November 2013 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Dovecot's brittle configuration syntax
by Kai Hendry 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

Hi there, Whilst trying to come up with a minimal configuration for Dovecot: http://dabase.com/blog/Minimal_Dovecot/ I noticed the configuration syntax is a bit admin unfriendly. It's easy to get an infamous Error code 89. Is there any back story to the grammar or language this configuration is in? Kind regards,

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot's brittle configuration syntax
by Joseph Tam 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

Kai Hendry <hendry(a)dabase.com> wrote: > Whilst trying to come up with a minimal configuration for Dovecot: > http://dabase.com/blog/Minimal_Dovecot/ I think your characterization of the complexity of dovecot configuration by simply counting configuration lines to get it working is off base. It's conceivable to have all the default values work for you and only specify those that differ from defaults (or configure your system to conform to defaults if you want to place the proverbial cart before the horse), but that doesn't make it less complex -- it just hides it. (See doveconf -a if you want to see what you're shorthanding). If you want minimal configuration fuss, you can try uw-imapd. Not a lot of knobs to twist on that thing, but you'll have to accept all its limitations as well. A well chosen set of defaults that works for most people is a good design decision, but I've seen plenty of different and oddball layouts (including the sneakernet post preceding this one) that requires a lot of flexibility, which necessarily requires a lot of configuration to express them. The sample configuration is verbose because it doubles as documentation: you can use it as a starting point and remove the parts you don't need, or start from the documentation and move forward. I agree, though, that the documentation needs an editorial overhaul -- it's a little bewildering to find what you need along with the contextual information. > I noticed the configuration syntax is a bit admin unfriendly. It's easy > to get an infamous Error code 89. > > Is there any back story to the grammar or language this configuration is > in? It appears to me to have grown organically, and maybe will need pruning some day. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Re: [Dovecot] Replication via sneakernet
by David Bishop 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

D'oh. Replied to Timo instead of to the list. Apologies! On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:07 PM, David Bishop <dovecot(a)dpe.lusars.net>wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > >> On 28.11.2013, at 5.17, David Bishop <dovecot(a)dpe.lusars.net> wrote: >> >> > There are trams shuttling back and forth along this road (stopping at >> each >> > station), and adding a small box (such as a weatherproofed Raspberry Pi >> > with a wifi dongle) to transport files up and down the road is pretty >> > simple. >> >> But if you do it this way and you can keep a full copy of the shared mail >> storage on your Raspberry, that would be possible already with dsync I >> think. dsync supports quick incremental updates by keeping track of the >> previous state between the servers. This state is saved in a file, so you >> could keep a different state for each different dsynced server. >> > > Bravo for a solution that doesn't require a code change and doesn't seem > to require directly touching the spools! :) > > Reading the man page, it looks like only mirroring for people who happen > to be checking email at a given place (as well as people who have received > mail and the shared mailboxes) seems like a pretty simple thing to do. > Hurrah! > > Thank you, this is wonderful. > > And more questions... > > If I'm running a virtual mail domain, the user/pass I give is for the > virtual mail user, correct? And, in a virtual mail setup, do I specify > "username" or "username@domain"? > > Is there a window beyond which synchronization becomes more difficult? For > instance, if messages (or metadata updates, like "I deleted this message") > get parked overnight without updating, and in the morning (9 hours later), > the trams (one at a time) pull into range of wifi, there won't be > confusion, right? > >

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[Dovecot] sendmail to postfix-dovecot
by Roger Berger 28 Nov '13

28 Nov '13

Hi, I am a newbie to postfix and dovecot so I hope you can help me. I have an old server running sendmail for many years now. On this server I have about 100 domains and 500 users. The users are named as myuser or myuser.dom. People use pop3 and imap for fetching reading their email. I've setup a new server with postfix and dovecot2 on freebsd and managed to get it all working with virtual users. However, now I found out that I overlooked something; People have to login with username(a)domain.tld<mailto:username@domain.tld> on the new server but only use their username on the old server. This means they all have to change their login credentials, which is not an option. Is it possible to do some scripting before authentication where the username is looked up in the database and the right domain is added to the account? If I understand right it is not possible to use system and virtual users together. Thanks, Roger

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Re: [Dovecot] Permissions problems
by Joseph Tam 28 Nov '13

28 Nov '13

<md.benson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: > rename(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot.index.log.newlock, > /mpool/mail/mark/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied > ... > This is what the directory currently looks like: > > mark@proliant-1:~$ ls -la /mpool/mail > total 6 > drwxrwxrwx+ 3 root root 3 2013-11-24 17:17 . > drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root 5 2013-11-24 13:50 .. > drwxrwxrwx+ 5 mark staff 9 2013-11-24 22:20 mark I'm think the "+" is the problem: you have, in the words of the manpage for ls, ... this character is a plus sign (+) character if a non-trivial ACL is associated with the file ... Try ls -alv /mpool/mail I don't use ACLs, so I can help you how to modify them. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Enabling quota
by Andreas Kasenides 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hello everybody. Sorry if this has been answered before, I just could not find any info. Just point me if that is so. Can somebody please explain why there is no option --with-quota (ot may be --with-fs-quota) for the configure command? As it stands now, at least for the fs back-end the only thing that tells us that Dovecot does not do quotas is after the build/configuration we get dovecot: imap(xxdxx): Error: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, csfs9.cs.ucy.ac.cy:/mail) failed: No such file or directory which essentially means that during the build no quota development libraries were found and therefore fs quota will not function. This is rather confusing and the above error does not help much. Note also that "dovecot --build-options" is also silent on this. I suppose other back-ends do not have this requirement since there is no need for such devel libraries. thankx Andreas

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[Dovecot] Dsync on a medium sized site
by Skeffling 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hello, We're looking at changing our current Dovecot setup to use dsync between 2 servers in different data centres to share the load and to provide resilience. We're quite excited about the possibilities! We receive about 100,000 emails a day, to about 10,000 mailboxes - a mix of IMAP and POP3. We'll use Dovecot Deliver via exim to put mail in to the Maildir. Has dsync been used on sites of this size? -Any tips? Do people tend to sync between 2 servers, or do some people use more than 2? I'm interested in other people's experience before setting up some test boxes. Thanks! Andrew.

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[Dovecot] Failute to compile of pigeonhole-0.4.2 with Dovecot 2.2.7
by Andreas Kasenides 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

On trying to compile pigeonhole-0.4.2 on Dovecot 2.2.7 on a CentOS 6.4 machine Linux xxx.xxx 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 16 23:51:20 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux with ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/local/lib/dovecot I get the following error: ............ /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/include/dovecot -I../.. -I../../src/lib-sieve -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT sieve-storage.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/sieve-storage.Tpo -c -o sieve-storage.lo sieve-storage.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/include/dovecot -I../.. -I../../src/lib-sieve -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT sieve-storage.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/sieve-storage.Tpo -c sieve-storage.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/sieve-storage.o sieve-storage.c: In function 'sieve_storage_inbox_script_attribute_set': sieve-storage.c:702: error: 'MAILBOX_ATTRIBUTE_PREFIX_DOVECOT_PVT_SERVER' undeclared (first use in this function) sieve-storage.c:702: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once sieve-storage.c:702: error: for each function it appears in.) sieve-storage.c:702: error: expected ')' before string constant sieve-storage.c:693: warning: unused parameter 'name' sieve-storage.c: In function 'sieve_storage_inbox_script_attribute_rename': sieve-storage.c:718: error: 'MAILBOX_ATTRIBUTE_PREFIX_DOVECOT_PVT_SERVER' undeclared (first use in this function) sieve-storage.c:718: error: expected ')' before string constant sieve-storage.c:720: error: expected ')' before string constant sieve-storage.c:709: warning: unused parameter 'oldname' sieve-storage.c:709: warning: unused parameter 'newname' sieve-storage.c: In function 'sieve_storage_inbox_script_attribute_unset': sieve-storage.c:738: error: 'MAILBOX_ATTRIBUTE_PREFIX_DOVECOT_PVT_SERVER' undeclared (first use in this function) sieve-storage.c:738: error: expected ')' before string constant sieve-storage.c:729: warning: unused parameter 'name' make[3]: *** [sieve-storage.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.2/src/lib-sievestorage' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 Dovecot 2.2.7 compiles and runs fine. Any help appreciated. Andreas

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[Dovecot] Permissions problems
by Google 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hi, I have dovecot 2.0.20 running (its an old version, I know, it came from the stable archive at OpenCSW) with Solaris SMF integration working fine. It enables and disables okay. However, I cantt connect to it, it is allowing the connection, but spewing on permissions: Nov 24 17:34:20 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] master: Dovecot v2.0.20 starting up Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.69, lip=192.168.1.72, mpid=18816 Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.69, lip=192.168.1.72, mpid=18818 Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.69, lip=192.168.1.72, mpid=18820 Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] imap(mark): Connection closed bytes=17/340 Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.69, lip=192.168.1.72, mpid=18822 Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: rename(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot.index.log.newlock, /mpool/mail/mark/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: rename(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, /mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: unlink(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: rename(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, /mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: unlink(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: rename(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, /mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: unlink(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: rename(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp, /mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied Nov 24 17:34:27 proliant-1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(mark): Error: unlink(/mpool/mail/mark/dovecot-uidlist.tmp) failed: Permission denied If I actually try to copy mail to the inbox of the account it core-dumps and does, and the SMF service drops into maintenance mode which requires re-enabling. The output from doveconf -n (this is changes from the default settings I think?) is: root@proliant-1:~# doveconf -n # 2.0.20: /etc/opt/csw/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc zfs auth_first_valid_uid = 101 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 101 mail_location = maildir:/mpool/mail/%u passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </opt/csw/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </opt/csw/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } The mail_location is in a ZFS filesystem on my RAIDz array. I couldnt think of any other way of creating user-specific folders in the location. As the value suggests, each user gets their own directory on the filesystem for mail. Is this still a ‘safe’ way to do things or would I be better off relocating each user’s ‘home’ directory to the pool somehow? This is what the directory currently looks like: mark@proliant-1:~$ ls -la /mpool/mail total 6 drwxrwxrwx+ 3 root root 3 2013-11-24 17:17 . drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root 5 2013-11-24 13:50 .. drwxrwxrwx+ 5 mark staff 9 2013-11-24 22:20 mark mark@proliant-1:~$ ls -la /mpool/mail/mark/ total 14 drwxrwxrwx+ 5 mark staff 9 2013-11-24 22:20 . drwxrwxrwx+ 3 root root 3 2013-11-24 17:17 .. drwxrwxrwx+ 2 mark staff 2 2013-11-24 17:17 cur -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 mark staff 51 2013-11-24 22:20 dovecot-uidlist.tmp -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 mark staff 8 2013-11-24 22:20 dovecot-uidvalidity -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 mark staff 0 2013-11-24 17:17 dovecot-uidvalidity.529234ad -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 mark staff 40 2013-11-24 22:20 dovecot.index.log.newlock drwxrwxrwx+ 2 mark staff 2 2013-11-24 17:17 new drwxrwxrwx+ 2 mark staff 3 2013-11-24 17:21 tmp Any ideas? -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1.16
by paolo.brocchi 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hi, i would ask you a question about a particular dovecot configuration. I would like to have in INBOX folder some emails (e.g email with a header key). The same emails i would like to have into the folders, under INBOX, create by users. How can i do? Thanks Paolo

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