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Understanding filesystem quotas
by Chris Szilagyi 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hello: I've been trying to set up filesystem quotas for IMAP, and cannot seem to get it to work. In IMAP clients it either shows quota unavailable or unknown. I've read the documentation several times. I've enabled the quota plugins and to my knowledge that part is good. I've edited the file 90-quota.conf and uncommented these lines and set them as follows: plugin { quota_rule = *:storage=1G } plugin { quota = fs:User quota:user } To my knowledge, this should enable filesystem quotas by user. However when I run "doveadm quota get -u username", it shows: Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 0 - 0 So basically all zeros. I've also tried running "doveadm -Dv quota get -u username" and don't see anything that stands out or that would indicate an issue. It shows the correct block device and such. I know filesystem quotas are working as I can run "quota username" and it shows the usage. The reason I picked filesystem quotas is because we have /var/spool/mail/username (spool file), and /home/username/mail on the same partition, and because it sounds like it's fast and doesn't require disk I/O. But I'm trying to also figure out by setting the "storage=" command in Dovecot, do I even need to set a hard and soft limit on the filesystem quota then? I would prefer to let Dovecot enforce quotas rather than rely on the filesystem quota mechanism, but keep disk I/O down. Any help would be greatly appreciated on this. Thank you. -- Chris

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Using dovecot-lda with sendmail
by Chris Szilagyi 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hello: I'm trying to get dovecot-lda to work with sendmail on a CentOS 7 server. I've tried following the instructions at the wiki, http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail, by adding the lines to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, recompiling to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and restarting sendmail -- the process for any sendmail config change. However it is still not working and in the maillog, it shows: sendmail[31949]: sAEM4GTt031742: to=<user@localhost>, ctladdr=<test@localhost> (1000/1000), delay=00:08:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=210942, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL I verified that SELinux is not interfering in this case. I see talk of having sendmail run /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda as other users, but I see that the file on my system is uid/gid as: root/root. Is there a way to get this working? Thanks much! -- Chris

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Re: Dovecot Cur and New Directories are empty
by Joseph Tam 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Nguyen Dinh Phuoc Thanh writes: > Recently, we faced an issue with dovecot. Mail delivered to New > directory, but after we used Outlook to connect with POP3 protocol, > there was no email delivered to Outlook and New/Cur directory was empty. > If we don't use Outlook to connect, after a few minutes, it is empty > also. > Would you please help me to solve this issue? Another POP3 client accessing the same account but not configured to keep message on server? Check logs to rule that out. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Evolution clientware and Dovecot
by The Doctor 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Got a customer using Evolution 2.12.3 and was using SSL and could not retrieve e-mail in the last week. Got the custome to turn off SSL and he was able to retrieve e-mail. Recently I compiled SSL so that any comprimise was removed and then all apps using SSL including dovecot was recompiled. Could this be an app/Evolution issue? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca God,Queen and country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! http://www.fullyfollow.me/rootnl2k Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism Lest we forget 2014

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Dovecot wiki LMTP description
by Ron Leach 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

List, we are planning a new configuration to which we'll migrate an existing installation shortly. We are hoping to use Dovecot LMTP and have a query about the wiki entry for LMTP http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP where it suggests this config: service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 192.168.0.24 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } Does this example mean that LMTP will only listen for input messages from the interface with IP address 192.168.0.24 (plus localhost)? If so, I probably haven't understood how LMTP is intended to work. Is there a reason why we want to limit LMTP to listening for messages from a specific IP on the network? I need to understand that so that I replace ...24 with a suitable host interface that exists on our LAN (we don't have a host at 192.168.0.24). Apologies for what must seem, to people using LMTP, a very basic question. Nevertheless, I would be grateful for any clarification. regards, Ron

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[PATCH]: libexttextcat from libreoffice
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hello. There is libexttextcat version provided by libreoffice team http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libexttextcat http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/libexttextcat/ which uses pkgconfig. Library name is different: libexttextcat-2.0.so so dovecot configure doesn't find it. Something like this is needed: --- dovecot-2.2.15/configure.ac~ 2014-10-25 05:57:08.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-2.2.15/configure.ac 2014-11-14 08:49:02.888452270 +0100 @@ -2747,10 +2747,16 @@ have_lucene_textcat=yes AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LUCENE_TEXTCAT,, Define if you want textcat support for CLucene) ], [ - AC_CHECK_LIB(exttextcat, special_textcat_Init, [ - have_lucene_exttextcat=yes - AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LUCENE_EXTTEXTCAT,, Define if you want textcat (Debian version) support for CLucene) - ]) + if test "$PKG_CONFIG" != "" && $PKG_CONFIG --exists libexttextcat 2>/dev/null; then + PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBEXTTEXTCAT, libexttextcat) + LIBS="$LIBS $LIBEXTTEXTCAT_LIBS" + AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LUCENE_EXTTEXTCAT,, Define if you want textcat (LibreOffice version) support for CLucene) + else + AC_CHECK_LIB(exttextcat, special_textcat_Init, [ + have_lucene_exttextcat=yes + AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LUCENE_EXTTEXTCAT,, Define if you want textcat (Debian version) support for CLucene) + ]) + fi ]) ], [ if test $want_stemmer = yes; then -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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Dovecot Cur and New Directories are empty
by Nguyen Dinh Phuoc Thanh 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hi, Recently, we faced an issue with dovecot. Mail delivered to New directory, but after we used Outlook to connect with POP3 protocol, there was no email delivered to Outlook and New/Cur directory was empty. If we don't use Outlook to connect, after a few minutes, it is empty also. Would you please help me to solve this issue? Below is the result from "dovecot -n" --------------------------------------------------------------------- # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.6 (Final) ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/zpanel/configs/dovecot2/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 12 first_valid_uid = 101 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/zpanel/vmail/%d/%n managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded- character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date imapflags notify passdb { args = /etc/zpanel/configs/dovecot2/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls quota = maildir:User quota sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_global_dir = /var/zpanel/sieve/ sieve_global_path = /var/zpanel/sieve/globalfilter.sieve sieve_max_actions = 32 sieve_max_redirects = 4 sieve_max_script_size = 1M trash = /etc/zpanel/configs/dovecot2/dovecot-trash.conf } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = mail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service imap { vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/zpanel/configs/dovecot2/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)###.com } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota trash } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota sieve } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Thanh

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automatically create Spam mailbox
by Cliff Hayes 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I am trying to set up dovecot to automatically create a Spam mailbox for every user. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings shows how to do this but not what config file to put it in so I assume 10-mail.conf. When I put it in there as follows... namespace inbox { mailbox Spam { auto = create special_use = \Junk } } ... I get the following error ... doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf line 107: Unknown setting: mailbox How do I create the mailbox?

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Core Dump upon startup (SEGV) - v2.2.10
by Don Levey 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 I appear to have taken a mostly-working installation and mucked it up. In my recent messages I mentioned how I was having difficuilty in making my wife's email readable in Squirrelmail; this was solved with directory permissions. However, my usual email client is Thunderbird; I was holding off on using that as there appeared to be authentication issues. Today was my opportunity to start debugging those; it occurred to me that I might have issues with PKI and tried to make/install working certificates. When this didn't work, I though to just scrub the installation and start over. On my CentOS 7 system I erased and reinstalled from RPM. With what should have been working certificates, I ran through the config files, and then restarted to the following error: [root@dungeon dovecot]# systemctl -l status dovecot.service dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; disabled) Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Thu 2014-11-13 19:05:52 EST; 30min ago Process: 23700 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F (code=dumped, signal=SEGV) Process: 23695 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/dovecot/prestartscript (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 23700 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV) Nov 13 19:05:52 dungeon.the-leveys.us systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. Nov 13 19:05:52 dungeon.the-leveys.us systemd[1]: dovecot.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV Nov 13 19:05:52 dungeon.the-leveys.us systemd[1]: Unit dovecot.service entered failed state. I can't run dovecot -n: [root@dungeon dovecot]# dovecot -n # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Segmentation fault (core dumped) The log file shows: Nov 13 18:48:46 anvil: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Nov 13 18:48:46 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Nov 13 18:48:46 log: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Here's what I get from the gdb command specified: [root@dungeon log]# gdb /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap /var/core/6538 GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-51.el7 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap.debug...done. done. warning: core file may not match specified executable file. [New LWP 6538] Core was generated by `/usr/bin/doveconf -f service=master -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -m master -p -'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f1f3dd1db5b in ?? () (gdb) I tried talking to IMAP directly as per the website, but was unable to make it crash (and I don't know enough IMAP to do anything more than the exmaple commands). I don't know what else to include... Thank you, -Don

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Migrate system users to virtual users
by Ron Leach 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

List, good afternoon, We are at the planning stage of wanting to migrate from an existing installation onto a new machine, and also to change from system users to virtual users. May I check that our ideas for user id are correct? I am not sure whether we will encounter a 'permissions' and 'user id' problem when moving from a system-user scheme to a virtual scheme. We use Maildir, and the maildirs at the moment are in their users' linux /home directories. After reading the wiki, we think that the 'single system user for vmail' arrangement, ie just one system user to manage all the mail for all virtual users, will work for us. I think that means that the permissions on all our existing 'system-user-oriented' maildirs will have to be changed (in the new machine) so that they are owned by the 'single-system-user', such as 'vmail'. One thought was to first copy the existing maildirs into the new virtual user file system tree, and then, second, change the owners and permissions on the maildirs and directories and messages to permit control by 'vmail'. From the point of view of transferring all the mail files, is that all we would have to do? (Of course, we would also have to create the virtual users and their passwords, and arrange the appropriate password lookups etc, but that's not the direct topic of this post. And that arrangement has to be compatible with the MTA, as well.) If we do copy the maildirs and change the permissions, does all the metadata that the clients, or Dovecot, use to detect new, existing, or downloaded mail remain valid? Or should we use a different approach? Grateful for any comment regards, Ron

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