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[Dovecot] Better flagging of errors on logs?
by Francisco Reyes 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Last night dovecot died because of time changed backward. I noticed that the line from dovecot read Oct 9 01:00:44 mailstore16 dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 132 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. Shouldn't such lines have the word "Error" or "Fatal"? If I set the log_path = to a file, will syslog messages still be generated?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot raw backtrace when copying to folder
by Julian Cowley 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Seeing a problem with a certain user causing dovecot to crash when copying mail to a folder. This looks similar to a bug someone on the mailing list posted recently. Since the backtrace mentions the index, I tried deleting all of the index files for the user (including subfolders) but it had no effect. Seems that the bug still happens when creating the index for the first time. Unfortunately, I can't pin down if there is a particular message causing the problem but I'll see if I can track it using strace. Lines are broken for clarity. This is dovecot 1.0.5 on CentOS 4.5. Sep 27 16:41:42 cookie dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user@domain>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.xx, lip=::ffff:yy.yy.yy.yy, TLS Sep 27 16:41:53 cookie dovecot: IMAP(user@domain): Trying to allocate 0 bytes Sep 27 16:41:53 cookie dovecot: IMAP(user@domain): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80ad7d4] -> imap [0x80ad239] -> imap [0x80b5624] -> imap(i_malloc+0x1b) [0x80b0e1b] -> imap [0x8083037] -> imap [0x80833e6] -> imap(index_storage_search_init+0xf4) [0x80836f4] -> imap(cmd_copy+0x145) [0x8056d15] -> imap(cmd_uid+0x7c) [0x805a74c] -> imap [0x805b2d5] -> imap [0x805b25e] -> imap(_client_input+0x8c) [0x805b43c] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x169) [0x80b3e09] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80b3178] -> imap(main+0x49f) [0x806384f] -> /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd3) [0x506de3] -> imap [0x8055db1] Sep 27 16:41:53 cookie dovecot: child 26079 (imap) killed with signal 6

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[Dovecot] User database ldap lookups and sasl
by olivier castan 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hello I'm currently trying to use Active Directory with Unix extensions to store UID, GID and homedir and retrieve them with ldap I don't want to allow anonymous bindings and I would rather not use TLS and manage a PKI. So I'm trying to use SASL to do a Kerberos authentication for Dovecot against AD LDAP. I'm currently getting GSSAPI errors about the lack of "credentials cache". Looking at similar cases where services act as clients, like using nss_ldap for unix host accounts, I understand the credentials cache should be initiated by an external program (cron and startup script), at least with the TGT and maybe the TGS for ldap. Since usually kerberosv5 cache is based on the user id ( /tmp/krb5cc_0 for root) there's an option in ldap.conf (krb5_ccname) to set the filename (/etc/.ldapcache in nss_ldap tutorials) for this cache. Is there any way to do this with dovecot-ldap.conf or should I try to use "auth user" default cache filename ? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Howto make deleted itens visible to users?
by "Fábio M. Catunda" 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi! I'm using lazy_expunge to backup that are deleted/expunged, but I would like it to be visible to the user. I tried something like: namespace private { prefix = .EXPUNGED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/.Apagadas } namespace private { prefix = .DELETED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/.Apagadas } namespace private { prefix = .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/.Apagadas/ } But neither OE nor TB shows the messages. (yes, i subscribed the ".Apagadas" maildir). Anybody can give me this little tip? Thanks a lot. []'s, Catunda! !DSPAM:46f1105715318362916074!

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[Dovecot] Mail client kill imap-login process
by dovecot acc 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, In my env we have quite a number of old PC which are running windows95. I have installed the thunderbird and outlook97 with the right configuration to dovecot. Everytime I starts the mail client it shows the following, dovecot: Oct 09 10:56:45 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=172.24.65.60, lip=172.24.66.24 only then it shows the login screen. After submit the password, it doesn't seems to login properly. If I use the Outlook Express, it runs ok on the same machine? I can send and read email. I trace the process using strace but it failed since the pid got killed everytime I starts that two mail client. In order to make sure my dovecot run correctly, I run all mail clients from XP and it works like charm. Can someone share with my what should I do next or how to debug further? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Disconnects in log
by Jackie Hunt 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi all, I need some help interpreting the info I'm seeing in the dovecot logs. I have a user using Outlook who is having connectively problems. Below is a sample of what the Dovecot log is showing. Can anyone explain to me why multiple logins occur within a few seconds of each other? Also, as I understand it, the "Disconnected" messages mean the kernel told Dovecot the connection was closed. I'm trying to figure out why I'm seeing so many of these. And why they seem to occur shortly after a login. Thanks for any insight! Jackie -- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu Oct 10 09:05:26 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:05:27 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:05:36 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:06:28 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 09:06:28 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 09:35:28 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:35:28 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:36:11 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected: Logged out Oct 10 10:01:25 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:05:28 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:05:29 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:06:16 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:06:16 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:12:32 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:24:23 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:24:50 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:35:29 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:35:29 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:36:18 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:36:18 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected: Logged out

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[Dovecot] verbose_proctitle for proxy processes?
by Onno Molenkamp 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, We're using Dovecot to proxy incoming POP3 and IMAP connections to the right server. We'd like to be able to see what connections are currently open on the proxy servers, without having the parse the log file. For normal mail processes it's possible to use verbose_proctitle for this purpose, but this setting doesn't work for proxy/login processes. Is it possible to do something similar for proxy processes? Even without displaying the username and IP address, it would be useful to be able to see the difference between normal (idle/active) login processes, and proxy processes. Onno

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[Dovecot] Per-user quota (with local users)
by Maykel Moya 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

I'm migrating to LDAP mi local users, there is the auth section of my dovecot.conf -- auth default { mechanisms = plain socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = dovecot group = nusers } } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } passdb pam { } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb prefetch { } userdb passwd { } user = root } -- The idea is to try to find the user in the directory and if it isn't found then fallback to a local user lookup. My quota configuration is -- plugin { quota = maildir:storage=10240:ignore=Trash } -- I have some users with particular quotas. With LDAP lookups, there is no problem, in those cases I simply put their particular quota values in their entries and pass it to dovecot via user_attrs. I wonder how to do the same for local users, I mean, to have the ability of specifying particular quotas for some local users. Another doubt is how to express to Dovecot that a user have no quota at all, could I use 0? Regards, maykel

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[Dovecot] dovecot and imap session forwarding
by Omer Faruk SEN 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi, I was trying to install a qmail-ldap cluster. I have successfully setup dovecot to authenticate against ldap directory. But what I need is to enable imap session forwarding for qmail-ldap. For example when a user connects to a imapserver if the real mailhost of this user is different than the one that is connected so session is forwarded to real mailhost. Normally we can do that with courirer imap using auth_imap binary that comes with qmail-ldap which handles session forwarding. I have done this but got error auth_executable = /var/qmail/bin/auth_imap . Obviously it won't work. But I am not sure where to put /var/qmail/bin/auth_imap http://www.qmail-ldap.info/dovecot.php and http://www.qmail-ldap.info/imap_courier.php page shows a bit information about where to put it. -- Best regards, Omer mailto:omer@faruk.net

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[Dovecot] thunderbird and email duplication
by Alexander Banthien 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi all, I have recently switched over to Dovecot from CourierIMAP trying for some speedup, which I did get. Installation went OK, so all seemed fine. But suddenly I realised, that incoming emails are replicating themselves. This seems only to happen when connected with Thunderbird. I am also using Squirrelmail and KMail as clients which don't seem to show the behaviour. It seems to happen only for mails received during a Thunderbird session. When I close TBird and reopen it, only newly received messages will show the funny behaviour. The emails are real file copies in the Maildir, I have checked that. Running Dovecot on Debian Etch: dovecot --version: 1.0.0 (this is Debian package 1:1.0.0-1~bpo.1 from backports. I have tried the main package from Debian aswell, same result) with qmail delivering the mails to a Maildir without Dovecot's LDA. Clients: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 on WinXP over Wireless LAN (tried Thunderbird/Iceweasel on Debian aswell) Squirrelmail and KMail (both running on the same box as Dovecot) don't show that behaviour. Has anybody seen anything similar or have any advice on what to look for? I would like to stick with Dovecot but the way it is looking now, I find working with emails near impossible. Thanks in advance, Alexander -- --------------------- Alexander Banthien ParentPay Ltd. Project Manager +44 1926 812704 (o) +44 7787 562694 (m) --------------------- This e-mail is from ParentPay Limited. The e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the individual entity or entities to whom they are addressed. If you have received the e-mail in error please notify info(a)parentpay.com or telephone 08700 420 550, and destroy the original. If you are not the intended recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any contracts attached to this e-mail are in draft form only and are subject to legal review. They do not necessarily constitute an offer or commitment to do business on the part of ParentPay Limited. Any opinion expressed in this email is personal to the sender and does not necessarily represent the views of ParentPay Limited. This email cannot be relied upon to create a contract or any obligation on the part of ParentPay Limited.

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