March 2011 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] lda_mailbox_autocreate and lda_mailbox_autosubscribe
by Frank Bonnet 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Hello I use real unix users on the mailhub and I would like to automate home directories creation for new users. I found lda_mailbox_autocreate and lda_mailbox_autosubscribe statements in 15-lda.conf file ( dovecot 2.0.11 ) which seem to be the right things for me :-) I use Postfix 2.8.1 with Dovecot LDA mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda All Mailboxes are located in /user/$USER/mail/ Does those two statements means that if a home directory does not exists it will be created at the first login of the new user ? I mean if new user "toto" has no homedir at all , dovecot will create /user/toto/mail at the very first successful connection ? Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] Issue with Dovecot v2.0 auto packages
by Stephan Bosch 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Hi, Yesterday night I upgraded the automated packages built at Xi to the latest experimental Debian packages for v2.0. This unfortunately causes a problem upon upgrade. I've contacted the maintainer, so this issue should resolve itself soon. The issue manifests as follows: Setting up dovecot-imapd (2:2.0.11-0~auto+25) ... ucfr: Attempt from package dovecot-imapd to take /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf away from package dovecot-common ucfr: Aborting. dpkg: error processing dovecot-imapd (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4 configured to not write apport reports The Debian maintainer split dovecot-common in various new packages and moved config files in the process. Use ucfr --purge --force dovoecot-imapd /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf ucfr --purge --force dovoecot-managesieved /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-managesieve.conf ucfr --purge --force dovoecot-sieve /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf to get rid of these errors as a workaround. I did this in combination with temporarily purging and removing Dovecot, but that is probably not necessary. Once you have upgraded, you will not encounter this problem again. And yes, if you are using Sieve, be sure to install the new dovecot-sieve and dovecot-managesieved packages. Regards, Stephan.

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[Dovecot] try to compile dovecot 2.0.11 with ssl support
by easy 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hello, I try to compile dovecot in Version 2.0.11 with ssl support on a CentOS 4.5 system. Installed packages are openssl and openssl-devel. after "./configure --with-ssl=openssl" "make" "make install"the message is: (also tried with CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/openssl/lib -ldl") Install prefix . : /usr/local File offsets ... : 64bit I/O polling .... : epoll I/O notifys .... : dnotify SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL) GSSAPI ......... : no passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword : -pam -bsdauth -sia -ldap -sql -vpopmail userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword nss : -ldap -sql -vpopmail SQL drivers .... : : -pgsql -mysql -sqlite so it looks like SSL support is included, but when I start dovecot the message is: # 2.0.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.028stab062.3ent i686 CentOS release 4.5 (Final) passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } doveconf: Error: SSL support not compiled in but ssl=yes doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: SSL support not compiled in but ssl=yes I also tried to use the source files of openssl and compile openssl by myself, but the error is the same. thanks Regards Markus

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[Dovecot] Dotlock dovecot-uidlist errors / NFS / High Load
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

As of late our four node dovecot 1.2.13 cluster has been experiencing a massive number of these dotlock errors: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (1295480202 vs 1295479784): /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist These dotlock errors correspond with very high load averages, and eventually we have to turn off all but one server to stop them from occurring. We first assumed this trend was related to the NFS storage, but we could not find a networking issue or NFS related problem to speak of. We run the mail storage on NFS which is hosted on a Centos 5.5 host, and mounted with the following options: udp,nodev,noexec,nosuid. Secondly we thought the issues were due to NTP as the time stamps vary so widely, so we rebuilt our NTP servers and found closer stratum 1 source clocks to synchronize to hoping it would alleviate the problem but the dotlock errors returned after about 12 hours. We have fcntl locking set in our configuration file, but it is our understanding from look at the source code that this file is locked with dotlock. Any help troubleshooting is appreciated. Thanks, Michael # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 shutdown_clients: 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 login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 128 login_processes_count: 4 login_max_processes_count: 256 login_max_connections: 386 first_valid_uid: 300 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: no mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes 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: username_format: %Ln worker_max_count: 50 passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole and roundcube install problem
by Selcuk MIYNAT 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi, I've installed sieve and managesieve(pigeonhole) on qmail and dovecot(v2.0.11). I've install sieverules on Roundcube. I can see the plugin on the webinterface, and i can add rules. But there is a problem: I've put this .qmail file on "deneme" user's home directory according to [1]. |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $EXT@$USER Then I got this message on qmail log: deferral: /var/qmail/bin/preline:_line_1:_test:_too_many_arguments/ Incoming e-mail written to the disk but doesn't seen on inbox. If i have change my .qmail file to this: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $EXT@$USER Plugin doesn't return a message to mail sender: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so Debug: auth input: deneme(a)example.com home=/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme uid=89 gid=89 Debug: Effective uid=89, gid=89, home=/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme Debug: fs: root=/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme/Maildir Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Debug: sieve: using sieve path for user's script: /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme/.dovecot.sieve Debug: sieve: opening script /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme/.dovecot.sieve Debug: sieve: script binary /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme/.dovecot.svbin successfully loaded Debug: sieve: binary save: not saving binary /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme/.dovecot.svbin, because it is already stored Debug: sieve: executing script from /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/deneme/.dovecot.svbin Info: sieve: msgid=<4D80A733.8010906(a)test.com.tr>: discarded vacation reply to <> Info: sieve: msgid=<4D80A733.8010906(a)test.com.tr>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' But i can forward the incoming mail to another address. Why doesn't work this plugin, any ideas? [root@mail ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_default_realm = example.com auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_socket_path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 0 last_valid_uid = 100 log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs 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 passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin/sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve plugin/sieve_dir = ~/sieve protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0600 user = vpopmail } } ssl = no userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log mail_plugins = " sieve" postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail } dovecot-sql.conf çıktısı: driver = mysql connect = host=localhost user=vpopmailuser password=vpopmailpassword dbname=vpopmail default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT CONCAT(pw_name, '@', pw_domain) AS user, pw_clear_passwd AS password FROM vpopmail WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d' user_query = SELECT pw_dir as home, 89 AS uid, 89 AS gid FROM vpopmail WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d' [1]: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Qmail -- Selcuk MIYNAT Endersys Ltd. Sistem Destek Muhendisi / System Support Engineer Phone : +90 216-4709423 | Fax : +90 216-4709508 Web : http://www.endersys.com.tr Blog : http://blog.endersys.com Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/endersys LPI : The #1 Linux Certification for IT Professionals LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Turkey http://www.lpi-turkey.com Endersys is the first Advanced Business Partner of Red Hat in Turkey ! http://www.europe.redhat.com/partners/endersys/ -- Selcuk MIYNAT Endersys Ltd. Sistem Destek Muhendisi / System Support Engineer Phone : +90 216-4709423 | Fax : +90 216-4709508 Web : http://www.endersys.com.tr Blog : http://blog.endersys.com Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/endersys LPI : The #1 Linux Certification for IT Professionals LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Turkey http://www.lpi-turkey.com Endersys is the first Advanced Business Partner of Red Hat in Turkey ! http://www.europe.redhat.com/partners/endersys/

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[Dovecot] Problem with expire plugin and expunge
by Christoph Pleger 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hello, I am running dovecot 2.0.9 with expire plugin, using the sqlite backend. The following command is executed every day by cron: doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d I started to use the expire plugin about one month ago. Since then, using "doveadm search -A mailbox Trash savedbefore <days>" with different values for <days>, I could see every day how the messages were getting older. Yesterday was the first time that the expression "savedbefore 30d" became true for the oldest messages in the Trash mailbox and these messages were actually deleted from Trash. But today, all messages that were not deleted yesterday are new to "doveadm search", that means that "doveadm search -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 0d" shows all messages from Trash, but "doveadm search -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 1d" shows no messages from Trash, though during the last month I moved messages to Trash every day. Best Regards Christoph

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[Dovecot] dsync warning/error - mailbox needs recreation
by Daniel L. Miller 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

What does this mean? These lines occur on subsequent runs of "dsync -u user backup target" dsync(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Warning: Destination mailbox INBOX has been modified, need to recreate it before we can continue syncing dsync(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX: INBOX can't be deleted. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Configure Dovecot For IMAP Only?
by Carlos Mennens 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I've install Dovecot 2.0.11-1 on my Linux server and all the guides and tutorials I've found on Google don't work since I'm running 2.x and it seems most guides were done with 1.x. I've opened up the configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf & from what I can see, this is all I could come up with: protocols = imap listen = * base_dir = /var/run/dovecot login_greeting = Server ready. mail_location = maildir:~/mail I obviously want / need IMAP4 access ONLY and not POP3. I've got only 12 local Linux shell users and all authentication is done by I think PAM. My friend sent me his configuration file to see if it would work on Dovecot 2.x however I don't think it does: auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:~/mail passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/key.pem userdb { driver = passwd } #protocol imap { # imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep #} Can anyone please tell me what I need to add to get this very basic IMAP server up and running?

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[Dovecot] Mail Sync
by Scott Hughes 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I am trying to sync my mail on two different servers as testing for converting our business over to a server using dovecot. I am currently running dovecot version 2.0.11 While trying to sync the messages using Thunderbird and a program named imapsync, I run into an error stating that the dovecot server does not know how to handle messages with the FORWARD flag set. Is the FORWARD flag some type of non-standard flag or is there something I need to do in dovecot to allow for this flag? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Bug: Creating mbox folders
by Kelly Stephens 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hey, I had trouble this morning creating a folder to contain sub-folders. I am using the mbox format. Turns out that the .imap directory in the new folder (directory) was not being created. Anytime I tried to view a sub-folder (using Thunderbird) dovecot would dump. Once I manually created the .imap directory, it works fine. dovecot --version -> 2.0.9 dovecot -n # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686 i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) listen = * mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } The maillog dump... Mar 16 08:50:22 brinn dovecot: imap(kms): Panic: file mailbox-list.c: line 324 (mailbox_list_get_unexpanded_path): assertion failed: (*location == SETTING_STRVAR_UNEXPAND ED[0]) Mar 16 08:50:22 brinn dovecot: imap(kms): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x994051] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x9940c0] -> /usr/lib /dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x96a690] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_get_unexpanded_path+0x138) [0xa086d8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovec ot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_mkdir+0x52) [0xa09b32] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_create_missing_index_dir+0x129) [0xa09fb9] -> /usr/lib/doveco t/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0xa4) [0xa23c24] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0() [0xa485de] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 () [0xa04d25] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_select_full+0x1cf) [0x805310f] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_select+0x1a) [0x8053b3a] -> dovecot/imap() [0x80560ed] -> dovecot/imap() [0x80561ca] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x12d) [0x805640d] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x60) [0x8056d10] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x52) [0x9a18e2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd3) [0x9a2b43] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0x9a1860] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2b) [0x98cfcb] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x33d) [0x805faad] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x732e36] -> dovecot/imap() [0x804e111] Mar 16 08:50:22 brinn dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 9753 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled)

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