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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1.3 on solaris with mysql - make fails
by Robert Hartzell 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

I'm trying to build 2.1.3 on solaris 11 11/11 with gcc 4.5.2 & sun studio 12.2 & 12.3 CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/openssl/include -I/usr/mysql/include/mysql" \ LDFLAGS="-L/opt/openssl/lib -L/usr/mysql/lib/mysql -R/opt/openssl/lib:/usr/mysql/lib/mysql" \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot \ --sysconfdir=/etc/opt \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-mysql make fails with both solaris standard openssl and my build of openssl. I'm also getting the same error using sunstudio mysql version is 5.1.37 The relevant output of make is on pastebin http://pastebin.com/aALHG0yL I have seen some reference to this with google but nothing thats very recent and no solutions. Anyone know how to get past this? Any tips on building dovecot on solaris? Pointers would be much appreciated. -- Robert

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[Dovecot] dovecot runs from shell, but not xinetd
by Mark Jeghers 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

All, Below is my config. When I run dovecot from xinetd, I get these errors in the log: Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=11624, secured Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Effective uid=500, gid=100, home=/home/mark Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: fs: root=/var/spool/mailpop3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mailpop3/mark Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/mailpop3: mode=0777 gid=-1 Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: stat(/var/spool/mailpop3/mark) failed: Permission denied Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-03-20 11:13:39] Mar 20 11:13:39 t4pserver2 dovecot: pop3(mark): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 ...it acts as if it has no file permission, but it seems like it certainly should. Here is the files it is trying to access: [root@t4pserver2 ~]# ls -al /var/spool/mailpop3/ total 248656 drwxrwxrwx. 3 mail mail 4096 Mar 20 00:31 . drwxr-xr-x. 17 root root 4096 Mar 18 18:22 .. -rw-rw-r--. 1 ann users 58739 Mar 17 04:26 ann -rw-rw-r--. 1 annphone users 2708345 Mar 17 05:22 annphone -rw-rw-r--. 1 mail users 127272960 Mar 18 18:28 backups.tar -rw-rw-r--. 1 crimsonblues users 327563 Dec 3 14:38 crimsonblues drwxrwxrwx. 3 mark users 4096 Mar 20 00:31 .imap -rw-rw-r--. 1 mark users 0 Mar 18 13:09 mark -rw-rw-r--. 1 markphone users 124147068 Mar 18 04:21 markphone -rw-rw-r--. 1 nathan users 5119 Dec 22 18:52 nathan -rw-rw-r--. 1 root users 0 Mar 18 13:13 root -rw-rw-r--. 1 testuser users 58739 Mar 18 18:42 testuser -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim users 16212 Mar 18 15:51 tim Any ideas what is wrong? What is different running under xinetd? All the process run under the same user ids... Thanks, /Mark My config --------------------------------------------------------------- # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.centos.plus.i686 i686 CentOS release 6.2 (Final) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_worker_count = 4 mail_debug = yes mail_gid = users mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mailpop3:INBOX=/var/spool/mailpop3/%u mail_uid = root mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = /etc/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } passdb { driver = shadow } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change append mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject vsize flags mail_log_group_events = yes } protocols = pop3 ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd }

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[Dovecot] replication howto
by Matteo Cazzador 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hello, excuse me but there is some documentation about replication now? I dont' understand where i must put the lines below (dovecot.conf? , 20-imap?) Excuse but it's not so clear for me cause i'm a new dovecot user. Another question, i use virtual users on mysql backend , so for replication i need to give ssh at every virtual users? Or i can use a only use a system ssh user? Thank's service aggregator { # give enough permissions for mail processes fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail mode = 0600 } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail mode = 0600 } } service replicator { # start replication at startup process_min_avail = 1 } plugin { # host1 replicates to host2 mail_replica = remote:vmail at host2.example.com # host2 replicates to host1 #mail_replica = remote:vmail at host1.example.com } #dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -l%{login} %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u -l%{lock_timeout} -n%{namespace} service doveadm { # if you're using a single virtual user, set this to # start ssh as vmail (not root) user = vmail } -- Rispetta l'ambiente: se non ti è necessario, non stampare questa mail. ****************************************** Ing. Matteo Cazzador Email: mcazzador(a)gmail.com ******************************************

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[Dovecot] issues migration from dovecot 1.2 to version 2
by Rajesh M 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

hi my system is a centos 5 with qmailtoaster i migrated my email server with around 5000 users from dovecot version 1.2 to version 2 i have two separate 2 tb hdd's storing webmail data of these users. the load on the server goes very high over 100 during peak load times and the imap connections get dropped frequently, webmail becomes very slow. however pop3 download works ok in the dovecot log file i get errors as such Warning: Maildir /homebackup/domains/xxxx/xxxx/Maildir/.ALL_INBOX MAIL: Synchronization took 71 seconds (20 new msgs, 0 flag change attempts, 0 expunge attempts) i had configured dovecot 1.2 using source but i had installed version 2 using qmailtoaster rpm i am a bit confused as to what settings are to be done for a very busy server note that the cpu system usage and ram usage are less but IO wait goes to around 80-90 percent can you please guide me or post some dovecot version 2 config file settings that are relevant to a busy server. rajesh

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[Dovecot] mdbox and pop3 locking
by Ken A 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

With mdbox, what does dovecot lock when "pop3_lock_session(pop3): yes"? Specifically, I'm wondering if Dovecot LDA is able to deliver mail when a session is locked, if using mdbox, or if it will tempfail until the session is unlocked? Thanks, Ken -- Ken Anderson Pacific Internet - http://www.pacific.net

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[Dovecot] auth tcp socket, Authentication client gave a PID 7542 of existing connection
by Alex Ha 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hi Dovecot-list! My setup consists of a dovecot server with lmtp delivery and 3 postfix mta servers in front. Previously the mtas authenticated (SASL) through the courier-authdaemond software to our mysql database. To get support for more password formats i migrated to dovecot for SASL authentification. Our postfix mtas connect to dovecot through a tcp-socket smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = inet:10.11.100.230:12345 smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes 10.11.100.230 is our dovecot server. Please look at the attached doveconf.log to see my auth service configuration. I did the configuration according to the postfix SASL README. http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_dovecot I tested the setup and everything worked fine but after 2 days i noticed these error messages in my mail.log: dovecot: auth: Error: BUG: Authentication client gave a PID 7542 of existing connection and also these messages from postfix: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: Connection lost to authentication server I get the dovecot error message about 3000 times a day and postfix message about 270 times. Please see my attached mail.log for a detailed trace. Thank you for your help :) Alex

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[Dovecot] ssl_cert_username_field and subjectAltName?
by Nicolas KOWALSKI 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hello, Does dovecot support the subject Alternative Name email value [1] as ssl_cert_username_field? If so, how should it be specified in the configuration? Thanks. [1] http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/x509v3_config.html#Subject_Alternative_Nam… -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] bug uni_utf8_str_is_valid(vname)
by Jernej Porenta 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Heya, We are expiriencing issues with dovecot 2.1.1 on Linux with weird filenames in home directory of username. We are using mbox IMAP folders, with no special changes (mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=%h/.mailbox). Mar 6 13:37:17 machine dovecot: imap(username): Panic: file mail-storage.c: line 628 (mailbox_alloc): assertion failed: (uni_utf8_str_is_valid(vname)) Mar 6 13:37:17 machine dovecot: imap(username): Error: Raw backtrace: /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x2ba41cb79450] -> /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x2ba41cb794a6] -> /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x2ba41cb78963] -> /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x2ba41c87ebd5] -> /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x2ba41c88c12c] -> /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(fs_list_iter_next+0x1b4) [0x2ba41c88c494] -> /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x2ba41c885342] -> /opt/dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x234) [0x2ba41c885604] -> dovecot/imap [0x40b2d1] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_list_full+0x520) [0x40c1f0] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_list+0xb) [0x40c3eb] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x37) [0x410427] -> dovecot/imap [0x40f4cd] -> dovecot/imap [0x40f582] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x3f) [0x40f6cf] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x62) [0x410052] -> /opt/dovecot Mar 6 13:37:17 machine dovecot: imap(username): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 20873 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) The bug is reproducible by using home folder structure available from: http://bit.ly/x8pTXS AFAIK, the problem lies in processing the file list of home folder, which can contain filenames that do not have proper UTF-8 encoding of filenames, which causes dovecot to crash. On the other hand, UTF-8 filenames created on the system by hand (using touch), are not displayed in IMAP LIST command (sample is included in the folder structure; single letter file). Cheers, Jernej

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[Dovecot] Antispam plugin not compatible with Dovecot 2.1
by interfaSys sàrl 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Here is what I get when I try to compile the antispam plugin agaisnt Dovecot 2.1 ************** mailbox.c: In function 'antispam_save_begin': mailbox.c:138:12: error: 'struct mail_save_context' has no member named 'copying' mailbox.c: In function 'antispam_save_finish': mailbox.c:174:12: error: 'struct mail_save_context' has no member named 'copying' Failed to compile mailbox.c (plugin)! gmake[3]: *** [mailbox.plugin.o] Error 1 ************** The other objects compile fine. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] dovecot, sieve and vacation
by Cedric Jeanneret 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi there ! Have a small problem with sieve and vacation: it seems to descard the vacation filter I created instead of sending back an email: Mar 20 11:56:28 hostname dovecot: deliver(virtual_user): sieve: msgid=unspecified: discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to <virtual_user@hostname> after searching a bit on the net, I stumbled on another (old) thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg25955.html I'm not really sure it's the same problem, as I'm sending the mail from another host (via telnet, for testing purpose). Other sieve rules (such as flagging, moving and so on) work fine. Only vacation is crapy. Here's the roundcube generated rule: require ["vacation"]; if true { vacation :days 2 "on holidays!"; } Any help welcome :) Cheers, C. Informations: # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-6-pve i686 Debian 6.0.4 simfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): localhost:2000 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login first_valid_uid: 8 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail mail_gid: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/local/vmail/%n mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve managesieve_logout_format(default): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(imap): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(pop3): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(managesieve): bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) lda: postmaster_address: foo(a)bar.com mail_plugins: sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: mail passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail plugin: home: /var/local/vmail/%u sieve: /var/local/vmail/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: /var/local/vmail/%n/sieve sieve_extensions: +notify +imapflags

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