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[Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox
by Stewart Dean 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox, as I migrate from mbox format to maildir over the space of a month. After everyone is converted to maildir, I'll change the mail_location in dovecot.conf. During the interim, can I use the Custom mailbox location script (at the bottom of the Mail Location DC Wiki page)? > if [ -d $HOME/.maildir ]; then > export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/.maildir > else > export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/$USER > fi > Questions: 1) What does explicitly specifying MAIL this way override? The dovecot.conf mail_location variable? 2) My mail_location var is defined as: mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u and my prospective maildir INBOX and mail folder root is to be ~/Maildir. So would I change the above to: > if [ -d $HOME/Maildir ]; then > export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER > else > export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER: > INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER > fi Question 3: When converting existing users from mbox to maildir, should I delete the index contents? Thanks in advance! dovecot -n output # 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1280 mail_max_userip_connections: 12 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -- ==== 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] index location
by Dave Brenner 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Greetings. We are testing with 1.2.9 and have found that with mail_full_filesystem_access set to 'yes', we cannot force indexes for folders under ~/mail to be stored in /var/dovecot/indexes/%u. /var/dovecot/indexes/%u/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index* is created just fine, but everything else ends up in ~mail/.imap. If I change mail_full_filesystem_access to 'no', then all indexes are created in the expected location: $ ls -la /var/dovecot/indexes/blitz/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 blitz popuser 512 Jan 25 11:46 . drwxrwxr-x 5 root popuser 512 Jan 22 16:16 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 blitz popuser 512 Jan 22 16:16 .imap drwxr-xr-x 3 blitz popuser 512 Jan 25 11:46 mail (I probably need to set the sticky bit for this, but for testing this is OK) We are setting the index location from /etc/passwd-dove: blitz:x:14267:500::/usr/users/dialups/blitz::userdb_mail=mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/%u Is there a way to get this to function the way we'd like, with all indexes stored in /var/dovecot/indexes/u% ? My apologies if I missed an explanation about this in the list archive. Dave

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[Dovecot] Extraneous information
by Michael M. Slusarz 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Not technically a bug, but a small waste of bandwidth: it seems (at least as of 1.2.10) that if neither CONDSTORE/QRESYNC are enabled dovecot still sends HIGHESTMODSEQ info: a examine Testing.AAA * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded impflag0 impflag1 impflag2) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox. * 309 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 5] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1225053009] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 387] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 136] Highest a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. I'm guessing this would only happen if using a client that supports QRESYNC (like IMP) and then switching later to a client that doesn't support.

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[Dovecot] [dovecot] Problems installing managesieve and then managesieve-login
by Jonathan Siegle 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, Software: AIX 5.3 dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole revision 1234:7b3db97399de with dovecot revision 10621:a978089d090b I'm having problems installing managesieve. I modified the Makefile because DESTDIR was not being found. Here is what I changed to make it work: echo " $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) '$$p' '/usr/local/dovecot2.0beta2/bin$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f'"; \ $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) "$$p" "/usr/local/dovecot2.0beta2/bin$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f" || exit 1; \ --- Here is ORIGINAL: echo " $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) '$$p' '$(DESTDIR)$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f'"; \ $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) "$$p" "$(DESTDIR)$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f" || exit 1; \ Here is the error: test -z "" || /usr/local/src/imapservers/dovecothg/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole/install-sh -d "" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/ladmin/bin/install -c 'managesieve' '/managesieve' libtool: install: `' must be an absolute directory name Try `libtool --help --mode=install' for more information. gmake[3]: *** [install-dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS] Error 1 managesieve-login is having the same problem. sieve-tools installed just fine. On my configure line I have: $ ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-2.0 --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot2.0beta2 --with-managesieve=yes Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Not understanding namespaces
by Stewart Dean 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

I have been diligently reading about namespace in the DC doc and what I can find in Google. Like the blind men and the elephant, I see the nature of some individual bits of namespace, some syntax and the overall purpose (overriding defaults and providing extensions), but I don't see the whole thing and how it is used. I am looking to do some maildir testing in what is a mbox default system, so I thought to employ namespace to do so. I see that namespace(s) can be defined in dovecot.conf and I see that it can be defined in TBird (under ServerSettings, Advanced Account Settings), but it isn't clear to me how they are made to work together. Some questions: - Is it that you can define multiple namespaces in dovecot.conf and then specify which of these you use in the TBird server settings? - What is the syntax of the TBird namespace specification? -- ==== 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] lda sieve bug ?
by Lampa 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello, weird lines in dovecot lda log appers: 2010-02-01T13:48:10.108065+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: !!BUG!!: binary compiled from /home/mail/domain.tl/user/.dovecot.sieve is still corrupt; bailing out and reverting to default delivery drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 74 Feb 1 13:13 . drwx------ 1715 vmail vmail 49152 Feb 1 12:32 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 1 13:13 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/redir.sieve -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 496 Feb 1 13:48 .dovecot.svbin drwx------ 13 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 1 12:58 Maildir drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 34 Feb 1 13:13 sieve ls -la sieve/ drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 34 Feb 1 13:13 . drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 74 Feb 1 13:13 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 563 Feb 1 11:37 redir.sieve drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 6 Dec 13 14:30 tmp -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] sieve script
by Lampa 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello, after qmail migration need convert some .procmailrc scripts. Found converter procmail -> sieve, but i'm not sure of quality of conversion. My script: --------------- if header :contains "from" ["user(a)domain1.tld", "user2(a)domain2.tld", "user3(a)domain3.tld"] { redirect "foo1(a)bar.tld"; redirect "foo2(a)bar.tld"; .... redirect "foo20(a)bar.tld"; } else { keep; } --------------- Converter script: --------------- require ["fileinto","regex","envelope","vacation"]; if envelope :comparator "i;octet" :contains "From.*(user@domain1.tld|user2@domain2.tld|user3@domain3.tld)" "" { redirect "foo1(a)bar.tld foo2(a)bar.tld .... foo20(a)bar.tld"; } if true { fileinto "$DEFAULT"; } --------------- Converter script is cannot be compiled. But it used other style envelope. So what is difference between envelope and header ? And there are some limits for redirect ? Thank you. -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] sieve or another vacation/autoreply
by Lampa 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello, i'm trying to do some delivery notification for each incoming address. Problem is that sieve vacation has :days but minimum value is 1 eg period in which addresses are kept and are not responded to - but that is not that i want. Is there other extension (in devel ???) or some other way (lda using procmail or maildrop) how to implement my request ? (Before migration we used qmail + procmail). Thank you for your advices -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] sha-512 ... shadow blended with database
by WJCarpenter 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

The cryptic subject is the outcome of my looking into how to do a particular thing. I wonder if anyone else has solved this problem in a way that hasn't occurred to me. I'm using dovecot 1.1.11 on Ubuntu Server 9.10. I could consider upgrading to my own install of a newer dovecot if it made a difference to this problem. I have two populations of dovecot users. Some users have Unix accounts (with logins disabled), and so their password hashes are stored in /etc/shadow. These days, the default configuration for that is salted SHA-512. It's easy for me to change that scheme to something else if I want to, but the important fact is that I already have some users with passwords in salted SHA-512. The other population of users is purely virtual, and their password hashes are stored in a MySQL database in SHA-1 format (unsalted, but moving to salted wouldn't be a big deal). The database also has a column identifying the hash scheme, so SHA-1 isn't some assumption. I know that I have have multiple passdb in my dovecot config, but I'm looking to unify my two user populations and put them all in the MySQL database. As far as I can tell from the wiki, there is no SHA-512 in any version of dovecot. MySQL also doesn't have SHA-512. So, I don't see a way of reworking my password checking to accomodate the salted SHA-512 values currently in /etc/shadow. I'd prefer to not ask the SHA-512 users to update their passwords for this administrative reason if I can avoid it (but so far, that looks like the only answer). Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] LSUB output format != LIST output format
by Martin 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hi, I have a problem with my hanging claws-mail. I first subscribed to their bug tracker, described the problem and before I pressed on submit in their bugtracker, I realized it might be a problem with dovecot. I'm using dovecot for internal purposes only (catching all my external boxes and storing locally): # 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 i386 listen: *, [::] ssl: required disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/.mails imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes dovecot userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 The mailboxes are on simple UFS2 file system. Here is what I get when listing subscribed folders, like claws-mail does: . LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "." "Trash" * LSUB () "." "Queue" * LSUB () "." "Sent" * LSUB () "." "Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.FreeBSD." * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnHam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnSpam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Steno" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gentoo" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Notifications" . OK Lsub completed. Please notice the "INBOX.FreeBSD." with the dot at the end of the folder name. Here the output of LIST: . LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Queue" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.current" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.Foren" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.announce" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.stable" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnHam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnSpam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Gentoo" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Steno" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Notifications" . OK List completed. The folder name here does not have the dot at the end? Why is this happening? The RFC says the output should not differ, as far as I understood it. I think it might be the dot in LSUB causing claws-mail loop indefinitely when refreshing the folder structure. Annoying!! I hope, you can help me. Thanks in advance. -- Martin Sugioarto

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