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[Dovecot] Gentoo overlay?
by Charles Marcus 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Does anyone know of a decent gentoo overlay that keeps dovecot+ reasonably up to date? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Dovecot broken with newer OpenSSL
by Brad 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

After updating my system from OpenSSL 0.9.8j to 0.9.8k Dovecot has stopped functioning properly with TLS sessions. The version of Dovecot does not seem to matter as I tried 1.1.11 - 1.1.14. Other programs using SSL/TLS such as Postfix and lightty still work fine when built with the newer release of OpenSSL. The IMAP client doesn't matter. For the time being I have gone back to .13 linked against older OpenSSL. In the logs I see messages like the following... dovecot: Apr 16 23:12:18 Info: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933, lip=2001:470:1d:8c::2, TLS handshaking: Disconnected -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.2
by Guy 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi, I've just tried upgrading from 1.1.8 to 1.2.2. As soon as the new version was started up the number of imap/pop3 processes began to climb to 800+, where I normally have about 300 or so connections at any given time. The load on the server also climbed to 150+. I've reverted back to 1.1.18, which is running just fine, but is there anything I can do to help trace what was causing the problem? Unfortunately I don't have a clue where to start. Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] folder in dovecot
by Diego Roversi 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, I'm quite new to dovecot, and I have some questions about folders. At the moment I've a script that use fetchmail + procmail to get mail from the isp, and save the mail in different folder. The idea is to save mail from different mailing list in different folder. Now I've installed dovecot so i can read mail from different computers, and i want to export all the folders. I start with a simple configuration: root@debian:/home/diego# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 armv5tel Ubuntu 9.04 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Mail/inbox mail_debug: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Mail/inbox inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: openmoko/ location: maildir:~/Mail/openmoko list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd I use icedove (thunderbird) to connect to the dovecot server and I see the two folder. But openmoko one looks empty, even if there are more then 10k messages. Without namespaces and setting mail_location pointing to the openmoko folder works, i see the messages of openmoko folder as inbox in icedove. What's wrong? Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Diego Roversi.

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[Dovecot] v1.1.18 released
by Timo Sirainen 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.18.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.18.tar.gz.sig A few more fixes to v1.1 series. It probably won't have many released left. + dovecot -n/-a now outputs also lda settings. - Maildir++ quota: Quota was sometimes updated wrong when it was being recalculated. - Searching quoted-printable message body internally converted "_" characters to spaces and didn't match search keys with "_". - Messages in year's first/last day may have had broken timezones with OSes not having struct tm->tm_gmtoff (e.g. Solaris).

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL / TLS
by Steffen Kaiser 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Carlos Williams wrote: > No I do not. I don't even have a /etc/ssl/ direcory on my mail server hmm, do you have openssl installed at all :) ? I had guessed that any openssl package comes with at least a bunch of CA certs. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSkohlXWSIuGy1ktrAQJqFQf+Pjz5KUVwmt8tG5KeiMMOEYsPWztBVj49 SDw8gOT/DzeoXtArcXy2vdZ0U2Zm1t85wwkjMW43JE02lbsjHLek3LlcEia2uWEA Vba5v4UyKO54YEhuhgxXiavaxSawocGGZmW+7SaHOni3sCKH6Vidl+3qw/5zJl2p a7Y+52HZOow1EPf+MegOL7nFwUY9beLixWN8I0QGz1CZDWMPRUvjTjBO+En44JJX pOYScPB+v/k/NFNXLjkilJJBYOpzhKXQjJzZCEhgaQMD/uuJJM96xaz7bwK/VTxf 3p0ovHTKWT7T3Fa6RR7jZZgEb8hDQsll1nnOZ4dzX3MgQk9Dzj/XPg== =VYN5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.2
by Guillaume Plessis 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

>> - kernel > root@stoat:/# uname -a > Linux stoat.aluminati.org 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:36:05 > UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux > >> - the output of "dovecot --build-options" > This is from the current 1.1.18 install, but 1.2 was compiled with the > same configuration options, so they should be the same? > root@stoat:/# dovecot --build-options > Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl > Mail storages: maildir > SQL drivers: mysql > Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file shadow sql > Userdb: nss passwd passwd-file prefetch sql static Strange... You could try to upgrade your kernel. I had some trouble with <=2.6.28 and the inotify API http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/15/83 Regards -- Guillaume Plessis

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[Dovecot] Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded?
by Bjørn T Johansen 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Where can I change this setting... Can't find this setting in dovecot.conf.... Regards, BTJ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bjørn T Johansen btj(a)havleik.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone wrote: "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages" To which someone replied: "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Funky quota things
by Guy 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi guys, I already use Dovecot for imap/pop3 with some simple quota options. I'm starting to look at the switch from maildrop to dovecot lda and I'm wondering whether it's possible to do our unusual quota management with the quota plugin. We have the users total quota in MySQL along with a number of grace days (counts up to 7). The amount of space used is stored in maildirsize in the users maildir. What we currently some bits of voodoo which allow the user to go up to 200% of their quota. When they go over 100% they start receiving warnings and their grace days start counting down. If the account is still using over 100% of quota after the 7 days then the 100% quota is enforced so no new mail will be accepted. So is something like this "burst" quota possible in the Dovecot plugin? Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] Fatal: listen(143) failed: Interrupted system call
by Sandro Tosi 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, we found dovecot down on one of our servers, with this error in the log: dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Fatal: listen(143) failed: Interrupted system call we can reproduce this error with this tight loop: while date ; do kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) ; sleep 15s ; done after a while dovecot dies with the above error message. We are using # dovecot --version 1.0.15 in particular, Debian package with version "1:1.0.15-2.3" . This started since yesterday, when we upgraded to the latest Debian Lenny point release. The situation is rather problematic, and we'd like to here from you if there something we can do to fix it; if there's something you'd like us to do, just ask :) Thanks in advance, Sandro

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