August 2011 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Unknown setting: service
by Patrick Westenberg 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hi guys, I setup a new box with Debian Squeeze 64bit and installed dovecot from the sources. However, I can't start dovecot or even use doveconf: root@imap01:~# doveconf -n # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf line 111: Unknown setting: mail_uid Why is mail_uid and mail_gid an unknown setting? On my other box the configuration is identical (but Dovecot is upgraded from early 2.0.x versions to the current one) If I comment the mail_uid and mail_gid lines, I get another error: root@imap01:~# doveconf -n doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf line 17: Unknown setting: service doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89 doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf line 17: Unknown setting: service Everything I could find on Google are problems after upgrading from 1.x to 2.x What went wrong? Regards Patrick

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Will Not Download Email Until Computer Is Rebooted
by Jay Welch 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hey Guys, Have any of you seen an issue with Thunderbird in which the computer has to be rebooted for email to be downloaded? I have been looking over the InterWebs and I cannot find anything. I can see new email on the server as well. Where would be a good place to start for troubleshooting this issue? Thanks

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Re: [Dovecot] How to make dovecot-lda/deliver mark a message as seen
by Stefan Piegsa 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

On 08/08/2011 11:46 AM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: > On 08/08/2011 09:43 AM, Stefan Piegsa wrote: >> Thanks for your reply! >> >> On 08/08/2011 08:36 AM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: >>> Have you considered using sieve for the task? >>> [Using imap4flags extension] >> Yes, but I think it's not the optimal solution for what I want to do: >> >> Basically, I don't want emails to be sent first to the MTA and then >> again to dovecot to be stored in "Sent Messages". >> So I made a script that puts an email received from the MTA by an >> authenticated user into his local Maildir/Sent folder, using: >> dovecot-lda -d $user -m Sent. Such emails should be marked as seen. >> >> Sieve would be an option if it were possible to have a global sieve >> script that is always executed, not only when there's no user script. >> >> Best Regards, >> Stefan >> > Could not you use sieve_before? > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve > > You may consider using sieve_after if you want to allow users to > overwrite your choice of "self copy" handling. > sieve_after sounds interesting! Is there a way to match the destination mailbox in a sieve script? The email comes in by dovecot-lda -d $user -m Sent Now the sieve script should somehow match the mailbox "Sent".

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[Dovecot] mbox problems on CentOS 6
by DT 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hello, I migrated yesterday to Dovecot 2, and I managed to "convert" all the settings I had in dovecot.conf, but I run into a strange problem. I am curently using Dovecot 2.0.13 and bellow is my dovecot.conf current content: # 2.0.13: //etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 901 last_valid_uid = 901 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = IMAP/POP3 server ready. mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u mail_max_userip_connections = 16 mail_privileged_group = mail passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 } user = $default_internal_user } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service imap { process_limit = 16 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } service pop3 { process_limit = 16 } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } I am running along with Dovecot, Postfix and MySQL - oh SASL is of course installed as I want to make use of user auth. On the simplest check - "surprise" ta-daaaa /telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] IMAP/POP3 server ready. a login contact(a)mydomain.com mypassword * BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. I activated debug and looked in the dovecot logs and here is the most intriguing part I found: auth: Info: mysql(localhost): Connected to database postfix imap-login: Info: Login: user=<contact(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=5821, secured imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: mail=maildir:/vmail/mydomain.com/contact imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota=dirsize:storage=0 imap(contact(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Effective uid=901, gid=12, home=/vmail/mydomain.com/contact imap(contact(a)mydomain.com): Error: user contact(a)mydomain.com: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: Unknown mail storage driver maildir imap(contact(a)mydomain.com): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. I double checked paths - all is ok - postfix is actually receiving and saving in that /vmail... folder # uid=901 coresponds to <vmail> user # gid=12 corresponds to <mail> group # rights on /vmail are vmail.mail I think there is actually a problem with mail_location - but I couldnt solve it at all. If anyone can help me with this - please do guys. I googled those terms and found nothing, so this is my last resort, I tried solving this in the last 36hrs but nothing so far. Thanks to anyone who can assist me.

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[Dovecot] How do I change the date format displayed on webmail?
by huntson 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

I am running Dovecot on OS X Lion and the webmail displays the date in a European style format - day of the month and then month number. How can I reverse this? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-do-I-change-the-date-format-displayed-on-webmail-… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot quota dict
by Juan Bernhard 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi, Im using dovecot with maildir++ quota and I have this problem, maybe some of you already solve this and can helpme. I want to use some flat file to tell exim and dovecot the quota limit for each user, i tried to work with exim and maildirsize file, but exim just ignores the limits there. I need a way (a really simple one, i dont want to create a database or an ldap server just for this) to tell exim and dovecot to lookup some file to get the quota limits. I know how to doit with exim, now i need to know how to tell dovecot to read the quota limits from this file. I know that dovecot can read the quota limit from the userdb, but im using pam and i dont want to change the entire auth schema. Can I configure dovecot to get the quota limit from a file using pam as userdb? Thanks, Juan. pd: here is my doveconf -n # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) ext3 auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 5000 default_process_limit = 1000 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * login_greeting = Server ready. mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u:INDEX=~/ mail_plugins = quota maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes passdb { args = failure_show_msg=yes %s driver = pam } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size subject quota = maildir:Cuota de correo quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { client_limit = 12000 } service imap { process_limit = 5000 } service pop3 { process_limit = 5000 } ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu }

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[Dovecot] list archive
by Postmaster 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

I'm not able to access the mailing list archives following the instructions here... http://www.dovecot.org/mailinglists.html using either IMAP or by downloading the mbox file.

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[Dovecot] [ips@shaw.ca: Repeat mails. INC000023456674]
by The Doctor 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Anyone seen this before? ----- Forwarded message from ips(a)shaw.ca ----- X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on doctor.nl2k.ab.ca X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_BACKSCATTER autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Original-To: root(a)doctor.nl2k.ab.ca Delivered-To: root(a)doctor.nl2k.ab.ca X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca X-rim-org-msg-ref-id: 1378293038 Reply-To: ips(a)shaw.ca X-Priority: Normal Sensitivity: Normal Importance: Normal To: "Dr. Inder P Singh" <ips(a)sbifinechemicals.com>, "Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem" <root(a)doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> Subject: Repeat mails. INC000023456674 From: ips(a)shaw.ca Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 19:17:34 +0000 X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/ X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.94 2006/01/02 16:43:10 bre Exp $ Dave, According to RIM your server is probably changing the assigned serial number or code to mails frequently and because of that Blackberry server takes the same mail as new one and draws again. Read attached link. Inder Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -----Original Message----- From: BlackBerry Customer Support <help(a)blackberry.com> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:07:30 To: <ips(a)shaw.ca> Reply-to: BlackBerry Customer Support <help(a)blackberry.com> Subject: INC000023456674 Hello Dr. Inder, Thank you for contacting BlackBerry Customer Support. Here is a link to a relevant article in our BlackBerry Technical Solution Center: Article Title: Duplicate e-mail messages are received on the BlackBerry smartphone Article Number: KB13528 Link: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB13528 I have included below the pieces of information relating to the duplicate or changing IDs of the emails. Cause 8 The BlackBerry Internet Service downloads any email message with an email message UID that it did not find during the previous connection. If the email message UIDs are changed by the messaging server, duplicate email messages are received. This behavior also applies to any email message that has a blank UID. Resolution 8 To resolve this issue, complete one of the following procedures. Make sure that the message UIDs of email messages on the integrated account messaging server do not change or that email messages are not added back to the inbox of the associated account. Ask your administrator if the message UIDs are changing. In the case of an email message that has a blank UID, have your administrator remove the email message from the email server to prevent it from being delivered repeatedly. Delete email messages from the BlackBerry smartphone using the Mailbox & Handheld setting (email messages will be deleted from the associated email account messaging server and will not be retrieved again by the BlackBerry Internet Service). For instructions, see KB11830. Should you require further information on this subject, please don't hesitate to contact us. Thank you again for contacting us Dr.. Inder. Sincerely, Jennifer BlackBerry Customer Support Research In Motion Limited Tel: NA Toll Free: 1-877-255-2377 UK Toll Free: 0808 100 7466 Europe: +44 1753 558400 Worldwide: +1-519-888-6181 Email: help(a)blackberry.com Web: www.blackberry.com ***Now Available - BlackBerry Training for BlackBerry Enterprise Server software administrators. For information about current course offerings, please visit www.blackberry.com/go/training. BLACKBERRY® PLAYBOOK??? - WORK SMARTER. PLAY HARDER. Introducing the world???s first professional-grade tablet. www.blackberry.com/playbook ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee IT is done! http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/about

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[Dovecot] authentication via LDAP
by Gerardo Herzig 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi all. I have a couple of questions. ANY of those will solve mi situation. 1) 'Complex' LDAP validation: I need to validate a user in the 2 step authentication / authorizacion mech. The 'users' (with the password) are in ou=Person,o=Work the group which contains the mail users is in cn=MailUsers,ou=Groups,o=Work Can dovecot make such a thing? Cause im not shure if i can make this in a single ldap filter. 2) If not... 2.1) Does dovecot accept more than 1 rule for authenticating? 2.2) Does dovecot accept an arbitrary program for authentication? Well, that's all for now. Thanks! Gerardo

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[Dovecot] mail delivery location wrong
by Firma Averlon 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi, thanks for offering the oportunity to place a question here. I am now already working since a week to get postfix and dovecot working on a ubuntu 11.04 server. Hard task. First step was naturally to get familiar with the idea behind the archtitecture. I have come very far, but the "last dirty mile" is probably the hardest. My architecture: Postfix Dovecot OpenLDAP Thunderbird as client with pop3 I can meanwhile send e-mails and open my mailbox in thunderbird (not receiving mails so far). The reason why not receiving e-Mails is simply: When sending the mails they are stored in a different directory as where dovecot will look for them !!!! Error message from log: Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir: data=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir: data=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir++: root=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir Aug 8 14:09:01 server dovecot: deliver(vmail): maildir++: root=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vmail//vmail/Maildir What you immediatly see: "vmail//vmail" Although, when authenticating, the result is: Aug 8 14:06:30 server dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0113#011userxxx@av.loc#011gid=5000#011home=/home/userxxx#011uid=5000#011mail=/home/vmail/av.loc/userxxx/Maildir/ The following settings are in place: main.cf of postfix: virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/vhosts virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-virtual.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_transport = dovecot mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver beside others. master.cf of postfix dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -a ${recipient} dovecot.conf sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir beside others. I guess, these are the ones influencing where to store the mail and pick it up. A list of the related filesystem: /home/vmail/ drwx-w--w- 4 vmail vmail 4096 2011-08-08 08:56 av.loc/ drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2011-08-08 09:42 vmail/ Wher you can see, the structure according "mail_location" parameter of dovecot.conf does show effect, but the mails are stored in /home/vmail//vmail.....". The whole bunch of documentation I have read meanwhile makes my head circle around. You could hopefully give me some help. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards Hr. Karl-Heinz Fischbach

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