October 2014 - dovecot

Dovecot fails to start - Unknown setting: socket
by Max Shortte 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

I’m receiving the following error(s) messages when trying reloading dovecot (Debian wheezy). doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 73: Unknown setting: socket doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89 Configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf : # If you only want to use dovecot-auth, you can set this to "none". protocols = imap sieve log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_debug = no first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mail_chroot = yes default_login_user = dovecot ssl_cert = /etc/ssl/certs/star_palibrary_org_combined.crt ssl_key = /etc/ssl/private/star_palibrary_org.key protocol imap { # imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } ## ## MANAGESIEVE specific settings ## protocol sieve { } plugin { sieve_storage = ~/sieve sieve_global_path = /var/vmail/globalsieverc sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve } protocol lda { #log_path = /var/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address = shortte(a)mvs.org mail_plugins = sieve } ################################### ## ## LDA specific settings ## auth_default_realm = mvs.org auth_debug = no auth_debug_passwords = no auth_mechanisms = auth_plain auth_login auth_digest-md5 auth_cram-md5 # dovecot-auth only needs to be able to connect to SQL # default_login_user = mail passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } userdb { driver= sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = vmail } client { # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups # using it. path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } Packages: ii dovecot-common 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-core 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-gssapi 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-imapd 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-ldap 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-lmtpd 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-managesieved 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-mysql 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-pgsql 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 ii dovecot-pop3d 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1 Any ideas?

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Re: Dovecot fails to start - Unknown setting: socket
by Alan McGinlay 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

you almost certainly have a missing closing bracket or double quote somewhere.

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[Dovecot] mdbox-files over 2 MB
by Hardy Flor 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

Hello, I received an e-mail, this includes 9 forwarding, each with a file. These files are not removed from the e-mail and stored in the attachments-directory, although they are larger than 16 KB. For all files the "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" is set. The email is stored in completely in "m.00000034" ------------------------------------- doveconf: # 2.2.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.4 ext4 mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/attachments mail_attachment_hash = %{md5} mail_attachment_min_size = 16 k mail_location = mdbox:/var/mail/user/%n mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 weeks mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M ------------------------------------- directory: root@xxx:/var/mail/user/xxx/storage# ls -al ... -rw------- 1 vmail mail 14433784 Mär 16 13:51 m.00000034 ...

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