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[Dovecot] couple of errors on new setup
by Dean Guenther 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

I have stood up a new test mail server as an upgraded version of my existing mail server. I have been fairly consistently getting two types of error messages. I'm thinking they may be related permissions issues, but I can't figure out what their problem is. Oct 4 12:45:47 digory dovecot: imap(guenther): Error: file_dotlock_open() failed with file /home/guenther/mail/ForUs/.imap/Home/dovecot.index.log: Resource temporarily unavailable Oct 4 12:46:16 digory dovecot: imap(guenther): Error: file_dotlock_open(/home/guenther/mail/ForUs/PCS/.imap/PCS misc/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(guenther) egid=500(guenther), access(/home/guenther/mail/ForUs/PCS/.imap/PCS misc/dovecot.index.log, 4) failed: No such file or directory) Here are my specifics: OS: CentOS 6.4 - 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 MailScanner: 4.84.6 Postfix: 2.6.6 DoveCot: 2.2.4 NFS v4 (both the mail spool and /home are NVS v4 mounts to file server) Here are the non-default settings: dovecot -n # 2.2.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.4 (Fina auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_access_groups = users,guenther mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl 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 { driver = pam } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/xxxxxxxxxx.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/xxxxxxxxxx.key userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_ssl = yes Thanks -- Dean Guenther

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[Dovecot] Problems getting Squirrelmail and Avelsieve to connect to Pigeonhole
by Steve 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

Hi, I have been going around in circles trying to find the solution. Many others appear to have the same problem, but never a solution or explanation. I am running Dovecot 2.0.21 under Fedora 16. All components are running on the same server, whose IP address is shown as '192.168.x.y'. The dovecot -n output is: <quote> /SSH Secure Shell 3.2.0 (Build 267)/ /Copyright (c) 2000-2002 SSH Communications Security Corp - http://www.ssh.com// /This copy of SSH Secure Shell is a non-commercial version./ /This version does not include PKI and PKCS #11 functionality./ /Last login: Sun Oct 6 17:00:08 2013 from 192.168.2.196/ /[root@nsi-server2 ~]# /usr/sbin/dovecot -n/ /# 2.0.21: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf/ /# OS: Linux 3.6.11-4.fc16.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 16 (Verne) / /auth_debug_passwords = yes/ /auth_verbose = yes/ /auth_verbose_passwords = plain/ /log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.log/ /mail_access_groups = mail/ /mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u/ /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/ /mbox_write_locks = fcntl/ /passdb {/ / driver = pam/ /}/ /passdb {/ / args = /etc/dovecot/users/ / driver = passwd-file/ /}/ /plugin {/ / sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve/ / sieve_dir = ~/sieve/ / sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve/ /}/ /protocols = imap pop3 sieve sieve/ /service imap-login {/ / inet_listener imap {/ / address = 192.168.x.y,localhost/ / }/ / inet_listener imaps {/ / address = 192.168.x.y/ / }/ /}/ /service managesieve-login {/ / inet_listener sieve {/ / port = 4190/ / }/ /}/ /service pop3-login {/ / inet_listener pop3 {/ / address = 192.168.x,y,localhost/ / }/ / inet_listener pop3s {/ / address = 192.168.x.y/ / }/ /}/ /ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem/ /ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem/ /userdb {/ / driver = passwd/ /}/ /userdb {/ / args = /etc/dovecot/users/ / driver = passwd-file/ /}/ </quote> On attempting to connect to the managesieve port from Squirrelmail, using the 'Filter' button i get the following error message: /*Could not log on to timsieved daemon on your IMAP server localhost.*/ /*Please contact your administrator*/ Running/*# /usr/sbin/ngrep -d lo port 4190 */produces the following trace: <quote> /[root@nsi-server root]# /usr/sbin/ngrep -d lo port 4190/ /interface: lo (127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0)/ /filter: (ip or ip6) and ( port 4190 )/ /####/ /T 127.0.0.1:4190 -> 127.0.0.1:35495 [AP]/ / "IMPLEMENTATION" "Dovecot Pigeonhole".."SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator/ / -i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave".."NOTIFY/ / " "mailto".."SASL" "PLAIN".."STARTTLS".."VERSION" "1.0"..OK "Dovecot ready.".. / /##/ /T 127.0.0.1:35495 -> 127.0.0.1:4190 [AP]/ / AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" \{28+}.. / /##/ /T 127.0.0.1:35495 -> 127.0.0.1:4190 [AP]/ /c3RldmUAc3RldmUAbWFnaWNsaWs=.. / /##/ /T 127.0.0.1:4190 -> 127.0.0.1:35495 [AP]/ / NO "Invalid characters in atom"..NO "Error in MANAGESIEVE command received by server.".. / /###/ </quote> I hope that someone can provide a way to get the filter management working as I am more that happy with the way Dovecot and Squirrelmail are working, but just want to add server-side filtering, especially tagged mail produced by Spamassassin :) Many thanks Steve

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[Dovecot] State of the FTS modules and packaging
by Benjamin Podszun 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

Hi there. I'm running a small (VPS) mail system just for myself for quite a while and want to support some friends and family now. For that I'm improving / documenting the setup. One thing I never cared to implement was FTS support. Looking at the options [1] now, I'm stuck. I don't want solr (no Java bashing here, I'm sure that's working awesome. But I don't want to pull all these dependencies in on my tiny VPS: Memory and disk will be as small as I can get away with). With that out of the way: What are my options? Squat: Why's squat deprecated? Did it stop working? Can someone shed some light on the original reasons for the deprecation? What are the risks to go with squat anyway? Clucene: That seems .. unusable. It would be my prefered choice (not deprecated, little dependencies), but .. it isn't packaged in deb based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu). It doesn't even _build_, because it doesn't use pkg-config to find the clucene includes (at least for 2.1.17) in these environments. Centos is even more out of date with 2.0.9. Given the experience above, is solr my only option to offer FTS? Can you guys share how you're having a stable base/os with a somewhat recent (and complete!) dovecot package? Thanks a lot & regards, Ben 1: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS

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[Dovecot] Dovecot namespace solved while writing; preparing to refilter
by miro.rovis＠croatiafidelis.hr 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

Since I still have to send mail from web, I may not be able to get this message as a reply to my previous mail, but it belongs to this same thread: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-October/092810.html Some of the work I have now done. I can now easily, lest some hurdle shows up, use a script based on the one I mentioned (here it is again: http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/RefilterMail ), but I used maildrop, having harkened to the advice by the author of Debian Reference, Osamu Aoki: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch06.en.html#_the_remote… http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch06.en.html#_mail_deliv… So while, after connecting with the password, I wait some 5 or 10 minutes (the machines I install/clone Debian onto are old machines) for all the mail from the other Dovecot on the other machine, same MBO and all, as I explained in the previous message, again; I am preparing this before going online, I haven't see if there are any replies in the last maybe 40 hours)... me@mybox2:~$ getmail getmail version 4.43.0 Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:me@mybox1.myfantasydomain:993: read_all and not delete -- all messages will be retrieved each time getmail is run SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:me@mybox1.myfantasydomain:993: Enter password for SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:me@mybox1.myfantasydomain:993: The: me@mybox2:~$ getmail command that I issued has just churned out all the 2945 messages into my homefolder here. And this is the previously prepared ----%<-------------------------------------------------------- $ cat ~/.getmail/getmailrc [retriever] type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever server = mybox1.myfantasydomain username = mr mailboxes= ALL [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/bin/maildrop unixfrom = True [options] verbose = 2 delete = False read_all = True delivered_to = False message_log = ~/.getmail/Mrinet_refilter.log ----%<-------------------------------------------------------- Not much talk needed about the getmailrc above, because it's all in the getmail manual, faq, and places. Sure, I also, prepared .mailfilter, for the maildrop, the fine program that nicely put all mails where I decided I wanted them! ----%<-------------------------------------------------------- $ cat ~/.mailfilter # ~/.mailfilter # based on: # http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html TYPE="maildir" logfile "$HOME/.mailfilter.log" ECHO="/bin/echo" MAIL="/usr/bin/mail" MAILDIRMAKE="/usr/bin/maildirmake" REFORMAIL="/usr/bin/reformail" MBOX=($TYPE =~ /mbox/) MAILDIR=($TYPE =~ /maildir/) # use mbox by default DEFAULT="$HOME/mail" FOLDERS="$DEFAULT/" if ( $MAILDIR ) { DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir" FOLDERS="$DEFAULT/." } if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS} folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } # filter out duplicate messages `${REFORMAIL} -D 8192 $HOME/.duplicate.cache` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { log "File: (duplicate) ($SIZE)\n" exit } if (/^(To|Cc|Envelope-To|Delivered-To):.*(miro\.rovis@croatiafidelis\.hr)/) { MYFOLDERDOT="$MATCH2" MYFOLDER=`echo $MYFOLDERDOT|sed 's/\.//g'` if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "$MYFOLDER" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } # handle mailing list messages automatically if ( /^List-Id:.*<([0-9A-Za-z_\.\-]+)/ ) { LISTNAMEDOT="$MATCH1" LISTNAME=`echo $LISTNAMEDOT|sed 's/\.//g'` # don't create a folder for Mailman status messages, just deliver them if ( $LISTNAME =~ /Mailman/ ) to $DEFAULT if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "$MYFOLDER.$LISTNAME" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER.$LISTNAME list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } to ${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER.$LISTNAME } to ${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER } if (/^(To|Cc|Envelope-To|Delivered-To):.*(m.rovis@inet\.hr)/) { MYFOLDERDOT="$MATCH2" MYFOLDER=`echo $MYFOLDERDOT|sed 's/\.//g'` if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "$MYFOLDER" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } if (/^Return-Path:.*@(facebookmail\.com)/) { MY2FOLDERDOT="$MATCH1" MY2FOLDER=`echo $MY2FOLDERDOT|sed 's/\.//g'` if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER}" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER} list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } # handle Facebook groups/lists messages automatically if ( /^List-Id:.*<([0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)\.+/ ) { LIST2NAME="$MATCH1" # don't create a folder for Mailman status messages, just deliver them if ( $LIST2NAME =~ /Mailman/ ) to $DEFAULT if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER}.$LIST2NAME" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER}.$LIST2NAME list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } to ${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER}.$LIST2NAME } to ${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.$MY2FOLDER } if (/^(To|From):.*(childrenofmedugorje@gmail\.com)/) { MY2FOLDERDOT="$MATCH2" MY2FOLDER=`echo $MY2FOLDERDOT|sed 's/\.//g'` if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER}" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER} list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } to ${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.$MY2FOLDER } if ( /^From:\s*EWTN\s*<(wings(a)ewtn.com)>/ ) { MY2FOLDERDOT="$MATCH1" MY2FOLDER=`echo $MY2FOLDERDOT|sed 's/\.//g'` if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER}" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.${MY2FOLDER} list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } to ${FOLDERS}${MYFOLDER}.$MY2FOLDER } # handle mailing list messages automatically if ( /^List-Id:.*<([0-9A-Za-z_\.\-]+)/ ) { LISTNAMEDOT="$MATCH1" LISTNAME=`echo $LISTNAMEDOT|sed 's/\.//g'` # don't create a folder for Mailman status messages, just deliver them if ( $LISTNAME =~ /Mailman/ ) to $DEFAULT if ( $MAILDIR ) { `${MAILDIRMAKE} -f "$MYFOLDER.$LISTNAME" "$DEFAULT"` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { # notify the user when new folders are created NEWFOLDERMSG="${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER.$LISTNAME list folder created" `${ECHO} "$NEWFOLDERMSG" | ${MAIL} -s "$NEWFOLDERMSG" $LOGNAME` } } to ${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER.$LISTNAME } to ${FOLDERS}$MYFOLDER } ----%<-------------------------------------------------------- Here is my .muttrc, to show nearly all the components of my setup, which I hope to be using for mail.. I really understand only now, that the basis is really e-mail, not the browsers, or other things, for the life on the internet... That the basis is really e-mail these days on Russia Today said also Ladar Levison, the Lavabit.com founder that fought for his users' privacy all the way to losing his business. I admire people of such integrity and humanity! Not like the Canadian Hushmail which sold NSA's whistleblower Thomas Drake... Who says I don't like people from NSA. I highly regard him, and Ross Tice, and some others! It's the usual perception most of people have, that email is less important/less advanced, whatnot, not just me, but not delving into it here. I'm yet to see if my "broader picture" provoked any angry reactions... (Note while proofreading: No reactions, neither good nor bad, I just saw.) But I hope this will be technical enough now and to the completion of this thread... I haven't found anywhere other then on the www.wonkity.com, the address that I gave above, examples for maildrop, so I hope other users will find mine useful, which will be source of content for me... I invested time and effort to arrange those lines. Just let me give you the .muttrc (and completely without the unrelated settings for this story), because the dominant talk is about the maildrop, not the other two configuration files. ----%<-------------------------------------------------------- $ cat ~/.muttrc set mbox_type="maildir" set spoolfile=imaps://me@mybox2/ set folder=imaps://me@mybox2/ set ssl_starttls=yes set ssl_force_tls=yes set imap_passive ----%<-------------------------------------------------------- What I got with that maildrop in my Dovecot, and it would need some functions set, because I used too much pastion to get same work repeated on different input, but I don't know hot to do it, and it is by no means urgent, since I achived all the refiltering and in the way I wanted it, is I decided I wanted all mail in folders by the e-mail address by which I recieve them, and used the usual List-Id header to sort mails into up to two levels deeper, exactly for the famous yukky Stasimail, oh, sorry! I meant zucky Facebookmail. Also it would be great to check for existance of a foled before attemting to create it... It hasn't been yet urgent to me, and I am rather exhausted now, not only from this coding, but also because I got the tumbleweed pollen allergy (American native plant, brought here as ornamental plant in Columbo's time, but nauseating/suffocating (but rarely to death), fever causing to lots of people in Europe, through allergy, so I was also bed-ridden much of the time... and I am not well neither as I am writing this, so not much of proofreading before sending this. And to check for existance I guess it's with ... ~= ( some expression) of folders, so not to get an error on every fail attempt at creating folders as Warren Block explained here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html#_em_maildir_em_compa… , and maybe improve those lines by using some foreach loop or some such means... Ah, notice that I start with no folder whatsoever, neither mbox not maildir type, I let the script do it all in my /home/mr! The .mailfilter settings above for maildrop upon completion of refiltering gave me, in my mutt, not going back to no GUIs no more, thanx so kindly!, but no love lost there, with all your Java and Javascript and stinking popup windows out of nowhere and rummiging in my machine which I in no way provoked, let alone initiated, and most certainly not acquiesced to... So this is, with a few copy-pastes (just the Mutt fine colors will be missing): y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP + INBOX/ 2 IMAP + mirorovis@croatiafidelishr/ 3 IMAP + mirovis@inethr/ 4 IMAP + mrovis@inethr/ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ / / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ -- Mutt: Directory [imaps://me@mybox2/], File mask: !^\.[^.] y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP ../ 2 IMAP dovecotdovecotorg /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ / / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ -- Mutt: Directory [=mirorovis@croatiafidelishr/], File mask: !^\.[^.] y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP ../ 2 IMAP dmo-discussiondeb-multimediaorg 3 IMAP gnewsense-usersnongnuorg 4 IMAP helpdeskiskonhr /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ / / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ -- Mutt: Directory [=mirovis@inethr/], File mask: !^\.[^.] y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP ../ 2 IMAP alsa-userlistssourceforgenet 3 IMAP blfs-supportlinuxfromscratchorg 4 IMAP childrenofmedugorje@gmailcom 5 IMAP cinelerraskolelinuxno 6 IMAP cjeniklosthr 7 IMAP dailydavelistsimmunityinccom 8 IMAP debburn-devellistsaliothdebianorg 9 IMAP + facebookmailcom/ 10 IMAP ffmpeg-userffmpegorg 11 IMAP gnewsense-usersnongnuorg 12 IMAP listalosthr 13 IMAP mencoder-usersmplayerhqhu 14 IMAP mplayer-usersmplayerhqhu 15 IMAP userslistsclaws-mailorg 16 IMAP wings@ewtncom 17 IMAP wireshark-announcewiresharkorg 18 IMAP wireshark-userswiresharkorg /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ -- Mutt: Directory [=mrovis@inethr/], File mask: !^\.[^.] It's this last directory, i.e. this e-mail address that has the most of the folders. So I'll show how I got all the Facebookmail in one folder, and devided by its' groups/lists you name what they are. y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP ../ 2 IMAP 109806486481 3 IMAP 114674985270726 4 IMAP 116954758434576 5 IMAP 132773866800887 6 IMAP 141591592620540 7 IMAP 147623871992079 8 IMAP 148721478521575 9 IMAP 158927160843505 10 IMAP 166374096744320 11 IMAP 177486422318814 12 IMAP 178566045493622 13 IMAP 191938787541916 14 IMAP 195731330459694 15 IMAP 199083346818377 16 IMAP 203424869671315 17 IMAP 248203298232 18 IMAP 259057640810411 19 IMAP 312893169439 20 IMAP 37080471529 21 IMAP 77789534513 22 IMAP australiacroatiaunited 23 IMAP domovinausrcu 24 IMAP hrperoistine 25 IMAP hrvatirimokatolici 26 IMAP hrvatskastraza 27 IMAP nacionalist 28 IMAP stopkrscanofobiji 29 IMAP zakonoovrsi -- Mutt: Directory [=mrovis@inethr/facebookmailcom/], File mask: !^\.[^.] I didn't need any rudimentary ASCII drawing to represent the blank lines cut out, because this is all the Stasi lists/groups here. The fact that some are named in numbers and not in [a-z] is only because that is the first part of the address, before @facebookmail.com part. Not touching that, no need to spend time on those... If there is some user who would like to have any more explanaion on this, I can try and tell more, but I know most of the users here know more and can do better that I, so I leave the talk now. I'll take a few looks back to see if I got any replies, just I can't do it in very frequent periods at all. I also have a few issues probably for the Mutt people to solve, the issues I suspect are with Mutt, but they are not urgent either. And also, not major issue, I tried sticking :DIRNAME=mAildir to the end of my mail_location line, but it simply didn't work, I mean, as per: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir I will try and get the stunnel to get my outgoing mail on the 465 port with TLS, but that is not an issue related here at all I think. Thanks again to you fine developers for these great programs. Timo Sirainen, you are greatly appreciated here, and my respect for your fine country Finland, and for your nation! Miroslav Rovis Zagreb, Croatia

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[Dovecot] fail2ban
by Nick Edwards 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

For dovecot 2.1 as per wiki2, is this still valid? noticed a problem before and saw it does seem to be triggering, I use: maxretry = 6 findtime = 600 bantime = 3600 and there was like, 2400 hits in 4 minutes, it is pointing to the correct log file, but I am no expert with fail2ban, so not sure if the log format of today is compatible with the wiki2 entry filter.d/dovecot.conf [Definition] failregex = (?: pop3-login|imap-login): (?:Authentication failure|Aborted login \(auth failed|Aborted login \(tried to use disabled|Disconnected \(auth failed).*rip=(?P<host>\S*),.* ignoreregex =

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[Dovecot] Fixing Timestamps
by LuKreme 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

I have a user with a lot of email (A LOT of email, probably over 500,000 emails). Recently, several thousand messages of his were lost, and I pulled them out of the backup archives (zip files containing each days emails in an mbox) that are created on his account and fed them into his procmail scripts and they were all processed just fine and ended up in the right directories. Except. The messages were from 6 months back, and the messages now show up in his mail client with the time stamp of the date they were restored, and not the date that shows up in the headers of the message. Anything I can do? -- I AM NOT A LICENSED HAIRSTYLIST Bart chalkboard Ep. AABF04

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[Dovecot] Dovecot sending quota warning to MAILER-DAEMON
by Mathieu R. 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Hello, i'm testing quota now, and dovecot is not sending quota warning to the user, but to MAILER-DAEMON, wich obviously give me an error. here is my 90-quota.conf http://paste.debian.net/50580/ dovecot 2.1.7, on debian stable any idea ? -- Mathieu R.

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[Dovecot] On mailboxes, separators, and dovecot2
by Mauricio Tavares 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

While I was running dovecot 1.2.9, I had my mailboxes using the old Courier IMAP format. i.e. my mailboxes would look like INBOX.Orders.Scams Going to dovecot 2 (but not 2.1), I see to have a few questions: 1) It seems I would device my mailbox thingies in 10-mail.conf: namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = . location = prefix = INBOX. type = private mailbox SPAM { auto=subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto=subscribe special_use = \Trash } mailbox Sent { auto=subscribe special_use = \Sent } } but how would I prepresent my INBOX.Orders.Scams folder? Something like mailbox Orders.Scams { auto=subscribe } perhaps? 2) Reading (am I literate?) through http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces, it seems having separator = . is not only outdated but also a bad idea (but, I had child mailboxes as shown above). Could anybody elaborate one that? And which clients still do LSUB *?

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[Dovecot] version 2.2.6 breaks compiling on Solaris 10 sparc
by Jake Goerzen 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hello, I maintain the dovecot package at opencsw.org. The latest release of dovecot verison 2.2.6 has some changes to lib-http which is breaking compiling on Solaris 10 sparc (though x86 builds successfully). Here is part of the compiler output while building: libtool: compile: /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-dns -I../../src/lib-ssl-iostream -I/opt/csw/include/mysql -I/opt/csw/include/postgresql -I/opt/csw/include -xO3 -m32 -xarch=sparc -I/opt/csw/include -c http-header-parser.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/http-header-parser.o "http-header-parser.c", line 264: warning: statement not reached "http-header-parser.c", line 281: warning: argument #3 is incompatible with prototype: prototype: pointer to unsigned int : "../../src/lib/istream.h", line 152 argument : pointer to unsigned long long "http-header-parser.c", line 317: warning: argument #2 is incompatible with prototype: prototype: pointer to unsigned int : "../../src/lib/buffer.h", line 93 argument : pointer to unsigned long long and then later on a linking error: /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xO3 -m32 -xarch=sparc -I/opt/csw/include -no-undefined -m32 -xarch=sparc -L/opt/csw/lib -o test-http-url test-http-url.o http-url.lo ../lib-test/libtest.la ../lib/liblib.la -export-dynamic -lrt -lnsl -lsocket -lsendfile libtool: link: /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xO3 -m32 -xarch=sparc -I/opt/csw/include -m32 -xarch=sparc -o test-http-url test-http-url.o .libs/http-url.o -L/opt/csw/lib ../lib-test/.libs/libtest.a ../lib/.libs/liblib.a -lrt -lnsl -lsocket -lsendfile Undefined first referenced symbol in file http_header_field_find .libs/http-url.o http_header_field_get .libs/http-url.o http_header_get_fields .libs/http-url.o ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to test-http-url version 2.2.5 and previous releases of dovecot have compiled successfully on both Solaris sparc & x86. Regards, jgoerzen(a)opencsw.org

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[Dovecot] Can sieve filter mail based on emails earlier in the thread?
by Hugh Davenport 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

Basically I want the following scenario: Subscribe to lots of mailing lists - each filtered into separate folders When I participate in a thread (by starting it, replying to it, or ... setting a flag on an email in the thread) - filter into the particular mailing list folder - AND filter into INBOX (or another folder of my choosing) I'm thinking for this, the first two can have rules that take into account In-Reference-To and using my domain. But the third case of using a flag... that seems to require referencing earlier emails in the thread. Is this possible in sieve? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? I believe gmail can do it, but who knows what they use for their filtering... Thanks for any help anyone provides! Cheers, Hugh

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