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[Dovecot] mysteriously disappearing RECENT flag
by Vadim Zeitlin 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Hello, I've decided to switch from UW-IMAP to Dovecot and so installed 1.0.rc15-2 on a Debian/Etch system and started using it with the existing MBOX folders. My configuration is pretty much the default one, in particular I didn't touch to any of mbox_xxx options. The (hoped for) performance improvements were indeed quite noticeable and mostly it works just fine but I seem to have one strange problem with the recent messages: Dovecot seems to reset the RECENT flag on the message right *before* the mailbox is opened. So even if a message was just copied to a folder (e.g. by email client filtering), it doesn't have RECENT flag when the mailbox is opened. Here is an example of what I see: % telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 1 login user password 1 OK Logged in. 2 status test (messages recent unseen) * STATUS "test" (MESSAGES 41 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 0) 2 OK Status completed. [--- switch to another window and copy a message to the test folder ---] 3 status test (messages recent unseen) * STATUS "test" (MESSAGES 42 RECENT 1 UNSEEN 0) 3 OK Status completed. 4 select test * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 42 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1048987099] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 407] Predicted next UID 4 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 5 status test (messages recent unseen) * STATUS "test" (MESSAGES 42 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 0) 5 OK Status completed. 6 fetch 42 flags * 42 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen)) 7 logout * BYE Logging out 7 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. Why does Dovecot send "0 RECENT" when the mailbox is opened when it had just told that there was a recent message in it? And why is the message effectively old (no \Recent in the FETCH reply)? Notice that if I look at the MBOX file I see "Status: R" until command number 7, it becomes "Status: RO" only when I log out -- but internally Dovecot clearly considers it to be old long before that. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this the expected behaviour and, in this case, is there any way to change it to the more expected one (UW-IMAP-like)? Thanks in advance, VZ

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[Dovecot] RC18 core dumps
by Cassidy B. Larson 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Still seeing a few core dumps via the deliver process and corrupted transaction log files with RC18: Jan 22 10:46:36 zahara deliver(user(a)host.com): Corrupted transaction log file /data/mail/host.com/us/user(a)home.com/dovecot.index.log: start_offset (71680) > file size (71520) Jan 22 10:46:36 zahara deliver(user(a)host.com): seq = 6, rec->uid = 0, first_new_seq = 6, records = 5 Jan 22 10:46:36 zahara kernel: pid 41186 (deliver), uid 127: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Jan 22 10:50:17 zahara deliver(user(a)host.com): Corrupted transaction log file /data/mail/host.com/us/user(a)host.com/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 512, but next_uid = 513 However, if the user gets another email, it appears deliver doesnt core dump again. Thoughts? -c

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[Dovecot] mail_log plugin in RC18
by Roger Weeks 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > + Added mail_log plugin to log various mail operations. Currently it > logs mail copies, deletions, expunges and mailbox deletions. Hi Timo - I saw this addition and it sounds very useful in our enviroment. Can the plugin be enabled for specific users? Or is is a system-wide only plugin? -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network

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[Dovecot] Logging
by Ioannis Zachariadis 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

I use the syslog facility for logging purposes. I was wondering if there is a way to redirect all logs to mail.* For example, there are user.* messages.. can I change all of them to mail.* ? thanks. -- giannis.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot rc15 crash in mbox-sync-update.c
by Steven F Siirila 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Here is another crash we've been seeing recently in rc15 on Solaris 10. (gdb) bt full #0 0xff1c12a4 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xff140040 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x000786a8 in t_buffer_alloc (size=688976) at data-stack.c:346 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "file %s: line %" #3 0x00078190 in t_pop () at data-stack.c:149 frame_block = (struct stack_frame_block *) 0x7fffffff #4 0x00042a90 in mbox_sync_update_status (ctx=0x8f7e0) at mbox-sync-update.c:267 No locals. #5 0x00041730 in mbox_sync_rewrite (sync_ctx=0xffbff548, mail_ctx=0x39d5, end_offset=14098141, move_diff=27645, extra_space=1, first_seq=45, last_seq=163) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:552 mails = (struct mbox_sync_mail *) 0xcf238 offset = 1 dest_offset = 4294967295 next_end_offset = 14079696 next_move_diff = 6 start_offset = 1275633 expunged_space = 0 idx = 185 first_nonexpunged_idx = 0 padding_per_mail = 50 count = 542 ret = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "mktime(today) fail" #6 0x0003db84 in mbox_sync (mbox=0xc09c0, flags=32407386) at mbox-sync.c:1375 index_sync_ctx = (struct mail_index_sync_ctx *) 0xc1d58 sync_view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0xc1d90 sync_ctx = {mbox = 0xc09c0, flags = 0, input = 0xc5878, file_input = 0xc5750, write_fd = 10, index_sync_ctx = 0xc1d58, sync_view = 0xc1d90, t = 0xc3340, hdr = 0xc1dd8, header = 0xb6900, from_line = 0xb68d8, base_uid_validity = 1143728609, base_uid_last = 5161, base_uid_last_offset = 1538, mails = {buffer = 0xb6928, element_size = 56}, syncs = {buffer = 0xb6950, element_size = 20}, sync_rec = {uid1 = 0, uid2 = 0, type = 0, add_flags = 0 '\0', remove_flags = 0 '\0', keyword_idx = 0}, mail_keyword_pool = 0xc3598, saved_keywords_pool = 0xc36a0, prev_msg_uid = 5494, next_uid = 5709, idx_next_uid = 1, seq = 586, idx_seq = 587, need_space_seq = 45, expunged_space = 0, space_diff = -27680, dest_first_mail = 0, first_mail_crlf_expunged = 0, delay_writes = 0} seq = 4294967295 offset = 18446744073709551615 lock_id = 3 ret = 0 changed = 1 #7 0x0003e2c8 in mbox_sync (mbox=0xb8128, flags=0) at mbox-sync.c:1312 index_sync_ctx = (struct mail_index_sync_ctx *) 0x7e9 sync_view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x1ee3429 sync_ctx = {mbox = 0x164d, flags = MBOX_SYNC_LAST_COMMIT, input = 0x24a, file_input = 0x24b, write_fd = 45, index_sync_ctx = 0x0, sync_view = 0x0, t = 0x0, hdr = 0xffffffff, header = 0xffff93e0, from_line = 0x0, base_uid_validity = 0, base_uid_last = 0, base_uid_last_offset = 18428719917034373157, mails = {buffer = 0x10, element_size = 753960}, syncs = {buffer = 0xb7e14, element_size = 753960}, sync_rec = {uid1 = 753104, uid2 = 752648, type = 563200, add_flags = 0 '\0', remove_flags = 8 '\b', keyword_idx = 788928}, mail_keyword_pool = 0x0, saved_keywords_pool = 0x0, prev_msg_uid = 13, next_uid = 2155905152, idx_next_uid = 7, seq = 4290770536, idx_seq = 433948, need_space_seq = 563200, expunged_space = -18024225394221448, space_diff = 2418925581670400, dest_first_mail = 0, first_mail_crlf_expunged = 0, delay_writes = 0} seq = 32386076 offset = 2516850835456 lock_id = 4294967295 ret = 788928 changed = 753960 #8 0x00069f24 in mail_storage_class_register (storage_class=0xb8128) at mail-storage.c:42 No locals. #9 0x00028fe0 in imap_sync_deinit (ctx=0xc09c0) at imap-sync.c:83 status = {messages = 706560, recent = 705536, unseen = 0, uidvalidity = 0, uidnext = 753216, first_unseen_seq = 0, keywords = 0x3e7} #10 0x00021248 in cmd_status (cmd=0xb7e14) at cmd-status.c:91 client = (struct client *) 0xb7dd0 args = (struct imap_arg *) 0xb8078 status = {messages = 745216, recent = 2, unseen = 4290771088, uidvalidity = 0, uidnext = 0, first_unseen_seq = 0, keywords = 0xffbff830} storage = (struct mail_storage *) 0xb7c08 real_mailbox = 0xb8128 "mail/AutoFiled/2006" str = (string_t *) 0x10 #11 0x0002287c in client_handle_input (cmd=0xb7dd0) at client.c:380 client = (struct client *) 0x210e8 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "parameter \0\0\0\0\0\0Inva" #12 0x0007e3bc in timeout_add (msecs=743112, callback=0xab800, context=0xac400) at ioloop.c:152 timeout = (struct timeout *) 0x2 #13 0x0007dcb4 in _seek (stream=0xb56c8, v_offset=3039960672808960, mark=116) at istream-mmap.c:149 No locals. #14 0x0002ab24 in main (argc=-4195379, argv=0xab800, envp=0xac400) at main.c:123 No locals. (gdb) quit -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs(a)umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

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[Dovecot] can i set "folder alias"?
by John Wong 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

when i use mailclientA to send mail, then the mailclientA program default will save it to folder "sendA", when i use mailclientB to send mail, then the mailclientB program default will save it to folder "sendB". i know i can configure the mailclient program to use which folder, but can i set something like "folder alias"? imap { # ln -s sendA sendB folder alias = "sendA = sendB"; folser alias = "draftA = draftB"; ....... } i use dovecot-1.0rc17, imap, maildir sorry, i don't speak english

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Re: [Dovecot] Deliver log entries have no date and time
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 12:09 -0500, My BSD wrote: > This works but keeps the double quotes (""), please see below: > > "deliver([username]): "Jan 21 11:43:42 "Info: auth input: > [username]" Yea, bug, fixed again: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007476.html

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Re: [Dovecot] Deliver log entries have no date and time
by Timo Sirainen 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 10:37 -0500, My BSD wrote: > Deliver's log entries do not include a date and time: > > "deliver([username]): Info: auth input: [username]" Fixed: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007474.html You can also uncomment log_timestamp from dovecot.conf to make it work.

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[Dovecot] feature request: proxy destination in logs
by Marshal Newrock 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

I would like to be able to see in the logs which server a pop/imap connection is proxied to. Thank you. -- Marshal Newrock, Ideal Solution LLC http://www.idealso.com

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[Dovecot] MRTG
by Luigi Rosa 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Quite a long ago someone proposed a patch to allow the Dovecot data to be collected and displayed via MRTG. Is there anyone who is actually using MRTG to analyze Dovecot traffic? Ciao, luigi -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ Barometer: an ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

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