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[Dovecot] 1.0beta7 still has SEARCH TEXT not search the FROM
by Asheesh Laroia 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

I just tried out 1.0beta7 and erased all my indexes and with fts and fts_squat enabled, and when I SEARCH TEXT in Dovecot, it does *not* find messages where the thing I SEARCH for appear only in the From: header. Timo, can you confirm or deny that you still see this behavior? I did clear my indexes before doing it. -- Asheesh. -- Man is the measure of all things. -- Protagoras

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[Dovecot] Index corruption ?
by Geoffroy Desvernay 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, We are using dovecot for some times (a little before 1.0), for IMAP and (a little for the moment) deliver. We have ~20000 logins/day, Maildirs are over NFS (with indexes too, for the moment...) Up to 1.0.5, we sometime have this error in maillog: ________________________________________________________________________ Nov 1 13:55:41 tic dovecot: IMAP(login): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 666 (mail_index_view_sync_end): assertion failed: (view->log_file_offset >= view->map->hdr.log_file_int_offset) ________________________________________________________________________ I didn't find any bits on google, nor on this list's archive... # gdb (without debug, I may do it if required) ________________________________________________________________________ Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x182ad51f in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x182ad51f in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x182ad4be in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x182ac0e8 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x080a85da in i_set_failure_syslog () #4 0x080a80e1 in data_stack_deinit () #5 0x08092c97 in mail_index_view_sync_end () #6 0x0808229e in index_mailbox_sync_next () #7 0x0000001c in ?? () #8 0xbfbfe7e8 in ?? () #9 0x080d3140 in ?? () #10 0x080d8044 in ?? () #11 0x0000001c in ?? () #12 0xbfbfe828 in ?? () #13 0x08060761 in imap_sync_deinit () Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) ____________________________________________________________________ dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/cacert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/private/imaps.ec-marseille.fr.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/imaps.ec-marseille.fr.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: IMAP Centrale ready. login_greeting_capability: yes login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 512 valid_chroot_dirs: /users:/home max_mail_processes: 2048 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 last_valid_uid: 55000 first_valid_gid: 999 last_valid_gid: 55000 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir/ mmap_disable: yes lock_method: flock maildir_stat_dirs: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap_convert imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: verbose: yes worker_max_count: 60 passdb: driver: pam args: imap passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-uldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: fs ___________________________________________________________________ # dovecot-ldap.conf (dovecot-uldap.conf is a symlink) ___________________________________________________________________ hosts = ldapr.serv.int:389 ldap:389 dn = <our binddn> dnpass = <our pass> auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = ou=People,<our_basedn> deref = never scope = onelevel user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,uid=system_user user_filter = (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(|(uid=%u)(mail=%u)(mail=%n@<our_primary_domain>))) pass_attrs = uid=user pass_filter = (&(objectClass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(|(uid=%u)(mail=%u)(mail=%n@<our_primary_domain>))) ____________________________________________________________________ -- ___________________________________________________________ / Geoffroy DESVERNAY | \ /\ `Service info` | Tel: (+33|0)4 91 05 45 24 /\ \/ Ecole Centrale de Marseille | Fax: (+33|0)4 91 05 45 98 \/ \ (ex-EGIM) | Mail: dgeo(a)ec-marseille.fr / -----------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] IMAP outlook express error
by Hannibal Ndlovu 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi Am running debian etch + exim4 + dovecot 1.0.rc15-2etch with both an IMAP and a POP3 server The issue is when i try and get my mail using the IMAP protocol outlook gives and error "cannot find Inbox on 192.0.0.1" its happens with thunderbird and with Kmail - I assume i have misconfigured it some how and my mail is set to "mail_spool" in Exim4 I have pasted the output of "dovecot -n" # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 imap listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: The Chisipite Mail Server is ready. login_processes_count: 5 max_mail_processes: 100 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_extra_groups: mail Debian-exim mailbox_idle_check_interval: 5 mail_debug: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: /etc/passwd passdb: driver: shadow args: /etc/shadow userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Dovecot I/O scheduling (all versions)
by mikkel＠euro123.dk 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

I have experienced this on all versions of Dovecot that Ive used (1.0 - 1.1b6) using IMAP (its difficult to test if its also there with POP3). What I see is that if there is a peak in disk usage at the time of a specific request that requests stalls. The saturation of disk I/O is momentary but when its done (maybe after one or two seconds) Dovecot still waits for its I/O operation instead of continuing as soon as resources are available. Now, I would expect Dovecot to only wait until there are resources available and not stall for at long time (sometimes it stalls for like 10 seconds, and sometimes completely). This could be OS specific (Im using ZFS and Solaris 10 on Sparc) but it may also be due to the way dovecot is programmed. Theres always plenty of RAM and CPU available so thats not whats causing troubles. Is anyone else familiar with this issue? Regards, Mikkel

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[Dovecot] IDLE with Leopard Mail
by Scott Murman 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

imap IDLE is now built into the apple mail client in Leopard (finally!!). anyone looked at compatibility issues with dovecot? -SM-

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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta7 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta7.tar.gz.sig Changes since beta6: - Beginnings of unit tests, as I mentioned in a previous mail - Message parsing fixes - Cache file handling fixes Known bugs: - Cache file doesn't keep track of how much it contains deleted data, which means it could grow infinitely. This worked at some point, so I'm not sure what I did to break it. I'll figure it out later. - Apparently for some use cases v1.1 is still slower (about 2x) than v1.0. Probably more or less specific to NFS + mmap_disable=yes.

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Re: [Dovecot] Unit testing
by Alan Ferrency 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > I finally added beginnings of unit tests to Dovecot v1.1 code tree: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/4e4a5d6bb2cb Great! Unit testing is good, even though it's boring and not very glamorous. I wonder if you have seen or considered libtap, possibly as an optional dependency for those who care about running the tests? http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap It looks like it could almost drop in, in place of some of your existing test helpers. It is also compatible with a variety of end user test tools. However, I could see hesitation in adding external dependencies where they aren't really necessary. If you had TAP compatibility through libtap or other means, I could easily drop dovecot into our existing suite of nightly smoke tests on FreeBSD. > I'm probably going to be pretty lazy at adding more of those tests, so > if you've ever wanted to get your own code to Dovecot, now would be a > great time to do it! :) With a 5 month old and a 4 year old on hand, "copious free time" isn't my strong point, but I'll at least attempt to provide tests with any future bug reports. Thanks! Alan Ferrency

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[Dovecot] How to set multi backends (with same type)
by maximatt 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

hi..... i don't know if its posible. i have two ldap directories, and i want use them to use as my dovecot users backend... so i have two configurations files... "dovecot-ldap1.conf" and " dovecot-ldap2.conf" and i try setting like: Test 1: (simil postfix ) :D This dont work auth default { : : passdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf, /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } userdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf, /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } } Test 2: This dont work auth default { : : passdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf/etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot- ldap2.conf } userdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf/etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot- ldap2.conf } } Test 3: (looking "passbd ldap" as a set) :) this work, but dovecot-ldap2.conf override dovecot-ldap1.conf (the set vision, none) auth default { : : passdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } userdb ldap { args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap1.conf args= /etc/dovecot/etc/ldap/dovecot-ldap2.conf } } ¿How could i do this? :( Thanks in advance :) -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] imaptest update
by Timo Sirainen 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c now keeps track of messages' metadata and complains if they change. It relies on Message-ID: header being unique in the source mailbox, otherwise it'll give bogus errors. I might fix that some day. I changed the code from using simple line-based parsing to Dovecot's imap-parser code. Unfortunately it looks like it's pretty slow. At least I'm pretty sure imaptest didn't take more than a few % of CPU before, while now it's showing 35% CPU usage.. I guess I'll have to profile it a bit to see what's eating the CPU. And yes, looks like it found a couple of bugs from Dovecot 1.1's MIME parsing (BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE replies change). That was actually why I wrote this code in the first place, I was trying to figure out how to reproduce a bug. I'm getting closer to my stress testing dream tool. :) http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2007-March/000413.…

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[Dovecot] Unit testing
by Timo Sirainen 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

I finally added beginnings of unit tests to Dovecot v1.1 code tree: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/4e4a5d6bb2cb There are currently just a couple of tests implemented in test-lib (lib/ functions) and test-mail (lib-mail/ functions). I'm probably going to be pretty lazy at adding more of those tests, so if you've ever wanted to get your own code to Dovecot, now would be a great time to do it! :)

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[Dovecot] index corruption
by rosenfield＠users.sourceforge.net 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Hi people Just switched to Dovecot yesterday, and I've already got about five reports of users with duplicate mail in their inbox :-/. Not as bad as lost email, mind you, but pretty annoying still. Checking the server log, it says: postfix/smtpd: disconnect from unknown deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error unionfs: new lower inode mtime (bindex=0, name=maildir) dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error IMAP: Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. This is dovecot version 1.0.3, the log presented here relates to only one user; user name snipped for anonymity purposes. Afterwards things just get worse and worse with the affected user: dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (1 >= 1) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index dovecot: IMAP: Transaction log file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (2 >= 2) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.SPAM/dovecot.index dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (1 >= 1) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index dovecot: IMAP: Transaction log file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted dovecot: IMAP: Corrupted transaction log file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index.log: invalid new transaction log sequence (2 >= 2) dovecot: IMAP: fscking index file maildir/.Junk/dovecot.index deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error deliver: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error dovecot: IMAP: msync() failed with index file maildir/dovecot.index: Input/output error What could be the problem? How do I go about debugging an issue such as this?

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[Dovecot] IMAP - Empty attachments error
by Tomáš Klandra 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hallo, I have one problem with the following configuration: - server: debian, dovecot used as an IMAP server, version 0.99.14. - stations: windows 2k/XP, mailer seamonky 1.1.4 Sometimes (let's say once in 20 attemptes) when saving attachments, they are empty (zero size files). Simple re-saving them helps. I was looking on mozilla forums if it's not a bug in SeaMonkey, which looked more likely to me, but didn't find anything, so I got the idea it could be a bug in dovecot. If someone saw this as well or have any ideas, I would really appreciate any help about it, as the error is really annoying. Thank you, Tom

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[Dovecot] assertion failed with hg current
by Jakob Hirsch 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hi, I get a lot of these after updating to the current 1.1 hg version: > Nov 6 16:05:35 seba deliver(jh): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 736 (mail_cache_header_add_field): assertion failed: (cache->field_file_map[field_idx] != (uint32_t)-1) > Nov 6 16:05:35 seba deliver(jh): Raw backtrace: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(i_syslog_fatal_handler+0x2b) [0x80bbeab] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x80bbd4c] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(mail_cache_add+0x2d2) [0x8091da2] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(index_mail_cache_add_idx+0x69) [0x8085629] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x806f776] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(mail_storage_copy+0x53) [0x80ab3b3] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(maildir_copy+0x52) [0x8067802] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(deliver_save+0xcf) [0x80592df] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(main+0x1317) [0x805a7e7] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x948f70] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x8058541] Besides that, it seems to run fine.

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[Dovecot] User keywords limit to 26
by Arthur Pétry 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hi, I'm planning to use dovecot 1.0.5 for a webmail using a lot of user- defined tags. Recently, I just saw the limit of 26 of them when messages are stored in maildir format. This is an important issue for me, since I didn't find how to remove a flag from the dovecot-keywords database. Is there any plan to get rid of the keywords limit ? Or perhaps the new dbox storage format can fix that ? By the way, the comportement of Dovecot when we try to add a new flag while the limit is exceeded is strange : (C: is client and S: Dovecot) The store of the flags is ok : C: RUBY0094 UID STORE 89 +FLAGS (test_0 test_1 test_2 test_3 test_4 test_5 test_6 test_7 test_8 test_9 test_10 test_11 test_12 test_13 test_14 test_15 test_16 test_17 test_18 test_19 test_20 test_21 test_22 test_23 test_24 test_25 test_26) S: * 81 FETCH (UID 89 FLAGS (\Seen test_1 test_2 test_3 test_4 test_5 test_6 test_7 test_8 test_9 test_10 test_11 test_12 test_13 test_14 test_15 test_16 test_17 test_18 test_19 test_20 test_21 test_22 test_23 test_24 test_25 test_26 test_0)) S: RUBY0094 OK Store completed. And then when we fetch them, dovecot reply 2 times. The first time with all the flags, and the second time with only the 26 flags stored in maildir. (I suppose Dovecot try to sync the flags when we fetch it) : C: RUBY0095 UID FETCH 89 FLAGS S: * 81 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen test_1 test_2 test_3 test_4 test_5 test_6 test_7 test_8 test_9 test_10 test_11 test_12 test_13 test_14 test_15 test_16 test_17 test_18 test_19 test_20 test_21 test_22 test_23 test_24 test_25 test_26 test_0) UID 89) S: * 81 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen test_1 test_2 test_3 test_4 test_5 test_6 test_7 test_8 test_9 test_10 test_11 test_12 test_13 test_14 test_15 test_16 test_17 test_18 test_19 test_20 test_21 test_22 test_23 test_24 test_25 test_0)) S: RUBY0095 OK Fetch completed.

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[Dovecot] Sent vs Sent Items
by Ed W 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Religious wars about which is "best" aside - some mail clients seem to default to using "Sent Items" folder for saving sent mail, and others (many) default to "Sent". Seems that in the interests of compatibility and "doing the right thing" (tm) that a symlink from one folder to the other name would ensure that either default would give the same result (in a mixed client setup)? However, I wonder if someone has already written a plugin to do something simple like this? More generally I guess it's folder aliasing, so that Sent == Sent Items and perhaps there are also synonyms for Drafts/Templates? Anyone got any thoughts on this simple idea? (The prob with sym links is a) creating them at mailbox setup time and b) what happens when someone tries to delete the folder...) Cheers Ed W

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[Dovecot] MySQL-SSL
by xyon 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I've been running dovecot authenticating against a local MySQL database, but it has come time to implement it with a remote database. Instead of using stunnel, I'd rather take advantage of MySQL's native SSL support. I didn't know if this was possible with dovecot, and if it was, what config changes I might need to get it going. I found the below page/patch from some time ago and tried to use the ssl_key and ssl_cert directives in /etc/dovecot-sql.conf, but it didn't seem to recognize them (perhaps I need to compile mysql-ssl support into dovecot manually?): http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2004-July/003003.html Also, I noticed a need for ssl_ca and ssl_ca_path but am unfamiliar with how to generate what's needed if these options are required. FYI, dovecot 1.0.7 is running on CentOS 4.5, using rpm from ATrpms: http://dl.atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable/dovecot-1.0.7-0_63.el4.i386.rpm Thanks for any advice or documentation pointers you can provide. Have a great evening everyone! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHL85sJ6p9X8nw/2oRAr9JAJ9u5XTOXqqUvVFE5HqEAr4HzC2juwCgob5o 7usezyZdBjP44wEYQKUg/fQ= =tv5y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] deliver to subfolder?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Can dovecot's deliver deliver a mail to a certain subfolder within a user's mailbox? I was thinking of something along the lines of: deliver -m subfolder But what is the correct syntax to deliver to "spam", subfolder of INBOX? deliver -m spam < message.txt deliver -m INBOX.spam < message.txt -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) plonk(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de

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[Dovecot] truncated messages / attachments
by Markus Stumpf 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

I am currently running dovecot-1.1.beta6 (at least beta5 also had the problem) Retrieving some messages via IMAP gets them truncated and it also happens with retrieving attachments (message is HTML part of multipart-alternative, attachments are at least some PDF files). A user reported she is rather sure one of the messages was ok, before moving it to some other folder. In the filesystem the messages are there in full length. It happens with Outlook as well as with Thunderbird. We're using Maildir. After upgrading from beta5 to beta6 I have removed all dovecot.index* files of a folder with a defect message. This didn't make a difference. (Thought it could be related to some indexing problem). Any one else seeing this? \Maex -- Markus Stumpf

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[Dovecot] Couldn't init INBOX: Can't sync mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged
by Tom Sommer 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

After updating Dovecot, one of my servers keep spamming these errors in the log: dovecot: Nov 03 14:14:18 Error: POP3(foo(a)bar.com): Getting size of message UID=4402 failed dovecot: Nov 03 14:14:18 Error: POP3(foo(a)bar.com): Getting size of message UID=4402 failed dovecot: Nov 03 14:14:18 Error: POP3(foo(a)bar.com): Couldn't init INBOX: Can't sync mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged The funny thing is the mailbox is empty, there are no mails in the folder that should be needed to be parsed It was perfectly fine before I updated, and the permissions on the folder is correct. It only affects some mailboxes as well. Any ideas? // Tom

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot write activity (mostly 1.1.x)
by mikkel＠euro123.dk 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

On Sun, November 4, 2007 4:32 pm, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >> I didn't know that mail_nfs_index=yes resulted in a forced chown. >> How come that's necessary with NFS but not on local disks? >> > > It's used to flush NFS attribute cache. Enabling it allows you to use > multiple servers to access the same maildir at the same time while still > having attribute cache enabled (v1.0 required actime=0). If you don't need > this (and it's better if you don't), then just set the mail_nfs_* to "no" > and it works faster. > >> By the way I misinformed you about fsync_disable=yes. >> It was like that before i upgraded to v1.1, but v1.1 requires >> fsync_disable=no when mail_nfs_index=true so I had to disable it. > > So you use ZFS on the NFS server, but Dovecot is using NFS on client > side? The fsyncs then just mean that the data is sent to NFS server, not a > real fsync on ZFS. > Thanks a lot for the help - this changed a lot! Dist writes fell to about 1/3 of before. I guess the reason is that ZFS can now make use if it's caching capabilities. Delivers activity is completely random since it's impossible to load balance a connection based on the e-mail recipient, since only the ip is known at the load balancing point. Therefore I have fsync_disable=no for deliver. It's easy to force the clients using imap/pop3 to the same server since it can be based on the ip only. Therefore I have fsync_disable=yes for imap/pop3. This changed everything. Now there's a real performance gain upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1.x. About two or three times less disk activity overall (reads were already improved) for both reads and writes. Thats pretty neat!

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[Dovecot] Version 1.1beta 6 and OS X Leopard (10.5)
by Jerry Yeager 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Just a quick note: The new 1.1-b6 is working fine on OS X 10.5.

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Re: [Dovecot] Testing with some Unstable
by Jeff Grossman 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [SNIPPED] > > actually, assuming you now have unstable in your sources.list, those > are packages currently installed for which there are updates available > (probably unstable updates...). Be careful or you'll end up farther > than you want. > > I can't answer to the specifics of sendmail and libmilter, but so long > as you have unstable in your sources.list, those kept-back packages > will appear (unless you upgrade them, of course). Probably, on the > assumption that sendmail and libmilter is sufficient for your needs, > you should change you sources.list back once those two upgrades are > done. > > A > I have "APT::Default-Release "testing";" in my apt.conf file. Is it still advised to remove the unstable lines from my sources.list file even though I have the above in my apt.conf file? Thanks for you help. Jeff

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[Dovecot] Dovecot write activity (mostly 1.1.x)
by mikkel＠euro123.dk 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Im experiencing write activity thats somewhat different from my previous qmail/courier-imap/Maildir setup. This more outspoken in v.1.1.x than v1.0.x (Im using Maildir). Write activity is about half that of read activity when measuring throughput. But when measuring operations its about 5-7 times as high (measured with zpool iostat on ZFS). I think this might be due to the many small updates to index and cache files. Anyway since writing is much more demanding to the disk than reads dovecots ends up being slower (only a little though) than my old qmail/courier-imap/Maildir was. And the old setup didnt even benefit from indexes like Dovecot does. (What I mean saying slower is that it can service fewer users before it hits the wall). Of course theres also lots of benefits using Dovecot. Im just wondering whether this was a thing that should be focused on for later versions (maybe writes could be grouped together or something like that). Dovecot is very cheap on the CPU side so the only real limit in terms of scalability is the storage. Regards, Mikkel

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[Dovecot] Sieve error messages (sieve 1.1.2, dovecot 1.1b6)
by mikkel＠euro123.dk 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Sorry for spamming the list today:) Im getting a lot of these errors in the deliver log: deliver([recipient]): [date] Info: sieve runtime error: Fileinto: Generic Error deliver([recipient]): [date]:18 Error: sieve_execute_bytecode([path-to-sieve]) failed deliver([recipient]): [date] Info: msgid=<[msgid] >: save failed to [foldername]: Quota exceeded In this case the account is over the defined Dovecot quota limit. Dovecot knows what to do but sieve seems to throw its standard error message. Is there something wrong with Sieve or is it just that the error is misleading? This has been present in all v1.1.x I think (some changes was made to the error messages in b3 or b4 but believe this didnt change). Regards, Mikkel

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[Dovecot] *notify config for 1.0.x doesn't enable inotify
by Paolo 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

hi, the current code has changed include linux/inotify.h to sys/inotify.h since 2006-01-17, but that won't work with inotify*.h as documented in the wiki. One has to either revert back to linux/inotify.h, or add #include <sys/inotify-syscalls.h> to both configure.in and src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c Or, just symlink sys/inotify.h -> linux/inotify.h. That's on Debian 3.1 (Sarge). -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x1D5A11A4 - 04FC 8EB9 51A1 5158 1425 BC12 EA57 3382 1D5A 11A4

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[Dovecot] IMAP vs system username logging with checkpassword auth
by dale gallagher 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi After upgrading to dovecot 1.0.7 I noticed that the actual username is no longer logged, but rather the system user (in my case 'vmail') under which my virtual set-up runs. Now I'm unable to see which virtual users log in. Any pointers on how to configure dovecot to log the actual username given during the IMAP dialogue would be appreciated. My dovecot.conf includes the following: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb checkpassword { args = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-vauth } userdb prefetch { } user = auth } An example logfile entry: 2007-11-03 15:41:56.027191500 dovecot: Info: imap-login: Login: user=<vmail>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.141, lip=192.168.0.10, TLS

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[Dovecot] MANAGESIEVE patch v8 for dovecot 1.0.7
by Stephan Bosch 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hello dovecot users, I have updated the MANAGESIEVE patch to the latest stable version of dovecot (1.0.7). This new version also adds extra configuration settings to explicitly specify the location of the sieve storage and the active sieve script. Additionally, the README now more clearly explains the configuration of the daemon. It currently won't compile with 1.1 due to significant changes in the master code. However, because 1.1 now approaches a stable release, the next version is going to be updated to version 1.1. Change Log V8 ------------- + Fixed a few incompatibilities with 1.0.7 version. For instance, the "Logged in" message is now sent by the -login process and not by the managesieve daemon anymore. This caused a segfault every once in a while. + Probably fixed the settings problem reported by Steffen Kaiser regarding login_dir. 'dovecot -n' now reports correct results, but testing will show whether the whole problem is solved. + The managesieve daemon now accepts the sieve_storage and sieve configuration settings, so it is now possible to explicitly configure the location of the sieve storage and the active script respectively. The daemon still falls back to using the mail_location (MAIL) settings if nothing else is specified. + The cyrus timsieved does not use the + character in string literals and many clients have adopted to this behaviour. The latest managesieve (08) advises to accept a missing + from clients. The server should not send any + characters as well. This behavior is now implemented on the server. + Cleaned up sieve-storage.c: split up the sieve_storage_create function in various sub-functions for obtaining the various paths and directories. + Forced manual intervention if rescueing a non-symlink file at the active script path fails somehow. Previously, this presented the admin with a log message that it had just eaten the script, which is not very nice. + Restructured the README.managesieve file and added some more explanation with regard to the configuration of the daemon. This patch still includes (yet another) instance of the CMU Sieve source, as explained in one of my previous e-mails (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-July/015016.html) The patch can be downloaded at: http://sinas.rename-it.nl/~sirius/dovecot-1.0.7-MANAGESIEVE-v8.diff.gz The README.managesieve is located in the root of the dovecot source tree after applying the patch. Have fun testing the patch. Don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl IRC: Freenode, #dovecot, S[r]us

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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta6 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta6.tar.gz.sig Fixes since beta5: - dovecot.index.cache file wasn't actually being created/updated (or something like that) - SORT assert-crashed sometimes when sorting by string fields - etc.

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[Dovecot] Listening only on localhost
by tobias-mail＠gmx.net 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi! I've got dovecot 1.0.rc15. I want dovecot to listen only on localhost for imap, and on any interfaces for imaps. So I put the following into my config: protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen = *:10993 .. } dovecot -n correctly reports: listen: 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen: *:10993 But I can still do a 'telnet MY_HOST 143' from the outside, and 'netstat -pltn | grep dovecot' reports: [ip changed ;)] tcp 0 0 77.my.ip.253:10993 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4847/dovecot tcp 0 0 77.my.ip.253:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4847/dovecot Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a bug? -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail

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[Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot Deliver LDA
by spammy 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi all, Having problems moving from postfix/dovecot/mysq/maildrop existing intall to dovecot LDA dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/vmail/%d/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail master.cf (maildrop line commented. -f ${recipient} in maildrop was working ok) dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} main.cf dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 # I haven't found any docs about the following must work, but apparently working. virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_transport = dovecot dovecot.log dovecot: 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 vaina(a)neenux.com uid=5000 gid=5000 deliver(vaina(a)neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth input: vaina(a)neenux.com deliver(vaina(a)neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth input: uid=5000 deliver(vaina(a)neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth input: gid=5000 deliver(vaina(a)neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Fatal: setuid(5000) failed: Operation not permitted I'm using vmail:vmail (5000:5000) for all my virtual users and postfix chrooted. I have read the wiki but I'm not using diferrent uids and gids for every user so, I don't understand why deliver is trying to setuid. sorry for my newbie question but my english is not the best and I'm totally lost. any ideas? roger

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[Dovecot] caching custom headers (via plugins)
by Paolo 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

hi, currently dovecot caches on disk some most common headers. Is it possible to tweak such headers list via plugins, eg to cache custom X-* headers, or do I need to hack the actual index/cache src? if so, which are the .c/.h files to touch? thanks -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x1D5A11A4 - 04FC 8EB9 51A1 5158 1425 BC12 EA57 3382 1D5A 11A4

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[Dovecot] Errors in Dovecot 1.0.5
by Jeff Tucker 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hello, I am running Dovecot 1.0.5 and seem to have lots of errors in my Dovecot logs. The worst errors are things like: Oct 30 16:11:42 delta2 dovecot: IMAP(x): Corrupted transaction log file /home/spamcop-net2/deputies/dovecot.index.log: end_offset (392) > current sync_offset (388) Oct 30 16:11:42 delta2 dovecot: IMAP(x): file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 841 (mail_index_sync_update_index): assertion failed: (view->hdr.messages_count == map->hdr.messages_count) Oct 30 16:11:42 delta2 dovecot: IMAP(x): Raw backtrace: imap [0x462a7e] -> imap [0x46234c] -> imap(mail_index_sync_update_index+0x7b2) [0x44a982] -> imap(mail_index_sync_commit+0xe7) [0x447f87] -> imap(maildir_sync_index_finish+0xd2) [0x420b32] -> imap [0x4225af] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x63) [0x4227b3] -> imap(imap_sync_nonselected+0xf) [0x41be9f] -> imap(_cmd_select_full+0xc5) [0x413f95] -> imap(cmd_select+0xb) [0x41411b] -> imap [0x415a87] -> imap [0x415b2c] -> imap(_client_input+0x75) [0x415cd5] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xee) [0x4684ce] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x2d) [0x46797d] -> imap(main+0x3e3) [0x41d7b3] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdb) [0x2aaaaace049b] -> imap [0x410cca] When this happens, my users just get timeouts trying to do stuff. I have my messages (maildirs) and indices all stored on NFS. For locking, I have mmap_disable = yes and lock_method = dotlock Do you have any idea what is going on here? In general, I get tons of errors about corrupted transaction log files for all users. Is this normal? Thanks Jeff

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[Dovecot] Migration from courier pop3 to dovecot pop3
by Shailesh Singh 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hello, In mail client users have settings leave message on server. I dont want user download those messages again. i tried with courier-dovecot-migrate.plscript after running this if i am doing send recive all messages downloaded again please help me in this. Thanks Shailesh Singh

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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta5 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta5.tar.gz.sig APPEND should be working now. Also lots of fixes to handling namespace prefixes and namespaces where virtual separator differs from real separator. zlib plugin now supports opening compressed maildir files. This is done for files that have Z flag. SORT still assert-crashes sometimes. Would be great if someone could show me how to reproduce it. SEARCH TEXT or Squat indexes apparently still have some problems, but I couldn't reproduce them (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-October/026254.html)

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[Dovecot] imaptest.c
by sergey ivanov 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Timo, can you, please, update imaptest.c to be compatible with recent 1.1 beta5 dovecot sources? -- WBR, Sergey Ivanov.

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[Dovecot] v1.0.6 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.6.tar.gz.sig * IDLE: Interval between mailbox change notifies is now 1 second, because some clients keep a long-running IDLE connection and use other connections to actually read the mails. * SORT: If Date: header is missing or broken, fallback to using INTERNALDATE (as the SORT draft nowadays specifies). + deliver: If message begins with a "From " line, ignore it. + zlib plugin: If maildir file has a "Z" flag, open it with zlib. - CREATE: Don't assert-crash if trying to create namespace prefix. - SEARCH: Fixes to handling NOT operator with sequence ranges. - LDAP reconnection fixes - Maildir: Don't break when renaming mailboxes with '*' or '%' characters and children. - mbox: Fixed "file size unexpectedly shrinked" error in some conditions. - quota+mbox: Don't fail if trying to delete a directory. - Fixes to running from inetd

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[Dovecot] "Can't sync delivery mail"
by Rich Winkel 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Dovecot 1.0.3 Deliver is saying this on two specific emails. Other emails to these 2 users are going through fine. Looking at the mail headers the only thing questionable I see is: From: "AMS Publication Division"@ams.org Is this the problem? # 1.0.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_disable: yes shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no first_valid_uid: 100 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/dovecot_indexes/%u lock_method: flock mbox_read_locks: flock mbox_write_locks: flock mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: dovecot group: dovecot

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[Dovecot] Bug within Authentication Caching
by Matthias Waffenschmidt 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hello, there seems to be a bug in the authentication caching code when using it in combination with username_translation (using the current version 1.0.7 on FreeBSD 6). I've set username_translation to +@:@ to allow usernames of the form test+dom.ain or test:dom.ain (historical reasons force us....). If someone has a successful login using the username test(a)dom.ain, the subsequent authentication information is read from the cache, no matter which of the 3 possible usernames the client uses the next time. But if someone has a successful login using the username test+dom.ain, the following data has or has not been found in the cache: test+dom.ain: miss test(a)dom.ain: miss test:dom.ain: hit If the first username is test:dom.ain the behaviour is the following: test:dom.ain: miss test(a)dom.ain: miss test+dom.ain: hit I've added the information if the username changes for better debugging possibilities. In practice the username is of course always the same. The complete authentication part of the tested config: auth default: cache_size: 10000 username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@:+ username_translation: +@:@ verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /var/pop/%d/Accounts.passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=70 gid=70 home=/var/emtpy It looks as if Dovecot does some wrong username translations before inserting/lookup up the data in the cache. BTW: a SIGUSR2 signal to the dovecot-auth process does not give any information as suggested in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching. Please do not only answer to the list as I am not subscribed. Thanks. -- Gruss / Best regards | LF.net GmbH | fon +49 711 90074-411 Matthias Waffenschmidt | Ruppmannstr. 27 | fax +49 711 90074-33 mw(a)LF.net | D-70565 Stuttgart | http://www.lf.net

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[Dovecot] Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot Deliver LDA
by Jerry Yeager 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

On Nov 2, 2007, at 9:48 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:00:56 +0100 > From: spammy <spam(a)rogerp.org> > Subject: [Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot Deliver LDA > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <472B1178.2060200(a)rogerp.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi all, > > Having problems moving from postfix/dovecot/mysq/maildrop existing > intall to dovecot LDA > > dovecot -n > > stuff chomped out > deliver(vaina(a)neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Info: auth input: > gid=5000 > deliver(vaina(a)neenux.com): 2007-11-02 12:32:40 Fatal: setuid(5000) > failed: Operation not permitted > > I'm using vmail:vmail (5000:5000) for all my virtual users and postfix (snipped some more out) > > roger Hello Roger, Try this: cd to the path where the dovecot deliver app is. Then, sudo chmod u+s deliver You may or may not need to do sudo chmod g+s deliver -- probably not. This is in the Sendmail - LDA part of the docs. Recent changes to Dovecot seem to have brought this to Postfix - LDA as well. Jerry

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[Dovecot] dovecot + LDAP + SASL?
by hadmut＠danisch.de 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi, I would like to setup an IMAP server with SASL and LDAP support. As far as I can see dovecot supports SASL and LDAP, but not the way I need it. If I understand dovecot correctly, it has it's own set of SASL mechnisms and uses the LDAP server just to store the plaintext password. In case of authentication dovecot fetches the plaintext password from LDAP and then performs the SASL steps internally. I need to support proprietary SASL mechanisms built into an LDAP server, which are not based on just a single password. So is there a way to configure dovecot to just pass SASL through to LDAP, allowing the IMAP client to talk SASL with the LDAP server through dovecot? regards Hadmut

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[Dovecot] Successful experience with auth_winbind module
by Dmitry Butskoy 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi, Recently the support of Samba's ntlm_auth helper was added to dovecot-auth (mech-winbind.c etc.). It is alrready in 1.1, the patch for 1.0 is here: http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/dovecot-1.0.3-winbind.patch . It allows auth against NT or AD domain. I would like to infrom all that we successfully use this new feature during 2 month and ~300 users 24x7 (an energy power company). No any failures at all! This feature allows to specify "SPA" (Secure Password Authentication) option in OE, and to avoid explicit user passwords in mail accounts. Some random notes: - In the mixed environment (both plain and ntlm methods in use), you have to specify: mechanisms = plain ntlm login i.e. "ntlm" before "login". When sending mails, OE just catch first seen and try to use it, even if you specify to use SPA in the mail account preferences. - It seems that MS Outlook requires the specifying of password even when SPA is in effect - When OE has several identities, and one of the identities has SPA for SMTP set (outgoing mail), it wins over all another identities. - "The Bat" mailer supports NTLM for reading, not sending, and requires password too. Regards, Dmitry Bustkoy http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy P.S. We use NTLM only, GSS-SPNEGO still not tested.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot push imap/imap notify support?
by Alan Ferrency 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Mart Pirita <sysadmin(a)e-positive.ee> wrote: > Tried search, no luck, does the Dovecot include push imap/imap notify support? If you're looking for something iPhone-compatible, then "no." Theirs is a proprietary system which from what I've read, seems to use SMS in combination with IMAP. Wacky. (If you aren't talking about iPhone compatibility, I'm less knowledgeable, but dovecot does support IDLE-style "imap push" style notification.) Alan Ferrency

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[Dovecot] mail-sql.tar.gz: missing mailbox-list-private.h
by Paolo 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

hi, I'm trying to compile with plugin in subject, but I get this error: In file included from mail-sql-plugin.c:4: sql-storage.h:5:34: mailbox-list-private.h: No such file or directory In file included from mail-sql-plugin.c:4: sql-storage.h:26: error: field `module_ctx' has incomplete type make[5]: *** [mail-sql-plugin.lo] Error 1 there's no such mailbox-list-private.h in the whole src tree, though seems it should be in the sql-plugin tarball. Is it in 1.1? thanks -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x1D5A11A4 - 04FC 8EB9 51A1 5158 1425 BC12 EA57 3382 1D5A 11A4

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[Dovecot] mail_location and master_user rel 1.0.x
by Robert Heller 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

login me(a)mymail.net*theboss thebossespwd this is a great piece of software, but it has some frustrating issues. i have included my two configurations below, just FYI. the one (older) system is 1.0rc7 on mandriva 2007.0 and postfix 2.3.3 and amavisd and spamassassin and using a maildir configuration the newer system is 1.0.5 (soon to be 7) on mandriva 2008.0 and postfix 2.4.5 amavisd and spamassassin and using a maildir configuration first, i followed the instructions in this document http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers to the letter and it works for neither the old server nor the new. specifically i was using the first example configuration. all i ever got was: Connected to mail.mailserver.com Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5] Dovecot ready. login him(a)mailserver.com*theboss thebossespwd login BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. and the auth_debug information was completely useless. if someone goes to the trouble of writing great examples they really should test to make sure they actually work. secondly: this configuration on the old server (1.0rc7) works fine: ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file base_dir = /var/lib/dovecot protocols = imap pop3 imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log first_valid_uid = 60000 last_valid_uid = 60000 first_valid_gid=15 last_valid_gid=15 default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%u mailbox_check_interval = 60 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mbox_locks = fcntl umask = 0077 auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 user = dovecot passdb pgsql { /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf } userdb pgsql { /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } } } but the same configuration on the newer version 1.0.5 does not work, the problem being in mail location (note changed from default_mail_location to mail_location). so i had to make a number of changes... ## Dovecot configuration file base_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imaps disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/tls/private/dovecot.pem login_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/login mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n: namespace private { prefix = location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n inbox = yes } mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 60000 last_valid_uid = 60000 first_valid_gid=15 last_valid_gid=15 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename = yes mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl protocol imap { login_greeting_capability = yes } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth default { mechanisms = login plain digest-md5 passdb sql { args = /etc/postfix/mysql/dovecot.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/postfix/mysql/dovecot.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/lib/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = nobody group = mail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } } } dict { } plugin { } or from the dovecot -n command: # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/lib/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log protocols: imap pop3 imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/lib/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no first_valid_uid: 60000 last_valid_uid: 60000 first_valid_gid: 15 last_valid_gid: 15 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n: maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/share/dovecot//imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/share/dovecot//imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/share/dovecot//pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: login plain digest-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/postfix/mysql/dovecot.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/postfix/mysql/dovecot.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/lib/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: nobody group: mail what i found was that i HAD to add a namespace in order to be able to define my maildir location. that was ok, /*except */that the mail_location value is no longer being used for the pop3 server mail location. so i could pick up mail using IMAP no problem, but POP wasn't working. after a number of hours i modified my SQL script with 'CONCAT(path, maildir)' so that the 'mail' path is returned complete from the sql statement: in my initial SQL statement, works on the old server and the new version 1.0.5 IMAP as: user_query = SELECT maildir AS mail, 60000 AS uid, 15 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1' but in order to get the POP3 version working i had to change it thus: user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/spool/mail/', maildir) AS mail, 65534 AS uid, 12 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1' one would have expected changing the SQL statement to this new format would have resulted in a location for the IMAP server now being constructed as: /var/spool/mail/var/spool/mail/domain/user but that did not happen. they both (POP & IMAP) now can find the mail and folders. like i said, thanks very much for writing this s/ware. it is great...but needs some tweaking. thanks for listening

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[Dovecot] sync with gmail?
by Neal Becker 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Now that gmail added imap, I've been trying to see if I can sync gmail/imap with my local dovecot maildir. I've been trying offlineimap. So far, I've created a loop resulting in a directory with size > 1000000 entries. Anyone try this and have a working setup?

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[Dovecot] receive date wrong in outlook
by Farkas Levente 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

hi, we migrate from exchange to dovecot. we do it with imapsync. first we try to do it with --syncinternaldates, but this fails on many messages with invalid date, so we drop this option. unfortunately after this those users who use outlook see the received date as the date we do the migration in stead of the real received date. other clients eg webmail, thunderbird etc sees the right date. so my question what can i do? it's a dovecot bug or outlook and if outlook's bug is there any workaround fro this? thanks in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] Authentication
by Isaac Scott 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hi I am looking to use dovecot with postfix/amavis/spamassasin and would like to be able to deliver spam/virus emails into specific virtual user folders. I wanted to know if it is possible to authenticate user for IMAP and POP3 access seperately using a database? All I have seen in the documentation/wiki is a single query for authentication. Regards, Isaac

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, Mail.app @ Leopard
by DinnoM 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hi There, I'm using dovecot-imapd 1.0.rc15-2etch1 under Debain Etch AMD64 platform, recently, once of our user reported that there have "Unknown Namespace" problem with the new mail.app under leopard. So, is there a workaround at dovecot or I need to upgrade to a latest version of dovecot? Regards, Dino.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0.3 & apacheds ldap
by sergey ivanov 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

I have problem with dovecot-1.0.3 and apacheds ldap server. If I change just uris in dovecot-ldap.conf to point to fedora-ds server, everything works O.K. I've tried with apacheds ldap server versions 1.0.2 and 1.5.0 command line search with parameters taken from dovecot.debug log gives me all needed attributes. Comments and help welcome. Here is my data: --- # /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /tmp/dovecot.log info_log_path: /tmp/dovecot.debug protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/parkheights.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/parkheights.key login_dir: /opt/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/%n/.imap mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen master: path: /opt/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail --- # grep -v '#' /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf |grep -v '^\s*$' hosts = 192.168.10.43:389 dn = uid=admin,ou=system dnpass = Ahma3zoc sasl_bind = no auth_bind = no ldap_version = 3 base = ou=people,dc=parkheights,dc=dyndns,dc=org user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%Ln)) pass_attrs = uid=user,gidNumber=userdb_gid,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,uidNumber=userdb_uid default_pass_scheme = MD5 --- # tail -5 /tmp/dovecot.debug dovecot: Aug 03 08:07:10 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHNlc(here_also_skipped_something)3N1Pg== dovecot: Aug 03 08:07:10 Info: auth(default): ldap(seriv,127.0.0.1): pass search: base=ou=people,dc=parkheights,dc=dyndns,dc=org scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=seriv)) fields=uid,gidNumber,userPassword,homeDirectory,uidNumber dovecot: Aug 03 08:07:10 Info: auth(default): ldap(seriv,127.0.0.1): result: uid(user)=seriv gidnumber(?unknown?)= userpassword(?unknown?)= homedirectory(?unknown?)= uidnumber(?unknown?)= dovecot: Aug 03 08:07:12 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=seriv temp dovecot: Aug 03 08:10:10 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<seriv>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured --- # tail -3 /tmp/dovecot.log dovecot: Aug 03 08:06:53 Warning: auth(default): Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Aug 03 08:06:53 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Aug 03 08:07:10 Error: auth(default): ldap(seriv,127.0.0.1): No password in reply --- here is the snippet from apacheds debug log: --- message Id : 2 Search Request Base Object : 'ou=people,dc=parkheights,dc=dyndns,dc=org' Scope : whole subtree Deref Aliases : never Deref Aliases Size Limit : no limit Time Limit : no limit Types Only : false Filter : '(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=seriv))' Attributes : gidNumber, uid, userPassword, homeDirectory, uidNumber baseDn : 'ou=people,dc=parkheights,dc=dyndns,dc=org' filter : '(& (objectClass=posixAccount) (uid=seriv) ) ' scope : whole subtree typesOnly : false no limit Time Limit : no limit Deref Aliases : never Deref Aliases attributes : 'gidNumber', 'uid', 'userPassword', 'homeDirectory', 'uidNumber' message Id : 2 Search Result Entry Object Name : 'uid=seriv,ou=people,dc=parkheights,dc=dyndns,dc=org' Attributes Attributes Attribute id : 'uid', Values : ['seriv'] Attribute id : 'gidnumber', Values : ['1927'] Attribute id : 'userpassword', Values : [0x7B 0x4D ... (skipped some bytes here) ... 0x3D 0x3D ] Attribute id : 'homedirectory', Values : ['/var/spool/imap/seriv'] Attribute id : 'uidnumber', Values : ['1001']

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[Dovecot] Sometimes Dovecot v1.0.3 does not accept new connections
by Steffen Kaiser 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, occasionally Dovecot stops to accept new connections. Already existing ones do function properly. Strace'ing dovecot-auth reveals that it is running and is authentificating users, the logfile logs new connections. However, lots of other connects just stall, before the IMAP server responds with the greeting. My user backend is a LDAP server. I've sniffed the interface, but I also don't see numerous connection attempts, so I suppose, that there is no DoS attack running. The logfile contains no warning or error except: dovecot: Oct 17 15:34:44 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:34:49 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:34:52 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:02 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:05 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:12 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:19 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:20 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:25 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:26 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:27 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:27 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:41 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:42 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:47 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:49 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:49 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:50 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:35:56 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 dovecot: Oct 17 15:36:03 Warning: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 2048 Does somebody has an idea, where to go to look into the issue? Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRxYYSi9SORjhbDpvAQL8JQf+KWGlq9ic5ufFKcc/hZu6ZUQCpvDTzQHy YGyCFWXNsMoumMEXieiUw6plGDqEWajrhuDNbWHLtc8NPykpopT29lBaxIL2up1R uY0FV02AIjtNbexoRnC9Fk+0z+keDBb9DtrgHDZeNeK+vizxFQeLIM2xtWgXky9t MjoUVYeuXPAb8kZPm3ryW10SadDIJOi7mmnPZFWscaBgN/3Pvf9/oakAaEJyezFj HJY3bYVj2SeblVnn8xFXxszFTV1I3IOM/vIQAtA6gJ4p5D5xXabGzyERgSck1jz6 OtdUIyLJmLdFq5jRdP2FtYyLyOdb27z7krxfFGXeAMbHxf3TCefaiA== =TVVY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] .dovecot.sieve not being read
by ding dong 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Mail seems to be delivered to INBOX without reading what is in .dovecot.sieve # cat /home/vmail/user(a)example.com/.dovecot.sieve if exists "From" { discard; stop; } # ls -alh /home/vmail/user(a)example.com/.dovecot.sieve -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 41B Oct 29 01:26 .dovecot.sieve # tail /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log deliver(user(a)example.com): Oct 29 01:33:14 Info: msgid=< 47253857.20500(a)example.com>: saved mail to INBOX # tail /var/log/maillog Oct 29 01:33:14 freebsdserver1 dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql( user(a)example.com) SELECT maildir AS home, uid AS uid, gid AS gid FROM virtual_mailboxes WHERE user = 'user(a)example.com' AND enabled = TRUE LIMIT 1 Oct 29 01:33:14 freebsdserver1 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 user(a)example.com home=user(a)example.com/uid=1002 gid=1002 Oct 29 01:33:14 freebsdserver1 postfix/pipe[25035]: 8CB9F1CC2A: to=< user(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.08, delays=0.04/0.02/0/0.03, dsn= 2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) # dovecot --version 1.0.5 # dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: vmail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%h imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail

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[Dovecot] 1.1Beta5 Issue
by Jeff Grossman 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

I installed 1.1Beta 5 this weekend. I had no problems at all yesterday using Thunderbird. I started reading my mail with Squirrelmail this morning and everything was going pretty smooth. I tried to delete a daily e-mail I receive from careerbuilder.com and the IMAP process shot up to 99.9% and I was not able to do anything in Squirrelmail. I killed that process and tried it again just to be sure what it was. And it did it again. I can delete any other message with no problems, just that one causes me issues. I am not sure if Thunderbird is the same, I will have to wait until I get home tonight. If there is any troubleshooting you would like me to do, please let me know. Jeff

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.1Beta5 Issue
by Jeff Grossman 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 08:08 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: >> I installed 1.1Beta 5 this weekend. I had no problems at all yesterday >> using Thunderbird. I started reading my mail with Squirrelmail this >> morning and everything was going pretty smooth. I tried to delete a >> daily >> e-mail I receive from careerbuilder.com and the IMAP process shot up to >> 99.9% and I was not able to do anything in Squirrelmail. > > Thanks, fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/ac0e7f713d70 Yup, appears to be working correctly now. Thanks for the quick fix. Jeff

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[Dovecot] time going back
by zbigniew szalbot 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Hi all, Sorry if this is trivial. I am just concerned. In Poland we will be putting the clocks one hour behind (back) on Sunday. I once saw dovecot killing itself because I manually adjusted the clock in the past. Will it not happen in this case? Thanks for your ideas. Zbigniew Szalbot

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[Dovecot] Static home while using LDAP
by David Bosque 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Hello all, I've been googling for a workaround for this for nearly a week to no avail and I hope someone in the list can shed some light on it. I have downloaded and compiled dovecot 1.0.5 and applied the quota-warning to it. I have configured everything and it's working wonderfully, even the lda with the sieve plugin. This is my current relevant configuration: userdb static{ args = uid=501 gid=12 home=/var/mail/buzones/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } However, I need to obtain some more data from LDAP, so I need to switch to an ldap userdb, but want to keep the home as it is in the static configuration and not having to store it in LDAP. Is it possible to use a fixed home (as in the static userdb) while using an ldap userdb? I am looking for something similar to user_global_uid and user_global_gid but for the "home". If not, is it possible to fix or append something to the values in the user_attrs (like the following)? user_attrs = [whatever_i_want_to_append]uid=home uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid Regards, David Bosque

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[Dovecot] v1.0.7 released
by Timo Sirainen 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.7.tar.gz.sig Almost missed this one. I had already fixed it in v1.1 tree, but forgot to fix in v1.0 tree. - deliver: v1.0.6's "From " line ignoring could have written to a bad location in stack, possibly causing problems.

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Re: [Dovecot] fallback for proxy?
by Bill Boebel 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

On Sunday, October 28, 2007 8:32am, Cor Bosman <cor(a)xs4all.nl> said: > Is it possible somehow to configure a fallback for a failed proxy? I am using > sql based proxying through dovecot, but it would be nice if you can fallback > to another host if the proxy destination server is down. High availability > and all.. We do this in our system by having a separate monitoring server update the IP in MySQL when a backend server fails. Bill

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[Dovecot] Resource temporarily unavailable
by karpi.lists＠email.cz 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Hello, Im using dovecot for ages and im happy.. but at now strange things happens: mutt returns: Error talking to localhost (Connection reset by peer) so i started telnet: alnagon ~ % telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to alnagon.localnet.cz. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login karpi blablabla 1 OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. Last line "Connection closed" appears immediatelly after logging.. log says: Oct 27 11:20:50 alnagon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<karpi>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 27 11:20:51 alnagon dovecot: IMAP(karpi): setuid(1000) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Oct 27 11:20:51 alnagon dovecot: child 8537 (imap) returned error 89 my configuratilon runs on gentoo desktop and looks like: alnagon ~ # dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols: imap ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 1 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_debug: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd very thanks for any hint..

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[Dovecot] lost emails with version 1.0.6
by Nishant Limbachia 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Hi list members, I am using dovecot on Slackware 12.0 with postfix 2.4.5. I just upgraded to version 1.0.6 from 1.0.5 and now I am not getting emails. I am using dovecot deliver with postfix. deliver log also says email put into appropriate inbox. Starting up dovecot doesn't show any error messages. I've looked at the release notes and couldn't find any changes that should affect the config file. Here's an excerpt from dovecot deliver's log for the last two emails I've lost after upgrade. ### deliver(raghu): Oct 28 19:34:52 Info: msgid=<200710281935.AA6815928(a)stuart.iit.edu>: saved mail to INBOX deliver(raghu): Oct 28 19:40:13 Info: msgid=<200710281940.AA82444392(a)stuart.iit.edu>: saved mail to INBOX ### Any ideas? ---- tuxrules.in(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] do 1.1b4 assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_existing_name
by Adam McDougall 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

I think this is where I left off last weekend. Instead of this happening at the base of one of my shared mail namespaces, it happens when I try to select a top level folder inside the namespace, or try to directly select an entire path to a folder. This only happens when ACL is enabled. Let me know if I need to provide more. Thanks. Oct 27 16:03:27 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): file mailbox-list-maildir.c: line 186 (maildir_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_existing_name(_list, name)) Oct 27 16:03:27 gribble dovecot: child 51261 (imap) killed with signal 6 a0011 LIST "" "#shared/decs/backups/%" IMAP(mcdouga9): Info: acl vfile: file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls//.DEFAULT not found IMAP(mcdouga9): Info: acl vfile: file /home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found IMAP(mcdouga9): Info: acl vfile: file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls//.DEFAULT not found IMAP(mcdouga9): Info: acl vfile: reading file /egr/mail/shared/decs/dovecot-acl IMAP(mcdouga9): Panic: file mailbox-list-maildir.c: line 186 (maildir_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_existing_name(_list, name)) Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00000008009c34bc in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00000008009c34bc in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00000008009c234d in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000004a1414 in default_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, format=0x4bc930 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0x7fffffffda50) at failures.c:177 backtrace = 0x5f38c0 "\200T`" #3 0x00000000004a167b in i_panic (format=0x4bc930 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:211 args = {{gp_offset = 8, fp_offset = 48, overflow_arg_area = 0x7fffffffdb40, reg_save_area = 0x7fffffffda80}} #4 0x0000000000429b07 in maildir_list_get_path (_list=0x603048, name=0x602900 "#shared/decs/receipts", type=MAILBOX_LIST_PATH_TYPE_MAILBOX) at mailbox-list-maildir.c:186 list = (struct maildir_mailbox_list *) 0x603048 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_list_get_path" #5 0x000000000048e4e1 in mailbox_list_get_path (list=0x603048, name=0x602900 "#shared/decs/receipts", type=MAILBOX_LIST_PATH_TYPE_MAILBOX) at mailbox-list.c:265 No locals. #6 0x000000000048ce69 in mail_storage_get_mailbox_path (storage=0x5fdc48, name=0x602900 "#shared/decs/receipts", is_file_r=0x7fffffffdc07) at mail-storage.c:389 No locals. #7 0x0000000800b07720 in acl_backend_vfile_object_init () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #8 0x0000000800b08708 in acl_backend_vfile_acllist_rebuild () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #9 0x0000000800b08beb in acl_backend_vfile_acllist_refresh () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #10 0x0000000800b08ce2 in acl_backend_vfile_acllist_verify () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #11 0x0000000800b083a9 in acl_backend_vfile_object_refresh_cache () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #12 0x0000000800b07546 in acl_backend_get_default_rights () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #13 0x0000000800b0a9ed in acl_mailbox_list_iter_init () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #14 0x000000000048e85f in mailbox_list_iter_init_multiple (list=0x603048, patterns=0x5f4298, flags=MAILBOX_LIST_ITER_RETURN_CHILDREN) at mailbox-list.c:357 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "mailbox_list_iter_init_multiple" #15 0x000000000041752c in list_namespace_init (ctx=0x60d0b0) at cmd-list.c:642 ns = (struct mail_namespace *) 0x5fd848 cur_ns_prefix = 0x5fd880 "#shared/decs/" cur_ref = 0x5f4318 "" pat = (const char * const *) 0x5f4298 pattern = 0x611178 "#shared/decs/backups/%" inbox_match = IMAP_MATCH_NO used_patterns = {arr = {buffer = 0x5f4260, element_size = 8}, v = 0x5f4260, v_modifiable = 0x5f4260} inboxcase = false #16 0x0000000000417738 in cmd_list_continue (cmd=0x60d048) at cmd-list.c:673 ctx = (struct cmd_list_context *) 0x60d0b0 ret = 1 #17 0x0000000000417e1c in cmd_list_full (cmd=0x60d048, lsub=false) at cmd-list.c:847 client = (struct client *) 0x602100 args = (const struct imap_arg *) 0x6110c0 arg = (const struct imap_arg *) 0x41bb68 ctx = (struct cmd_list_context *) 0x60d0b0 patterns = {arr = {buffer = 0x60d0f8, element_size = 8}, v = 0x60d0f8, v_modifiable = 0x60d0f8} pattern = 0x611178 "#shared/decs/backups/%" patterns_strarr = (const char * const *) 0x60d130 #18 0x0000000000417e8a in cmd_list (cmd=0x60d048) at cmd-list.c:862 No locals. #19 0x000000000041b0b2 in client_command_input (cmd=0x60d048) at client.c:505 client = (struct client *) 0x602100 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #20 0x000000000041b2b1 in client_command_input (cmd=0x60d048) at client.c:562 client = (struct client *) 0x602100 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #21 0x000000000041b3e2 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x602100) at client.c:598 size = 39 #22 0x000000000041b505 in client_input (client=0x602100) at client.c:633 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0x2005fe0a8 ret = 32767 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #23 0x00000000004ab987 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x5f3140) at ioloop-kqueue.c:149 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x5fe0a0 events = (struct kevent *) 0x600000 event = (const struct kevent *) 0x600000 tv = {tv_sec = 9, tv_usec = 996738} ts = {tv_sec = 9, tv_nsec = 996738000} io = (struct io_file *) 0x5f36c0 events_count = 2 t_id = 2 msecs = 9997 ret = 1 i = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "io_loop_handler_run" #24 0x00000000004aaaa0 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x5f3140) at ioloop.c:305 No locals. #25 0x000000000042525e in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe320, envp=0x7fffffffe330) at main.c:293 No locals.

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[Dovecot] fallback for proxy?
by Cor Bosman 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Is it possible somehow to configure a fallback for a failed proxy? I am using sql based proxying through dovecot, but it would be nice if you can fallback to another host if the proxy destination server is down. High availability and all.. Regards, Cor

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[Dovecot] More core dump stack traces
by Lloyd Parkes 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Hi all, I found a whole bunch of core files from imap this evening, so here are the stack traces from each. Unlike my last message, I don't have debugging symbols for these, so there isn't any analysis I can easily do. There were several cores with the first stack trace and one with the second trace. The core dump for the second trace is the only one I noticed. I suspect that the first trace happens when the client host goes to sleep. If so, the situation needs to be handled more gracefully. I'm currently building a copy of imap with debugging symbols. Dovecot Version: 1.1.beta3 with the notify patch from a few days ago OS: NetBSD/sparc64 4.0_RC3 (big endian, 64bit) File System: local UFS #0 0x0000000040550010 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12 #1 0x0000000000180770 in i_error () #2 0x00000000001805fc in i_panic () #3 0x00000000001192a4 in client_destroy () #4 0x00000000001196c8 in client_continue_pending_input () #5 0x0000000000114ecc in cmd_fetch () #6 0x000000000011515c in cmd_fetch () #7 0x0000000000118828 in client_command_cancel () #8 0x00000000001190c8 in client_destroy () #9 0x0000000000186d64 in io_loop_handler_run () #10 0x0000000000186198 in io_loop_run () #11 0x0000000000120fe8 in main () #0 0x0000000000129c3c in maildir_uidlist_iter_deinit () #1 0x000000000012a064 in maildir_uidlist_sync_get_full_filename () #2 0x000000000012c380 in maildir_uidlist_sync_deinit () #3 0x00000000001282ac in maildir_sync_notify () #4 0x0000000000128574 in maildir_storage_sync_init () #5 0x000000000016ec74 in mailbox_sync_init () #6 0x000000000016ed10 in mailbox_sync () #7 0x0000000000117484 in cmd_select_full () #8 0x0000000000117610 in cmd_select () #9 0x0000000000118c78 in client_send_command_error () #10 0x0000000000118d60 in client_send_command_error () #11 0x0000000000119430 in client_input () #12 0x0000000000186d64 in io_loop_handler_run () #13 0x0000000000186198 in io_loop_run () #14 0x0000000000120fe8 in main ()

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.1b4 not listing public folder children
by Adam McDougall 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

ACL plugin still disabled. The folders listed below definitely do have Children. telnet session problem example in 1.1b4: * OK Dovecot ready. ? login mcdouga9 password ? OK Logged in. 9 LIST "" "#shared/decs/%" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/support" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/receipts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/network" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/postmaster" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/security" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/jbossadmin" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/unixadmin" truss shows: (null)() = 0 (0x0) gettimeofday({1193511545.540129},0x5b7f00) = 0 (0x0) gettimeofday({1193511545.540216},0x0) = 0 (0x0) kevent(6,{},0,{0x0,EVFILT_READ,0x0,0,0x1c,0x5b83c0},3,{9.999784000}) = 1 (0x1) gettimeofday({1193511551.475630},0x5b7f00) = 0 (0x0) break(0x5d0000) = 0 (0x0) read(0,"9 LIST "" "#shared/decs/%"\r\n",4096) = 28 (0x1c) break(0x5d3000) = 0 (0x0) break(0x5d4000) = 0 (0x0) break(0x5d7000) = 0 (0x0) stat("/home/mcdouga9/Maildir",{mode=drwxr-xr-x ,inode=98,size=16384,blksize=4096}) = 0 (0x0) open("/home/mcdouga9/Maildir",O_NONBLOCK,00) = 7 (0x7) fstat(7,{mode=drwxr-xr-x ,inode=98,size=16384,blksize=4096}) = 0 (0x0) fcntl(7,F_SETFD,FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 (0x0) __sysctl(0x7fffffffdf10,0x2,0x10acabf8,0x7fffffffdf08,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0) fstatfs(0x7,0x7fffffffdf40) = 0 (0x0) break(0x5d8000) = 0 (0x0) getdirentries(0x7,0x5d7000,0x1000,0x5c8428) = 4096 (0x1000) getdirentries(0x7,0x5d7000,0x1000,0x5c8428) = 4096 (0x1000) getdirentries(0x7,0x5d7000,0x1000,0x5c8428) = 0 (0x0) lseek(7,0x0,SEEK_SET) = 0 (0x0) close(7) = 0 (0x0) stat("/egr/mail/shared/decs",{mode=drwxrwx--- ,inode=6962613,size=8192,blksize=4096}) = 0 (0x0) open("/egr/mail/shared/decs",O_NONBLOCK,00) = 7 (0x7) fstat(7,{mode=drwxrwx--- ,inode=6962613,size=8192,blksize=4096}) = 0 (0x0) fcntl(7,F_SETFD,FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 (0x0) fstatfs(0x7,0x7fffffffdf40) = 0 (0x0) getdirentries(0x7,0x5d7000,0x1000,0x5c8428) = 3072 (0xc00) getdirentries(0x7,0x5d7000,0x1000,0x5c8428) = 0 (0x0) lseek(7,0x0,SEEK_SET) = 0 (0x0) close(7) = 0 (0x0) write(1,"* LIST (\\HasNoChildren) "/" "#s"...,559) = 559 (0x22f) gettimeofday({1193511551.479498},0x0) = 0 (0x0) kevent(6,{},0,{},3,{4.060502000}) = 0 (0x0) gettimeofday({1193511555.540489},0x5b7f00) = 0 (0x0) gettimeofday({1193511555.540561},0x0) = 0 (0x0) Dovecot 1.0 on the same directory: 9 LIST "" "#shared/decs/%" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/receipts" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/support" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/network" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/postmaster" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/security" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/unixadmin" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/linuxadmin" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/backups" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "#shared/decs/printmaster" 9 OK List completed. # 1.1.beta4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/cert.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 0 mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/indexes mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: #shared/decs/ location: maildir:/egr/mail/shared/decs:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot11testing/public/control/decs:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot11testing/public/indexes/decs list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/indexes hidden: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls

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[Dovecot] Possible Caching Bug showing up as a MIME Boundary Issue
by Kevin A. McGrail 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Possible Caching Bug showing up as a MIME Boundary Issue I'm using Dovecot version 1.0.0. I was using Dovecot version 1.0.0 beta3 or alpha4. I upgraded to Dovecot 1.0.0 to make sure that was not the issue. Over the past few weeks on a server running a stable dovecot, I have seem a few emails arriving where the MIME document structure dividers are visible. I've included a screenshot showing this. Using OE6 as client. Have tried adding oe6-fetch-no-newmail per clients wiki but this seems to stop the ability to login at all. I am using two different machines with Outlook Express to access the same email. The same problem will show up on both. Usually, if I delete the .imap cache for the folder, the email comes down correctly. My dovecot -n output is: # /etc/dovecot.conf listen: *:144 ssl_listen: *:994 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/stunnel.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/stunnel.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login max_mail_processes: 50 verbose_proctitle: yes default_mail_env: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: prefetch The server is on a heavily modified RedHat 7.2 on x86 box with ext3 Thanks in Advance, KAM

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[Dovecot] trouble deleting folders that only contain folders
by Ken A 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.0.5 with mbox storage. Users can't delete folders that are created to 'only hold other folders'. I can create these folders with no problem. They are directories in the file system. Normal folders (which are mbox files) are deleted with no problem. I've tried with both squirrelmail and Thunderbird, and what happens when a delete is requested, is that all files within the folder's dir tree are deleted and the client is unsubscribed, but the directory tree remains. Any ideas? Thanks, Ken -- Ken Anderson Pacific.Net

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[Dovecot] 1.1b3 and Maildir quota
by Rick Romero 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I upgraded a 1.0 install to 1.1b3. Almost everything is working peachy-keen :) It seems faster to me, Offline Folders and 'new mail' options for Thunderbird are now working, and Mail.App doesn't seem to need the extra namespace. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to read my quotas any longer. I went through the docs, and I see the quota plugin has changed, but there doesn't seem to be a needed configuration change. Did I miss something? I used my same dovecot.conf as 1.0: I also wiped clean my /usr/local/lib/dovecot directory and reinstalled, just to be sure, but it still doesn't work :/ Is it because I use checkpassword for my auth? # 1.1.beta3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot_info.log disable_plaintext_auth: no shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: nobody login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability: yes login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 15 login_max_processes_count: 512 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_plugins: quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes auth default: user: vpopmail passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw userdb: driver: prefetch plugin: quota: maildir dell#

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[Dovecot] quota problems - which Dovecot version ?
by Albert Schweizer 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi, I've got a little problem with Dovecot IMAP. Everything works nice ( pam auth, ldap userdb, and so on ) BUT i need to uses quotas and it doesn't seem to work. I tried both ways : 1) user dovecot-ldap.conf with user_attrs, as it's shown on dovecot wiki ; 2) use the commandes "plugin {.........." in dovecot.conf But it didn't work. Strangely, when i try to use the PLUGIN command in dovecot.conf, the server crashes at start, "syntax error" in config.... I'm not sure if the quotas are supported in my Dovecot version : version : 0.99.14 release : 1.EL4 I'm using an old AlphaServer ( dec ) with Centos 4.2 installed, and it's a real mess to get yum updates. Building from sources neither worked.... Please help !!! Regards Y.V.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1b2: Enet_connect_unix(/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Permission denied
by David Jonas 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

On startup of dovecot 1.1b2 I seem to have some permission trouble. Dovecot was configured with --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-1.1 for testing purposes while dovecot 1.0.2 is in production. # cd /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/sbin/ # ./dovecot -F -c ../etc/dovecot.conf Enet_connect_unix(/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Permission denied # ls -la /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 2 12:18 /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/dict-server # tail -f /var/log/maillog.err Oct 2 12:23:25 kelly-a dovecot: auth(default): net_connect_unix(/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.12891) failed: Permission denied Oct 2 12:23:25 kelly-a dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 2 12:23:25 kelly-a dovecot: child 12891 (auth) returned error 89 Changing base_dir and setting the path in the plugin params doesn't seem to make a difference either. Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks, David # ./dovecot -c ../etc/dovecot.conf -n # 1.1.beta2: ../etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:9143 listen(imap): *:9143 listen(pop3): *:9110 ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-1.1/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: postoffice.no-ip.com (1.1) login_log_format_elements: user=<%u@%d> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_process_per_connection: no verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u)[%p]: pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %f pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 user: nobody username_translation: %@ username_format: %Lu verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot-1.1/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch plugin: quota: dict:user::proxy::quota dict: quota: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-1.1/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf

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[Dovecot] Duplicate message
by Timothy Murphy 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I'm running dovecot on my desktop and using kmail as a client on my laptop. I am very happy with this - I was previously running kmail under NFS, and this is infinitely better. There is one small issue, which is not very important. I get a small number of messages apparently duplicated. This doesn't really matter, as there is a facility Folder=>Remove Duplicate Messages under kmail, and this deals with the issue easily enough. I just wondered though why I get the duplicate messages, and if there is some simple way to avoid them?

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[Dovecot] 1.1b4: Disconnected: EOF while appending
by Luigi Rosa 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I am moving some messages from an IMAP account to another. During the process I got this message: dovecot: IMAP(mailstore): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=263276/427306 (no core dump) I deleted dovecot.index.cache and dovecot.index.log and the error disappeared Ciao, luigi -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ Committee: a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

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[Dovecot] virtual hosting
by gaoqiang.qian＠nokia.com 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I am a newee in Dovecot, Now my dovecot is working fine to be connected to receive email sent to one domain. Could anyone tell me how can I configure it to be connected to receive email sent to another domain. I really heading the wall. thanks. Gao

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Too many open files
by Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

All, [version: dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4.src.rpm] We recently experienced an issue that prevented all new IMAP logins from occurring. Although it appears that it was due to running out of available system file descriptors, I'm still not sure what the true root cause was as I can't replicate the same error in our test environment. The system file descriptor max was set at (per `cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr`) 380081 , and we're averaging around 7,000 in use. It appears that the main issue was dovecot-auth, so does this appear to fall in line with the known PAM bug in this version? Auth config: auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam Checked maillogs (cleansed): Oct 16 11:48:05 host dovecot-auth: PAM: pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 16 04:48:06 host imap-login: Disconnected [::ffff:<internal_IP>] Oct 16 11:48:11 host dovecot-auth: PAM: pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 16 04:48:11 host imap-login: Aborted login [::ffff:<internal_IP>] Oct 16 04:48:11 host dovecot-auth: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_nologin.so) Oct 16 04:48:11 host dovecot-auth: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_nologin.so: cannot open shared object file: Too many open files] Oct 16 04:48:11 host dovecot-auth: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_nologin.so Oct 16 04:48:11 host dovecot-auth: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_stack.so) Oct 16 04:48:11 host dovecot-auth: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_stack.so: cannot open shared object file: Too many open files] So, during the event I performed an strace against the dovecot-auth process and noticed the following error as well: accept(3, 0xbfe05a50, [2]) = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files) gettimeofday({1192538310, 41972}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=23, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=24, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=25, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=26, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=27, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=28, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=33, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=29, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=37, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=30, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=41, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, ...], 1020, 1585) = 1 gettimeofday({1192538310, 99354}, {480, 0}) = 0 Then I checked for the current network connections: netstat | grep imap | wc -l 42 Then used lsof to check for open files: while true ; do lsof | awk '{ print $3 }' | wc -l ; sleep 4 ; done 21728 21668 (restarted dovecot) 1838 1953 1864 2066 2018 2020 2036 2189 2661 2558 2490 (cont @2,000) Thanks! Joe Allesi

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[Dovecot] Problem in mbox-sync.c
by Hal Pomeranz 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

We've just cut over to a new mail server running Dovecot 1.0.5. The underlying OS is RHEL 5. User mailboxes are stored in Unix mbox format on a local ext3 file system. The MTA on the system is the default RedHat version of Sendmail 8.13.8 with procmail for local delivery. We're using a combination of dotlock and fcntl style locking. The output of "dovecot -n" for this system appears below my signature. Periodically we see errors like the following in our logs: Oct 21 19:36:01 postoffice1 dovecot: POP3(someuser): file mbox-sync.c: line 1433 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (file_size >= sync_ctx->expunged_space + trailer_size) Oct 21 19:36:01 postoffice1 dovecot: POP3(someuser): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x809eda1] -> pop3 [0x809ecbc] -> pop3(mbox_sync+0x1088) [0x806c4e8] -> pop3(mbox_storage_sync_init+0x3e) [0x806cb6e] -> pop3(client_create+0x1a4) [0x80552a4] -> pop3(main+0x556) [0x8057236] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x304dec] -> pop3 [0x8054a11] Oct 21 19:36:01 postoffice1 dovecot: child 24409 (pop3) killed with signal 6 Note that while the above log is for a POP3 user, we also see similar behavior when some users access mail folders via IMAP as well. The real problem with this behavior is that sometimes, but not in all cases, the process will leave behind a dotlock when it exits. If the abandoned dotlock is on the user's inbox, then procmail won't deliver new mail to the user until the lock is cleared. This is a big problem. Anybody seen this behavior before and/or know what's causing it? Can anybody suggest ideas for further debugging this issue? We'd appreciate any help that you all can provide. Thanks! -- Hal Pomeranz, Founder/CEO Deer Run Associates hal(a)deer-run.com Network Connectivity and Security, Systems Management, Training -- # /hpsw/mail/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /hpsw/mail/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf syslog_facility: local3 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /hpsw/mail/configs/dovecot/pki/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /hpsw/mail/configs/dovecot/pki/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /hpsw/mail/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:/hpsw/mail/users/%u/dovecot:INBOX=/hpsw/mail/users/%u/MBOX mbox_read_locks: dotlock fcntl mail_executable(default): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /hpsw/mail/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] master user can not login with digest-md5 password
by Daniel 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi! I'm trying to use a master user, here is what I'm doing: dovecot.conf: auth default { [...] passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot.passdb_master pass = yes master = yes } passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot.passdb } [...] } (Dovecot said that one can not place the passdb containing "master = yes" last, why?) This only works if the master user (in the master passwd file) has PLAIN password scheme. It doesn't work with DIGEST-MD5. Here is the log when it's in DIGEST-MD5: auth(default): passdb(master,84.x.x.x,master): Master user logging in as leva auth(default): digest-md5(leva,84.x.x.x): password mismatch imap-login: Disconnected: user=<leva>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=84.x.x.x, lip=212.x.x.x, TLS When the master password is in PLAIN scheme, I can login as anyone. I'm using dovecot-1.1beta4. Daniel

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[Dovecot] Messages not marked as read
by Manilal K M 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hello everybody, Recently I have migrated my IMAP server from Courier-IMAP to dovecot. The migration was successful and all the users are happy due to the speed of the new IMAP server. We are using Horde-3.2+IMP-4.2 as the webmail client. But one of the users is having some unusual issues with his mailbox. Whenever he clicked and open a new email, it's never marked as read. He has to click and open several times to get it marked as "Read". I checked the dovecot version and found that we have a unstable version. So I upgraded to the latest stable version(1.0.5). But still occasionally he has the same issue. Does anyone have experienced similar issue. Please share. regards -- Manilal K M. http://linuxeyes.blogspot.com http://flossvalley.blogspot.com Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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[Dovecot] Keywords (labels) support via virtual folders
by Robert Tomanek 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi all, while I am rather a beginner when it comes to IMAP, I was thinking whether it would be possible (and feasible) to implement setting and unsetting of IMAP keywords with the means of virtual folders in Dovecot. The background is that the IMAP keywords seem to be a very useful thing to me: I would often like to be able to 'tag' a message so that it is easy to group with other similar messages and easy to find/ browse later. The problem is that not all IMAP clients support this functionality (as far as I am aware, mine which happens to be The Bat! does not); the only way of achieving similar results is using regular folders for grouping messages but this has several disadvantages, the most prominent one being unable to assign more than one 'tag' to a message this way (without copying a message). What I am thinking of is a server-side 'helper' that intends to achieve functionality similar to native client keywords support by the means of providing 'virtual folders' (as opposed to regular folders that we've known for a long time). The server would expose a list of virtual folders (user defined, either server-side by modifying the configuration, or client-side, by using the existing 'create regular folder' folder functionality but using a special name format that would be recognized by the server to be virtual folder related). These virtual folders would, upon moving a message to them, apply a keyword to the message (but the message would not be moved as it would be the case with regular folders). Upon moving a message from a virtual folder, the keyword would be reset. This means that the messages would not normally be moved from their place in existing hard folder structure but they would additionally be flagged with a keyword (or more of them) and be visible in respective virtual folders. The result is: - keywords support for clients that do not natively support it, - leaving existing message folder structure intact, - support for multiple keywords/ labels per message (one virtual folder = one keyword), - browsing flagged messages via respective virtual folders. What do you think of it? While I've been toying with this and similar ideas for a long time, what I propose above is of course heavily influenced by the recent addition of IMAP access to Gmail ([1]). While I still do not have it enabled for my account, I presume this is how the Gmail labels get translated to IMAP client ([2], [3]). [1] https://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12760 [2] https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657&topic=12762 [3] https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78758&topic=12762 -- Best regards, Robert Tomanek mailto:dovecot@mail.robert.tomanek.org

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[Dovecot] few questions about 1.1*
by Daniel 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi! I'm testing 1.1, and have some questions. (How) Can I override the default maildir++ quota setting (I mean quota_rule) in the userdb, so that one won't have quota at all. Right now I'm setting a very high limit in the userdb with quota_rule=*:storage=99G in the extra field. Prior to 1.1 I was using 1.0 and had fs quota. I've had set up dovecot so that the indexes were stored on another partition where there were no fs quotas for the users. Now I'm trying to use maildir++ quota, and wondering if there is still any use of keeping the index files on a separate partition. This will be maybe a bit stupid, but do I still need the quota plugin to be loaded in the protocol {imap,pop3,lda} sections if I'm using the above mentioned new 1.1 maildir++ quota? Furthermore, will deliver be aware of the new quota system? Thanks! Daniel

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[Dovecot] append bug in 1.1beta4?
by Daniel 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Hi! I'm guessing this is the append bug which is still present in dovecot-1.1beta4?: Info: IMAP(leva): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=31665/119125 This happens after sending a mail, and trying upload/copy that mail from my local "Sent" folder to my IMAP server's Sent folder. Daniel

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[Dovecot] Two certificates ?
by Lars Johansen 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Hi We have a dovecot server running both pop and imap, we have pop.domain.ltd and imap.domain.ltd going to the same server, is there any possibility make dovecot use two certificates? one for pop.domain.ltd and one for imap.domain.ltd? Greetings, Lars

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[Dovecot] sieve filtering, rewriting subjects
by Ian P. Christian 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Is it possible to modify an emails subject line in a sieve script? I've seen references to 'addtag' whilst googling, but it appears dovecots implementation doens't support it - are there any other methods? As a side note, can anyone suggest a web based script editor that works? Simply a text area to write the script in would do Thanks, -- Ian P. Christian ~ pookey.co.uk

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[Dovecot] SSL help needed - "no root certificate"
by Jim Gottlieb 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Hi. I've spent the past few hours trying to get SSL working right in Dovecot 1.0.5 and now I must turn to you for help. I purchased an SSL certificate from Go Daddy. I pointed ssl_cert_file to the .crt file and ssl_key_file to the .key file, but the client (Mail.app) complains: Mail was unable to verify the identity of this server, which has a certificate issued to "imap.nccom.com". The error was: There is no root certificate for this server. So I tried downloading Go Daddy's root certificate and pointing ssl_ca_file to that file, but that didn't help. So I tried pointing ssl_ca_file to the intermediate certificate sent to me by Go Daddy, but that breaks things to the point where I never even get the above message; just nothing happens at all. I'm not sure what to try next and am happy to entertain any suggestions. Thanks...

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crashing with "Status userdb: Empty key (=)"
by Mark Maynereid 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hi, Dovecot is crashing at startup on my system: mantrid:/etc/apt# tail /var/log/mail.err Oct 25 17:10:50 mantrid dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 25 17:10:50 mantrid dovecot: auth(default): Status userdb: Empty key (=) Oct 25 17:10:50 mantrid dovecot: child 21810 (auth) returned error 89 Oct 25 17:10:51 mantrid dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, I have also noticed this error: mantrid:/home/vmail# tail /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log deliver(support(a)unitdb.com): "2007-10-25 04:59:54 "Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory I've been trying to implement the tutorial at: http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ which seemed to be going well until the end of step 6 and I've posted a message on their mailing list but figured this looks like a deeper problem hence the post here also. System info: dovecot-common 1.0.rc15-2etch1 dovecot-imapd 1.0.rc15-2etch1 dovecot-pop3d 1.0.rc15-2etch1 Debian stable 4.0 (Etch) but running mixed on some packages Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Ext3 filesystem mantrid:/etc/init.d# dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n auth default: mechanisms: plain login debug: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail Can anyone help? Thanks, Mark

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[Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client
by Eli 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

I am trying to get TLS to work with Outlook 2007 and I've hit a small problem. Whenever I start it up, I get this error: "The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified. The target principal name is incorrect." (yes/no choice of trusting) I first tried with a wildcard cert (*.elisand.com), and then tried with mail.elisand.com - both certs are from cacert.org and the root CA certs are installed and functioning properly on my system (so the certs should be trusted). I've searched all over Google and such trying to find out why Outlook would give me this error from an IMAP/TLS connection (closest I could find was Exchange related info), and I know this is by no means an Outlook mailing list... though I'm just wondering if anyone else on here has ever encountered this problem before and could point me in the right direction to getting the SSL cert working with Outlook. Thanks in advance!

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[Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question
by Lars Stavholm 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Is it possible to serve both POP3 and IMAP for the same user from the same mailbox format, e.g. the maildir format? If so, how should I configure in dovecot.conf? At the moment I have (dovecot -n): # 1.1.beta2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Mail mail_full_filesystem_access: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota trash dspam expire autocreate mail_plugins(imap): quota trash dspam expire autocreate mail_plugins(pop3): quota expire mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login gssapi username_format: %n passdb: driver: pam args: blocking=yes dovecot userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: fs:storage=102400 trash: /etc/dovecot/trash.conf sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve dspam: /usr/sbin/dspam:Spam:nosignature:Trash:users autocreate: Spam I.e., I use the same mail_location for both POP3 and IMAP. However, mails are delivered to ~/Mail/inbox and seems to be invisible to both my IMAP and POP3 client (Thunderbird). Any input appreciated /Lars

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[Dovecot] How to debug slow operation
by zbigniew szalbot 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hello, I am no programmer at all. I have dovecot set up on two very similar machines. On one of the boxes, the dovecot server has recently been showing slower response times. It feels slower. Where it is slower, dovecot works as an auth server for postfix. I have replaced exim with postfix on that box and I think since then dovecot started to slow down. On the other machine the MTA is exim. I'd like to ask how to go about debugging the problem. Neither machine serves many users, the one that is slower has currently only two. It's a home setup really. Here's the output of dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Server ready. verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 125 first_valid_gid: 125 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-postfix-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-postfix-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix Many thanks for your suggestions! Zbigniew Szalbot

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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta4 released
by Timo Sirainen 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta4.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta4.tar.gz.sig Lots of fixes since beta3, but apparently there are still a few bugs left: - Is SORT working? - APPEND seems to have problems in some setups. - Still some SEARCH TEXT problems? Or Squat indexing problems?

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[Dovecot] graceful failure when some folders are not available...
by bhayden＠umn.edu 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hi folks. Quick question in the hopes that someone knows the answer, before I dig in the code some more. In testing a new setup with some long-term archival mbox-format mailboxes stored on an NFS mount, we've found the following: if the mount is unavailable for any reason, the user cannot log into their email at all. Dovecot says: "stat() failed with mbox foo" and dies. This is coming from the mbox sync checks. (It's possible the same happens with a maildir folder--I'm just specifying mbox because that's what we've tested with so far). Is there a way to reconfigure this behavior? I could maybe see a fatal abort if the inbox is unavailable, but for other folders it seems rather... presumptuous. I have to think there's already a way to handle this more gracefully in the config and I'm just not seeing it. Also, does anyone know offhand if this behavior is the same for folders that aren't in the default/inbox namespace? That would seem *really* wrong. Any thoughts? Thanks much, -Brian

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Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta4 released
by Jeff Grossman 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

>> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta4.tar.gz >> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta4.tar.gz.sig >> >> Lots of fixes since beta3, but apparently there are still a few bugs >> left: >> >> - Is SORT working? >> - APPEND seems to have problems in some setups. >> - Still some SEARCH TEXT problems? Or Squat indexing problems? > > I just installed Beta 4 and do not seem to have the APPEND problem with > Squirrelmail anymore. I am running Squirrelmail 1.4.11. I guess nevermind. This message that I just sent did the error which was a reply. But, a new message I created earlier today after installing Beta 4 worked fine. Maybe it has something to do with replies versus new messages. Jeff

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Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta4 released
by Jeff Grossman 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta4.tar.gz > http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta4.tar.gz.sig > > Lots of fixes since beta3, but apparently there are still a few bugs > left: > > - Is SORT working? > - APPEND seems to have problems in some setups. > - Still some SEARCH TEXT problems? Or Squat indexing problems? I just installed Beta 4 and do not seem to have the APPEND problem with Squirrelmail anymore. I am running Squirrelmail 1.4.11. Jeff

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[Dovecot] trying to enable features
by Ray 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hello all, I'm trying to enable 3 different features in my mail system (postfix, amavisd, dovecot). 1)out of office auto reply 2)script execution based on email 3)automatically add disclaimer/signature to outgoing email (also listed in order of importance to me) I'm looking for pointers to documentation or instructions. It seems that 1 and 2 would best be done in dovecot somewhere, while 3 is probably best implemented in postfix. (my next step is postfix documentation) Can anybody provide any suggestions or pointers to a how to or other documentation? Thanks, Ray

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[Dovecot] beta2-beta4 moving mail between accounts broken
by David Favor 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I've upgraded to latest Thunderbird client and recompiled latest dovecot source repository code and this problem still persists. I have two accounts which I've been transferring email between for months. Now when I attempt this the following loop begins and the only way to stop it is to restart both Thunderbird and dovecot. Let me know how to Oct 23 07:53:49 net1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<david(a)coolsurf.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.155.185.14, lip=69.94.137.124, TLS Oct 23 07:53:50 net1 dovecot: IMAP(david(a)coolsurf.com): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=16450/0 Oct 23 07:53:50 net1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<david(a)coolsurf.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.155.185.14, lip=69.94.137.124, TLS Oct 23 07:53:51 net1 dovecot: IMAP(david(a)coolsurf.com): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=16450/0 Oct 23 07:53:51 net1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<david(a)coolsurf.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.155.185.14, lip=69.94.137.124, TLS Oct 23 07:53:51 net1 dovecot: IMAP(david(a)coolsurf.com): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=16450/0 Oct 23 07:53:52 net1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<david(a)coolsurf.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.155.185.14, lip=69.94.137.124, TLS Oct 23 07:53:52 net1 dovecot: IMAP(david(a)coolsurf.com): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=16450/0 My config is: net1#/common/pkgs/dovecot-1.1.beta4-2007-10-23/sbin/dovecot -n -c /tools/conf/dovecot/dovecot-node1.conf # 1.1.beta4-2007-10-23: /tools/conf/dovecot/dovecot-node1.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imaps ssl_listen: 69.94.137.124:10943 ssl_cert_file: /tools/conf/dovecot-certs/coolsurf.com/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /tools/conf/dovecot-certs/coolsurf.com/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /common/pkgs/dovecot-1.1.beta4-2007-10-23/libexec/dovecot/imap-login auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /tools/conf/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /tools/conf/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf -- Love feeling your best ever, all day, every day? Email join(a)RadicalHealth.com for the easy way.

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[Dovecot] beta 1.1-3 compile fails on solaris 9 sparc, cc.
by lenny＠edpausa.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/opt/SUNWconn/crypto/include -xjobs=4 -c file-set-size.c "/usr/include/sys/resource.h", line 126: incomplete struct/union/enum timeval: ru_utime "file-set-size.c", line 26: warning: implicit function declaration: ftruncate "file-set-size.c", line 38: warning: implicit function declaration: pwrite cc: acomp failed for file-set-size.c *** Error code 2 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `file-set-size.o' Current working directory /mnt/sho/src/dovecot/1.1-3/dovecot-1.1.beta3/src/lib *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' Current working directory /mnt/sho/src/dovecot/1.1-3/dovecot-1.1.beta3/src/lib *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /mnt/sho/src/dovecot/1.1-3/dovecot-1.1.beta3/src *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /mnt/sho/src/dovecot/1.1-3/dovecot-1.1.beta3 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

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[Dovecot] SEARCH TEXT does not seem to search headers
by Asheesh Laroia 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

The RFC says <http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3501.txt> this: TEXT <string> Messages that contain the specified string in the header or body of the message. But with the current hg tip (see linked rawlogs), SEARCH TEXT provides results disjoint from SEARCH FROM. I guess that's a bug? http://paulproteus.acm.jhu.edu/bug-report/2007-10-22/20071022-125604-622.out and http://paulproteus.acm.jhu.edu/bug-report/2007-10-22/20071022-125604-622.in -- Asheesh. P.S. Sorry to be so noisy lately.... -- And that's the way it is... -- Walter Cronkite

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Re: [Dovecot] pam_ldap.so memory leaks?
by Flannery, Andrew 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Thank you for the speedy response! >> The dovecot-auth process' VmRSS size grows by 4k per request and has a >> limit of 256megs. > The main dovecot-auth or dovecot-auth -w processes'? dovecot-auth -w is the culprit. >> Okay the question: In dovecot 1.1.0 beta3 I see that blocking=yes is >> now on, no matter what. Has something been done to address potential >> memory leaks in pam modules? > # Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process. > This may > # be useful if PAM plugins leak memory. > #auth_worker_max_request_count = 0 This looks promising, thanks!

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[Dovecot] Courier to Dovecot: problems with folders
by Claudio Strizzolo 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hi all, I am migrating a maildir Courier-IMAP installation to Dovecot. Almost everything seems to work well, but I still have problems accessing subfolders. First let's see what I have done. I used the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script suggested in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier to convert mailboxes from Courier to Dovecot. No problems here. My dovecot.conf contains this: (...) mail_location = maildir:/mail/vmail/domains/%h namespace private { prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } (...) The subscriptions file in the mailboxes looks correct to me. It includes all the folders and subfolders, i.e.: Sent Trash Drafts mail.dovecot mail.misc mail.postmaster tools web.apache web.css Folders separated by "." are actually subfolders: mail ---- dovecot | --- misc | --- postmaster I let the configuration of my IMAP clients unchanged from Courier to Dovecot. That is, they specify the "INBOX." prefix, as before. For instance, with Pine: folder-collections=mymail {mymail.example.com/user=John.Smith}INBOX.[] Now the problem: I get different behaviours depending on the client I use to access to Dovecot: - Thunderbird: All the folders are seen correctly. But the whole folders tree is under "Inbox", while with Courier the first-level folders (i.e. Drafts, mail, web) were at the same level of Inbox - Webmail (Squirrelmail 1.4.8): The same as above. - Pine: The folders are apparently correct, and are not under Inbox, but I can access only the first-level folders: the folders containing sub-folders are empty, therefore the subfolders cannot be accessed. Any hints? Thanks in advance Claudio

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[Dovecot] Squirrelmail: "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server."
by Jakob Hirsch 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hi, running the current version from http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/ (but the same happens with 1.1.beta3) After yesterday's patches, squirrelmail (tested with 1.4.11 and 1.4.10a) complains when appending to the Sent folder (after sending a message): ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: SELECT "INBOX" dovecot's log says dovecot: IMAP(jh): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=12780/37798 I have captured the conversation with tcpdump (http://plonk.de/imap.cap) and it looks like dovecot is closing the connection. With Thunderbird it works just fine. Regards, Jakob

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[Dovecot] pam_ldap.so memory leaks?
by Flannery, Andrew 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hello List, I have a question about dovecot-1.1.0-beta3 but first I'll ramble a little bit: Recently I upgraded a 0.99 installation of dovecot to 1.0.5. All went relatively smoothly until the dovecot-auth process began returning "out of memory" after a day. There is a rather large user base here. The current setup is using passdb pam with blocking=yes, with pam_ldap.so handling most authentication (although in special cases I am using a custom written pam module which I have disabled to eliminate as the source of the leak). The dovecot-auth process' VmRSS size grows by 4k per request and has a limit of 256megs. Unfortunately turning blocking=yes off isn't an option. The reason I must have it turned on is that the custom pam module is changing the username on specific requests. I am trying to pinpoint the memory leak (pam_ldap is my biggest suspect right now though I'm going to try running valgrind on a test system). For now I have set shutdown_clients=no and am restarting dovecot at regular intervals. Okay the question: In dovecot 1.1.0 beta3 I see that blocking=yes is now on, no matter what. Has something been done to address potential memory leaks in pam modules? Thanks, -Andrew

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed: (pos < input->size)
by Asheesh Laroia 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Oct 21 10:04:05 alchemy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<paulproteus>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS Oct 21 10:05:44 alchemy dovecot: IMAP(paulproteus): file message-decoder.c: line 289 (message_decode_body): assertion failed: (pos < input->size) Oct 21 10:05:44 alchemy dovecot: IMAP(paulproteus): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80c8e10] -> imap [0x80c8d1c] -> imap(message_decoder_decode_next_block+0x868) [0x80c58a8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so [0xb7f7f2f5] -> imap [0x805f526] -> imap [0x805f8a8] -> imap(io_loop_handle_timeouts+0x10b) [0x80cf71b] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x69) [0x80d0169] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80cf5f8] -> imap(main+0x4ac) [0x8068dec] -> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7e29050] -> imap [0x805b941] Oct 21 10:05:44 alchemy dovecot: child 14390 (imap) killed with signal 6 Assertion failed. This happened when doing a "SEARCH TEXT delicious". I have to run out and buy ingredients for a birthday cake, so I thought I'd email this very terse message to the list in case it was some help, and if you need more info just reply saying "more info" and I'll go through the usual debugging steps. -- Asheesh. -- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli

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[Dovecot] Best version for production systems?
by Mitch Pirtle 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hi dovecotters, I have a system running 1.0rc1 right now and am having problems (more on that later). I know that 1.0.5 is "current" but I'm running Debian Stable (Etch) and have reservations of upgrading until nothing works anymore ;-) Do I really need to make the upgrade to 1.0.5, and if so can anyone here point out how to do so using the standard Debian apt-get process? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] Suggested IMAP Directory Size..
by Ilo Lorusso 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hi, ive walked into a enviroment where the previous admin has being using pop and making the email clients leaving a copy of the mail on the workstation.. Now overtime these mailboxes (mbox format) have grown between 1,5 to 1,8 Gigs large I want to convert all these mailbox to IMAP (only 15) and want to know whats the largested suggest folder size per user dovecot IMAP runs smoothly with good responce times.. I know the users also have large OUT LOOK pst files 4.5GIGs and wondering if I could also intergrate that into IMAP? Please any feedback would be great on this topic..??

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[Dovecot] Migrating from UW IMAP - pine - Thunderbird - squirrelmail
by Israel Bravo 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hello! I saw your post to the mailing list (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-January/010968.html) where you write "A description for pine with imap acces without entering any password is also discussed.", but I didn't find such description in this post. Would you be so kind to point me to some source where it is explained - currently users have to insert the password twice - when they open the shell window and when they start Pine. Another question - may be you can help me: Currently we use Pine with IMAP (dovecot); both INBOX and folder collection are saved on the Linux server. But how to save the "saved-messages" and "sent-mail" folders in the user's home directory on the server? Thank you for help, -- _________________________________________________________ | Israel Bravo Unix system administrator | The faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, | Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel | Phone: 972-4-829-4428 http://ie.technion.ac.il/~bravo/ |________________________________________________________

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[Dovecot] more problems with dovecot-1.1 beta3
by Sergey 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Hi, Thank you for pointing me about -xc99 flag, I have compiled and installed dovecot inplace of version 1.0.5 without any special actions on the upgrade. And after starting it immediately got in it's log file messages like: --- dovecot: Oct 16 23:10:18 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.git-altlinux-ru/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument --- I have tried to delete dovecot.index.cache files from imap directories, but this did not helped: --- dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:24 Error: IMAP(seriv): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.log: indexid changed 1189182277 -> 1192593117 dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:24 Error: IMAP(seriv): Index file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index: indexid changed: 1189182277 -> 1192593117 dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:24 Error: IMAP(seriv): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.log: indexid changed: 1189182277 -> 1192593117 dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:28 Error: IMAP(seriv): /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index view is inconsistent dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:28 Panic: IMAP(seriv): file client.c: line 105: assertion failed: (!client->destroyed) dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:28 Error: IMAP(seriv): Raw backtrace: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'i_internal_fatal_handler+0x48 [0x8135118] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'i _panic+0x23 [0x8134b03] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'client_destroy+0x33 [0x808ee43] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'client_continue_pending_input+0x5d [0x808fac d] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'idle_finish+0xfa [0x808348a] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'cmd_idle_continue+0x46 [0x8083776] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/i map'client_command_cancel+0x4a [0x808ec6a] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'client_destroy+0x10b [0x808ef1b] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'client_continue_pending_ input+0x5d [0x808facd] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'idle_finish+0xfa [0x808348a] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'cmd_idle_continue+0x202 [0x8083932] -> /opt/dove cot/libexec/dovecot/imap'idle_sync_now+0x84 [0x80836b4] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'idle_callback+0x5b [0x808371b] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'check_timeout +0x14c [0x80e323c] -> / dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:28 Error: IMAP(seriv): opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'io_loop_handle_timeouts+0x217 [0x813d057] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'io_loop_handler_r un+0x8d [0x813d9dd] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'io_loop_run+0x4b [0x813d14b] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap'main+0x9a [0x809f18a] -> /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovec ot/imap'_start+0x7d [0x807c95d] dovecot: Oct 16 23:52:28 Error: child 7529 (imap) killed with signal 6 --- Then I have tried to delete all dovecot.index* files from there, but the messages in dovecot.log are almost the same: --- deliver(seriv): Oct 18 14:59:49 Error: file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:35 Error: IMAP(seriv): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. dovecot: Oct 18 15:01:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument deliver(seriv): Oct 18 15:01:38 Error: file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.sisyphus-cybertalk-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: In valid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:02:57 Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration dovecot: Oct 18 15:02:58 Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 384). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count a nd max_mail_processes settings dovecot: Oct 18 15:03:13 Warning: Killed with signal 15 deliver(seriv): Oct 18 15:04:07 Error: file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.community-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid arg ument deliver(seriv): Oct 18 15:04:23 Error: file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.Trash/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument deliver(seriv): Oct 18 15:04:50 Error: file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/.community-lists-altlinux-org/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid arg ument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:36 Error: IMAP(seriv): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. dovecot: Oct 18 15:06:37 Error: IMAP(seriv): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/imap/seriv/.imap/dovecot.index.cache: Invalid argument --- One more problem is with fd limit: I have a small dovecot installation, so don't want to increase fd limit. I tried to decreasee max_mail_processes, login_max_processes_count and login_max_connections, but still I have --- # /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.beta3: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 384). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings log_path: /tmp/dovecot.log info_log_path: /tmp/dovecot.debug protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/parkheights.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/parkheights.key login_dir: /opt/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_max_connections: 120 max_mail_processes: 128 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/%n/.imap mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen master: path: /opt/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail bash-3.00# grep login_max /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf login_max_processes_count = 128 # 16 + login_max_connections * 2 available file descriptors. login_max_connections = 120 bash-3.00# grep max_mail /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf max_mail_processes = 128 --- So I reverted to 1.0.5 which works fine for me. -- WBR, Sergey Ivanov.

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[Dovecot] assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_existing_name(_list, name))
by Adam McDougall 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

When I was initially testing dovecot 1.1b2,3 I had ACLs turned on and encountered this problem below. I had them turned off until now, I'll need to have ACLs working before I can widen testing. I'm not sure how to make "env MAIL=maildir:~/Maildir gdb /tmp/imap" load the ACL plugin so I assume that is why it does not crash; not getting any log either from that, maybe I made a mistake? But when running mutt, I can load it up with the inbox, then when I ask for imap://server/mail/ it crashes with the assertion at the bottom. Let me know if I need to provide more info. Thanks. Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mcdouga9>, method=PLAIN, rip=35.9.44.65, lip=35.9.37.169 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Effective uid=21281, gid=3002, home=/home/mcdouga9 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Namespace: type=public, prefix=#shared/decs/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): maildir: data=/egr/mail/shared/decs:CONTROL=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/public/control/decs:INDEX=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/public/indexes/decs Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): maildir++: root=/egr/mail/shared/decs, index=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/public/indexes/decs, control=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/public/control/decs, inbox=/egr/mail/shared/decs Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: acl username = mcdouga9 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: owner = 0 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Namespace: type=private, prefix=mail/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): maildir: data=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir:CONTROL=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/control:INDEX=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/indexes Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): maildir++: root=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir, index=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/indexes, control=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/control, inbox=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: acl username = mcdouga9 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: owner = 1 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): maildir: data=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir:CONTROL=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/control:INDEX=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/indexes Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): maildir++: root=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir, index=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/indexes, control=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot11testing/private/control, inbox=/home/mcdouga9/Maildir Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: acl username = mcdouga9 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl: owner = 1 Oct 21 12:57:16 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls Oct 21 12:57:20 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl vfile: file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls//.DEFAULT not found Oct 21 12:57:20 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl vfile: file /home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Oct 21 12:57:20 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl vfile: file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls//.DEFAULT not found Oct 21 12:57:20 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): acl vfile: file /home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Oct 21 12:57:20 gribble dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): file mailbox-list-maildir.c: line 186 (maildir_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_existing_name(_list, name)) Oct 21 12:57:20 gribble dovecot: child 72205 (imap) killed with signal 6

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Re: [Dovecot] Search Problem (Was Namespace)
by Jeff Grossman 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

-----Original Message----- From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> To: "Jeff Grossman" <jeff(a)stikman.com> Cc: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: 10/20/2007 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Search Problem (Was Namespace) On 21.10.2007, at 4.21, Jeff Grossman wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On 21.10.2007, at 3.58, Jeff Grossman wrote: >> >>> 2 search since 6-Sep-2007 >> .. >>> Oct 20 17:54:47 apple IMAP(jeff): : since: 1190593264 vs 2147483647 >>> Oct 20 17:54:47 apple IMAP(jeff): : since: 1190829893 vs 2147483647 >> >> I guess utc_mktime() doesn't work correctly for some reason. What >> are TIME_T_MAX_BITS and TIME_T_SIGNED in your config.h? You've >> 32bit system? >> > Yes, this is a 32-bit system. I did test it with TIME_T_MAX_BITS=32, but looks like I never tested it with actual 32bit systems. This should fix it: http:// hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/4fb613eb8ce9 It is all fixed. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] Upgrade from 1.0.1 -> 1.0.5 failed (rc 75)
by Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, I'm using a mixture of Exim, Dovecot and Deliver. Exim receives the mail and validates the user against our database, then pipes the e-mail to deliver which puts it in the right mailbox. We were running Exim 4.67 and Dovecot 1.0.1, and today I did an in-place upgrade to Dovecot 1.0.5 and Exim 4.68. However, now Exim is failing deliveries saying deliver returned code 75. If I examine the dovecot log file, I'm getting errors like: deliver(andy.shellam-lists(a)mailnetwork.co.uk): Oct 21 17:19:49 Fatal: chroot(/users/mail/andy.shellam-lists(a)mailnetwork.co.uk) failed: Operation not permitted All mailboxes are owned by user "dovecot-mail" and group "localservice", with user and group having full permissions, and other having no access (0770). None of the config files (Exim nor Dovecot's) have changed, nor have permissions on the mailbox paths, and Dovecot can still access the mailboxes through IMAP just fine. If I delete the dovecot log-file and force a mail delivery, the log gets re-created with mode 0644 and owner dovecot-auth:localservice, which confirms the user running dovecot is the same group, so why doesn't it have permissions? I've read on another message that return code 75 is EX_TEMPFAIL, what does this mean? My sendmail_path is the correct path to Exim, verified by killing Exim and copying and pasting the command to start it back up again. Any advice would be appreciated, as I may have to restore back to 1.0.1. Thanks, Andy dovecot -n: # 1.0.5: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /mndata/logs/dovecot.current.log protocols: imap ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: dovecot-login login_greeting: SystemVDM2 ready. login_processes_count: 5 valid_chroot_dirs: /mndata/mail mail_chroot: /mndata/mail first_valid_uid: 1013 last_valid_uid: 1013 first_valid_gid: 1002 last_valid_gid: 1002 mail_extra_groups: localservice mailbox_idle_check_interval: 60 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: mailnetwork.co.uk user: dovecot-auth username_translation: +@ username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: dovecot-auth group: localservice

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[Dovecot] Problem building Dovecot from hg
by Asheesh Laroia 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I did an hg pull; hg update, and now my Dovecot working copy doesn't build: ../../src/lib-storage/index/dbox/libstorage_dbox.a(dbox-file.o): In function `dbox_file_metadata_get': /home/paulproteus/dnlds/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/dbox/dbox-file.c:820: undefined reference to `dbox_file_maildir_metadata_get' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [imap] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paulproteus/dnlds/dovecot/src/imap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paulproteus/dnlds/dovecot/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paulproteus/dnlds/dovecot' make: *** [all] Error 2 I made it compile on my system by commenting out the return on that line and making it return NULL, but presumably you want it to actually do something. (-: -- Asheesh. -- Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice -- only the willingness to make it when necessary. -- Frederick Dunn

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[Dovecot] Segfault by asking for a folder?
by Asheesh Laroia 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I 'hg pull'ed and now my Dovecot segfaults when I select a particular folder. I've removed all files with 'index' in the name, so I don't think it's due to bad indexes. Oct 21 09:18:40 alchemy dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.beta3 starting up Oct 21 09:18:47 alchemy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<paulproteus>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS Oct 21 09:18:47 alchemy dovecot: child 28714 (imap) killed with signal 11 is in syslog. I haven't stripped the binaries as far as I know, yet here's what seems to happen in gdb: paulproteus@alchemy:~/dovecot.rawlog $ gdb dovecot [snip] This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) set args --exec-mail imap (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED] Logged in as paulproteus 01 SELECT pinerc Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Cannot remove breakpoints because program is no longer writable. It might be running in another process. Further execution is probably impossible. 0x08073d0d in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x08073d0d in ?? () #1 0xbff92f70 in ?? () #2 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) bt full #0 0x08073d0d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbff92f70 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. (gdb) Uh? It seems to also segfault the same way if I select INBOX. -- Asheesh. -- You'll never see all the places, or read all the books, but fortunately, they're not all recommended.

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[Dovecot] dovecot? putting wrong seperator in subscriptions file
by Adam McDougall 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

My config has folders show up in the root namespace as well as hidden ones like mail/ for compat. In thunderbird when I set the namespace prefix to mail/, I effectively cannot subscribe to folders. You can pull up the folder list, select some folders to subscribe to, hit okay, and nothing changes in thunderbird: 3 subscribe "mail/Spam" 3 OK Subscribe completed. 4 lsub "" "mail/*" 4 OK Lsub completed. What gets put in my subscriptions file: mail.Spam If I manually change my subscriptions file to mail/Spam, it works as expected. # dovecot -n # 1.1.beta3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/cert.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 0 mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_plugins: mail_log mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_logout_format: bbytes=%i/%o username=%u namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes hidden: yes namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls

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[Dovecot] two small low importance issues in 1.1b
by Adam McDougall 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Item 1: I store the indexes and control in their own directory. I noticed in 1.1: 1192 ./private/indexes/.INBOX 32 ./private/indexes/.Trash 1228 ./private/indexes 4 ./private/control/.INBOX/.INBOX 84 ./private/control/.INBOX 4 ./private/control/.Trash/.Trash 12 ./private/control/.Trash 100 ./private/control 1332 ./private .INBOX/.INBOX and .Trash/.Trash are both empty. This was an empty directory, I logged in with thunderbird and looked at the inbox and Trash folders. Item 2: I wanted to try imap_logout_format, forgetting what params it uses and taking a stab at it, but it seems to be ignored? It shows up in dovecot -n. I made it 'bbytes' just to see if the intentional typo would come through, but no: imap_logout_format: bbytes=%i/%o username=%u dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=439/169567

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.1.beta3 crashes on NetBSD/sparc64 4.0_RC3 with Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
by Lloyd Parkes 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi all, I'm getting core dumps from Dovecot when using Thunderbird as a client. Everything is fine when using the Apple Mail client. I've appended the debug dumps to this message so they are out of the way, but they should be read now. I think the problem might be that io->prev and io->next aren't reliably initialised in ioloop.c:io_add. The value that io->prev has when the program crashes is just completely bogus. It isn't aligned correctly, and it doesn't point to anywhere inside the process's memory map. I don't know what *io->next is, but it sure doesn't look like a struct io_file. It doesn't even look like a struct io. Part of the garbage in *io->next is the char sequence "/vol/home/lloyd/Maildir/new" which is part of my mail box. *io is not in the doubly linked list in current_io_look->io_files. I'm guessing that this object has been unlinked already. Some further digging (not shown here) shows that io->callback is notify_callback. It is set to NULL by the time imap crashes. Here are all the gory GDB details: Version: 1.1.beta3 OS: NetBSD 4.0_RC3/sparc64 (a 64 bit big endian architecture) Client: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 bt full: #0 0x00000000001e846c in io_file_unlink (io=0x32e2c0) at ioloop.c:54 No locals. #1 0x00000000001e8568 in io_remove (_io=0x3420a8) at ioloop.c:82 io_file = (struct io_file *) 0x32e2c0 io = (struct io *) 0x32e2c0 #2 0x000000000017a0a4 in index_mailbox_check_remove_all (ibox=0x331048) at index-mailbox-check.c:118 file = (struct index_notify_file *) 0x0 aio = (struct index_notify_io *) 0x3420a0 #3 0x0000000000139850 in maildir_notify_changes (box=0x331048) at maildir-storage.c:824 mbox = (struct maildir_mailbox *) 0x331048 #4 0x00000000001c0724 in mailbox_notify_changes (box=0x331048, min_interval=0, callback=0, context=0x0) at mail-storage.c:544 No locals. #5 0x00000000001c074c in mailbox_notify_changes_stop (box=0x331048) at mail-storage.c:550 No locals. #6 0x00000000001167fc in idle_finish (ctx=0x3380b0, done_ok=true, free_cmd=true) at cmd-idle.c:48 client = (struct client *) 0x334100 #7 0x0000000000116a04 in idle_client_input (ctx=0x3380b0) at cmd-idle.c:90 client = (struct client *) 0x334100 line = 0x33a075 "DONE" #8 0x00000000001ea2ac in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x320080) at ioloop-kqueue.c:149 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x32e080 events = (struct kevent *) 0x332000 event = (const struct kevent *) 0x332000 tv = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 999441} ts = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 999441000} io = (struct io_file *) 0x320a80 events_count = 4 t_id = 2 msecs = 1000 ret = 1 i = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "io_loop_handler_run" #9 0x00000000001e8f28 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x320080) at ioloop.c:303 No locals. #10 0x000000000012d710 in main (argc=1, argv=0xffffffffffffc978, envp=0xffffffffffffc988) at main.c:293 No locals. More GDB Info: (gdb) print *io $2 = {io = {condition = 0, callback = 0, context = 0x331048}, prev = 0x10000000d, next = 0x32e280, refcount = 0, fd = 0} (gdb) print *io->next $18 = {io = {condition = 0, callback = 0, context = 0x471a982100000000}, prev = 0x0, next = 0x2f766f6c2f686f6d, refcount = 1697606764, fd = 1870226479} (gdb) print *current_ioloop->io_files $35 = {io = {condition = IO_READ, callback = 0x1e9284 <event_callback>, context = 0x342080}, prev = 0x0, next = 0x320140, refcount = 1, fd = 11} (gdb) print *current_ioloop->io_files->next $36 = {io = {condition = IO_ERROR, callback = 0x12ca70 <log_error_callback>, context = 0x0}, prev = 0x320a00, next = 0x3200c0, refcount = 1, fd = 2} (gdb) print *current_ioloop->io_files->next->next $37 = {io = {condition = IO_READ, callback = 0x1ea6f0 <signal_read>, context = 0x0}, prev = 0x320140, next = 0x0, refcount = 1, fd = 5} (gdb) print io $1 = (struct io_file *) 0x32e2c0 (gdb) print *current_ioloop $2 = {prev = 0x0, io_files = 0x320a00, next_io_file = 0x0, timeouts = 0x320a40, handler_context = 0x32e080, notify_handler_context = 0x342080, running = 1}

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[Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 1.1b3
by Adam McDougall 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I am testing dovecot 1.1 betas on a testing system, hoping to take advantage of self repairing and NFS-capable indexes when 1.1 is sensible to put into production. I ran into a number of issues that I did not have with 1.0, and I think I'll just pick one or more at a time and report them rather than try to report every single issue at once, hoping that some of the fixes will solve more than one problem. I started with 1.1b2 just for record, but the issues seem to be present in 1.1b3 as well. I realized yesterday that using the acl plugin may be complicating my testing and results, so I have disabled it for now and am connecting with plaintext IMAP just so I can sniff connections and see what is happening. I am running it on FreeBSD 6.2-stable from Sep 19 2007. First my dovecot -n output: # 1.1.beta3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/ssl.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/ssl.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 0 mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_plugins: mail_log mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private2/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private2/indexes hidden: yes list: yes namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls The first thing I did was to try to update my dovecot.conf from 1.0 to work with 1.1. When I started dovecot 1.1 for the first time, I noticed it was listening to 143 but not 993, even though my config was designed for ssl/tls in 1.0 without any listen ports specified: # netstat -a | grep LISTEN | grep imap tcp4 0 0 *.imap *.* LISTEN So, I thought I would try specifying the ports in the config: protocol imap { listen = *:143 ssl_listen = *:993 # .. } Success! # netstat -a | grep LISTEN | grep imap tcp4 0 0 *.imaps *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.imap *.* LISTEN Initially I was then testing using ACLs, but I disabled it to simplify. One of the more basic problems I've seen is the behavior from "list = no/yes". For the sake of simplicity and example, I've disabled most of the additional public and private namespaces from my 1.0 config. I have some private namespaces with prefix "mail/" and "Mail/" that I wish to provide for users for compatability with clients set with those prefixes. In dovecot 1.0, this worked as expected: namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ hidden: yes But in 1.1b2 or b3, I never seem to get a list of the contents under mail/ when I tell mutt to default to servername/mail/ as the default folder path. Cases: hidden = yes list = yes a0006 LIST "" "mail" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "mail" a0006 OK List completed. a0007 LIST "" "mail/%" a0007 OK List completed. mutt lists contents of only "../" and selecting it brings me to the imap root with the expected folders. When ../ is followed, I see all my folders as well as all my folders repeated under mail/ prefix. hidden = yes list = no a0006 LIST "" "mail" a0006 OK List completed. a0007 LIST "" "mail/%" a0007 OK List completed. mutt claims "No such folder" hidden = no list = yes a0006 LIST "" "mail" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "mail" a0006 OK List completed. a0007 LIST "" "mail/%" a0007 OK List completed. mutt lists contents of only "../" and selecting it brings me to the imap root with the expected folders. When ../ is followed, I see all my folders as well as all my folders repeated under mail/ prefix.

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[Dovecot] Problem with fts found against Dovecot hg; examples + trace attached
by Asheesh Laroia 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I've been wanting to try out Squat for full-text indexing for a while now, so I finally gave it a whirl. I did a fresh pull from hg. I have it enabled, but it's taking *forever* to do a query. (Using alpine, I issued a Select command for all messages with some word anywhere, which presumably caused the Squat indexer to run.) I think Dovecot is infinite looping. I thought something was wrong when I attached strace to it for five minutes and saw no calls to read() or open(). I can reproduce the "select takes forever" on a tiny Maildir with 5 messages: http://paulproteus.acm.jhu.edu/bug-report/2007-10-21/broken.tar.gz I've also attached the *.in and *.out files that I think are related to this IMAP conversation. On a different IMAP conversation with the same "SEARCH takes forever" problem, I attached a gdb to the running Dovecot and got this backtrace: (gdb) bt #0 parse_next_body_to_boundary (ctx=0x85746e8, block_r=0xbf92325c) at message-parser.c:332 #1 0x080c1b7d in message_parser_parse_next_block (ctx=0x85746e8, block_r=0xbf92325c) at message-parser.c:717 #2 0xb7f582c2 in fts_mailbox_search_next_nonblock (ctx=0x811c0c0, mail=0x811d380, tryagain_r=0xbf9232bb) at fts-storage.c:175 #3 0x0805f3e6 in cmd_search_more (cmd=0x80feec0) at cmd-search.c:74 #4 0x0805f768 in cmd_search_more_callback (cmd=0x80feec0) at cmd-search.c:112 #5 0x080ce8eb in io_loop_handle_timeouts (ioloop=0x80fb250, update_run_now=true) at ioloop.c:264 #6 0x080cf309 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80fb250) at ioloop-poll.c:159 #7 0x080ce7c8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80fb250) at ioloop.c:303 #8 0x08068c9c in main (argc=135213400, argv=0xbf923464, envp=0xbf92346c) at main.c:293 So I do know that it's using the fts system. Every few minutes, I've interrupted it in gdb, and I have gotten these messages back from gdb: Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. parse_next_body_to_boundary (ctx=0x85746e8, block_r=0xbf92325c) at message-parser.c:332 332 if (data[i] == '\n') { (gdb) cont Continuing. [wait a few minutes] Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. parse_next_body_to_boundary (ctx=0x85746e8, block_r=0xbf92325c) at message-parser.c:331 331 for (; i < block_r->size; i++) { (gdb) cont Continuing. [wait a few minutes] Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. parse_next_body_to_boundary (ctx=0x85746e8, block_r=0xbf92325c) at message-parser.c:332 332 if (data[i] == '\n') { The ctx and block_r are the same at each point I interrupt it. This sounds like an infinite loop to me if it can't exit this for minutes and minutes. Furthermore, for the past couple of minutes, when I do this: (gdb) print block_r[0] $8 = {part = 0x80f3158, hdr = 0x0, data = 0x8240d08 "\n<DIV><BR></DIV>Perhaps, but it is important to note that this is a dissenting<BR>opinion, not part of the actual text of the Holt bill.<BR><BR><BR>--- In <A href=\"mailto:TrueVote@yahoogroups.com\">Tru"..., size = 8192} I always get the same response back. I've linked to a fairly small Maildir (five messages) that reproduces the problem for me. It's possible that only one of those messages is actually at fault; I haven't tried with any Maildir smaller than five messages. Is there something more I can do to help fix this problem? I'm happy to do anything reasonable further if you deem it useful. -- Asheesh. -- Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom: Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.

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[Dovecot] Multiple server sections for SSL
by Wolfram Schlich 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, I would like to achieve the following with my dovecot server: - listen von FQDN 'mail.foo.example.com'/IP 'A' for imaps and pop3s with an SSL certificate for 'mail.foo.example.com' - listen von FQDN 'mail.bar.example.com'/IP 'B' for imaps and pop3s with an SSL certificate for 'mail.bar.example.com' I stumbled over a posting by Timo made in 2004 that got my attention: http://osdir.com/ml/mail.imap.dovecot/2004-07/msg00133.html Now, what is the correct nesting/structure for the server, protocol, auth, dict and plugin section as well as any other (by default) "non-sectional" configuration options (like 'login_greeting')? I failed to find *any* documentation references on this topic :-( TIA. -- Regards, Wolfram Schlich <wschlich(a)gentoo.org> Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/

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[Dovecot] Homedir Access without exposing whole Homedir.
by Dan Mahoney, System Admin 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hello All, Dovecot 1.0.3 I am coming from UW IMAP, and I'm finding for some reason that mail is getting stored in a variety of places (which I believe, is because by default UW imap allowed access to the entire home directory). All files are mbox. My default delivery location is ~/.mail Thus: * At least a couple of my users have mail in ~/INBOX, as well as ~/INBOX.drafts (not many users so I don't really care about this). * Several of my users have their mail folders in their home directory, AND in a mail folder. For example, my "test case" user, had the following .mailboxlist file: mail/Sent mail/Drafts mail/Spam mail/Trash Sent Items Drafts Deleted Items Junk E-mail Now, here's the question. I'd like to make it so that everyone has what they had before, but that any new folders are created in ~/mail/ (so that if I ever DO decide to convert, I know where to look). What I thought would be useful for this is make the default namespace "", but set it hidden. Then define a secondary namespace (mail) and use that. However, when I did this, and got a mailbox list, it still recursively listed every file in the homedir. Is there a simple way to do what I want? -Dan Mahoney -- "Station!" -Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re: Namespace Question]
by Jeff Grossman 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 17:27 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: > >> Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:12 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: >>> >>> >>>> So, what would >>>> have changed between version 1.0.5 and 1.1beta2 to somehow make the >>>> phone think all of the messages are older than 30 days? >>>> >>>> >>> Is it using SORT command? Apparently there are some bugs still in it. >>> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#sniffing >>> >>> >>> >> I don't think so. Here is the first .in file from the rawlog >> >> A6 NAMESPACE >> A7 SELECT "Inbox" >> A8 SEARCH SINCE 6-Sep-2007 >> > > OK, this finds the messages based on their INTERNALDATE. With maildir > that means the files' mtime. Are all the mtimes older than 6 Sep? If > not, try deleting dovecot.index.cache file to see if it helps. > > Out of 13 messages in my inbox, 12 of them are newer than 6 Sep. I deleted the dovecot.index.cache file and it still will not display any messages in my inbox when I have the setting to only display the most current 30 days worth of mail. Jeff Timo, Just FYI, the above problem is still not fixed with beta 3. Jeff

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[Dovecot] v1.1 QUOTA and inbox quota
by Kristian Vlahovicek 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

My mail agent is postfix and by default it imposes the INBOX size of 50 meg. I would like my imap mail clients (I'm using Thunderbird) to "see" this and warn me when my inbox fills up. I tried doing it with the old quota system but wasn't successful. With the new quota rule system it looks like per-mailbox quotas are possible, however when I do this: quota = maildir quota_rule = INBOX:storage=50000 I get an error in the log: Sep 28 02:18:31 discworld dovecot: IMAP(kristian): open((null)) failed: Bad address Sep 28 02:18:31 discworld dovecot: IMAP(kristian): Internal quota calculation error Sep 28 02:20:04 discworld dovecot: IMAP(kristian): open((null)) failed: Bad address Sep 28 02:20:04 discworld dovecot: IMAP(kristian): open((null)) failed: Bad address is there any way to get the inbox quota to work properly? I guess many systems use postfix and have 50M inbox limit so it would really be helpful if this information is pushed somehow through imap to the client. thanks, K

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Re: [Dovecot] Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
by Maykel Moya 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

> El lun, 15-10-2007 a las 10:41 -0400, Charles Marcus escribió: > > On 10/15/2007, Maykel Moya (moya(a)infomed.sld.cu) wrote: > > > I'm using deliver (1.0.5) with Postfix (2.1.6). > > > > <snip> > > > > > Any hint? > > > > May not be the cause - but postfix 2.1.6 is - well - *ancient*... > > > > I'd make upgrading a priority, even it didn't fix the problem... > > I'd upgraded postfix to 2.4.5. Although not sure if it helps I also > raised auth_worker_max_count. Up to this moment I haven't had experience > the error again. Well, there it's, again. Postfix, by defaults, don't do more than 100 concurrent deliveries with the same transport, local in my case. I raised up auth_worker_max_count to 128, to accomodate 100 potential concurrent deliveries plus some pop3/imaps clients. The problem appears with certain frequency. There is no other info in the log besides the error notification. FWIW: I have auth_debug enabled. In normal operation I can see the LDAP queries: dovecot: Oct 16 09:46:14 Info: auth(default): ldap(foo,x.y.z.w): pass search: base=ou=users,dc=foo,dc=org scope=subtree filter=(uid=foo) fields=uid,userPassword,sldMailbox nevertheless, next to net_connect errors, the ldap related line is something like dovecot: Oct 16 09:46:14 Info: auth(default): ldap(foo,x.y,z,w): unknown user in both cases, the user don't exist in the directory. Don't know is this could be something with the same nature of[1]. My config -- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot-ldap # IO optimizations fsync_disable = yes dotlock_use_excl = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes maildir_stat_dirs = no maildir_copy_preserve_filename = yes protocol lda { postmaster_address = bar(a)foor.org auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = quota # http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/LocalDisk fsync_disable = yes } auth default { mechanisms = plain auth_worker_max_count = 128 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 } -- Regards, maykel [1] http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-October/026069.html

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[Dovecot] Errata: dovecot + ldap + virtual mailbox: building mail location path
by Claudio Strizzolo 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi all again, I've just realized that I did a bad cut&paste in my previous mail, then I rewrite my request. I apologize. I am trying to set up my dovecot configuration using LDAP and virtual mailboxes. I succeeded in authenticating the users correctly with LDAP, but have problems with referencing the correct mail location directory. I manage several domains. The mailboxes are stored under separate directories for each domain: /mail/vmail/domains/writers.com/William.Shakespeare/ /mail/vmail/domains/writers.com/Jack.London/ /mail/vmail/domains/painters.com/Pablo.Picasso/ /mail/vmail/domains/painters.com/Vincent.VanGogh/ Now, I supposed I could build the path by setting the common part of the paths as mail_location into dovecot.conf: mail_location = maildir:/mail/vmail/domains/%h passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb prefetch { } and getting the variable part ("domain/user", i.e. writers.com/Jack.London) from the userdb in dovecot-ldap.conf: auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = mail=%u,vd=%d,o=hosting,dc=example,dc=com ldap_version = 3 base = o=hosting,dc=example,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mail,,mailbox,mail,, user_filter = (&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(accountActive=TRUE)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password,mailbox=userdb_home,mail=userdb_uid,mail =userdb_mail pass_filter = (&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(accountActive=TRUE)(mail=%u)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT In the LDAP database the fields are something like: mail = Jack.London(a)writers.com mailbox = writers.com/Jack.London uid = Jack.London However, the above does not work. Here is an extract from the log: Oct 16 15:57:07 mymail.example.com dovecot: auth(default): ldap(Jack.London@writers.com,::ffff:127.0.0.1): user search: base=o=hosting,dc=example,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(accountActive=TRUE)(mail=Jack.London(a)writers.com)) fields=mail,mailbox,mail Oct 16 15:57:07 mymail.example.com dovecot: IMAP(Jack.London(a)writers.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: writers.com/Jack.London/ (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) Oct 16 15:57:07 mymail.example.com dovecot: IMAP(Jack.London(a)writers.com): Failed to create storage with data: writers.com/Jack.London Any hints? BTW, I am trying to prefetch, as you see, but I am not sure that works too. Thanks in advance Claudio

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem searching with thunderbird
by Jon Essen-Moller 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, Resending this. Does anyone have a clue? -------------- I downloaded the updated files and now I also upgraded to beta2 as you released late last night. Good work maintaining dovecot I have to say. :-) Unfortunately  I still can't search using thunderbird. I get no errors in the log now but thunderbird doesn't find any messages. I have tried updating the index (in thunderbird) but still no messages found. It worked prior to updating. What could the reason be? Best Regards - Jon ps. I also now tried searching in Squirrelmail aswell. Didn't work. ds.

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[Dovecot] Incomplete Subject Line
by Bernhard Schmidt 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, since upgrading from 1.0.5 to latest 1.1-hg I get an incomplete subject line for mails autogenerated by one of our systems in the message list (Thunderbird and mutt). When I open the mail the subject line is intact. It appears that the system is using multiline subjects. Example Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SG9zdG1hc3RlcjogMDAwMDEwNjM1OiBOYW1lc2U=?= =?ISO-8859-1?B?cnZlcjogTmV1dmVyZ2FiZSBvZGVyIMRuZGVydW5n?= is printed as Subject: Hostmaster: 000010635: Namese in the Message list and correctly decoded as Subject: Hostmaster: 000010635: Nameserver: Neuvergabe oder Änderung when viewing the message. Bug? Regards, Bernhard

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[Dovecot] Namespace Question
by Jeff Grossman 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I installed 1.1Beta2 over 1.0.5 last night. My 1.0.5 setup was running with no problems at all. Stupid me overwrote my dovecot.conf file with a vanilla one. I know I know, backup!!! I am pretty sure my old dovecot.conf file did not specify any namespaces, but I could be mistaken. My Thunderbird and Squirrelmail are working fine on the new 1.1Beta2 setup. But, my smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0 does not see the inbox or my folders. Does anybody know what might be different between 1.0.5 and 1.1Beta2 in regards to pocket outlook? This is on a Gentoo system. Here is my dovecot-n output. apple dovecot # dovecot -n # 1.1.beta2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen: [::] ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:%h/.maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd Thanks, Jeff

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[Dovecot] Migration Issues UW-POP3
by Albert E. Whale 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I am migrating from UW's POP3 server (mbox), to Dovecote (mbox -> maildir). Anyway, I am concerned about the Logging details offered by Dovecot, as I manage several details from the logging information provided by UW's Syslog information. Here's a sample of the UW information: Oct 7 22:08:39 ns6 ipop3d[15432]: pop3 service init from 66.207.133.233 Oct 7 22:08:39 ns6 ipop3d[15432]: Auth user=aewhale host=ns.ABS-CompTech.com [66.207.133.233] nmsgs=0/0 Oct 7 22:08:39 ns6 ipop3d[15432]: Logout user=aewhale host=ns.ABS-CompTech.com [66.207.133.233] nmsgs=0 ndele=0 The first time I connected to the server to test the information, I got the following: Oct 7 20:22:17 ns6 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc26 starting up Oct 7 20:22:37 ns6 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<aewhale>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 7 20:23:44 ns6 dovecot: POP3(aewhale): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/800,size=1576887 None of the other connections reported information about the mailbox or the connections. Here is what I see: Oct 7 20:39:14 ns6 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=PLAIN, rip=66.207.133.233, lip=66.207.133.228 Oct 7 20:59:42 ns6 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=LOGIN, rip=71.162.15.2, lip=66.207.133.228 Oct 7 21:39:12 ns6 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=LOGIN, rip=66.207.133.233, lip=66.207.133.228 Oct 7 21:39:42 ns6 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=LOGIN, rip=71.162.15.2, lip=66.207.133.228 I never see the POP3 or Login messages any more. Can someone tell me why? Is this not correctly working on my server yet? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABS Computer Technology, Inc. <http://www.ABS-CompTech.com> - Email, Internet and Security Consultants SPAMZapper <http://www.Spam-Zapper.com> - No-JunkMail.com <http://www.No-JunkMail.com> - *True Spam Elimination*.

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[Dovecot] potential maildir folder rename bug
by pod 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Admittedly not a common situation but: MAIL=maildir:~/tmp/dovecot/Maildir ./src/imap/imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as pod 01 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" 01 OK List completed. 02 CREATE a 02 OK Create completed. 03 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "a" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" 03 OK List completed. 04 RENAME a a.b 04 OK Rename completed. 05 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "a.b.b" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" 05 OK List completed. I was expecting to wind up with two folders "INBOX" and "a.b". Instead I got "INBOX" and "a.b.b". I think the problem is that ".a" gets renamed in the filesystem to ".a.b" before src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c rename_subfolders() is called, which then finds ".a.b", assumes "b" was a subfolder of "a" so renames it. The following may or may not be an appropriate fix. It certainly feels rather ad hoc and I've not thought too deeply about other circumstances where this code is called. I'd certainly appreciate a second opinion. diff -r 8d6433652a33 src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c --- a/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c Sun Sep 30 18:03:17 2007 +0300 +++ b/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c Mon Oct 01 20:13:27 2007 +0100 @@ -937,6 +937,10 @@ static int rename_subfolders(struct inde t_push(); old_listname = t_strconcat(oldname, names[i], NULL); + if (strcmp(old_listname, newname) == 0) { + t_pop(); + continue; + } new_listname = t_strconcat(newname, names[i], NULL); oldpath = maildir_get_path(storage, old_listname); newpath = maildir_get_path(storage, new_listname);

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[Dovecot] API problem (noob)
by Lars Stavholm 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

I'm a bit of a newbie, especially when it comes to dovecot internals, but nevertheless, I need some help: I'm working on a dovecot plugin, and I would like to copy a mail message from the mail store out to a temporary file, less a few headers: static const char *const exclude_headers[] = { "X-DSPAM-Signature" } strcpy(fname, mktemp(fname)); fd = creat(fname, 0600); mail_get_stream(mail, NULL, NULL, &input); output = o_stream_create_fd_file(fd, 0, TRUE); input = i_stream_create_header_filter(input, HEADER_FILTER_EXCLUDE | HEADER_FILTER_NO_CR, exclude_headers, N_ELEMENTS(exclude_headers), null_header_filter_callback, NULL); o_stream_send_istream(output, input); But all I get in the temp file is the message body, i.e. no headers at all. What am I doing wrong here? My understanding (or hope:) of what the function i_stream_create_header_filter() is supposed to do might not be accurate: I was hoping that it would exclude the aforementioned headers, but leave the rest of the headers as is. Any help appreciated /Lars

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[Dovecot] Mailformat
by Jon Essen-Moller 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, When saving a message as draft from Thunderbird and later opens it with squrrelmail i get all the html code. Also do mails from Google calander and som others give a warning (in Squirrelmail) that they ar badly formated) This after upgrading to 1.1beta2. Any ideas? Best Regards - Jon -- Jon Essen-Moller http://tenka.se

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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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[Dovecot] how to deliver when username and email differ
by Cory Coager 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

I have an Active Directory virtual setup and am using LDA to deliver to local recipients. Today I found a big problem with my configuration and not sure if this is fixable. Some of the users have multiple email addresses and the %n variable for user doesn't match their actual username. So if I have realname "Joe Bob" with a username of "joe" and an email of "jbob(a)somewhere.com", deliver will try to deliver to "jbob" and this is wrong. Here is the relevant part of my ldap config: user_attrs = mail,postOfficeBox=home user_filter = (|(mail=%n@%d)(proxyAddresses=%n@%d)(sAMAccountName=%u)) pass_attrs = mail,postOfficeBox=home pass_filter = (|(mail=%n@%d)(proxyAddresses=%n@%d)(sAMAccountName=%u)) Somehow I need to change the username from the LDAP lookup but it seems that the mail attribute does this already. If I switch the mail attribute with sAMAccountName the domain becomes NULL. Anyone know if this is fixable?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v1.0.3 -> Sieve "redirect" command returning Sendmail exit status 75
by Elisamuel Resto 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hello! My local setup here is Exim 4.68, DSPAM 3.8.0 and Dovecot 1.0.5. Entirely on MySQL tables for virtual hosts and authentication. Dovecot does the authentication for Exim. What I am having problems with, is a simple sieve script to redirect a message that matches the "X-DSPAM-Result" header as "Spam" to another email address. When this rule matches, deliver returns in the log (which is attached) that "Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status: 75" What would cause this, and how can I resolve it? Thanks. -- Elisamuel Resto <samuel(a)dragonboricua.net> ID: 0x18615F19 / FP: B66D 1C2A E8EE B922 1D9C D98F D2D5 FB61 1861 5F19

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[Dovecot] Problem with bodystructure/partial fetch using 1.1*
by mikkel＠euro123.dk 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi there I'm using dovecot-1.1b2/b3 with deliver. All information is stored in an SQL database and no errors related to this issue are written to the logs (actually I get no errors at all). I've run into at problem; FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE is broken after upgrading to dovecot 1.1b2 (same issue with 1.1b3). BODUSTRUCTURE only returns information from the first section (with incorrect content-type/disposition) and discards everything else. This problem is somehow related to deliver; IMAP returns the correct BODYSTRUCTURE for e-mails received before the upgrade, but an incorrect for ones received after the upgrade. This tells me that IMAP is working properly but somehow the MIME sections are being corrupted doing mail delivery (if I fetch the complete body nothing seems to be wrong). Also if I fetch a section something is not right - instead of just the section I get part of the Content-type header as well (but only half the header). Obviously this makes various webmail clients go somewhat crazy while Outlook/Thunderbirds dont mind (since they fetch the complete body and do the MIME parsing themselves). These are my compile options (GCC 3.4.3 on Solaris 10): CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/pkgsrc/pkg/include/mysql LDFLAGS=-L/opt/pkgsrc/pkg/lib/mysql ./configure --prefix=/opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b2 --with-pop3d --with-deliver --with-mysql --with-prefetch-userdb --with-sql --with-gnu-ld --with-ssl=no --enable-header-install make; make install Everything else works flawlessly. Have anyone else experienced at problem like this? Best wishes, Mikkel Configuration: /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/sbin/dovecot -c /local/config/dovecot2.conf -n # 1.1.beta3: /local/config/dovecot2.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 768). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings log_path: /local/log/dovecot.run info_log_path: /local/log/dovecot.run protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no first_valid_uid: 105 first_valid_gid: 105 mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous passdb: driver: sql args: /local/config/dovecot-sql2.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /local/config/dovecot-sql2.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=102400:messages=5000 quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10M trash: /local/config/dovecot-trash.conf

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[Dovecot] In 1.1.beta3, COPY cmd results in msg with Content-length: 0 and no text
by Eric Weaver 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

I run Thunderbird with message filters that sort mail into other folders, and this has killed me for the day. COPY commands (and I have verified this with a manual test) result in the message headers coming out correct but the body totally missing. Is this a known issue being addressed? Thanks Eric Weaver

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[Dovecot] Folders and Mail within Folders
by Elizabeth Greene 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hello. How do I make folders that can contain mail and additional folders? Thanks, -- Elizabeth Greene IT Manager, GlobalOptions FSIU Division 615-665-5555 (Office) 615-456-9813 (Mobile)

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Re: [Dovecot] performance?/connectivity? issues after server upgrade
by Udo Rader 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 08:46 +0100, Ed W wrote: > > I've verified this with various customers and thus I am completely lost > > here. The only service affected with this massive slowdown seems to be > > dovecot but unfortunately I cannot think of a way to debug the issue ... > > > > > Duplex mismatch on the network card? grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, yes!!! Checking the link status of the NIC it showed that indeed duplexing was giving wrong results. Forcing it into the correct mode did not change anything, but finally replacing the card with a new one solved the riddle! Thanks for your help! Udo Rader

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[Dovecot] Operations error with AD connections
by Maarten Vanraes 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Hello, dovecot version: 1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.5 OS: 2.6.15-26-server i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu dapper filesys: ext3 authentication is with ldap (Active Directory) the problem is that after a while with a number of pop3 connections (8 people who have checking every 5 minutes), the ldap_search gives 'Operation Error' . we have tried to use the global catalog, but that doesn't solve the problem. the binding is the problem, we must use binding, cause we don't get a userPassword field. Right now, we have switched to courierLDAP and it works for now, we'll have to see if it persists (we have set an LDAP timeout variable, but don't know if it's related.) The thing is that we have lots of places where can setup something like this with AD, and that for now, we'll probably use courier. dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = 172.17.80.1:3268 dn = CN=SPIC,OU=Beheerders,OU=Zonnegroep,DC=zonnewende,DC=local dnpass = xxxxxxxxx auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=zonnewende, dc=local user_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (mail=%u) user_global_uid = 5000 user_global_gid = 5000 any ideas on how to solve it? PS: can you CC me? -- Maarten Vanraes BA NV: IT & Security

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[Dovecot] performance?/connectivity? issues after server upgrade
by Udo Rader 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi, we are facing some weird performance issues after we upgraded on of our mail servers to a new Opteron 64bit machine. The problem we are facing is that mail retrieval from external clients is incredibly slow. Fetching a mail with say a size of 3MB takes 7 minutes vs. sending exactly the same mail back to our postmaster account is only a question of seconds. I've verified this with various customers and thus I am completely lost here. The only service affected with this massive slowdown seems to be dovecot but unfortunately I cannot think of a way to debug the issue ... System load is absolutely minimal. % dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps imap pop3 listen: 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(default): 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(imap): 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(pop3): ssl_cert_file: /usr/bestsolution/ssl/certs/mail.bestsolution.at.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/bestsolution/ssl/private/mail.bestsolution.at.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 24 disable_plaintext_auth: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 9 mail_extra_groups: mail default_mail_env: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mmap_disable: yes lock_method: dotlock maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u auth default: mechanisms: digest-md5 cram-md5 login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix Any ideas welcome :-) -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] Released v1.1.beta3
by Timo Sirainen 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta3.tar.gz.sig Please try and report any bugs. Beta2 still had a few bad bugs, but I'm hoping this release is near a usable state. I've been a bit busy with school lately so I haven't had time/energy to answer mails in here. The main reason has been this lab course (biochemistry) which ends on friday, so I'll try to start answering mails sometimes next week. Changes since beta2: - SORT fixes. Still buggy? - If Date: header doesn't exist or is broken, fallback to INTERNALDATE (as required by newer sort drafts, which I hadn't noticed before, v1.0.6 will have this too) - Log fatals/panics as such, instead of converting them to errors. - Don't bother logging "returned error 89" if the child process logged a fatal before that. - dovecot.index.cache file may have been updated wrong when saving messages causing all kinds of problems if it was - Some crashfixes

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[Dovecot] Migration to Dovecot
by Frank Bonnet 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hello all Tomorrow is the day , I'm gonna migrate all our mailboxes and imap folders from our old mailhub to the new one. In the same time I will migrate from UW to Dovecot , I've read all the stuff about it on the Dovecot web site. I have one question , do I have to care about the .imap cache directory created by Dovecot in any way or will it be "all automatic" when starting Dovecot ? Many thanks -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet

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[Dovecot] iPhone 1.1.1 problems.
by Mike Meyer 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

I'm having problems with the iPhone client in the 1.1.1 version of the iPhone software. Things with other clients work fine, and the iPhone worked fine before it was upgraded to 1.1.1. Other phones on 1.1.1 failed. I'm still working on testing against the client with the iPhone 1.0.2 software on it. The problem is that the client simply doesn't connect to dovecot. I can see the packets passing back and forth in a number of ways, but haven't been able to see the contents. I tried turning on raw logging, but don't get log files for accesses from the iPhone. What I get are lines like so: Oct 13 00:08:34 bhuda dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1, TLS Turning off SSL both ways, and the message changes to: Oct 13 18:21:38 bhuda dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1 Tweaking the logging in the firewall reveals something interesting: apparently the phone makes the connection to 993, then dovecot drops the connection, but the phone keeps sending to it (and yes, I've tried setting the firewall to allow arbitrary traffic between the phone and the server). So, first question: is anyone who has clients using iPhone software version 1.1.1 working willing to share config information? Second question: suggestions for things to try to solve the problem? (Other than talk to apple as that process is underway)? For instance, a recipe to sniff the text of the interchange? Final question: Any other information I can provide that might help debug this? Thanks, <mike dovecot info: bhuda# dovecot --version 1.0.5 bhuda# dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /usr/opt/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/openvpn/server.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/openvpn/server.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/opt/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/mailboxes imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd System info: bhuda# uname -a FreeBSD bhuda.mired.org 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6: Sun Jun 3 04:17:59 EDT 2007 mwm@bhuda.mired.org:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/BHUDA amd64 And all the mailboxes are stored on ufs file systems. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm(a)mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.

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[Dovecot] feedback ?
by Dan Orlescu 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

Hello guys, I chose Dovecot to run on an RHEL 5, comunicating with an AD server for users query over LDAP. Any tips ? What version you suggest could fit the best on that distro ?

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[Dovecot] OT: Cron Output When Deleting Files
by Jeff Grossman 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

I have a Dovecot setup for a personal e-mail server. I have a cron job setup each evening which runs the following command to delete old messages from my Deleted Items folder. find ./ -type f -ctime +14 | xargs rm I don't know that much about bash scripting. I would like the output to tell me how many files were deleted. Can anybody share with me how can I get that done, or point in the correct direction? Thanks, Jeff

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Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail with 1.1 Beta 3
by Jerry Yeager 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:05 PM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: (various messages snipped) > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:14:04 -0700 > From: Bill Landry <bill(a)inetmsg.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail Problem with 1.1 Beta 3 > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <47150D7C.6040409(a)inetmsg.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Jeff Grossman wrote: >> I just installed 1.1 beta 3 and noticed a problem when sending an >> e-mail >> with Squirrelmail. When I hit send, I get the following error in >> my log: >> >> Oct 16 11:35:54 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Disconnected: EOF while >> appending bytes=1851/5926 >> Oct 16 11:35:54 apple imapproxyd[9132]: Raw_Proxy(): IMAP server >> unexpectedly closed the connection on sd 9 >> >> I am also using imapproxy. I wasn't sure if that line would help >> also. >> In Squirrelmail I get a LOGOUT message when it tries to redisplay the >> INBOX listing. The message does get sent correctly, but it does >> not get >> copied to my Sent Items folder. >> >> I went and deleted all of the dovecot.index* files and now I don't >> get >> that error anymore, but I now get the following error. The >> message is now >> copied to the Sent Items folder. >> >> Oct 16 11:44:45 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Cache file >> /home/jeff/.maildir/.Sent >> Items/dovecot.index.cache: Newly added field got lost unexpectedly > > Same here, using Dovecot 1.1 Beta 3 and SquirrelMail 1.4.10a-1.fc7. > SquirrelMail with either Firefox 2.0.0.7 or IE 6.0.2900.2180 > browser sessions: > > It works okay using the new Squirrel Mail 1.4.11 with Safari as well as as Firefox and Opera on OS X. Jerry

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[Dovecot] Squirrelmail Problem with 1.1 Beta 3
by Jeff Grossman 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

I just installed 1.1 beta 3 and noticed a problem when sending an e-mail with Squirrelmail. When I hit send, I get the following error in my log: Oct 16 11:35:54 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=1851/5926 Oct 16 11:35:54 apple imapproxyd[9132]: Raw_Proxy(): IMAP server unexpectedly closed the connection on sd 9 I am also using imapproxy. I wasn't sure if that line would help also. In Squirrelmail I get a LOGOUT message when it tries to redisplay the INBOX listing. The message does get sent correctly, but it does not get copied to my Sent Items folder. I went and deleted all of the dovecot.index* files and now I don't get that error anymore, but I now get the following error. The message is now copied to the Sent Items folder. Oct 16 11:44:45 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Cache file /home/jeff/.maildir/.Sent Items/dovecot.index.cache: Newly added field got lost unexpectedly Jeff

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Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail Problem with 1.1 Beta 3
by Jeff Grossman 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

> > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:47 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: >> I just installed 1.1 beta 3 and noticed a problem when sending an e-mail >> with Squirrelmail. When I hit send, I get the following error in my >> log: >>=20 >> Oct 16 11:35:54 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Disconnected: EOF while >> appending bytes=3D1851/5926 > > Hmh. I did change things related to saving mails, but since it worked > with my stress testing and with Evolution, I thought I had fixed it. I > guess I'll need to test more. > That error went away after I deleted by index files. Once they were rebuilt I never saw the above error again. >> Oct 16 11:44:45 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Cache file >> /home/jeff/.maildir/.Sent >> Items/dovecot.index.cache: Newly added field got lost unexpectedly > > I see this too, but since it happens only once I didn't bother fixing it > yet. OK Jeff

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[Dovecot] namespace prefix issue with avelsieve and dovecot v1.1beta2
by Martin Konopka 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi, I have installed dovecot v1.1.beta2 with the sieve plugin v.1.1.2. I have configured the following namespace: namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. location: inbox: yes hidden: no list: yes When I create a rule which should move messages into the subfolder "Junk", Dovecot's deliver seems to ignore the namespace and creates a new folder .INBOX.Junk . I think I read somewhere that in Dovecot v1.1+ deliver supports namespaces? Or have I misconfigured something? Thank you! Martin dovecot -n output: # 1.1.beta2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/certs/server.key verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs

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[Dovecot] Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
by Maykel Moya 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

I'm using deliver (1.0.5) with Postfix (2.1.6). I made a test for a few minutes in a moderated busy server. While most mails was delivered, a lot of them failed with this error: deliver(userfoo): Oct 15 09:58:31 Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Sounds to me something like not enough auth-master to answer every concurrent deliver. Any hint? Regards, maykel PD: If there any other info I could give let me know.

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[Dovecot] assertion failure when appending
by Johannes Berg 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

I get this assertion failure: file maildir-save.c: line 456 (maildir_save_finish): assertion failed: (ctx->seq != 0) once a while when I APPEND messages to a folder. My plugin doesn't touch the ctx, especially not the internal maildir one, but I have no idea where to start looking. Any hints? johannes

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by LDB 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Version: 1.0.beta8 Is it possible to listen on just specific IP addresses as opposed a single IP or just all IPs on the same server? Thanks, LDB

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.1beta2 and dovecot-sieve 1.1.2 - crash in LDA
by Bernhard Schmidt 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Hi, I've upgraded to dovecot 1.1beta2 and the latest dovecot-sieve release yesterday and have one single mail that cannot be delivered repeatedly. Log (reformatted): Oct 12 15:19:19 vs02 deliver(bernilrz): pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed Oct 12 15:19:19 vs02 deliver(bernilrz): Raw backtrace: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(i_syslog_panic_handler+0x1e) [0x47117e] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x470eac] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x47929b] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x46f3e3] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(buffer_write+0x9d) [0x46f70d] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x469aaf] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(message_header_decode+0x104) [0x469c14] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(message_header_decode_utf8+0x4b) [0x469d4b] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x43f3eb] -> /usr/local /libexec/dovecot/deliver(index_mail_get_headers+0x42) [0x4401c2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2b662df67d87] -> /usr/local/lib /dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2b662df716e8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_eval_bc+0x395) [0x2b662df72665] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute_bytecode+0xfa) [0x2b662df77daa] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(cmu_sieve_run+0x318) [0x2b662df689b8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2b662df66d96] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(main+0xe74) [0x417d24] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2b662da15b44] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x416079] All other mails work fine, so there is probably something corner case here. Timo, I'll send you the mail in private. Regards, Bernhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Logging client commands (patch)
by Zach Bagnall 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

This might be useful to someone so I'll throw it out there. Patch against 1.0.5 adds support for two new configuration params: pop3_debug_client_commands = TOP, RETR, DELE imap_debug_client_commands = FETCH, DELETE Obviously add in whichever ones you're interested in, or none, or comment them out completely. It'll log the appropriate events: Oct 12 18:30:18 kea dovecot: IMAP(zach): Client command: FETCH The parameters are included for POP3 events. Wasn't sure quite how to do the same for IMAP and for my purposes it's not too important so imap command parameters aren't logged. Running smoothly here with a few dozen IMAP and POP3 users. Not suggesting this gets added to the codebase - I just needed it to help debug some other IMAP software and thought it might be useful. Zach.

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[Dovecot] UIDL format for old UW pop3
by Oliver Hookins 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Hi, we're trying to migrate from UW imap 2001a-10, which doesn't seem to use the UIDL format documented in the wiki. It seems to use a 16 character long MD5 hash of something. I've tried configuring Dovecot to do the same but the value comes out differently. The main thing that I can see is getting in the way is that the UIDL format is not documented sufficiently. There is no description of using numbers to restrict the length of the output, and no documentation of special features like X or M. Can someone shed some light on these? -- Regards, Oliver

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[Dovecot] Quota Display with Horde / IMP ( WebMail Client )
by edwardspl＠ita.org.mo 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Dear All, For the Dovecot.conf : protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } plugin { quota = maildir } For /var/spool/mail : -rw------- 1 root root 7168 Sep 24 23:02 aquota.group -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Sep 24 18:05 aquota.user -rw------- 1 edward mail 301709 Sep 24 23:27 edward But the Quota display is un-limited status... So, what mistake about the config ? Mine is FC6 System ! Thanks ! Edward.

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI Cross-Realm Patch
by Zachary Kotlarek 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

I've written a GSSAPI cross-realm auth patch for people not lucky enough to have the __gss_userok function, though it should apply pretty cleanly with that patch in place as well. The patch is available at: http://zinux.cynicbytrade.com/svn/servers/dovecot/cross-realm.diff.bz2 It works for me on MIT-kerb, and I tested compilation against heimdal, but I don't have a cross-realm setup to test functionality under heimdal (though I also have no reason to think it wouldn't work). Since neither MIT nor heimdal provide a gss_userok() function, I used the krb5_userok() function. So if you're using a mechanism other than krb5 this won't work. But it's the same thing that OpenSSH and the apps distributed with heimdal do, so it seemed relatively safe. I also choose to append the krb5_userok() check rather than replace the gss_compare_name() check -- that way same-realm auth works for non-krb5 mechanisms, and my new code doesn't get called unless the same-realm check fails. If you don't care about other mechanisms it would be faster to bypass the gss_compare_name() check entirely. If this is something you'd like to mainline I'd be happy to standardize the coding style -- just point me to a style definition document. And if it doesn't hit the mainline I expect to maintain it for the foreseeable future, with updates at the same URL. Zach

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, postifx, virtual domains and deliver, what about luser_relay/fallback_relay?
by Alexander Hoogerhuis 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

I've read documentation (obviously not the right parts) and googled, but I can't seem how to solve this simple problem: I have a machine running postfix/dovecot and using virtual domains, delivery happens with dovecot's LDA. I also have an Exchange machine that I have to house some of the users of a given domain. How can I tell either postifx in general or dovecot's LDA that whatever specific user that cannot be found in the virutal setup can be pawned off to a given relay-server which will sort it out? -A

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[Dovecot] FW: IMAP proxy with dovecot and hostname
by Limperis Antonis 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Good morning dovecot users I read in http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy that dovecot need ip address in host field and then "This field is required. Note that currently it's required to use an IP address since no DNS resolving is done.". I use a qmail cluster and Courier IMAP. In this system used the ldap field mailhost for proxy functionality with dns name as value. Is there a plan to add the DNS resolving to dovecot in host field; Is there any patch; Thanks Antonis

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[Dovecot] User database ldap lookups and sasl
by Olivier Castan 10 Oct '07

10 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] SpamAssassin and Public Namespace
by James 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hi I know i might get flamed for asking this in the dovecot mailing list instead of the spamassassin one but i thought someone might be kind enough to help anyway. TIA I'm trying to do site-wide spam filtering with a public namespace but it's not reading the folder i have in the public namespace This is the public namespace set in my dovecot.conf #public spam folder namespace public { separator = / prefix = Filter/ location = maildir:/home/vmail/domains/Spam/Maildir/ hidden = no } There's also a .Spam and .Non-spam folder created in that directory server:/home/vmail/domains/Spam/Maildir# ls -al total 32 drwxrwxrwx 7 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 . drwxrwxrwx 3 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-05 13:23 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 cur drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 new drwxrwxrwx 5 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 11:20 .Non-Spam drwxrwxrwx 5 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 11:19 .Spam -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 14 2007-10-08 11:58 subscriptions drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 tmp I'm trying to use this script to login and get the spam from the public spam folders and send it to spamassassin to learn I've highlighted the important parts There are 13 messages in Spam There are 5 messages in Non-Spam Here's the script: ######################################################################################### #!/usr/bin/perl # # Process mail from imap server shared folder 'spam' & 'not-spam' through spamassassin sa-learn # dmz(a)dmzs.com - March 19, 2004 # http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/spam.phtml # LGPL # # Things to try if it doesn't work # 1) Turn debug onto 1 and see if you connect to imap server ad get messages (yes i could have made a command line flag, just didn't see the need once I got it working :) # 2) Check your local.cf for spamassassin (in debian it's /etc/spamassassin/local.cf) bayes_path settings. # # Also be sure to check that your spamassassin is truely using the bayes files (-D manual startup of spamd to debug there) # use Mail::IMAPClient; use IO::Socket::SSL; my $debug=1; my $salearn; my $username = 'user'; my $password = 'password'; my $server = 'server.example.com'; my $ssl=new IO::Socket::SSL("$server:imaps"); die ("Error connecting - $@") unless defined $ssl; $ssl->autoflush(1); my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new( #Server=> 'imapmailhost:143', Socket => $ssl, User => $username, Password => $password, Debug => $debug ); if (!defined($imap)) { die "IMAP Login Failed"; } # If debugging, print out the total counts for each mailbox if ($debug) { foreach my $foldername ($imap->folders) { my $number_of_messages = $imap->message_count( $foldername ); print $foldername, " is imap folder\n"; }* my $spamcount = $imap->message_count('Filter/Spam');* print $spamcount, " Spam to process\n"; * my $nonspamcount = $imap->message_count('Filter/Non-Spam');* print $nonspamcount, " Notspam to process\n" if $debug; } # Process the spam mailbox *$imap->select('Filter/Spam');* my @msgs = $imap->search("ALL"); for (my $i=0;$i <= $#msgs; $i++) { # I put it into a file for processing, doing it into a perl var & piping through sa-learn just didn't seem to work $imap->message_to_file("/tmp/salearn",$msgs[$i]); # execute sa-learn w/data # if ($debug) { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn -D --no-sync --showdots --spam /tmp/salearn`; } # else { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn --no-sync --showdots --spam /tmp/salearn`; } print "-------\nSpam: ",$salearn,"\n-------\n" if $debug; # delete processed message $imap->delete_message($msgs[$i]); unlink("/tmp/salearn"); } $imap->expunge(); $imap->close(); # Process the not-spam mailbox *$imap->select('Filter/Non-spam');* my @msgs = $imap->search("ALL"); for (my $i=0;$i <= $#msgs; $i++) { $imap->message_to_file("/tmp/salearn",$msgs[$i]); # execute sa-learn w/data # if ($debug) { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn -D --no-sync --showdots --ham /tmp/salearn`; } # else { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn --no-sync --showdots --ham /tmp/salearn`; } print "-------\nNotSpam: ",$salearn,"\n-------\n" if $debug; # delete processed message $imap->delete_message($msgs[$i]); unlink("/tmp/salearn"); } $imap->expunge(); $imap->close(); $imap->logout(); # integrate learned stuff my $sarebuild = `/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync`; print "-------\nRebuild: ",$sarebuild,"\n-------\n" if $debug; ######################################################################################### Results: server:/home/james# ./DMZS-sa-learn.pl Using Mail::IMAPClient version 2.2.9 and perl version 5.8.8 (5.008008) Spam to process Notspam to process . ------- Spam: Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined) ------- Autoloading: UID store +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted) . ------- NotSpam: Learned tokens from 1 message(s) (1 message(s) examined) ------- Autoloading: UID store +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted) ------- Rebuild: bayes: synced databases from journal in 0 seconds: 4 unique entries (4 total entries) -------

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hanging up with many defunct processes
by Mayank Joshi 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

Hi, I am in a very awkward situation and need some kind of immediate fix up. I had installed dovecot in my organization as part of migration of email server. The setup involves sendmail, dovecot (imaps+pop3s) and webmail (squirrelmail) running on apache webserver. All was working fine until one day I found a lot of defunct processes on system related to dovecot. dovecot-auth, imap-login and imap were all defunct. The system is using pam_ldap and nss_ldap to authenticate users to a Windows 2003 Active Directory. Immediate restart of dovecot solved the problem for me that day, however since then it's been about 3 times that I've faced this problem. After visiting various forums I came to know one thing, that it has something to do with pam_ldap and nss_ldap. However with UW-IMAP we were using the same setup and we didn't find any problems there. It would be very kind of you, if you can help me out on this front as apart from these mishaps the mail server is running perfectly fine and we wish to continue using Dovecot for our setup in future as well. Following is the system details: 1) OS: RHEL4 (Kernel - 2.6.9-5.ELsmp) 2) Dovecot: Dovecot (Version - 1.0.3) 3) Following is dovecot configuration: log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/private/imapd.pem login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes: 10240 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd 4) Dovecot's PAM file (/etc/pam.d/dovecot) #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_ldap.so account required pam_ldap.so session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077 session required pam_ldap.so As far as I feel it's problem with pam_ldap not able to authenticate against Windows 2003 Active Directory due to some reason or the other. However I'm not sure why is this happening. Regards, Mayank Joshi.

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[Dovecot] undelete messages?
by Cory Coager 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

I'm using the lazy expunge plugin as configured in: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge The page claims users can undelete messages without assistance from a sysadmin. How is this accomplished? When I try to subscribe to the folders under the EXPUNGED namespace, nothing happens. ~Cory Coager

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[Dovecot] global sieve script
by Jorge Salamero Sanz 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

hi all, i'm moving from a maildrop+courier setup to lda(sieve)+dovecot setup. with maildrop i had a global filter for all the users, so i could filter and archive into the spam folder spam tagged emails for users without custom filters, including them if they exist: LOGNAME=tolower($LOGNAME) `test -e $LOGNAME` if ( $RETURNCODE != 0 ) { `maildirmake $LOGNAME` `maildirmake $LOGNAME/._spam` } `test -f $LOGNAME/mailfilter` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { include "$LOGNAME/mailfilter" } if ( /^X-Spam-Status: YES */) { to "$LOGNAME/._spam" } else { to "$LOGNAME/" } how could i get this behaviour with dovecot lda and sieve ? thanks !

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Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP isvery slow (sometimes)
by Stefano Scalise 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi to all, I can confirm that if I downgrade to 1.0.5 version I have no more the slowness problem. Then I think it is a bug introduced in th 1.1.x releases. Stefano. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it> To: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it>; "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP isvery slow (sometimes) > Hi to all, > > very strange! I tried to debug why imap process takes 100% CPu and it is > very slow when I move an email from an imap folder to another imap folder > and then I typed: > > strace -tt -o /log-imap.txt -p <process number> > > well, during the trace the imap process doesn't crash and it is very fast. > If I stop the tracing, I have again the problem and sometimes the crash of > the process. > > Any help? > Thank you, > Stefano. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it> > To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> > Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP > isvery slow (sometimes) > > >> Sorry, but with the new version (1.1.beta2), I still have the same >> problem of very slowness during moving email between two imap folders. >> What can I do for debugging it? >> Stefano. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> >> To: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it> >> Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> >> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 1:52 PM >> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP >> isvery slow (sometimes) >> >> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:05 +0200, Stefano Scalise wrote: >>> Update to the problem: >>> >>> I tried to stress the server with many moving and I received: >>> >>> Sep 26 10:56:40 sirio3 dovecot: IMAP(<email_address>): Trying to >>> allocate 0 >>> bytes >> >> This should fix it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/c6b85cf1e63a >> >> I'll probably make a beta2 release today after fixing several other >> things. >> >> >

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[Dovecot] User database ldap lookups and sasl
by olivier castan 08 Oct '07

08 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] quota exceeded not showing email address
by JC 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Hi everyone, I have a mail server with postfix 2.3.8-2, dovecot 1.0.0 and mysql with virtual users and domains. Everything is working but when a mail bounces it doesn't show me what is the email address with overquota. I'm using Dovecot Delivery Agent to send a mail when an email bounces. This is the message that shows me: Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent. The following reason was given: Quota exceeded It doesn't show me what is the email address. In my /etc/postfix/master.cf I added this: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=xyz:xyz argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} In my /etc/postfix/main.cf I added this: dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot In my /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf : protocol lda { postmaster_address = <postmaster-address> auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } ... user = xyz socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = xyz group = xyz } } What should i have to show the email address?

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Re: [Dovecot] Postfix with Deliver (LDA) - user unknown
by Branislav Baca 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Glenn wrote: > Howdy BB! Hopefully this helps to answer your questions... > > /etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes contains: > > test(a)geekinetdev.com test/ > > /etc/passwd contains: > > test:*:5000:5000:test account for email:/var/mailboxes/test:/nonexistent probably you need here to have a full user@domain name. i.e: test@geekinetdev.com:*:5000:5000:test account for email:/var/mailboxes/test:/nonexistent > > The reason for the virtual_* stuff is that I am testing each program > configuration as I set up a new SMTP server. The goal is to move all > the virtual_* settings to MySQL. However, I want to walk before I run. > Not sure if that is part of my problem.?. Of course, you can leave it there, I've just said it is not necessary for dovecot to work. Also try to avoid using mysql, except you have dedicated mysql server or playing on small site with a lot of RAM. This is by my own experiences. LDAP is probably better solution but more complex to setup. > > Thanks for your assistance! > > glenn > > > Branislav Baca wrote: >> You have set in the main.cf: >> virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes >> but dovecot deliver is using userdb for this purpose, which you have >> set to >> passwd. Have you equivalent data in both places? Similary nearly all >> configuration parameters in the main.cf of the postfix starting with >> virtual_??? are not required, but should be provided by userdb for >> dovecot >> deliver. >> >> BB >> >> On 1:26 04/10/07 "Karin Gregorec" <karinnv1(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Good Day All! I am attempting to configure deliver as our LDA. I am >>> also configuring the server to use Postfix instead of Sendmail. I >>> have followed the all the documentation and examples I could find. >>> >>> Below are my Dovecot and Postfix configs. Can someone please smack me >>> upside the head and tell me why I am getting "user unknown" errors? >>> If i don't use deliver as the LDA, all works perfectly. Help... >>> >>> TIA, >>> glenn >>> >>> ========== >>> >>> >>> *** Dovecot Config *** >>> >>> dovecot -n >>> # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf >>> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ >>> log_path: /var/log/maillogs/dovecot.log >>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >>> ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW >>> disable_plaintext_auth: no >>> verbose_ssl: yes >>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >>> login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login >>> login_greeting: GID Ready >>> login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> service=%s authMethod=%m rIP=%r >>> lIP=%l encryption=%c >>> login_max_processes_count: 256 >>> verbose_proctitle: yes >>> first_valid_uid: 5000 >>> last_valid_uid: 10000 >>> first_valid_gid: 0 >>> mail_extra_groups: mail >>> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir >>> dotlock_use_excl: yes >>> fsync_disable: yes >>> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes >>> mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 >>> mail_process_size: 1024 >>> mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(pop3): >>> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap >>> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap >>> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 >>> imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle >>> netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh >>> tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle >>> pop3_uidl_format(default): >>> pop3_uidl_format(imap): >>> pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv >>> pop3_client_workarounds(default): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(imap): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh >>> pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> auth default: >>> cache_size: 1024 >>> cache_ttl: 604800 >>> verbose: yes >>> passdb: >>> driver: pam >>> args: cache_key=%Lu >>> userdb: >>> driver: passwd >>> socket: >>> type: listen >>> master: >>> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >>> mode: 384 >>> user: maildrop >>> plugin: >>> quota: maildir:storage=10000000:ignore=Trash >>> >>> >>> *** Postfix main.cf *** >>> >>> alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> biff = no >>> command_directory = /usr/local/sbin >>> daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix >>> >>> debug_peer_level = 2 >>> debugger_command = >>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH; (echo cont; >>> echo where) | gdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id 2>&1 >>> > $config_directory/$process_name.$process_id.log & sleep 5 >>> >>> #### Dovecot LDA Service - http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix >>> dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 >>> >>> home_mailbox = Maildir/ >>> html_directory = no >>> inet_interfaces = all >>> mail_owner = postfix >>> mail_spool_directory = /var/mail >>> mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq >>> manpage_directory = /usr/local/man >>> message_size_limit = 12000000 >>> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost >>> mydomain = geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> myhostname = superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> mynetworks = 72.18.193.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 >>> newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases >>> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix >>> readme_directory = no >>> sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix >>> sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >>> setgid_group = maildrop >>> smtpd_banner = $myhostname NO WHAMMIES!!! >>> >>> virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 >>> virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mailboxes >>> virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vdomains >>> virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes >>> virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 >>> virtual_transport = dovecot >>> virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 >>> unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 >>> >>> *** Postfix master.cf *** >>> ...snip... >>> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe >>> flags=DRhu user=maildrop:maildrop >>> argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e -d ${recipient} > >

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[Dovecot] dovecot cloning mails?
by Andreas Schneider 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hi, I have a strange issue here. I have a large message of a svn commit and the message is cloning itself more and more. I've deleted it several time completely but it doesn't go away. http://www.cynapses.org/tmp/dovecot.png How can I debug it? Thanks, -- andreas milliways:~ # dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/milliways.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/milliways.key login_dir(default): /var/run/dovecot//login login_dir(imap): /var/run/dovecot//login login_dir(managesieve): login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/srv/mail/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): dspam mail_plugins(imap): dspam mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: mail plugin: dspam_spamfolder: Junk -- http://www.cynapses.org/ - cybernetic synapses

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[Dovecot] Strange errors
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

One of our users seems to have strange problems with his mailbox: Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1096, but next_uid = 1097 Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1096, but next_uid = 1097 Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Oct 2 02:40:54 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unlinked a duplicate: 1191278050.P11797Q0M631938.postamt.charite.de,S=3164:2, Oct 2 02:40:54 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Maildir /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (1097 > 1096, file = 1191278202.P12120Q0M512940.postamt.charite.de,S=5349:2,) Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.jmol/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 570, but next_uid = 571 Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.jmol/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unlinked a duplicate: 1191322757.P13572Q0M515987.postamt.charite.de,S=3982:2,a Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Maildir /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.jmol sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (571 > 570, file = 1191325571.P17909Q0M852537.postamt.charite.de,S=5674:2,) This is dovecot 1.0.5. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) plonk(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS

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[Dovecot] Timeout leak
by Lars Stavholm 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

In my development environment I sometimes get: dovecot: IMAP(stava): Timeout leak: 0x4425d0 Does anyone know what it means or how I can use this information? Cheers /Lars

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[Dovecot] Corrupt Message?
by Daniel Watts 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Dear List, Am accessing dovecot imap through squirrelmail. Squirrelmail paginates the message list into pages. All works fine except for the page one particular email is in. When I try to open that page (or in fact click 'show all') the server returns: ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Query: FETCH 549,551,555:557,563,565,567:569 (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)]) Server responded: No mailbox selected. Could you possibly let me know what I should do and also how I can find the guilty mail file from that error? Can I just delete the email? Or is there a nice script to repair a dovecot maildir? Many thanks for your advice, Daniel -- Squirrelmail Stable 1.4.8 PHP 5.x Hardened with Eaccelerator Apache 2.x Imapproxy over Dovecot/Maildir all running on Gentoo Linux for ~5,000 users.

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[Dovecot] How to upgrade a running Dovecot?
by Mike Brudenell 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Greetings - Could someone confirm how to perform various upgrades on a live system running Dovecot please? Scenario 1: Change to dovecot.conf =================================== If I make a change to dovecot.conf am I right in thinking I can simply send a HUP signal to the main dovecot process to get it to re- read the configuration file and act on its revised content? Scenario 2: Altered SSL Certificates ===================================== I need to replace our current certificates and have prepared new files containing the replacement certificate and private key. Am I right in thinking that I can simply modify dovecot.conf to point at the new files and send a HUP signal to dovecot? Specifically, will new connections use the revised certificates, and existing connections continue to work OK without interruption? Scenario 3: Software Upgrade ============================= I build a particular version of Dovecot into the tree /usr/local/ dovecot-A.B.C and then have a symlink called "dovecot" pointing at the this directory. To upgrade I can then build the new version into /usr/local/dovecot-X.Y.Z and test. To actually switch over the live service to the new X.Y.Z version do I need to: a) Totally shut down the old A.B.C version of Dovecot, thereby breaking all open connections for users? or b) Assuming I am using "shutdown_clients = no" can I just kill the master "dovecot" process and then start up the new version? Ideally I want existing connections to remain running, but new connections to start up using the new X.Y.Z version of Dovecot. The comment for "shutdown_clients" implies this, but also says: "This however means that after master process has died, the client processes can't write to log files anymore." So if I understand this correctly then with "shutdown_clients = no" in force then the sequence and behaviour is this? ... 1. Old version A.B.C of Dovecot running, clients can log through the master "dovecot" process to the logfiles. 2. Kill the old master "dovecot" process, start new X.Y.Z version up. 3. New connections get served by version X.Y.Z. Old connections DON'T get killed and can continue, BUT can no longer write anything to the logfiles? With many thanks, Mike B-) -- The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 5DD, UK Tel:+44-1904-433811 FAX:+44-1904-433740 * Unsolicited commercial e-mail is NOT welcome at this e-mail address. *

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[Dovecot] "Corrupted index cache file" error (Dovecot 1.0.3)
by Mike Brudenell 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Greetings - Now that users are beginning to pile up more on our new Dovecot-based IMAP service I'm seeing a small number of entries like this in the logfiles: Corrupted index cache file /mailstore/index/o/ozw100/.INBOX/ dovecot.index.cache : invalid record size We are using Dovecot 1.0.3 with Maildir folders served over NFS from NetApp filers, but the index files are stored on local disk. By "a small number" I mean 4 or 5 on each of our two IMAP servers since midnight. * Should I be worried? * Is there anything I need to do fix the files? (I'm guessing not as no problem reports have come in, and the logs show the people affected continuing to work throughout the day.) * Would upgrading to 1.0.5 help? (I couldn't see anything in the Release Notes for either 1.0.4 or 1.0.5 about this) Cheers, Mike B-) -- The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 5DD, UK Tel:+44-1904-433811 FAX:+44-1904-433740 * Unsolicited commercial e-mail is NOT welcome at this e-mail address. *

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[Dovecot] Custom password encryption scheme, how to do it?
by Madison Kelly 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hi all, I'm a fairly recent convert to Dovecot/Postfix from Sendmail, so please be gentle (and assume I know nothing). :) I've got a Postfix/Dovecot/PostgreSQL setup with a custom DB schema for my email. This database is also used for a bigger program I use for all my hosting needs (domains, etc.). Currently, I've set it up to use plain-text authentication while I was developing it and getting things running. Now though it's up and running fine, so I want to increase the strength of my passwords that Postfix/Dovecot use. I currently have two fields in a table called 'users'; 'usr_password' which is plain-text and what Postfix/Dovecot currently use and 'usr_strong_password', which stores a stronger hash and is used by the main program. My question is, can I have Postfix/Dovecot use a custom password hashing system? The way I store my strong password (as used by the web-interface) is; - Take the password provided from the user - Read a stored 'salt' value from the database (unique per user and changed on password [re]sets). - Generate an initial SHA256 hash out of the password+salt. - Re-hash the initial SHA256 hash many thousands of times. - Compare the final hash with the hash stored in 'usr_strong_password'. If I can tell Dovecot how to do this, where would I do it? Is there a document/howto/etc someone could point me to? Is there a file I should look at? Thanks all!! Madi

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[Dovecot] saslauth for digest or cram-md5?
by Knute Johnson 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Is it possible to use saslauth for digest-md5 or cram-md5 authentication? If so how would one go about configuring dovecot? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] imap sort assertion failure
by Andrew Garner 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

The following error occurred after a "SORT (TO) US-ASCII ALL" command. This only seems to happen with "to", all our other tests work as expected. Oct 1 20:32:49 dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed Oct 1 20:32:49 dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80c5ed1] -> imap [0x80c5dec] -> imap [0x80cde63] -> imap [0x80c43c0] -> imap(buffer_write+0x85) [0x80c46f5] -> imap(buffer_append+0x26) [0x80c4766] -> imap [0x80be2f5] -> imap(message_header_decode+0x75) [0x80be3d5] -> imap(message_header_decode_utf8+0x56) [0x80be5f6] -> imap [0x80903c4] -> imap(index_mail_get_first_header+0x3e) [0x809125e] -> imap(mail_get_first_header_utf8+0x26) [0x80b4726] -> imap [0x809386b] -> imap [0x8093900] -> imap [0x809414e] -> imap(index_sort_list_finish+0x33) [0x80949d3] -> imap(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x3b6) [0x80924a6] -> imap(mailbox_search_next+0x30) [0x80b5b70] -> imap(imap_sort+0xdd) [0x806407d] -> imap(cmd_sort+0x2a4) [0x805d454] -> imap [0x805e7b9] -> imap [0x805e862] -> imap(client_input+0x65) [0x805ee85] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x162) [0x80cc2a2] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80cb628] -> imap(main+0x4ab) [0x806643b] -> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc Oct 1 20:32:49 dovecot: child 31161 (imap) killed with signal 6 # dovecot -n # 1.1.beta2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 listen: 127.0.0.1 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes lock_method: dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): mail_plugins(imap): mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail

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[Dovecot] Folder renaming oddities.
by Tan Shao Yi 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hi Timo, We are observing some weird behaviour when we try to rename an inferior folder, followed by the superior folder. These folders have an asterisk in the name. * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "*Own Family" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "*Own Family.Tour" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "*Own Family.Maid" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "*Own Family.Tour.NZ" a OK List completed. a rename "*Own Family.Tour.NZ" "Own Family.Tour.NZ" a OK Rename completed. a LIST "" * * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "*Own Family" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "*Own Family.Tour" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "*Own Family.Maid" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Own Family.Tour.NZ" a OK List completed. a rename "*Own Family.Tour" "Own Family.Tour" a rename "*Own Family.Tour" "Own Family.Tour"a NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-10-02 11:02:59] a LIST "" * * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "*Own Family" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "*Own Family.Maid" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Own Family.Tour" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Own Family.Tour.NZ" dovecot: Oct 02 11:02:59 Error: IMAP(XXX): rename(/XXX/Maildir/.*Own Family.TourNZ, /XXX/Maildir/.Own Family.TourNZ) failed: No such file or directory It seems that the renaming of the folder succeeds, though the "a NO Internal error occurred" is reported. However, when the folders do not have an asterisk in the name. * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Own Family" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Own Family.Maid" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Own Family.Tour" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Own Family.Tour.NZ" a rename "Own Family.Tour.NZ" "*Own Family.Tour.NZ" a OK Rename completed. a rename "Own Family.Tour" "*Own Family.Tour" a OK Rename completed. a LIST "" * * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Own Family" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Own Family.Maid" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "*Own Family.Tour" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "*Own Family.Tour.NZ" The rename operation completes successfully with no error. Is there something that I am doing wrong? P.S., Will it be possible to also request the mail-log plugin to log rename operations too? :) Thanking in advance. Cheers, Tan Shao Yi

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + OCFS2
by Jon Blazquez 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hello, We are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) with OCFS2 for our mail servers. There are three nodes in the cluster with shared storage and OCFS2 filesystem on it. The filesystem is used for mail storage(using Maildir layout) and is accessed by smtpd, pop3 and imap processes(DOVECOT). The system works fine but when there are mailing lists the load increases dramatically. It only occurs when there are mailing lists. We have tested it in lab with good results and now in production we are having some load problems caused by dovecot´s deliver process. In lab we had sent lots of mails but always to a few accounts. It was OK. Now there are sent less mails but there are more accounts. The load increases until it reaches about 100 and only restart fixes the problem. The umounting of the OCFS2 filesystem is not possible even when all process accessing it are killed. Any suggestions? TIA Info: Three nodes. OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) Mailbox format: Maildir SMTP daemon: Dovecot deliver + Sendmail OCFS2 version: 1.2.5-6 Kernel Version: 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp Pop3 and imap daemon: Dovecot 1.0.3 -- _________________________________________________ Jon Blázquez Diez jblazquez(a)unav.es Servicios Informáticos https://www.unav.es/SI/ Universidad de Navarra https://www.unav.es _________________________________________________

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[Dovecot] Subscribe to root of Maildir namespace?
by Adam Tilghman 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Our users currently make use of a single namespace, mbox format: namespace private { separator = / prefix = hidden = no inbox = yes location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/poptemp/dovecot/%u } I'd like to give them access to additional Maildir-format storage area, so to the above I've added: namespace private { separator = / prefix = archive/ hidden = no location = maildir:/newmail/%-3.3i/%u/:INDEX=/var/spool/poptemp/dovecot/%u.a-thumper-mail } I can set up subfolders of archive/, and they work as expected. I can also designate the "root" of archive/ as INBOX and that works properly. But "SUBSCRIBE archive" fails. Is it possible to subscribe to the "root" of this new Maildir heirarchy as if it were just another folder? If not, would this be a useful feature to add? Thanks, -- Adam Tilghman | Systems Support / Academic Computing | +1 858 822 0711 agt(a)ucsd.edu | University of California, San Diego | fax +1 858 534 7018

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[Dovecot] problematic ACL with shared folders and maildir
by Dominik L. Borkowski 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hello, Recently we have been asked to deploy some shared imap folders within our instance of dovecot. However, we ran into a problem with how ACLs are implemented, and consequences regarding maildir++ mailboxes. Long story short: * IMAP clients sees the hierarchy as a tree: sample/1, where 1 is a child of sample * on the filesystem, sample/1 is represented as .sample and .sample.1, both on the same level This presents a problem: dovecot-acl file meant for sample mailbox does not apply to mailbox 1. In fact, a user with permissions to create mailboxes under sample, will not be able to access those mailboxes, once created. Wonder if anybody has been in a similar predicament, and found a solution. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. PS) I'm also documenting this process, maybe others will find it useful: https://collaboration.vbi.vt.edu/display/~dom/dovecot+-+shared+imap+folders -- Dominik L. Borkowski - Senior Systems Administrator Virginia Bioinformatics Institute - www.vbi.vt.edu

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Re: [Dovecot] How to upgrade a running Dovecot?
by Jerry Yeager 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:41 PM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:25:49 +0100 > From: Mike Brudenell <pmb1(a)york.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to upgrade a running Dovecot? > To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <B9A4EC9A-82C0-4250-BC98-606695775041(a)york.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Hi, Jerry/et al - > Hello Mike, (stuff chomped out) > >>> Scenario 2: Altered SSL Certificates >>> ===================================== >>> I need to replace our current certificates and have prepared new >>> files containing the replacement certificate and private key. Am I >>> right in thinking that I can simply modify dovecot.conf to point at >>> the new files and send a HUP signal to dovecot? Specifically, will >>> new connections use the revised certificates, and existing >>> connections continue to work OK without interruption? >> >> Ehh not really, the auth child processes can be killed and new ones >> started. See your next scenario question. > > ...So here you're saying that although the "dovecot" master process > re-reads the configuration file, it doing so has no effect on the > existing authenticator child processes? And is it these processes > that are dealing with the SSL connection? ... I'd have thought it was > either the "imap-login" or "imap" processes? > Just to be clear about this for myself, (instead of relying on the 'ol saying 'that is how it used to work' -- because I am switching over to 1.1 from 1.0.n your question takes on new relevance for me as well) I tested this and yes it works as before, the new files seem to be used for the new connections (all of the dovecot auth processes are killed on the HUP signal -- dovecot itself just rereads the conf file and new auth listeners are started -- assuming that you use Dovecot for the auth mechanism to Postfix) and existing connections seem to handle things okay. I did find something new (or I have not noticed it before) If you kill (not just restart) the Dovecot process itself and restart it with existing connections (someone was connected to IMAPS when you killed Dovecot) Dovecot will not restart, complaining that port 993 is taken already. This happens regardless of the shutdown_clients = yes/no setting. This may be particular to the new version 1.1, I do not know. > Jerry

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird and imap alerts
by Marco De Benedetto 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Is Thunderbird supposed to show alerts sent via post-login scripts as in the wiki example? dovecot-imapd 1.0.5-1 (Debian) Thunderbird (Icedove) 2.0.0.4 (Debian) # dovecot -n|grep 'mail_executable(imap)' mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-alert.sh # cat /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-alert.sh #!/bin/sh echo "* OK [ALERT] Hello World." exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap Logging in with Thunderbird I get this alert: "Mail server imap.example.org is not an IMAP4 server". -- Thank you, Marco De Benedetto

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Re: [Dovecot] How to upgrade a running Dovecot?
by Jerry Yeager 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

> Have you considered sending out a message to each user to the effect that on some day, darned-early a.m. the system will be offline for 30 minutes for maintenance (no incoming email will be lost, etc., etc.). > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:57:03 +0100 > From: Mike Brudenell <pmb1(a)york.ac.uk> > Subject: [Dovecot] How to upgrade a running Dovecot? > To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <06B4C604-41E3-4061-96B2-C7C719E21D49(a)york.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Greetings - > > Could someone confirm how to perform various upgrades on a live > system running Dovecot please? > > > Scenario 1: Change to dovecot.conf > =================================== > If I make a change to dovecot.conf am I right in thinking I can > simply send a HUP signal to the main dovecot process to get it to re- > read the configuration file and act on its revised content? > Yes, this is correct. > > Scenario 2: Altered SSL Certificates > ===================================== > I need to replace our current certificates and have prepared new > files containing the replacement certificate and private key. Am I > right in thinking that I can simply modify dovecot.conf to point at > the new files and send a HUP signal to dovecot? Specifically, will > new connections use the revised certificates, and existing > connections continue to work OK without interruption? > > Ehh not really, the auth child processes can be killed and new ones started. See your next scenario question. > Scenario 3: Software Upgrade > ============================= > I build a particular version of Dovecot into the tree /usr/local/ > dovecot-A.B.C and then have a symlink called "dovecot" pointing at > the this directory. To upgrade I can then build the new version > into /usr/local/dovecot-X.Y.Z and test. > > To actually switch over the live service to the new X.Y.Z version do > I need to: > > a) Totally shut down the old A.B.C version of Dovecot, thereby > breaking all > open connections for users? or > > b) Assuming I am using "shutdown_clients = no" can I just kill the > master > "dovecot" process and then start up the new version? > See the preface, do the update when you typically have few folks using the system -- which gives you fewer complaints from users should things break on their end. > Ideally I want existing connections to remain running, but new > connections to start up using the new X.Y.Z version of Dovecot. > > The comment for "shutdown_clients" implies this, but also says: > > "This however means that after master process has died, the > client > processes can't write to log files anymore." > > So if I understand this correctly then with "shutdown_clients = no" > in force then the sequence and behaviour is this? ... > > 1. Old version A.B.C of Dovecot running, clients can log > through the > master "dovecot" process to the logfiles. > > 2. Kill the old master "dovecot" process, start new X.Y.Z > version up. > > 3. New connections get served by version X.Y.Z. > Old connections DON'T get killed and can continue, BUT can > no longer > write anything to the logfiles? > > > With many thanks, > Mike B-) > > -- > The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 > 5DD, UK > Tel:+44-1904-433811 FAX:+44-1904-433740 > > * Unsolicited commercial e-mail is NOT welcome at this e-mail > address. * > > > > >

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[Dovecot] Compiling drac.c on a 64 bit system
by Robin Atwood 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

I have just installed dovecot and want to set up the drac interface. However, when I compile drac.c I get the following link errors; anybody know what the right compile options are for a 64 bit system? I have a Gentoo Linux system using the amd64 architecture. gcc -Wall -W -shared -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I$dovecot -I$dovecot/src/lib drac.c -o drac.so -ldrac /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libdrac.a(dracauth.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libdrac.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status TIA -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Deliver prints passwort to the syslog
by Dominik Schulz 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi, I've got the problem that dovecot's deliver prints the authentification information to the syslog. Like this: Sep 18 12:11:22 mail deliver(user(a)domain.tld): auth input: user=user(a)domain.tld Sep 18 12:11:22 mail deliver(user(a)domain.tld): auth input: password=XXXX Sep 18 12:11:22 mail deliver(user(a)domain.tld): auth input: home=/home/mail/domain.tld/user Sep 18 12:11:22 mail deliver(user(a)domain.tld): auth input: uid=8 Sep 18 12:11:22 mail deliver(user(a)domain.tld): auth input: gid=8 I guess that it's only a configuration option but right now I can't figure out which one I need to change to turn this off. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Dominik

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[Dovecot] UIDL and IMAP
by Kenneth Porter 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I finally got my aging FC2 box retired and moved all email to my new CentOS 5 box. My site is all-IMAP, no POP3. I have one user who downloads all email to Thunderbird on his laptop so that he can work offline while away from a network connection (eg. on an airplane). I forgot to change the pop3_uidl_format setting as described here: <http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0> So he was seeing repeated downloads of all his mail (about 300 MBytes) every time he connected. (I'm not sure why it didn't happen only the first time.) I changed the setting and haven't heard back whether if fixed things for him. Does this setting in fact get used by IMAP? It's in the POP3 section, so I'm wondering if it takes effect when one is using IMAP from the client. CentOS 5 is currently shipping with: dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 I may look for a newer release. CentOS, based on RHEL, is intended to be a conservative distro, so I'll probably need to look at RPMForge (an addon repository of more exotic and bleeding edge software) to see if it offers a newer release.

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[Dovecot] Dovceot user pop3 last connect info?
by Tim Tyler 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Dovecot experts, I am a newbie to Dovecot. I am in the process of replacing qpopper with dovecot to support pop 3 clients. I have installed the latest version of Dovecot on Fedora Core 6. Everything seems to be working fine using ldap, etc. However, with qpopper, I used to have .pop.username files which would give me a time stamp of the last time a user established a pop3 connection. I know that Dovecot has logs of connection in the /var/log/maillog files, but these files rotate out over a relatively short period of time. Is there a method by which one can keep track of the last time a pop3 connection was established for each user when using Dovecot? Tim Tyler Network Engineer - Beloit College tyler(a)beloit.edu

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[Dovecot] Namespace "hidden" option not working?
by Ed W 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I either misunderstand the namespace hidden option, or else perhaps it's not working correctly in 1.0.5? dovecot.conf # default namespace namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } # for backwards compatibility: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } Then login and test s6jh LIST "" "*" SND: <<< len(939) Comp_len(118) Time:0.137985 * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Diary" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Archive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent Items" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Subdir" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk E-mail" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Deleted Items" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Diary" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Archive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent Items" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Subdir" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Deleted Items" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" The idea was to support an old client using Courier like access whilst still letting new clients access using the normal process Ed W

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[Dovecot] Disable imap proxy access
by Dominique Feyer 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I work on a dovecot cluster (15 servers) we need to add a new storage array and move the data for a list of user from the old storage to the new one. We use dovecot proxy to redirect imap and pop3 to the same server everytime. How to disable pop3 and imap access during the data migration process (duration 5 minutes to 10 minutes). Can i send a custom error message to our users ? Thanks for your help Dominique Feyer

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[Dovecot] Postfix with Deliver (LDA) - user unknown
by Karin Gregorec 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Good Day All! I am attempting to configure deliver as our LDA. I am also configuring the server to use Postfix instead of Sendmail. I have followed the all the documentation and examples I could find. Below are my Dovecot and Postfix configs. Can someone please smack me upside the head and tell me why I am getting "user unknown" errors? If i don't use deliver as the LDA, all works perfectly. Help... TIA, glenn ========== *** Dovecot Config *** dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/maillogs/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: GID Ready login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> service=%s authMethod=%m rIP=%r lIP=%l encryption=%c login_max_processes_count: 256 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 10000 first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 1024 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s auth default: cache_size: 1024 cache_ttl: 604800 verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%Lu userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: maildrop plugin: quota: maildir:storage=10000000:ignore=Trash *** Postfix main.cf *** alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases biff = no command_directory = /usr/local/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH; (echo cont; echo where) | gdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id 2>&1 >$config_directory/$process_name.$process_id.log & sleep 5 #### Dovecot LDA Service - http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 home_mailbox = Maildir/ html_directory = no inet_interfaces = all mail_owner = postfix mail_spool_directory = /var/mail mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/local/man message_size_limit = 12000000 mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost mydomain = geekinternetdevelopment.com myhostname = superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com mynetworks = 72.18.193.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = no sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = maildrop smtpd_banner = $myhostname NO WHAMMIES!!! virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mailboxes virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vdomains virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 *** Postfix master.cf *** ...snip... dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=maildrop:maildrop argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e -d ${recipient}

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[Dovecot] autocreate plugin
by Lars Stavholm 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Did anyone get the autocreate plugin working? I've compiled, installed and configured, but no mailboxes/folders are created. /L

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Re: [Dovecot] Postfix with Deliver (LDA) - user unknown
by Lars Stavholm 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Let's try to keep this on the list shall we. hgic(a)geekazoid.com wrote: > Here is the conversation from my maillog: > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/pickup[179]: B77EA130C28: uid=0 from=<root> > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/cleanup[232]: B77EA130C28: > message-id=<20071004035215.B77EA130C28(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com> > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: B77EA130C28: > from=<root(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com>, size=375, nrcpt=1 (queue > active) > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/pipe[234]: B77EA130C28: > to=<test(a)geekinetdev.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.25, > delays=0.16/0.01/0/0.08, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (user unknown) > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/cleanup[232]: E0729130C32: > message-id=<20071004035215.E0729130C32(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com> > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/bounce[236]: B77EA130C28: sender > non-delivery notification: E0729130C32 > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: E0729130C32: from=<>, > size=2294, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: B77EA130C28: removed > Oct 3 20:52:16 superman postfix/local[237]: E0729130C32: > to=<geekserver(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com>, Do you have a user called "geekserver". Looks a bit dodgy. > orig_to=<root(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com>, relay=local, dovecot is a bit peculiar with the "root" user. You should always alias that to a real user. Or maybe you have. > delay=0.13, delays=0.06/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown > user: "geekserver") Well, do you have a user called "geekserver"? > Oct 3 20:52:16 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: E0729130C32: removed > > dovecot.log has: > > dovecot: Oct 03 08:57:04 Info: auth(default): > passwd(test(a)geekinetdev.com): unknown user That seems to be unrelated to the above. /L > dovecot-deliver.log is empty... > > Thanks for your assistance!!! ;-) > > glenn > >> System log could help. >> /L >> >> Karin Gregorec wrote: >>> Good Day All! I am attempting to configure deliver as our LDA. I am >>> also configuring the server to use Postfix instead of Sendmail. I >>> have followed the all the documentation and examples I could find. >>> >>> Below are my Dovecot and Postfix configs. Can someone please smack me >>> upside the head and tell me why I am getting "user unknown" errors? >>> If i don't use deliver as the LDA, all works perfectly. Help... >>> >>> TIA, >>> glenn >>> >>> ========== >>> >>> >>> *** Dovecot Config *** >>> >>> dovecot -n >>> # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf >>> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ >>> log_path: /var/log/maillogs/dovecot.log >>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >>> ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW >>> disable_plaintext_auth: no >>> verbose_ssl: yes >>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >>> login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login >>> login_greeting: GID Ready >>> login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> service=%s authMethod=%m rIP=%r >>> lIP=%l encryption=%c >>> login_max_processes_count: 256 >>> verbose_proctitle: yes >>> first_valid_uid: 5000 >>> last_valid_uid: 10000 >>> first_valid_gid: 0 >>> mail_extra_groups: mail >>> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir >>> dotlock_use_excl: yes >>> fsync_disable: yes >>> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes >>> mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 >>> mail_process_size: 1024 >>> mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(pop3): >>> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap >>> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap >>> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 >>> imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle >>> netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh >>> tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle >>> pop3_uidl_format(default): >>> pop3_uidl_format(imap): >>> pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv >>> pop3_client_workarounds(default): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(imap): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh >>> pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> auth default: >>> cache_size: 1024 >>> cache_ttl: 604800 >>> verbose: yes >>> passdb: >>> driver: pam >>> args: cache_key=%Lu >>> userdb: >>> driver: passwd >>> socket: >>> type: listen >>> master: >>> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >>> mode: 384 >>> user: maildrop >>> plugin: >>> quota: maildir:storage=10000000:ignore=Trash >>> >>> >>> *** Postfix main.cf *** >>> >>> alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> biff = no >>> command_directory = /usr/local/sbin >>> daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix >>> >>> debug_peer_level = 2 >>> debugger_command = >>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH; (echo cont; >>> echo where) | gdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id 2>&1 >>> >$config_directory/$process_name.$process_id.log & sleep 5 >>> >>> #### Dovecot LDA Service - http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix >>> dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 >>> >>> home_mailbox = Maildir/ >>> html_directory = no >>> inet_interfaces = all >>> mail_owner = postfix >>> mail_spool_directory = /var/mail >>> mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq >>> manpage_directory = /usr/local/man >>> message_size_limit = 12000000 >>> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost >>> mydomain = geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> myhostname = superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> mynetworks = 72.18.193.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 >>> newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases >>> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix >>> readme_directory = no >>> sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix >>> sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >>> setgid_group = maildrop >>> smtpd_banner = $myhostname NO WHAMMIES!!! >>> >>> virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 >>> virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mailboxes >>> virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vdomains >>> virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes >>> virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 >>> virtual_transport = dovecot >>> virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 >>> unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 >>> >>> *** Postfix master.cf *** >>> ...snip... >>> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe >>> flags=DRhu user=maildrop:maildrop >>> argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e -d ${recipient} >

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[Dovecot] In-site migration from /etc/passwd to LDAP
by Maykel Moya 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I'm doing in-site migration of accounts from /etc/passwd to an LDAP directory. The migration should be progressive (not all users at the same time). I'm already able to check mail for accounts in /etc/passwd and accounts in LDAP. The problem is with mail delivery. I'm using Postfix + Dovecot-LDA. This is the error I get with every delivery -- dovecot: Oct 03 00:16:09 Info: auth(default): master in: USER 1 moya service=deliver dovecot: Oct 03 00:16:09 Info: auth(default): ldap(moya): user search: base=ou=users,dc=sld,dc=cu scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=moya)) fields=sldMailbox,uidNumber dovecot: Oct 03 00:16:09 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 moya home=/srv/vmail/m/moya/ uid=29174 gid=101 deliver(moya): Oct 03 00:16:09 Fatal: setuid(29174) failed: Operation not permitted -- 29174 is the uid for moya, is the same in /etc/passwd or in LDAP via posixAccount class. Any advise please? Regards, maykel

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[Dovecot] new antispam plugin
by Johannes Berg 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Sparked from the discussion on the list, I've put my antispam plugin into git and split up the code into a frontend and possibly multiple backends. See http://git.sipsolutions.net/dovecot-antispam.git/ (URL functions as both gitweb and git URL) Andreas, I took your README file and adjusted it, I hope you don't mind. I didn't fork from your git tree because you'd already implemented the libdspam backend there. Maybe you could take a look at the new backend/frontend separation and implement a libdspam backend. Aria, it should be possible to write a spamassassin plugin, quite easily if spamassassin supports training based on signatures, not quite so easily otherwise though I intend to plan this. Timothy, you could write the mysql logger as a backend too. I take patches :) Oh and as always thanks to Timo for implementing such a nice server and string, memory and mail handling API. johannes

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[Dovecot] --enable-headers-install problem in 1.0.5
by Trever L. Adams 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

I am trying to get a SPEC file for an RPM to build a devel package. I have it working, except for one thing. 1.0.5 doesn't actually install the headers with that option to configure found in the subject. It does create the directory, but it doesn't put the files there. Timo, is this a known/unknown bug, or am I doing something stupid? Thanks, Trever

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[Dovecot] SORT(DATE) and missing Date headers
by Kyle Wheeler 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hello, Occasionally, I get mail that's missing a Date header. The usual suspects are iTunes weekly mailings and NYTimes email-to-a-friend articles. I use qmail, which doesn't "fix" these malformed emails by adding a Date header (like Sendmail does), so when they get to my mailbox, they're just as badly formed as they were when they were sent, which is to say, they have no Date header. Unfortunately, this means that SORT (DATE) puts them at the beginning of the list---and in a mailbox with lots of old mail, that's usually the wrong spot. Now, my email clients will do some basic guesswork about when the message was sent, usually by falling back on the timestamp of the first-added Received header. So, they will display a date. But they have to then sort all messages themselves in order to get a valid sorting. Would it be possible to get Dovecot to fall back to Received header parsing whenever a message is missing a Date header? The idea is that SORT (DATE) would then become useful even in the face of commonly malformed email. How hard would this be to hack into the current Dovecot source? Does this maybe exist already (e.g. as SORT (X-DATE)? ~Kyle -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -- Ed Howdershelt

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