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[Dovecot] getting Apple Mail and dovecot/IMAP to co-operate
by Jim Reid 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi. I've been fighting a losing battle to get Apple Mail and dovecot to play nice. When dovecot is told to use mbox-style mailboxes, it's not possible to create child mailboxes. Apple Mail whines "The IMAP command “CREATE” failed with server error: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes.". I've looked through the documentation, the wiki and searched the mail archives without finding a solution. Can anyone help? I've tried (and failed) to get a hybrid maildir/mbox setup to work like that shown on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces. When that gets plugged into dovecot.conf, Apple Mail blocks, with the Activity window saying "waiting for login" or something like that, even though a valid imaps connection and login has been established. There's nothing getting logged by dovecote for both of these problems, even when syslog is turned all the way to debug priority. Here's the current configuration info: shaun# dovecot -n # 1.1.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE amd64 ufs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ syslog_facility: local4 protocols: imaps listen: *, [::] ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_max_processes_count: 8 login_max_connections: 32 max_mail_processes: 32 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:/mail/imap/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl auth default: mechanisms: cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-md5 userdb: driver: passwd shaun# dovecot --version 1.1.16

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[Dovecot] imap-login: Disconnected
by Glenn Remstedt 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

trying to login squirrelmail using dovecot-1.1.17 on a qmail-server with vpopmail setup has also running your: courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --recursive --convert --overwrite here are the output from dovecot-log: Info: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=192.168.1.220, lip=192.168.1.220, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:140760FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol * any hint or pointers are more then welcome cat dovecot.conf base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3s disable_plaintext_auth = no shutdown_clients = yes ## ## Logging ## log_path = /dev/stderr info_log_path = /dev/stderr log_timestamp = "" ## ## SSL settings - Self-Signed SSL Certificate 'openssl' ## ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key_file = /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW verbose_ssl = yes ## ## Login processes ## login_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 #login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_processes_count = 140 #login_greeting = Dovecot ready. #login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c ## ## Mailbox locations and namespaces ## mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no hidden = yes list = no # for v1.1+ } ## ## Mail processes ## verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 ## ## Maildir-specific settings ## maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename = no ## ## IMAP specific settings ## protocol imap { # non-encrypted IMAP: 127.0.0.1 (webmail) is secure by definition # # in the name of all that is good in the world, PLEASE # don't allow your users to use IMAP without encryption! # listen = 192.168.1.220:143 # SSL-encrypted IMAP on port 993 ssl_listen = 192.168.1.220:993 imap_max_line_length = 65536 login_greeting_capability = yes } ## ## POP3 specific settings ## protocol pop3 { # in the name of all that is good in the world, PLEASE # don't allow your users to use POP3 without encryption! # listen = 192.168.1.220:110 # SSL-secured POP3 on port 995 ssl_listen = 192.168.1.220:995 pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u } ## ## Authentication processes ## auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb vpopmail { args = } userdb vpopmail { } user = vpopmail count = 1 ssl_require_client_cert = no }

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[Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem
by Marc Perkel 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

I think I might have finally fixed it. The problem was that the max_cached_connections in Thunderbird defaults to 25 and I had login process count set to 10. I think raising it to 25 ill fix it. Just posting this in case others are having this problem. What was happening was that the message counts were increasing but the messages didn't show up in the list. Or messages would appear to be empty. Restarting Dovecot or restarting Thunderbird fixes the problem temporarily. I'm hoping this annoyance will go away now.

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[Dovecot] v1.2.1 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.1.tar.gz.sig Mainly fixes to some issues found by people when upgrading to v1.2.0. * GSSAPI: Changed logging levels and improved the messages. Changed the way cross-realm authentication handling is done, hopefully it's working now for everyone. * imap/pop3 logins now fail if home directory path is relative. v1.2.0 deliver was already failing with these and they could have caused problems even with v1.1. * IMAP: Custom authentication failure messages are now prefixed with [ALERT] to get more clients to actually show them. + Improved some error messages. - pop3: AUTH PLAIN was broken when SASL initial response wasn't given. - mbox: New mailboxes were created with UIDVALIDITY 1. - quota-fs was defaulting to group quota instead of user quota. - Fixed ACLs to work with mbox. - Fixed fchmod(-1, -1) errors with BSDs - convert plugin / convert-tool: Fixed changing hierarchy separators in mailbox names when alt_hierarchy_char isn't set.

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[Dovecot] How to create managesieve core dumps
by Pascal Volk 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

I've found this in my dovecot.log: ,--[ /path/to/dovecot.log ]-- | Jul 11 01:44:29 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.1 starting up | ... | Jul 11 01:50:21 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=sieve lip=192.168.111.222 rip=192.168.111.122 lport=12000 rport=35084 resp=<hidden> | Jul 11 01:50:21 auth(default): Info: sql(j.doe(a)example.com,192.168.111.122): query: SELECT "user", password FROM dovecot_password WHERE "user" = 'j.doe(a)example.com' AND sieve | Jul 11 01:50:21 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=j.doe(a)example.com | Jul 11 01:50:21 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 1 31573 1 | Jul 11 01:50:21 auth(default): Info: sql(j.doe(a)example.com,192.168.111.122): SELECT home, uid, gid, 'dbox:~/dbox' AS mail FROM dovecot_user WHERE userid = 'j.doe(a)example.com' | Jul 11 01:50:21 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 1 j.doe(a)example.com home=/srv/mail/9/70037/70035 uid=70035 gid=70037 mail=dbox:~/dbox ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Jul 11 01:50:21 managesieve-login: Info: Login: user=<j.doe(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.111.122, lip=192.168.111.222 | Jul 11 01:50:21 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=370 | Jul 11 01:51:25 MANAGESIEVE(j.doe(a)example.com): Panic: pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed | Jul 11 01:51:25 MANAGESIEVE(j.doe(a)example.com): Error: Raw backtrace: managesieve [0x4a45da] -> managesieve [0x4a5360] -> managesieve(i_fatal+0) [0x4a48ce] -> managesieve [0x4b1e6a] -> managesieve [0x4a2421] -> managesieve [0x4a28e9] -> managesieve(buffer_get_space_unsafe+0x2d) [0x4a2d0b] -> managesieve(str_vprintfa+0x6c) [0x4bb149] -> managesieve [0x42a9f7] -> managesieve(sieve_verror+0x100) [0x429c26] -> managesieve [0x44f0a5] -> managesieve [0x44eedf] -> managesieve(sieve_lexer_skip_token+0x15) [0x44f0c8] -> managesieve [0x4322be] -> managesieve [0x4317b2] -> managesieve [0x431ec0] -> managesieve(sieve_parser_run+0x95) [0x432152] -> managesieve(sieve_parse+0x36) [0x42b44b] -> managesieve(sieve_compile_script+0x1d) [0x42b538] -> managesieve [0x4210f5] -> managesieve [0x421678] -> managesieve [0x421474] -> managesieve [0x421787] -> managesieve(cmd_putscript+0x48) [0x4217d1] -> managesieve [0x4231b8] -> managesieve [0x423365] -> managesieve(client_input+0x100) [0x42346f] -> managesieve(io_loop_handler_run+0x17d) [0x4aecfb] | Jul 11 01:51:25 dovecot: Error: child 366 (managesieve) killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - is home dir set?) `-- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dovecot v1.2.1/f353c5b71097 was started with: host ~ # ulimit -c unlimited hots ~ # /usr/local/dovecot12/sbin/dovecot ILoading modules from directory: ... IEffective uid=65534, gid=65534, home=/tmp ... ^^^^^^^^^ IEffective uid=65534, gid=65534, home=/tmp ^^^^^^^^^ Why is Dovecot not dumping a core and asking: »is home dir set?«? Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: cafebabe.0919315(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Released Sieve v0.1.8 and ManageSieve v0.11.7 for Dovecot v1.2.1
by Stephan Bosch 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hello Dovecot users, The recent Dovecot v1.2.1 release broke ManageSieve compilation. Today, I release new packages to fix this and additionally a few bugs are resolved. Changelog Sieve v0.1.8: - Fixed AIX compile problem. For portability, the typeof operator is not used anymore. + Added partial support for the deprecated notify extension. However, it turns out that the implementation provided by cmusieve is even older (2001), meaning that this is currently not backwards compatible with cmusieve. Should be fixed in next release. Changelog ManageSieve v0.11.7: * Adjusted to changes in the Dovecot login API. This release now depends on Dovecot v1.2.1 or newer. * Incorporated various small changes in IMAP into ManageSieve. This includes properly enabling the generation of core dumps. - The previous release implicitly resolved the FreeBSD script truncation error. This release adds a small correction to the code that detects the truncation. - Fixed panic occurring when many errors are produced by the Sieve compiler (bug found by Pascal Volk). - Fixed memory leak in the PUTSCRIPT command. (ManageSieve patch) - Forgot to add the managesieve_logout_format setting to the config file. Now it works (bug reported by Pascal Volk). -- The releases are available as follows: Sieve: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.8.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.8.tar.gz.sig ManageSieve (package + patch): http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.7.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.7.tar.gz.s… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.1-managesieve-0.11.7.diff.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.1-managesieve-0.11.7.diff.g… -- Have fun testing the new releases and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] fchown error on tmp files
by Kim Bisgaard 12 Jul '09

12 Jul '09

Hi, After upgrading to 1.2 I started getting fchown errors in the log. They look like: Jul 12 18:32:54 jukebox dovecot: deliver(kim): fchown(/data/mail/kim/.lists.mythtv-users/tmp/1247416373.M857540P19162.jukebox.alleroedderne.adsl.dk, -1, 500(k im)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=12(mail), group based on /data/mail/kim/.lists.mythtv-users) I have tried to get rid of the by changing the group of the files to "mail" but that does not help. I can not find a dovecot option that is documented to set the group to %u which would seem ideal. Any advice? Thanks in advance, Kim % dovecot -n # 1.2.0: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 i686 Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) ext3 protocols: imaps listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/data/mail/%u auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and ACL
by Daniel Spannbauer 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hello, I try to get per-mailbox-ACLs on dovecot. So, I've modded dovecot.conf: protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl } and plugin { acl = vfile } When I telnet to dovecot an try the command "capability" there is nothing about acl. I need acl for "open-xchange" so I can share Mailboxes over the webinterface. Do I have to create the acl-file manually or does dovecot this automaticly? reagrds Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Software Entwicklung marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4 - 6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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[Dovecot] imap_quota-error with 1.2.1
by Anton Dollmaier 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Hi, I downloaded the debian-src-package of dovecot 1.2.1 from xi.rename-it.nl, and built the package myself - no errors present. after the upgrade, dovecot complains about an error with imap_quota, startup fails: Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotEdlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: xdr_ext_getquota_args FCouldn't load required plugins Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf failed! I downgraded back to 1.2.0, which works normally. Any hints? Best regards, Anton

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[Dovecot] imap connection refused
by Daniel Wallner 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

hi, mutt -f imap://max@test.local@127.0.0.1 Could not connect to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused). lsof -i dovecot 20200 root 5u IPv4 233361 TCP localhost:imap2 (LISTEN) imap-logi 20204 dovecot 0u IPv4 233361 TCP localhost:imap2 (LISTEN) imap-logi 20205 dovecot 0u IPv4 233361 TCP localhost:imap2 (LISTEN) imap-logi 20206 dovecot 0u IPv4 233361 TCP localhost:imap2 (LISTEN) dovecot --version 1.0.15 dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap listen: localhost ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/maildirs/%d/%n namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/spool/maildir/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes 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: mailsystem group: mailsystem cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=mailbase user=mailbase password=XXXX default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailusers WHERE account = '%u' /var/log/dovecot/info.log dovecot: 2009-07-11 09:07:56 Info: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up dovecot: 2009-07-11 09:07:56 Info: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (mailbase) any ideas why imap is not working? thanks

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