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[Dovecot] X-UIDL Ignored?
by Benjamin Wakefield 14 May '09

14 May '09

Hello! I am trying to migrate from Teapop to Dovecot. I'm using Dovecot 1.1.14. I need to make use of the X-UIDL header so clients don't download messages they've already received. I have the X-UIDL head in the message. I have pop3_reuse_xuidl(pop3): yes My problem is the X-UIDL in the message is being ignored and Dovecot is still generating it's own. The INBOX is an mbx file not Maildir. Should this work? Have I missed something? Thanks! Ben ==== BEGIN dovecot -n ==== # 1.1.14: /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24.3-smp i686 Slackware 12.0.0 log_path: /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.13/var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): *:10100 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: grape.dcsi.net.au dovecot pop3/imap server, go ahead. mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%1u/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1.14/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_reuse_xuidl(default): no pop3_reuse_xuidl(imap): no pop3_reuse_xuidl(pop3): yes pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u auth default: passdb: driver: shadow args: /etc/shadow passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd userdb: driver: passwd ==== END ====

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[Dovecot] virtual mailbox users users can send, but can't read e-mail
by Ioan Nemes 13 May '09

13 May '09

Greetings, I am trying to add the second virtual mailbox domain (transco.org.au) to an existing Postfix/Dovecot/MySQL mail server. Users of the first virtual mailbox domain (transylvania.org.au) have no problems sending and receiving mail. Users belonging to the second virtual mailbox domain can successfully send mail to outside, however they won't receive the mail, though Postfix delivers the mail to the mail directories. The configuration: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot --version 1.0.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot -n # 1.0.2: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/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_user: _dovecot first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/vmboxbase/%d/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl 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_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 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: bsdauth passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = '%u' and active = 'Y' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = 'dummy(a)transco.org.au' and active = 'Y'; mysql> SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = 'dummy(a)transco.org.au' and active = 'Y'; +---------------+ | password | +---------------+ | Wdrbd5SLusraw | +---------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ user_query = SELECT home, maildir, uid, gid FROM users WHERE login = 'dummy' AND active = 'Y' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ mysql> SELECT home, maildir, uid, gid FROM users WHERE login = 'dummy(a)transco.org.au'; +----------------------+-----------------------+------+------+ | home | maildir | uid | gid | +----------------------+-----------------------+------+------+ | /var/spool/vmboxbase | transco.org.au/dummy/ | 5000 | 5000 | +----------------------+-----------------------+------+------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) # more /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf # This file is opened as root, so it should be owned by root and mode 0600. # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/SQL # # For the sql passdb module, you'll need a database with a table that # contains fields for at least the userid and password. If you want to # use the user@domain syntax, you might want to have a separate domain # field as well. # # If your users all have the same uig/gid, and have predictable home # directories, you can use the static userdb module to generate the home # dir based on the userid and domain. In this case, you won't need fields # for home, uid, or gid in the database. # # If you prefer to use the sql userdb module, you'll want to add fields # for home, uid, and gid. Here is an example table: # # CREATE TABLE users ( # userid VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, # password VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, # home VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, # uid INTEGER NOT NULL, # gid INTEGER NOT NULL, # active CHAR(1) DEFAULT 'Y' NOT NULL # ); # Database driver: mysql, pgsql, sqlite #driver = driver = mysql # Database connection string. This is driver-specific setting. # # pgsql: # For available options, see the PostgreSQL documention for the # PQconnectdb function of libpq. # # mysql: # Basic options emulate PostgreSQL option names: # host, port, user, password, dbname # # But also adds some new settings: # client_flags - See MySQL manual # ssl_ca, ssl_ca_path - Set either one or both to enable SSL # ssl_cert, ssl_key - For sending client-side certificates to server # ssl_cipher - Set minimum allowed cipher security (default: HIGH) # # You can connect to UNIX sockets by using host: host=/var/run/mysql.sock # Note that currently you can't use spaces in parameters. # # sqlite: # The path to the database file. # # Examples: # connect = host=192.168.1.1 dbname=users # connect = host=sql.example.com dbname=virtual user=virtual password=blarg # connect = /etc/dovecot/authdb.sqlite # #connect = dbname=virtual user=virtual connect = host=localhost dbname=mail user=dovecot password=dovecot # Default password scheme. # # List of supported schemes is in # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes # #default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 default_pass_scheme = CRYPT # Query to retrieve the password. # # This query must return only one row with "user" and "password" columns. # The query can also return other fields which have a special meaning, see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields # # The "user" column is needed to make sure the username gets used with exactly # the same casing as it's in the database. Note that if you store username and # domain in separate fields, you most likely want to return a combination of # them as the "user" column, otherwise the domain gets stripped. # # Commonly used available substitutions (see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables for full list): # %u = entire userid # %n = user part of user@domain # %d = domain part of user@domain # # Note that these can be used only as input to SQL query. If the query outputs # any of these substitutions, they're not touched. Otherwise it would be # difficult to have eg. usernames containing '%' characters. # # Example: # password_query = SELECT concat(userid, '@', domain) AS user, password FROM users WHERE userid = '%n' AND domain = '% d' # password_query = SELECT pw AS password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' AND active = 'Y' # password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = '%u' and active = 'Y' # Query to retrieve the user information. # # The query must return only one row. Commonly returned columns are: # uid - System UID # gid - System GID # home - Home directory # mail - Mail location # # Either home or mail is required. uid and gid are required. If more than one # row is returned or there are missing fields, the login will fail. For a list # of all fields that can be returned, see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields # # Examples # user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%n' AND domain = '%d' # user_query = SELECT dir AS home, user AS uid, group AS gid FROM users where userid = '%u' # user_query = SELECT home, 501 AS uid, 501 AS gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' # #user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' user_query = SELECT home, maildir, uid, gid FROM users WHERE login = '%u' AND active = 'Y' # If you wish to avoid two SQL lookups (passdb + userdb), you can use # userdb prefetch instead of userdb sql in dovecot.conf. In that case you'll # also have to return userdb fields in password_query prefixed with "userdb_" # string. For example: #password_query = SELECT userid as user, password, home as userdb_home, uid as userdb_uid, gid as userdb_gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ps -aux | grep dovecot root 13442 0.0 0.2 676 952 ?? Ss 4:27AM 0:00.04 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot root 10354 0.0 0.4 816 1920 ?? S 4:27AM 0:00.03 dovecot-auth root 8330 0.0 0.4 708 2080 ?? S 4:27AM 0:00.03 dovecot-auth -w _dovecot 29456 0.0 0.4 664 1876 ?? S 4:27AM 0:00.04 pop3-login _dovecot 12636 0.0 0.4 716 1868 ?? S 4:27AM 0:00.04 pop3-login _dovecot 26625 0.0 0.4 696 1896 ?? S 4:27AM 0:00.04 imap-login _dovecot 4709 0.0 0.4 556 1892 ?? S 4:27AM 0:00.04 imap-login _dovecot 10294 0.0 0.4 760 1888 ?? S 4:27AM 0:00.04 imap-login _dovecot 13526 0.0 0.4 596 1888 ?? S 4:59AM 0:00.01 pop3-login root 20523 0.0 0.1 472 748 p1 S+ 5:01AM 0:00.00 grep dovecot ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ls -ltr /var/spool/vmboxbase/transco.org.au/dummy/new total 40 -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 462 May 3 11:06 1241312770.V8I6be62M630453.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 708 May 3 11:15 1241313359.V8I6be6bM976701.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 658 May 3 11:21 1241313700.V8I6bd8aM30789.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 672 May 4 02:18 1241367523.V8I6be75M268056.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 706 May 4 02:31 1241368314.V8I6be7cM742941.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 658 May 4 02:54 1241369661.V8I6bd9bM991186.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 690 May 4 03:02 1241370177.V8I6bd98M300668.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 672 May 4 03:54 1241373297.V8I6bda1M149877.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 837 May 4 04:35 1241375739.V8I6bdaeM905070.vega.transylvania.org.au -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 842 May 4 04:36 1241375767.V8I6bdb4M496268.vega.transylvania.org.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I try to retreive mail for user dummy(a)tarnsco.org.au, the folovig entry is created in /var/log/maillog, but no mail is retrived. The mail client agent is Thunderbird 2.0.22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.212 rip=192.168.1.101 resp= May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGR1bW15QHRyYW5zY28ub3JnLmF1AGR1bW15 May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): bsdauth(dummy(a)transco.org.au,192.168.1.101): lookup May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): bsdauth(dummy(a)transco.org.au,192.168.1.101): unknown user May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(dummy(a)transco.org.au,192.168.1.101): query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = 'dummy(a)transco.org.au' and active = 'Y' May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=dummy(a)transco.org.au May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 31 29200 1 May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): passwd(dummy(a)transco.org.au,192.168.1.101): lookup May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): passwd(dummy(a)transco.org.au,192.168.1.101): unknown user May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(dummy(a)transco.org.au,192.168.1.101): SELECT home, maildir, uid, gid FROM users WHERE login = 'dummy(a)transco.org.au' AND active = 'Y' May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 31 dummy(a)transco.org.au home=/var/spool/vmboxbase maildir=transco.org.au/dummy/ uid=5000 gid=5000 May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<dummy(a)transco.org.au>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.101, lip=192.168.1.212 May 4 06:04:51 vega dovecot: POP3(dummy(a)transco.org.au): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Any suggestion? Regards, Ioan

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[Dovecot] Only specifying lda in protocols?
by Brandon Lamb 13 May '09

13 May '09

protocols = lda Should this give me fatal errors when trying to do a dovecot -n I get # 1.2.rc3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Error: Invalid protocols given in configuration file Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Dovecot starts and functions fine though

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0.7 domain variable
by elliott＠n.localhost 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi all, Thanks in advance for any help! I'm trying to configure Dovecot to pull emails from Postfix virtual mailbox domain Maildirs under /var/mail/vhosts/<domain>/<username>. I've set mail_location as such in dovecot.conf: mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n but from debug output I see the domain is blank: dovecot: May 10 20:49:25 Info: IMAP(elliott): maildir: data=/var/mail/vhosts//elliott I've set elliott(a)n.0o0.bz as my username in Outlook so it is sending the domain (and changed auth_username_format to "auth_username_format = %n" so authentication works fine) Why is %d blank here? Anything else to check?? I'm at a loss. Thanks! -elliott-

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[Dovecot] New messages notification - (IMAP PUSH?)
by Proskurin Kirill 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hello all. I have strange problem. As I understand IMAP use server2client command to tell what new email is arrived. So - all was good, but few weeks ago I notice what my thunderbird not show new messages. I think it was local problem(I switch distro what day) but soon my email clients what uses mostly Outlook-2007-SP1 start to confirm this problem. What can it be and how can I fix it? I use Dovecot on FreeBSD-7.1 #pkg_info | grep dovecot dovecot-1.1.11 dovecot-managesieve-0.10.5 dovecot-sieve-1.1.6 #dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 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_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_greeting_capability(managesieve): no 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(default): maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n/ mail_location(imap): maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n/ mail_location(pop3): maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n/ mail_location(managesieve): 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_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota autocreate 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): sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(pop3): sieve_storage(managesieve): % sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(pop3): sieve(managesieve): ~/.dovecot.sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: dovecot-auth username_format: %Lu verbose: yes 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=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning2: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Spam autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Spam -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill

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[Dovecot] Dovecot shared quota with Maildir
by Jorgen Lundman 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hello list, We are in the process of exploring the idea of moving from UFS with fs-quota to using softquotas in Dovecot (probably Maildir type, stored in LDAP, all ontop of NFS). I have it setup, and it works rather well so far. But there is one situation we can currently support, which I can not see a solution for with soft-quotas. Generally customers get 1 email, with 1 quota. But it is also possible for customers to get 1 quota, but create multiple mail accounts, all sharing the same quota. This is done by using the same UID for each account when using fs-quota. (It is not that each account gets a fraction of the quota, but that all accounts add up to the one quota). Is this still possible to do with soft-quotas. To share one set. Dovecot would have to go count files in multiple mail-directories so I would guess no. Lund -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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[Dovecot] dovecot bug (maybe)
by Fernando Bertasso 13 May '09

13 May '09

I believe that dovecot is doing something strange, when it founds a 'corrupted' multipart and using fetch body. Look what I figured out: 1) Sent a message from squirrelmail (it wrongly drop the last \n from epilogue): ------=_20090512171902_78105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit n ------=_20090512171902_78105 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit n <--------(squirrelmail didn´t insert an additional \n). ------=_20090512171902_78105-- 2) Sent a correct message, inserting the last '\n': ------=_20090512171902_78105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit n ------=_20090512171902_78105 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit n ------=_20090512171902_78105-- 3) Compress both messages 4) Request the messages using: A004 UID FETCH 1 (FLAGS BODYSTRUCTURE) (the correct message): 127.000.000.001.00143-127.000.000.001.35604: * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Seen) BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL "8bit" 7 3 NIL NIL NIL NIL)("text" "html" ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL "8bit" *3 1*NIL NIL NIL NIL) "alternative" ("boundary" "----=_20090512171853_50085") NIL NIL NIL)) A004 OK Fetch completed. 5) Request the broken message: 127.000.000.001.00143-127.000.000.001.43679: * 2 FETCH (UID 2 FLAGS (\Seen) BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL "8bit" 7 3 NIL NIL NIL NIL)("text" "html" ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL "8bit" *1 0*NIL NIL NIL NIL) "alternative" ("boundary" "----=_20090512171902_78105") NIL NIL NIL)) A004 OK Fetch completed. >From RFC the red numbers mean: size body, number of line for the body. This makes sense, because stripping the 'control' chars from first message, size and number of lines match. But in the second message, the line number is 0 - this does not make sense. You need to test this using telnet, because outlook and thunderbird did not follow this way, they use body.peek. What do you think? Fernando

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[Dovecot] user_attrs seems not to set 'mail'.
by ian＠comtek.co.uk 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, I am using Dovecot 1.1.13 (from a Debian package). I was having problems using user_attrs to set 'mail' and 'home'. Initially I tried: user_attrs = uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ This appeared to set 'home' but not 'mail'. In the debug lot I see: May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,10.4.4.113): user search: base=ou=users,dc=Y scope=subtree filter=(& (mail=X@Y) (|(accountStatus=active) (accountStatus=migrate)) ) fields=uid,uid May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,1.1.1.1): result: uid(home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/)=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 30688 X@Y home=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ Note that 'home' seems to be set on the last line, but not 'mail'. I was hoping to see 'mail=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/Maildir/'. Next I tried: user_attrs = =mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ Now I see: May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,1.1.1.1): user search: base=ou=users,dc=Y scope=subtree filter=(& (mail=X@Y) (|(accountStatus=active) (accountStatus=migrate)) ) fields=uid May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,1.1.1.1): result: uid(home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/)=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 30712 X@Y home=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ mail=maildir:~/Maildir/ Now both 'home' and 'mail' are set, which is what I want. This means the following lines are not synonymous: user_attrs = uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ user_attrs = =mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ Either I misunderstand the documentation for user_attrs or there is a bug. Assuming the former, can somebody please explain what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Ian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth user lookup patch updated for maildrop 2.1.0
by mr.maX 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, an updated version of my patch for maildrop that extends it with the ability to perform user lookups against Dovecot's database made against the latest version of maildrop 2.1.0 can be downloaded from the following location: http://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.1.0-dovecotauth.patch.txt The patch has just been redone in order to apply cleanly without fuzz and to apply properly against one file that was changed in the latest version of maildrop. There have been no other changes compared to the initial version of the patch. For more information, take a look at my previous post to the Dovecot's mailing list at: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-April/039121.html -- Best Regards, Marko Njezic - mr.maX @ MAX Interactive corp. Personal: http://www.markonjezic.com/ MAX's Empire: http://www.maxempire.com/ MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004: http://www.htmlbeauty.com/

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[Dovecot] Fail2Ban and the Dovecot log
by Lou Duchez 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, Is there any way to disable the "dovecot: " at the beginning of each line of the log? Fail2Ban responds poorly to it. I know there are a number of sites with "failregex" strings for Fail2Ban and Dovecot, but I've tried them all, and they don't work, at least with the latest Fail2ban and the latest Dovecot. The Fail2Ban wiki is pretty clear about why there will be a problem: "In order for a log line to match your failregex, it actually has to match in two parts: the beginning of the line has to match a timestamp pattern or regex, and the remainder of the line has to match your failregex.". So in other words, Fail2Ban expects that each line of the log will start with a timestamp. Thanks all! Dovecot rocks.

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