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[Dovecot] Delete messages with archivemail
by gstyle 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi, I have set up a dovecot imap server (Version 1.0.15 on Debain Lenny). Until know I used courier. Every night I run a script calling archivemail ( http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/) to delete all messages in the Spam folder that are older than 30 days archivemail deletes the files directly in the Maildir folder. I am not using IMAP for this (cause I don't want to store the passwords in plain text). I know that dovecot uses index files to speed up Maildir access. Will there be any problems with the index files when I delete the old spam like this? Cheers Mario

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[Dovecot] v1.2.10 released
by Timo Sirainen 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.10.tar.gz.sig The Maildir bugs were common for everyone, although only NFS users seemed to notice for some reason. + %variables now support %{host}, %{pid} and %{env:ENVIRONMENT_NAME} everywhere. + LIST-STATUS capability is now advertised - maildir: Fixed several assert-crashes. - imap: LIST "" inbox shouldn't crash when using namespace with "INBOX." prefix. - lazy_expunge now ignores non-private namespaces.

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[Dovecot] authentication with userdb and passdb fails
by Jure Lozar 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hello I cannot retrieve mail via pop3 using dovecot. I have mail in my mailbox (postfix works fine, maildir contains more then 5 mail files), I use virtual user. I also changed auth to plaintext for debugging purpuse. server: Dovecot 1.0.7 CenoOS 5.4 client: Thunderbird on Kubuntu, username: jure(a)hrabri.org pass:jure I tried different parameters and was closest to success with this: Relevant parts from dovecot.conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain login CRAM-MD5 userdb passwd-file { args = /home/vmail/%d/passwd } passdb passwd-file { args = /home/vmail/%d/shadow } log: Jan 24 16:23:49 hermes dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=3304 Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=::ffff:192.168.0.144 rip=::ffff:192.168.0.112 resp= Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGp1cmVAaHJhYnJpLm9yZwBqdXJl Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /home/vmail/hrabri.org/shadow: Read 1 users Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(jure@hrabri.org,::ffff:192.168.0.112): lookup: user=jure file=/home/vmail/hrabri.org/shadow Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=jure(a)hrabri.org Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 3300 1 Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): passwd(jure@hrabri.org,::ffff:192.168.0.112): lookup Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): passwd(jure@hrabri.org,::ffff:192.168.0.112): unknown user Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /home/vmail/hrabri.org/passwd: Read 1 users Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(jure@hrabri.org,::ffff:192.168.0.112): lookup: user=jure file=/home/vmail/hrabri.org/passwd Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 jure(a)hrabri.org uid=501 gid=501 home=/home/vmail/hrabri.org/var/spool/mail/jure Jan 24 16:23:51 hermes dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jure(a)hrabri.org>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.0.112, lip=::ffff:192.168.0.144 Jan 24 16:23:52 hermes dovecot: POP3(jure(a)hrabri.org): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 I don't really understand this log. Is says Client out: OK, and then unknown user. Where? In passwd file? Adding domainname after username in passwd only makes it worse. And why master in? I did not configure master user. Thanks for any help. Jure

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[Dovecot] pop3+leave messages on server
by Papp Tamas 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

hi All, I have a srange problem. Before dovecot there was a courier imap and it worked just fine. The client(s) are the same then before, so I think, this is an server side problem. I have a user with Outlook and he uses pop3 and leaves messages on server. Sometimes the messages get downloaded again, when he starts the outlook. Not all, but 7-9 hours back. uidl format is like it's suggested: pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv Any idea, what's wrong and what I can do? Thank you very much, tamas

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[Dovecot] strange behaviour with seen/unseen messages in virtual folders.
by Matthias Rieber 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hi, I've a virtual folder that contains unseen messages. When I mark the message and expunge the folder, the message should disappear. This works as expected in alpine. Alpine uses the following commands: 06000010 STORE 1 +Flags (\SEEN) 06000020 EXPUNGE Using roundcube mail, the message wont disappear, when I perform the same steps. RoundCube Mails sends: flg UID STORE 445 +FLAGS (\Seen) exp1 EXPUNGE But the message doesn't dissapear. But I can expunge it with alpine, as long as the folder contains one message. If it contains more messages, some or even all messages won't disappear. When I mark them as unseen/seen in alpine, I can expunge them with alpine. The expunge command send by roundcube mail never expunges any seen message in the unseen folder. Whether it was flagged as seen by alpine nor roundcube mail. kind regards, matthias

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[Dovecot] Need simplest method for providing alternate mail location
by Stewart Dean 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

I am looking to migrate my DC V1.2 from mbox to maildir format....and want to do this in stages, user group by user group rather than in one horrendous fell swoop....since I'd rather fell things didn't happen. Since I'm running sendmail/procmail, I can change the ~/.procmailrc to change the writing of the INBOX, but the IMAP mail location access info is knottier when one wants to do things a bit at a time. Setting aside for now the matter of converting existing folders, I will be moving: = from a mbox setup with the INBOX in /var/spool/mail/<userid> and the folders in ~/mail = to both in ~/Maildir (unless someone has better ideas) It seems that one could: 1) Change the namespaces in the client...but this is not feasible, because it would means going out to all my 4000+ users desktop and modifying them. 2) Having some sort of db to tell DC it a mail_userdb extra field and override the mail_location in dovecot.conf 3) Perhaps waiting for DC v2.0 which will have this architected in. A) Is there any sense the v2.0 will be coming Real Soon Now and will fulfill #3? B) What's the simplest way to implement #2? I would really rather not install MySQL on my mail server and have all the overhead of installing and managing it when all I need it for is a temporary resource to tell DC where things are until the switchover is complete and Maildir is the default. Is it feasible to do this with an additional flat file in the /etc/passwd mode with some extra fields tacked on that is *only* used for mail location info? Or some other and simple way? My apologies if this is a Stupid Question............. -- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Compilation error
by Heiko Schlichting 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hi, the latest revision of dovecot 1.1 tree (576020ceda60) produces errors during compilation on Debian Lenny: [...] Making all in quota make[4]: Entering directory `/scratch/heiko/dovecot/dovecot-1-1-576020ceda60/src/plugins/quota' if /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT quota-storage.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/quota-storage.Tpo" -c -o quota-storage.lo quota-storage.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/quota-storage.Tpo" ".deps/quota-storage.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/quota-storage.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT quota-storage.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-storage.Tpo -c quota-storage.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-storage.o quota-storage.c: In function 'quota_mailbox_sync_notify': quota-storage.c:339: error: 'namespaces' undeclared (first use in this function) quota-storage.c:339: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once quota-storage.c:339: error: for each function it appears in.) Previous revision (af6526158608, 1.1.20) compiles without problems. Heiko Heiko Schlichting Freie Universität Berlin heiko(a)CIS.FU-Berlin.DE Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung (ZEDAT) Telefon +49 30 838-54327 Fabeckstraße 32 Telefax +49 30 838454327 14195 Berlin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2 & Thunderbird 3.0
by Proskurin Kirill 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hello. After updating to TB-3.0 I notice what sometimes messages in IMAP folder lost "seen flag". Entire folder star to be unseen fully. It happen often then I chose(click on it) some folder . Has some one have this bug too? root@mail [~]dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p7 i386 ufs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/GlobalSignCA.crt ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/fxclub_org.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/fxclub_org.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_process_size: 128 login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 512 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 256 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 256 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: dmail mail_gid: dmail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota autocreate mail_log mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota autocreate mail_log mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)fxclub.org hostname: mail.fxclub.org mail_plugins: sieve quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda quota_full_tempfail: yes deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ %f %s log_path: /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: dovecot-auth username_format: %Lu worker_max_count: 100 passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: exim master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: dmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=1024M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=1256M quota_rule3: SPAM:ignore quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Spam autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Spam sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_global_path: /var/spool/dovecot/global.sieve mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 -- Best regards. Proskurin Kirill

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[Dovecot] SpamAssassin and i;ascii-numeric comparator
by Julian Cowley 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hi Stephan, I noticed that you changed i;ascii-numeric comparator recently (<http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve/rev/17fb38aee85f>) to correct a small bug. I have an interest in this because I use the comparator to check for SpamAssassin scores. Before the fix, this was all that was necessary to check for scores above a certain value: header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "X-Spam-Score" "5" Since SpamAssassin includes negative scores and the i;ascii-numeric comparator doesn't recognize negative numbers, all negative scores are actually treated as positive infinity after the fix. Of course, this means mail which has a negative score then gets counted as spam. Now an additional test is necessary, something like this: allof(not header :matches "X-Spam-Score" "-*", header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "X-Spam-Score" "5") I thought I'd mention this because other people may get affected by this once 0.1.15 comes out. Here is a patch that makes further tests for the comparator between numeric and non-numeric values. Hope you can use it. -=- julian

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[Dovecot] how to create maildir on local mail delivery
by Sebastian Logar 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hi! I am using Dovecot 1.0.10 with LDA/postfix option reading user data from ldap, but the problem would be nonexistent maildir. Connection with ldap should be fine since reading proper maildir folder. Is it possible to auto creating maildir folders even on received mail since the you can auto create when user login with mail_executable scripts as it's seen from configuration I am doing for pop3 and imap. Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot postfix/qmgr[14579]: 75AADD212F: from=<someuser(a)domain.tld>, size=354, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): auth input: erikp Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): auth input: home=/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/www Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): auth input: uid=5000 Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): auth input: gid=5000 Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): auth input: mail=/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir/ Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): auth input: quota=maildir:storage=100000000 Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): Home dir not found: /nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/www Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): maildir autodetect: stat(/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir//cur) failed: No such file or directory Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): mbox autodetect: data=/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir/ Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat(/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir/) failed: No such file or directory Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat(/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir//.imap) failed: No such file or directory Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat(/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir//inbox) failed: No such file or directory Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat(/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir//mbox) failed: No such file or directory Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir/ (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot deliver(erikp): Failed to create storage for 'erikp' with mail '/nas/5b/7d/5f/erikp/Maildir/' Jan 23 00:23:17 dovecot postfix/pipe[15537]: 75AADD212F: to=<erikp(a)somelocaldomain.tld>, relay=dovecot, delay=2146, delays=2146/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) dovecot -n # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 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 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap.sh mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap.sh mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3.sh 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 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:storage=100000 Regards, Sebastian

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