October 2012 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Dovecot Hangs while mutile users download mail for same account using pop3
by Robert JR 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hello, I have a weird problem in dovecot, Dovecot Hangs while multiple users download mail for same account using pop3 Three persons use 1 same email , and three of them use outlook express to check That specific mail .. Also some times one of the three users check the mail for this Account using imap (squirrel mail) And here comes the problem. suddenly all the three users are unable to check the mail And when the outlook express connect to the pop3 server, they are unable to disconnect And the outlook express keep asking "the server is not responding for 60 mins would you like to wait ? i checked /var/log/maillog, i can see the following errors dovecot: pop3(sales): Disconnected: Storage error during logout. to=<sales(a)domain.com>, orig_to=<sales(a)domain.,com>, relay=local, delay=357, delays=338/0.01/0/19, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (cannot update mailbox /var/mail/sales for user sales. unable to lock for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable) When i used lsof | grep sales pop3 4278 sales 10u REG 8,3 22897673 12615705 /var/spool/mail/sales i went to /home/sales/mail/.imap/INBOX , but i didnot find any lock files -rw------- 1 sales sales 944 Oct 7 13:35 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 sales sales 49152 Oct 7 16:57 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 sales sales 14044 Oct 7 16:57 dovecot.index.log 1- So what is exactly the problem? is the problem that three users are checking the same exact mail ? 2- is the problem that 2 users checking mail using pop3 and the third one checking it using imap insame time ? 3- is dovecot locking the inbox file while one of the users getting the mail ? 4- What is the cause of the problem ? Please help Regards Robert JR

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[Dovecot] Where'd the Mail Go?
by John Reddy 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi; I ran this: echo "Hello me" | mail -s "Dovecot test" $USER then created a bash script: for mbox in /var/mail/$USER /var/spool/mail/$USER ~/mbox ~/mail/* ~/*; do grep -q "Dovecot test" $mbox && echo "mbox: $mbox" done grep -q "Dovecot test" ~/Maildir/new/* 2>/dev/null && echo "Maildir: ~/Maildir" and ran it but couldn't find where the mail went. I checked /var/mail/my_user_name and it wasn't there, either. How do I find it? TIA, John

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[Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release
by Marc Perkel 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, I'm looking for some advice to do a really advanced trick with Dovecot. I'm not sure if this can be done. I need to describe first. I have a spam filtering company that does front end spam filtering. (Junk Email Filter) I want to add a system where I store a copy of spam on a server and make it available to the customer to review and maybe resent on false positives. I know I could do something simple where I deliver all spam to a domain account and make it available to an administrator. Then if it's a false positive they would drag the message to a "resend" folder. I'll have something the checks the folder one a minute to pick up and resend. However What would be very cool is delivering the spam to individual accounts. So a user who logs in individually can see their own spam. But the admin for the domain would be able to see all users. Maybe the users would appear as folders? Then a master account (me) would be able to log in and see all the domains as folders and the users as folders inside the domains? One thing I can do is deliver the spam to 3 different places so it's visible on all levels. I'm just wondering if anyone out there has any ideas about that. And I'll need an authentication system.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Authentication Problem Can't Make it Work
by Howell Repaja 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi All, I am struggling for 2 weeks solving authentication problem in dovecot. logs from /etc/mail/maillog Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=26723) Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=pop3#011lip=10.0.0.123#011rip=88.22.197.66#011lport=110#011rport=2358#011resp=AGhvd2VsbEB0b3VyZm9yeW91LmluZm8AanVtb25n Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(howell(a)mydomain.info<howell(a)tourforyou.info>,88.22.33.66): lookup service=dovecot Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(howell(a)mydomain.info<howell(a)tourforyou.info>,88.22.197.66): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 15 18:00:37 localhost dovecot: auth: pam(howell(a)mydomain.info<howell(a)tourforyou.info>,88.22.197.66): unknown user Oct 15 18:00:39 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111#011user=howell(a)mydomain.info#011reason=Password<http://howell@tourforyou.info/#011reason=Password> : Oct 15 18:00:39 localhost dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<howell(a)mydomain.info <howell(a)tourforyou.info>>, method=PLAIN, rip=88.22.197.66, lip=10.0.0.123 Oct 15 18:01:05 localhost sendmail[26722]: q9FA15LB026722: [88.22.197.66] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) ext4 auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb disable_plaintext_auth = no last_valid_gid = 10 last_valid_uid = 650 listen = * login_greeting = Dovecot ready for you. mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n 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 = setcred=yes failure_show_msg=yes cache_key=%u dovecot driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv }

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[Dovecot] Can't Start Dovecot
by John Reddy 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi; I just installed dovecot from yum on CentOS5. ps wax grep "dovecot" only brings up the grep The command "dovecot" is not recognized. # ls /usr/local/bin/dove* doveadm doveconf No dovecot. What up? TIA, John

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by b m 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi. I'm using dovecot 2.0.18 and I'm trying to authenticate through a CAS server (until now authentication was through MS Active Directory). I could not find anywhere some examples, so here is what i have done so far. -install phpcas and pam_cas -edit /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_cas.so -simap://webmail.mydomain.com -f /etc/pam_cas.conf -edit /etc.pam_cas.conf host mycas.mydomain.com port 443 uriValidate /cas/proxyValidate ssl on proxy ??????????????????????? trusted_ca /etc/cert/certificate.pem debug on - and finally dovecot.conf which I'm sure is complety wrong userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { driver = pam args = cache_key=%u dovecot } What I get in log is Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: pam(user,127.0.0.1): lookup service=dovecot Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: pam(user,127.0.0.1): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Info: pam(user,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Permission denied Oct 15 15:40:00 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=user Oct 15 15:40:00 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 15 15:40:00 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=9019) Any ideas? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] [sieve] - counting headers
by kjonca＠o2.pl 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

In some of my maildrop filters I have rules with weighted scoring[1], but only to count headers (for example to count "Received:" header) ie. all these rules are of form "/pattern/:h,1" Can dovecot sieve do this? KJ [1] http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/maildropfilter.html -- http://blogdebart.pl/2012/06/24/hiena/ Wiesz, tryb tekstowy w Linuksie ma się tak do DOSu jak F-117A do paralotni. (c) Dawid Kuroczko

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[Dovecot] Help!
by Justin Vore 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

HELP! I have installed sendmail, dovecot, and squirrel mail. The squirrel mail portion of it works just fine, but I would like to have Mozilla Thunderbird as a client. Whenever I try and connect to the server it says "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account." We do have an MX record in DNS pointing to our server. We are using Ubuntu 12.0.4.1, and have Dovecot 2.2.6 sendmail version 8.14.4-2ubuntu2 We are doing this for a class project and it is due by Tuesday 10/16/2012.. Thanks, Justin

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[Dovecot] dsync ignores ssh-agent
by Mark Hills 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

I use IMAP over SSH, in pre-auth. I wanted to use dsync to offline mail to my laptop. dsync v2.1.10 would always ask for my SSH key/passphrase, ignoring ssh-agent. The culprit is the env_clean() in the stack below. Reading the source, I saw DOVECOT_PRESERVE_ENVS. When used as follows in my script it enables dsync to find my ssh-agent: export DOVECOT_PRESERVE_ENVS="SSH_AGENT_PID SSH_AUTH_SOCK" dsync mirror ssh imap.example.com /home/mark/opt/dovecot/bin/dsync and it now works without asking for password every time. I'm posting here so that anyone else googling for the same problem will hopefully find this, as I couldn't find anything about this in the docs. Also I'm interested in why dsync so aggressively cleans the environment; I tried a naive removal of env_clean() but this breaks basic functions. With this dsync is working very well for offline mail -- combined with alpine and a local exim for the outbound queue :) Thanks -- Mark Breakpoint 2, env_clean () at env-util.c:59 59 if (clearenv() < 0) (gdb) bt #0 env_clean () at env-util.c:59 #1 0xb7df10fc in master_service_env_clean () at master-service.c:454 #2 0xb7df26d4 in master_service_exec_config (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4) at master-service-settings.c:103 #3 0xb7df29be in config_exec_fallback (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4) at master-service-settings.c:153 #4 0xb7df2b65 in master_service_open_config (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4, path_r=0xbffff780, error_r=0xbffff7d8) at master-service-settings.c:206 #5 0xb7df3130 in master_service_settings_read (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4, output_r=0xbffff7dc, error_r=0xbffff7d8) at master-service-settings.c:345 #6 0x0805c672 in doveadm_read_settings () at doveadm.c:275 #7 0x0805c7d6 in main (argc=5, argv=0x809e1c0) at doveadm.c:342

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot cores
by Timo Sirainen 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

On 12.10.2012, at 10.02, dovecot(a)freakout.de wrote: > According to Timo Sirainen: >> Simply specifying -I or -L paths doesn't link with libmysql. What exactly did you use for CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS/configure? >> > > ok - i specified: CFLAGS="-I/opt/zlib/include -I/opt/ssl/include -I/opt/mysql/include" > LDFLAGS="-L/opt/zlib/lib -L/opt/ssl/lib -L/opt/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient" -lmysqlclient shouldn't be in LDFLAGS. > if i omit "-lmysqlclient" (seems to be the reason for the hassle) i get: > > libtool: link: gcc4 -std=gnu99 -g -I/opt/zlib/include -I/opt/ssl/include -I/opt/mysql/include -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/opt/ssl/include -o .libs/auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o > auth-master-connection.o auth-postfix-connection.o mech-otp-skey-common.o mech-plain-common.o auth-penalty.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-settings.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-checkpassword.o db-dict.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o > mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-external.o mech-gssapi.o mech-ntlm.o mech-otp.o mech-scram-sha1.o mech-skey.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o mech-winbind.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-dict.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-sia.o > passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o passdb-static.o passdb-template.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-checkpassword.o userdb-dict.o userdb-nss.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o userdb-template.o db-ldap.o passdb-ldap.o userdb-ldap.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/opt > /zlib/lib -L/opt/ssl/lib -L/opt/mysql/lib libpassword.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-otp/libotp.a ../../src/lib-sql/.libs/libsql.a ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -lcrypt -ldl -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/opt/dovecot/lib > ../../src/lib-sql/.libs/libsql.a(driver-mysql.o): In function `driver_mysql_connect': > /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.10/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c:83: undefined reference to `mysql_options' >>>> ... tons of other undefined reference to mysqlclient > /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.10/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c:470: undefined reference to `mysql_error' > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status I'm not sure why it's doing that. It really shouldn't. You could try SQL_LIBS=-lmysqlclient or AUTH_LIBS=-lmysqlclient or MYSQL_LIBS=-lmysqlclient if one of them helps.

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