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Re: [Dovecot] Any way to disable imap on all but localhost ?
by Kim Culhan 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

--- michael(a)crosscode.org wrote: > It's still there, just chagned (and probably for the better - > less > confusing and I'd venture less code) in 1.0. > > I had: > > protocols = imap imaps > imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 > imaps_listen = * > > Now I have: > > protocols = imap imaps > protocol imap { > listen = 127.0.0.1 > ssl_listen = * > } > > However, after encountering the same problem you did I moved my > 0.99 > configuration file out of place and put the 1.0 > dovecot-example.conf file > into place and modified it, since that seemed like the easier thing > to do > (not that the imap section already exists in the new example > config., > it's just empty). Ok, just did the same, running dovecot-1.0-test46 dovecot is still listening on port 143 It appears dovecot imap listens on all the interfaces regardless This is running on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4 -kim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: [Dovecot] Any way to disable imap on all but localhost ?
by michael＠crosscode.org 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

It's still there, just chagned (and probably for the better - less confusing and I'd venture less code) in 1.0. I had: protocols = imap imaps imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 imaps_listen = * Now I have: protocols = imap imaps protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1 ssl_listen = * } However, after encountering the same problem you did I moved my 0.99 configuration file out of place and put the 1.0 dovecot-example.conf file into place and modified it, since that seemed like the easier thing to do (not that the imap section already exists in the new example config., it's just empty). - Michael On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Kim Culhan wrote: > > Noticed that some configuration settings like > imap_listen appear to have been removed. > > Any way to accomplish this ? > > -kim > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >

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[Dovecot] Any way to disable imap on all but localhost ?
by Kim Culhan 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

Noticed that some configuration settings like imap_listen appear to have been removed. Any way to accomplish this ? -kim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0-test45 indexing issues
by dovecot＠spam.turbolink.net 28 Sep '04

28 Sep '04

We're currently on dovecot 0.99.10 with a few modifications (including one very nasty hack for the blank line at the beginning of the mailbox bug). We're using mbox all around. Everything works smoothly but we still ocasionally get corrupt mailboxes and indexes that need to be wiped out. I setup 1.0-test45 on one of our mailservers to start testing it and ran into a few issues. The first one is if I try to use mail_read_mmaped=yes I get this error: Error: POP3(sobo1): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 410 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->mail_size != (uoff_t)-1) for every mailbox. If I switch to mail_read_mmaped=no everything works, but performance is extremely bad. I have a few test mailboxes with about 20k messages and if I toggle a message flag from unread to read, dovecot seems to re-read the entire mailbox up to that message (I saw this with strace). Is this how supposed to work?? I don't see behavior like this on 0.99.10, and on a mailbox with any substantial number of messages it really slows things down. Thanks for any input. - Mike

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Cygwin
by Andy Teijelo Pérez 28 Sep '04

28 Sep '04

Has anyone been able to run and use dovecot on Cygwin? Just to start asking, don't be affraid. Thanks in advance. Andy

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RE: [Dovecot] Moving mail dirs
by Mark Lidstone 28 Sep '04

28 Sep '04

Ah! My ignorance is outshone only by your helpfulness. :) Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 28 September 2004 16:14 To: Mark Lidstone Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving mail dirs On 28.9.2004, at 16:08, Mark Lidstone wrote: > Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user1>): stat() failed with file > /home/<user1>/.Maildir/new: No such file or directory > Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user2>): utime() failed with index > file > /home/<user2>/.Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory > > What have I missed? Or am I not supposed to move maildirs once > they're in use? Restarting Dovecot doesn't kill the existing processes which are still using the old directories and since they're gone they begin complaining. Correct way to do moving would be: kill dovecot killall imap move directories start dovecot

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[Dovecot] Moving mail dirs
by Mark Lidstone 28 Sep '04

28 Sep '04

Hi all, This is probably a silly question, but I have a problem. I've had to move my users maildirs from: maildir:/home/%u/.Maildir To maildir:/data/mail/%u I've updated the MTA to put mail to the correct place and it's working fine. I've also changed the dovecot.conf file and restarted dovecot and I thought that would be all I needed to do. However, the users are getting lots of error messages, and looking in the relevant logs shows lots of entries like: Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user1>): stat() failed with file /home/<user1>/.Maildir/new: No such file or directory Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user2>): utime() failed with index file /home/<user2>/.Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory (Sorry for changing usernames and hostname, but I'm neurotic about that kind of thing) What have I missed? Or am I not supposed to move maildirs once they're in use? Any help greatly appreciated, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 28 September 2004 00:09 To: dovecot(a)spam.turbolink.net Cc: dovecot(a)procontrol.fi Subject: [Dovecot] Re: More test46 feedback On 28.9.2004, at 00:29, dovecot(a)spam.turbolink.net wrote: > Here's another error message I just started getting with test46: > > Error: POP3(test2): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion > failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK ||ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) Could you get gdb backtrace from this? I know this happens when you try to copy a message into the same mbox, but why would anyone do that? > I haven't seen the combined X-Status/X-UID nor the other log > corruption "Append with UID xxx, but next_uid = xxx" that I saw > earlier. That's good.

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RE: [Dovecot] Moving mail dirs
by Mark Lidstone 28 Sep '04

28 Sep '04

Hi all, I have a temporary fix in case anyone is reading the archives with the same problem. Link the old location to the new location. E.g: mv /home/user/.Maildir /data/mail/user ln -s /data/mail/user /home/user/.Maildir Still no idea why dovecot is still looking in the original folders though. Thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Mark Lidstone Sent: 28 September 2004 14:08 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Moving mail dirs Hi all, This is probably a silly question, but I have a problem. I've had to move my users maildirs from: maildir:/home/%u/.Maildir To maildir:/data/mail/%u I've updated the MTA to put mail to the correct place and it's working fine. I've also changed the dovecot.conf file and restarted dovecot and I thought that would be all I needed to do. However, the users are getting lots of error messages, and looking in the relevant logs shows lots of entries like: Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user1>): stat() failed with file /home/<user1>/.Maildir/new: No such file or directory Sep 28 14:03:36 <hostname> imap(<user2>): utime() failed with index file /home/<user2>/.Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index: No such file or directory (Sorry for changing usernames and hostname, but I'm neurotic about that kind of thing) What have I missed? Or am I not supposed to move maildirs once they're in use? Any help greatly appreciated, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 28 September 2004 00:09 To: dovecot(a)spam.turbolink.net Cc: dovecot(a)procontrol.fi Subject: [Dovecot] Re: More test46 feedback On 28.9.2004, at 00:29, dovecot(a)spam.turbolink.net wrote: > Here's another error message I just started getting with test46: > > Error: POP3(test2): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion > failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK ||ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) Could you get gdb backtrace from this? I know this happens when you try to copy a message into the same mbox, but why would anyone do that? > I haven't seen the combined X-Status/X-UID nor the other log > corruption "Append with UID xxx, but next_uid = xxx" that I saw > earlier. That's good.

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird 0.8 - Inbox grayed out and does not update
by Sitapati das 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Hi all, I cannot get Thunderbird 0.8 to work with my dovecot IMAP server. It works fine with my work IMAP account - I'm not sure what they are using. What happens is that folders that I create in Thunderbird or Evolution can only contain subfolders or messages, not a combination of both. Folders which contain subfolders and not messages show up in Thunderbird grayed out. I can expand them and view the subfolders and the messages within those. The Inbox however, also shows up grayed out. When I look inside I can see the messages that were there when I created the IMAP account in Thunderbird, however, no new messages arrive, even after restarting Thunderbird. If I connect with Evolution 1.4 I can read the inbox without a problem. Has anyone seen this? warm regards, Joshua

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[Dovecot] Concerned about Dovecot's new NTLM code
by Andrew Bartlett 26 Sep '04

26 Sep '04

I'm pleased to see another project increasing compatibility with windows clients, by the addition of NTLM login support, but I'm a bit worried about a few implementation details, and hope to offer an alternate approach. I mean no disrespect to those who have implemented to the code so far, but I feel that the idea of 'everybody re-implement NTLM' is prone to failure. Firstly, to bugs I've noticed by casual inspection of your implementation: - Unicode support is by 'null padding' - there is no real support for non-ascii characters. - NTLM2 (a negotiated scheme to avoid sending the LM response) is unsupported - NTLMSSP is NDR, not 'C struct pushed to the wire', it needs to be correctly marshaled and unmarshaled. There are other missing features, some of which are rumoured to become mandatory flags in future, but more importantly, because the implementation is standalone, it has no ability to integrate into an NT/Win2k/Samba domain. As part of the Samba team, I have worked with other projects - Squid in particular, to deliver server-side (and client-side) NTLMSSP authentication, without the need to re-implement the NTLMSSP protocol. This is done by a callout to 'ntlm_auth', a Samba 3.0 utility designed for this purpose, which in turn can contact domain controllers, allowing for seamless single sign on. http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/ntlm_auth.1.html I have recently completed reworking mod_ntlm_winbind for a similar purpose, and have patches for cyrus-sasl in my 'lorikeet' subversion repository. These should serve as good examples for the simple fork()/exec() modal that is used, and also show the support for GSS-SPNEGO (aka HTTP Negotiate) that ntlm_auth also provides. http://download.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/lorikeet/trunk/ My hope is that I can tempt a Dovecot developer to take on the challenge of modifying the dovecot to use ntlm_auth, and am most willing to answer any questions (here, by private mail or on the samba-technical list) that you may have on the issue. Thanks, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet(a)samba.org Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet(a)hawkerc.net

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[Dovecot] help on config the dovecot
by zhou mendy 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

I just installed the Fedora Core 2 and want to set up the mailserver. Could you please give me a step by step instruction to configure the dovecot? I want a IMAP & POP3 service and use mbox format. thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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[Dovecot] problems with cvs version and vpopmail
by Kristoffer Ek 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Hi, I have tried compiling the latest cvs version of dovecot on my FreeBSD 5.2.1-release box with the ports version of vpopmail: 5.4.3_1. In the configuration file I have two auth paragraphs, one for passwd authentication and one for vpopmail-auth: auth vpopmail { mechanisms = plain userdb = vpopmail passdb = vpopmail user = vpopmail } But the vpopmail dosn'nt work. I got the folowing in the log: Info: auth(vpopmail): vpopmail(stoffer(a)test.ek.dk): unknown user (stoffer(a)test.ek.dk) When I ktrace the dovecot process, it seams that it is trying to access the mysql db, but it ignores the settings in ~vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql If I use the ports version of dovecot it works, but of course without the multiple auth capability since it is version 0.99... Any hints on debugging? - kristoffer -- 1st graffitiist: QUESTION AUTHORITY! 2nd graffitiist: Why? Kristoffer Ek http://ek.dk/ +45 20 40 00 05

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[Dovecot] Help!
by zhou mendy 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

I need a step by step procedure to: Configure a Fedora Core 2 server as a Mail server with following: Postfix LDAP for authentication Dovecot for IMAP & POP3 server Squirrelmail for webmail SpamAssassin for spam protection ClamAV for anti-virus Must use maildir mailbox format We need a secure IMAP server with web interface, the 2 critical items are: 1. Postfix 2. LDAP I don't want to compile anything, just want to do a yum install or yum update so the system maintains itself. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] more verbose debugging with test45
by Kim Culhan 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Greetings- Is there any way to increase the logging output of dovecot ? I've set auth_verbose and auth_debug = yes The only output is a single line to syslog mail.info: Sep 23 09:01:54 server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: me [ip.is.here.00] test45 doesn't appear to have the --rawlog configuration option There is nothing written to ~/dovecot.rawlog Tried setting ~/dovecot.rawlog mode to 777 Running FreeBSD-5.3 and dovecot-1.0-test45 dovecot is using passwd auth and pop3s for test purposes and appears to be working correctly otherwise The reason I think I need this is that I don't feel comfortable putting this into production as it is a 'black box' at this point, without a little more testing.. Any help here would be very greatly appreciated -kim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test46
by Timo Sirainen 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Most importantly added mbox_lazy_writes option, enabled by default. This makes Dovecot do writes to mbox only with EXPUNGE and CHECK commands and when mailbox is being closed. This is the same behaviour as with UW-IMAP. Especially useful for POP3 where most users just download the mails and delete everything - with this enabled Dovecot doesn't anymore go writing X-UID headers and whatever. Be careful anyway with this release, it seems to be working with me but mbox can get corrupted from simple mistakes. Other important fixes include: - handle UIDVALIDITY changes in mbox correctly - we might have overridden others dotlock files if they were being rapidly recreated with different processes - should fix syncing read-only mboxes (maybe dovecot.org finally stops giving internal errors :) - fixed several other mbox syncing issues which were quite rare without lazy writing - when sending lots of non-mail data to IMAP clients, Dovecot might have lost some of it causing weird problems. With pop3 it crashed with assert instead of losing data.

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[Dovecot] Postfix-TLS/SASL-rimap
by Daniel L. Miller 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

Will Dovecot support the Cyrus SASL library rimap mechanism? If so, is there anything I need to enable/verify for it to work? And is there another tool to verify proper behaviour besides trying to log in with a client? Daniel

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[Dovecot] Questions about mail process chroots
by Brett Smith 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Greetings, I am configuring a new Dovecot installation, and the way the valid_chroot_dirs and mail_chroot variables affect the mail processes are a bit unclear to me. I was wondering if anyone could provide me with more specific details than the comments in the configuration file do, or maybe even recommend some values given my configuration. We have a Debian GNU/Linux system and a mix of users with shell accounts and users with disabled logins. Both these groups should be handled the same way by Dovecot: auth_userdb is passwd and auth_passdb is pam. The dovecot PAM service will use pam_mysql.so, if that matters. Mail is in mbox format (we have too many sticklers who are set in their ways, unfortunately); I'm thinking default_mail_env should be mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u. So, if I understand correctly, (a) I should set chroots on the mail processes, since some of our users don't have real shell accounts, and (b) those processes will need access to /var/mail and home directories under /home. So my best guess is that I should set the chroot variables like this: valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail:/home mail_chroot = /var/mail I'm not sure about this though, for a number of reasons. Do I need to even chroot at all, or do I misunderstand the comments? If I do need to chroot, the comments about valid_chroot_dirs warn very strongly that the chroot dirs should not be writeable by users. /home itself isn't writeable by users, but obviously their home directories are. Is listing /home also vulnerable to exploits? If it is, what would a good solution be? What's the meaning of /./ in mail_chroot? The comments about it, unfortunately, make no sense at all to me. It says that /home/./user is the same as /home, but if that's completely true, why wouldn't I just say mail_chroot = /home? I even looked into the source and it still wasn't really clear to me. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, -- -- Brett Smith

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[Dovecot] Lost messages with Mozilla and dovecot 0.99.x
by John Peacock 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

I have just moved our corporate e-mail over to qmail/dovecot and am very happy with the performance. However, I have had two reports of messages going missing which may or may not be directly related to Dovecot. I was able to observe this in action this morning: 1) I got the user out of their e-mail client (Mozilla 1.7.2) and forced an email to be delivered. It showed up in Maildir/new. 2) I had the user log in using our webmail (Squirrelmail) and the message was visible to the client (and correctly moved to Maildir/cur). 3) The user then logged in using the Mozilla mail client and not only was the message not visible in the client, it was no longer on the disk! 4) This was completely repeatable, even if I deleted the .INBOX/index files and forced dovecot to rebuild. For the moment I am thinking this is a client problem, but I thought I'd mention it just in case it rang a bell with someone. I wound up installing 0.99.11 just for grins (I just moved these people to the new server and don't want to risk 1.00-test yet). I'm also going to look at whatever debugging messages are available in dovecot; it would be useful to see a log of all imap transactions, not just login, so I could confirm that it is the client process requesting that the files be deleted and not somethink with dovecot itself (or some hardware failure). Thanks John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test45
by Timo Sirainen 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ So, the last release was a stupid one. Here's a working one.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test44
by Timo Sirainen 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I think I finally fixed the hangs some people have been having when downloading mails. For some reason I could never reproduce this problem with Linux or Solaris, but with OpenBSD it happened immediately. Stupid problem with marking output buffer empty if it was full and write() returned EAGAIN. Other changes include: - LDAP initialization crashed - fixed some compiler warnings and some issues with 64bit systems - fixed some memory leaks What bugs are there left?

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[Dovecot] [Bug 124979] pam_succeed_if.so generates noisy secure syslog msgs (fwd)
by Kenneth Porter 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

For those of you using Dovecot on Fedora, the noisy syslog is fixed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124979 I'd suggest getting the pam SRPM from Rawhide (Fedora development tree) and rebuilding, to minimize dependency issues. (I haven't tried this yet. I'm just forwarding the bug-closing report.)

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[Dovecot] Nested folders
by Melinda Taylor 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

hello, I know this is a question that has probably been answered before but I have searched for the answer and am yet to find it. I am running dovecot under fedora core 2 and cannot figure out where I set it so that users can create nested folders. At the moment they can only create one subfolder in most mail clients. however if using squirrelmail they can create nested folders but the folder whicch hosts the subfolders cannot contain mail messages as well as folders. Is this a setting in IMAP or with the mail clients. Many Thanks, melinda

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[Dovecot] utime() failed with index file [...] Operation not permitted
by Stephan Jakoubek 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Hello, I'm running the dovecot backports from jones.dk. Everything is working fine so far, but whenever someone is logging in (IMAP or POP 3) I get the following error message in my mail.log: [...] pop3(frederik): utime() failed with index file /var/mboxes/frederik/.INBOX/.imap.index: Operation not permitted [...] imap(jako1): utime() failed with index file /var/mboxes/jako1/.INBOX/.imap.index: Operation not permitted Rights for the ".imap.index" file are: -rwxrwxrwx 1 Debian-e mailserv 3792 Sep 21 11:50 .imap.index Thank you very much for your support. -Stephan

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[Dovecot] problems building / starting test40 + test42
by Curtis Maloney 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Hi I was trying to build test40 (and then test42, since it came out in the mean time) on my fresh Solaris 9 box at home, and ran into a few snags. First problem was during the build. Make spat the dummy in the auth directory: Making all in auth make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 701: Unexpected end of line seen Current working directory /home/pkg/dovecot-1.0-test42/src/auth So, I went and checked it out, to find what certainly looked to me like an error: 697:distclean-generic clean-generic maintainer-clean-generic clean \ 698:mostlyclean distclean maintainer-clean 699: 700: checkpassword-reply.c 701: 702:# Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables. Originally, I tried tacking that onto the end of the preceding list, but when the next problem came about, I tried commenting it out... with no joy. The next problem was in starting it. I've configured Dovecot before, and it runs great, keeping all the users at my work happy and supplied with spa... erm... e-mail. I also have an older test version installed on an old SparcStation 5 at home. But when I try to start it, it complains of not being able to drop root group privileges. I googled about for a bit, and found mention of ensuring the minimum GID level was set right... but still no joy. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions? Any requests for better info to help debug? -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] /etc/init.d init script for RedHat?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Is anybody using dovecot on RHEL 3? I'd sure appreciate an init script for it. Thanks! Ben

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[Dovecot] Trying to install Test43 with rpmbuild
by Benjamin J. Weiss 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi! I'm using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3.0, which is a re-compile distro of RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0. I'm installing a new mail server and would like to use dovecot as it supports Maildir, which the default imapd does not. I've downloaded test43's tarball, and would prefer to use RPM to manage it. To that end, I've tried to do an rpmbuild, but get an error: [root@www src]# rpmbuild -ta dovecot-1.0-test43.tar.gz error: line 7: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 1.0-test43 I tried untaring the tarball and looking at the dovecot.spec file, and sure enough on line 7 is a reference to "Version: 1.0-test43". The problem is that if I take out the '-', and try rpmbuild, I get more errors. I'm not an expert in this stuff...has anybody else managed to get this working? It would sure make my life easier (I think). Ben

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[Dovecot] Mac Eudora and POP
by Chris Alexander 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

I didn't get much joy in the list archives... Has anyone seen an instance of Mac users (OS9) using Eudora not being able to pop their mail? They can imap ok, just not pop (non-ssl btw). Nothing special in the logs... I'm not a Mac guy per se, maybe I'm missing something obvious? -- Chris Alexander UNIX Network Administrator, Information Networks and Systems Division Communications Research Centre [ http://www.crc.ca ] Government of Canada [ http://www.gc.ca ]

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[Dovecot] New Postfix + Dovecot + OpenLDAP + Jamm + SASL + TLS HOWTO
by Peter Lacey 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

All, That's a lot of plusses, but if anyone is interested in how I managed to get all these packages working together, I just posted this HOWTO to: http://wanderingbarque.com/mailserver.html The Postfix - Dovecot - OpenLDAP marriage is nothing new, the twist is integrating these packages with Jamm, a web-based interface for creating a managing virtual domains and users. Regards, Pete

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[Dovecot] Weird behaviour with multiple accounts pointing to same maildir
by Bill Moran 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

I'm finding this a little strange. I'm putting together a mail server that will (someday, hopefully) serve a lot of email addresses for a lot of domains. To make life easy, each account name is the full mail name ... i.e "joe(a)domain.com" instead of just "joe" Mail is stored in Maildirs, and the user account information is all in MySQL. Delivery is handled by Postfix. Everything seems nice and clean, except ... If I create multiple accounts that all use the same Maildir for delivery (i.e. joe_smith(a)domain.com, js(a)domain.com, js(a)otherdomain.com) it seems to work well. Except that the user can _only_ log in as the first record in the database via IMAP. (i.e. in the example above, the user could log in as joe_smith(a)domain.com, but not the others) Logging in as the others does not produce any erros (that I can find, anyway) but the user can't see his/her mail. I'm rather stumped as to why this is happening. Each record in the database that points to a particular Maildir is identical except for the userid. In the example above, logging in as the 2nd or 3rd account shows folders created, but not the mail in them. For example, the above db records would look like: +----------------------+----------+-----------------------------+-----+-----+--------+ | userid | password | home | uid | gid | active | +----------------------+----------+-----------------------------+-----+-----+--------+ | joe_smith(a)domain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | | js(a)domain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | | js(a)otherdomain.com | ???????? | /mail/domain.com/joe_smith/ | 125 | 125 | Y | I'm assuming this is some sort of bug, but if I'm wrong, please correct me. Any ideas? Using Dovecot dovecot-0.99.10.9 on FreeBSD 4.10, talking to mysql-server-4.0.20. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD port of Dovecot
by Viren Patel 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Hello. I am trying to install Dovecot 0.99.10.9 on a FreeBSD 4.10 system from the ports collection (latest via cvsup). When running make, I get the message: dovecot-0.99.10.9 Currently incompatible with security/gnutls This is in contrast to the Dovecot web page which states that it does support GNUtls and OpenSSL. I am not really interested in gnutls/openssl support at this time. Is there a way I can install this port without gnutls/openssl?. My apologies if this is not the appropriate forum but I couldn't find info. on the port maintainer. Thanks. V. Patel Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Texas at Austin

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[Dovecot] Logging IMAP transactions
by Kenneth Porter 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Mulberry has the ability to log the IMAP exchange client-side. Is there an equivalent logging feature in Dovecot (0.99) to log the IMAP exchange server-side? My problem is that Mulberry is displaying some complex MIME structures incorrectly (eg. nested/forwarded messages) but it seems to go away if I close a folder and re-open it. I'm suspecting that Dovecot is reporting the wrong structure on first access and then fixes something on subsequent accesses. I'd like to log the FETCH result with the structure information to see if I can spot this happening.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test43
by Timo Sirainen 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ People who have had problems with downloading large mails, please try if this release helps. Also fixed one mbox syncing crash and several compiler warnings/errors with some. Not much else for now, been busy with work and other things..

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[Dovecot] RE: compile from cvs source
by Alex S Moore 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

On Solaris 9 and using Sun's compiler. I get the following error when building from the cvs source. Can you fix this? '"mail-index-transaction-view.c", line 21: void function cannot return value' Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Fedora Core 2, dovecot, and Outlook Express
by Joe Hartford 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

After the aging harddrive in my Redhat 7.2 server died, I decided it was time to upgrade. I bought a new harddrive and did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2. I've managed to get www, ssh and sendmail reconfigured, but I'm having a heck of a time with imap. I first fooled around with cyrus-imapd, and couldn't make head or tail of it, so I downloaded a fedore core 1 imapd rpm and installed it. That almost worked, but I could only see the INBOX. Next I tried dovecot. Via Outlook Express from my winXP box, I can Refresh the IMAP folder list, and see the INBOX and the sent-mail and saved-messages folders that were created when I first ran pine. However, if I try and mark sent-mail or saved-messages as Visible, I get an "Invalid mailbox name: saved-message/" error. And when I try and view the contents of Inbox, I get "Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX/". I tried running evolution on the server, and I could subscribe and view the INBOX. But when I try and make a new folder, it gives me a "Cannot create the specified folder. Generic error" I'm hoping I just have something misconfigured, potential due to messing around with cyrus-imapd and imapd, or perhaps even pine. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty close to giving up on fedora core 2 and installing core 1, or perhaps mandrake. --Joe Hartford

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Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Timo Sirainen 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

On 7.9.2004, at 03:53, Zoong Pham wrote: >> Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes? >> Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in >> 1.0-tests.. >> > > I just check the problematic mailbox. > The maximum line length is 2047 characters. > Most of them are around 1300 characters. Well, could you attach gdb into the process while it's running and get backtrace? ie.: gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap pid bt

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[Dovecot] ok, one last time with mbox vs. maildir
by Brian Hechinger 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

i'd *really* like to get to maildir. so here it is, one last time.... using 0.99.x, can i have an mbox spool file and Maildir folders? for just one account? if i can do that, then it'll be a lot easier to transition the whole mess to Maildir. i use procmail called from postfix to deliver mail. is that going to be an issue for delivery? if i don't set DEFAULT and just change all my sort rules to deliver to Maildir folders then i can have it continue to deliver mbox to the inbox-spool and Maildir to the folders? -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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[Dovecot] duplicate message headers in Thunderbird with dovecot server
by Matt McClure 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

I've been trying to diagnose some strange interaction between dovecot and Mozilla Thunderbird. If two clients are connected to a dovecot IMAP server, Mozilla-based clients start showing multiple messages in the message list for each message that arrives after the sessions were started. There is really only one copy of the message in the mbox file on the server. However, its UID changes repeatedly during the session, and Mozilla gets confused. From looking at Thunderbird's log of the IMAP conversation, it seems the message sequence number does not change, and I'm guessing that other clients handle the situation better because of this. Nevertheless, I found this in the IMAP RFC 3501, so my interpretation is that there is a dovecot bug involved: The unique identifier of a message MUST NOT change during the session, and SHOULD NOT change between sessions. Any change of unique identifiers between sessions MUST be detectable using the UIDVALIDITY mechanism discussed below. Persistent unique identifiers are required for a client to resynchronize its state from a previous session with the server (e.g., disconnected or offline access clients); this is discussed further in [IMAP-DISC]. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a known solution? I've been logging what I've found so far at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209561 -- Matt Funky like your grandpa's drawers

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[Dovecot] 0.99 mail env
by Curtis Maloney 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Greetings, all Last night I migrated our mail between two machines... both running dovecot 0.99.xx. In the process, I wanted to make some small changes, namely that new mail be delivered to mboxs in /var/mail/%u and IMAP mail stored in Maildirs at ~/.imap ... I tried using: default_mail_env = maildir:~/.imap/:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u But had no luck. Is it only 1.0 that can work with two different mailbox formats? Or did I screw up somewhere else? In the end, it actualy saved me a fair bit of work, since I'd have had to move everyone's old inbox. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] IMAP session freezes
by Brad 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

I've been having IMAP sessions "freeze" with fetchmail trying to retrieve larger e-mails, typically over 20K and always with an attachment. When I switch to POP3 I am able to retrieve the same e-mails just fine. This started at test33. I'm currently using test42 on a OpenBSD 3.5/macppc system with Maildir.

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[Dovecot] Multiple domains
by Daniel L. Miller 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

How do I setup Dovecot to read both local UNIX account maildirs and a separate virtual user area? Or do I need to run two servers? Daniel

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test40
by Timo Sirainen 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Fixed dying with SIGIO signal with busy Maildir + Linux + IDLE system - Fixed maildir syncing: "UIDs not ordered in file" errors could have occured sometimes wrongly - --with-ioloop=epoll enables epoll code with Linux 2.6. Untested after my changes. - Pretty big changes in internal index handling code (I started this change 2-3 months ago..) Keywords are now the only big missing feature that is planned for v1.0.

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[Dovecot] "Invalid offset returned by binary tree"
by Andy Isaacson 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hi, I'm running 0.99.10 on OpenBSD 3.4/i386, with Squirrelmail as the only client. I recently had dovecot fail with this in syslog: Sep 10 14:34:55 pirx imap(alisgray): Corrupted index file /home/alisgray/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: Invalid offset returned by binary tree: 118 Sep 10 14:34:55 pirx dovecot: child 20827 (imap) killed with signal 11 Poking around some, I see that dovecot.org recommends mmap_no_write=yes for OpenBSD... but that option's not implemented in 0.99.10, afaics. Does the symptom I'm seeing match the expected failure mode of OpenBSD's noncoherent mmap? I deleted .imap.* (after saving a backup) and that seems to have fixed the problem. I can provide a copy of the bad file for debugging, if necessary. And of course, if it's a known bug fixed in 1.0-test, I'd be happy to upgrade. -andy

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test42
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - fixed the last remaining cache corruption problems (I hope, no known ones left) - internaldate was never read from cache, but it was always cached again. this grew cache file uselessly and triggered cache compression constantly - buffer_set_used_size() assertfixes with mmap_no_write=yes (although it hasn't been much tested since the recent large index file changes, hopefully works..) - POP3: Replaced timestamp in APOP challenge string with 128 bits of base64d randomness - Added pop3_enable_last setting to enable LAST command

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[Fwd: [Dovecot] login process died too early]
by Adrian Roye 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

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[Dovecot] About maildir
by Jean-Edouard Babin 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hi, i just discover dovecot, and it's what i always wanted to have i read that it support qmail Maildir, i use postfix, but read on postfix site that postfix Maildir are compatible with qmail. so i have something like /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/ i tried a simple setup to 'test' auth_userdb = static uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n auth_passdb = passwd-file /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot-passwd.conf all thing work exept that i don't see my email. dovecot has created /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/mail/ and it seems that inbox email are stored in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/test3/mail/inbox (i have put an email on my inbox folder into my email client) but when i get a mail it's in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/.new/ so i'am wondering what is wrong, thank you, -- Jean-Edouard BABIN Mail: Jeb(a)jeb.com.fr Web : www.Jeb.com.fr IRC : Jeb @ Undernet

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[Dovecot] newbie question - no users can retrieve email (login works) pop3
by Web Enabled Info Systems 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

not sure where to go from here.... OS : Red Hat Fedora 2.6.5-1.358 #1 sendmail: sendmail dovecot version : 0.99.10.5 i can send email to the server. the email is then appended to the /var/mail/{user} file. i can view the /var/mail/{file} and see the email. i cannot retrieve the email from the local machine using Ximian Evolution (version 1.4.6). however if i use good ole #mail in a terminal it access the file and reads all emails. also as an added twist if i type in an incorrect email for the receiving email server it fails to login. however if i change it back it gets pass the login but it just hangs at retrieving messages. (again this is all on the local machine) i am sure i am just leaving out a pointer or permissions, or something crazy like that... thanks in advance Jack Taffar

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test41
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I think this release should be quite stable one. - fixes parsing mails with header lines longer than 8192 bytes - cache file corruption fixes - fixed "corrupted offset in mbox file" errors - don't return extra INBOX replies in LIST Those mbox and cache problems were pretty tricky to figure out. Thanks to Tomi Hakala for tons of testing while I tried to fix them. I've also began working with keywords support which hopefully doesn't take too long to finish. After that 1.0-alpha1 should be near.

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[Dovecot] mail not received from dovecot
by Tanim Islam 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hello all, I cannot receive emails to my dovecot IMAP server. Are there any WIKIs or anything in the dovecot mailing list that can address this issue? I use fedora core and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. Tanim Islam

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0-test32 fails with assertion
by dovecot 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hello, dovecot-1.0-test32 continuously fails on one of our customers mboxes with the following error: Sep 11 16:27:15 web dovecot: POP3(xxxxxxxxxxxxx.de1): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 360 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == -mails[idx].space) About 200 other mboxes are working perfectly on the same server. Where should I start looking for the cause of this? Regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] Errors with NFS root filesystem?
by Nate Carlson 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hey all, I've been testing out Dovecot, and it works nicely. However, when I tried to roll it to my production server, I'm getting the following error: Sep 10 17:14:22 tungsten imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to get list of authentication servers: Stale NFS file handle Any ideas on what I can do for this? I am running on a NFS root filesystem on the production server, so that's likely where this error is coming from. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars(a)natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Re: evolution/dovecot
by Stephen Waters 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:57, Stephen Waters wrote: > This bug may interest you: > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65679 I've updated it... looks like there's a problem with using /var/spool/mail/user for INBOX and subfolder creation/deletion using mbox in ~/Mail. The result is this: Request: A00099 LIST "" INBOX Response: * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX Request: A00100 LIST "" {7+} Response: * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "INBOX/" Which makes Evolution think INBOX is unreadable. :) Thanks for looking at this. -s

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[Dovecot] pop/imap & smtp auth installation with just one userdb
by Christoph Steigmeier 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi First of all thanks to the authors of dovecot. It's a pleasure to work with it. I would like to ask, if somebody has an idea about how I can combine all mailusers (dovecot pop/imap & sendmail smtp) into one db, given that I'd like to use sasl with CRAM-MD5 as authentication mechanism to ensure security. The idea behind my question is, that it is easier to administer all mail users, which in my case are mostly non-interactive users, into one db, instead of creating native unix accounts for them. Any input appreciated. Thanks and Kind regards Chris

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[Dovecot] Re: 0.99 mail env - mbox to maildir
by C.Lee Taylor 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Greetings ... > I'm all sorted now, anyway... but it has inspired me to build > a mailbox conversion tool using the dovecot mail handling > code.... watch this space. mbox to maildir converter ... There are a few perl scripts which could do this ... But I like the idea of mbox to maildir in dovecot ... But I wonder if that is the right place to put it ... Mailed Lee P.S. If anybody has scripts or a system that moves mail from mbox to maildir, I would be happy to use them ... I run FC2, with procmailrc setting maildir, but it seems when the system is busy or something, my mail is still put into mbox ...

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[Dovecot] ah ha!!
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

i don't know what happened, but it just started giving me better errors. i had to set first_valid_uid=100 since that's where my users start. wow, dovecot is FAST. -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by Brad.Allen＠edwardjones.com 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

I am having this same problem. We are running on a Solaris 8 server and Dovecot puts a blank line at the top of the mailbox and can no longer process until the line is deleted. Any idea how to fix this? Brad Allen IS EMS Projects and Planning

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[Dovecot] Internal login failure
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

ok, so, dovecot 0.99.11, Solaris 9. i have: auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow in my dovecot.conf, which gets me logged into dovecot in the first place, but then i get: Sep 9 09:52:41 ford.4amlunch.net imap-login: [ID 457029 mail.info] Internal login failure: wonko [10.0.1.6] in /var/log/syslog how do i track down exactly what the problem is so i can fix it? i would love to add SSL to my imap service, and don't care to mess with cyrus seeing how dovecot seems to be so nice. thanks!! -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Timo Sirainen 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

On 6.9.2004, at 03:28, Zoong Pham wrote: > > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes? Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in 1.0-tests..

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[Dovecot] Problem with mysql...
by Jacek Osiecki 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hello, I am trying to run dovecot on my Linux. I am using an exim 3.30 as the MTA with vmail-sql virtual users. I have installed latest dovecot release and ran through the config file. Some options seemed unclear to me, but generally I think it is OK. The problem is, that MySQL authentication does not work. It even does not try to authenticate! Dovecot connects correctly with MySQL database, but then no activity is shown in MySQL logs - but when I try to login manually with the telnet, i get: [root@mainframe root]# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1.143... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 login [my_email] [my_password] 1 NO Authentication failed. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I have spent two days with this problem, even modifying source files could not help me localize the source of my troubles :( Here are the important (I think) entries from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ------- # Authentication process name. auth = default # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 anonymous auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf ------- Any suggestions? Best regards, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl Poland

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[Dovecot] Mail cut on CR character
by Tom Mraz 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hi all, when I move the attached mail from local folder in Mozilla to an IMAP folder on dovecot, it is cut just before the ... characters. There is an extra CR character. I have setup the dovecot to use Maildirs. When I copy the file with the message manualy to one of the Maildir folders it is shown correctly in Mozilla however it if I move it using Mozilla to another IMAP folder the mail is cut again. Thanks for any reply, Tomas Mraz P.S. Using self compiled dovecot 0.99.11 on Fedora Core 2 >From - Wed Sep 8 08:18:55 2004 X-UIDL: 2f50f9a50ff6d9a016b79e964aa3bbg9 >From users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org Tue Sep 7 20:39:39 2004 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44525 "HELO data2.centrum.cz") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S2310612AbUIGSjU>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:39:20 +0200 X-Virus-Scanner: This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus system NOD32 for Linux Mail Server. For more information on NOD32 Antivirus System, please, visit our website: http://www.nod32.com/. Received: from s002.sfo.collab.net ([64.125.133.202]:62908 "HELO openoffice.org") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S279819AbUIGSiB>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:38:01 +0200 X-SpamDetected: 0 Received: (qmail 13761 invoked by uid 5302); 7 Sep 2004 18:38:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: <mailto:users-help@cs.openoffice.org> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:users-unsubscribe@cs.openoffice.org> list-post: <mailto:users@cs.openoffice.org> Reply-To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: mailing list users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: moderator for users(a)cs.openoffice.org Received: (qmail 29370 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 16:57:14 -0000 Message-ID: <413DF687.5010705(a)zoznam.sk> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:57:27 +0100 From: Skusac <skus(a)zoznam.sk> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: CSS Styly Return-Path: <users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org> X-Orcpt: rfc822;t8m(a)mail3.centrum.cz Zdravim, ako sa daju pouzivat css styly v Open Office? Potrebujem aby styly boli v externom dokumente napr styly.css a v dokumente html aby bol len link na styly. Mne to vzdy link vyhodi a uklada mi styly priamo do html dokumentu. Skusal som to ukladat aj pre HTML 3.2 aj s pomocou ignore font settings, vtedy styly neuklada, ale zase popisuje farby, velkosti ... pre kazdu cast textu. Ale styly si to z externeho .css dokumentu nenatiahne. Tools->Options->Load/Save->HTML Compatibility (Sorry za anglicku verziu) Vdaka za prispevky. Alex Fischer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe(a)cs.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org

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[Dovecot] better way to create home dirs for mail servers
by ramana 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Dear all, Autodir is for creating home directories and group directories much better then pam_mkhomedir as pam_mkhomedir does suffer some limitations like, 1) There are some applications which never need to authenticate users But they need home dirs -- for example mail servers configured to use home dirs for mail delivery and storage but not configured to use pam. 2) Some do use other ways to authenticate, bypassing pam all together. 3) Servers must be root so that pam can create home dirs. Otherwise make /home similar in permissions to /tmp And there are other interesting features with Autodir like transparent backup for 24x7 online systems and many more. Autodir uses autofs kernel module to transparently create home dirs And for more information check http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/ And here is Autodir-HOWTO http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download Regards ramana -- http://www.intraperson.com

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[Dovecot] Workaround for outlook UIDL handling bug ??
by Nikolaus Gerstmayr 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Scenario: Using Dovecot 0.99.10.9 as pop3 server. With delete on retrival off. clients: outlook* Problem: Everytihng work perfectly, except that outlooks keeps re-downloading SOME mail over and over. Though it already got them. No obvious pattern which, but only a small percentage. First of I looked at dovecots UIDLs. Initialy I thought it's broken (see my previous thread) Sorry for even thinking that, it's ok, my bad :) Rather, outlooks UIDL handling seems to be very broken :( But I think I found an easy workaround. Dovecots UIDLS seem to be timestamp.message# eg. 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 4 1093990148.4 5 1093990148.5 6 1093990148.6 7 1093990148.7 8 1093990148.8 9 1093990148.9 10 1093990148.10 11 1093990148.11 12 1093990148.12 The problems started with #10 -> Asumption: outlook falsy only takes a fixed numbers of chars to hold the UIDL, the rest ist ignored. Perhaps only the first 13 or so. What I did is reversing the order in UIDL generation. Instead of timestamp.message# -> message#.timestamp. Seems to work perfectly. Well, a bit too early too tell if it really works. Need to wait a couple of days and see if the problem re-appears or not. The only thing I'm 100% sure is that outlooks UIDL handling is broken. BTW: very nice source code. Very easy to follow, took me 5 minutes to find the correct .c and routine. In /pop3/command.c, list_uids() all I changed is ... mail->seq, client->uidvality, mail->uid to mail->seq, mail->uid, client->uidvality. (2 times) If anyone is interested, I'll keep you informed if the problem is really gone with this mini-patch.

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[Dovecot] Comments on planned migration to Dovecot
by Rory Campbell-Lange 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Our office of about 100 users is presently running its mail through an Exchange 5.5 Server. The Exchange server is protected by Linux server pass-through server running Exim4. We intend to move all of our mail and directory services to open source software, probably Exim4, Dovecot and OpenLDAP. We have a mixture of mail clients. These include Mac OS9 Entourage (about 30%), OSX Entourage (20%) and Apple Mail (50%). About 30 individuals also look in to their mailboxes using squirrelmail. Each user is permitted a mailbox of no more than 20MB in size. Project mailboxes may rise to 200MB, however, with up to 5 simultaneous users connection to each project mailbox. I would be grateful for comments on the suitability of deploying Dovecot in this production environment. I already use Dovecot for a small number of users in a different environment (Mac Eudora, XP Outlook, Squirrelmail) and it appears to work without fault. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Maildir++ support]
by Maykel Moya 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

> In the homepage said that dovecot doesn't yet support maildir++, but in > http://dovecot.org/doc/mail-storages.txt said 'we support maildir++'. > > My question is: does dovecot support maildir++ ? > > Regards > mike

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[Dovecot] Dovecot quota support
by Alton Yu 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Sorry if this question has already been answered. I'm just thought that maybe I could get an answer here faster than my research. I'm currently using squirrelmail and there's a plugin that supports quota compatible with Courier. Does dovecot have the same support? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: dovecot bug case] Reproducably make "imap" loop.
by Grahame Bowland 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Hi guys I noticed a few people talking about a bug where "imap" processes loop. Bruce has managed to reproduce the bug. Anyone know if this has been fixed in CVS, or is it an unfixed problem? Cheers Grahame

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RE: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Zoong Pham 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > Sent: Monday, 6 September 2004 6:34 PM > To: Zoong Pham > Cc: Dovecot mailing list > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation > > Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes? > Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in > 1.0-tests.. > I just check the problematic mailbox. The maximum line length is 2047 characters. Most of them are around 1300 characters. Thanks, Zoong THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy, forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. MERCY HEALTH & AGED CARE is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year, one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) *Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo *Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury *Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose *Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo

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RE: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Jamie Heckford 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

> > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. > I've noticed this using maildir, luckily we have an SMP server so it doesn't affect it to much, but obviously I would like to stop it. Doesn't happen to all users and doesn't seem to be dependent on size of Maildir, sending SIGTERM makes it go away and then the user opens the mailbox again and I see normal CPU usage. However 3-4 hours later it will happen again. Using FreeBSD 4.9 and dovecot-0.99.10.4, postfix 2.0.18 as MTA. If theres any other info that would be useful (this is probably the most vauge description I can manage, but its all the info I have) then let me know and I can provide. Ta Jamie

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] [RFC] epoll based ioloop handler
by Andrey Panin 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hello, this patch adds ioloop handler using Linux 2.6 epoll API. I'm not sure is it ready for inclusion right now, but it works for me and survives deadconn test with 1024 simultaneous connections. Please take a look and comment. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Lasse Danielsen 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

I have some experience with OBSD, squirrel, vpopmail and dovecot. In my experience it would hang like that if squirrel was set up to sort/thread (or whatever the settings was named). try to turn such things off and see if that helps. -- Lasse Danielsen lasse(a)danielsen.tk -- No part of this message may reproduce, store itself in a retrieval system, or transmit disease, in any form, without the permissiveness of the author. > > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. > > OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all patches > MTA: Sendmail-8.12.11 > It happened with other RCs of dovecot-0.9.11 > Configured as: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow > --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl > --with-ssl=openssl > > There is no strange information in /var/log/maillog except the > normal ones like: > Sep 6 10:12:40 onion imap-login: Login: zoong [127.0.0.1] > > The pop or imap clients (mutt and squirrel-1.4.3a) just stay at "opening > INBOX ...". > mutt can open directly the mailbox without any problem. > I rebooted the server and problem still happening. > > Can someone advise how to find out what's wrong here? > I guess there is some kind of corruption within the mailbox. > > Thanks, > Zoong PHAM > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error > please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal > information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this > email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise > disseminate any information it contains. > Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. > Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we > provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. > Our services include: > * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) > * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - > Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - > Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * > Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for > the Aged - Bendigo * > -- Lasse Danielsen lasse(a)danielsen.tk -- No part of this message may reproduce, store itself in a retrieval system, or transmit disease, in any form, without the permissiveness of the author. Random Thought: -------------- There was a young lady named Ransom Who was rogered three times in a hansom. When she cried out for more A voice from the floor Replied, "My name is Simpson, not Samson."

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[Dovecot] POP3 and big mailboxes
by Sergey Matveychuk 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hello. Today one of my users has returned from vacation and his mailbox has grown to 67 Mbyte in 1705 e-mails. dovecot can't index this mailbox with this message (i've changed username with 'xxx'): pop3-login: Sep 06 10:03:43 Info: Login: xxx [172.16.4.9] pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/xxx: LF not found where expected pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/xxx: LF not found where expected pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Warning: I/O leak: 0x8050600 (0) pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Warning: I/O leak: 0x80858f0 (1) pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Warning: Timeout leak: 0x8065b90 Is it a bug in dovecot? PS. dovecot-0.99.10.9 on FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (a month before BETA1 released). -- Sem.

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[Dovecot] v0.99.11 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

v0.99.11 2004-09-04 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + 127.* and ::1 IP addresses are treated as secured with disable_plaintext_auth = yes + auth_debug setting for extra authentication debugging + Some documentation and error message updates + Create PID file in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid + home setting is now optional in static userdb + Added mail setting to static userdb - After APPENDing to selected mailbox Dovecot didn't always notice the new mail immediately which broke some clients - THREAD and SORT commands crashed with some mails - If APPENDed mail ended with CR character, Dovecot aborted the saving - Output streams sometimes sent data duplicated and lost part of it. This could have caused various strange problems, but looks like in practise it rarely caused real problems.

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[Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Zoong Pham 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen with other mailboxes. The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. They are all in mbox format. OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all patches MTA: Sendmail-8.12.11 It happened with other RCs of dovecot-0.9.11 Configured as: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl There is no strange information in /var/log/maillog except the normal ones like: Sep 6 10:12:40 onion imap-login: Login: zoong [127.0.0.1] The pop or imap clients (mutt and squirrel-1.4.3a) just stay at "opening INBOX ...". mutt can open directly the mailbox without any problem. I rebooted the server and problem still happening. Can someone advise how to find out what's wrong here? I guess there is some kind of corruption within the mailbox. Thanks, Zoong PHAM ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] Plaintext Authentication from Localhost
by Paul C. Bryan 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hi: It appears that at least at one time, Dovecot supported plaintext authentication from localhost, even if disable_plaintext_auth = yes. To wit, the example configuration file reads: # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. #disable_plaintext_auth = yes On brief inspection of the code, there doesn't seem to be any such support. This is corroborated by the fact that 0.99.10 (Debian package) behaves by disallowing plaintext authentication via connections on localhost. This is a particularly useful feature, as local webmail clients can safely authenticate via the local interface without requiring secure authentication. So, the question is, is Dovecot supposed to support plaintext auth via localhost even if disallowed in dovecot.conf? If so, any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong? Yours truly, Paul C. Bryan email(a)pbryan.net

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[Dovecot] pam_access
by Programmer 05 Sep '04

05 Sep '04

I've discoverd when I add the line pam_access for access authentication, It always denys a login, even when access.conf accepts everything. I've tested this with other programs, and they work okay. Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] file ostream-file.c: assertion failed with v1.0-test38
by Wouter Van Hemel 05 Sep '04

05 Sep '04

Hello, I've some troubles logging in after upgrading to -test38. The error in the logs says: Sep 4 02:34:38 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: username [123.123.123.123] Sep 4 02:34:48 hostname dovecot: IMAP(username): file ostream-file.c: line 105 (update_buffer): assertion failed: (size <= used) Sep 4 02:34:48 hostname dovecot: child 28966 (imap) returned error 1 Regards, wouter

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test39
by Timo Sirainen 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixes several crashes. Apparently can still break with mboxes, although it works with me..

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[Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc3
by Timo Sirainen 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Maybe this one works? :)

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[Dovecot] link() problem with dovecot-imapd
by James Ray 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

I'm having a few problems with dovecot-imapd (installed from debian unstable) and am after some much needed help, all is set up and configured, except for this final problem of when I try and move or copy a message from one Maildir to another. I have the option "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no" in the the dovecot.conf file but it still seems to be trying to link() the file instead of doing a proper copy. There is a log fragment below for when I try to do a move, the FS that my Maildir is on doesn't support link() hence the problem. It seems to be doing a proper copy to get it into the tmp/ part of the Maildir and then a link() to put it in new/. Any ideas on how to cure this? Log output;l -- Sep 2 18:44:29 indulgence imap(jamesr): link(/home/jamesr/Mail/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/tmp/1094147066.P2339Q0M915274.indulgence, /home/jamesr/Mail/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/new/1094147066.P2339Q0M915274.indulgence:2,Sa) failed: Operation not permitted James 'BR' Ray - EMail : jamesr(a)pethippo.co.uk (Primary) - EMail : j.ray(a)herts.ac.uk (University) - Web : http://www.pethippo.co.uk/ - PGP : http://www.pethippo.co.uk/in.php/pgp

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RE: [Dovecot] file ostream-file.c: assertion failed with v1.0-test38
by dovecot 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Hi, > IMAP(username): file ostream-file.c: line 105 > (update_buffer): assertion failed: (size <= used) Sep 4 Same error occurs here, using test38 on Fedora Core 1. For me, the error occurs only using Outlook (2003 in my case). Horde's WebMail client IMP and OpenNMS' IMAP poller work fine though. Reverting back to test32 helped, after I found out about a recent change in ostream-file.c in CVS aroung August 15. BTW, test32 fixes the mbox 'empty lines at beginning of file' corruption problem someone reported here lately too. Regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] "not listening" errors fdpass.c
by christian sherwood 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

I'm getting a flood of errors that look like: Sep 3 13:27:02 localhost dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) every few minutes. Versions: Dovecot: 0.99.10.9 Exim: 4.34 Debian Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp Squirrelmail: 1.4.3a Although the majority of users (99%) have no problems logging in and reading their mail, occasionally one user gets timeouts when trying to access their mailbox, seems to correlate with the errors. I can't locate fdpass.c, so what does this error indicate?

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[Dovecot] isync with dovecot
by tino.keitel＠gmx.de 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Hi folks, I use isync, an IMAP sync tool (Debian package isync 0.9.2-2) together with dovecot (dovecot-imapd 0.99.10.8-0.backports.org.1). Everytime when isync wants to upload a new mail from the client to the server I got messages like this: Mailbox outbox Selecting IMAP mailbox... >>> 16 SELECT "outbox" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1580 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1092995697] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1581] Predicted next UID 16 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 1580 messages, 0 recent Reading IMAP mailbox index >>> 17 UID FETCH 1:* (FLAGS) * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Seen)) * 2 FETCH (UID 2 FLAGS (\Seen)) [...] * 1579 FETCH (UID 1579 FLAGS (\Seen)) * 1580 FETCH (UID 1580 FLAGS (\Seen)) 17 OK Fetch completed. Synchronizing Uploading messages.>>> 18 APPEND outbox (\Seen) {360} + OK 18 OK Append completed. >>> 19 UID SEARCH HEADER X-TUID 4136367cd15e45705 * SEARCH IMAP error: incomplete SEARCH response 19 OK Search completed. warning: no UID for new messge 1094071902.22258_2.thinkpad:2,S 1 messages. Fetching new messages... 0 messages My concern is the line "IMAP error: incomplete SEARCH response". I already saw this mesage with old versions of courier-imap, which won't return an APPENDUID tag so the client doesn't know which UID will be used for the uploaded message (this was the explanation I got). Is there any way to get dovecot to return the UID when a message is uploaded? Regards, Tino

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Re: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Timo Sirainen 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

On 3.9.2004, at 02:45, Zoong Pham wrote: > I started dovecot the same way > as dovecot-0.99.10.9 and with the same config file. > The return code is 0 but there are no dovecot processes at all. > And the POP3 client can't connect. netstat reports port 110 (for POP3) > is not listening. Dovecot probably crashed while trying to create the pid file and didn't start at all. I was wondering today that no-one noticed this, but I also noticed it only after trying to run it in Solaris, with Linux it worked fine. (I hate t_strconcat() API but I just can't get myself to stop using it.)

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RE: Re[2]: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Zoong Pham 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Nikolaus Gerstmayr [mailto:Nikolaus_Gerstmayr@gmx.at] > Sent: Friday, 3 September 2004 9:49 AM > To: Zoong Pham > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re[2]: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2 > > > Currently, I restored the backup of dovecot-0.99.10.9 > binary and everying > > works again. > > > Having EXACLTY the same problem. > > no error message whatsoever. > no dovecot process. > > "reverted" to 0.99.10.9 My "backup" of dovecot-0.99.10.9 is giving me this error: Sep 3 12:13:31 onion pop3(user1): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /var/www/htdocs/user1/Mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Sep 3 12:18:31 onion pop3(user1): Timeout while waiting for release of fcntl() lock for mbox file /var/mail/user1 Sep 3 12:18:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c00866c (0) Sep 3 12:18:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c03441c (1) How can I remove the lock? Can I simply remove the file /var/www/htdocs/user1/Mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index and start dovecot again ? Thanks, Zoong ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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RE: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Zoong Pham 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On > Behalf Of Timo Sirainen > Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 9:01 PM > To: Dovecot mailing list > Subject: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2 > > > http://dovecot.org/rc/ > > Changes since rc1: > > + Create PID file in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid > - THREAD and SORT commands crashed with some mails I configured, compiled and installed the RC2 the same way as dovecot-0.99.10.9. There were no error at all. Here is how I configured: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl I also ran these: - mkdir /var/run/dovecot - chown _dovecot:_dovecot /var/run/dovecot I started dovecot the same way as dovecot-0.99.10.9 and with the same config file. The return code is 0 but there are no dovecot processes at all. And the POP3 client can't connect. netstat reports port 110 (for POP3) is not listening. What's wrong here? How can I turn on debugging with dovecot? Currently, I restored the backup of dovecot-0.99.10.9 binary and everying works again. Thanks, Zoong ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] mail location questions
by Chris 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi all, I'm reading the docs and confs and it's not quite sinking in, mostly cuz I've been reading IMAP docs for a week now trying to find one that I want. :) I have a mail server that will have about 800 webmail users without actual home directories. Can I set up the IMAP dir in another location, like /var/imap, where everyone can read/store their mail? Or just use the /var/spool/mail/<user> mbox file and make a sub dir for the indexing files? Sorry if this is basic, all I saw was ~/Maildir locs. :P Thanks! -- C

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[Dovecot] What version am I running
by Mark Lidstone 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi all, This is probably a silly question, but is there an easy way to get the dovecot executable to report it's version number? Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== ==

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test38
by Timo Sirainen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Recent flag fixes - saving/copying mails into maildir which didn't have index files was broken - output stream fix - pop3 crashfix - mbox_dirty_syncs fixes, also disabling it didn't work before - etc. There are still some crashes and I don't remember if I fixed a problem with mboxes where expunging mails while new mails were coming caused some breakages.. but I can't reproduce it anymore. Anyway I think that could be fixed with disabling dirty syncs.

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RE: [Dovecot] Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ?
by Mark Lidstone 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Errr. 0x21-0x7E is !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefgh ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ I can see 0-9 and \. in there. Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: mymailingslists(a)gmx.at [mailto:mymailingslists@gmx.at] Sent: 02 September 2004 14:15 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ? Hi ! POP3-RFC (1939) speaks about UIDL command: The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined string, consisting of one to 70 characters in the range 0x21 to 0x7E, which uniquely identifies a message within a maildrop and which persists across sessions. When I issue an UIDL command (dovecot 0.99.10.9) I get replies like 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 ... . You see the problem ? '0'-'9' and '.' are not in range 0x21-0x7E ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently I'm tracking down a nasty problem with Outlook 2003 together with dovecot acting as pop3 server. Multile pop3 accounts, with 'leave mail on server' on. (cant turn it off) for no apparent reason, a couple of mails (just a few out of thousands/hundrets) get re-downloaded again, and again, and again ... as if client had not seen it before. Might be a client problem ... while trying to find out the reason for this behaviour if found this UIDL thing. I fear it might not be the true reason/problem for my problems with outlook redownloading certian mails forevr, but I thought it doesnt hurt to report it ;)

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[Dovecot] starting multiples instances of dovecot listening on same port
by mymailingslists＠gmx.at 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Of course it's useless and this just can't work ... if I try it returns with an error message. Can't bind to port xy. No problem, that's the way it should be, but further strange things worth mentioning happen. After the second instance quits with error msg, the currently running instance doesn't accept any client connections anymore. Needs to be restarted. (currently I'm only using dc 0.99.10.9 as pop3 server) That's really no problem, but strange :> (I admit I'm somewhat curious if this problem is specific to my setup or if its happening everywhere)

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[Dovecot] mutt polling imap mailboxes
by Martin Ehmsen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi... I have the exact same problem as being described in this posting from february: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-February/002950.html That mutt in combination with dovecot dosen't show correctly which folders contains new messages. It is starting to bug me very much, so i'm willing to do about everything to help fix this problem. The problem is, that I don't know if it's a mutt or dovecot problem? I'm not a novice c-hacker, so I shoud be able to test about every idea that someone has about where this problem comes from. Hope someone will help me in my quest to crush this bug. Thanks in advance Martin

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[Dovecot] Dovecots pop3-UIDL command impl. not RFC compliant ?
by mymailingslists＠gmx.at 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi ! POP3-RFC (1939) speaks about UIDL command: The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined string, consisting of one to 70 characters in the range 0x21 to 0x7E, which uniquely identifies a message within a maildrop and which persists across sessions. When I issue an UIDL command (dovecot 0.99.10.9) I get replies like 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 ... . You see the problem ? '0'-'9' and '.' are not in range 0x21-0x7E ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently I'm tracking down a nasty problem with Outlook 2003 together with dovecot acting as pop3 server. Multile pop3 accounts, with 'leave mail on server' on. (cant turn it off) for no apparent reason, a couple of mails (just a few out of thousands/hundrets) get re-downloaded again, and again, and again ... as if client had not seen it before. Might be a client problem ... while trying to find out the reason for this behaviour if found this UIDL thing. I fear it might not be the true reason/problem for my problems with outlook redownloading certian mails forevr, but I thought it doesnt hurt to report it ;)

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[Dovecot] dovecot+postifx+ldap
by venne 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

hi, i'm trying to set a dovecot/pop + postfix couple with ldap authentification. and i'v got a lots of troubles. hers's my dovecot.conf protocols = pop3 login = imap login = pop3 first_valid_gid = 1000 last_valid_gid = 0 mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir mbox_locks = dotlock flock auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_verbose = yes here's dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = 192.168.128.1 dn = cn=manager,o=dental-on-line dnpass = dolmaster ldap_version = 3 base = ou=002f83,ou=machines,ou=fr,o=dental-on-line deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) default_pass_scheme = PLAIN user_global_uid = 1000 user_global_gid = 1000 and, a ldif exempl: dn: uid=mwerly, ou=002F83, ou=machines, ou=fr, o=dental-on-line displayName: WERLY Marc shadowExpire: -1 mobile: 000 objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount userPassword:: eHh4 shadowLastChange: 10000 facsimileTelephoneNumber: 01.43.21.54.75 uid: mwerly uidNumber: 12164 cn: Marc WERLY shadowInactive: -1 loginShell: /bin/bash shadowMin: 0 gidNumber: 100 shadowMax: 999999 gecos: mwerly homeDirectory: /home/mwerly sn: Marc shadowWarning: 99 1 it seems unable to authenticate with pop3-login: Login: mwerly [192.168.1.7] Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050d70 (0) Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084db0 (1) :o( 2 if I comment user_global_uid = 1000 user_global_gid = 1000 dovecot can't get uidnumber from ldap, in spite of its presence in ldap entry :'o( 3 postfix seem able to send messages to local virtual users(thanks of ldap/pam ldap authentification). the /var/mail/%u files are up2dated by postfix, but I simply can't get any mails with thoses dovcot logs: pop3-login: Login: mwerly [192.168.1.7] Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050d70 (0) Aug 31 17:47:35 dental01 pop3: I/O leak: 0x8084db0 (1) :`o[[[[[ please help

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[Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Timo Sirainen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Changes since rc1: + Create PID file in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid - THREAD and SORT commands crashed with some mails If nothing new comes up, this is the final release tomorrow.

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Re: [Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1
by Timo Sirainen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

On 2.9.2004, at 09:09, Zoong Pham wrote: > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox format: > /var/mail/user1 .. > Does anyone know what's happening? Dovecot probably has left an extra empty line at the beginning of the mbox file and after that it treats it as invalid. This happens sometimes with 0.99 code, 1.0-tests have much better mbox implementation.

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[Dovecot] corrupted .imap.index.log
by Fredrick Backman 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi, I'm using version 0.99.10.8 on debian 2.4.26 and am getting this problem, can someone please shed some light over this? Aug 31 13:58:58 xxx imap(someone): file_wait_lock() failed with modify log file /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log: Resource temporarily unavailable and then: Aug 31 14:00:58 xxx imap(someone): Couldn't lock modify log file /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log and finally: Aug 31 14:26:35 xxx imap(someone): Corrupted modify log file /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log: used_file_size larger than real file size (4096 vs 2576) MTA is qmail 1.03 (with procmail v3.22) TIA, Fredrick -- Systemadministration EsPresto AG ----------------------------------------------------------------- backman(a)espresto.com Breite Str. 30-31 Tel/Fax: +49.30.90 226.750/.760 10178 Berlin/Germany

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed in buffer.c
by news.gmane.org 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 I have had a report from a user that when accessing their inbox, the connection is suddenly dropped. Dovecot reports the following:- imap(user): file buffer.c: line 357 (buffer_set_start_pos): assertion failed: (abs_pos <= I_MIN(buf->used, buf->limit)) From searching the list, I found an indication that it is a problem with an individual message. As the user has rather a large number of emails, how can I isolate the message? Regards -- Chris Hills IT Services North East Worcestershire College

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RE:UPDATE: [Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1
by Zoong Pham 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On > Behalf Of Zoong Pham > Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 4:09 PM > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: [Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1 > > I lately see lots of message like this in my maillog: > > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3-login: Login: user1 [203.11.35.29] > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox > format: /var/mail/user1 > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox > format: /var/mail/user1 Oop, I changed the login name from tekciz to user1 to protect the client's privacy but I missed the above lines :-( > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c00881c (0) > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c034f1c (1) > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: Timeout leak: 0x1c01a3e8 > > I have: > - OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all the patches. > - Sendmail 8.12.11 > - dovecot-0.99.10.9 The POP3 client is MDaemon (http://www.altn.com/) Thanks ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1
by Zoong Pham 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

I lately see lots of message like this in my maillog: Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3-login: Login: user1 [203.11.35.29] Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1 Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1 Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c00881c (0) Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c034f1c (1) Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: Timeout leak: 0x1c01a3e8 I have: - OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all the patches. - Sendmail 8.12.11 - dovecot-0.99.10.9 (configured like this: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl Does anyone know what's happening? Thanks, Zoong PHAM ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] sig11 with test36/37 on some emails
by Peter Hessler 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Sometimes I'll get an email from a luser which will cause the POP3 daemon to sig11. The email "appears" to be legal. The sig11s only happen on specific emails, and once I remove the emails from the server, the rest can be downloaded. I gzipped the email, and its at http://theapt.org/bogusemail.gz. While this example is international spam, the sig11s happen with real emails too. -- Entropy isn't what it used to be.

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[Dovecot] Strange behavior
by DR 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot under fedora core 2. Nearly everything seems to work. Dovecot was easily to configure and is a really smart program. BUT ... I figured out a problem. Whenever I fetch my mails (pop3s) using Outlook, TheBat or Pegasus, the mails on the server will not be marked as read. Sometimes I don't have a nice GUI mail client, than I use pine (I love it, but I won't feed the trolls ;-)). All messages, which I have already received are marked as new in pine or my webinterface squirrelmail. It seems, that dovecot doesn't mark the messages as read after fetching them. There are no strange entries in the logs, nothing which seems to be mysterious. Can anyone help me? This problem teases me. Cheers, DuRu

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[Dovecot] starting/stopping Dovecot
by Tom Metro 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

http://www.dovecot.org/doc/INSTALL > Once everything is configured, there's two ways to start Dovecot: > > 1) Run "dovecot" binary which does everything. > > 2) Start it via inetd or similiar by executing "imap-login" or "pop3-login" > binaries. If you're listening in SSL port, add --ssl parameter. What are the pros and cons of using 'dovecot' vs. inetd. This may seem silly, but I noticed that there isn't any documentation saying what is the proper way to kill Dovecot. I assume it is to kill the 'dovecot' process. This is indirectly addressed in the Wiki: 6. Why can't I change the log location? http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/QuestionsAndAnswers#head-c9650f53dd4f7ca2b… though the first few examples refer to <pid> without identifying the pid of what. Maybe adding a "How do I start Dovecot?" and "How do I stop Dovecot?" as the first two items on that page would be a good idea, and then the log file question and "7.1 Dovecot isn't running." and "8. Why doesn't Dovecot listen on localhost (127.0.0.1)?" could refer to those. (If this sounds reasonable, I'll update the Wiki.) Any plans to support a /var/run/dovecot/pid file or similar? What are your thoughts on including an init.d script in the distribution. I know some of the binary distributions will have platform-specific scripts included, but it might be good to include a generic one for those who build from source. -Tom

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[Dovecot] 0.99.11 release candidate
by Timo Sirainen 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ So, we're back into 3 digit version numbers, 0.99.10.10 would have looked too ugly. Originally I was planning on making 0.99.10.x series only for a few months and leave 0.99.11 for the larger changes, but 1.0- tests are now used for that. Version numbering is difficult. So, assuming there are no problems found from this RC, I'll release 0.99.11 tomorrow. Changes are: + 127.* and ::1 IP addresses are treated as secured with disable_plaintext_auth = yes + auth_debug setting for extra authentication debugging + Some documentation and error message updates - If APPENDed mail ended with CR character, Dovecot aborted the saving - Output streams sometimes sent data duplicated and lost part of it. This could have caused various strange problems, but looks like in practise it rarely caused real problems.

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[Dovecot] User Auth problems
by Nikolaus Gerstmayr 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Hi ! Problem: Auth doesn't work, can't figure out why :( More precisely: setup: dovecot 0.99.10.9 pop3 only Userdb + Passwd via passwd-file. Anything plaintext. (communication client server, passwords in passwd-file, well, for first tests non public server... if I get it working, I'll try better ways - of course) non standard parts of my config: protocols = pop3 ssl_disable = yes auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /passwd_file auth_passdb = passwd-file /passwd_file auth_verbose = yes /passwd_file content: nick#sales.blabla:{PLAIN}test:500:500::::/mail/nick well, syntax is not 100% obvious from docu, but that's the way I understood it. (examples would be nice) That's how I understood semantics: If client sends user nick#sales.blabla and password test, dovecot accesses /mail/nick (maildir) with UID 500, GID 500 ???? problem: Auth fails. In logfiles I get this: dovecot-auth: Aug 30 22:36:20 Info: mech-plain(nick#sales.blabla): invalid username. (So no typo in mail client account setup or anytihng like this). Of course clients says auth fialed as well. Well, nick#sales.blabla is not a user on the test machine, but that's on purpose. It IS in /passwd-file :/ Anyone any idea ? Thx i.A for help !

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] [RFC] epoll based ioloop handler (now with patch)
by Andrey Panin 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Sorry, I forgot to attach patch to previous mail. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] NTLM fixes
by Andrey Panin 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Hello, attached patch contains small NTLM fixes: - open code ntlmssp_des_encrypt_triad() function; - add two missing safe_memset(). It's not safe to leave NTLM hashes on the stack, because they are plain password equivalents. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Problems with registering new emails - imap/jfs/maildir
by Trond Eivind Glomsrød 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

After changing a mailserver from using mbox/ext3 (RHL9) to Maildir/jfs (RHEL 3), dovecot 0.99.10 no longer reports new email even if asked... I have to restart the mail client and do a fresh login to notice new email. This happens with multiple mail clients on multiple platforms, and didn't happen before the conversion... any suggestions on workarounds? -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Senior Software Engineer Scali - www.scali.com High Performance Clustering

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[Dovecot] permission denied?
by Alex 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

I configured dovecot with Postfix with mysql Now I have directory /home/mail/virtual User/group postfix.postfix I added one domain, and one user. I login is successful but it gets interupted because of this. pop3(xx(a)private-projects.net): Aug 11 00:48:53 Error: lstat(/home/mail/virtual/private-projects.net/xx@private-projects.net/cur) failed: Permission denied pop3(xx(a)private-projects.net): Aug 11 00:48:53 Error: lstat(/home/mail/virtual/private-projects.net/xx@private-projects.net/cur) failed: Permission denied pop3(xx(a)private-projects.net): Aug 11 00:48:53 Warning: I/O leak: 0x8050cc0 (0) pop3(xx(a)private-projects.net): Aug 11 00:48:53 Warning: I/O leak: 0x8084e90 (1) [root@octalys dovecot]# ls -la /home/mail/virtual/private-projects.net/xx\(a)private-projects.net/cur/ total 8 drwxrw---- 2 postfix postfix 4096 Aug 2 21:47 . drwxrw---- 5 postfix postfix 4096 Aug 2 21:47 .. [root@octalys dovecot]# I added dovecot user to postfix group. I even tried chmod -R 777 * in virtual. It doesn't work. Whats the problem ?

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[Dovecot] MySQL passdb, auth_verbose, and documentation
by tmetro+dovecot＠vl.com 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

I've been playing around with Dovecot for the past few months for testing (on a Debian 3.0 system), and initially it was easy to setup and worked well. Recently I upgraded to 0.99.10.9, and when I rebuilt it I enabled MySQL and SSL. The first problem I ran into was upon startup it complained that there was no certificate, which makes sense, except that I hadn't enabled imaps in the config file. It would make more sense not to require SSL support files if SSL isn't being used. But this is minor. I encountered more serious problems when I tried migrating from real user accounts to virtual accounts via MySQL. Has anyone written a howto on setting up Dovecot with MySQL? (Just pointing to dovecot-mysql.conf leaves out a lot.) If not, I'll volunteer to write something up. I set up dovecot-mysql.conf as I thought it should be, created a database, added a record with a digest-md5 password, and changed some dovecot.conf directives as follows: default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n/ auth_mechanisms = digest-md5 auth_default_realm = example.com auth_userdb = static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/%d/%n/ auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf For the static auth_userdb I wasn't quite sure what to put after home= as I wasn't really defining a home directory location. I initially tried making it identical to default_mail_env, but later learned that it clearly didn't like the "maildir:" prefix. Some questions the documentation left unanswered: Is home= required if default_mail_env will suffice for virtual users? Can mail= be used instead, as implied by the database documentation? Practically speaking, is there any difference between the two in the case of virtual user accounts? I tried to access Dovecot from a mail client and repeatedly received a login failure. Unfortunately, this is typical of what I saw in the log file: Aug 8 03:53:50 lex dovecot: Dovecot starting up Aug 8 03:53:52 lex dovecot-auth: MySQL: connected to localhost Aug 8 03:55:13 lex imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [192.168.0.200] I enabled auth_verbose: auth_verbose = yes and checked my syslog.conf to make sure all priorities were being logged: mail.* /var/log/syslog/mail.log but still no additional verbosity. How should things look different when auth_verbose is enabled? Checking MySQL's log I could see that Dovecot was successfully connecting to the database server, but never executing any queries. I was going to next turn on logging of all IMAP traffic, but noticed the Wiki suggested trying a manual session, which I did: % telnet localhost imap * OK dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN tmetro(a)example.com password 1 NO Login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism Isn't this the kind of thing that should appear in the log when auth_verbose is enabled? That seemed odd, as 'digest-md5' is mentioned right in dovecot.conf as a valid choice. In retrospect, I gather what the message above is trying to tell me is that Dovecot wasn't configured to accept a 'plain' authentication, which is apparently what I was using in my manual session. It would be nice if the error message could express that a bit better. I did have some suspicion that it might be the that plain text authentication was being prevented, as at that point I didn't know what auth_mechanisms applied to, but I looked at dovecot.conf and found disable_plaintext_auth = no, which seemed to imply that plain text at the IMAP protocol level should have been permitted. Might it be clearer if that attribute was incorporated into the auth_mechanisms settings or at least moved into the auth section? I switched it to 'plain-md5', as mentioned in auth.txt, and tried again. That resulted in: Aug 8 21:11:53 lex dovecot-auth: Unknown authentication mechanism 'plain-md5' Aug 8 21:11:53 lex dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Aug 8 21:11:53 lex dovecot: child 10293 (auth) returned error 89 Aug 8 21:11:53 lex imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe That got me wondering whether there were two different areas where authentication terms apply - one being the password exchange in the IMAP protocol, and the other being how the password is stored on the server - yet the discussion of the two seems to be mixed together in the documentation. I tried switching to: auth_mechanisms = plain and finally got something more expected: Aug 8 21:20:44 lex dovecot-auth: mysql(tmetro(a)example.com): Password mismatch I tried putting the password into the database unencrypted, but that didn't work (probably because of my default_pass_scheme setting?). Generating a PLAIN-MD5 per auth.txt finally worked. This leads to some questions: auth_mechanisms doesn't seem to be describing the way in which the password is stored, so what does it describe? In dovecot-mysql.conf I had: default_pass_scheme = DIGEST-MD5 and didn't change it. What purpose does it serve? Is it only to identify the encryption used when there isn't a {SCHEME} tag present? For DIGEST-MD5, which encrypts "user:realm:pass", does realm include the @? Does user include @realm? I assumed no in both cases, yet it didn't work. In other matters...during one of my login attempts I got: * OK dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN tmetro(a)example.com password 1 OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. The abrupt disconnect after an apparently successful login seemed odd. The log file showed: Aug 8 21:23:47 lex dovecot: chdir(maildir:/var/mail/example.com/tmetro/) failed with uid 5000: Permission denied Aug 8 21:23:47 lex dovecot: child 10315 (imap) returned error 89 which is the problem I discussed above, but is it reasonable for Dovecot to disconnect the IMAP socket and not send an error message to the client? At the end of the dovecot-example.conf is: #auth = digest_md5 #auth_methods = digest-md5 #auth_realms = #auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_user = imapauth #auth_chroot = Is auth_methods an alias for auth_mechanisms? Aside from the insufficient detail in the log, most of the difficulty I encountered could be avoided with better documentation and comments in the config files. I'd be happy to submit clarified comments once I get some answers to the above questions and confirm my understanding of how things work. -Tom

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[Dovecot] Authentication and Startup/Shutdown error.
by Andrew Lietzow 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Hello and ... help! I am using Redhat FC2. I was looking for a simple POP3 compatible application package that would allow growth into secure mailboxes, and it looks like dovecot can fill the bill, and then some. I am a newbie. I scanned the Wiki but am as confused by it as I am by my problems. Fortunately for me, I don't need 7 different authentication schemes; I just need something simple that works with Thunderbird and Outlook Express. Is there a HOW-TO around that shows simple pop3 setup on Linux? #1) I had the pop3-login working for a bit, but now it has stopping starting up. When I attempt a <./dovecot stop>, I get a message that the stop has [FAILED]. I believe this is because it is leaving a lock in the /var/lock/subsys directory. I delete that file and try again, same problem. The system starts okay, but there are no longer any pop3-login processes being started up. <ps -elf | egrep pop3*> returns nothing but the grep process. #2) I need a simple method to access email. Nothing fancy as I only have a couple of users. Terrorists woud be wasting their time to monkey with my server. In the dovecot.conf file, here are a few of my settings. pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 pop3_process_size = 256 auth = passwd auth_mechanisms = plain auth_realms = auth_default_realm = auth_userdb = passwd: /etc/passwd auth_passdb = passwd: /etc/passwd auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_process_size = 256 auth_user = root auth_count = 2 Any help would be greatly appreciated, of course. I'll keep scanning the web site while I am at your mercy. TIA, Andrew L. in Iowa _____________________________________________________________________ Get your own family web site at www.MyFamily.com!

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test37
by Timo Sirainen 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Added mbox_dirty_syncs setting, defaulting to yes. This means that while mbox is opened and new mails come, it only reads the new mails instead of the whole mbox. Then there's several checks that make sure this is safe to do and if something doesn't look right it fallbacks to syncing the whole mbox again. - dovecot-auth was leaking memory (not same bug as with 0.99/ldap) - Some other fixes

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test36
by Timo Sirainen 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixes mostly. Seems to be working quite well with me nowadays with mboxes. If you see any crashes or other problems please report.

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[Dovecot] ldap without bind
by Cedric Foll 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Is it possible to connect to the ldap server without bind (ie anonymous access). How can I do that ? Regards.

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Re: [Dovecot] Authentication and Startup/Shutdown error.
by Andrew Lietzow 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Tim, Thanks for the reply. I did check the maillog quite a bit. Fortunately, I had kept an orig of the dovecot.conf file so I rolled back to the example I found on the dovecot.org website and now it's up and running. It's all smoke and mirrors to me, mostly, but at least it's working for now. I'll come back to this question of implementing TLS or SSL later, in my voluminous spare time. It appears to be a very powerful program and should carry me through to the next millenium... Ciao and Muchos Gracias, Andrew in Iowa, USA -----Original Message----- From: Tim Miller <tim(a)gem.win.co.nz> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:33 PM To: Andrew Lietzow <alietzow(a)myfamily.com> Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Authentication and Startup/Shutdown error. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Andrew Lietzow wrote: > Hello and ... help! (snip of problem) When setting up Dovecot, I found that a lot of helpfull information was put into /var/log/maillog (or wherever syslogd sends mail logs on your system). Since you didn't post anything from that file, I'm not sure if you consulted it. Best, Tim M. _____________________________________________________________________ Get your own family web site at www.MyFamily.com!

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0-test32-error
by jls＠tj.se.gov.br 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

I installed dovecot-1.0-test32 and I present the following error in some users: Error: IMAP(user): Buffer full (46) How to solve this problem?

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[Dovecot] Just installed with Fedora 2
by Michael J. Pawlowsky 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

I just upgraded my RH9 installation to Fedora 2. To my surprise, imapd seems to be gone from the core. I noticed there are now two IMAP servers docevot and cyrus. After reading brief descriptions of both, dovecot would seem to be more compatible with my setup. Especially since I'm using mbox's. I have 2 questions. It seems like dovecot does not support mailboxes inside of a directories. Am I right in thinking this? Second I get the error message: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command MYRIGHTS: Unknown command. My client is Thunderbird. Any work around for this? Thanks, Mike

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.x auth memory leak?
by Christian Balzer 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

Hello, running 0.99.10.6 (but seen it before that, too). Also (quite obviously) running 5 auth processes, given the fact that this is a pretty busy box and I didn't want to introduce any artificial bottlenecks. Alas with them eating up half of the free memory (which would go to a much better use as FS cache) I'm getting sorta concerned. If it's not a leak, it's caching something rather needlessly and inefficiently (the LDAP DB memory footprint for ALL users is less than this and the box below just serves half of those). This box sees about 0.5 million POP3/IMAP logins/day. --- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 31235 root 16 0 220m 216m 5560 S 0.0 10.7 25:01.54 dovecot-auth 31234 root 16 0 205m 202m 5560 S 0.0 10.0 24:08.84 dovecot-auth 31231 root 16 0 200m 196m 5560 S 0.7 9.7 23:25.37 dovecot-auth 31232 root 16 0 196m 192m 5560 S 0.0 9.5 23:10.44 dovecot-auth 31233 root 15 0 179m 175m 5560 S 0.3 8.6 22:13.07 dovecot-auth --- So, I guess my questions to Timo are: Think it's leaky and any idea where? Given the load, would a single auth process be a bad idea? (it is a quite fast dual opteron box) Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] pass struct io * to io_loop_handle_add()/io_loop_handle_remove()
by Andrey Panin 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hello, currently I'm working on new ioloop handler which uses epoll(4) API introduced in Linux kernel 2.6. In this API each fd added to fd set by epoll_ctl system call can be accompanied with user supplied data (integer or void pointer). epoll_wait syscall reports arrived events as an array of structures containing event mask and user data. Attached patch replaces fd and condition parameters passed to io_loop_handle_add() with struct io pointer. Now io_loop_handle_add() can pass this pointer as user data to epoll_ctl syscall and when event arrives we will have corresponding io structure pointer for free withiot traversing possibly long ioloop->ios list. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD - dovecot: We couldn't drop root group privileges
by Igor B. Bykhalo 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hi, I installed Dovecot on FreeBSD 4-STABLE machine and have a problem. MTA is postfix delivering to ~/Maildir, runs perfectly. Dovecot is configured to use plaintext auth, config file is at the end of this mail. When trying to get mail via IMAP, I'm getting the following errors: /var/log/dovecot.log > Aug 24 12:00:35 Info: Dovecot starting up > Aug 24 12:00:51 Info: Login: goshik [193.233.44.234] /var/log/maillog > Aug 24 12:00:51 banka dovecot: We couldn't drop root group privileges > Aug 24 12:00:51 banka imap(goshik): child 2045 (imap) returned error 89 Am I missing something? What was done incorrectly? Help please, Igor -------------------------------------------- /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf > ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file > > #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ > > protocols = imap pop3 > imap_listen = 193.233.44.213 > pop3_listen = 193.233.44.213 > ssl_disable = yes > > #disable_plaintext_auth = no > > #log_path = > info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log > #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login > #login_chroot = yes > > login = imap > login_user = dovecot > > login = pop3 > > #max_mail_processes = 1024 > verbose_proctitle = yes > #verbose_ssl = no > #first_valid_uid = 500 > #last_valid_uid = 0 > first_valid_gid = 0 > #last_valid_gid = 0 > > valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail > #mail_chroot = > > default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir > > #mail_cache_fields = MessagePart > #mail_never_cache_fields = > > client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls > > #mail_full_filesystem_access = no > #mail_max_flag_length = 50 > #mail_save_crlf = no > #mail_read_mmaped = no > > #maildir_stat_dirs = no > maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes > #maildir_check_content_changes = no > > #umask = 0077 > > mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no > > #imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap > #imap_process_size = 256 > #imap_use_modules = no > #imap_modules = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap > > #pop3_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 > #pop3_process_size = 256 > #pop3_use_modules = no > #pop3_modules = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 > > auth = default > auth_mechanisms = plain > #auth_realms = > #auth_default_realm = > auth_userdb = passwd > auth_passdb = passwd > #auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth > #auth_process_size = 256 > auth_user = root > #auth_chroot = > #auth_count = 1 > #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ > #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous > auth_verbose = yes > > #auth = digest_md5 > #auth_methods = digest-md5 > #auth_realms = > #auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap > #auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap > #auth_user = imapauth > #auth_chroot =

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[Dovecot] UIDPLUS Status?
by Chris Alexander 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

I saw in the archives that UIDPLUS had been removed from dovecot back in June. Are there any plans to re-implement? I have a Windows/Eudora user that wants UIDPLUS so the client side spam filtering works. Thanks. -- Chris Alexander UNIX Network Administrator, Information Networks and Systems Division Communications Research Centre [ http://www.crc.ca ] Government of Canada [ http://www.gc.ca ]

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[Dovecot] Problem with emails larger than 10k
by Peter Hessler 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

I cannot download emails that are larger than 10k. I can download them fine with test32. I am running test35 on OpenBSD/macppc -current. I am downloading the files with Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.9claws on OpenBSD/macppc -current (different machines), over pop3-ssl on IPv6. Problem still occurs with IPv4. On the large files, the download hangs at 4.0k. Multiple small emails work fine. -- A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it?

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] move highest_fd calculations to ioloop-select.c
by Andrey Panin 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hello, ioloop->highest_fd is used by ioloop-select.c only, so its handling can be moved out of generic ioloop code. Attached patch (agains -test35) does exactly this. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Re: ssl_ca_file
by jan＠weitan.org 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

> I am using 0.99.10.7-1 on Debian, and I'm having some trouble with SSL. I > purchased a certificate from Thawte and I can't figure out how to tell > dovecot about the CA cert. Adding ssl_ca_file to my configuration produces > "Unknown setting: ssl_ca_file" on dovecot startup. > > Postfix has a smtpd_tls_CAfile argument and that part is working fine. > > Is this a Debian-specific problem or is ssl_ca_file newer than 0.99.10.7? I guess ssl_ca_file is newer than 0.99. I have the same settings (debian -sarge) and i am using ssl_cert_file and ssl_key_file to get the certificate working. I checked ssl_ca_file and i got the same error, nevertheless it's in the recent dovecot.conf file from 1.x.testing, therefore it should be newer than 0.99.

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[Dovecot] Unknown setting: ssl_ca_file
by Jacob Elder 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

I am using 0.99.10.7-1 on Debian, and I'm having some trouble with SSL. I purchased a certificate from Thawte and I can't figure out how to tell dovecot about the CA cert. Adding ssl_ca_file to my configuration produces "Unknown setting: ssl_ca_file" on dovecot startup. Postfix has a smtpd_tls_CAfile argument and that part is working fine. Is this a Debian-specific problem or is ssl_ca_file newer than 0.99.10.7? -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Underquoted macros in aclocal (was: MIME structure intermittently lost)
by Kenneth Porter 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

--On Monday, August 23, 2004 6:50 PM +0900 Jim Tittsler <jt(a)OnJapan.net> wrote: > You can get dovecot-0.99.10.9-1.FC3.2.src.rpm from the > Fedora Core development tree. (Seems to be working well for us.) I just built this and it has a lot of complaints about underquoted macros in aclocal. Red Hat refers developers to this reference: <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending%20aclocal>

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test35
by Timo Sirainen 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Test33/34 weren't usable for very long. Test35 fixes several problems in them.

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[Dovecot] Newbie: dovecot not running.
by Simon Waters 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Okay, sure it must be trivial.... I have old Redhat box, want a quick and dirty IMAP server, thought good time to try out dovecot (I'd rather it had Debian on too ;). Downloaded and compiled from source - no options to configure. Auth data is in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (as well as NIS). vi /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf as expected. Disable ssl in conf. Basically email is in mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u Should go somewhere ~%u/mail is fine, as would be ~%u/Mail (I don't care at the moment). created a user "dovecot..." to run as and edited conf file. If I run /usr/local/sbin/dovecot it terminates without errors, the fork is completing I think, and the main program returns as expect. Running imap-auth from xinetd gets me a greeting banner, but then the connection is closed. Trying to run "imap" directly just dies in a blizarrd of "dot locking" errors and the like, where it seems to ignore the locking directives (should I set an env or some such?), but I think that it is basically running (it creates indexes in ~/mail/...mumble) but complains about the dotlocking, and then spews an internal error (which it claims is logged to server log?). I'm off to try auth_verbose, but any tips or hints appreciated. I'm assuming /usr/local/sbin/dovecot is what was called "master" given it is in the master src directory. Simon

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test33
by Timo Sirainen 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I think I found and fixed the last bug that was giving me problems. Now that Dovecot has been successfully working for a few hours, time for a new test release :) This release has major changes, so there might still be some bugs left. Be careful. If you're upgrading from previous 1.0-test release, you must delete all existing dovecot.index.log files or you will get errors. So, the changes are: - All network sockets are nonblocking now and all the waiting is done in a single event loop. This required tons of changes all over the code. - Transaction log file doesn't use locks for reading anymore - Some mbox fixes - search text was broken

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[Dovecot] MIME structure intermittently lost
by Kenneth Porter 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

I'm using Dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 on Fedora Core 2 on the server, and Mulberry 3.1.6 over Win2kSP4 on the client. Intermittently messages with multiple parts show up as a single text part. I'm not sure if it's Mulberry or Dovecot. I just turned on IMAP logging and restarted Mulberry and a message with two text/plain parts that wasn't showing the 2nd part is now displaying it correctly. I hate heisenbugs!

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RE: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour
by Mark Lidstone 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Ahh! Now you've explained it, it makes a lot of sense. Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 23 August 2004 09:07 To: Mark Lidstone Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 08:48 +0100, Mark Lidstone wrote: > Is it supposed to give the current time and date in the error message. > I've no problem with it giving an "internal error" message to the > client, but I am a little confused about the time being in there. > That's all I'm asking about. Client should never see any "real" error messages to make sure no extra information about the system gets leaked. So any time something unexpected happens, Dovecot gives the "internal error" message to user while writing the real error to log file. The timestamp is there to help sysadmin find the real error message from log files when user gives a copy&pasted internal error message. Instead of timestamp I guess there could be also some unique identifier which could be grepped from logs but I think timestamp is better. And about the original problem of giving "internal error" when Dovecot process didn't have access to some maildir.. Maybe it could have replied "Permission denied" to client in that case. It already does in several cases, but I guess the problem here was that it was trying to create the missing dirs but couldn't. I'll look over all these permission issues properly when creating real shared folder support.

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RE: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour
by Mark Lidstone 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

OK, last try. Is it supposed to give the current time and date in the error message. I've no problem with it giving an "internal error" message to the client, but I am a little confused about the time being in there. That's all I'm asking about. Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Boothman [mailto:andrew@mux.org.uk] Sent: 20 August 2004 18:09 To: Dovecot list Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour Mark Lidstone wrote: > I thought that Dovecot was supposed to handle that kind of thing? > Reading from the website: > > "Any kind of crash is considered as bug and will be fixed - even if > it happens only by deliberately poking the index files." > > I've done it in the past by just creating the bare folders - they > appear in the IMAP folder list then when they're used Dovecot seems to > create the sub folders anyway. > > The issue I'm asking about here is, should the error message say > "Internal Error [date time]" rather than something useful? Did Dovecot actually crash? Did it log a more sensible error message to syslog? I think Dovecot quite often reports an "internal error" to the client but then writes a more sensible error message to syslog. Which is probably no bad thing as you may well not want clients to see detailed error messages - there's nothing they can do about it anyway. Andrew

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[Dovecot] Multiple dovecot processes stepping on each other
by Peter Hessler 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

I have two instances of dovecot running, one for v6 and one for v4 connections. The only differences in the config files are: --- /etc/dovecot-ip6.conf Wed Aug 18 11:15:43 2004 +++ /etc/dovecot-ip4.conf Wed Aug 18 11:09:17 2004 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ # *** NOTE *** Some values HAVE been changed for OpenBSD use. # Base directory where to store runtime data. -base_dir = /var/dovecot-v6/ +base_dir = /var/dovecot-v4/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ # "host:port", although with multiple protocols you probably want to move # this setting inside protocol imap/pop3 { ... } section, so you can # specify different ports for IMAP/POP3. -listen = [::] +listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. For the most part it is working, but every so often, the auth freaks out for one (random) account. The error for one example is below: Aug 18 11:13:12 gir dovecot: login: Authentication process 21082 doesn't exist Aug 18 11:13:12 gir dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure: phessler [208.201.244.164] This happens on both v4 and v6 connections, but infrequently. If you try again immediatly, it works. If I do a `ps -p 21082` I can see the process (dovecot-auth). This does not happen when I have only one dovecot process running. What is the best way to have multiple dovecot processes without them stepping on each others toes? This is on OpenBSD/macppc -current, running dovecot-1.0-test32. -- Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stop accepting command When reading disk quota (soft)
by Chan Min Wai 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hello all, I've face some problem here and I think it should be the way. 1) I'm running Dovecot version 0.99.10.4 (fc1 release) on RH9 2) One of the users have reach the soft disk quota limits 3) Dovecot stop the users from deleting email. What I think was, dovecot should let the user continue to use the services until it reach the hard limits, but pop up message each and every time ;). Anyone have that problem before? Thank You Chan Min Wai

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[Dovecot] Sent, Drafts, Trash folders
by Jason M. Wilde 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

I am hosting imap mail for a new affiliate and am offering webmail via squirrelmail as well. Squirrelmail created INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Trash, etc by default and I would like to use these folders for my Dovecot imap users. I am using the mbox format, Postfix and users retrieve mail via the Outlook client remotely in addition to webmail access. Thank you for any help. Jason

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[Dovecot] What about saving your INBOX at ~/mbox ?
by Nico Kadel-Garcia 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hi, folks. I'm testing out RedHat's "Fedora Core 2" release, which has switched from the old WashU imapd to dovecot-0.99.10. Overall, this looks like a really, really good move on their part: it looks like a very sweet little tool without some of the ingrained idiocy of Mark Crispin insisting that every home directory consist of nothing but mbox files and allowing you to use a configurable subdirectory by default, ~/mail. Cool. There is one feature of the old WashU imapd that I miss, though. That daemonn could be configured to automatically transfer the user's email to the "~/mbox" upon activation of the daemon, effectively reducing the size of the /var/spool/mail/{username}" mail spool and helping keep the user's disk usage in their home directories, not in /var/spool/mail. This can be a good thing for various reasons. But I don't see any way to enable that behavior for dovecot. Is there something I'm missing, or do folks feel it would be reasonable to add? -- Nico Kadel-Garcia Systems Engineer Mitsubish Electric Research Lab <nkadel(a)merl.com>

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[Dovecot] Is 1.0-test stabilising?
by Curtis Maloney 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Has Timo backed off work, and been busy with something else, or has 1.0 really stabilised that much? Seems to me just a couple of weeks ago we were seeing a new test release every few days... now there's been nothing all month... I'm hoping it's ready for release... but if it's just that Timo's busy, well, I can understand that. We're about to receive some new servers, and I hope to migrate from 0.99 to 1.0 as we migrate to the new machines. -- Curtis Maloney

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RE: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour
by Mark Lidstone 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

I thought that Dovecot was supposed to handle that kind of thing? Reading from the website: "Any kind of crash is considered as bug and will be fixed - even if it happens only by deliberately poking the index files." I've done it in the past by just creating the bare folders - they appear in the IMAP folder list then when they're used Dovecot seems to create the sub folders anyway. The issue I'm asking about here is, should the error message say "Internal Error [date time]" rather than something useful? Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Keith Edmunds [mailto:keith@midnighthax.com] Sent: 20 August 2004 12:42 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Unusual behaviour On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:44 +0100 "Mark Lidstone" <mlidstone(a)bmtseatech.co.uk> wrote: > I've just noticed something strange in dovecot 0.99.10.5. I created > some IMAP folders from the command line (mkdir .INBOX.Folder1) No: you created a directory. IMAP folders need cur/ tmp/ and new/ as subdirectories under the new folder directory. Keith -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Small business computer support: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk Linux consultancy: http://www.TheLinuxConsultancy.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Unusual behaviour
by Mark Lidstone 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

Hi, I've just noticed something strange in dovecot 0.99.10.5. I created some IMAP folders from the command line (mkdir .INBOX.Folder1) as a different user to the owner of the mailbox. Obviously when I tried to view them via IMAP I got an error message, but the message to the client was "internal error[date time]" where date and time appeared to be the current date and time. Is this correct behaviour? Dovecot was running on FC2, and the client was Mozilla Thunderbird under Windows. Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== ==

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[Dovecot] Question: email system architecture
by Gland Vador 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hi, I have a question about how to implement a mail system, but I don't know where to ask. Until now, I have a mail system who receive mail by postfix and transport it through procmail to the /var/spool/mail/username mailbox. From here it is retrieved through dovecot (POP3). Now I have two more users, I want to implement a IMAP server, and also provide a webmail (squirrelmail) interface. And in order to filter spam, I want to install spamassassin. Until now it was thunderbird who made the filterring, but with a webmail interface it's no more possible. So suppose that I have configured procmail to deliver "good" mail in an Inbox folder and "spam" in a SPAM folder. This for each user mailbox. I also have configured dovecot as IMAP server and any IMAP client can see the two folder with spam and ham. And here comes my implementation problem. If a user see a "good" mail in his spam folder (or vice-versa) he will take this mail and move to his inbox folder. But, I want to be able to say to spamassassin to learn that this message is ham, with the command sa-learn, and also remove the x-spam* headers. And I don't see a good way to do that. In my opinion, it should be the MUA task, but spamassassin is server based. It's any way that dovecot when it moves the mail between tho folders can call an external script who will make this job in fonction of source/destination folder? Maybe it's a silly question (I don't know IMAP and his possibilities). In this case, can anyone explain (or point to) me a way to do that ? Sorry for this long message. Edd.

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[Dovecot] We couldn't drop root group privileges.
by Greg M 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hello all, This is my first post to this list. I have tried finding this answer online but while it seems that there are some people out there asking, I cant seem to get an answer to it. I have installed Dovecot some many month ago, and just recently I have been getting an error while trying to log into one of my accounts that I used all the time. The error that comes up is pop3: We couldn't drop root group privileges I have seen where someone else has asked this same question, but there was no response to the list. Anyone have any ideas? I use squirrel mail to check the account as well as KMail (IMAP), and have even tried logging in through telnet to port 110 to see if it was a client issue, but it appears to be dovecot. I am using BSD 4.9 and Exim if that helps any. Thanks a bunch, for now I have to ssh into the machine to check my mail via PINE or mail. -Greg M.

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[Dovecot] Imap process killed
by Yann Rouillard 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Hi, I get the following message each time I try to access a mailbox. dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 27041 (imap) killed with signal 11 Using dovecot 1.0-test32 under Solaris 9. Using truss I get the following lines: 27041: read(0, " 2 s e l e c t " I N".., 4096) = 18 27041: open64("/var/mail/toto", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0660) Err#17 EEXIST 27041: time() = 1092672589 27041: open64("", O_RDWR) Err#14 EFAULT 27041: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0xFF1B347C 27041: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 27041: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default] 27041: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 I attached the complete result of the truss command and my configuration file. Any idea what is the problem ? Cheers, Yann ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # '#' character and everything after it is treated as comments. Extra spaces # and tabs are ignored. If you want to use either of these explicitly, put the # value inside quotes, eg.: key = "# char and trailing whitespace " # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port", although with multiple protocols you probably want to move this # setting inside protocol imap/pop3 { ... } section, so you can specify # different ports for IMAP/POP3. #listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. #ssl_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = yes # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/public/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/local/public/ssl/certs/imapd.pem # File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Usually not needed. #ssl_ca_file = # Request client to send a certificate. #ssl_verify_client_cert = no # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # SSL ciphers to use #ssl_cipher_list = all:!low # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. disable_plaintext_auth = no # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. login_chroot = no # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. #login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 32 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_user # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. first_valid_uid = 200 last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See doc/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden by # giving /./ in user's home directory (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). #mail_chroot = # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY # Space-separated list of fields to cache for all mails. Currently these # fields are allowed followed by a list of commands they speed up: # # Envelope - FETCH ENVELOPE and SEARCH FROM, TO, CC, BCC, SUBJECT, # SENTBEFORE, SENTON, SENTSINCE, HEADER MESSAGE-ID, # HEADER IN-REPLY-TO # Body - FETCH BODY # Bodystructure - FETCH BODY, BODYSTRUCTURE # MessagePart - FETCH BODY[1.2.3] (ie. body parts), RFC822.SIZE, # SEARCH SMALLER, LARGER, also speeds up BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE # generation. This is always set with mbox mailboxes, and # also default with Maildir. # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, that's why Dovecot by default # only caches MessagePart which speeds up most operations. Whenever client # does something where caching could be used, the field is automatically marked # to be cached later. For example after FETCH BODY the BODY will be cached # for all new messages. Normally you should leave this alone, unless you know # what most of your IMAP clients are. Caching more fields than needed makes # the index files larger and generate useless I/O. # # With maildir there's one extra optimization - if nothing is cached, indexing # the maildir becomes much faster since it's not opening any of the mail files. # This could be useful if your IMAP clients access only new mails. #mail_cache_fields = MessagePart # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never set to be cached. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Dovecot can notify client of new mail in selected mailbox soon after it's # received. This setting specifies the minimum interval in seconds between # new mail notifications to client - internally they may be checked more or # less often. Setting this to 0 disables the checking. # NOTE: Evolution client breaks with this option when it's trying to APPEND. #mailbox_check_interval = 0 # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name. It's only forced when trying # to create new keywords. #mail_max_keyword_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. # Note that OpenBSD 3.3 and older don't work right with mail_read_mmaped = yes. #mail_read_mmaped = no # Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes in remote # filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). #mmap_disable = no # Don't write() to mmaped files. This is required for some operating systems # which use separate caches for them, such as OpenBSD. #mmap_no_write = no # Don't use fcntl() locking. Alternatives are dotlocking and other tricks # which may be slower. Required for NFS. fcntl_locks_disable = yes # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Check if mails' content has been changed by external programs. This slows # down things as extra stat() needs to be called for each file. If changes are # noticed, the message is treated as a new message, since IMAP protocol # specifies that existing messages are immutable. #maildir_check_content_changes = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's four available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # lockf : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use multiple locking methods; if you do the order they're declared # in is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using multiple # locking methods as well. Some operating systems don't allow using some of # them simultaneously. #mbox_read_locks = fcntl #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. It could be a small # security risk if you use single UID for multiple users, as the users could # ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #mail_process_size = 256 # Log prefix for mail processes. See doc/variables.txt for list of possible # variables you can use. #mail_log_prefix = "%Up(%u): " ## ## IMAP specific settings ## protocol imap { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login # IMAP executable location #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes. Some clients generate very long # command lines with huge mailboxes, so you may need to raise this if you get # "Too long argument" or "IMAP command line too large" errors often. #imap_max_line_length = 65536 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Workarounds for various client bugs: # oe6-fetch-no-newmail: # Never send EXISTS/RECENT when replying to FETCH command. Outlook Express # seems to think they are FETCH replies and gives user "Message no longer # in server" error. Note that OE6 still breaks even with this workaround # if synchronization is set to "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. #imap_client_workarounds = } ## ## POP3 specific settings ## protocol pop3 { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login # POP3 executable location #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 # Don't try to set mails non-recent with POP3 sessions. This is mostly # intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files from # new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header. #pop3_mails_keep_recent = no # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Workarounds for various client bugs: # outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. #pop3_client_workarounds = } ## ## Authentication processes ## # You can have multiple authentication processes. With plaintext authentication # the password is checked against each process, the first one which succeeds is # used. This is useful if you want to allow both system users (/etc/passwd) # and virtual users to login without duplicating the system users into virtual # database. # Executable location #auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. #auth_verbose = no auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous mechanisms = plain # Where user database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # static uid=<uid> gid=<gid> home=<dir template>: static settings # vpopmail: vpopmail library # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf # mysql <config path>: a MySQL database, see doc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb = passwd # Where password database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: PAM authentication # checkpassword <path>: checkpassword executable authentication # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # vpopmail: vpopmail authentication # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf # mysql <config path>: a MySQL database, see doc/dovecot-mysql.conf passdb = pam # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 # Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails. #ssl_require_client_cert = no } # PAM doesn't provide a way to get uid, gid or home directory. If you don't # want to use a separate user database (passwd usually), you can use static # userdb. #auth onlypam { # mechanisms = plain # userdb = static uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u # passdb = pam # user = dovecot-auth #} #auth ldap { # mechanisms = plain # userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf # passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf # user = dovecot-auth #} #auth virtualfile { # mechanisms = plain digest-md5 # userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap # passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap # user = dovecot-auth #} # It's possible to export the authentication interface to other programs, # for example SMTP server which supports talking to Dovecot. Client socket # handles the actual authentication - you give it a username and password # and it returns OK or failure. So it's pretty safe to allow anyone access to # it. Master socket is used to a) query if given client was successfully # authenticated, b) userdb lookups. # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section #auth default_with_listener { # mechanisms = plain # passdb = passwd # userdb = pam # socket listen { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # #mode = 0600 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) # #user = # #group = # } # client { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client # mode = 0660 # } # } #} # connect sockets are assumed to be already running, Dovecot's master # process only tries to connect to them. They don't need any other settings # than path for the master socket, as the configuration is done elsewhere. # Note that the client sockets must exist in login_dir. #auth external { # socket connect { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # } # } #}

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[Dovecot] no local users - mbox all under /var/spool/mail/
by Daniel 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Hi there, im new to dovecot but I made my way trough configuring it. I almost get it running at least for one IMAP user. The problem is I got no local user thus no home directories, all Mailboxes are in mbox format under: /var/spool/mail: Looks like this: -SNIP- drwx------ 3 web1p2 poponly 19 2004-08-13 00:05 indexes -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 0 2004-03-26 21:51 nobody -rw------- 1 root root 0 2004-03-26 21:51 root -rw------- 1 web1p2 poponly 14 2004-08-13 00:10 .subscriptions -rw------- 1 web1p2 poponly 8571 2004-08-13 00:10 Trash -rw-rw---- 1 web0p1 root 23068262 2004-08-12 21:27 web0p1 -rw-rw---- 1 web0p2 root 17749 2004-08-12 23:55 web0p2 ... -SNAP I´ve set up the mail-environment this way: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/indexes/%u The problem is, that the directory "indexes" has permisions that only the owner can write to (well, I could change permissions, but?) and that the ".subscription" file and "Trash" folder is directly in this directory. So if I add a second user (e.g. web0p1) I got error messages imho due to the use of the "same" folder....? What would be the proposed setup for this system with mostly non-local users without real home directories and all their mbox in a shared directory? Thanks for your time! Daniel

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[Dovecot] LDAP-auth not working
by Roger Bystrom 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

I have set up dovecot to use ldap authentication, but it only results in dovecot crashing without any error message that would indicate why this is the case. I have spent *many* hours trying to fix this problem, but not found any solution as to why it should crash. maillog: Aug 15 10:05:08 era dovecot: Dovecot starting up Aug 15 10:05:09 era dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Aug 15 10:05:09 era dovecot: child 20833 (auth) killed with signal 11 Aug 15 10:05:09 era imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Settings to indicate ldap in dovecot.conf: auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf Basically, the settings in dovecot-ldap.conf is: hosts = localhost:389 dn = cn=dovecot,ou=servers,dc=remiss,dc=org dnpass = nada base = dc=remiss,dc=org deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword using ldapsearch -x -D "cn=dovecot,ou=servers,dc=remiss,dc=org" -w nada .... is successful. Therefor I am wondering what in the world that causes "Auth process" to die too early. Output of strace -f dovecot -F is available from http://remiss.org/download/log Pid of auth-process here is 23286. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Roger.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Local Delivery Agent
by news.gmane.org 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hi I noticed in a post that Timo might start work on a LDA Great! If so, here is something I would really like included. Support for PAM There is quite a lengthy reason behind this. In my organisation, user accounts are created on ldap. It is up to the services to create home directories whenever the user first uses them. For instance, Samba will do this the first time they connect to their windows home share. This achieved in other places using pam, using the pam_mkhomedir module. The MTA we run, Exim, is incapable of creating the home directory automatically, or using PAM for local delivery, thus we have the problem that when an account is created in the LDAP directory, it cannot receive email until the user first logs in through IMAP - Dovecot calls pam, which creates the home directory :-) Also attributing to this is the fact that exim is configured to deliver email into $home using maildir format rather than a mbox mail spool. We needed to do this because of the huge size of some of the inboxes of our users. This caused a severe amount of i/o blocking. So far, I have been unable to find a LDA capable of doing this. Since we migrated to dovecot, performance has improved ten-fold. I will give it a week then show you the graphs to prove it! Keep up the great work! Regards -- Chris Hills IT Services North East Worcestershire College

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir
by alan premselaar 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Zoong Pham wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org >>[mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On >>Behalf Of nino(a)swiftdsl.com.au >>Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 3:07 PM >>To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >>Subject: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir > > >>Thanks in advance. I am not sure if my system is setup to use >>'mbox' or >>'maildir'. How do I find this out? > > >>I am running an OpenBSD (v3.5) box with an Intel P3 >>motherboard. I have >>installed the OpenBSD port of Dovecot (0.99.10) and have >>manually started >>dovecot and configured the ssl certificates as per the >>documentation. As >>far as I can tell there is no problems but I am confused >>about 'mbox' and >>'maildir' > > > It's mbox. > The default MTA of OpenBSD is Sendmail. > More specifically, this is related to your local delivery agent (LDA). Although I'm not extremely familiar with default OpenBSD installations, it's been typical for default RedHat installations (up to and including RH 9) to have sendmail installed and configured to use procmail for its LDA. while recent versions of procmail can support maildir format, it defaults to using mbox format. alan

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[Dovecot] mkdir imap with user@domain.com
by wiki kaha 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

I have a bit a problem. In a virtual domain enviroment i use for login "user(a)domain.com" and the password. in the mysql authentication it works beautiful with %d and %u placeholder. Now when is whould like ad a folder via imap i get an error imap(user(a)domain.com): mkdir(/var/mail/domain.com/user@domain.com/.test) failed: No such file or directory It should be mkdir(/var/mail/domain.com/user/.test) Is there a way to configure this? Thanks Regards Karl-Heinz __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] RPA authentication mechanism
by Andrey Panin 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hello all, attached patch implements Compuserve RPA athentication mechanism. Tested with: - Eudora 6 (uses Compuserve "Virtual Key" RPA software); - TheBat! 2.11 (uses it's own RPA implementation). I hope it can be useful for someone. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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FW: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type'mysql'
by Alex Low (e-wise) 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

After better looking in the config.log, We found this, mysql wasn't compiled because of this; /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o)(.text+0xd8): In function `my_compress_alloc': : undefined reference to `compress' /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(my_compress.o)(.text+0x171): In function `my_uncompress': : undefined reference to `uncompress' I am using Fedora Core 2, using own compiled mysql 4.x rpm's. Timo Sirainen wrote: It looks like it's needed to be linked with zlib. Hmm. I haven't heard this to be necessary before. It seems to be statically linked in my mysql library. I think it'd work with: LDFLAGS=-lz ./configure --with-mysql And indeed adding -lz to LDFLAGS= in the spec file helped. Anyways I have dovecot rpm for Fedora Core 2 compiled with mysql 4. So if anybody want it, mail away. Greets, Alex _____ From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Alex Low (e-wise) Sent: woensdag 4 augustus 2004 11:15 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type'mysql' Hi, I am trying this way(mailinglist), as I cant find good 'support'/howto/tutorials on the website. I am running Fedora Core II, using postfix with mysql, and I want to use dovecot as imap server. Now I installed Dovecot using dag wieers SRPM, I compiled it with mysql, pgsql; %configure \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_datadir}/ssl" \ --with-ldap \ --with-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --with-cyrus-sasl2 \ --with-rawlog %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags} After compiling it, I installed the rpm. No problem at all. I configure the dovecot.conf like this; #auth = plain digest-md5 #auth_methods = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mail/virtual/%d/%n # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log1 # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log2 Then I try run it: [root@octa SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log1 dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: child 2118 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe dovecot-auth: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: child 11137 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe [root@octalys SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log2 dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:28 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:38 Info: Dovecot starting up [root@octalys SPECS]# Can anyone tell me whats wrong please ? Thank you in advance, Alex

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RE: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir
by Zoong Pham 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On > Behalf Of nino(a)swiftdsl.com.au > Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 3:07 PM > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: [Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir > Thanks in advance. I am not sure if my system is setup to use > 'mbox' or > 'maildir'. How do I find this out? > I am running an OpenBSD (v3.5) box with an Intel P3 > motherboard. I have > installed the OpenBSD port of Dovecot (0.99.10) and have > manually started > dovecot and configured the ssl certificates as per the > documentation. As > far as I can tell there is no problems but I am confused > about 'mbox' and > 'maildir' It's mbox. The default MTA of OpenBSD is Sendmail. I have similar configuration here. Let me know if you need any help. Cheers, Zoong PHAM UNIX systems Administrator ICT - Information, Communications & Technology Mercy Health & Aged Care 678 Victoria Street Richmond 3121 ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] Newbie about Mbox or Maildir
by nino＠swiftdsl.com.au 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hi, Thanks in advance. I am not sure if my system is setup to use 'mbox' or 'maildir'. How do I find this out? I am running an OpenBSD (v3.5) box with an Intel P3 motherboard. I have installed the OpenBSD port of Dovecot (0.99.10) and have manually started dovecot and configured the ssl certificates as per the documentation. As far as I can tell there is no problems but I am confused about 'mbox' and 'maildir' Any assistance is appreciated. Thankyou NS

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[Dovecot] Debian sarge release and dovecot
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

In what must surely be the first sign of the apocalypse, Debian is actually freezing in preperation for a new release. Probably the last day for uploads will be August 17. Is there likely to be another dovecot release by then? In the event of 0.99.10.9 being the released version, are there any other patches Debian users would like me to include? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] Problem moving folders with Thunderbird
by Loek 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

I can move around folders to sub-folders in an IMAP account on my dovecot server, but when I try to move a sub-folder back to the top-level (by dragging it to the account name), I get an error: "The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Mailbox exists." It doesn't exist on the server though, and I can create a folder with that name on the top-level. But it is a little annoying. I am using TB 0.7.2. I tried different IMAP server settings in Thunderbird under the account options, but without success. Loek

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[Dovecot] Both mbox and Maildir
by Yann Rouillard 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to configure dovecot so that it use mbox file format for the INBOX mailbox but Maildir format for all the subfolders. My problem is I would like an IMAP server which allow to easily create folders and subfolders of folders, but at the same time I don't want to break all MUA which rely on /var/mail/johndoe in mbox format. Thanks in advance. Yann

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Local Delivery Agent
by Apostolos Papayanakis 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Timo, a very simple save-only LDA would be enough for many configurations. Other full featured LDAs such as procmail could also use dovecot-LDA as the final delivering program. This would keep gigantic mboxes always indexed, and make access on them snappy always, especially on the important first access. However this should not take many programming resources away from releasing a robust, migration-ready v1.0. I am eager to migrate 25,000 users (~100GB), onto dovecot and then provide them more disk space, which now I dare not allow them. Keep up the excelent work! apap > Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:03:53 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Local Delivery Agent > To: Dovecot mailing list <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > ... > Anyway, I'm still hoping someone else to do the LDA so I don't have to > worry about it.

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[Dovecot] Little problem with dovecot using mbox format
by Jd 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi everyone, this is my first post on this mailing list. I recently installed postfix+dovecot+fetchmail on OpenBSD for my dad's office. (dovecot is setup as an imap server using mbox). Everything worked flawlessly...until now. I don't know why, but now some emails seem to de-double themselves. For exemple, yesterday morning I printed out all the emails. To my surprise 30 minutes later, I received 60 'new'' emails. But these 60 emails weren't new, they were all copies of emails I had printed out earlier. Some emails were repeated some 10-15 times. Now we never got this kind of problem until recently. Has anyone ever experienced this kind of problem? If so how did you fix the situation? Most responses I got from the openBSD mailing list was to use maildir format. Any insight into this? Thanks, Jean-Daniel BTW we don't get THAT much email, maybe 200 a day for that 1 account that seems to be acting weird now.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Local Delivery Agent
by Mark E. Mallett 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:07:27AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 7.8.2004, at 07:25, Mark E. Mallett wrote: [ I hope you don't mind me answering this back on the list; it seems like it's relevant. ] > > >That's probably just a result of my poor communications skills. I did > >include very brief LICENSE and FUTURE files with the sources, and those > >files probably led you to that conclusion. For clarification, I do > >intend that the program be open source, but I feel that there are some > >things that I should still finish up myself before foisting it off on > >any potential contributers. It's not a matter of "I don't want you to > >have it" -- it's more a matter of "I don't feel right burdening you > >with > >filling in holes just yet" (for the generic "you"). (That makes it > >sound like it's not usable: it's quite usable right now. There are > >just > >features still left to add.) > > > >Plus, as with many other packages and maintainers, I just want to > >control any official version. > > Well, doesn't that mean that it's currently not really open source? As > in I can't modify and re-distribute it (with possibly different name)? My current goal is to make it mature enough and good enough where people might actually want to do that -- as I say, by finishing up some of the things that are still undone. Also there are a couple of things that are hardwired to the environment here (particularly, the way that the IP addresses are extracted for DNSBL tests), that I felt that I should make more general before making it open. The latest sources are available online to anybody who wants them, for use in your own environment, for experimentation and trial, but not for redistribution; but indeed if there was some demand I would probably open it up sooner than later. So far nobody has been beating down the door for it (admittedly I haven't really mentioned it in very many places; I think only here and on the bsdi-users list). But yeah, the plan is to make it so that you can modify it and redistribute it. I don't have any kind of hard and fast position on when, though. I'm sure most anyone could convince me to open it up most any time, if there was good reason to do so. mm

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[Dovecot] search functionality
by Cor Bosman 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi all, if I give the following command in test32: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL TEXT {4} Test The response is: * SEARCH A004 OK Search completed. If I say: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL FROM {4} Test The response is: * SEARCH 217 350 A004 OK Search completed. The RFC says that 'TEXT' is supposed to result in a list of messages where the search string is in either the body or the header. Obviously the string is there in this example, else the FROM search wouldnt have given a result. Tracing the process shows that dovecot never actually checks the email messages for the string. It does for a BODY search but not for a TEXT search. Is this on purpose? Cor

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql'
by Alex Low (e-wise) 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi, I am trying this way(mailinglist), as I cant find good 'support'/howto/tutorials on the website. I am running Fedora Core II, using postfix with mysql, and I want to use dovecot as imap server. Now I installed Dovecot using dag wieers SRPM, I compiled it with mysql, pgsql; %configure \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_datadir}/ssl" \ --with-ldap \ --with-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --with-cyrus-sasl2 \ --with-rawlog %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags} After compiling it, I installed the rpm. No problem at all. I configure the dovecot.conf like this; #auth = plain digest-md5 #auth_methods = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mail/virtual/%d/%n # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log1 # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log2 Then I try run it: [root@octa SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log1 dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: child 2118 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe dovecot-auth: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: child 11137 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe [root@octalys SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log2 dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:28 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:38 Info: Dovecot starting up [root@octalys SPECS]# Can anyone tell me whats wrong please ? Thank you in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Courier
by Michael Baird 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hello, I've been testing dovecot, and it appears to be much faster then courier-imap. I am using the latest .99 version, trying to make the transition from courier to dovecot as smooth as possible. We really only use IMAP via squirrelmail, I think I've got that worked out fine, changing a few settings in squirrelmail as the FAQ instructs and migrating the courier subscriptions to .subscriptions. I've noticed the folders .Trash .Sent are no longer subfolders of the INBOX,, and when I create new folders in a Client, it creates .INBOX.foldername, and a .INBOX. I would really like all folders to be subfolders of .INBOX, I've set dovecot up as the following. default_mail_env = maildir:/var/export/%h/.maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n I've also tried putting the INBOX:/var/export/%h/.maildir in there as well with no luck. I essentially want .INBOX to be .maildir, and any subfolders would be called .Sent or .Trash or whatever, like in courier, is this possible? Regards MIKE

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[Dovecot] Adding mail to dovecot directories
by Chris Dean 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

I run mailagent (which is similar to procmail) to filter all my incoming messages. I would like mailagent to put these messages directly into my dovecot server. What I'm doing right now is to create files (one per message) in the "~/mail/.folder-name/new" directory, or in the case of INBOX, in the "~/.mail/new" directory. I have ~/.mail as my maildir. The files created have MH style names: "1", "2", etc. and the names are often reused throughout the day. That is, the file named "1" might be created dozens of times per day with new contents. Is this the right way? Regards, Chris Dean

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[Dovecot] what is the plan for 1.0?
by Farkas Levente 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

hi, i'm just look trhough the todo file, but it's rather large. i assume only a small part of it will be finished for 1.0. what is the schedule for 1.0? what kind of features will be included in 1.0? what is in 1.1 etc.. it'd be useful to see in the todo file that what features scheduled for which version. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL CA root certificate
by Mail Admin 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Problem solved. In my case I was using the 0.99.10.x release of dovecot, which does not recognize the ssl_ca_file directive. Upgrading to 1.0-test32 was step one. The next step was finding the right format for DST's root certificate. I think the format that finally worked was the format DST distributes for Apache Raven. Thanks! On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:47, Zach Bagnall wrote: > It's probably not a matter of getting dovecot to recognise the > certificate, it'll be getting the MUA to recognise the signer. > > When you get the warning, can you click through to the certificate > details and see what it says? Is it showing the signer as DST? Get DST > to confirm that their CA is recognised and trusted by Outlook Express, > Thunderbird, etc. > > Zach. > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:59:40 -0400, Mail Admin > <postmaster(a)psy.miami.edu> wrote: > > I bought a certificate from Digital Signature Trust which is a well > > known certificate authority. The reason I bought my certificate, was > > so that email clients connecting to my imaps server wouldn't be > > bothered with warnings of unrecognized certificate authority as they > > would see with a self-signed server certificate. However, I haven't > > been able to configure dovecot with my Digital Signature Trust signed > > certificate so that the unrecognized certificate authority warning > > doesn't appear. >

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[Dovecot] [PATCH 0/10] NTLM patchset submission
by Andrey Panin 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Hello all, as I promised some days ago here is NTLM (aka SPA, aka MSN) authentication support patchset. It contains common code in src/lib-ntlm directory, Samba compatible NTLM password scheme and authentication mechanism itself. All patches are against 1.0-test30. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] SSL CA root certificate
by Mail Admin 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

In reading through the mailing list, this question seems to have come up before, but never quite answered. I bought a certificate from Digital Signature Trust which is a well known certificate authority. The reason I bought my certificate, was so that email clients connecting to my imaps server wouldn't be bothered with warnings of unrecognized certificate authority as they would see with a self-signed server certificate. However, I haven't been able to configure dovecot with my Digital Signature Trust signed certificate so that the unrecognized certificate authority warning doesn't appear. I have the root certificate for Digital Signature Trust, but I don't know where to put it so that dovecot will use it. I tried appending the CA root certificate onto my server's certificate file with no success. The answer here is not, load my server's certificate into thunderbird or outlook express, because that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid by purchasing my certificate from a recognized authority. Help. Thanks, Derek

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[Dovecot] Patch: fix $-terminated MCF
by Joshua Goodall 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

p/t_strdup_until wasn't returning a terminated string: Index: src/lib/strfuncs.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib/strfuncs.c,v retrieving revision 1.41 diff -u -p -r1.41 strfuncs.c --- src/lib/strfuncs.c 18 Jul 2004 01:44:59 -0000 1.41 +++ src/lib/strfuncs.c 31 Jul 2004 08:43:35 -0000 @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ char *p_strdup_until(pool_t pool, const mem = p_malloc(pool, size + 1); memcpy(mem, start, size); + mem[size] = '\0'; return mem; } Noticed while testing $-terminated modular crypt strings, because I didn't (and still don't) understand the reason for line 65 of password-scheme.c; ... /* stop at next '$' */ p = strchr(p+3, '$'); if (p != NULL) *password = t_strdup_until(*password, p); ... and I have ln -s 'J' /etc/malloc.conf on freebsd 5-current, so malloc'd memory isn't zeroed, causing a segfault. Is there some system that appends dollar signs to MCF formats? The commit message for r1.3 of password-scheme.c doesn't explain. Joshua. -- Joshua Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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[Dovecot] Too many open files with test32
by Jens Gutzeit 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

Hi Timo and others, I'm using test32 since today and I'm getting this error once every 2 hours or so: dovecot: Jul 30 20:21:26 Error: IMAP(jens(a)gutzeit.at): open(/var/mail/data/jens/jens(a)gutzeit.at/maildir/.INBOX.Gentoo.Security/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Too many open files dovecot: Jul 30 20:21:26 Error: IMAP(jens(a)gutzeit.at): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 147 (maildir_uidlist_deinit): assertion failed: (!UIDLIST_IS_LOCKED(uidlist)) The problem is not specific to this mailbox. I hadn't this problem with the stable releases and I've also not set any special limits for the dovecot processes. I'm using a grsec pathed kernel (linux 2.6.7), the kern log says: grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 1024 for RLIMIT_NOFILE against limit 1024 by /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap[imap:19114] uid/euid:1011/1011 gid/egid:448/448, parent /usr/local/sbin/dovecot[dovecot:7799] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0 Does dovecot really need more then 1024 filedescriptors or is it a bug? If you need more information just ask. best regards, Jens

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.9 released
by Timo Sirainen 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

v0.99.10.9 2004-07-31 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> - MySQL compiling got broken in last release - More PostgreSQL reconnection fixing

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[Dovecot] mailsync: NO Unexpected EOF
by SAiello＠Jentoo.com 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

Hello, I am trying to migrate off a MS Exchange 5.0 server. I am using mailsync (http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/) to copy the files to a Dovecot server, version 0.99.10.7. For particular messages I get the following error: Couldn't append msg #114081 (Subject:[RE: balh blah]) to folder INBOX: Error trying to append: 826 NO Unexpected EOF I think this is Dovecot, complaining about the message text that imapsync is trying to append/write. If this is Dovecot, is there any setting I can set to fix this?

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test32
by Timo Sirainen 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Ok, another one. Fixes somewhat rare crashes with transaction log. mbox won't deadlock anymore. read-only mboxes work finally .. I hope .. and then the one compilation fix in lib-ntlm. Updated the Dovecot serving public mailing list archives, hopefully this version stays working instead of just returning internal error after a while.

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[Dovecot] Patch for 0.99.10.8
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

I uploaded 0.99.10.8 to Debian but I needed the patch below to get it to compile. --- dovecot-0.99.10.8.orig/src/auth/db-mysql.h +++ dovecot-0.99.10.8/src/auth/db-mysql.h @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ #ifndef __DB_MYSQL_H #define __DB_MYSQL_H -#include <mysql.h> +#include <mysql/mysql.h> +#include <mysql/errmsg.h> struct mysql_connection; struct mysql_request; -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] patch for test31 compile problem
by Cor Bosman 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

If you grab test31 you might want to apply this small patch. *** dovecot-1.0-test31/src/lib-ntlm/ntlm-message.c Fri Jul 30 05:00:19 2004 --- ../dovecot-1.0-test31/src/lib-ntlm/ntlm-message.c Fri Jul 30 09:23:42 2004 *************** *** 76,83 **** va_start(args, buffer_offset); do { - type = va_arg(args, int); const char *data; memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); write_le16(&info.type, type); --- 76,83 ---- va_start(args, buffer_offset); do { const char *data; + type = va_arg(args, int); memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); write_le16(&in

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot mounts user home dir?
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

On 29.7.2004, at 11:38, Peter Evans wrote: > TM (offmct(a)yahoo.com) wrote: >> Why does dovecot mount the user home directory >> whenever the user checks his email (either pop or imap)? > >> Is there a way to disable this? > > Ask the system nicely, its not dovecot per se, > its the system doing things when dovecot becomes > the user for the duration of the check. I don't think simply changing user id for process does that. It's more likely because of this code in src/master/mail-process.c: /* NOTE: if home directory is NFS-mounted, we might not have access to it as root. Change the effective UID temporarily to make it work. */ if (reply->uid != master_uid && seteuid(reply->uid) < 0) i_fatal("seteuid(%s) failed: %m", dec2str(reply->uid)); ret = chdir(full_home_dir); if (reply->uid != master_uid && seteuid(master_uid) < 0) i_fatal("seteuid(%s) failed: %m", dec2str(master_uid)); /* If user's home directory doesn't exist and we're not trying to chroot anywhere, fallback to /tmp as the mails could be stored elsewhere. */ Dovecot just wants to set current directory to user's home directory as that's the most logical location. I hadn't thought about any automounters.. One way to fix it would be to not use home directories in userdb at all, instead set the "mail" setting in it. Then Dovecot would chdir to /tmp. Another fix would be to just delete the code above and make it always chdir to /tmp. Maybe there should be a setting for this? ..

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test31
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixed mbox corruption in some cases where it wrote headers over beginning of message body. Fixed recent flags to work correctly with mbox. Fixed LSUB command to send LSUB replies instead of LIST replies. Then there's NTLM support from Andrey (which I hopefully didn't break) and dovecotpw utility from Joshua. And then some generic status report: For last few weeks I've been trying to make all network I/O non-blocking but that work is going quite slowly. This means that IMAP and POP3 commands which send lots of data to client must be able to stop processing if output buffer is getting full and continue later. Not very difficult, but a bit boring to implement.. This would allow in future to make a single process handle multiple IMAP connections for same user. Although that might not be such a good idea since there's still lock waits and SEARCH command can take a long time.. Anyway, it makes the code less kludgy. Maybe in future we'll have non-blocking lock waits and file I/O too. Adding some support for threading might not be a bad idea either, as long as it doesn't require adding locks all over the place (threads would perform searches, threading, sorting, etc.). Oh, and another thing it enables is processing multiple commands simultaneously. IMAP supports that, although I don't know if any clients do it. So for example a client could send: 1 fetch 1:* envelope 2 status mailbox (unseen) Then Dovecot would process the fetch command until it's output blocks, then it would send the status reply in the middle of it and then again continue the fetching. The nice thing with this is that client can do some "urgent" requests in the middle of some long running commands without the need to create multiple connections to server.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.8 released
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

v0.99.10.8 2004-07-30 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + LDAP support compiles now with Solaris LDAP library - IMAP BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE replies were wrong for MIME parts which didn't contain Content-Type header. - MySQL and PostgreSQL auth didn't reconnect if connection was lost to SQL server - Linking fixes for dovecot-auth with some systems - Last fix for disconnecting client when downloading mail longer than 30 seconds actually made it never disconnect client. Now it works properly: disconnect when client hasn't read _any_ data for 30 seconds.

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[Dovecot] md5 password is not working
by Farkas Levente 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

hi, i setup a new mail server (dovecot-0.99.10.7) with ldap authentication (openldap-2.1.29-2). everything works properly until i switch the user's password from crypt to md5 in the ldap server (of course in this case in the ldap server it stores es {MD5}.... but dovecot gives such error messages: ----------------------- dovecot-auth: Jul 29 17:30:08 Info: ldap(lfarkas(a)x.com): password mismatch ----------------------- it it possible to use dovecot with openldap's md5 password? should I hav to change anything in dovecot's config file if i'd like to use other encrypt schema than crypt? thanks in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

On 2004-07-29 22:54:12 +0100, David Marsh wrote: > [Unreadable in Outlook, here's why: http://viewport.co.uk/outlook ] something like that sucks. it really makes me consider not to help people. > What do I need to do to configure it? > > I haven't touched the mailserver since installing SuSE, mailservers tend > to frighten me (not least with worry as to what can go wrong if I mess > up!) depends on your needs the comments are very helpfull. and look in the printed manuals or the pdf versions of it. > > 6. chkconfig dovecot on > > I was going to ask what that does, but the man page explains all. > Ah, so *that*'s the right way to fiddle with /etc/init.d/ entries.. yes. it will check dependencies of services e.g. darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] Problems compiling PHP --with-imap - can't find rfc822.h
by Chris Weiss 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

I'm trying to add webmail (IMP/HORDE) to my OpenBSD 3.5 mail server (Procmail/Amavid/SA/DCC/Razor/Dovecot 0.99.10.7), which means adding PHP and several other libraries. I'm building PHP 4.3 from the ports tree and, as per the IMP/HORDE readme files, added --with-imap to the makefile. Makeing PHP barfs with a "Cannot find rfc822.h. Please check your IMAP installation." error. I did some digging around and this seems to be part of Courier-IMAP and Mutt, but not part of Dovecot. Can this header file just be grabbed from Courier or Mutt and dropped into /usr/include? Is there something else that's got to be done here?

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[Dovecot] dovecot mounts user home dir?
by TM 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Why does dovecot mount the user home directory whenever the user checks his email (either pop or imap)? Is there a way to disable this? I have indicated in the default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/:INBOX=/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY. The users are in ldap. Windows users' home is in /home/%u so this is ok but unix users' home are in their local computers and are mounted (via automount) at /d1-data/pcname/username. Even if mounted, the users' home directory isn't used by dovecot since nothing gets written to it. The users only checks his pop mail but still, his home directory gets mounted. Is it possible that dovecot won't try to mount the user's home directory whenever the user checks his mail? Thanks a lot. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10.8-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ + LDAP support compiles now with Solaris LDAP library - IMAP BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE replies were wrong for MIME parts which didn't contain Content-Type header. - MySQL and PostgreSQL auth didn't reconnect if connection was lost to SQL server - Linking fixes for dovecot-auth with some systems - Last fix for disconnecting client when downloading mail longer than 30 seconds actually made it never disconnect client. Now it works properly: disconnect when client hasn't read _any_ data for 30 seconds.

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[Dovecot] Errors with a blackberry
by Jeremy Sanders 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi - We tried to access a dovecot-0.99.10.7 IMAPS server with a Blackberry 7230. The Blackberry was on loan so we don't have much access to it for testing. We got the following in our logs: Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap-login: Login: testuser [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree Jul 27 12:30:27 xserv imap(testuser): IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/testuser/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.log Apparently the blackberry didn't see the new mail. Has anyone had any luck with such a Blackberry? Thanks Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss(a)ast.cam.ac.uk> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053

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[Dovecot] mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Wouter Van Hemel 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hello, I found this in the logs of a Dovecot v1.0-test29 test server (OpenBSD 2.9, as mentioned in a previous email): Jul 24 05:37:47 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/username/.mailbox (235 > 234) Jul 24 05:37:52 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 357 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == -mails[idx].space) Jul 24 05:37:52 myhostname dovecot: child 28601 (imap) returned error 1 Is this bad? :) / Wouter Van Hemel

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Marcus Rueckert 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

hi as i created the rpms: my steps to get a working setup: 1. install postfix,fetchmail,dovecot 2. configure postfix via /etc/sysconfig/mail /etc/sysconfig/postfix 3. run SuSEconfig 4. create a selfsigned cert for ssl (script in /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot) 5. enable ssl in the dovecot config 6. chkconfig dovecot on 7. rcdovecot start 8. configure fetchmail (not a topic on this list) 9. working setup reached at least for system users hope that helps darix -- irssi - the client of the smart and beautiful people http://www.irssi.de/

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[Dovecot] Concerning: in 0.99.10.7 - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks
by chris pickert 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

TSS/Dovecot: I saw the recent change in the ChangeLog about the 'subtraction' of the listing of symlinks. The point showed(minus): - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks Does this truly mean the functionality was removed? I'd tried doing symlink'd maildirs in 99.10.6 w/ no luck and when I saw this change I hoped this was an addition, as it would be great in lieu of Dovecot's lack of ACL/Shared folders. If it was intented to be ADDED in the recent .7 release, it still doesn't work. If it was pulled (which is strange becauase my .6 release didn't do it), why? Are the .conf directives about it I'm missing by chance? (Didn't notice anything) I'm using Dovecot in combo with horde/imp and it's amazingly faster than courier-imap or uwash-imap, well done! What about the aforementioned ACL/Shared folders? I'm getting into a crux that I may need it and courier-imap-/-cyrus-imap will do my trick but, dovecot smokes them on performance! (Especially with horde/imp's preview/info stuff) Thanks! -- Chris Pickert

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: fetchmail -> procmail -> IMAP (Dovecot) -> MUA?
by Lars E. Pettersson 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 19:08, David Marsh wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this part! > Can anybody offer any advice? A short description on how I did this can be found at my web page: http://www.sm6rpz.se/mailserver.html I use Fedora Core 2, but I do not think that will matter, it should work for SuSE also I think. Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars(a)homer.se> http://www.sm6rpz.se/

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[Dovecot] weakness in hash salt generation
by Joshua Goodall 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Dovecot has routines for password hashing; two of these, crypt_generate and md5_generate, both use sizeof(salt_chars) when reducing a random string to salt. I became suspicious when I noted that all salts generated are composed only of "./01". Unfortunately salt_char is declared static const char * rather than static const char [], and so sizeof(salt_chars) is the size of a pointer. Recommend: diff -u -r1.8 password-scheme.c --- password-scheme.c 30 May 2004 03:57:15 -0000 1.8 +++ password-scheme.c 23 Jul 2004 17:05:36 -0000 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ # include <openssl/sha.h> #endif -static const char *salt_chars = +static const char salt_chars[] = "./0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; static buffer_t *schemes_buf; joshua. -- Joshua Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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[Dovecot] bug in LSUB command
by Geo Carncross 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

RFC 2060 section 7.2.2 and 7.2.3 says the "The LIST response occurs as a result of a LIST command." and "The LSUB response occurs as a result of an LSUB command." Dovecot presently returns the LIST response for the LSUB command. -- Geo Carncross <geocar(a)internetconnection.net> Internet Connection

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[Dovecot] Local + virtual users using Dovecot 0.99.10.6 (from debian testing)
by Alexander 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Hi, I have configured the MTA (exim4) to put the messages for my local users at /var/mail. If the user does not exist as true unix user, it looks at a postgresql database and if the user exists there, it delivers the message at /var/mail/virtual Example: User fred is a unix user, and peter is a virtual user. If i send a mail to fred(a)mydomain.org, the message is stored at /var/mail/fred (im using exim's append for transport). If i send a mail to peter(a)mydomain.org, the message is stored at /var/mail/virtual/peter With the defaul configuration from debian, dovecot is capable serving the local users mailbox (and its working at the moment). Im using only IMAP (i see there is an option for pop3, but im not interested in that atm). I think i know how to change the config file to serve only virtual users using the postgres module. Can anyone tell me how to serve them both at the same time? As I understand it, what i need is to make dovecot try to validate a user againt the local user database (its using pam for that at the moment), and if it fail, try with postres. But i dont know how (or if its possible at all). Thanks.

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[Dovecot] file index-mail-headers.c: line 408 (index_mail_get_header): assertion failed: (ret != 0)
by Dmitry Khrustalev 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE, dovecot-1.0-test29 crashes on sort and thread commands: Jul 25 15:12:08 owl dovecot: imap-login: Login: dima [81.19.64.101] Jul 25 15:12:26 owl dovecot: IMAP(dima): file index-mail-headers.c: line 408 (index_mail_get_header): assertion failed: (ret != 0) Jul 25 15:12:26 owl dovecot: child 20384 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt #0 0x281e0fc4 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #1 0x2822293e in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #2 0x8086c73 in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x8095720 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfbff8cc "\tW\t\b\230\001") at failures.c:374 #3 0x8086827 in i_panic ( format=0x8095720 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #4 0x806d0f9 in index_mail_get_header (_mail=0x80bf41c, field=0x80955ce "Date") at index-mail-headers.c:408 #5 0x806b8fd in index_mail_get_date (_mail=0x80bf41c, timezone=0x0) at index-mail.c:218 #6 0x8059b1c in mail_sort_input (ctx=0x80a1150, mail=0x80bf41c) at imap-sort.c:420 #7 0x80596ae in imap_sort (client=0x80ad180, charset=0x80b1180 "US-ASCII", args=0x80c8010, sort_program=0x80a10d0) at imap-sort.c:252 #8 0x8054ec8 in cmd_sort (client=0x80ad180) at cmd-sort.c:123 #9 0x80560ae in client_handle_input (client=0x80ad180) at client.c:318 #10 0x805614d in _client_input (context=0x80ad180) at client.c:354 #11 0x808a852 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80ab040) at ioloop-poll.c:193 #12 0x808a245 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80ab040) at ioloop.c:248 #13 0x805bc5b in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbffbb0, envp=0xbfbffbb8) at main.c:217 (gdb)

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf: default_mail_env
by Sebastien 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

I just installed Dovecot on Debian and everyting seems to be working fine except for the fact that it can't seem to find my mails when I log in. All my mails are stored in the file ~/mail/Inbox. In the dovecot.conf file I put: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and it's not working. What is the part: mbox:~/mail/ for ? and what is the part: INBOX=/var/mail/%u for ? I read the documentation but I don't understand. Can anyone help me ?

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test30
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Mostly just fixes. Fixed some crashes with cache file. Fixed "randomly" occuring mbox parsing problem. Namespace handling was pretty much rewritten. Non-hidden namespaces will also show up in LIST replies now, so if you have eg.: namespace private { prefix = mboxes location = mbox:~/mail } Then clients would show "mboxes" as normal folder. Subscription file handling also changed and will probably change more.. Currently subscription file is specific to the namespace where the mailboxes are. So in above example subscribing to "mboxes/foo" would use ~/mail/.subscriptions file rather than the default. I'm not exactly sure if this is a good idea or not.. It probably needs to be configurable with some subscriptions = yes|no per-namespace setting.

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[Dovecot] imap folders
by Roger D. Vargas 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Until last week I was using old imap daemon, then i installed FEdora Core 2 and it was replaced by dovecot or cyrus. I decided to use dovecot, and managed to configure it. But I still have a problem, the users imap folders (stored in their home dirs) arent visible, only the inbox. How can I recover those folders? -- Roger Durañona Vargas Linux user #180787 A cada momento nos rodea lo desconocido. Es alli donde uno tiene que buscar el conocimiento. Paul Muad'Dib Atreides. Children of Dune

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[Dovecot] Some users cannot read mail: assertion failed
by Robert Munteanu 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Hi all! I am a recent user of dovecot. First of all, the migration from UW-IMAP was definitely worth it. But now I've run into some troubles. Two of my users complain that they can't read their Inboxes, but other folders work fine. The error message I get in the logs look like: lynx imap(gheorghe.bancos): file buffer.c: line 357 (buffer_set_start_pos): assertion failed: (abs_pos <= I_MIN(buf->used, buf->limit)) lynx dovecot: child 1823 (imap) killed with signal 6 The problems have been reported with both MS Outlook and SquirrelMail. What causes this problem and how can I fix it? Thank you, -- Robert Munteanu _______________________________________________________________ Connex scaneaza automat toate mesajele impotriva virusilor folosind Trend Micro VirusWall. Connex automatically scans all messages for viruses using Trend Micro VirusWall. _______________________________________________________________ Nota: Este posibil ca produsul Trend Micro VirusWall sa nu detecteze toti virusii noi sau toate variantele lor. Va rugam sa luati in considerare ca exista un risc de fiecare data cind deschideti fisiere atasate si ca MobiFon nu este responsabila pentru orice prejudiciu cauzat de decizia dvs. Disclaimer: It is possible that the Trend Micro VirusWall product may not be able to detect all new viruses and variants. Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever opening e-mail attachments to your computer and that MobiFon is not responsible for any damages caused by your decision to do so.

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[Dovecot] paypal link for donations to dovecot webpage?
by security officer 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Paypal link for donations to dovecot webpage? Really good sofware ;) -- Eero

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[Dovecot] Passwords in passwd-file
by Andrew Boothman 25 Jul '04

25 Jul '04

Hi! I'm trying to use MD5 hashed password in a passwd-file (not the system one). I've set auth_userdb = passwd-file /my/passwd/file auth_passdb = passwd-file /my/passwd/file auth.txt additionally describes a syntax like: auth_userdb = passwd-file[34] /my/passwd/file to denote MD5 passwords in the file, but I've been unable to get any combination of using []'s after passwd-file to work. Dovecot complains: "Unknown userdb type". How is it best to store passwords in a passwd-file using Dovecot 0.99.10.7? Ideally I want to use PHP to generate the passwords being entered into the file. Thanks for any pointers! Andrew

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[Dovecot] Bug? 1.0.0-test28 NFS locking problems
by Tim Southerwood 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

Hi Slight problem - linux 2.4 running dovecot, Solaris 2.8 home directory server. Full lockd support etc. I had to make the following code patches (at end of mail for clarity) to get dovecot to read the users mbox files at all. 1) fcntl with F_SETLKW will not work against a Solaris 2.8 server as proved with a small test program. Other forms of fcntl (ie F_SETLK) are OK. I noticed there are some code witches, but setting mbox_lock_timeout=0 only seems to knock one of the fcntl's over to F_SETLK 2) O_CREAT | O_EXCL are documented not to work over NFS properly (see man open(2) on linux). So I knocked out the O_EXCL and combined with (1) dovecot will talk over NFS to remote mbox files. THESE ARE NOT VIABLE CODE PATCHES They illustrate a problem I found - they are hackish and totally wrong. I'm not sure of the best way to correct this problem cleanly, so I am just submitting it as a potential bug. Cheers Tim Southerwood ************************************************** --- dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib/file-lock.c.orig 2004-07-20 14:29:47.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib/file-lock.c 2004-07-20 14:30:15.000000000 +0100 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ fl.l_start = 0; fl.l_len = 0; - while (fcntl(fd, timeout != 0 ? F_SETLKW : F_SETLK, &fl) < 0) { + while (fcntl(fd, timeout != 0 ? F_SETLK : F_SETLK, &fl) < 0) { if (timeout == 0 && (errno == EACCES || errno == EAGAIN)) return 0; --- dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-lock.c.orig 2004-07-20 14:29:54.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-lock.c 2004-07-20 14:30:35.000000000 +0100 @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ fl.l_start = 0; fl.l_len = 0; - wait_type = max_wait_time == 0 ? F_SETLK : F_SETLKW; + wait_type = max_wait_time == 0 ? F_SETLK : F_SETLK; while (fcntl(ctx->ibox->mbox_fd, wait_type, &fl) < 0) { if (errno != EINTR) { if (errno != EAGAIN && errno != EACCES) ************************************************** and ************************************************** diff -NaurbB dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib/file-dotlock.c dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib/file-dotlock.c--- dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib/file-dotlock.c 2004-06-28 18:28:01.000000000 +0100+++ dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib/file-dotlock.c 2004-07-20 14:50:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ return -1; } - fd = open(*path_r, O_RDWR | O_EXCL | O_CREAT, 0666); + fd = open(*path_r, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0666); if (fd != -1) return fd; diff -NaurbB dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-util.c dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-util.c--- dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-util.c 2004-06-16 01:50:41.000000000 +0100+++ dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-util.c 2004-07-20 14:51:25.000000000 +0100@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ if (stat(path, &st) < 0 && errno == ENOENT) { /* doesn't exist */ mode_t old_mask = umask(0); - fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, mode); + fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, mode); umask(old_mask); if (fd != -1 || errno != EEXIST) break; diff -NaurbB dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c--- dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c 2004-07-20 14:45:55.000000000 +0100+++ dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c 2004-07-20 14:49:56.000000000 +0100@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ int fd; /* make sure inbox file itself exists */ - fd = open(storage->inbox_path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0660); + fd = open(storage->inbox_path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0660); if (fd != -1) (void)close(fd); @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ } /* create the mailbox file */ - fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0660); + fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0660); if (fd != -1) { (void)close(fd); return 0; diff -NaurbB dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c.mbox dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c.mbox--- dovecot-1.0-test28.orig/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c.mbox 2004-07-11 22:03:09.000000000 +0100+++ dovecot-1.0-test28/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c.mbox 2004-07-20 14:50:58.000000000 +0100@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ int fd; /* make sure inbox file itself exists */ - fd = open(storage->inbox_path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0660); + fd = open(storage->inbox_path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0660); if (fd != -1) (void)close(fd); @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ } /* create the mailbox file */ - fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0660); + fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0660); if (fd != -1) { (void)close(fd); return 0; ************************************************** -- Tim J Southerwood Senior Programmer CSG, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Lorenzo Conti 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

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[Dovecot] RFE: MD5 encryption with for plain text passwords
by Felix Schwarz 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Hi, due to compatibility issues with mail clients I think I have to use plain text authentication. In order to secure the passwords during their transport I'll use SSL encryption. After reading some documentation I think that I'll have to store the passwords as plain text in the authdb. That is something I dislike very much as it is a (imho) good tradition for unix to store only encrypted passwords for security reasons. I would like to see the possibility in dovecot to store the passwords for plain text authentication md5 encrypted. That should be easy to implement (just one md5 encryption before comparing the given password with the stored one) and could improve security. As this would be an api change it should be made configurable (and in the first versions this setting should default to the actual behavior). How do you like this idea? Maybe I can provide a patch but I won't work on this if you won't include it within dovecot at all. And last but not least I want to thank you for your great support! I really appreciate it! :-) -- Felix

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[Dovecot] CRAM-MD5
by Felix Schwarz 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Hi, after getting dovecot working with PostgreSQL and plaintext passwords I tried to use md5 encrypted passwords with mozilla. www.roughtrade.net/dovecot says that Mozilla only supports CRAM-MD5 and that CRAM-MD5 is included in HEAD. Now I have two questions: 1) Is the md5 hash stored in passdb with cram-md5 the same as in digest-md5? 2) Is a new dovecot stable build planned within the next two weeks (which includes CRAM-MD5)? (I guess the answer is no :-( 3) Are there any dovecot rpms with pgsql and CRAM-md5 supprt? -- Felix

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot auth problem on FreeBSD 4.10
by Viren Patel 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 20:35, Viren Patel wrote: >> Hope this helps. Should I send the entire socket.h file? > > Hmm. What would happen if in src/lib/fdpass.c you added: > > #undef CMSG_LEN > #undef CMSG_DATA > > #define CMSG_LEN(l) (sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + (l)) > #define CMSG_DATA(cmsg) ((u_char *)(cmsg) + sizeof(struct cmsghdr)) > > Yes! This did the trick. It seems to be working fine now. Thanks for your help. I can now go on to further testing and imaps/pop3s. I am seriously looking at Dovecot for our production mail server. Viren Patel University of Texas at Austin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth problem on FreeBSD 4.10
by Viren Patel 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Hello. I am trying to setup Dovecot on an Alpha running FreeBSD 4.10. I am simply trying the imap/pop3 protocols at this time. But with both protocols the log message I get is: pop3-login: fd_send(5) failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: child 275 (login) returned error 89 or imap-login: fd_send(5) failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: child 275 (login) returned error 89 I have tried various combinations of: auth = default|plain|pam auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd|shadow|pam|passwd-file but nothing works. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Viren Patel University of Texas at Austin

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[Dovecot] help: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask.
by Ivo Rütsche 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

on your mozilla client: go to "Edit" / "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings" / [your account] / "Server Settings" / "Advanced..." / "IMAP" / "Other Users" make sure your text box is empty (default is "~") bye ivo

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