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POP3 getting previously delivered messages.
by Jas Reehal 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Hi All, This is my first post to this list. I have recently upgraded to dovecot version 2.2.10. 1. I have one POP3 user who does not want to delete his email on the server. 2. He has accumulated over 19000 messages, and the 'dovecot.uidlist' file has more than 19000 lines! 3. Occasionally now when he has received one or more new emails, and his email client does a 'get new mail' operation (POP3) he begins to receive email he has already received previously. last time this happened all 19000+ messages were delivered again, leaning to duplicate entries in all his mailboxes. I have reproduced this issue with a dummy email account with a POP3 client, leaving all messages on the server. I have delivered 20000 messages to this email account, each about 1.3k ins size and each with .... Subject: Message number <n> Body containing "Message number <n>" where <n> is 1 to 20000 now occasionally if I send another message to this email account, and then check for new messages using a POP3 client I get more messages downloaded than I expect! The 'dovecot.uidlist' file is not corrupt, but I beleive due ti it's size (number of lines) the is an issue on compiling a ' POP3 drop-list'. I have attached a file 'dovecot-a.txt' which shows the 'dovecot -a' output from my server. Based on what I have investigated I believe that this issue may not be correlated with a migration to version 2.2.10, but more to do with the number of messages retained on the server. Is there anyone who has any insight into what is happening and if there is any remedy, perhaps a "pop3_client_workarounds =" or other POP3 or UIDL directive in the conf files? The user is stubbornly resisting migration to IMAP, because of the time and effort he says will be required to replicate his organised filing/storage of messages on the server. Kind Regards Jas Reehal -- Jas Reehal | IT & Networks Consultant *Zuken Limited - /The Partner for Success/* 1500 Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol, BS32 4RF, United Kingdom T: +44 1454 207824 | F: +44 1454 207803 E: jas.reehal(a)zuken.co.uk <mailto:jas.reehal@zuken.co.uk> | W: www.zuken.com <http://www.zuken.com> Connect with Zuken: blog <http://blog.zuken.com> | youtube <http://www.youtube.com/zukentube> | linkedin <http://www.zuken.com/linkedin> | twitter <http://www.zuken.com/twitter> | facebook <http://www.zuken.com/facebook> Zuken Ltd // Registered office: Bristol // Registered No. 956340 // Directors: Jinya Katsube, Kazuhiro Kariya, S Yukawa This e-mail message from Zuken including any attachments is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail by accident, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail and all copies of it.

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possible patch for ACL SQL ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "user_shares_pkey"
by Steffen Kaiser 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm using Postgres as dict backend now and then I get this error, when someone changed ACLs, actually for some reason some users, who get permission from other users, get this error quite often: dict: Error: sql dict: commit failed: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "user_shares_pkey" (query: INSERT INTO user_shares (dummy,to_user,from_user) VALUES ('1','user1','user2')) It looks like that this error is triggered, when a MUA is connecting to Dovecot after ACLs had been changed and opens several mailboxes at once. So two or parallel Dovecot instances try to insert the record simultaneously. With a similiar technique to the quota problem, I added a trigger. The idea is to use the condition dummy ISNULL to detect, that the function was triggered from the INSERT of the function itself, hence, breaking the recursive triggers. This assumes that dummy is never NULL from Dovecot. The same applies to anyone_shares, just remove the to_user field from the function. Does somebody see something wrong with my hack? ============= CREATE FUNCTION insert_sharing() RETURNS trigger LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $$ BEGIN IF NEW.dummy IS NULL THEN -- ugly kludge: we came here from this function, really do try to insert return NEW; END IF; LOOP UPDATE user_shares SET dummy = NEW.dummy WHERE from_user = NEW.from_user AND to_user = NEW.to_user; IF found THEN -- updated and inserted RETURN NULL; END IF; BEGIN INSERT INTO user_shares (from_user,to_user,dummy) VALUES (NEW.from_user,NEW.to_user,NULL); --- return NULL; EXCEPTION WHEN unique_violation THEN -- someone just inserted the record, update it END; -- Update dummy after INSERT END LOOP; END; $$; CREATE TRIGGER insertsharing BEFORE INSERT ON user_shares FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE insert_sharing(); - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEVAwUBVbHxJXz1H7kL/d9rAQIn5gf/dNMQKmmigGrbccGQQrsGU66B6OHvTY7L 1vyh8hgr985KNk2/Ws/usLnAqpl5jhpo8kVPLI8TqcGYLAS/67TOIFrwLKAEBU96 e+QpbqqiSm66mZwWOQZgCI63+Fh7fdBUMREL6UqGleFF1GrzNnjmX4MGecbpu/L9 gQMAGUG++/S+ka9S6B275RXIj9DvWzq/oYqJ1M1grGckUxXfDk5szLyvuIJ981At 20qaCHEIlIOlkQ0ttE4W+RWkkYS2rMJvCzQelF4pcm6vaxhXxvqUryzmy9pv+UUT osqS6igWt7BPXF7ku8+rKYVp/qPZrh9IWXMsajr/2nI+V5gRb6u2ow== =gb1P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Authenticate system user with alternate password
by AC 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Is there a way to configure Dovecot to authenticate a system user against a different password list? I want to give my own personal account on my machine a password for IMAP and have that be different from the password I use to log into the system for maintenance purposes. I currently do this for outbound email by having the MTA authenticate against a SASL database during the initial SMTP connection (STARTTLS).

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Client Limit reached in Dovecot
by Chandran Manikandan 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Dear Friends, I have faced below issues since two weeks to till now. Could anyone help me to rectify this issue. Below message retrieve from logs and getting disconnection from Outlook and other email clients. Error Message Jul 20 10:33:35 master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped My local.conf from dovecot folder protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail" mail_max_userip_connections = 20 default_process_limit = 300 } 10-master.conf default_process_limit = 300 default_client_limit = 1000 service imap-login { inet_listener imap { # process_limit = 15 # client_limit = 300 #port = 143 } -- *Thanks,* *Manikandan.C* *System Administrator*

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dovecot proxy/director and high availability design
by Chad M Stewart 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

I'm trying to determine which dovecot components to use and how to order them in the network path from client to mail store. If I have say 1,000 users, all stored in MySQL (or LDAP) and have 4 mail stores, configured into 2, 2 node pods. MS1 and MS2 are pod1 and are configured with replication (dsync) and host users 0-500. MS3 and MS4 are pod2 and are configured with replication between them and host users 501-1000. Ideally the active connections in pod1 would be split 50/50 between MS1 and MS2. When maintenance is performed obviously all active connections/users would be moved to the other node in the pod and then rebalanced once maintenance is completed. I'm not sure if I need to use both the proxy and director, or just one or the other? If both then what is the proper path, from a network perspective? I like the functionality director provides, being able to add/remove servers on the fly and adjust connections, etc.. But from what I've read director needs to know about all mail servers. The problem is that not all servers host all users. User100 could be serviced by ms1 or ms2, but not by ms3 or ms4. I'm trying to design a system that should provide as close to 99.999% service availability as possible. Thank you, Chad

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SSL accept error
by jjhoffart 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hello, I am having some trouble isolating an issue with my mail server. In my mail log I keep receiving the following errors: SSL_accept:failed in SSLv3 read client certificate A SSL_accept: error form client(a)mydomain.com: lost connection SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data I have look through both my dovecot and postfix configs but have not been able to isolate the issue yet, hoping someone might be able to help.

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Re: Client Limit reached in Dovecot
by Daniel Tröder 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hallo :) On mailinglists please reply below the previous post. It's easier to read this way. Am 21.07.2015 um 11:26 schrieb Chandran Manikandan: > Dear Daniel, > Thanks for your kind response. As per your above command got below > result. but i couldn't see below settings are local.conf,10-master.conf > or toaster.conf. Where it's retrieved. > default_process_limit=100 > default_client_limit=1000 > default_vsz_limit=256 M > service/imap/process_limit=1024 > service/imap/client_limit=1 > service/imap/service_count=1 > service/imap/vsz_limit=18446744073709551615 B > service/imap-login/process_limit=0 > service/imap-login/client_limit=0 > service/imap-login/service_count=1 > service/imap-login/vsz_limit=18446744073709551615 B My guess is, that service/imap-login/process_limit=0 disables the setting and then default_process_limit=100 applies. As to where default_process_limit=100 comes from… try: grep -r default_process_limit /etc/dovecot Greeting Daniel > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Tröder <troeder(a)univention.de > <mailto:troeder@univention.de>> wrote: > > Am 21.07.2015 um 10:35 schrieb Chandran Manikandan: > > Dear Friends, > > I have faced below issues since two weeks to till now. Could anyone help me > > to rectify this issue. > > > > Below message retrieve from logs and getting disconnection from Outlook and > > other email clients. > > > > Error Message > > > > Jul 20 10:33:35 master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) > > reached, client connections are being dropped > > > > My local.conf from dovecot folder > > > > protocol imap { > > imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail" > > mail_max_userip_connections = 20 > > default_process_limit = 300 > > } > This should be just "process_limit" without "default". But it's > unnecessary, as you set globally default_process_limit. > > > 10-master.conf > > > > default_process_limit = 300 > > default_client_limit = 1000 > > > > service imap-login { > > inet_listener imap { > > # process_limit = 15 > > # client_limit = 300 > > #port = 143 > > } > It is the "imap-login" process_limit that is reached. With the set > default_process_limit=300 this shouldn't happen. So maybe there is some > setting somewhere else, that is not shown. Please supply the output of: > > doveconf -S | egrep '(default|imap/|imap-login).*(limit|service_count)' > > Greetings > Daniel Tröder > > > > > -- > *Thanks,* > *Manikandan.C* > *System Administrator*

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Dovecot in UCS
by Daniel Tröder 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hello :) I hope you can forgive me a little advertisement: The English translation of my blog post on the Dovecot integration I did for the Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is online: https://www.univention.com/2015/07/dovecot-is-the-default-imappop3-mail-ser… UCS is a Debian based Linux Distribution, everything - incl. management bits - is OSS. There is a "Core Edition" that you can download and use (also commercially) for free, that is - despite its name - feature complete: https://www.univention.com/downloads/ucs-download A lot of interesting Dovecot features can be changed without breaking things, so this blog post may be interesting to everyone. The German version can be found here: https://www.univention.de/2015/07/mailserver-dovecot-als-standard-imappop3-… Greetings Daniel Tröder

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[Dovecot] Dovecot FTS using ElasticSearch
by Darvin Denmian 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hi, I would like to know if is possible to use ElasticSearch instead of Solr for FTS. Regards, Erick Vitor de Barros.

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[Dovecot Antispam] Can't seem to load plugin
by James Lott 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hello list, I'm hoping there is a user of the antispam plugin out there who might be able to lend a pointer or two. I am running dovecot 2.2.18 on FreeBSD 10 (doveconf -n attached), where I have installed the binary dovecot2-antispam-plugin package. I have put together what should, in my estimation, be a working configuration for the plugin. I have reviewed the man page and the online documentation, and I think at the *very least* I should be seeing errors for something not working correctly. However, what I have is a great deal more troubling. There is no sign on the plugin even attempting to load. No log entries, no errors, nothing. The plugin is definitely in the right place with the right name, since I let the package manager handle all of that for me root@zerolag:~ # ls -l /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib90_antispam_plugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32488 Jul 2 09:41 /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib90_antispam_plugin.so I am unable to make any sense of this. Thanks in advance for any pointers :) -- James Lott

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