August 2010 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Vacation - out of office
by Richard Gliebe 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi all, is it possible to install/activate a "out of office" messages for each user in dovecot? I've read about the Sieve scripts, but can't find a howto to install it on your dovecot 1.0.7 installation. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve ... With v1.1 it's possible to include other Sieve scripts in your script ... I know, its an old release, so don't treat me like a dog ;-). Upgrade to the newest version will be done at the next maintenance windows. many thanks Richard

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 Client
by Richard Gliebe 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi all, my dovecot IMAP Server (1.0.7-7.el5) is now up and running ;-) Now I want that all clients have to save there sent messages in the IMAP folder on the server. no problem with the thunderbird clients. BUT, I can't configure the office 2003 clients to save there send messages to the imap folder. Some people told me, that outlook 2003 isn't able to do that. The send messages folder have to be a "local" folder and not a folder on the IMAP server. I can't believe. The only way on outlook 2003 is to create a messages filter .... very strange .... many thanks Richard

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[Dovecot] dot-containing foldernames \HasNoChildren bug ?
by Samuel Kvasnica 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hello, we experience problems with dovecot configuration using the listescape plugin to allow dots in foldernames. In some mail clients, dot-containing folders won't show any subfolders. This seems to be related to the fact that the \HasNoChildren flag is set on such folders even if subfolders do exits. Here is an example from telnet session: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/aaa" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/folder.first" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/folder.first/sub.sub.folder" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my.test/folder.second" when we rename my.test to my_test everything works as expected: * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "my_test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/aaa" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/folder.first" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/folder.first/sub.sub.folder" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "my_test/folder.second" Could somebody look into this issue or give us some more debugging hints ? We use dovecot 1.2.13 + maildir + acl+quota+listescape, the config is: # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31.13-18-xen x86_64 openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) xfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_processes_count: 5 mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:/data/vmail/%u/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /etc/dovecot/gmember.sh mail_executable(imap): /etc/dovecot/gmember.sh mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): fts fts_squat acl imap_acl quota imap_quota listescape mail_plugins(imap): fts fts_squat acl imap_acl quota imap_quota listescape mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: Shared/%%u/ location: maildir:/data/vmail/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=/data/vmail/%u/index/shared/%%u list: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/data/vmail/Public:CONTROL=/data/vmail/%u/index/public:INDEX=/data/vmail/%u/index/public list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)xxx.co.at hostname: imap mail_plugins: acl sieve quota listescape mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/lda log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail master_user_separator: # passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.deny deny: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd.masters master: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap_pass.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap_user.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=16G quota_rule2: Trash:storage=100M quota_rule3: Junk:ignore quota_warning: storage=85%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warning.sh 85 %u quota_warning2: storage=90%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warning.sh 90 %u quota_warning3: storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warning.sh 95 %u acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db sieve: /data/vmail/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: /data/vmail/%u/sieve fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=7

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird namespace handling
by Thomas Hummel 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hello, I've noticed that Thunderbird (3.0.3) seems to wrongly "repeat" the namespace prefix when selecting the top level maildir of a namesapce. It doesn't occur if "list=yes" and TB has no clue about the namespace prefix. But it seems to happen only when TB is aware of the namespace prefix, either via the NAMESPACE command (so in "hidden=no" setups) or via hard setting it up in the "Account Settings". For instance, if location = maildir:/courriel/boites/test:CONTROL=/courriel/meta/test hidden = no list = yes Trying to select the mailbox which appears as "#test" in the UI gives 4 select "#test/#test" in rawlogs, giving for the user a "Mailbox doesn't exist" error, whereas, via telnet, I can : x select "#test" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 2 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1271768576] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 3] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 3] Highest x OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. The same happens with any combination of (hidden=, list=, "Allow Server to override [the namesapce] settings") where TB knows about the namespace. Any ideas ? Thanks. -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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Re: [Dovecot] Panic: file ioloop-iolist.c: line 25 (ioloop_iolist_add):assertion failed
by Computer Department (Watchtower South Africa Branch) 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi, Reverting http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/raw-rev/2cdfcca171d8 solves this problem. Is there a preferred way to fix this issue? Duane Hughes -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+computers=za.jw.org(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+computers=za.jw.org@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Computer Department (Watchtower South Africa Branch) Sent: 06 August 2010 09:59 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Panic: file ioloop-iolist.c: line 25 (ioloop_iolist_add):assertion failed Hi, I receive the following message after running "/etc/init.d/dovecot reload": Aug 06 02:00:11 dovecot: Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration Aug 06 02:00:11 dovecot: Panic: file ioloop-iolist.c: line 25 (ioloop_iolist_add): assertion failed: (list->ios[idx] == NULL) I'm running dovecot version 1.2.13, compiled against uclibc on the Alpine Linux distro, version 1.10.6. This problem started to occur since upgrading to dovecot 1.2.12 from dovecot 1.2.11. No configuration has been changed in between these versions. # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.16-grsec i686 rootfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/lighttpd/server-bundle.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/lighttpd/server-bundle.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no 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_location: maildir:/var/mail/domains/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: admin(a)windhoek.zaf.wtbts.net mail_plugins: quota auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:user::proxy::quotadict dict: quotadict: pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf The init.d script can be found here: http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/dovecot/dovecot.initd?h =1.10-stable&id=a3087eff06dff4a69b2914cdc1bbe76dce29b448 Any ideas? Thanks for any help you can provide. Duane Hughes

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Ldap Problem
by Aravind Divakaran 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi All, My server is running with Dovecot 1.2.11 and openldap 2.4.17 it was working fine but suddenly my dovecot auth started to failing sometimes. After restarting dovecot everything will work fine. The slapd log file is showing "deffering operation: too many executing". When i googled i have seen that if the client is not properly disconnecting the connection slapd will give this error. Can you please let me know whether it is a dovecot problem and if so why it is occuring. -- Rgds, Aravind M D aravind.divakaran(a)yukthi.com Helpdesk Team Yukthi Systems Pvt Ltd Ph:- 08042351119 08042351120

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[Dovecot] Why p_strdup and other string functions uses loops instead strlen? (dovecot 2.0.rc4)
by Len7hir 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

I did Dovecot profiling on huge e-mail system, and p_strdup was very high on list. I do minor change: p_strdup: /* for (len = 0; (str)[len] != '\0'; ) len++; len++; */ len = strlen(str) + 1; p_strndup: /* len = 0; while (len < max_chars && ((const char *) str)[len] != '\0') len++; */ len = strnlen(str, max_chars); And after changes strdup drop down on the profile list. This is output from oprofile: samples % symbol name 28000 10.9764 p_strdup 8507 3.3349 safe_memset 7857 3.0801 .plt 7627 2.9899 buffer_write 6871 2.6935 parse_body_add_block And after (about four times smaller samples, but shows everything): samples % symbol name 9595 26.2625 parse_next_body_to_boundary 8247 22.5729 parse_body_add_block 772 2.1130 .plt 672 1.8393 buffer_write 658 1.8010 __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx 614 1.6806 safe_memset 586 1.6039 pool_alloconly_malloc 559 1.5300 p_strdup 533 1.4589 hash_table_insert_node I wonder why You use loops instead strlen, which is optimalised on every platforms. Redgards, Len7hir

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[Dovecot] maildirsize having incorrect content, how to recreate/correct?
by Thomas von Eyben 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi List, I have (otherwise successfull) migrated a server from cyrus to dovecot (Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 to 10.6.4 [dovecotd version to be 1.1.20apple0.5]). There are ca. 300+ users of which a very small handfull (ca. 1 %) are having reported a usage size that is very different to what 'du' reports. How can I rebuild the maildirsize and why might it be wrong in the first place(?) Will the maildirsize files be regenerated if deleted and when will this then happen ( at the next time of the user logging in or…) >From what I can read here: http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html The maildirsize file contains (in linenumber > 1) "bytecount SPACE filecount" I also have one (perhaps more) user with one line having a negative value in maildirsize (-138204393 -2294) how can that happen / be corrected? Here's the info for one user with an much to high reporting of usage: sh-3.2# pwd /Volumes/RAID-06-low/Mail sh-3.2# cat 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/maildirsize 0S 281470373004731 4966 ### <- THIS LOOKS VERY WRONG 12113561 138 20047924 204 13553876 334 8064 1 8308 1 25240 1 26117 1 sh-3.2# du -hc 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE 12M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages/tmp 12M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Deleted Messages 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts/tmp 4.0K 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Drafts 20M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages/tmp 20M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.Sent Messages 14M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail/cur 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail/tmp 14M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/.U&APg-nsket e-mail 747M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/cur ### <- WHEN COMPARING TO THIS 76K 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/new 0B 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE/tmp 792M 495827A6-7AF5-4017-9F07-67C0B04546EE 792M total sh-3.2# ls -l total 352 drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .Deleted Messages drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .Drafts drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .Sent Messages drwx------ 7 jja mail 238 Aug 7 21:56 .U&APg-nsket e-mail drwx------ 4966 jja mail 168844 Aug 7 21:56 cur ### <- AND WHEN COMPARING TO THIS -rw-r--r-- 1 jja mail 11 Aug 7 21:56 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 jja mail 108509 Aug 9 15:01 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 jja mail 24808 Aug 9 14:26 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 jja mail 25288 Aug 9 15:01 dovecot.index.log -rw-r--r-- 1 jja mail 147 Aug 9 15:01 maildirsize drwx------ 6 jja mail 204 Aug 9 15:01 new -rw-r--r-- 1 jja mail 76 Aug 7 21:56 subscriptions drwx------ 2 jja mail 68 Aug 9 15:01 tmp - TvE

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[Dovecot] ssl-build-param
by Yves Goergen 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hello, what does the Dovecot process ssl-build-param do? It has just eaten all my CPU for a minute or so. When I run it myself with "--help", it just does it all again and says "SSL parameters regeneration completed". What parameters? -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.list(a)unclassified.de> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de

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[Dovecot] network_biopair_interop
by Leander S. 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi, since I use TLS I'm getting the following waning when I send mail to somebody in the internet:| "warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer|" ... Mail seems to be delivered & sent as usual. I found a post about it: http://de.postfix.org/pipermail/postfix-users/2009-March/000891.html but it didn't help to involve: "smtpd_tls_ask_ccert=no" Did anybody face that issue before? I'm using self signed certs. Regards

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