November 2009 - dovecot

[Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot mode 750 too tight
by Frank Cusack 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

dovecot-1.2.8 creates /var/run/dovecot mode 750. I run postfix+dovecot in a virtual user setup. Postfix calls deliver as user vmail group vmail. Nov 29 12:53:04 imap.invalid dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] deliver(frank): userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(vmail) egid=500(vmail) missing +x perm: /var/run/dovecot) I will say this: dovecot's error reporting in general is head and shoulders above the norm. Makes tracking down problems sooo much easier. Something else I noticed, should the dict-server socket really be mode 777? At least a-x I would think. -frank

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[Dovecot] Everytime I start my mail client it downloads all message again!
by BeKi 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hello, I use Xdove 1.2 on my ts-409 together with IMAP/dovecot. I like to see the same folder structure on my different workstation (private/work ...). I move the mails into the folder structure I created. That works fine. But since I use Xdove with IMAP I have the problem that my mailclient loads all mails I already stored in different folders again into the INBOX (some mails also multiple with subfolders). These mails are duplicates (or multiples) because I delete them all. The mails in my folders are still there. Up to now I tried different mail clients. Thunderbird 2.x/3.x, Pegasus 4.5, Outlook Express. All behave the same way, so I think it must have something to do with the server. Maybe one of you heard about this and can give me hints where to look for. Which configuration files shall I post to help debug? Thanks, Bernd

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[Dovecot] init-script update for v2.0
by Pascal Volk 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Timo, please find attached a patch for the init script in the doc directory. * Added LSB-compliant info block (for insserv and friends) * Updated base_dir detection (for v2.0 config output) Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: decade.0932307(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Proxy, using checkpassword
by Aaron Roberts 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi all, I think I may be doing something wrong but, is it possible to proxy POP and IMAP users when using a checkpassword script as the passdb? I'm trying to write a perl script to handle authentication to a mix of SQL and POP3 sources whilst logging user passwords at the same time for a migration. At the moment, I'm trying to set environment variables to tell dovecot what to do: $ENV{'AUTHORIZED'} = 2; $ENV{'proxy'} = 'Y'; $ENV{'host'} = $pop_success; Dovecot is logging the following: Nov 27 10:35:01 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH#0118#011PLAIN#011service=pop3#011lip=192.168.100.143#011rip=192.168.100.60#011lport=110#011rport=3051#011resp=AGFpcmJlYXIAcG9uZGFhcjM= Nov 27 10:35:01 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): execute: /var/run/dovecot/login/authomatic.pl /usr/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-reply Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): Received input: userdb_uid=0#011userdb_gid=0#011 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): Received no input Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): exit_status=0 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK#0118#011user=airbear Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: dovecot: User airbear is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST#0115#01116075#0118 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0115#011airbear Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<airbear>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.100.60, lip=192.168.100.143 Thanks in advance, Aaron

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[Dovecot] is there a script to find a message from a given username easily?
by Gary Kline 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello people, I used primarily mutt and sendmail for many years. (And elm before mutt.) All my mail was saved into ~/Mail. Messages from, say, smith(a)foo.ber were stored in ~/Mail/smith; all mail from smith was catenated into one file, and if I wanted to find something that smith had written, I would just cd to ~/Mail and grep or egrep on a likely word or phrase. Is there a script that can reach into my server into My maildirectory and cp or symlink (say) ~/Maildir/smith's files: 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 780 Apr 18 2008 1208585354.91013_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 731 May 15 2008 1210901757.55602_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 566 May 18 2008 1211140486.77700_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 20 2008 1211326880.95596_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 21 2008 1211393732.2283_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 673 Apr 13 2009 1239636788.1457_3.aristotle:2,S 6 -rw------- 1 kline kline 4242 Apr 14 2009 1239748901.16354_4.aristotle:2,S into somthing named ~/Mail/smith, with all files catted together? tia, gary kline -- Gary Kline kline(a)thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

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[Dovecot] Acl Groups
by Dimitrios Karapiperis 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all! I have a corpus of virtual users ( user1(a)domain.tld , user2(a)domain.tld, user3(a)domain.tld,..., usern(a)domain.tld ... ) authenticated against Active Directory. Is it possible to group some users (virtual) and give appropriate ACLs on a shared imap public folder using an ACL vfile? thanks in advance Dimitrios

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hosts in France?
by Anatoly IVANOV 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi, * Would someone recommend web hosts in France using Dovecot, please? I'd prefer to outsource the server management to someone else (although I could install and run my own Dovecot server). I need the server to be located physically in a French datacenter for legal reasons. Sorry if I'm a bit off-topic. Not a technical question. Thanks in advance. ANATOLY IVANOV / PHOTOGRAPHY / DESIGN / PROSE http://www.anatolyivanov.com/ AI on Twitter http://twitter.com/anatolyivanov

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[Dovecot] 1.2.7: recs[i]->uid < rec-> uid
by Edgar Fuß 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

I'm getting this Panic with some users on dovecot-1.2.7: Panic: file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1242 (maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges): assertion failed: (recs[i]- >uid < rec-> uid) There's another dovecot-1.2.3 running on identical hardware accessing the same NFS mail storage without problems.

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[Dovecot] restrictions on folder length?
by Brett Dikeman 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Greetings all, After migrating a few dozen people to our departmental mailserver, we've run into a problem with one user who makes extensive use of folders and nesting them. I've seen as many as 8 levels. The longest resulting folder name is 113 characters, which results in a total path length of 137 characters (/var/spool/mail/******). Their old mail server handled this fine, but dovecot is choking on it; imapsync reports "invalid mailbox name", and he gets the same error clicking on the mailboxes in Thunderbird (they seem to have been created, despite the error messages.) Mail was imported over using imapsync, and did so flawlessly for all the other accounts. Are we running up against a soft (configuration file) or hard (source) limit? Or is this a bug? Thanks! Brett

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 typo patch
by Mike Abbott 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

--- a/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c +++ b/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ } } if (*set->mail_privileged_group != '\0') { - if (!parse_uid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) + if (!parse_gid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) i_fatal("Unknown mail_gid group: %s", set->mail_gid); } if (*set->mail_access_groups != '\0')

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