are running Thunderbird version 2.0023 under Windows. All mail is stored in mbox format. What appears to be happening is that searches looking for string matches in the message body don't work. I set up a test case with the affected user. We created a folder that had 6 messages: 5 containing the string in the message body and 1 that did not. Then we set up a search folder that looked for the string. Opening the Thunderbird search folder yielded no messages matching the search. A rawlog trace of the search in dovecot showed that dovecot had indeed responded that no messages were found (when 5 should have been). This doesn't happen with UW-IMAP (version imap-2007e which I think is the last version with bug fixes ever issued). Is this perhaps a known bug in dovecot that was fixed many releases ago and I should upgrade?

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Re: [Dovecot] setting up home directories
by Steffen Kaiser 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine in my Debian sid machine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] plugin cmusieve not found
by juan carlos 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have debian lenny and dovecot 1.2.4 and a problem with the plugin cmusieve. protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)cablenet.com.pe mail_plugins = cmusieve quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } the log /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log shows me the following Fatal: Plugin cmusieve not found from directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda When I list the directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda, it was not found the cmusieve plugin. Where can i get it? # ls -l /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib01_acl_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib10_quota_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib11_trash_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_autocreate_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_convert_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 nov 12 21:20 lib20_expire_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib20_fts_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_listescape_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 nov 12 21:20 lib20_mail_log_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_virtual_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 nov 12 21:20 lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3663976 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1777465 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.so

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