February 2010 - dovecot

[Dovecot] batch convert mbox to maildir
by Netlink Tech 18 May '26

18 May '26

Hello, I have used mb2md for an individual user like this: su ~username cd ~ ./mb2md -m This converted /var/spool/mail/username mbox to /home/users/username/Maildir just as I expected. To convert 100s of users the same way would be a chore (su as each user for permissions, etc.). Is there a way to batch process all /var/spool/mail/$USER to /home/users/$USER/Maildir with the correct permissions/file owners for each user?

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC] add APOP authentication mechanism
by Andrey Panin 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Hello all, this patch add APOP authentication mechanism to dovecot 1.0-test23. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Sieve vacation not working
by Phill Edwards 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

I've been trying all night to get vacation working in my .dovecot.sieve file. The way our email works is we have one account on dovecot which serves my mail and my wife's and we use procmail and sieve to put the emails in different folders depending on who it's for. I'm trying to set up a vacation reply on my wife's email address (aaaaaaaa@optus* below) so people can update to her new address. Here's my file with the email addresses masked: require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; if address :is "to" "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(a)ozemail.com.au" { fileinto "Phill_OzEmail_Folder"; stop; } elsif address :is "to" "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy(a)optusnet.com.au" { fileinto "Phill_Optus_Folder"; stop; } elsif address :matches "to" "aaaaaaaa@optus*" { vacation "Please update my email address to bbbbbbbbb(a)exemail.com.au"; fileinto "Sarah_Optus_Folder"; stop; } else { keep; stop; } The problem I'm having is that no auto-replies are sent. I removed .dovecot.lda-dupes and that didn't help; so then I touched it and now it's a 0 byte file and that didn't help. There is no dovecot.sieve.err file and I can't see anything in /var/log/dovecot.log which gives any message about why this wouldn't work. The emails to aaaaaaa@optus* get filed into the right folder so I know the matching is working. I've also tried a reject recipe and that worked fine, so I know that it can send an email if it chooses to. So it's a complete black box mystery as to why it just won't send a reply. Regards, Phill

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[Dovecot] Auth worker max line size
by Emmanuel Dreyfus 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Hello I have been playing with some exotic authentication scheme with Dovecot and PAM. That involves sending really large base64 encoded data as the IMAP password, and I have hit a line limit in Dovecot, with AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH set to 1024. This limit is especially frustrating since other parts of the software use much larger limits: MAX_INBUF_SIZE 4096 MAX_IMAP_LINE 8192 AUTH_CLIENT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH 8192 I had to make the patch attached below to get my authentication working. I can live with this local patch, but given the much more liberal limits of MAX_INBUF_SIZE at 4096 makes we wonder if this 1024 limit on AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH could not be a bug. Or is there a security concern at using more than 1kB? Opinions? (please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed ot the list) --- src/auth/auth-worker-client.h.orig 2009-06-23 18:32:15.000000000 +0200 +++ src/auth/auth-worker-client.h 2009-06-23 18:32:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ #ifndef AUTH_WORKER_CLIENT_H #define AUTH_WORKER_CLIENT_H -#define AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH 1024 +#define AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH 4096 struct auth_worker_client *auth_worker_client_create(struct auth *auth, int fd); void auth_worker_client_destroy(struct auth_worker_client **client); void auth_worker_client_unref(struct auth_worker_client **client); -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu(a)netbsd.org

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.3: TB fails to unsubscribe folder after deletion
by Max Dittrich 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hi, I'm running dovecot 1.2.3 with "imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep" and noticed that after deleting a folder (moving to Trash and emptying it on exit) that folder in Trash still keeps subscribed. I think the reason for that behavior is that the call for mailbox_list_set_subscribed() in imap/cmd-subscribe.c (line 84) is fed with the original mailbox name and not the stripped version in verify_name. Assigning verify_name to mailbox in the workaround-conditional fixes this issue for me. I'm not very familiar with C programming but while tracing cmd_subscribe_full() I stumbled upon another thing. In mail_namespace_find_mask() (lib-storage/mail-namespace.c at line 413) mailbox is reassigned with a local string (not t_strduped). I think this might be a problem when mailbox is dereferenced after returning from that function?! .max

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[Dovecot] Can't connect to auth server
by Phill Edwards 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

I'm trying to phase out procmail and move to dovecot-sieve instead. It ain't proving easy. I'll describe my setup: - Centos 5.2 box with dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-sieve 1.1.6 from ATrpms. - A single user account is used to store all our email (the account is called maildb). - Getmail is being used to fetch the email from various ISP mailboxes. I want to deliver mail to different folders in maildb's Maildir/ depending on who the email is addressed to (the procmail recipes currently do that). - Getmail destination section looks like this: [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver arguments = ("-d", "maildb") allow_root_commands = true - When I run getmail I get this error in dovecot.log: deliver(maildb): May 04 22:15:26 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory It's true that I don't have a file called auth-master. I guess I should have but until I started this dovecot-sieve work it was never a problem. I have no idea what that file should look like. As I installed from binary RPMs I would have thought one would have come with the install. Can anyone help? Regards, Phill

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[Dovecot] Automatic Debian Dovecot repository now also includes amd64 binary packages.
by Stephan Bosch 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hi, I've recently significantly improved the automated Dovecot Debian package builder. At the beginning it only produced i386 binaries for Debian testing. A few weeks back I added a slave builder that builds packages for Debian stable. Today I have extended the slave builder with support for multiple architectures and I've added amd64 binaries to the repository. The master builder still builds packages for testing/i386 every hour. The slaves check for new source packages about 20 minutes later. Read the following wiki page for more information and read it carefully when you are considering to use these packages: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries#Automatically_Built_Packages Also, every day at four 'o clock in the morning, the latest source packages are uploaded to the openSUSE build service, which builds i386/amd64 binaries for several Ubuntu versions (experimental): http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sbosch:/ Regards, Stephan.

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[Dovecot] Question about mbox_snarf and dovecot2.0
by Jonathan Siegle 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello, I'm running revision 10622:de9d6dae7fe5 on AIX 5.3 with some local mods for our inbox hash function. I'm having a problem doing a "select inbox" when I use the mbox_snarf plugin. When I run truss on the process I see the following stat calls: 614528: kread(9, " 1 s e l e c t i n b".., 4096) = 15 614528: statx("/gpfs/inbox/14/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFF2F8, 176, 0) = 0 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP//gpfs/inbox/14/.imap/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFED98, 176, 0) Err#2 ENOENT 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP//gpfs/inbox/14/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEDD8, 176, 0) Err#2 ENOENT 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEC88, 176, 0) = 0 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP//gpfs/inbox/14/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEDD8, 176, 0) Err#2 ENOENT 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEC88, 176, 0) = 0 and the client gets: 1 NO [CANNOT] Invalid mailbox name For pathing I have: plugin.conf: mbox_snarf = /gpfs/inbox/%Ju/%u and mail.conf:mail_location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%Ju/%u I verified that not using the mbox_snarf works just fine. I have no namespaces enabled. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0b3 crash with lmtp and DNS based proxy
by Oliver Eales 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hello, i am trying to proxy a LMTP connection with version 2.0b3 Currently i have the problem when trying to use a named based proxy for LMTP the process doesn't resolve the hostname and crashes: Feb 26 16:53:26 auth: Debug: ldap(vodafonemail56@vodafone.de,::1): pass search: base=ou=mailboxes,ou=vfag,c=de,o=vodafone scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=uco)(mail=vodafonemail56(a)vodafone.de)) fields=userpassword,isactive,host Feb 26 16:53:26 auth: Debug: ldap(vodafonemail56@vodafone.de,::1): result: userpassword(password)=<hidden> proxy(proxy)=1 host(host)=kangaroo.arcor-so.net Feb 26 16:53:26 auth: Debug: master out: PASS 1 proxy host=kanagroo.arcor-so.net Feb 26 16:53:26 lmtp(17929): Debug: auth input: proxy host=kangaroo.arcor-so.net Feb 26 16:53:26 lmtp(17929): Error: lmtp client: kangaroo.arcor-so.net is not a valid IP Feb 26 16:53:30 lmtp(17929): Info: Disconnect from ::1: Client quit Feb 26 16:53:30 master: Error: service(lmtp): child 17929 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00000000004081fe in lmtp_proxy_try_finish (proxy=0x633898) at lmtp-proxy.c:193 193 if (lmtp_proxy_send_data_replies(proxy) && (gdb) bt full #0 0x00000000004081fe in lmtp_proxy_try_finish (proxy=0x633898) at lmtp-proxy.c:193 No locals. #1 0x0000000000409bb3 in lmtp_client_deinit (_client=<value optimized out>) at lmtp-client.c:137 client = (struct lmtp_client *) 0x633db8 #2 0x00000000004089c8 in lmtp_proxy_deinit (_proxy=<value optimized out>) at lmtp-proxy.c:86 proxy = (struct lmtp_proxy *) 0x633898 #3 0x000000000040602e in client_destroy (client=0x6191c8, prefix=<value optimized out>, reason=<value optimized out>) at client.c:255 No locals. #4 0x00000000004067d3 in cmd_quit (client=0xb, args=<value optimized out>) at commands.c:407 No locals. #5 0x000000000040669b in client_input_handle (client=0x6191c8) at client.c:61 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 output = (struct ostream *) 0x619b80 line = 0x631461 "quit" ret = <value optimized out> #6 0x00007f3217c9b8db in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x6177b0 event = (const struct epoll_event *) 0x617820 list = (struct io_list *) 0x619c60 io = (struct io_file *) 0x619c20 tv = {tv_sec = 59, tv_usec = 976185} t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 call = <value optimized out> #7 0x00007f3217c9aa48 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x6175a0) at ioloop.c:350 No locals. #8 0x00007f3217c8ae03 in master_service_run (service=0x617480, callback=0x6) at master-service.c:478 No locals. #9 0x0000000000405b92 in main (argc=1, argv=0x617370) at main.c:92 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- set_roots = {0x40bd00, 0x40b980, 0x0} service_flags = <value optimized out> storage_service_flags = 675 c = <value optimized out> (gdb) Regards, Oliver Eales

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[Dovecot] quota and lazy_expunge plugins both used: quotas go wrong with lazy_expunge'd mails
by Baptiste Malguy 26 May '10

26 May '10

Hello, I may have missed a point, but I could have found an issue between plugins quota and lazy_expunge. I have noticed that the "lazy_expunge"d mails are counted as part of the quota, while the documentation says it should not be. I have first tried to find out if this was a configuration mistake somewhere. Notably, you can notice that the expunged mails are in directory ~/expunged while the usual mail is in ~/Maildir : expunged mails are not in a subdirectory of ~/Maildir (this was just to make sure there were no side effect with this). I have deleted some expunged mails to be sure : at its next cycle, the file ~/Maildir/maildirsize contained expected value. So yes, I do know expunged mails in the expunged directory are counted (size, number of mails). So I've taken a look at the source code, adding some i_info(...) at different places of the quota and lazy_expunge plugins. >From the source code reading session, I understand that : 1. In src/lazy-expunge/lazy-expunge-plugin.c 1.1. lazy_expunge_mail_storage_init() sets the expunged mails namespace flag with NAMESPACE_FLAG_NOQUOTA 1.2. lazy_expunge_mail_storage_init() is called by lazy_expunge_mail_storage_created() 1.3. lazy_expunge_mail_storage_created() is part of the callback list hook_mail_storage_create 2. In src/plugins/quota/quota-storage.c: 2.1. The only place in the whole dovecot source code where NAMESPACE_FLAG_NOQUOTA is checked is in function quota_mailbox_list_created() 3. In src/plugins/quota/quota-plugin.c: 3.1 quota_plugin_init() add quota_mailbox_list_created() to the callback list hook_mailbox_list_created. >From my observations : - Callback functions in quota_mailbox_list_created are called _before_ callback functions in hook_mail_storage_create. - This observation led me to move the piece of code that sets NAMESPACE_FLAG_NOQUOTA from lazy_expunge_mail_storage_init() to lazy_expunge_mail_storage_created(). - But there, lazy_expunge_mail_storage_created() is called after quota_mail_storage_created() because names of the library files are lib10_quota_plugin.so and lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so. - There I have also learnt that callback functions of the same list are called in the reverse order compared to the library filenames. So see if my observations were right, I have renamed lib10_quota_plugin.so to lib01_quota_plugin.so, then it worked. But I doubt this is the right way to fix it. This also reverses the order other callbacks between the two plugins are called, which migh not be expected at all. I'm not event sure moving some code from lazy_expunge_mail_storage_init() to lazy_expunge_mail_storage_created() was right : I've improvized the reading the source code and do not understand the whole logic, so I suppose this could break something else. Timo, what do you propose ? Thanks for your great software. -- Baptiste MALGUY PGP fingerprint: 49B0 4F6E 4AA8 B149 B2DF 9267 0F65 6C1C C473 6EC2

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