November 2010 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Getting plugin config by user
by Alex Baule 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

There is a native way to set/get a configuration to one plugin, to various users ? Like this: my_plugin{ user_a=configurations user_b=configurations user_...... user_z=configurations } I Have plugin and it can be enable/disabled by user. And i have a lot of users, like 10 m. i think if i do like this: my_plugin { configurations=user_a,user_b,user....,user_z } Can get much memory to read every line of configuration... Tks !

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[Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...
by Charles Marcus 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Timo, If I want to provide decent body search capability, what is the best/most reliable/easiest to implement method to use? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Authentication a la Postfix's Mynetworks
by Asai 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Is it possible to automatically authenticate Dovecot users using the same type of mechanism which makes Postfix able to simply check SMTP users using the mynetworks variable? Basically I would like to be able to authenticate users on my designated networks automatically, and require a password for those outside this network. Is this possible? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] Error: user Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: inbox=yes namespace missing
by Per Jessen 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

In my email archiving setup, no user will have an inbox (regular mail is taken care of by another system). Is it not possible to configure a dovecot setup without an inbox? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] create Sub-Subfolders
by Richard Gliebe 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi all, this is my first post to this list, and hope someone can help me ;-) I'm running dovecot.x86_64 1.0.7-7.el5 on a CentOS release 5.5 (Final) box. when a user tries to create a sub-subfolder in Archiv, he gets the message: "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes" Mailclient is MS Outlook 2003 SP3 is there a spezial configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf needed? MailLocation is by default in /etc/dovecot: # See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n # # <doc/wiki/MailLocation.txt> # #mail_location = Users have there IMAP folders in "~/mail" # pwd /home/bema/mail # ls -l total 552 -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 9 16:21 Archiv -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:04 Aufgaben -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 4 16:05 Drafts -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:03 Gel&APY-schte Objekte -rw------- 1 bema bema 553349 Aug 7 12:05 Gesendete Objekte -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 11:50 Junk-E-Mail -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:04 Postausgang -rw------- 1 bema bema 887 Aug 7 12:05 Sent -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 4 16:05 Trash many thanks Richard

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[Dovecot] SIS Error
by Daniel L. Miller 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Came across this in the logs... Nov 3 16:08:00 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Error: Attachment file /var/mail/attachments/dc/73/dc7398c85dd02efe8a14fe6cc019b2cf07eec600-d5ca962aaae7d14c587400003bc41c5f size mismatch: 122626 != 165655 There's about a dozen different file entries listed in the error log. I'm using 2.0.6, mdbox, and the mails are stored on a local XFS partition. I did recently start running xfs_fsr to defragment - could that do anything? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Anvil client_limit reached
by Juergen Obermann 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hello, we have the following problem: Nov 3 09:43:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.warning] master: Warning: service(anvil): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Nov 3 09:51:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Connection refused Nov 3 09:51:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] pop3-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Connection refused Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] pop3-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Connection refused Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil At that time I counted 2030 imap processes from 995 users and 1106 imap-login processes. What can I do to set an appropriate client_limit for anvil? The configuration is: # doveadm config -n # 2.0.5: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 3000 default_process_limit = 300 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = xxx.xxx.uni-giessen.de localhost mail_fsync = always mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = quota mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = Mail/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { driver = pam } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de protocols = imap pop3 service auth { client_limit = 5720 } service imap { process_limit = 4096 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/server.key syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes version_ignore = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } minerva{root}2509:/ # grep anvil /var/log/locallog minerva{root}2510:/ -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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[Dovecot] sdbox-format and sa-learn(spamassassin)
by Ingo Thierack 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hello, is it somehow possible to use sa-learn on sdbox-mailboxes? Maybe i can use dsync to "mirror" the mailboxes(only the spam-subfolder) to another location and convert it to mbox or maildir and act then on it with sa-learn? I know the antispam-Plugin, but until now no success, to get it running. So I think about an way, to learn via sa-learn on an file which i can process. Regards Ingo

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[Dovecot] remote hot site, IMAP replication or cluster over WAN
by Stan Hoeppner 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Taking a survey. 1. How many of you have a remote site hot backup Dovecot IMAP server? 2. How are you replicating mailbox data to the hot backup system? A. rsync B. DRBD+GFS2 C. Other Thanks. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] automatic un-subscribe ?
by Per Jessen 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Is there a way for an unsubscribe from a previously (auto-)subscribed folder? I'm building an email archiving system, and archived mails are organized by annum. A user will have e.g. 3 years of archive available. Currently that would mean this user would be auto-subscribed to private folders named 2007, 2008, 2009 and current. Starting January 2011 though that would change to 2008, 2009, 2010 and current. Is there a way of auto-unsubscribing 2007 ? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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