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[Dovecot] unlinking
by David Halik 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Quick question. How important are these? Are the errors recoverable and not a big deal, or are they actually a problem? I see a few of these randomly over the course of the day. Jan 15 10:04:04 gehenna13.rutgers.edu dovecot: IMAP(user): unlink(/rci/nqu/rci/u8/user/dovecot/.such and such maildir/.nfs00000000001e951000002b8d) failed: Device or resource busy Jan 15 10:04:04 gehenna13.rutgers.edu dovecot: IMAP(user): unlink(/rci/nqu/rci/u8/user/dovecot/.such and such maildir/.nfs00000000001e951000002b8d) failed: Device or resource busy Jan 15 10:04:04 gehenna13.rutgers.edu dovecot: IMAP(user): unlink_directory(/rci/nqu/rci/u8/user/dovecot/.such and such maildir) failed: Device or resource busy Jan 15 10:04:04 gehenna13.rutgers.edu dovecot: IMAP(user): unlink_directory(/rci/nqu/rci/u8/user/dovecot/.such and such maildir) failed: Device or resource busy -- ================================ David Halik System Administrator OIT-CSS Rutgers University dhalik(a)jla.rutgers.edu ================================

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[Dovecot] Strange permission problem with Maildir
by tkin1t3asy 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

I have this very strange problem with Dovecot spitting out a file permissions error but further testing seems to show it being an inaccurate message. POP3(username): maildir: data ~/Maildir POP3(username): maildir++: root =/home/ssb201/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/ssb201/Maildir POP3(username): stat(/home/username/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(username) egid=500(username) missing +x perm: /home/username/Maildir) POP3(username): Couldn't open INBOX... as you can see below the permissions are correct: root@host:/home/username# ls -al Maildir/ total 744 drwx------ 8 username username 220 2010-01-13 06:27 . drwxr-xr-x 18 username username 80 2010-01-13 06:14 .. drwx------ 2 username username 108480 2010-01-14 20:56 cur -rw------- 1 username username 65272 2010-01-14 20:56 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 username username 382976 2010-01-14 20:56 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 username username 6836 2010-01-14 20:56 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 username username 309472 2010-01-14 20:56 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 username username 8 2010-01-14 20:56 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 username username 0 2010-01-14 20:56 dovecot-uidvalidity.4a090e80 drwx------ 2 username username 40 2010-01-14 20:56 new drwx------ 2 username username 40 2010-01-14 20:56 tmp if I rename ~/Maildir to ~/Maildir.orig and let dovecot create a new directory it works fine with no errors. root@host:/home/username# ls -al Maildir total 28 drwx------ 5 username username 220 2010-01-14 21:19 . drwxr-xr-x 19 username username 100 2010-01-14 21:19 .. drwx------ 2 username username 40 2010-01-14 21:19 cur -rw------- 1 username username 16384 2010-01-14 21:19 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 username username 468 2010-01-14 21:19 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 username username 70 2010-01-14 21:19 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 username username 8 2010-01-14 21:19 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 username username 0 2010-01-14 21:19 dovecot-uidvalidity.4b4f8a6e drwx------ 2 username username 60 2010-01-14 21:19 new drwx------ 2 username username 40 2010-01-14 21:19 tmp If I rename the newly created ~/Maildir to ~/Maildir.new, and rename ~/Maildir.orig to ~/Maildir the original directory works now with no "+x perm" error. This would seem to imply that dovecot is modifying something, somewhere else on the system when it creates the mail directory. What could this be? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Strange-permission-problem-with-Maildir-tp27168284p27… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] how-to use dsync to do a 2 ways replication ?
by Eric Belhomme 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I want to set-up two dovecot imap servers, with active-active replicated maildirs. The goal is to have a hosted public server on Internet, and a private server on my LAN to speed-up local connections. So I compiled dovecot 2.0 beta 1 in order to use dsync utility... Actually my config is pretty simple as I just want to setup a proof of concept before going ahead in this way : (Both servers are Debian Lenny with excatly the same config) mail0:~# /usr/local/dovecot2/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.beta1: /etc/dovecot2/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.3 auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes login_trusted_networks = 172.16.64.0/18 mail_location = maildir:%h passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/userpasswd deny = no driver = passwd-file } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com service pop3-login { inet_listener { port = 110 } inet_listener { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service imap-login { inet_listener { port = 143 } inet_listener { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/userpasswd driver = passwd-file } I logged on the first server with an IMAP client then I copied many email through IMAP, then I launched dsync as root : /usr/local/dovecot2/bin/dsync -v mirror 'ssh eole.it.fr.eve /usr/local/dovecot2/bin/dsync' root(a)eole.it.fr.eve's password: dsync-local(root): Error: Can't create mailbox ssh: Mailbox already exists dsync-local(root): Error: Can't create mailbox aptitude: Mailbox already exists dsync-local(root): Error: Can't create mailbox debtags: Mailbox already exists dsync-local(root): Info: debtags: only in source dsync-local(root): Info: aptitude: only in source dsync-local(root): Info: ssh: only in source dsync-local(root): Info: ssh: only in dest dsync-local(root): Info: aptitude: only in dest dsync-local(root): Info: debtags: only in dest dsync-local(root): Error: Mailbox ssh changed its GUID (cdfc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865 -> 541e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273) dsync-local(root): Error: msg iteration failed: Couldn't open mailbox dsync-remote(root): Error: Can't create mailbox debtags: Mailbox already exists dsync-remote(root): Error: Can't create mailbox aptitude: Mailbox already exists dsync-remote(root): Error: Can't create mailbox ssh: Mailbox already exists dsync-remote(root): Error: Mailbox debtags changed its GUID (501e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273 -> d1fc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865) dsync-remote(root): Error: msg iteration failed: Couldn't open mailbox dsync-remote(root): Error: command MSG-LIST failed dsync-local(root): Error: Mailbox ssh changed its GUID (cdfc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865 -> 541e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273) dsync-local(root): Error: Mailbox aptitude changed its GUID (cffc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865 -> 521e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273) dsync-local(root): Error: Mailbox debtags changed its GUID (d1fc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865 -> 501e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273) dsync-local(root): Error: Mailbox ssh changed its GUID (cdfc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865 -> 541e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273) dsync-local(root): Error: Mailbox aptitude changed its GUID (cffc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865 -> 521e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273) dsync-local(root): Error: Mailbox debtags changed its GUID (d1fc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865 -> 501e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273) mail0:~# dsync-remote(root): Error: Mailbox debtags changed its GUID (501e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273 -> d1fc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865) dsync-remote(root): Error: Mailbox aptitude changed its GUID (521e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273 -> cffc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865) dsync-remote(root): Error: Mailbox ssh changed its GUID (541e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273 -> cdfc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865) dsync-remote(root): Error: Mailbox debtags changed its GUID (501e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273 -> d1fc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865) dsync-remote(root): Error: Mailbox aptitude changed its GUID (521e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273 -> cffc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865) dsync-remote(root): Error: Mailbox ssh changed its GUID (541e9f2850234e4b3a2b0000d0cf7273 -> cdfc9a2d85154e4b47180000b31a5865) It seems dsync tries to use my system user database instead of the /etc/dovecot/userpasswd file ! I found dsync doc on the wiki at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/dsync but this is not really clear for me... So maybe someone can tell me what's wrong ? Regards, -- Eric Belhomme

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[Dovecot] Adding support for a new storage format - plugin?
by Brad Hards 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I've spent a little bit of time looking at the dovecot source (from the unstable 2.0 development tree), and I think I'm starting to get it together... Background: I'm interested in dovecot to provide IMAP access to an existing database backed server store (http://www.openchange.org for more details). The goal is to provide parallel access using either IMAP or the exchange RPC protocol. If I understand this stuff: * I can potentially provide access to the store using a plugin. It looks like the virtual mailbox plugin is a potential example here. * I may need to also provide an authentication plugin (not sure whether I can just re-use the existing ldap backend - quite possibly a useful option in my scenario) * I probably can't use the existing SQL code, since it uses its own schema. * I may need to provide some locking to ensure things are always in a consistent state for both IMAP and exchange RPC. Comments? Suggestions? Brad

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[Dovecot] listen to imap*s* on multiple ports?
by Frank Cusack 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

<http://wiki.dovecot.org/QuestionsAndAnswers#Is_it_possible_to_have_Dovecot_…> is out of date. How can I listen to ssl-wrapped IMAP on multiple ports? I need to listen on both 993 (for some stupid clients I have to support that can't do START TLS) and 80 (to get past L3/L4 firewalls). I'd like to do it in dovecot rather than use nc, ipfilter or whatever. -frank

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[Dovecot] handling filename of compressed messages
by Leonardo Rodrigues 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

i'm running dovecot 1.2.9 and, among other things, i have the zlib plugin enabled. A shell script runs once a day to compresses all not still compressed files on the users maildirs. so far so good, it works fine, there's no problem on that. what i think is not happening 100% correctly is the following: 1) user receives a message 2) BEFORE the compress routine runs, filename is: new/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207 3) AFTER the compress routine, filename is now: new/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207.gz 4) user check his mail .... and now the filename is cur/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207.gz:2,S 5) user replies that mail .... and now the filename is cur/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207.gz:2,RS i'm aware that dovecot doesnt need the '.gz' extension on the file to recognize that as a gzipped file. Even without the .gz extension, dovecot is correctly reading the file. the '.gz' is not even necessary on the filename and still dovecot can handle it fine. anyway, i would like to suggest dovecot to handle the filename to keep the .gz extension, if that exists. This could help sysadmins to easily identify gzipped files on the maildirs and make anything with them, if that's desired. i would like to see dovecot changing filenames properly and keeping the .gz extension always, for example cur/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207:2,S.gz instead of cur/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207.gz:2,S cur/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207:2,RS.gz instead of cur/1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207.gz:2,RS -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes(a)solutti.com.br My SPAMTRAP, do not email it

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[Dovecot] sieve: failed to save binary
by wenjie zheng 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

RHEL 5.3 Dovecot 2.0 beta1 dovecot-sieve (updated 1 week ago, changeset a3eb0b0b2ddf) Jan 15 11:30:06 mail4a dovecot: lmtp(31015, testmail4a2(a)dev.p4nt5.com) sieve: using sieve path for user's script: /data/mail/de/ dev.p4nt5.com/te/testmail4a2/.dovecot.sieve Jan 15 11:30:06 mail4a dovecot: lmtp(31015, testmail4a2(a)dev.p4nt5.com) sieve: executed before user's script(1): /etc/dovecot/dovecot-global-sieve.sieve Jan 15 11:30:06 mail4a dovecot: lmtp(31015, testmail4a2(a)dev.p4nt5.com) afEDDB6mUEsneQAA0TR52A: sieve: failed to save binary: open(/etc/dovecot/dovecot-global-sieve.svbinmail4a.31015.) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(virtual) egid=5000(virtual) missing +w perm: /etc/dovecot) It seems that Dovecot wants to save it as something specific with a different name. Even running sievec manually does not make it work. Thanks, Wenjie

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[Dovecot] Moving
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

I'm moving back to Finland tomorrow. It's probably going to take a week or so until things settle down and I'm again back to coding.

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[Dovecot] shared namespace bug?
by Patrick Kaiser 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hi, finally i got shared namespace up and running. But for example if user peter.griffin shares his inbox to another user, the LIST "" "*" output on telnet looks like: a02 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\Noselect) "/" "shared/peter.griffi" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "shared/peter.griffin" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "shared/peter.griffinINBOX" a02 OK List completed. To share the inbox I previously run as logged in user peter.griffin a02 SETACL inbox peter.griffin lwxrk If I look in thunderbird, i can see under "share" two folders: peter.griffi and peter.griffin. Have i made something wrong, or is this a bug? Hope someone can help me. thanks, patrick -- Name : Patrick Kaiser Email : patrick.kaiser(a)argonius.de Phone : +49 (178) 8452388 Website : http://www.argonius.de GPG Key : http://www.argonius.de/key.pub

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[Dovecot] uw-imap compatability hack?
by Simon Annetts 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hi all Apologies if this question has already been asked before... I'm migrating from a uw-imap setup where the mail folders were in a subdir mail/ in the users' home directories. All of the clients are configured with 'IMAP server directory' set to mail/ (Thunderbird) and it would be difficult to change this on the clients (there are 1000s of them) I want to use maildir and I have converted the original mbox files in ~mail/ to maildir format. So in ~Maildir/ I now have: cur dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log dovecot-uidlist .Drafts new .Sent-Items .Spam subscriptions tmp .Trash if I remove the mail/ setting from 'IMAP server directory' in the client, then everything works as expected and all the folders are visible. With this setting in however, only the inbox is visible and attempts to click on another folder, say Trash result in the client error: Mailbox doesn't exist .mail.Trash I've tried various namespace configurations I found in the namespaces wiki example but none seem to work. What I would really like to happen is for dovecot to ignore this setting supplied by the client and not to prepend .mail onto the folders it is looking for. Is there a clever namespace that will do this for me, or some other setting or symlink trickery? Ultimately I want to support clients that might have both mail/ and nothing set in this box. Using dovecot 1.07. kind regards Simon -- This e-mail and any attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify me immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Ateb Ltd, unless specifically stated. Mae'r e-bost hwn ac unrhyw atodiad sydd ynghlwm wrtho, yn gyfrinachol. Os yw wedi eich cyrraedd mewn camgymeriad dilëwch ef oddi ar eich system. Peidiwch â defnyddio na datgelu'r wybodaeth mewn unrhyw ffordd a rhowch wybod imi ar unwaith os gwelwch yn dda. Gall y neges gynnwys barn bersonol nad yw o anghenraid yn farn Ateb Cyf, oni ddywedir hynny'n benodol. *********************************** Ateb Ltd. Company No. 3769059 VAT No. 736568987 Registered Address: Marteg House, St. Harmon, Rhayader, Powys LD6 5LG T: 01597 870329 M: 07932 014055 ***********************************

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