June 2012 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Mail migration to dovecot with doveadm backup
by Reinhard Vicinus 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi, i try to migrate mails from a non dovecot imap server to a dovecot imap server with doveadm backup as described there: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync i first tried (local-mailbox port 18143 is the non dovecot imap server): /usr/bin/doveadm -o imapc_user=user(a)example.org -o imapc_password=imappw -o imapc_host=local-mailbox -o imapc_features=rfc822.size -o imapc_port=18143 -o mailbox_list_index=no -v -D backup -R -f -u user(a)example.org -m Sent imapc: and got the following error: dsync(user(a)example.org): Fatal: dsync backup: Looks like you're trying to run backup in wrong direction. Source is empty and destination is not. As the dovecot imap account is newly created and therefore empty it seams to try to backup from the dovecot imap server to the non dovecot imap server. So i tried instead: /usr/bin/doveadm -o imapc_user=user(a)example.org -o imapc_password=imappw -o imapc_host=local-mailbox -o imapc_features=rfc822.size -o imapc_port=18143 -o mailbox_list_index=no -v -D backup -f -u user(a)example.org -m Sent imapc: Sometimes (every other time?) i got the following segmentation fault: bt #0 0x00007f15e2c9ed74 in strcasecmp () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f15e327eaff in imapc_save_callback (reply=0x7fff56096a70, context=<value optimized out>) at imapc-save.c:168 #2 0x00007f15e32853fe in imapc_command_reply_free (conn=0x72f040) at imapc-connection.c:946 #3 imapc_connection_input_tagged (conn=0x72f040) at imapc-connection.c:1039 #4 0x00007f15e3285668 in imapc_connection_input_one (conn=0x72f040) at imapc-connection.c:1085 #5 imapc_connection_input_pending (conn=0x72f040) at imapc-connection.c:1407 #6 0x00007f15e3285922 in imapc_connection_input (conn=0x72f040) at imapc-connection.c:1100 #7 0x00007f15e2fe6176 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x792510) at ioloop.c:379 #8 0x00007f15e2fe71ff in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:213 #9 0x00007f15e2fe6118 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x7529a0) at ioloop.c:398 #10 0x00007f15e3281e49 in imapc_client_run_pre (client=0x7333e0) at imapc-client.c:142 #11 imapc_client_run (client=0x7333e0) at imapc-client.c:161 #12 0x00007f15e3280f24 in imapc_storage_run (storage=0x732bd0) at imapc-storage.c:118 #13 0x00007f15e327f003 in imapc_save_append (_ctx=0x74dcb0) at imapc-save.c:232 #14 imapc_save_finish (_ctx=0x74dcb0) at imapc-save.c:255 #15 0x00007f15e1bf06a1 in quota_save_finish (ctx=0x74dcb0) at quota-storage.c:227 #16 0x00007f15e3292487 in mailbox_save_finish (_ctx=0x7f15e2d4ca40) at mail-storage.c:1669 #17 0x000000000042b736 in local_worker_save_msg_continue (worker=0x73c770) at dsync-worker-local.c:1681 #18 0x000000000042b98c in local_worker_msg_save (_worker=0x73c770, msg=0x7f15e38e4298, data=0x7fff56096db0, callback=0x4269f0 <msg_save_callback>, context=0x78a610) at dsync-worker-local.c:1739 #19 0x000000000042b0d9 in dsync_worker_msg_save (worker=0x73c770, msg=<value optimized out>, data=0x7fff56096db0, callback=0x4269f0 <msg_save_callback>, context=0x78a610) at dsync-worker.c:234 #20 0x0000000000426ac5 in msg_get_callback (result=<value optimized out>, data=0x7fff56096db0, context=0x78a610) at dsync-brain-msgs-new.c:79 #21 0x000000000042dca9 in local_worker_msg_get_next (worker=0x726f30, get=0x7fff56096e00) at dsync-worker-local.c:1844 #22 0x000000000042def8 in local_worker_msg_get (_worker=0x0, mailbox=<value optimized out>, uid=3805596224, callback=0x2670, context=0x58) at dsync-worker-local.c:1865 #23 0x000000000042ace6 in dsync_worker_msg_get (worker=0x726f30, mailbox=0x7f15e38e40f1, uid=1, callback=0x426a40 <msg_get_callback>, context=<value optimized out>) at dsync-worker.c:261 #24 0x000000000042689e in dsync_brain_msg_sync_add_new_msg (iter=0x7f15e38e41d8) at dsync-brain-msgs-new.c:181 #25 dsync_brain_mailbox_add_new_msgs (iter=0x7f15e38e41d8) at dsync-brain-msgs-new.c:216 #26 dsync_brain_msg_sync_add_new_msgs (iter=0x7f15e38e41d8) at dsync-brain-msgs-new.c:315 #27 0x0000000000426164 in dsync_brain_msg_sync_more (sync=0x7f15e38e4050) at dsync-brain-msgs.c:436 #28 0x0000000000424979 in dsync_brain_sync_msgs (brain=0x7351c0) at dsync-brain.c:736 #29 dsync_brain_sync (brain=0x7351c0) at dsync-brain.c:857 #30 0x0000000000425849 in dsync_brain_subs_list_finished (context=0x750fa0) at dsync-brain.c:169 #31 dsync_worker_subs_input (context=0x750fa0) at dsync-brain.c:222 #32 0x0000000000424cbd in dsync_brain_sync (brain=0x7351c0) at dsync-brain.c:842 #33 0x00000000004256bc in dsync_brain_mailbox_list_finished (context=0x743a60) at dsync-brain.c:98 #34 dsync_worker_mailbox_input (context=0x743a60) at dsync-brain.c:125 #35 0x0000000000424afe in dsync_brain_sync (brain=0x7351c0) at dsync-brain.c:833 #36 0x0000000000425568 in dsync_brain_sync_all (brain=0x7351c0) at dsync-brain.c:897 #37 0x0000000000422ad6 in cmd_dsync_start (ctx=0x706560, worker1=<value optimized out>, worker2=<value optimized out>) at doveadm-dsync.c:342 #38 0x0000000000422dfa in cmd_dsync_run (_ctx=0x706560, user=0x7209c0) at doveadm-dsync.c:387 #39 0x000000000040f888 in doveadm_mail_next_user (ctx=0x706560, input=<value optimized out>, error_r=0x7fff560973d0) at doveadm-mail.c:311 #40 0x0000000000410071 in doveadm_mail_cmd (cmd=0x704880, argc=7, argv=0x6fe418) at doveadm-mail.c:518 #41 0x0000000000410501 in doveadm_mail_try_run (cmd_name=0x6fe4e4 "backup", argc=1443460960, argv=0x4377c7) at doveadm-mail.c:577 #42 0x00000000004170d1 in main (argc=7, argv=0x6fe3e8) at doveadm.c:373 The other times it shows the following error message (It seams to connect both times to the non dovecot imap server): doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol: acl_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol: expire_set_lookup (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_zlib_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin.so: undefined symbol: i_stream_create_deflate (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fts_list_backend (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: auth input: user(a)example.org home=/mail/dovecot/example.org/user uid=1000 gid=1000 quota_rule=*:bytes=2000M:messages=0 doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota_rule=*:bytes=2000M:messages=0 doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/mail/dovecot/example.org/user doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:proxy::quota doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=2097152000 messages=0 doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=+104857600 messages=0 doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=1992294400 (95%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 95 user(a)example.org doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=1677721600 (80%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 80 user(a)example.org doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: dict quota: user=user(a)example.org, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=0 doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: fs: root=/mail/dovecot/example.org/user/mail, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= doveadm(user(a)example.org): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mail/dovecot/example.org/user/mail: mode=0700 gid=-1 dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/mail/dovecot/example.org/user dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:proxy::quota dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=2097152000 messages=0 dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=+104857600 messages=0 dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=1992294400 (95%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 95 user(a)example.org dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=1677721600 (80%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 80 user(a)example.org dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: dict quota: user=user(a)example.org, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=0 dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Looking up IP address dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Connecting to 10.10.10.10:18143 dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Server capabilities: IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=LOGIN ACL NAMESPACE CHILDREN SORT QUOTA THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT UNSELECT IDLE dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Authenticating as user(a)example.org dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Authenticated successfully dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Looking up IP address dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Connecting to 10.10.10.10:18143 dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Server capabilities: IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=LOGIN ACL NAMESPACE CHILDREN SORT QUOTA THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT UNSELECT IDLE dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Authenticating as user(a)example.org dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Authenticated successfully dsync(user(a)example.org): Warning: Destination mailbox Sent has been modified, need to recreate it before we can continue syncing dsync(user(a)example.org): Warning: Mailbox changes caused a desync. You may want to run dsync again. dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Disconnected dsync(user(a)example.org): Debug: imapc(local-mailbox:18143): Disconnected i think the problem could be that the account name on the remote server and the local server is absolute identical and doveadm backup has therefore problems discerning between the two locations. But that's only a stab in the dark and any help is appreciated. Kind regards Reinhard

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[Dovecot] Default for non-present LDAP attributes?
by Edgar Fuß 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

With 1.2, is there a syntax to, for LDAP lookups, use a given fixed replacement for a non-present LDAP attribute? E.g. something that would extend user_attrs = mailFileServer=mail=maildir:/import/mail/%$/%d to use maildir:/import/mail/foo/%d in case the mailFileServer attribute is not present?

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[Dovecot] Maildir Seen Flags not heeded when dovecot-shared present
by J E Lyon 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi, After many hours of searching (!) and lots of testing procmail scripts, I found the explanation I was looking for -- something you explained at http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-July/032551.html That explains it. Thing is, though, every time I've seen shared mailboxes -- really shared by multiple staff or not -- the preference is in fact for the shared behaviours to also "share" the Seen flags. Typically, someone doesn't want to read an email that someone else has already picked up and started dealing with or responded to. (They'll file it in due course, but the Seen flag is the first indicator that someone's opened and started to deal with it.) Hacking source code and branching and whatnot isn't easy or done lightly, but I wondered if anything else had come to light in recent years about this issue. I'd be as happy getting my procmail script to tell Dovecot to update the index based on the flag, but I'm pretty sure that's not possible :) Any ideas greatly appreciated, thanks. ~ James.

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[Dovecot] last hope... public namespace and directory structure
by Daniel Fischer 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

hello, I would like to migrate to dovecot, but I have a problem with a public namespace declaration: # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian wheezy/sid And here are the relevant parts from the configuration: namespace { location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/public prefix = Public. separator = . type = public } namespace inbox { prefix = separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } I assume that all folders under ./public/ are public mailboxes. The public folder itself is not a maildir, but contains the team mailboxes i.e. ./public/.sales/ ./public/.service/ ./public/.purchase/ The file passwd for those 3 samples looks like this: sales@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.sales service@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.service purchase@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.purchase Note: All other users have mail_location /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n Now a have the following problem: If I login in as user sales and create a folder foo and in there a folder bar. The directory structure is: ./public/. sales /.foo and /public/. sales /.foo.bar thats exactly what I´m expect. Now I logon as normal user. I can see the namespace Public with the sales mailbox but no subfolder foo or foo.bar. Now I create also the folders foo and in there bar, but the result is to me unexpected ;-): ./public/. sales ./public/. sales.foo ./public/. sales.foo.bar Looking forward to your comment, Daniel

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[Dovecot] permissions on auth-userdb
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi.. im still trying to upgrade to 2.0. Im getting: dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=10000(vmail) egid=10000(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner) the error is correct caus its owned by root. My Questions is who should own it ? Im not sure how that works, what process/user calls the auth-userdb ? The auth-userdb returns the args generated in master.conf, right ? i think comment out the user and group setting in master.conf will fix it but im not sure if that is the securest way. the mails come from postfix via dovecot-lda Hans master.conf service auth { # auth_socket_path points to this userdb socket by default. It's typically # used by dovecot-lda, doveadm, possibly imap process, etc. Its default # permissions make it readable only by root, but you may need to relax these # permissions. Users that have access to this socket are able to get a list # of all usernames and get results of everyone's userdb lookups. unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 #user = vmail #group = vmail } auth-ldap.conf.ext passdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } userdb { driver = static args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/ mail=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail }

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Daminto Lie 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

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[Dovecot] The deleted_to_trash Plugin (workaround Outlook 2007 behaviour)
by J E Lyon 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hi, I see this plugin exists for v1 & v2, all very interesting... Surprised no one seems to have created an RPM and it looks like deleted_to_trash is one of the very few plugins to not be shipped as part of the default install with CentOS 5.5 or CentOS 6 (i.e. Dovecot v1 & v2 respectively.) Am I missing something, or does everyone really build from source? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] pop3-throttle
by manu＠netbsd.org 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hello I am having a hard time with users using POP while leaving mailboxes of several gigabyte cumulated. This causes a lot of disk I/O and kills performancs for everyone. I try to encourage people migrating to IMAP, but that migration will take some time, and therefore I am looking for alterantive ways to workaround the problem. I found pop3-throttle-plugin.c, which seems a smart way to solve the problem, unfortunately it comes with no documentation. I was able to build it and load it, bu itsays nothing in the logs. Is there any doc somewhere? Any advices on how to set it up? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu(a)netbsd.org

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[Dovecot] Hardware infrastructure for email system
by Michael Wessel 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hi, I'm currently (re-)planning my email setup and have been doing some research. I have done some searches and read several threads in the areas of my questions here. While there are some that come close I haven't yet been able to get all my questions answered. I currently run a postfix, dovecot & roundcube setup and have about 2000 active accounts. I have a separate SMTP server for outbound mail and auth is done against a separate LDAP server. In front of the POP/IMAP server I have another SMTP (4 in parallel actually) server that receives and filters inbound mail through a company specific, proprietary filter before the mail hits the POP/IMAP server. LDAP & SMTP servers are ESXi VMs. So right now both dovecot and roundcube run on the same box which is a Dell PE2950 with dual quad-core Xeon, 16GB RAM and 6 1TB disks in RAID 6, so only local storage using maildir. So far it's been holding up fine, but it's beginning to show signs of overload now. I also expect an increase in users over the next few months up to somewhere between 10 - 20,000 mail boxes. Hence the re-planning. My first priority in redesigning my setup is reliability. I definitely need something fail-save and as close to always on as possible. Next is performance. And while the budget is of course limited for the moment I'm setting that aside and will worry about that when the time comes. Now here is my question(s): In order to support up to 20,000 mailboxes (distributed over several times-zones so they won't all be used at the same time) with a very reliable service with good performance, what do I actually need? Do I need(ul) SAN or is it just a "would be nice to have"? If yes, why and what would be appropriate for my needs? Or will a setup with a few more servers like the ones I already have, using something like DRBD and distributing services (imap, http, spamd etc) onto different boxes do? I know I have more reading to do on all the different options out there, but would like some input from people that have experience in this area so I can focus on the stuff that's right for my situation. Michael

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[Dovecot] doveadm proxy kick in director setups
by Tom Pawlowski 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Something I noticed on a 2.1.7 director test cluster (two directors, three backends): 'doveadm proxy kick user' will kick all connections for that user on that director only. Any additional connections on other directors will remain active unless the command is run on all directors. Are the proxy and director sub-commands intended to be separate and distinct in their operation? If so, then this makes sense, as a proxy isn't necessarily a director. Are there any plans for a proxy kick equivalent that would work across directors? -- Tom Pawlowski OIT-CSS System Administrator office: Hill 145 email: tompru(a)jla.rutgers.edu phone: (732) 445-2634

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