April 2009 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2 plugin virtual and shared namespace with thunderbird
by Robert Schetterer 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi Timo, using latest dovecot 1.2 and latest thunderbird i noticed if using virtual plugin like here with mysql http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual everthing works like expected until i add a shared namespace Tb then looses its subscriptions under imap to the private namespace only the shared namespace gets shown up , any idea? I dont see something special in the logs why this happens -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Dovecot shared quota with Maildir
by Jorgen Lundman 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hello list, We are in the process of exploring the idea of moving from UFS with fs-quota to using softquotas in Dovecot (probably Maildir type, stored in LDAP, all ontop of NFS). I have it setup, and it works rather well so far. But there is one situation we can currently support, which I can not see a solution for with soft-quotas. Generally customers get 1 email, with 1 quota. But it is also possible for customers to get 1 quota, but create multiple mail accounts, all sharing the same quota. This is done by using the same UID for each account when using fs-quota. (It is not that each account gets a fraction of the quota, but that all accounts add up to the one quota). Is this still possible to do with soft-quotas. To share one set. Dovecot would have to go count files in multiple mail-directories so I would guess no. Lund -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not accepting connections
by Jim 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, new user here, trying to track down an issue. Sometimes, after starting dovecot, I'll attempt to check mail and will not be able to get a connection to my server. I'll kill dovecot, restart it, and usually it will begin working. When I first ran into this, I first tried auth_debug=yes, restarted dovecot, and had no problems. I'd turn set auth_debug=no, restart dovecot, and would be unable to check mail. After a time I determined that setting the debug wasn't really effecting anything, it was just hit or miss if I'd be able to get a connection. Once I was able to get a connection, things were fine until dovecot started again. Nothing unusual in the logs, if it works or not, I'll just see this at startup: Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: dovecot v1.1.13 starting up (core dumps disabled) Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) If debug is on and connections aren't being accepted, I never see anything in the logs. Below is my config. Running on OS X 10.5.6. Any info on troubleshooting would be appreciated. mail-web-server:~ wright$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n Password: # 1.1.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 9.6.0 i386 hfs 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_user: _dovecot login_max_processes_count: 64 max_mail_processes: 128 first_valid_uid: 27 last_valid_uid: 27 first_valid_gid: 27 last_valid_gid: 27 mail_privileged_group: postfix mail_uid: 27 mail_gid: 27 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n 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_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 namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] mailutil?
by Timo Sirainen 08 May '09

08 May '09

dbox format needs at least two tools: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. 2. Ability to force index resync/rebuild in case it doesn't figure out itself that there's something wrong. I'm starting to think about building a more generic mailutil tool, maybe something similar to what UW-IMAP has. So two questions: - What should the tool be called? Probably not mailutil to avoid confusion. doveutil? dovemail? dovetool? mailtool? - Is there any functionality you'd like it to do?

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[Dovecot] [OT] two-way IMAP synchronization
by Wolfram Schlich 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi, I am looking for a tool that does a true two-way synchronization (synchronization of expunges/deletes) of IMAP mailboxes, kind of a mixture of unison and imapsync. Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish that? TIA. -- Regards, Wolfram Schlich <wschlich(a)gentoo.org> Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/

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[Dovecot] Disabling users whilst still allowing logins with a 'master password'
by Dominic Hargreaves 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi, I'm having trouble coming up with an authentication configuration that does what we want with dovecot, and thought it would be worth passing it by the list in case anyone can spot an easy fix, or confirm my suspicions that code changes are required. You should probably be aware that this is to support a migration away from Dovecot to a certain Microsoft-provided mail platform, so if this makes you feel uncomfortable, you may choose not to respond ;) We have the following configuration: - the passdb in use is pam (for pam_krb5) - the userdb in use is passwd (for nss_ldap) - GSSAPI is also supported - We support both IMAP and POP - Dovecot 1.0.9 - users have their own uid/gid and the following requirement, in order to support the migration process: - Access to mailstore should be allowed by means of a master password or user (ideally configurable, so we have a fine degree of control over which users are exposed to the migration process at a given time) - Migration process accesses mailstore via IMAP - During migration, users should not be allowed to log in with their Kerberos password, nor with GSSAPI We've achieved the first requirement with master passwords roughly as described at the bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers by configuring another passdb with the master password hash in place for the users we want to be enabled to migrate. Our standard auth config looks like: auth default { gssapi_hostname = imap210.herald.ox.ac.uk mechanisms = plain login gssapi passdb pam { } userdb passwd { args = blocking=yes } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } } } and my first try at satisfying my requirements was: auth default { gssapi_hostname = imap-dev.herald.ox.ac.uk mechanisms = plain login gssapi passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-deny.conf deny = yes } passdb pam { } userdb passwd { args = blocking=yes } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } } } where /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf describes a query representing those users accessible by the master password (and a hash of the master password) and /etc/dovecot/dovecot-deny.conf describes a query representing those users who should not be allowed to log in with their normal password (or GSSAPI). This almost works, but unfortunately (as documented) the GSSAPI mechanism does not check any passdbs, so does not get checked against the deny passdb. Normally to disable logins for a user we chmod their mail store to 0 so they can't access it, which has the same effect, but this obviously also prevents the master password from being able to access it. It would seem to be generally useful to be able to check GSSAPI logins against a deny passdb, but is this a valid code change? Alternatively, could the *userdbs* could be extended to cope with the idea of a deny form, since the GSSAPI login process already uses them (although it would have to return USERDB_RESULT_USER_UNKNOWN). Alternatively, does anyone have any other ideas about how I could achieve the same effect? Thanks for listening. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves, Systems Development and Support Team Computing Services, University of Oxford

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Re: [Dovecot] Unexplainable problem with POP3 quotas
by Marco Marongiu 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hello Rick, and thanks for replying First of all, the attached script had an error (I attached the wrong one :-\, the "export" line reads: export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin" 2009/4/30 <dovecot(a)dovecot.org>: > > It's a dumb question, but you are running the script via cron or manually > right? (dovecot doesn't execute it in it's own). >From the documentation, I'd expect it does. In http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/1.1 I read: >>>You can configure Dovecot to run an external command when user's quota exceeds a specified limit. so I expect that it will run the script. Am I wrong? Ciao --bronto

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[Dovecot] questions about compiling Sieve plugin
by MercuryShadow 04 May '09

04 May '09

I'm using the info on the wiki to try to compile the sieve plugin for dovecot on a server running Debian Etch, but I'm getting nowhere because I'm stuck trying to find the directory to use in the "--with-dovecot=" argument when running the configure script. The wiki says: Compilation is identical among the CMUSieve and the new Sieve plugin. Use --with-dovecot=<path> to point to dovecot-config file's directory. There are two possibilities where this could exist: 1. If you configured Dovecot with --enable-header-install, you'll have dovecot-config installed in $prefix/lib/dovecot/ directory. 2. Compiled Dovecot sources' root directory. The problem is that there is no such file called "dovecot-config" on the server, and dovecot was installed from the Debian repositories, not compiled. There is no /usr/lib/dovecot or /usr/local/lib/dovecot. I figured that, as is the case with many Debian packages, the libraries needed to compile would be included in a "dovecot-dev" package, but I checked and there is no such package in the Debian repos. Does anyone know what I need to do in order to get this plugin compiled? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/questions-about-compiling-Sieve-plugin-tp23285989p232… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] login_max_processes_count and logs
by Dominique Fournier 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hello, Our server reach today the login_max_processes_count. Dovecot works well and don't accept any new connection. But it doesn't log anything about this problem : we are blind why the connection is refused for the clients. Could you add a log when the connection limit is reached or (maybe better) a log with the occupation for the beginning of each connection ? Thanks Dom Dovecot version 1.0.15 on Debian AMD64

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[Dovecot] deliver_log_format not working with 1.2.rc3?
by Anton Dollmaier 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi list, just a small issue with deliver_log_format. Although, the parameter is altered in the config and is correctly shown with "dovecot -n", deliver uses only its default log_format. > root@terra:~# dovecot -n | grep -e deliver -e "^#" > # 1.2.rc3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686 Debian 5.0.1 > deliver_log_format: %m:%$:%f:%s this is from a recent mail: > deliver(antondollmaier(a)aditsystems.de): 2009-04-30 16:13:45 Info: sieve: msgid=<20090430141309.GN16305(a)katherina.student.utwente.nl>: stored mail into mailbox 'Dovecot-List' Subject and From are obviously not logged. Any hints? thanks in advance. best regards, Anton

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