April 2010 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Problems with Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin.
by Daniel Machado Grilo 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Dear Dovecot users, I'm a sysadmin in a company that recently migrated the IMAP from courier-imap to dovecot :-) *urray* Everything with the perl migrating scripts (version 1.0) went with OKs and it was a lot of fun (and pray) to move 400Gb of mails and migrate.. and everything is working even better :-) The problem is for some outside users that use webmails, like: - Squirrel - Roundcube - Horde They claim that the connection is constantly dropping.. You might say now: "Webmail's fault!!!" as I said in the beginning :) But the IMAP logs shows SEVERAL times (almost every 10mins ?!): Apr 28 21:10:48 olive dovecot: IMAP(rcoelho): Maildir /cluster/mail/mailboxes/rcoelho sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (192736 > 192720, file = msg.LDW0C) Apr 28 21:10:48 olive dovecot: IMAP(rcoelho): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. Apr 28 19:14:11 olive dovecot: IMAP(pcorreia): Maildir /cluster/mail/mailboxes/pcorreia sync: UID < next_uid (7874 < 7875, file = msg.5BNVC) Apr 28 19:14:12 olive dovecot: IMAP(pcorreia): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. and so on. I read somewhere on the web that configuring the mbox_lazy_write=no should work .. it did not :-) I have CentOS 5.4 in our mailserver, so the version of dovecot is not the latest (it is 1.0.7).. But of course, this is production environment and I don't want to update if its not needed :-) So my questions are: - Is this a known bug for this version and I have to upgrade ? - Is this a problem in my configs for dovecot ? - Can this be other problem than dovecot ? -- so probably i should be able to add more debug anoying messages to our logs ? - Probably something went wrong in the migration for these maildirs? So now what can we do to fix this ? Our mail is working and, at the moment, I found 3 users with this error.. They have about 10Gb of mail each, I don't think this is a problem for dovecot.. only for our storages.. :-) Tks for your patience, Best Regards!

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[Dovecot] Maildircrypt
by brainstorm 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi guys, I was just wondering if this idea makes sense overall or if there are major impediments (indexing performance ?): http://blogs.nopcode.org/brainstorm/2010/04/28/maildircrypt/ Thanks ! Roman

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[Dovecot] Dovecot headers at start of text returned to KMail
by Barry Scott 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

The attachment show Kmail (kdepim-4.4.2-1.fc12.x86_64) accessing an email from dovecot over imap. From the wireshark-imap-trace.txt you can see at line 77 that the headers do not end cleanly "X-)". And at line 84 there is text from the headers that is not part of the body "-Spambayes-Trained: ham". The email being access by dovecot is in: 1272011889.M384349P30156.f12barry.office.onelan.co.uk,S=6494,W=6606:2,S Because of this bug kmail fails to show the message cleanly on screen. # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 12 (Constantine) login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Barry

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[Dovecot] How can I add change_password
by Yavuz Maşlak 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hello I use dovecot, postfix, mysql and squirrelmail as a mail server. it works well. Meanwhile I am novice at postfix. As you know, there is a change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I wish to add change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I couldn't find how to integrate postfix and change_password. How can I add it ?

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[Dovecot] How can I integrate change_password plugin, dovecot and postfix
by Yavuz Maşlak 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hello I use dovecot, postfix, mysql and squirrelmail as a mail server. it works well. Meanwhile I am novice at postfix. As you know, there is a change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I wish to add change_password plugin on squirrelmail. I couldn't find how to integrate postfix and change_password. How can I add it ?

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Re: [Dovecot] returned error 83 (Out of memory)
by J Contad 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

FYI, sorted out this issue by taking out a specific email manually. Not sure if it helps, but the email had these attributes: - X-Mailer is PHPMailer [version 1.73] - References: header is quite large, and contains email addresses external to the sender and I's conversation. Removing the email fixed the issue. -- John

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Re: [Dovecot] returned error 83 (Out of memory)
by J Contad 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

I tried deleting the file, but got pretty much the same issues. Any other hints on how else to go about it? Cheers! John On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, J Contad wrote: > The folder (which is shared) has about 8 thousand emails in it. I'm not sure > if it's pertinent, but the dovecot.index.cache file is about 8MB. Did you tried to delete the dovecot.index.cache file, maybe it has been corrupted? Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -- John

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[Dovecot] somebody using Net::Sieve (Perl) with dovecot 1.2.11?
by Heiko Schlittermann 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hello, I've just (hopefully) fixed some issue with Net::Sieve (0.05) to cooperate with a current (1.2.11) dovecot managesieve server and STARTTLS. Does somebody use this Perl library? If yes, did it work for you (STARTTLS triggers the problem)? If not, which other (Perl) library do you use? Best regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Grüße aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann -- SCHLITTERMANN.de ---------------------------- internet & unix support - Heiko Schlittermann HS12-RIPE ----------------------------------------- gnupg encrypted messages are welcome - key ID: 48D0359B --------------- gnupg fingerprint: 3061 CFBF 2D88 F034 E8D2 7E92 EE4E AC98 48D0 359B -

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[Dovecot] zlib plugin dovecot 2.0 - write email
by Alex Baule 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello Everyone. There is possible to rename the email writed by a plugin, like zlib ? i explain.... i need to add 1 line in email header, because of that, i want to rewrite the filename to update the S and W flag. Tks !

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[Dovecot] Anyone successfully using expire plugin?
by Thomas M Goerger 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Anyone out there using expire? At this point, I'm not sure that it's even running. It was touching the plugin libraries yesterday, but doesn't appear to be doing so today. The plugin directory wasn't explictly set, so I've done so now, but it's still not touching these. Anyone have a cf file I could take a look at, or any ideas as to what might be happening? Thanks! ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * *************************************************************************

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