April 2009 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] expire tool - individual user/folder?
by Andre Hübner 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, is the expire plugin usable to delete mails with different settings for each individual user? If i view sample config at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire it looks like expire-data are related to foldernames. Is it possible to let each user "activate" the expire-plugin for different folders with different settings? Thanks, Andre

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[Dovecot] For the record: Postfix+Spamassassin+ClamAV+Dovecot
by James Butler 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Postfix 2.5.5 SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (under Perl 5.10.0) ClamAV 0.95.1 Dovecot 1.2.rc2 works fine on Fedora 10. Installed Dovecot and ClamAV from source and everything else using yum. I'm using the ClamAV plugin for Spamassassin: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin I'm calling Spamassassin with: /etc/postfix/main.cf: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver Postfix hands off to Spamassassin, which processes ALL mail (not just attachments) through the ClamAV plugin before parsing for spam, and then hands the whole mess off to Dovecot for 'deliver' to handle. How simple is that? Since ClamAV scanns all mail, it might be too processor-intensive for really large mail systems, but it is working great for our 120+ user system with lots of spam coming in. If you're using Procmail or some other preprocessor that can hand off to a pipe, then you could skip the plugin and pipe messages over a certain size (i.e. >1024) to clamd, instead. Enjoy! James

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[Dovecot] Feature Missing OUTBOX Folder
by Frank Doege 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi Dovecot People, i have switched my system from courier-imap to dovecot and iam quite happy with it, the performance is well and i had nearly no problems. One little feature iam missing is in Courier i had a folder called "Outbox" there i could paste mails which i want to sent out. In some networks its not always available to sent mails via port 21, i know i could just set up my email server to another port but it was a nice feature. Is this a big afford or is it just alittle hack ? could it done via a little plugin ? Thanks Timo & all others for the great work ! Frank

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[Dovecot] FTS Plugin design
by Rui Carneiro 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi all, Currently I am developing some changes on the solr plugin. I want this plugin indexing also the attachment's content. I have already started to look on plugin's source but I am having some problems understanding how it works. I didn't understood yet what is the plugin's design and how the plugins are called from the core system and I was wondering if anyone could help me with that. Sorry if this doubts sound stupid but I am newcomer on Dovecot. Regards, Rui Carneiro

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[Dovecot] libsieve problems / wishes
by Steffen Kaiser 26 May '09

26 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm trying libsieve (853:42e154b8792e) to cope with our current installation, the following issues arise: 1) vacation addresses are compared case-sensitivly, e.g.: vacation :addresses [ "Steffen.Kaiser(a)example.com" ] ""; it won't match "steffen.kaiser@...". attached patch makes a first shot about that problem, leaving: 1a) maybe one should lower-case :addresses argument at compile time and my_address at run-time and then use strcmp() again. 1b) duplicate checks are case-sensitive, too. This is probably no big issue, because if the same person uses different variants of his/her mail address for sending, s/he does not deserve better. 1c) Suppression of replies to own mails are case-sensitive, too. Well, many people I know test that "it just works" by sending themselves a mail. I would disable this check. 2) we have about 157 ways to write the domain part. Not all accounts are available in all of them, but it's close to it. The old vacation program we used prior to "cmusieve" didn't care about the domain unless explicitly given. It was quite painful. Attached patch adds a "domainless" variant of :addresses arguments in such way, that vacation :addresses [ "Steffen.Kaiser" ] ""; matches any domain. Ideally, it would be better to specify all valid domains, but perhaps one can leave that for another approach with a different syntax, e.g. with "@*" as domain? Maybe, there is a better approach. Now there is possibility that common local parts are matched from alien domains easily. If to specify a set of "default" domains would be an option for libsieve, what is the suggested way: - - as user-option via dovecot.conf? - - as admin-enforced Sieve-script that sets some internal variables? aka using the multi-script capability - - ??? 3) Because I try to migrate from cmusieve v1.0, I have a name issue with "imapflags". README sec "* Supports all extensions provided by the original CMUSieve plugin:" and sec "Implementation Status" explains that "imapflags" is available. This is not true entirly: "imapflags" is not, lib-sieve uses the name "imap4flags" as defined by RFC. So, it leaves me with two options: 3a) convert all user scripts and hack Horde-Ingo, or 3b) have libsieve accept the alias "imapflags" for the extension "imap4flags". Would it be worhtwhile for libsieve to implement aliases for extensions, so that they are available in require by more than one name? About Horde-Ingo, maybe they have an update to use "imap4flags", too, but it looks like that I upgrade Dovecot before Horde. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSYccg3WSIuGy1ktrAQLlaQf+NHtyBxMb3aqnaw58zapo3/5kgqMM4GA+ 68el9d1CK4URjuk9io3MBsSzEJ4lRy6VFHNLw0jyNEnZp7l0vv5UoiK/+af7LCW5 H2T/qYL+lG/ul870t0/3q5wHmtrriAGQqE215C1u5/trJRX/sQLzDq1tbOtV4/vQ xUa8P0TXvCsgGSzCCmNiU0AenTIRGnxo+sCiyxnDKhgmWph/t06GYHX77CKwumK8 O57rh3RD9hA5yjicTbEZVLzeDDPEmCFliiSR6qMukfxOwX6LIxqhfw8n3cmSm8+X QyK6d/pBxy6EC14XhRQ7Jjtse+gWraiVJ/kcXKuW8sNPphtrGM1fdQ== =uuB6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] %d does not expand to domain
by Giuliano Gavazzi 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hello, dovecot-1.1.7 on FreeBSD 7.1. Usernames have dot in them (like uname.example for a user in example.com) in dovecot.conf I have: mail_location: maildir:/userhomes/maildirs/%d/%n/Maildir and for authentication: username_format: %Ln In the client, tried with CONE and Mail.app, I put the username as: uname.example(a)example.com So, the authentication works fine, as it extracts the uname.example from the uname.example(a)example.com supplied. The mail_location does not: Apr 27 17:21:26 drum dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<uname.example>, method=PLAIN, rip=88.149.183.86, lip=88.149.202.106, TLS Apr 27 17:21:26 drum dovecot: IMAP(name.example): Effective uid=1301, gid=1301, userhomes=/userhomes/example.com/uname Apr 27 17:21:26 drum dovecot: IMAP(uname.example): Namespace: type=private, prefix=INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Apr 27 17:21:26 drum dovecot: IMAP(uname.example): maildir: data=/ userhomes/maildirs//uname.example/Maildir Apr 27 17:21:26 drum dovecot: IMAP(uname.example): maildir++: root=/ userhomes/maildirs//uname.example/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/ userhomes/maildirs//uname.example/Maildir it looks like the %d expands to the empty string. Could this be due to the "." in the username? Thanks Giuliano

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[Dovecot] Segfault in deliver server
by Sascha Wilde 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi Timo, Hi list, I finally got along to test the current dovecot 1.2 with our Kolab Server. And I'm very excited to see all the cool ACL and shared name spaces stuff upstream, thanks a lot Timo! Anyway I just stumbled across a new bug using our metadata-plugin (which in turn uses the dict back end): Making a few annotations requests after another it stops working. dovecot.log sais something like: Feb 03 11:58:21 burlywood3 <info> dovecot[10486]: IMAP(4(a)burlywood3.rgb): metadata_get_metadata_entry: dict key=shared//kolab/var/dovecot/spool/4@burlywood3. rgb/home/maildir/.Calendar//vendor/kolab/folder-type Feb 03 11:58:21 burlywood3 <error> dovecot[10486]: child 10503 (dict) killed with signal 11 Feb 03 11:58:21 burlywood3 <error> dovecot[10486]: IMAP(4(a)burlywood3.rgb): read(/kolab/var/dovecot/run/dict-server) failed: Connection reset by peer Feb 03 11:58:21 burlywood3 <critical> dovecot[10520]: Fatal: dup2(3) failed: Bad file descriptor Feb 03 11:58:21 burlywood3 <error> dovecot[10486]: child 10520 (dict) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Feb 03 11:58:21 burlywood3 <critical> dovecot[10486]: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 38 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) (END) I attached gdb to dict and got this: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x38, idx=0) at array.c:10 10 pos = idx * array->element_size; (gdb) bt #0 array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x38, idx=0) at array.c:10 #1 0x0805e9a2 in sql_pool_unlink (ctx=0x80fb670) at sql-pool.c:64 #2 0x0805ea24 in sql_pool_new (pool=0x80f9470, db_driver=0x80dd498 "sqlite", connect_string=0x810ad78 "/kolab/var/dovecot/lib/metadata-dict.sqlite") at sql-pool.c:97 #3 0x0805bb3c in sql_dict_init (driver=0x80f9ae0, uri=0xbfce9f76 "/kolab/etc/dovecot/metadata-dict.conf", value_type=DICT_DATA_TYPE_STRING, username=0x80fb910 "4(a)burlywood3.rgb") at dict-sql.c:86 #4 0x0805c9ca in dict_init (uri=0xbfce9f6f "sqlite:/kolab/etc/dovecot/metadata-dict.conf", value_type=DICT_DATA_TYPE_STRING, username=0x80fb910 "4(a)burlywood3.rgb") at dict.c:87 #5 0x0805a1b1 in dict_client_connection_input (conn=0x80fb8d0) at dict-server.c:407 #6 0x0806637c in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80f8a80) at ioloop-epoll.c:202 #7 0x080652fd in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80f8a80) at ioloop.c:338 #8 0x0805a42d in main () at main.c:122 (gdb) li 5 6 void *array_idx_modifiable_i(struct array *array, unsigned int idx) 7 { 8 size_t pos; 9 10 pos = idx * array->element_size; 11 if (pos >= array->buffer->used) { 12 /* index doesn't exist yet, initialize with zero */ 13 buffer_append_zero(array->buffer, pos + array->element_size - 14 array->buffer->used); (gdb) p array $1 = (struct array *) 0x38 (gdb) p *array Cannot access memory at address 0x38 (gdb) up #1 0x0805e9a2 in sql_pool_unlink (ctx=0x80fb670) at sql-pool.c:64 64 next_ctx = SQL_POOL_CONTEXT(ctx->prev); (gdb) p *ctx $2 = {module_ctx = {reg = 0x0}, prev = 0x0, next = 0x810d2b0, pool = 0x80f9470, refcount = 0, key = 0x80fb638 "sqlite\t/kolab/var/dovecot/lib/metadata-dict.sqlite", orig_deinit = 0x805f229 <driver_sqlite_deinit_v>} (gdb) li 59 prev_ctx->next = ctx->next; 60 } 61 if (ctx->next == NULL) 62 ctx->pool->unused_head = ctx->prev; 63 else { 64 next_ctx = SQL_POOL_CONTEXT(ctx->prev); 65 next_ctx->prev = ctx->prev; 66 } 67 ctx->pool->unused_count--; 68 } (gdb) c Continuing. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. The program no longer exists It's quite possible, that we got any details in the usage of the dict back end wrong, but I guess that in any case the dict server shouldn't segfault... cheers sascha -- Sascha Wilde OpenPGP key: 4BB86568 http://www.intevation.de/~wilde/ http://www.intevation.de/ Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück; AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner

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[Dovecot] 1.1.13 squat core dump
by David Halik 18 May '09

18 May '09

While using 1.1.13 and squat with local pine imap on Solaris 9 I had a random core dump today. I was doing a search in a maildir folder with about 2000 emails. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to reproduce it yet, but I wanted to send along the info anyways. Environment: # uname -a SunOS 5.9 Generic_122300-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 Backtrace: http://pastebin.com/f7aa8bb5 ~# dovecot -n # 1.1.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4u protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/heroes/u1/dovecot-index/sparc/index/%u:CONTROL=/heroes/u1/dovecot-index/control/%u mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=4 -- ================================ David Halik System Administrator OIT-CSS Rutgers University dhalik(a)jla.rutgers.edu ================================

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[Dovecot] expire plugin error
by Michael Lechtermann 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, I am using the db backend for the expire plugin and found the following error message in the logfile: dovecot: Jan 22 10:10:55 Error: dict: secondary db: unable to allocate space from the buffer cache dovecot: Jan 22 10:10:55 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'expire' dovecot: Jan 22 10:10:55 Error: IMAP(xxxxxxxxxx): read(/var/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected Anyone know how to fix this? I do not want to use SQL as backend, that would be overkill. # ls -alFh /var/dovecot/dict-server srwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel - 0B Jan 22 10:08 /var/dovecot/dict-server= # dovecot -n # 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 4.4 sparc64 ffs base_dir: /var/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s listen: xxxxxxxxxxxx ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/xxxxxxxxxxxx.ca ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/xxxxxxxxxxxx.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/xxxxxxxxxxxx.key login_dir: /var/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: _dovecot mail_max_userip_connections(default): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 5 first_valid_uid: 10000 last_valid_uid: 19999 first_valid_gid: 100 last_valid_gid: 100 mail_gid: 100 mail_location: mbox:/var/data/mail/%u/mbox:INBOX=/var/data/mail/%u/mbox/inbox:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): expire imap_quota quota trash zlib mail_plugins(imap): expire imap_quota quota trash zlib mail_plugins(pop3): expire quota zlib mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: bsdauth userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: fs:user:noenforcing:mount=/var/data trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 14 expire_dict: proxy:/var/dovecot/dict-server:expire dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db

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[Dovecot] pine vs dovecot-zlib (mbox.gz)
by Darabos Edvárd Konrád 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hello! Always reproducible pine vs dovecot-imap-mbox.gz scene has weird errors. - Initial message is OK: [Folder "SAVE.gz" opened with 211 messages READONLY] - Some mails at the end are listed correctly, others are listed with empty sender/size/subject (just numbering). - All mails have no bodies. Full header command produces total blank screen. Even before any error message. Error messages appear during navigation: [{localhost/imap/user="nil"}SAVE.gz : Missing IMAP reply key: )] [MAIL FOLDER "SAVE.gz" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR] Seamonkey works with both mbox-es and mbox.gz-s. Mbox-es are working with both SeaMonkey and pine. Technical environment description follows... Thanks, Nil. PS: Tried to gzip other folder, same results. -- 8< -- Dovecot version: 1.0.15 Linux version 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-13) (waldi(a)debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-24)) #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009 Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Filesystem: ext3 -- 8< -- ~/.pinerc (all other lines are comments or equal to nothing) smtp-server=localhost inbox-path={localhost}INBOX default-fcc={localhost}Sent feature-list=enable-full-header-and-text, enable-full-header-cmd, enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation, enable-8bit-nntp-posting character-set=utf-8 folder-collections=IMAP {localhost}[] last-time-prune-questioned=109.2 last-version-used=5.10 ssh-path=/usr/local/bin/imapd.sh color-style=use-termdef current-indexline-style=flip-colors titlebar-color-style=default normal-foreground-color=255,255,255 normal-background-color=000,000,000 meta-message-foreground-color=255,255,255 meta-message-background-color=000,000,255 index-opening-foreground-color=000,000,000 index-opening-background-color=000,255,255 -- 8< -- /usr/local/bin/imapd.sh (just tried to redirect server stderr, did not helped): #!/bin/bash /usr/lib/dovecot/imap 2> /dev/null -- 8< -- # 1.0.15: /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 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3s listen(default): localhost listen(imap): localhost listen(pop3): * ssl_listen: * 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 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_access_groups: mail mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: zlib 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 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -- 8< --

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