January 2014 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Thanks for the help
by Steve Litt 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi all, I'd like to thank the people on #dovecot, especially jaybe, for helping me fix my Dovecot after a reinstall broke it. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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[Dovecot] dsync mbox to maildir migration does not delete, deleted e-mails
by A M 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hello, I am planning to migrate all users from mbox to maildir. I am trying to do it with minimum downtime. (~100GB data) All users are currently using POP3. Dovecot version is 2.2.10 (latest). Command used is: dsync -u username mirror maildir:~/Maildir Process I plan is: (omitting steps related to sendmail / procmail) 1) keep dovecot running (with mail_location as mbox) 2) dsync for all users (this may take 3-4 hours or more) 3) (downtime starts) stop dovecot and sendmail (to stop new e-mails) 4) block pop3, imap ports on firewall (so users can not connect) 5) start dovecot (still with mbox) 6) dsync again to sync e-mails arrived between step 2 and 3 7) dsync again (just to make sure!) 8) (downtime ends) restart dovecot (with mail_location as maildir) Now, here is my problem. Lets say there is user joe, who has 50 NEW e-mails in mbox (INBOX). Step 2 perfectly syncs his 50 e-mails to 'new' folder of maildir. Now in the mean time, before step 3, he connected via POP3 and downloaded and deleted 50 e-mails. Now when we reach step 6 (re-sync), what I expected was dsync will detect that 50 e-mails are deleted and it will delete 50 e-mails from 'new' directory of maildir. But that is not happening. 50 e-mails are still there. I fear that these e-mails will be re-downloaded on his Outlook once I switch dovecot to maildir. This will happen for each and every user which will cause huge mess. So how to tell, dsync to delete non-existent e-mails which are no more there in mbox (INBOX)? Thanks in advance, Regards, A M

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[Dovecot] Dovecot service not responding after about a week of uptime
by Matthieu 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hello, I am running a dovecot 2.1.13 server and lately it stops responding after about a week of uptime. Simply restarting the dovecot service solves the issue. I tried to look a bit in my maillog file but did not find anything obvious. During the time when the server is not responding I can still see imap-login entries from the connection attempt by my email client. Any help about how to diagnose the problem would be appreciated. Thanks, Matthieu

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[Dovecot] panic!
by LuKreme 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

(I will not make a joke about the streets of Carlyle) Jan 13 19:09:07 mail dovecot: lda(john(a)example.com): Panic: file mail-transaction-log-file.c: line 1148 (mail_transaction_log_file_get_highest_modseq_at): assertion failed: (offset <= file->sync_offset) Jan 13 19:09:08 mail kernel: pid 8435 (dovecot-lda), uid 89: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Jan 13 19:14:16 mail dovecot: lda(john(a)example.com): Panic: file mail-transaction-log-file.c: line 1148 (mail_transaction_log_file_get_highest_modseq_at): assertion failed: (offset <= file->sync_offset) Jan 13 19:14:16 mail kernel: pid 9648 (dovecot-lda), uid 89: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Just the one user, seems to happen every time he checks mail. I am not using LDA at all. $ doveconf -n # 2.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE i386 auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> %r %m %c mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 90 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 ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox NotJunk { auto = subscribe } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext default_fields = uid=vpopmail gid=vchkpw mail_location=/usr/local/virtual/%u mail=maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%u driver = sql } -- How soon after the U.S. Postal Service issues the Calvin stamp will you send a letter with one on the envelope? Watterson: Immediately. I'm going to get in my horse and buggy and snail-mail a check for my newspaper subscription.

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[Dovecot] Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child n killed with signal 11 (core dumped) - in mail_cache_header_fields_read
by Maciej Uhlig 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

This is log from dovecot 2.1.17 (I had to downgrade from 2.2.10 because lot of problems) on CentOS 6.5: 2014-01-14T18:36:03+01:00 server/a.b.c.d dovecot: lmtp(5927): Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 5927 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) # uname -a Linux server 2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 13 13:06:13 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007fb14b9b3bb5 in mail_cache_header_fields_read () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007fb14b9b19aa in mail_cache_open_and_verify () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007fb14b9b35bd in mail_cache_register_get_list () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #3 0x00007fb14b9a11a7 in index_mail_parse_header_init () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #4 0x00007fb14b9a1ff8 in index_mail_cache_parse_init () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #5 0x00007fb14b94c982 in maildir_save_add () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #6 0x00007fb14b94ccd8 in maildir_save_begin () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #7 0x00007fb14b031b23 in quota_save_begin () from /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- No symbol table info available. #8 0x00007fb14b982552 in mailbox_save_begin () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0x00007fb14b97ae8f in mail_storage_copy () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #10 0x00007fb14b948ef6 in maildir_copy () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #11 0x00007fb14ae25551 in notify_copy () from /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib15_notify_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #12 0x00007fb14b031907 in quota_copy () from /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #13 0x00007fb14b9824aa in mailbox_copy () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #14 0x00007fb14a9d7dc6 in act_store_execute () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0 No symbol table info available. #15 0x00007fb14a9ce0f4 in _sieve_result_implicit_keep () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0 No symbol table info available. #16 0x00007fb14a9cfe27 in sieve_result_execute () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0 No symbol table info available. #17 0x00007fb14a9df918 in sieve_multiscript_run () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0 No symbol table info available. #18 0x00007fb14ac2189e in lda_sieve_deliver_mail () from /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #19 0x00007fb14bc1d305 in mail_deliver () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0 No symbol table info available. #20 0x00000000004054c3 in client_input_data_handle () No symbol table info available. #21 0x00007fb14b6ba146 in io_loop_call_io () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #22 0x00007fb14b6bb46d in io_loop_handler_run () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #23 0x00007fb14b6ba0e8 in io_loop_run () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #24 0x00007fb14b6a4043 in master_service_run () from /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.17/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #25 0x0000000000404096 in main () No symbol table info available. (gdb) MU

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LMTP does not pass envelope recipient +detail to sieve
by Greg Rivers 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

I found this[1] thread that describes the same problem with dovecot-LDA, but the solution (add X-Original-To: header) has no effect with LMTP. My sendmail LMTP configuration: FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`[IPC]',`FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp') Sendmail's address test indicates that sendmail is providing user+detail to LMTP (see below). Except for this problem, dovecot, LMTP, and sieve are all working perfectly. Is there something I'm missing, or is this a bug? [1] http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2012-July/136987.htm Script started on Sun Jan 5 23:25:04 2014 $ doveconf -n # 2.2.9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE amd64 auth_verbose = yes mail_debug = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/.mdbox mail_plugins = " quota" 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 ihave editheader vnd.dovecot.debug vnd.dovecot.duplicate imapflags notify vnd.dovecot.pipe vnd.dovecot.filter vnd.dovecot.execute namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = %s driver = pam } plugin { quota = fs:%n@%{hostname} %h %Us %{pid}: quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = ~/sieve/sieve-execute sieve_execute_socket_dir = sieve-execute sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +editheader +vnd.dovecot.duplicate +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.filter +vnd.dovecot.execute +vnd.dovecot.debug sieve_filter_bin_dir = ~/sieve/sieve-filter sieve_filter_socket_dir = sieve-filter sieve_global_dir = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve sieve_max_actions = 0 sieve_max_redirects = 16 sieve_max_script_size = 0 sieve_pipe_bin_dir = ~/sieve/sieve-pipe sieve_pipe_socket_dir = sieve-pipe sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)tharned.org protocols = imap lmtp sieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = dovecot } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota sieve" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" } $ sendmail -bt ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter <ruleset> <address> > =M mailer 0 (prog): P=/bin/sh S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL R=EnvToL/HdrToL M=0 U=-1:-1 F=9DFMeloqsu L=0 E=\n T=X-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix r=100 A=sh -c $u mailer 1 (*file*): P=[FILE] S=parse/parse R=parse/parse M=0 U=-1:-1 F=9DEFMPloqsu L=0 E=\n T=X-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix r=100 A=FILE $u mailer 2 (*include*): P=/dev/null S=parse/parse R=parse/parse M=0 U=-1:-1 F=su L=0 E=\n T=<undefined>/<undefined>/<undefined> r=100 A=INCLUDE $u mailer 3 (local): P=[IPC] S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL R=EnvToL/HdrToL M=0 U=-1:-1 F=/59:@ADFMPSXlmnqswz| L=0 E=\r\n T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP r=100 A=FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp mailer 4 (smtp): P=[IPC] S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP R=EnvToSMTP/EnvToSMTP M=0 U=-1:-1 F=DFMXmu L=990 E=\r\n T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP r=100 A=TCP $h mailer 5 (esmtp): P=[IPC] S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP R=EnvToSMTP/EnvToSMTP M=0 U=-1:-1 F=DFMXamu L=990 E=\r\n T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP r=100 A=TCP $h mailer 6 (smtp8): P=[IPC] S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP R=EnvToSMTP/EnvToSMTP M=0 U=-1:-1 F=8DFMXmu L=990 E=\r\n T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP r=100 A=TCP $h mailer 7 (dsmtp): P=[IPC] S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP R=EnvToSMTP/EnvToSMTP M=0 U=-1:-1 F=%DFMXamu L=990 E=\r\n T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP r=100 A=TCP $h mailer 8 (relay): P=[IPC] S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP R=MasqSMTP/MasqSMTP M=0 U=-1:-1 F=8DFMXamu L=2040 E=\r\n T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP r=100 A=TCP $h > /try local gcr+DeTaIl(a)tharned.org Trying envelope recipient address gcr+DeTaIl(a)tharned.org for mailer local canonify input: gcr + DeTaIl @ tharned . org Canonify2 input: gcr + DeTaIl < @ tharned . org > Canonify2 returns: gcr + DeTaIl < @ tharned . org . > canonify returns: gcr + DeTaIl < @ tharned . org . > 2 input: gcr + DeTaIl < @ tharned . org . > 2 returns: gcr + DeTaIl < @ tharned . org . > EnvToL input: gcr + DeTaIl < @ tharned . org . > EnvToL returns: gcr + DeTaIl final input: gcr + DeTaIl final returns: gcr + DeTaIl Rcode = 0, addr = gcr+DeTaIl > ^D $ cat .dovecot.sieve require ["envelope", "subaddress", "variables", "vnd.dovecot.debug"]; if envelope :matches "to" "*" { set "to" "${1}"; } if envelope :user :matches "to" "*" { set "user" "${1}"; } if envelope :detail :matches "to" "*" { set "detail" "${1}"; } if envelope :matches "from" "*" { set "from" "${1}"; } debug_log "EnvelopeTo=${to}, EnvelopeFrom=${from}"; debug_log "EnvelopeToUser=${user}, EnvelopeToDetail=${detail}"; $ telnet localhost smtp Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 tharned.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.7/8.14.7; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 23:56:22 -0600 (CST) mail from:<gcr(a)tharned.org> 250 2.1.0 <gcr(a)tharned.org>... Sender ok rcpt to:<gcr+DeTaIl(a)tharned.org> 250 2.1.5 <gcr+DeTaIl(a)tharned.org>... Recipient ok data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself . 250 2.0.0 s065uMYM069381 Message accepted for delivery quit 221 2.0.0 tharned.org closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. $ tail -4 .dovecot.sieve.log sieve: info: started log at Jan 05 23:57:21. main script: line 5: info: DEBUG: EnvelopeTo=gcr, EnvelopeFrom=gcr(a)tharned.org. main script: line 9: info: DEBUG: EnvelopeToUser=gcr, EnvelopeToDetail=. info: msgid=<201401060557.s065uMYM069381(a)tharned.org>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'. $ exit Script done on Sun Jan 5 23:57:55 2014 -- Greg Rivers

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[Dovecot] Sieve - not functioning for additional email aliases.
by Jacek Osiecki 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi, On one of my servers (old one, version 1.2.5) user reported that vacation message for basic address works fine, but not for the aliases. I know that this is an old version, but we can't simply switch them to the most current dovecot release without preparing and testing everything... So I'm rather asking for help with debugging the case :) This person has email my.name(a)olddomain.pl. However, they are switching to new domain - newdomain.pl - and it is becoming their main brand. So temporarily olddomain.pl is still their "home" domain, but there is a domain alias newdomain->olddomain. The sieve file is simple: forward message and reply with vacation: ---- require ["copy","vacation"]; # rule:[redirect] if anyof (true) { redirect :copy "my.boss(a)newdomain.pl"; vacation :days 1 :addresses ["my.name(a)olddomain.pl","my.name(a)newdomain.pl"] text: I'm unavailable now. Please contact my boss: my.boss(a)newdomain.pl Greetings . ; } ---- When I send email to my.name(a)olddomain.pl - it is sent to my.boss(a)newdomain.pl and I receive the vacation message. When I send it to the alias (my.name(a)newdomain.pl) - none of above is done. Any idea how I can debug it? Running test-sieve does not help - it claims that will simply forward and deliver the message... Greetings, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl GG:3828944 I don't want something I need. I want something I want.

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[Dovecot] dict ldap
by me＠electronico.nc 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hello everybody, Dovecot 2.2.6 with LDAP auth against AD (Samba4). I would like to know if it's possible to specify an LDAP transport for dict (something like dovecot-dict-ldap.conf.ext). I'm in need to setup shared mailboxes and if I could query LDAP, that would help a lot. IE : user1 user2 user3 are in OU=group1, so group1 (setup as user in AD) would share its mailbox with user1 user2 and user3. Thanks in advance for your time. Nicolas

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[Dovecot] Couldn't drop privileges
by CM Reddy 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hi All, I have configured the dovecot from sources based on the instructions in the following link. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/CompilingSource Tried to test the installation: 1. Started dovecot successfully. 2. Failed to Login command with an error. -Lenovo-G500s:~$ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Hi Dovecot ready. a login armor5 abc123 * BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. Configuration is: ------------------------ Lenovo-G500s:~$ doveconf -n # 2.2.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no login_greeting = Hi Dovecot ready. mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } Log information: ---------------------- Jan 13 16:42:34 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=5166) Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=imap#011secured#011session=+CqxJ9jvkgB/AAAB#011lip=127.0.0.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011lport=143#011rport=33682#011resp=<hidden> Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file(armor5,127.0.0.1,<+CqxJ9jvkgB/AAAB>): lookup: user=armor5 file=/etc/dovecot/users Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: OK#0111#011user=armor5 Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST#0111108344833#0115166#0111#011d026da1fc2ca16d0208eec7bc369ac2d#011session_pid=5169#011request_auth_token Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file(armor5,127.0.0.1,<+CqxJ9jvkgB/AAAB>): lookup: user=armor5 file=/etc/dovecot/users Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: auth: Debug: master userdb out: USER#0111108344833#011armor5#011uid=1001#011home=/home/armor5#011auth_token=555c47f35a67f94f519da93affe91abef29550fb Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<armor5>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=5169, secured, session=<+CqxJ9jvkgB/AAAB> Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: imap(armor5): Error: user armor5: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing GID (see mail_gid setting) Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: imap(armor5): Error: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Please help in resolving this issue. - Thanks CM Reddy

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[Dovecot] Slow authentication performance when switching folder
by ra＠rz.uni-frankfurt.de 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hello, we have a problem with Dovecot 2.2.9 running on an AIX 7.1 and compiled with xlc. At first we configured passdb to use our ldap directory via pam and experienced an Internal login failure like the following one Jan 13 16:20:02 imap-login: Info: Internal login failure (pid=29818948 id=1) (internal failure, 1 successful auths): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy, TLS, session=<r/P1m9vv5ACNAv6j> I read that this error occurs if the last passdb returns a continue and there is no other passdb to ask. We added two more passdb to rule out that pam is the problem. We added ldap directly and as third a fallback passwd file, but we still get the Internal login failure. As far as i can see this only occurs if i switch to another folder and i´m being reauthenticated. Are there any suggestions on what is going wrong? Any push in the right direction would be appreciated. kind regards Manuel PS: This is the dump of our dovecot configuration file: doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (32768) doveconf: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (24579) # OS: AIX 1 00F7B83D4C00 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890- auth_username_format = %n auth_username_translation = AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot-imap default_process_limit = 8192 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100 info_log_path = /mailbase/dovecot/2.2.9/log/dovecot_imap_debug.log log_path = /mailbase/dovecot/2.2.9/log/dovecot_imap.log login_greeting = University-Frankfurt-IMAP-Horde ready. mail_access_groups = mhs mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = never mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail-indexes/%u mailbox_idle_check_interval = 90 secs mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private name = } passdb { args = username_format=%u /mailbase/etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = %s driver = pam } plugin { stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service { inet_listener { address = * port = 0 name = imap } inet_listener { address = * port = 993 name = imaps } name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service login/imap { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service { inet_listener { address = 10.1.1.40 port = 0 name = pop3 } inet_listener { address = * port = 0 name = pop3s } name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/thot_mit_chain.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/certs/private_key_thot.rz.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /mailbase/dovecot/2.2.9/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " stats imap_stats" service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service login/imap { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } }

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