December 2011 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage
by Maria Arrea 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Hello We are using dovecot 2.0.16 with mdbox+zlib. We are now testing SiS (Single Instance Storage) and I have 5 questions: 1º Is possible to "dedup" existing mdboxes? 2º Are attachments compressed with zlib if mdboxes already use zlib? 3º I have plenty CPU to spare, should I use a low value of mail_attachment_min_size , like 16KB ? 4º Can I "undo" SiS if I have problems? 5º We use bacula to save indexes & mdboxes, and we recover mailboxes using doveadm import when a user "makes a fatal mistake" wiping all her Inbox. If we enable SiS I am not really sure how can we safely restore a user's INBOX if that user has SiS attachments. Thank you for your (great) support. Maria

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[Dovecot] lda/sieve ignores quota from ldap
by Jens Meißner 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Hello, I'm using Dovecot 2.0 with Sieve as MDA and Postfix as MTA. The Postfix delivery command is /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -a "$RECIPIENT". I have set a default quota with quota_rule = *:storage=1G. Some users should have a larger quota. This is defined in a ldap directory and I have set user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:storage=%$. The imap_quota plugin shows the right quota for all users but the lda ignores the quota rule from ldap. If a user is over default quota but not over his ldap defined quota I get the following error message: From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <postmaster@[…]> Your message to <[…]> was automatically rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) The log file shows the following: Nov 30 18:21:17 […] dovecot: lda([…]): Error: sieve: msgid=<20111130172116.7F065A07D@[…]>: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) Nov 30 18:21:17 […] dovecot: lda([…]): Error: sieve: script /var/mail/[…]/dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /var/mail/[…]/dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Nov 30 18:21:17 […] dovecot: lda([…]): msgid=<20111130172116.7F065A07D@[…]>: rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) dovecot.sieve.log: error: msgid=<20111130172116.7F065A07D@[…]>: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full). What is wrong? What must I do to getting this to work? Thanks in advance. Regards Jens doveconf -n: # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 nfs mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u mail_plugins = quota managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=1G sieve = /var/mail/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /var/mail/%u/sieve } protocols = " imap sieve pop3" ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/mail.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/mail.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.key } protocol pop3 { ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.key } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve } /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext: hosts = […] dn = uid[…] dnpass = […] auth_bind = yes base = […] user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:storage=%$

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[Dovecot] can not get t'bird to create folder
by sean darcy 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

dovecot-2.0.16 on Fedora 15. thunderbird-8.0 I can access dovecot from thunderbird, imap maildir. But when I try to create a new folder, nothing happens. I'm not using LAYOUT=fs, so I have added, tb-extra-mailbox-sep, which didn't seem relevant anyhow. Any help appreciated. sean

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[Dovecot] Authentication listener configuration
by Rainer Frey 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi, I'm wondering about the authentication listeners that dovecot uses. In many configurations I see: service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { Does any component of dovecot use this listener internally (lmtp, lda ...) and does that read the config and search for the listener, or is the exact name "auth-userdb" expected? Is this maybe dependent on the userdb? Which ones need it? And if I want to use postfix SMTP auth, should I define a second listener, or just re-configure that default one to postfix's needs? Also, in which cases do I need to define an auth-worker service, and a unix_listener for it? I don't find this in the documentation, if that's caused by my lacking search skills, please just send apointer. Thanks Rainer

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[Dovecot] dsync(root): Fatal: execvp() failed: No such file or directory
by Yaroslav Boychuk 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi everybody, I try to convert mbox to maildir using local locations /root/mail is a dir with mboxes /root/INBOX is mbox file h=/root dsync -f -v mirror \ mbox:$h/mail:INBOX=$h/INBOX \ maildir:$h/Maildir:CONTROL=$h/dovecot:INDEX=$h/dovecot \ as result I have dsync(root): Fatal: execvp(mbox:/root/mail:INBOX=/root/INBOX) failed: No such file or directory dsync-local(root): Error: read() from worker server failed: EOF thank you for any help FreeBSD, dovecot 2.0.15

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[Dovecot] LDAP Authentication - Home Directory Creation
by Stephen Bowman 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

How does everyone handle this case? Users are authenticated by LDAP, and do not have accounts on the IMAP/dovecot server. When a new user is added to LDAP, the home directory (/home/newuser) needs to be created on the IMAP/dovecot server so dovecot can create the mail directories inside it (/home/newuser/mail/). Obviously I can come up with a few custom solutions, utilizing cron, but I feel like there's a cleaner solution out there. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda quota rule
by Micah Anderson 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

I really like the feature where you can define quota rules with percents which trigger off of the default values[0] (so you can set the Trash to allow for 10% more of the user's quota for example). What I would really love in dovecot would be for the ability to configure a quota rule for dovecot-lda. I would like to configure things so we don't bounce emails for users until they are well over quota, the IMAP quota plugin is a really great way to notify people that they are over quota because it fails to write to other folders.... that should be enough to get people's attention that they need to deal with things, but bouncing is harsh. Is there a way to do this now that I haven't seen? thanks! micah 0. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration --

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[Dovecot] can't get sieve to sort virus into spam
by sean darcy 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

I can't get sieve to put virus files in the SPAM folder. dovecot -n # 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) auth_debug_passwords = yes info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_access_groups = mail mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { antispam_backend = dspam-exec antispam_dspam_args = --deliver;--user;%u antispam_dspam_binary = /usr/bin/dspam antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_spam = Spam antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages sieve = /home/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve.script sieve_dir = /home/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve/ sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " antispam" } cat /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve require "fileinto"; if header :contains "X-DSPAM-Result" "Virus" { fileinto "SPAM"; } if header :contains "X-DSPAM-Result" "Spam" { fileinto "SPAM"; } and there is a folder SPAM: cat mail/subscriptions Sent Trash Drafts SPAM yet : Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=14dae9399d3b9b67cc04b2d60790 X-DSPAM-Result: Virus X-DSPAM-Processed: Mon Nov 28 21:03:47 2011 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 4ed43d8341479178914901 --14dae9399d3b9b67cc04b2d60790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* does not end up into SPAM, or anyplace else, including inbox. How do I make this work? sean

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