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[Dovecot] Quota over 2GB supported?
by ssoo＠siliconfile.com 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

I'm using Courier-imap and gonna change to dovecot. Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size. Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB?

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache
by Joseph W. Breu 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Upgraded from rc1 to rc2 and I am still getting the Corrupted index cache file warnings in syslog Jul 12 10:10:19 pop1.cfu.net dovecot: IMAP(breu(a)cfu.net): Corrupted index cache file /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//cfu.net/b/r/breu/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Is this something to be worried about? Is the cache just rebuilt upon notification of corruption? Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] passwd authentication issues (ATTN: Petar)
by Bruce Lane 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Hi, Petar, For whatever reason, I didn't see your most recent reply until I checked the web archives. To answer your questions... Is my dovecot running chrooted? Not that I know of. However, the option to (apparently) decide this is confusing at best. Here is what I have entered. # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless login_chroot = yes Now, my guts tell me that this WILL make it run chrooted. However, reading the material at this link... http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless ...says otherwise, and that setting this to 'no' would be making it run chrooted. For reference, this is the process line from ps -aux|grep dovecot root 3182 0.0 1.4 256 876 ? Ss Sun08PM 10:10.06 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Also, something else just turned up in the process list that I'm not sure I understand. Specifically... root 1817 0.0 1.6 324 1056 ? S 8:53PM 0:00.19 dovecot-auth dovecot 2191 0.0 3.0 256 1940 ? S 8:53PM 0:00.97 imap-login root 3182 0.0 1.4 256 876 ? Ss Sun08PM 10:11.78 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot dovecot 6333 0.0 3.0 256 1940 ? S 8:53PM 0:00.93 imap-login dovecot 8133 0.0 3.0 256 1940 ? S 8:53PM 0:00.97 imap-login dovecot 8397 0.0 3.0 256 1940 ? S 8:53PM 0:00.96 imap-login dovecot 16144 0.0 3.0 256 1940 ? S 8:53PM 0:00.92 imap-login This has me deeply confused. I'm not running IMAP, I'm not interested in running IMAP, I don't want anything to do with IMAP. However, there's five processes for imap-login. What gives? On to your second question: Are /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db available? Yes, both are listed in the directory of /etc as follows. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 40960 Jul 9 09:56 /etc/pwd.db -rw------- 1 root wheel 40960 Jul 9 09:56 /etc/spwd.db featherweb: {41} How "available" this makes them (I don't know what context you were asking in), I'm not sure. Just for giggles, I tried chaning the permissions on spwd.db so that it was world-readable. Doing so had no effect. I still get password failure errors when I try to authenticate a pop3s connection from the client program. One other question: Pegasus (the mail client) has two options for secure POP connections besides apop (which I've shelved for the moment): STLS and direct SSL connection. I've got it set to direct SSL at the moment. Does this sound right? Looking forward to the next set of replies. Thanks much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"

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[Dovecot] Problems with deliver (LDA)
by Claus Alboege 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Hi, I'm using Dovecot's (1.0.rc2) 'deliver' (no sieve) as LDA - calling it from a .qmail file. It seems that 'deliver' destroys "message/rfc822" attachments (forward as attachment). My .qmail file looks like this, and use qmail to deliver a copy directly to my Maildir, and 'deliver' to deliver a second copy of the same message to the same Maildir: % cat .qmail ./Maildir/ |preline /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver After forwarding a message (as attachment) to my account, I get the following 2 files in my Maildir. Check the difference in size: % ls -l Maildir/new -rw------- 1 csa csa 2818 2006-07-06 09:29 1152170973.7420.silver -rw------- 1 csa csa 1372 2006-07-06 09:29 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver Grepping for ^Content-* in the 2 mails show that a part is missing. % cd Maildir/new % grep ^Content * 1152170973.7420.silver:23:Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 1152170973.7420.silver:28:Content-Type: text/plain; charset = "iso-8859-1" 1152170973.7420.silver:29:Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1152170973.7420.silver:34:Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Testing" 1152170973.7420.silver:35:Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 1152170973.7420.silver:36:Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Testing" 1152170973.7420.silver:64:Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1152170973.7420.silver:65:Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:24:Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:29:Content-Type: text/plain; charset = "iso-8859-1" 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:30:Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:35:Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Testing" 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:36:Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:37:Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Testing" (sorry for the long lines) The offset in linenumbers is caused the the From line added by 'deliver'. So, am I missing something here (execpt from the attachment) - is there anything in 'deliver' that could cause this behaviour? Please let me know if you need further information or details. Regards /Claus A

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[Dovecot] Shared folders not woking for me
by Nagy László 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Hello, I'm new to dovecot, please forgive me my silly questions. :-) My OS is FreeBSD 6.1. I just installed dovecot 1.0.beta9. I have created a public namespace this way: namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/public } namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir inbox = yes } Then I created a new group and added a user to it: pw groupadd das pw usermod testuser -g das Then I created some files in /var/mail/public: drwxrwx--- 2 testuser das 512 Jul 11 19:22 Tasks drwx------ 2 testuser mail 512 Jul 11 19:20 cur drwxrwx--- 2 testuser das 512 Jul 11 19:24 dovecot-shared drwx------ 2 testuser mail 512 Jul 11 19:20 new drwx------ 2 testuser mail 512 Jul 11 19:20 tmp Then I restarted dovecot, and I tried to subscribe to 'Tasks', but my email client (Thunderbird 1.5) does not allow it. My other problem is about the "inbox = yes" setting. The private namespace does have an inbox, and it shows up in thunderbird. But it does not show my e-mails. I know that I have emails, I can read them with the 'mail' command. Please help me. Laszlo

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and MySQL auth - initial setup issues
by James Bowling 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

If you setup is in a virtual mailbox setup then your query should look something like this: user_query = SELECT maildir, 500 AS uid, 500 AS gid FROM users WHERE id = '%u' Try that out, replacing the 500's with the appropriate uid and gid and let me know what you see then. Regards, James Bowling On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:01:41 +0100, Andrew Hearn <andrew(a)aa.nu> wrote: > James Bowling wrote: >> Are you using a password encryption scheme for your user passwords in >> the mysql db? You might want to enable the following to help debug the >> issue more in your dovecot.conf: >> >> auth_verbose = yes >> auth_debug = yes >> auth_debug_passwords = yes >> >> Restart Dovecot and then try logging in. This will spit out alot more >> information about the process and might give us a better look into your >> issue. >> > > > Thanks James, > > I'm using plain at the moment whilst testing and getting this working, > the database has a plain password, and > under auth default { I've now set: > mechanisms = plain > > > The log I now get is: > > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 > PLAIN service=IMAP lip=::ffff:81.187.11.54 rip=::ffff:81.187.11.8 > resp=AGFuZHJld0BtYWlsLXRlc3QuYWFpc3AubmV0LnVrADIzNzQyNg== > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth-worker(default): > sql(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): query: SELECT > password FROM users WHERE id = 'andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk' > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 > user=andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST > 4 17643 1 > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth-worker(default): > sql(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): SELECT maildir > FROM users WHERE id = 'andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk' > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Error: auth-worker(default): > sql(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): Password query > didn't return uid, or it was NULL > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): > passwd(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): unknown user > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Error: auth(default): > userdb(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): user not found > from userdb > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 4 > dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: > user=<andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk>, method=PLAIN, > rip=::ffff:81.187.11.8, lip=::ffff:81.187.11.54 > > > > I'm not sure why it's saying "Password query didn't return uid", that > that seems the issue. > > > I'll carry on playing... Andrew

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and MySQL auth - initial setup issues
by Andrew Hearn 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

James Bowling wrote: > Are you using a password encryption scheme for your user passwords in > the mysql db? You might want to enable the following to help debug the > issue more in your dovecot.conf: > > auth_verbose = yes > auth_debug = yes > auth_debug_passwords = yes > > Restart Dovecot and then try logging in. This will spit out alot more > information about the process and might give us a better look into your > issue. > Thanks James, I'm using plain at the moment whilst testing and getting this working, the database has a plain password, and under auth default { I've now set: mechanisms = plain The log I now get is: dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=::ffff:81.187.11.54 rip=::ffff:81.187.11.8 resp=AGFuZHJld0BtYWlsLXRlc3QuYWFpc3AubmV0LnVrADIzNzQyNg== dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE id = 'andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk' dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 4 17643 1 dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): SELECT maildir FROM users WHERE id = 'andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk' dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): Password query didn't return uid, or it was NULL dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): passwd(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): unknown user dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Error: auth(default): userdb(andrew@mail-test.aaisp.net.uk,::ffff:81.187.11.8): user not found from userdb dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 4 dovecot: Jul 11 17:01:21 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:81.187.11.8, lip=::ffff:81.187.11.54 I'm not sure why it's saying "Password query didn't return uid", that that seems the issue. I'll carry on playing... Andrew

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and MySQL auth - initial setup issues
by Andrew Hearn 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Hello, I'm just setting up a new server and wanting to use MySQL for user authentication. Here is what I have: Fedora Core 5: 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 Dovecot v1.0.rc2 (RPM install from atrpms.net) MySQL v5.0.22 SquirrelMail v 1.4.6-7.fc5 ...Running on a Dual XEON machine I've added the following to dovecot.conf: auth default { passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } The rest of dovecot.conf is standard. /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf has: driver=mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=3306 dbname=maildb user=root client_flags=0 password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE id = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir FROM users WHERE id = '%u' (I've run the SQL queries within mysql and they give the right results) When I start Dovecot the log shows: dovecot: Jul 11 12:47:25 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up dovecot: Jul 11 12:47:27 Info: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to 127.0.0.1 (maildb) When I try to log in using SquirrelMail, it takes about 3 seconds, then I get dovecot: Jul 11 12:48:00 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<andrew(a)mail-test.aaisp.net.uk>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured ...So, no log of it trying MySQL... And SquirrelMail then says: Unknown user or password incorrect Any ideas of what I'm missing? Thanks! Andrew.

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[Dovecot] Authentication error with corrections
by Bruce Lane 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Hi, Curtis (and the group), I tried setting up Dovecot's auth default section as you described, with both authdb and userdb set to 'passwd.' It let the authenticated session start on the POP side, but I got consistent authentication failures on the client side that the passwords didn't match. I don't have any more time to mess with it this morning, but I will make it a point to try 'shadow' when I get in this evening. It's possible that NetBSD wants to work that way. Thanks for your help. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0-rc2
by Lucas Valdeón 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Hi, I´m testing dovecot with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 and when I try to access several folders this error appear: " ... use the Advanced IMAP Server Settings dialog to reduce the number of cache connections." in config file: auth_cache_size = 0 So cache is disable If I send a message server fails when try to copy message to Sent folder. Any idea? Thank you in advance, Lucas

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