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[Dovecot] dovecot: auth(default): Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: Permission denied
by Kevin P. McDonough 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello, I have been searching all day for help on an issue I am having after installing and just having begun to configure dovecot. Whenever I try to start the dovecot daemon I receive the following errors in the syslog: Apr 4 13:15:03 ***** dovecot: auth(default): Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: Permission denied Apr 4 13:15:03 *****dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down Now, I have gone through the config file (see below) trying various settings for auth including running it as root and as vmail. I have tried a number of permutations for the permissions and ownership on the file specified above from 600 root -> 777 vmail and everything in between, yet always the same issue. If I rename the file and try to start dovecot it notices that the file is missing and gives an appropriate error. I cannot figure out how the permissions can be wrong on the file, I am starting to assume it is a problem elsewhere. (One other note, I was initially getting an error regarding the rawlog permissions, and just removed the rawlog part of the IMAP config to work around that). ---cut--- *****:~ # l /etc/dovecot/ total 160 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 14:18 ./ drwxr-xr-x 98 root root 12288 Apr 4 17:41 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52110 Apr 4 14:18 dovecot.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51576 Mar 16 13:31 dovecot.conf~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-db-example.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 782 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-dict-sql-example.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4986 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-ldap-example.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5589 Apr 4 13:25 dovecot-sql.backup -rw------- 1 root root 5589 Mar 16 13:31 dovecot-sql.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5097 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-sql-example.conf ---cut--- ---cut--- *****:~ # dovecot -n # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Error: setmntent(/etc/mtab) failed: Permission denied # OS: Linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop i686 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 last_valid_gid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com mail_plugins: sieve quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve ---cut--- I just noticed that setmntent error above, I havent seen that anywhere else previously. Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated. Sincerely, Kevin M.

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[Dovecot] squirrelmail doesn't display share
by Eric Broch 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello list, I have dovecot 2.0.11 installed on a client's server and Squirrelmail as the webmail client. I created the share below in dovecot.conf and it appears in Thunderbird and Outlook but not in Squirrelmail. What setting do I need to adjust in order for the share to appear in squirrelmail? Below are dumps of /etc/dovecot.conf and /etc/squirrelmail/local_config.conf # dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects prefix = projects. separator = . type = shared } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail } # cat config_local.php <?php #################### # Local configuration for Qmail Toaster # configure to suit your requirements $hide_sm_attributions = true; $useSendmail = false; $imap_server_type = 'courier'; $optional_delimiter = '.'; $default_folder_prefix = 'INBOX.'; $show_prefix_option = false; $show_contain_subfolders_option = false; $delete_folder = true; $plugins[] = 'calendar'; $plugins[] = 'notes'; $plugins[] = 'filters'; $plugins[] = 'quota_usage'; $plugins[] = 'unsafe_image_rules'; $plugins[] = 'qmailadmin_login'; ?>

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[Dovecot] imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed:
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

My dovecot directors (v2.0.8) had 3 instances of these yesterday: imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) master: Error: service(imap-login): child 17374 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) master: Error: service(imap-login): child 1780 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) master: Error: service(imap-login): child 10349 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) dovecot "assertion failed" normally scares me quite a bit, but I don't think this can be very bad, since it's only on the directors and we're not doing lmtp here yet.. More of a FYI, and please let me know if I should enable something to get better debug data if/when it happens again. -jf

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[Dovecot] Master credentials for sieve
by Edgar Fuß 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Is there a method for using master credentials for sieve only? We sometimes need to install/edit sieve script for some of our users. Currently, we just edit the files on the file server, but that doesn't appear the most sensible way for me

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[Dovecot] Invalid old index files
by Reinhard Vicinus 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hi, i'm in the process of evaluating dovecot. I have a rather big testing environment with four dovecot director frontend instances and four dovecot backend instances. Mailboxes are all in mdbox format and stored on nfs. Indexes are stored locally. dovecot nfs setup for high performance is used (mmap_disable = no, dotlock_use_excl = yes, mail_nfs_storage = yes, mail_nfs_index = no). The remaining problem is, if i disable a backend server and the backend server which took over the connection already has some old index files, this index files aren't updated. If there aren't any index files all is fine and the index files are created anew. I can solve this by regularly deleting old index files via a cronjob. But i'm not sure if i made a configuration mistake and dovecot somehow can detect old index files automatically and invalidate them? Thanks in advance Reinhard

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[Dovecot] is it posible to autocreate imap folders with non ascii chars?
by Igor Zinovik 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello. I'm migrating from cyrus to dovecot and now after i converted mailboxes to Maildir. Some users already has imap folders with cyrillic chars. How could i autocreate folders with cyrillic chars? When i type something like: ... autocreate = utf8_chars autosubscribe = utf8_chars ... In logs i see that dovecot complains: Apr 05 16:21:43 imap(pavelkor): Debug: autocreate: Failed to create mailbox utf8_chars: Invalid mailbox name It is even possible to achieve?

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[Dovecot] Latest Quota Optimizations and Sieve
by Thomas Leuxner 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

With the latest HG Quota code cleanups there seem to be hicups with Sieve/LMTP. Please see excerpt below. Sieve processing fails, though quota is within limits: [...] sieve: info: started log at Apr 05 09:06:36. error: msgid=<20110405070128.315AF3173F0(a)eul0300650.eu.verio.net>: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full). [...] Apr 5 09:06:36 spectre dovecot: lmtp(32005, alias(a)domain.tld) Error: 3X25MXy/mk0FfQAAqZii3w: sieve: script /var/vmail/domains/domains.tld/alias/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /var/vmail/domains/domains.tld/alias/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Fetch User quota: $ doveadm quota get -u alias(a)domain.tld Quota name Type Value Limit % user STORAGE 151085 5242880 2 user MESSAGE 4118 - 0 [ doveconf -n ] # 2.0.11 (230458801916): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.1 auth_verbose = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = acl quota namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = yes location = mdbox:/var/vmail/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/var/vmail/conf.d/%d/acls:cache_secs=300 mail_log_events = expunge mailbox_delete quota = dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/conf.d/%d/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth-worker { user = doveauth } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = doveauth } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 1.2.3.4 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/host_domain_tld_2010.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/host_domain_tld_2010.key syslog_facility = local1 userdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl quota imap_acl imap_quota mail_log notify }

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[Dovecot] Quota has none effect
by Jim Knuth 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello, I have a user who has 153600 kBytes max. storage space. Now, however, he has used already 167396 kBytes and he can receive e-mails and can send. How can this be? # 2.0.11 (0ce50c22f84c): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.29.4 i686 Debian wheezy/sid -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Jim Knuth P.S.: Bitte HTML-Mails! Zufallszitat: Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm - zu langweilen? [Nietzsche]

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[Dovecot] IMAP Client Not Recieving Email (DoveCot + PostFix + IMAP Client)
by ShepN 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

- Postfix is doing its job sending and receiving email. It puts the email in the unix user mailboxes (MBOX). - My Outlook client is authenticating with DoveCot using IMAP protocol without issue. The Problem: The mail that is placed my system users mailbox by postfix is not being transmitted to my outlook client by dovecot. /etc/postfix/main.cf: ------------------------------------------------------------------ smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) biff = no append_dot_mydomain = no readme_directory = no smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key smtpd_use_tls=yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache myhostname = mail.somewhere.org #alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases #alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = somewhere.org, somewhere.home, localhost.home, , localhost mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all relayhost = outgoing.verizon.net:587 smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options= --------------------------------------------------------- dovecot -n -------------------------------------------------------- # 1.2.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-28-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.10 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot userdb: driver: passwd ------------------------------------------------------ I would appreciate any input :) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/IMAP-Client-Not-Recieving-Email-%28DoveCot-%2B-PostFi… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Dsync & random delete problem
by Antoine Millet 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hello, I've updated my home mail server with dovecot 2.0.11 with idea of using dsync to synchronize two master servers (one at home behind an ADSL connection, and another in a DC with a gigabit connection). Dsync is launched every minutes by a cron job for each hosted mailboxes (in Maildir format). Obviously, a lock prevents to launch more than one dsync process at time. On a test mailbox, it worked perfectly, but when I decided to use it on my own mailbox: big drama :-). Some trashed messages reappear after the next sync, by dint of insisting, sometime it are duplicated. Occasionally, the synchronization has the desired effect, but messages reappear few hours later... So, my questions are: * Dsync is it supposed to be used to synchronize two mailboxes on continuously? * Are these problems known? I've found one thread about a random delete problem, so it seem to be? Do you need more informations to debug it? My informations: * Dovecot version: 2.0.11 * Distro: Debian Squeeze amd64 * FS: ext4 * Mailbox format: Maildir * Dsync command: "dsync -u {account} mirror ssh -i /var/vmail/sync/id_vmail -C {dest} dsync -u {account}" * Bug happen randomly, I haven't found a way to reproduce it. * Dovecot configuration: A part in particular is interesting? Thanks in advance, -- Antoine Millet http://inaps.org

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