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[Dovecot] Running auth as root
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I seem to be forced to run the auth proces as root because I want to use pam for local users. My gut feeling says that this is Not Good. Is there another way? For the virtual users 'vmail' is good enough because that user may access the MySQL database. This is on Ubuntu server 10.04.1 and Dovecot 1.2.9. TIA, Egbert Jan

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[Dovecot] Size limit for a single mail in the IMAP store?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Postfix has "message_size_limit = 26214400", but that doesn't keep my users from sending huge messages which canot be sent, but can be stored in the IMAP "Sent" folder. Is it possible to set a size limit for the size of a single mail? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d
by Jerrale G 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

In the shell: ,doveadm(root): Error: User listing returned failure,doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users In the log: dovecot: auth: Error: sql: Iterate query failed: Table 'mail.users' doesn't exist (using built-in default iterate_query: SELECT username, domain FROM users) Why is dovecot trying to "select username, domain from users" when the "service auth" is setup to "select homedir, maildir, sieve_dir, from MAILBOXES.... the same with the password query except for selecting password from mail.mailboxes. The expire dictionary is EXACTLY like the example you posted in the wiki2. I can't remember whether I posted this thread before or not; I remember writing it two days ago but I'm not sure if I sent it as I can't find it in this "mailing lists" folder. Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Is there a way to catch mailbox and message flag changes?
by John O'Brien 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Guys, We have been trying to establish if there is a way to get some type of notification from Dovecot when a message is appended to a mailbox or when a message has its flags updated. These are the 2 use cases: A message is appended to the mailbox "/Watch", we want to trigger "processing" of the message immediately it arrives. A message in the "Inbox" has its status changed from Unseen to Seen, we want to trigger some code to indicate the message has been "processed". Regards, John

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Re: [Dovecot] LDAP & static userdb
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

ive added args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/ mail=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail and it work. Im not really sure about the hole LDAP thing :) my conf: uris = ldaps://ldap.example.org:636 dn = cn=dovecot server,ou=people,ou=Server,dc=example,dc=org dnpass = hiddenpw auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=org scope = subtree user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uid=mail=maildir:/home/%$/mail user_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(|(mail=%u)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%u)(uid=%u))) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(uid=%u)) (yea on 1.2 my home was /home/%uid but that suxx and i want to move it to /home/MAILBOXES/%uid) 1) I have a user that can read the PW so i dont need "auth_bind = yes", right? 2) user_* and pass_* i dont need them anymore cause its always: home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/ mail=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail 2010/8/27 Mihajlin Evgenij <skyworker(a)ooobadm.dp.ua>: > В сообщении от 27 августа 2010 17:32:04 автор spamvoll(a)googlemail.com написал: > >> > log say: >> > dovecot: imap(hpeter): Error: user hpeter: Initialization failed: >> > mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage >> > autodetection failed with home=/home/MAILBOXES/hpeter/mail > > may be try to set into 10-mail.conf or in namespace private (if you have such) > mail_localtion = ~/Maildir > >

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[Dovecot] MainConfig for dovecot 2.0
by Sascha Peters 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hey, for dovecot 1.2 there is a very good reference page for all options. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig is there a reference for dovecot 2.0 in the new wiki? If not, when will be this page online? Thanks a lot. -- Gruß Sascha

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[Dovecot] NTLM authentication does not work
by Alexander Cherniak 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Dear Experts, I configured Samba, Kerberos, etc., can login to my CentOS using ADS account, but missing something in my Dovecot config. Windbind seems to work: [root@aCentOs2 dovecot]# wbinfo -a wAlex%pass plaintext password authentication succeeded challenge/response password authentication succeeded Same is true for ntlm_auth helper: [root@aCentOs2 dovecot]# /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --username=wAlex --password=pass NT_STATUS_OK: Success (0x0) But I couldn't get into Dovecot (with or without auth_use_winbind option): . login wAlex pass . NO [ALERT] Unsupported authentication mechanism. Despite very verbose logging, there no clues there. Bellow's my dovecot -n output: # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = ntlm auth_use_winbind = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot_debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot_info.log log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes driver = static } It might be irrelevant, but although the lines "auth_use_winbind = yes" and "auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth" are close together in the config file, I cannot see the latter when run dovecot -n. I am quite new to Dovecot and will appreciate any help. Thanks, Alex.

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[Dovecot] Possible erroneous "aborted login attempts"
by Jerrale G 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Aug 29 22:51:27 server1 dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=(obfuscated), lip=173.50.101.12, TLS Aug 29 22:51:27 server1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=........... before most every successful login, the same second of time, dovecot has the above message. This is not a huge problem but our firewall is looking for aborted login attempts, for imap/pop3 (relevant to dovecot) dos attempts and, if many people start having problems of their packets being dropped, we will have to stop looking for the statement or lower security slightly, more attempts over a period of time before filtering. However, thanks to your idle feature, there is less of these messages; so, I don't think we will have a problem. The only client that doesn't have a problem is our php webmail but we don't look in dovecot's log for failed attempts from here; as, it is from the same ip, to dovecot from php, constantly without reference to the user. This has been happening since 1.2.11 with us. We don't use any imap relay but was looking into imapproxy for cacheing speed and preventing advanced ddos attempts, those from users with access. Jerrale G. errale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] dovecot lda issue
by Joy 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

I am using dovecot lda and everything is working fine for me except the sieve rule which is built for rejecting mail from a specific sender. message is being rejected but from address is not correct in rejection mail which looks like the following :- <<>@mail.xyz.net> sieve rule :- require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imap4flags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","body","date"]; if address :contains "From" "xyz(a)gmail.com" { reject text: Please do not send mail to me piyush .... . ; } Please let me know where is the issue with sieve rule or with lda setting :- lda has been configured with the following parameter :- postmaster_address = postmaster(a)xyz.net

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[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

> >>>> Hi, >>>> I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works >>>> perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the >>>> application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried >>>> explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I >>>> have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a >>>> solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the >>>> same problem. The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a >>>> corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like: >>>> >>>> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times --- >>>> >>>> where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP >>>> address. For all of the other services I've used, the process name >>>> (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead >>>> of the funny characters. Any advice on how I could resolve this issue >>>> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! >>> >>> >> >> I was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use. I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall works fine with postfix and several file services I use (enabling/disabling works as expected, process names get logged as expected, etc). Thanks! >> >> Patrick > > So, you're running Dovecot and Postfix on a laptop? WTF? > > -- > Stan Hi, Sorry for the confusion--no laptop involved. Postfix, dovecot, etc, all running on intel-based desktop mac (a mac pro). Patrick

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