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Re: [Dovecot] Android ICS stock client and IMAP Capability issue.
by Massimiliano Cianelli 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi, Yes w/o prefix work as expected, try to add a prefix like courier does (eg. Inbox.) It will not work as expected. Due I'm upgrading an old installed server, I've to keep everything as much transparent I can... it includes IMAP folder and subscription. Looking at that I've encountered that issue, and analyzed for fix it (thank you open source), not everyone will want to use/use k9.. but you can be 100% sure the stock client is there. Due that Google act like BlackBerry, Microsoft,etc.. (hovewer they will not fix it soon, or really respect the rfc), it's much simple add Namespace on prelogin banner then wait or have to tell someone to install another client for that mailbox. I didn't know the history, but looking at change log seems that idle as been put back to prelogin client for some kind of compatibility with their service. Anyway, the most important reason that got me to subscribe the mailing list for write those emails, is share with the community that problem and provide a solution.. for someone in the future that have the same problem and will search on internet for a solution (like I've does.. before analyze it on my own). If the workaround will be added to the wiki or will be put in the source.. the important thing is that there is a solution simple and fast (two.. the source modify, and the configuration file) and someone can find it.. (Sarcastic) And if the mayans were right we can't wait for google to fix it :p Best Regards Sent from Galaxy Nexus Robert Schetterer <rs(a)sys4.de> ha scritto: >Am 07.11.2012 08:13, schrieb Massimiliano Cianelli: >> Hello, >> >> My phone: >> Android ics 4.1.2 on galaxy nexus. >> And yes, stock mean the default client that come with the os in IMAP mode. >> >> I already know about that configuration parameter, but it will display two time namespace in postlogin capabilities, and so I like much more to adjust the source code to fix the issue. >> >> Yes there is k9 but I didn't like it too much, I prefer the stock client and is much important to keep compatibility with stock client then user-installed client. >> >> About the issue on Google code, there is thr issue on google code... but Google is a lot slow in fixing those things. >> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811 >> >> In a few hour I'll update the issue noticing where is hidden the problem. >> >> Regards >> Sent from Galaxy Nexus > >Hi , i shortly tested this with android sdk jelly bean 4.1.1 and "my >setup" dovecot 2.1.10 with included orginal android mail app in imap mode, >,leaving IMAP prefix blank, everything works as expected, no double >shown inbox, namespace problems etc >so you might have to fit your namespace setup. >Also you might follow allready given advice from here. > >Anyway , i understand you using "stock client" >but you have to understand that the producers of mail clients >optimize their stuff fitting best in their own server structure >making money with it, therefor their motivation coding better imap code >is not very high, same case is for outlook and microsoft >however, i would say, fixing bugs is on the google site here, looks like >there is patch >at >http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811 >and the issue seems long known > >i dont see any hard relation to dovecot in this case >meanwhile using k9mail seems the best way to workaround >there are lots of other bugs around android versions >over the years i dont expect google to fix them > > >> >> Robert Schetterer <rs(a)sys4.de> ha scritto: >> >>> Am 06.11.2012 07:08, schrieb Ben Morrow: >>>> At 6AM +0100 on 6/11/12 you (Massimiliano Cianelli) wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> My setup: >>>>> Dovecot 2 latest, installed to replace courrier IMAP, and off course >>>>> configured with the dot separator and all folder under INBOX.*. >>>>> >>>>> The problem: >>>>> My phone was driving me mad during the test, due that it will only >>>>> recognize Inbox. >>>>> >>>>> How found the solution: >>>>> I've started sniffing IMAP traffic on my server and ended up with one >>>>> difference: >>>>> On courier it ask for namespace, on dovecot it won't. >>>>> >>>>> I gives a better look, and noticed that courier show namespace >>>>> capability on prelogin banner, adding it too solved the problem. >>>>> >>>>> Reason: >>>>> Android ICS stock client seems do not honor the capability gived after >>>>> the login. >>>> >>>> See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0?highlight=%28capability%29 ; >>>> you need to set imap_capability and/or get your client fixed. >>>> >>>> Ben >>>> >>> >>> Hi, first ,what is the exact meaning of >>> >>> "Android ICS stock client" >>> >>> do you mean default included email client in standard android in imap >>> mode, when yes, which version of Android , i like to test my own >>> however is there changelog/code etc at google for this behave? >>> >>> conf example >>> >>> # Override the IMAP CAPABILITY response. If the value begins with '+', >>> # add the given capabilities on top of the defaults (e.g. +XFOO XBAR). >>> #imap_capability = >>> >>> setting stuff here might be complex , or lead to trouble with other >>> clients, if setting this might fix problems ,with clients it should be >>> advised in the wiki/example-conf and/or Timo >>> >>> or the other way ,for massive used clients there should be >>> a seperate workaround section in the conf >>> >>> But fixing behave clients should be prime option anyway >>> >>> Meanwhile use K9mail in Android as best free option in imap mode servers >>> >>> Best Regards >>> MfG Robert Schetterer >>> >>> -- >>> [*] sys4 AG >>> >>> http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 >>> Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München >>> >>> Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 >>> Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer >>> Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich > > > >Best Regards >MfG Robert Schetterer > >-- >[*] sys4 AG > >http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 >Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München > >Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 >Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer >Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda not correct folder
by tony.blue.mailinglist＠gmx.de 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, i use dovecot with maildir. The maildir-folder looks like this: vmail/mail/user1/cur vmail/mail/user1/.Sent vmail/mail/user1/.optionalfolder Procmail should put some definded mails in the "optionalfolder" My uses configuration does not do this: ... DELIVERMAIL="/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda" IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -e -d $LOGNAME -m INBOX" ZUSATZORDNER="$DELIVERMAIL -e -d $LOGNAME -m .optionalfolder" ... dovecot-lda puts the mails for the optionalfolder always in the .cur (INBOX). What´s the correct dovecot-lda parameter to put the mails in the optionalfolder? Thank you! Tony

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[Dovecot] No manpage for "doveadm fts" command
by Dave Abrahams 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Just wanted to make sure this issue was registered separately from the overall confusion I'm exploring in another thread, even though I mention this there too. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] 2.2.alpha1 (626a9df21e62): LMTP Core Dump
by Thomas Leuxner 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Please find Backtrace for LMTP Core Dump below: [...] ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre dovecot: lmtp(17245): Connect from local Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre dovecot: lmtp(17245): Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 17245 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) ==> /var/log/mail.log <== Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre postfix/lmtp[17204]: 3Xsj4G11MrzNY: to=<tlx(a)leuxner.net>, relay=spectre.leuxner.net[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.11, delays=0.06/0/0.01/0.04, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (lost connection with spectre.leuxner.net[private/dovecot-lmtp] while sending MAIL FROM) [...] $ gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp /tmp/core Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f6174db3d35 in mail_storage_service_lookup (ctx=0x1160640, input=0x7fff905265d0, user_r=<value optimized out>, error_r=<value optimized out>) at mail-storage-service.c:1013 1013 mail-storage-service.c: No such file or directory. in mail-storage-service.c (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007f6174db3d35 in mail_storage_service_lookup (ctx=0x1160640, input=0x7fff905265d0, user_r=<value optimized out>, error_r=<value optimized out>) at mail-storage-service.c:1013 flags = 675 user = <value optimized out> username = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net" user_info = 0x1163718 user_set = <value optimized out> userdb_fields = 0x1173dd8 error = <value optimized out> reply = {uid = 0, gid = 0, home = 0x7f6175249712 "H\211\303d\213\004%\030", chroot = 0x7f6100000001 <Address 0x7f6100000001 out of bounds>, extra_fields = {arr = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 18170192}, v = 0x0, v_modifiable = 0x0}, anonymous = 0} set_parser = 0x1167500 sets = 0x0 user_pool = 0x11705e0 temp_pool = 0x1173db0 ret = 1 #1 0x0000000000406c16 in cmd_rcpt (client=0x1161e70, args=0x116d623 "") at commands.c:545 rcpt = {address = 0x0, detail = 0x0, service_user = 0x0} input = {module = 0x40823a "lmtp", service = 0x40823a "lmtp", username = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net", session_id = 0x0, local_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = { __u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, remote_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = { __u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, local_port = 0, remote_port = 0, userdb_fields = 0x0, flags_override_add = 0, flags_override_remove = 0, no_userdb_lookup = 0} address = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net" username = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net" detail = 0x4086a3 "" error = 0x0 ret = <value optimized out> #2 0x00000000004055fb in client_input_line (client=0x1161e70) at client.c:60 cmd = <value optimized out> args = 0x116d60f "TO:<tlx(a)leuxner.net>" #3 client_input_handle (client=0x1161e70) at client.c:113 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 output = 0x11610e8 line = <value optimized out> ret = <value optimized out> #4 0x00007f6174afd186 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x1161190) at ioloop.c:387 ioloop = 0x115c670 t_id = 2 #5 0x00007f6174afe1d7 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:215 ctx = 0x115f4a0 event = 0x115f510 list = 0x11611e0 io = 0x11540b0 tv = {tv_sec = 299, tv_usec = 999016} msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 call = false #6 0x00007f6174afd128 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x115c670) at ioloop.c:406 No locals. #7 0x00007f6174ae6473 in master_service_run (service=0x115c510, callback=0x1173e08) at master-service.c:546 No locals. #8 0x0000000000404a06 in main (argc=1, argv=0x115c370) at main.c:122 set_roots = {0x60a8e0, 0x408e20, 0x0} service_flags = <value optimized out> storage_service_flags = 675 c = <value optimized out> [ doveconf -n ] # 2.2.alpha1 (626a9df21e62): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 auth_cache_size = 16 k auth_verbose = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = acl quota stats namespace { list = yes location = mdbox:/var/vmail/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace inbox { hidden = no inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/var/vmail/conf.d/%d/acls:cache_secs=300 mail_log_events = expunge mailbox_delete quota = dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/conf.d/%d/sieve stats_refresh = 30s stats_track_cmds = yes } protocols = " imap lmtp" quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth-worker { unix_listener auth-worker { user = doveauth } user = doveauth } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = doveauth } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 1.2.3.4 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/SSL123_CA_Bundle.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/host_domain_tld.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/host_domain_tld.key syslog_facility = local1 userdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl quota stats sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = acl quota stats imap_acl imap_quota mail_log notify imap_stats }

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[Dovecot] acl and subfolder
by Laurent Foucher 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

hello, I'm using dovecot 2.0.16 and i would like to use acl for subfolder. The file dovecot-acl is well written in both folder test and the subfolder test/Test : cat /home/user2/Maildir/.test.Test/dovecot-acl user=user1 ilrws cat /home/user2/Maildir/.test/dovecot-acl user=user1 ilprws When user1 want to list, the folder test is well shown, but not the subfolder test/Test. This is the logs : Debug: acl: acl username = user1 imap(laurent.foucher): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Shuka-a dovecot: imap(user1): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) Shuka-a dovecot: imap(user1): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /home/user2/Maildir/.test/dovecot-acl [....] imap(user1): Debug: acl: Mailbox not in dovecot-acl-list: Partages/user2/test/Test I don't userstand why the file dovecot-acl is not read from the subfolder, while user1 and user2 have the same gid and write access to the directories. Thanks for your answers. dovecot -n auth_cache_size = 512 M default_client_limit = 8400 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_access_groups = dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl mail_privileged_group = dovecot managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave imapflags notify namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = Partages/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = cache_key=%u%s * driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)iut-tlse3.fr protocols = " imap sieve" service auth { client_limit = 8500 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = Personnel_IUT mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { process_limit = 4096 process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 3036 M } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/cert-5383-imaps.iut-tlse3.fr.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imaps.iut-tlse3.fr.key userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { driver = prefetch } protocol lda { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lda.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lda-errors.log mail_plugins = acl sieve } protocol imap { imap_id_log = * mail_plugins = acl imap_acl listescape } -- - Laurent Foucher < I U T 'A' Paul Sabatier > laurent.foucher(a)iut-tlse3.fr Enseignant/Chargé de mission Systèmes & Réseau

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[Dovecot] Auth USER lookup failed
by Angel L. Mateo 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, I'm running dovecot 2.1.9 and I'm trying to configure shared folders. So, as described at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared I have configured a namespace like this: namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%u/ location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u subscriptions = no list = yes } In one user (user1) I have configured ACLs so another one (user2) has access to a folder. Now, I want to susbscribe user2 to this folder. The problem I have is that whenever I try to list folders for this user (running thunderbird client) I get a panic and an error in the dovecot server (I have attached the complete log). The error says: Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: auth: Error: userdb(user1): client doesn't have lookup permissions for this user: userdb uid (113246) doesn't match peer uid (14585) (change userdb socket permissions) Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: FAIL#0112 Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: imap(user2): Error: user user1: Auth USER lookup failed Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: imap(user2): Debug: auth input: Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: imap(user2): Error: Couldn't create namespace 'shared/' for user user1: userdb didn't return a home directory, but plugin setting quota used it (%h): dict:User quota::file:%h/Maildir/dovecot.quota It seems that imap process running for user2 is trying to a user lookup that fails. So I have manually tried it root@myotis30:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# sudo -u user2 doveadm user user2 userdb: user2 home : <homeDirectory> uid : 14585 gid : 404 root@myotis30:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# sudo -u user2 doveadm user user1 doveadm(user2): Error: user user1: Auth USER lookup failed doveadm(user2): Error: userdb lookup failed for user1 I have checked the socket permissions, but they are 0666 (if I'm looking the right socket): root@myotis30:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb srwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot root 0 nov 6 11:43 /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb In fact, I have tried to put all sockets with permissions 0666 and 0777, but the error persists. Any idea? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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[Dovecot] LDAP congestion
by Bernhard Schmidt 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, I've been asked to have a look at a misbehaving mail server of some colleagues today where almost all logins where failing or excessively delayed, while the LDAP database itself was pretty fast. They run Dovecot 1.2.11 (yes, I know, stoneage) against an LDAP server run by a 3rd party, auth_bind=yes (required). The problem is that this third party LDAP server delays bindResponse 3 seconds when the password is wrong. A user wanted to login every 2-3 seconds this morning with the wrong password, which effectively killed the system because the LDAP connection was mostly stalled waiting for the auth timeout. >From a previous discussion with Timo I know that bindRequests cannot be parallelized in LDAP, so the problem does not come completely unexpected. Other than removing the failure delay in the LDAP server, is there anything one can do? If there is any change in newer Dovecot versions about that please tell me so I can encourage them to upgrade, but I haven't seen anything in the changelog. Any way to get several LDAP workers/connections for passdb in parallel? Thanks, Bernhard

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[Dovecot] "starting" dovecot
by Dave Abrahams 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

My system never issues the "dovecot start" command. I do, however, run /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap on port 9xxx. I talk to the server through port 9xxx and through the preauth tunnel. Is this arrangement OK? Are there some things that will only work if "dovecot" is invoked? Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] Indexing problems
by Dave Abrahams 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

It looks like something is going very wrong here. Any advice? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ doveadm -vvvD index '*' doveadm(dave): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_lucene_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm doveadm(dave): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so, 10): Symbol not found: _acl_user_module Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(dave): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so, 10): Symbol not found: _expire_set_deinit Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(dave): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_quota_plugin, because dlopen() failed: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so, 10): Symbol not found: _quota_user_module Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Effective uid=501, gid=20, home=/Users/dave doveadm(dave): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mdbox:/Users/dave/Library/Data/LocalIMAP/mdbox doveadm(dave): Debug: fs: root=/Users/dave/Library/Data/LocalIMAP/mdbox, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= doveadm(dave): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /Users/dave/Library/Data/LocalIMAP/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 doveadm(dave): Info: [Gmail].All: Cache is already up to date doveadm(dave): Info: [Gmail].All Mail: Caching mails seq=2..231746 8000/231745Assertion failed: (numDocsInStore*8 == directory->fileLength( (docStoreSegment + "." + IndexFileNames::FIELDS_INDEX_EXTENSION).c_str() )), function closeDocStore, file /tmp/clucene-gmYE/src/core/CLucene/index/DocumentsWriter.cpp, line 210. Abort trap: 6 cone:local dave$ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] Modifying mailbox GUIDs?
by Faheem Patel 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Greetings all, I can view a mailbox's GUID like so: doveadm mailbox status -u guid However, how may I *modify* a mailbox GUID? Can this be done using doveadm or some other tool? If not, how may I go about modifying the dovecot.mailbox.log (where I assume GUID data is stored)? My specific use case has to do with me wanting to modify an existing mailbox's GUID so that its messages are mirrored into a folder of the same name using "dsync mirror". (As we know, dsync utilizes GUIDs to determine mailbox uniqueness) Thanks! -- - Faheem

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[Dovecot] Error: Internal quota calculation error
by Micah Anderson 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, I'm using 2.1.7 with seive and mysql quotas. We had an outage the other day where the database server where quotas are stored was not available for a short period of time. In dovecot land, the following types of errors occured in that scenario: Oct 26 22:19:01 grosbeak dovecot: lda(example(a)riseup.net): Error: Internal quota calculation error Oct 26 22:19:01 grosbeak dovecot: lda(example(a)riseup.net): Error: sieve: msgid=<20122132765181x.ABCCE457(a)example.com>: failed to store into mailbox 'Trash': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-26 22:19:01] Oct 26 22:19:01 grosbeak dovecot: lda(example(a)riseup.net): Error: sieve: script /maildir/e/example/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /maildir/e/example/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) I expect that there would be quota calculation errors as dovecot could not reach the database server, but what worried me was the 'failed to store into mailbox' message from sieve. The 'Trash' mailbox in this particular seive script is the correct location for the message to be filed into, but the worrisome message is the 'failed with unsuccessful implicit keep'. I looked through all the message-ids that reported this error and I found that the messages were properly delivered in the end, so this might be some issue interacting between sieve, dovecot and quota and just causing a scary message that can be ignored? thanks for any information you can provide, dovecot is great! micah --

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[Dovecot] backtrace for non-existant %{ldap:attr} on login
by Steffen Kaiser 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm fetching the user and auth data from LDAP, this is the string: pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,mailUidNumber=userdb_uid,mailGidNumber=userdb_gid,mailLocationDovecot=userdb_mail,uid=userdb_user,=userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=%{ldap:mailQuotaBytes}, =userdb_quota_rule2=Trash:bytes=+%{ldap:mailQuotaBytesTrash} If mailQuotaBytesTrash or mailQuotaBytes is not present, the LOGIN process does not work: 1 login user pwd 1 NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. [mailsrv2:2012-10-31 08:56:51] * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. If I add those two attributes, the user can login successfully. dovecot-2.1.10/sbin/dovecot --version 2.1.10 (9cdeab12f3e1) The log entries: 2012-10-31 09:56:51 auth: Panic: pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed 2012-10-31 09:56:51 auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4857a) [0x7f2c0528c57a] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x485c6) [0x7f2c0528c5c6] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f2c0525feaf] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x58f2e) [0x7f2c0529cf2e] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x442f5) [0x7f2c052882f5] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_get_space_unsafe+0x68) [0x7f2c05288728] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(str_vprintfa+0x6d) [0x7f2c052a796d] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(str_printfa+0x88) [0x7f2c052a7ac8] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x42682e] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(var_expand_with_funcs+0x6fb) [0x7f2c052ac48b] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb](db_ldap_result_iterate_next+0x12f) [0x42734f] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x428974] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x428f5f] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x4282a1] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f2c05298756] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f2c0529978f] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f2c052986f8] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f2c052840d3] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb](main+0x376) [0x41bba6] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f2c04449c8d] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x40cf89] 2012-10-31 09:56:51 auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 15865 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) 2012-10-31 09:56:51 imap-login: Warning: Auth connection closed with 1 pending requests (max 0 secs, pid=15869, EOF) - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUJDqe2oxLS8a3A9mAQI+YQf/Qd4IIeM35Hmmpl1IMcQwJFK4854G5Dku yK+GsWhE2gxI6KaLO6DSI/kpN79qhQRkHsUAHzoPiZ7kQpZprNaEP/CIPkTzw//i HyC2Odpfa8fWUOqtH5Cp6X5spF6hQa4mmQyzgXguF9bdjZkNu4vQ78wRuQGG4eHi BOkNL0b93DsN3NSIoXDpiAiJn1aleTLe7mYkfsGewjb+AN+FpR4hLbf32yRRn8J0 Fkn8agEijixGMXEBD4ZprTbX9NbUr92YPfRycMnA2A00MUUlv/iKlqXRpMLafRjL bnHL/QE80xHoKKJUR96/RjruciIolAtlyYvhTU9ibRpLYm5Hcd9bZg== =iPvg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] copymail deleted
by Christian Rößner 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi, I had enabled an option in dovecot. mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments After a while I checked /var/mail/virtual and did some cleanup. I did not remember that copymail was specified in dovecot and erased it. Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Error: file_istream.stat(/var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments/6a/50/6a506530265ef7c9feb396410eaf6946036e9a79-b034401e794009503a0400002cb72ff6) failed: No such file or directory Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Error: istream-concat: Failed to get size of stream /var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments/6a/50/6a506530265ef7c9feb396410eaf6946036e9a79-b034401e794009503a0400002cb72ff6 Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Error: read() failed: Invalid argument (FETCH for mailbox INBOX UID 196) Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:56:05] in=150 out=950 I have Bacula and have restored most of the stuff, but obviously not all files. That is not too important. But I do not know, how to tell dovecot that it may "forget" about files that produce a "No such file or directory" error. Can I do some "rescan/rebuild" in dovecot? Kind regards -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi. I'm migrating all my mail archive (some 60 GB) from Evolution (which is really a broken piece of software) into dovecot. Now I face the problem how to do this best... Evolution (which is still a old 2.32.x version) itself uses mbox files, in a special hierarchical structure to allow subfolders and that like. It also stores it's own status info in X-Evolution and X-Evolution-Source mail headers. Unfortunately,... much of the mail was earlier from a Thunderbird installation, which uses it's own status headers (X-Mozilla*) that were not recognised by Evolution. I have no idea which mbox subformat was always used throughout the different programs and versions... 1) Any way to check for that? To make things worse... Thunder(burden) seems to have used a modified From_ line syntax... "^From -<address> <date>$" Ideally I'd like migrate all mail into dovecot (for storage reasons again, mbox) retaining the different status flags (read, forwarded, etc.) and getting rid of the proprietary headers (of course only when they were. First thing I tried was to simply copy mail within Evolution (i.e. dragging&dropping it from the local folders to the IMAP folders from dovecot). - that preserves the status from Evolution, but doesn't restore that from Thunderbird - it clutters up the information of all From_ lines... "<address> <date>" becomes "<address of my default evolution account> <now>" - neither does it handle the special Thunderbird From_ lines - neither does it remove the Thunderbird or the X-Evolution-Source headers - if Evolution has already had corrupted index files (and this is extremely likely... as it happens even immediately during recreating all of them)... so I may loose mail So my idea was that I need a program that: - can parse all the different mbox formats (those that use the quoted ">From" style and those that use Conent-Length) - can differentiate message headers from body (so that I can drop the proprietary headers and replace them by what dovecot uses as headers) - must of course understand multiline message headers 2) Any idea for a tool like that? The meaning of the X-Evolution and X-Mozilla* headers are easy to find on the web.... so I can convert them. So I basically "just" need a tool that parses all kinds of mbox formats... allow me to drop/add headers... and spits out the rest unmodified. 3) dovecot uses some special headers like X-UID and X-IMAPD... will it create these on it's own, the first time it processes the new mbox file? I mean these headers won't be there after creation. 4) Should I drop out (during) conversion... any other mail headers.. that dovecot uses as it's own? Thanks, Chris.

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Re: [Dovecot] Android ICS stock client and IMAP Capability issue.
by Massimiliano Cianelli 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, My phone: Android ics 4.1.2 on galaxy nexus. And yes, stock mean the default client that come with the os in IMAP mode. I already know about that configuration parameter, but it will display two time namespace in postlogin capabilities, and so I like much more to adjust the source code to fix the issue. Yes there is k9 but I didn't like it too much, I prefer the stock client and is much important to keep compatibility with stock client then user-installed client. About the issue on Google code, there is thr issue on google code... but Google is a lot slow in fixing those things. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811 In a few hour I'll update the issue noticing where is hidden the problem. Regards Sent from Galaxy Nexus Robert Schetterer <rs(a)sys4.de> ha scritto: >Am 06.11.2012 07:08, schrieb Ben Morrow: >> At 6AM +0100 on 6/11/12 you (Massimiliano Cianelli) wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> My setup: >>> Dovecot 2 latest, installed to replace courrier IMAP, and off course >>> configured with the dot separator and all folder under INBOX.*. >>> >>> The problem: >>> My phone was driving me mad during the test, due that it will only >>> recognize Inbox. >>> >>> How found the solution: >>> I've started sniffing IMAP traffic on my server and ended up with one >>> difference: >>> On courier it ask for namespace, on dovecot it won't. >>> >>> I gives a better look, and noticed that courier show namespace >>> capability on prelogin banner, adding it too solved the problem. >>> >>> Reason: >>> Android ICS stock client seems do not honor the capability gived after >>> the login. >> >> See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0?highlight=%28capability%29 ; >> you need to set imap_capability and/or get your client fixed. >> >> Ben >> > >Hi, first ,what is the exact meaning of > >"Android ICS stock client" > >do you mean default included email client in standard android in imap >mode, when yes, which version of Android , i like to test my own >however is there changelog/code etc at google for this behave? > >conf example > ># Override the IMAP CAPABILITY response. If the value begins with '+', > # add the given capabilities on top of the defaults (e.g. +XFOO XBAR). > #imap_capability = > >setting stuff here might be complex , or lead to trouble with other >clients, if setting this might fix problems ,with clients it should be >advised in the wiki/example-conf and/or Timo > >or the other way ,for massive used clients there should be >a seperate workaround section in the conf > >But fixing behave clients should be prime option anyway > >Meanwhile use K9mail in Android as best free option in imap mode servers > >Best Regards >MfG Robert Schetterer > >-- >[*] sys4 AG > >http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 >Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München > >Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 >Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer >Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] LMTP benefit vs LDA
by Davide 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi to all, my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing LDA i have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users now i'm using LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service. Thanks in advance -- */Davide Marchi /Teorema Ferrara Srl /(Tel: /**/+39 0532 783161)/**/ (Fax: +/**/39 0532 783368/**/)/**//**/ /**//**/Davide.Marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it <mailto:davide.marchi@mail.cgilfe.it?subject=Info> /CONFIDENZIALITA’ *** Questo messaggio, inclusi gli eventuali allegati, è indirizzato solo ai destinatari e può contenere informazioni riservate e confidenziali. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio senza esserne un destinatario, siete pregati di non utilizzare, copiare o distribuire questo messaggio o i suoi allegati. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio per errore, siete pregati di cancellarlo dal vostro sistema, assieme a tutti gli allegati, e di informare immediatamente il mittente,sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 c.p., sia ai sensi del DL n. 196/03. *CONFIDENTIALITY*** This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient(s) or an authorized representative of the intended recipient(s), please do not use, copy, distribute this email or its attachments or take action based on them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. *Teorema FerraraSrl - Via Spronello, 7 - 44121 Ferrara Italia - P. IVA 01244490387** P**S**tampa questo messaggio solo se veramente necessario, pensa alla natura! - Please consider whether it is necessary to print this e-mail*

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[Dovecot] sieve
by Christian Rößner 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, is there a sieve option that can reject a mail directly without creating a new mail and sending that out? I know about reject "Reject message goes here"; but I am looking for a mechanism that can reject Mail. Postfix can use reject_unverified_recipient to connect to LMTP and ask if a mail would successfully be enqueued and will return the status gotten from the LMTP server if not. Chances are high that the mechanism would work, too, if Dovecot would know about the sieve rule, while getting a connection on LMTP. Does Dovecot know all rules at this point or is sieve handled after the mail has already been accepted? Kind regards -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] doveadm import doesn't work
by Andreas Thomsen 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hello, we are running dovecot 2.0.4 on openSuse 11.2. mailboxes are in mdbox-format on local filesystem. we had a powerfailure resulting in many corrupted files and i had to restore some mailboxes. as descibed in wiki, i tried : doveadm import -u <username> mdbox:/path/to/backup/<username>/mdbox INBOX all or doveadm import -u <username> mdbox:/path/to/backup/<username>/mdbox mdbox:/path/to/mailbox/<username>/mdbox all all i get is : usage: doveadm [-Dv] [-f <formatter>] <command> [<args>] altmove [-u <user>|-A] <search query> auth [-a <auth socket path>] [-x <auth info>] <user> [<password>] config [doveconf parameters] director add|flush|map|remove|status dump [-t <type>] <path> expunge [-u <user>|-A] <search query> fetch [-u <user>|-A] <fields> <search query> force-resync [-u <user>|-A] <mailbox> help <cmd> kick [-a <anvil socket path>] [-f] <user mask>[|]<ip/bits> log find|reopen|test mailbox create|delete|list|mutf7|rename|status|subscribe|unsubscribe penalty [-a <anvil socket path>] [<ip/bits>] purge [-u <user>|-A] pw [-l] [-p plaintext] [-r rounds] [-s scheme] [-u user] [-V] quota get|recalc reload search [-u <user>|-A] <search query> stop user [-a <userdb socket path>] [-x <auth info>] <user mask> [...] who [-a <anvil socket path>] [-1] [<user mask>] [<ip/bits>] any idea, whats the problem? kind regards Andreas Thomsen -- DAD Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH Alter Wall 65 20457 Hamburg Postfach 11 35 58 20435 Hamburg Deutschland Tel. 0049 (0)40 7511990 Fax 0049 (0)40 75119911 Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 88115 Geschäftsführerin: Daniela Kunst Steuernummer 48/714/02030 Ust-IdNr. DE813739877

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[Dovecot] Android ICS stock client and IMAP Capability issue.
by Massimiliano Cianelli 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, My setup: Dovecot 2 latest, installed to replace courrier IMAP, and off course configured with the dot separator and all folder under INBOX.*. The problem: My phone was driving me mad during the test, due that it will only recognize Inbox. How found the solution: I've started sniffing IMAP traffic on my server and ended up with one difference: On courier it ask for namespace, on dovecot it won't. I gives a better look, and noticed that courier show namespace capability on prelogin banner, adding it too solved the problem. Reason: Android ICS stock client seems do not honor the capability gived after the login. Request: Maybe is possible to put namespace capability in prelogin banner for the next version? That will solve trouble with a setup like the mine and android stock email client. Thank you, Best regards Sent from Galaxy Nexus

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[Dovecot] Security precautions for remote clients
by Roman Gelfand 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Where can I find something like remote client secure dovecot best practices or, perhaps, if there is not many, if you could list major configuration/setup points. Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Quota
by Christian Rößner 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Hi, is it possible to ask Dovecot for a users quota by talking to the Dovecot server over TCP? I know about doveadm quota -u <user>, but I would like to know, if I can query for that over a network connection (on the Postfix ML they suggested writing a policy service that checks quota. Postfix is not always on the same server as Dovecot is). Does the LMTP protocol give that information somehow? I am not so familiar with LMTP. Or some Unix-Socket to query that could also be configured as inet_listener? Thanks in advance -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] maildir S= and W=
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Hi. Even new mails delivered by my MDA don't get the ,S= and ,W= fields set... (but when I "upload" a mail via IMAP to dovecot, they are set) Is there some place in dovecot where I need to enable this? Or would it be the MDA that has to calculate and set this already when placing a file in ./new? Thanks, Chris.

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Re: [Dovecot] LMTP benefit vs LDA
by Joseph Tam 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Daniel Parthey writes: > Davide wrote: >> my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing >> LDA i have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users >> now i'm using LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service. > > with LMTP... > * you dont need to care about mail filesystem permissions > * you can use dovecot lmtp proxy and/or director > * you don't need to spawn a new process for each message One of the (potential) benefit is that a LMTP, because it can handle multiple recipients, has the ability to optimize I/O (or storage?) by using hardlinking to a single copy of a message (deduping). I don't know if Dovecot takes advantage of this in any way though. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] dovecot default service
by mican zhang 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

i install dovecot 2 and when i try ps auxw|grep "dovecot" i just get only 5processes, root 21861 0.0 0.0 14884 980 ? Ss 16:53 0:00 /usr/local/sbin /dovecot dovecot 21862 0.0 0.0 12740 968 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/anvil root 21863 0.0 0.0 12872 1088 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/log root 21865 0.0 0.0 15356 1468 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/config root 21945 0.0 0.0 61148 800 pts/0 S+ 17:04 0:00 grep dovecot , my os is redhat 5.4 and i just install like ./configure make &make install i don't what's wrong?i also test on centos 6.2,and result is the same does anyone has the same issue?and what should i do to fix this?

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[Dovecot] sessionid in logout line
by Aleksandar Lazic 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Dear listmembers. I have the following login_log_format_elements = service=%s user=<%u> session=%{session} method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k Maybe I have overseen the config option to add the %{session} also to the logout line. Here a example from my log: ### Nov 3 00:46:43 <HOST> dovecot: imap-login: Login: service=imap, user=<USER>, session=ETV8v4vNfwB/AAAB, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=14874, TLS, TLSv1.1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) zlib compression Nov 3 00:46:43 external dovecot: imap(USER): Disconnected: Logged out in=15649 out=80199 ### Thanks for help and answers. Best regards Aleks

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning
by mancyborg＠gmail.com 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi Javier, yes i see. Storage for now is just a 3tb sata2 hdd, so i guess that write performance is around 100 MB/s What do you think about that ? Thanks and regards, Mike On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:55:35 +0100 Javier de Miguel Rodriguez <javierdemiguel-ext(a)us.es> wrote: > > IMHO, fast storage is the main requirement for dovecot. > > > > El 01/11/2012, a las 16:20, "mancyborg(a)gmail.com" <mancyborg(a)gmail.com> escribió: > > > Hi All, first post here, nice to meet you :) > > > > I've been using dovecot + postfix + clamav + spamassassin for years but always with few users. > > > > Now i must build a server for 1500 users, > > they will use various email software (thunderbird, outlook, ..) > > the webmail (i'm not sure if squirrelmail or roundcube) > > and blackberry devices (with the BIS service). > > > > There will be around 1000 domains (virtual_domains) and postfix will read its users and domains from mysql. > > > > Let's say that they will send and receive around 5000 emails per hour (10K in total per hour). > > > > I was thinking to use karspersky server instead of clamav. > > > > I already have the hardware, it is a server with 4 physical cpu (Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00GHz) and 24 gb of ram, > > do you think it is enough ? > > > > > > Thanks for supporting, > > regards and have a nice day, > > Mike

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[Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning
by mancyborg＠gmail.com 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi All, first post here, nice to meet you :) I've been using dovecot + postfix + clamav + spamassassin for years but always with few users. Now i must build a server for 1500 users, they will use various email software (thunderbird, outlook, ..) the webmail (i'm not sure if squirrelmail or roundcube) and blackberry devices (with the BIS service). There will be around 1000 domains (virtual_domains) and postfix will read its users and domains from mysql. Let's say that they will send and receive around 5000 emails per hour (10K in total per hour). I was thinking to use karspersky server instead of clamav. I already have the hardware, it is a server with 4 physical cpu (Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00GHz) and 24 gb of ram, do you think it is enough ? Thanks for supporting, regards and have a nice day, Mike

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Re: [Dovecot] Pigeonhole 3.3 broken against Dovecot 2.1.10
by Daniel L. Miller 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On 31.10.2012 21:23, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 31.10.2012 21:16, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > >> On 31.10.2012 > > 04:26, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >>> I think this is a Dovecot bug, fixed > could also do this by adding -lssl -lcrypto manually to the > > installed > dovecot-config and > >> -left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I see > pto" already in the DOVECOT_SSL_LIBS section of > > /usr/local/lib/dovecot/dovecot-config. What should be changed? > > Ok - I > read the patch, and modified the LIBDOVECOT_STORAGE section accordingly. > Same comp> > >> Thought I'd see if I could guess the next fix - added the parms to LIBDOVECOT_LOGIN as well. Seems to have fixed it. Sorry for the multiple posts - it's been a long day. -- Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] Pigeonhole 3.3 broken against Dovecot 2.1.10
by Daniel L. Miller 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On 31.10.2012 21:23, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 31.10.2012 21:16, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > >> On 31.10.2012 > > 04:26, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >>> I think this is a Dovecot bug, fixed > could also do this by adding -lssl -lcrypto manually to the > > installed > dovecot-config and > >> -left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I see > pto" already in the DOVECOT_SSL_LIBS section of > > /usr/local/lib/dovecot/dovecot-config. What should be changed? > > Ok - I > read the patch, and modified the LIBDOVECOT_STORAGE section accordingly. > Same comp> > >> I take that back - it's not exactly the same compile error. Now it references libdovecot-login.so for the undefined SSL references. -- Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] Pigeonhole 3.3 broken against Dovecot 2.1.10
by Daniel L. Miller 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On 31.10.2012 21:16, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 31.10.2012 04:26, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> I think this is a Dovecot bug, fixed > > by: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/7d931927e4ac [1][1] > >> You > > could also do this by adding -lssl -lcrypto manually to the installed > dovecot-config and running configure again for pigeonhole. > > I see "-lssl > -lcrypto" already in the DOVECOT_SSL_LIBS section of > /usr/local/lib/dovecot/dovecot-config. What should be changed? Ok - I read the patch, and modified the LIBDOVECOT_STORAGE section accordingly. Same compile error for Pigeonhole after performing a 'make clean' and 'configure'. -- Daniel Links: ------ [1] http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/7d931927e4ac

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole 3.3 broken against Dovecot 2.1.10
by Daniel L. Miller 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

I'm compiling as I normally do. The config line for Dovecot is: configure --with-ldap --with-ssl --with-bzlib --with-zlib --with-stemmer --with-lucene --with-ldap followed by make & make install Then a 'configure' for Pigeonhole, followed by make, yields: libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -o .libs/sieve-dump sieve-dump.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../../src/lib-sieve/.libs/libdovecot-sieve.so ../../src/lib-sieve-tool/.libs/libsieve-tool.a /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so -L/usr/local/lib/dovecot /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/dovecot libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -o .libs/sievec sievec.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../../src/lib-sieve/.libs/libdovecot-sieve.so ../../src/lib-sieve-tool/.libs/libsieve-tool.a /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so -L/usr/local/lib/dovecot /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/dovecot /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `sk_new_null(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_error(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_peer_certificate(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `DH_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_ex_data(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_set_tmp_rsa_callback(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_use_certificate(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_alert_desc_string_long(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_ex_data(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_ex_new_index(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_get_ext_d2i(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_accept(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_STORE_add_cert(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSLv23_server_method(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `OBJ_txt2nid(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_write(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `sk_num(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `BIO_ctrl_get_write_guarantee(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_cipher_list(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `sk_push(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ERR_get_error(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_alert_type_string_long(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_COMP_get_name(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_by_id(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `BIO_write(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `i2d_DHparams(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_data(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CIPHER_get_name(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_use_PrivateKey(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_info_callback(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_get_subject_name(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_init(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ERR_clear_error(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_load_error_strings(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_set_default_RSA(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `BIO_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CIPHER_get_bits(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_INFO_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_STORE_set_flags(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_new(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_NAME_dup(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `d2i_DHparams(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_NAME_get_text_by_NID(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_set_default_DSA(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_cleanup(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_NAME_get_entry(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ASN1_STRING_type(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_library_init(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_current_cipher(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_connect(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ERR_error_string_n(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_STORE_CTX_get_ex_data(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_verify(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `BIO_new_bio_pair(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSLv23_client_method(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_use_certificate(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ASN1_STRING_length(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_get_cert_store(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_set_default_ciphers(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `BIO_new_mem_buf(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_ex_data_X509_STORE_CTX_idx(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `sk_pop_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `sk_value(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `GENERAL_NAME_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ERR_peek_error(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_version(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `RAND_bytes(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_new(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `BIO_ctrl_pending(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_bio(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ASN1_STRING_data(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `PEM_read_bio_X509(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `EVP_cleanup(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_STORE_add_crl(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `BIO_read(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_finish(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_read(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_NAME_oneline(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ERR_free_strings(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `EVP_PKEY_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_get_current_compression(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_verify_cert_error_string(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_ctrl(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `ERR_peek_last_error(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `RSA_generate_key(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_state_string_long(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `DH_generate_parameters(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `X509_free(a)OPENSSL_1.0.0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [sieve-dump] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Out of memory/Managesieve
by Jim Knuth 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hello, I have here a problem with managesieve. With the login about webmail (roundcube) comes here in the log: --snip dovecot: managesieve-login: Fatal: pool_system_realloc(4294967296): Out of memory dovecot: managesieve-login: Fatal: master: service(managesieve-login): child 10157 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service managesieve-login { vsz_limit=1024 MB }, you may need to increase it)) --snap I've increased of 2048M and the same above. then with 4096 M happens the following --snip dovecot: managesieve-login: Panic: epoll_ctl(add, 61538840) failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: managesieve-login: Fatal: master: service(managesieve-login): child 9777 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) --snap How can one solve then this? Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, with kind regards, Jim Knuth --------- Backup interessiert niemanden - Auf Restore kommt es an!

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[Dovecot] IMAP proxy between Office 365 client/Sun Messaging Server
by John Dalbec 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

I would like to be able to migrate messages from existing end-user accounts on Sun Messaging Server to Office 365 using an administrator login and password. Unfortunately the migration tool for Office 365 doesn't support SASL AUTHENTICATE PLAIN login. The online documentation I've found suggests that I should be able to configure dovecot as an IMAP proxy and have it log in to Sun Messaging Server with AUTHENTICATE PLAIN and encode_base64("user\0admin\0adminpw") in response to a login from the Office 365 migration tool. I'd like to configure dovecot to run only the IMAP proxy if possible. I was thinking of setting all accounts to use the same (strong) password in the proxy. Would anyone be willing to share a sample configuration? Thanks, John Dalbec ellucian Luminis system administrator Youngstown State University

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[Dovecot] Unable to get Managesieve working
by Cliff Dunn 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

I have Roundcube webmail (v. 0.8.2) running with the managesieve plugin (v. 5.1). I am able to create sieve rules without any problems in Roundcube, but incoming mail is not being processed with the rule I specify. I suspect there is something that isn't configured correctly in dovecot, but unfortunately I am unable to find a resolution online and my very limited knowledge of dovecot isn't allowing me to solve this problem on my own. I am including my dovecot config below. Please keep my knowledge level in mind when suggesting options and let me know if there is any other information I can provide to help troubleshoot the problem. Thanks for any assistance! # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/postfix.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/postfix.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/mail/ mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/mail/sieve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stops to work - anvil problem
by FABIO FERRARI 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hi all, we have a problem about anvil, it seems that when we have a high load the dovecot stops to work. Sometimes it is sufficient to make a dovecot reload, but sometimes we have to restart it. These are the lines related to anvil in the dovecot.log: [root@secchia ~]# grep anvil /var/log/dovecot.log | more Oct 26 11:13:55 anvil: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Oct 26 11:14:32 imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Oct 26 11:14:32 imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil Oct 26 11:14:33 pop3-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Oct 26 11:14:33 pop3-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil [...] (many lines like these) Oct 26 12:01:10 pop3-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil Oct 26 12:01:18 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection reset by peer Oct 26 12:01:18 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection reset by peer Oct 26 12:01:18 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection refused Oct 26 12:01:18 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection refused Oct 26 12:01:18 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection reset by peer Oct 26 12:01:18 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection refused And this is the output of the doveconf -n: [root@secchia ~]# doveconf -n # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga) xfs auth_cache_size = 1024 auth_cache_ttl = 21600 s auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = mail.unimore.it info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/cl/mail/vhosts/sms.unimo.it/%Ln/Maildir mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota mailbox_idle_check_interval = 60 s mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.masterusers driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = dovecot driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_exceeded_message = Quota exceeded (mailbox is full) quota_rule = *:storage=200MB quota_rule2 = *:messages=100000 quota_rule3 = INBOX.Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning2 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u quota_warning3 = messages=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning4 = messages=80%% quota-warning 80 %u setting_name = quota } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)unimore.it quota_full_tempfail = yes service anvil { client_limit = 199999 process_limit = 199999 } service auth { client_limit = 14500 unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 } process_limit = 5000 } service imap { process_limit = 5000 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 } } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = vmail user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/tls/certs/ca_unimore_tcs.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/cert-852-mail.unimore.it-cluster.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/certs/mailcluster.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_ssl = yes protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } [root@secchia ~]# And these are the limit settings in the OS: * soft nofile 131072 * hard nofile 131072 Have someone had the same problem? thanks in advance Fabio Ferrari

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[Dovecot] lmtp out of memory - raw backtrace
by Daniel Parthey 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hi, Our setup: - 4 hosts with director and mailbox instance - delivery via director lmtp into mailbox lmtp - mailbox format: mdbox - storage on NFS - OS: Linux 2.6.32-44-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS - Dovecot 2.1.10 - Pigeonhole 0.3.3 We're getting strange "out of memory" lmtp errors/backtrace with dovecot 2.1.10 accompanied by high load caused caused by a lot of lmtp deliveries to one user. First action would be to increase vsz_limit to a higher value, but I just want to make sure there is no bug - before blindly increasing this limit. I think it should not crash and corrupt mdbox, even if memory limit is reached: Oct 29 20:14:56 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(26698, user1(a)example.org) Fatal: pool_system_realloc(16777216): Out of memory Oct 29 20:14:56 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(26698, user1(a)example.org) Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4271a) [0x7f6dcbae971a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x42766) [0x7f6dcbae 9766] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f6dcbabd158] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x53690) [0x7f6dcbafa690] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3e6f5) [0x7f6dcbae56f5] -> /usr/lib/dove cot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7f6dcbae5e7c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xa8033) [0x7f6dcbdda033] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_record_map_move_to_private+0x3 c) [0x7f6dcbdda4ec] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_get_atomic_map+0x18) [0x7f6dcbde9c88] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7cf9) [0x7f6dcbde9cf9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/lib dovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_record+0x7e6) [0x7f6dcbdea626] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_map+0x23c) [0x7f6dcbdeae4c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_m ap+0xa8) [0x7f6dcbddc2b8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb42da) [0x7f6dcbde62da] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb458a) [0x7f6dcbde658a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0( mail_index_sync_begin_to+0x4f) [0x7f6dcbde6ecf] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_begin+0x1e) [0x7f6dcbde6f4e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mdbox_map_atomic_lock+0x5e) [0x 7f6dcbd6115e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mdbox_transaction_save_commit_pre+0x46) [0x7f6dcbd64fb6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x9d4f3) [0x7f6dcbdcf4f3] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdov ecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_transaction_commit_full+0x9f) [0x7f6dcbddd97f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_transaction_commit+0x8a) [0x7f6dcbdcf18a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plug in.so(+0xba7f) [0x7f6dca4eca7f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_transaction_commit_get_changes+0x3d) [0x7f6d Oct 29 20:14:56 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(26698, user1(a)example.org) Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 26698 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service lmtp { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it)) Oct 30 01:15:49 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(17927, user1(a)example.org) Error: mmap_anon(216690688) failed: Cannot allocate memory Oct 30 01:15:49 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(17927, user1(a)example.org) Error: mmap_anon(216690688) failed: Cannot allocate memory Oct 30 10:32:27 10.129.3.249 dovecot: mailbox: mail: imap(user1(a)example.org): <nURUbUPNBgAKgQPI>: Error: Corrupted dbox file /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/storage/m.3577 (around offset=1844402): EOF reading msg header (got 0/30 bytes) Oct 30 10:33:44 10.129.3.249 dovecot: mailbox: mail: imap(user1(a)example.org): <ZZ0pYkPN+wAKgQPp>: Error: /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/mailboxes/Lists/Cron/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Oct 30 10:33:44 10.129.3.249 dovecot: mailbox: mail: imap(user1(a)example.org): <CcYCYkPNkAAKgQPV>: Error: /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/mailboxes/Lists/postfix/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Oct 30 10:33:44 10.129.3.249 dovecot: mailbox: mail: imap(user1(a)example.org): <t+gLYkPNVQAKgQPV>: Error: /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/mailboxes/Lists/Dovecot/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Oct 30 10:33:46 10.129.3.249 dovecot: mailbox: mail: imap(user1(a)example.org): <YElVbUPNKwAKgQO/>: Error: /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21404, user1(a)example.org) Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/storage/dovecot.map.index.log Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21405, user1(a)example.org) Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/storage/dovecot.map.index.log Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21410, user1(a)example.org) Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/storage/dovecot.map.index.log Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21419, user1(a)example.org) Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/storage/dovecot.map.index.log Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21404, user1(a)example.org) Error: 2ZCXNsuej1CcUwAAk4785w: sieve: mailbox: deliver: session=<session}> msgid=<201210300932.q9U9URHO029943(a)common.example-hosting.net> from=MAILER-DAEMON(a)common.example-hosting.net: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:32:59] Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21404, user1(a)example.org) Error: 2ZCXNsuej1CcUwAAk4785w: sieve: script /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21405, user1(a)example.org) Error: PFBjN8uej1CdUwAAk4785w: sieve: mailbox: deliver: session=<session}> msgid=<201210300932.q9U9URHP029943(a)common.example-hosting.net> from=MAILER-DAEMON(a)common.example-hosting.net: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:32:59] Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21410, user1(a)example.org) Error: spYhE82ej1CiUwAAk4785w: sieve: mailbox: deliver: session=<session}> msgid=<201210300932.q9U9URHQ029943(a)common.example-hosting.net> from=MAILER-DAEMON(a)common.example-hosting.net: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:33:01] Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21419, user1(a)example.org) Error: sOscMs2ej1CrUwAAk4785w: sieve: mailbox: deliver: session=<session}> msgid=<201210300932.q9U9URHS029943(a)common.example-hosting.net> from=MAILER-DAEMON(a)common.example-hosting.net: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:33:01] Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21410, user1(a)example.org) Error: spYhE82ej1CiUwAAk4785w: sieve: script /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21405, user1(a)example.org) Error: PFBjN8uej1CdUwAAk4785w: sieve: script /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Oct 30 10:36:16 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21419, user1(a)example.org) Error: sOscMs2ej1CrUwAAk4785w: sieve: script /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Oct 30 10:36:46 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21538, user1(a)example.org) Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/storage/dovecot.map.index.log Oct 30 10:36:46 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21538, user1(a)example.org) Error: +jXqE+uej1AiVAAAk4785w: sieve: mailbox: deliver: session=<session}> msgid=<201210300933.q9U9URHi029943(a)common.example-hosting.net> from=MAILER-DAEMON(a)common.example-hosting.net: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:33:31] Oct 30 10:36:46 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21538, user1(a)example.org) Error: +jXqE+uej1AiVAAAk4785w: sieve: script /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Oct 30 10:36:46 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21543, user1(a)example.org) Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/mail/storage/dovecot.map.index.log Oct 30 10:36:46 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21543, user1(a)example.org) Error: CxDMM+uej1AnVAAAk4785w: sieve: mailbox: deliver: session=<session}> msgid=<201210300933.q9U9URHl029943(a)common.example-hosting.net> from=MAILER-DAEMON(a)common.example-hosting.net: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:33:31] Oct 30 10:36:46 10.129.3.249 dovecot: lmtp(21543, user1(a)example.org) Error: CxDMM+uej1AnVAAAk4785w: sieve: script /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /mail/dovecot/example.org/user1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) Regards Daniel -- https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820

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[Dovecot] POP3 Proxy : user format not accepted
by Christian Gregoire 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello, I want to use Dovecot as a POP3 proxy (http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/ImapProxy) All is working fine on my sample platform, except that I have plenty (several thousands) of users that login using local_part#domain, instead of local_part@domain, which is an old setting on my POP3 server. And in that case, Dovecot returns 'Authentication failed'. Here is my proxy table : mysql> select * from tbl_proxy; +--------------------+-------------+--------------------+ | user | host | destuser | +--------------------+-------------+--------------------+ | christian(a)mydom.fr | 10.10.100.1 | christian(a)mydom.fr | | christian#mydom.fr | 10.10.100.1 | christian(a)mydom.fr | +--------------------+-------------+--------------------+ If I login on the Dovecot proxy with the '@' version, everything is fine : root : ~> telnet 10.10.100.24 110 Trying 10.10.100.24... Connected to 10.10.100.24 (10.10.100.24). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user christian(a)mydom.fr +OK pass azerty42 +OK christian#mydom.fr has 3 messages (3561 octets) And MySQL logs show the query : 121030 12:55:28 3 Query SELECT NULL AS password, host, destuser, 'Y' AS nologin, 'Y' AS nodelay, 'Y' AS proxy, 'Y' AS nopassword FROM tbl_proxy WHERE user = 'christian(a)mydom.fr' If I login on the Dovecot proxy with the '#' version, it fails : root : ~> telnet 10.10.100.24 110 Trying 10.10.100.24... Connected to 10.10.100.24 (10.10.100.24). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user christian#mydom.fr +OK pass azerty42 -ERR Authentication failed. And nothing shows up the the MySQL logs. If I login directly on the POP server with the same credentials, no problem : root : ~> telnet 10.10.100.1 110 Trying 10.10.100.1... Connected to 10.10.100.1 (10.10.100.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Welcome to POP3 Server V 2.06. Authenticate yourself. user christian#mydom.fr +OK Password required for christian#mydom.fr pass azerty42 +OK christian#mydom.fr has 3 messages (3561 octets) Any idea ? Is the '#' not internally supported in the user login by Dovecot ? Thanks in advance. Christian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot does not update acl_shared_dict file
by Chris Smith 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi all, Firstly, thanks for all your effort with this software. Much appreciated. I am having a slight issues trying to enable reading of other users mailboxes. The docs are a little sparse for those that aren't mailadmin heros, I wonder if anyone could please help me see where I am going wrong. I would like to allow some users to list and read the mailboxes of others. E.g: When User1 logs in, they are presented with a list of their own folders, and those of User2, User3, etc to which they have (e.g. read/list) access I followed the instructions on the wiki (for Version 1.X)- there are two concepts here: 1. Grant some [e.g. list/read] access on a mailbox folder to a particular user 2. Enable the acl_shared_dict to allow dovecot to track (and display to IMAP clients) the folders to which they have access. This will take the form of a BDB file: /var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db This file can only be updated by using the SETACL command. *This is where I have the problem*. The SETACL command does nothing. No matter how hard I try, I cannot get dovecot to update this file. The only indication I have that the file exists and is readable by dovecot is the disappearance from the logs of the line: No acl_shared_dict setting - shared mailbox listing is disabled So I can see that dovecot knows the file is there because it does not complain any more. The file is there (because I created it myself, although it is empty: size = 0), and in a moment of weakness I made sure it could be updated (this will be changed back!): ls -l /var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db -rwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot dovecot 0 2012-10-30 12:27 /var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db But if I try to update the ACL, absolutely nothing happens: [ > command ] [ < reply ] > telnet localhost 143 < * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Email server > a login [User2] [pass] < a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in > a SETACL Inbox [User 1] rl < a OK Setacl complete. At this time, in the dovecot log (with debug enabled): 2012-10-30 13:55:24 IMAP([User2]): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/mailboxes/[domain]/[User1]: mode=0770 gid=-1 2012-10-30 13:55:24 IMAP([User2]): Info: acl vfile: reading file /home/mailboxes/[domain]/[User1]/dovecot-acl 2012-10-30 13:55:24 IMAP([User2]): Info: acl vfile: reading file /home/mailboxes/[domain]/[USer1]/dovecot-acl Can anyone please help me track down what I'm doing wrong here?! It's driving me mad! Thanks for your time if you've read this far!! As requested: dovecot --version 1.2.9 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps imap listen: 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen: 37.235.54.98 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: Email server valid_chroot_dirs: /var/spool/vmail mail_location: maildir:/home/mailboxes/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: acl imap_acl lda: postmaster_address: [ valid@ddress ] auth default: mechanisms: plain cram-md5 verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/users socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-master mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls

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[Dovecot] Problem about SSL for Dovecot.
by sheng-wei.lim 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi All, With the below setting (cropped), the ssl certificate(signed by godaddy) don’t seems to work. It will still ask me if I want to accept this certificate. I have use the same certificate for apache host and postfix it works without any prompt. dovecot version : 2.0.19 # OS: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Dovecot config: ssl = required ssl_cert = </aaa/4/merged5.crt ssl_key = </certs/proximityjobs.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } verbose_ssl = yes protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes log_path = /var/log/sieve.log mail_plugins = quota sieve autocreate acl postmaster_address = root } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate acl imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Best Regards, Sheng Wei

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[Dovecot] Save/restore IMAP session state
by Timo Sirainen 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Some future Dovecot version will have "imap-idle" processes where IDLEing IMAP connections get moved, so the system wouldn't waste so much memory for all the IDLEing imap processes. A week ago I thought I'd see how easy it would be to implement this. I got a basic proof of concept working as a "X-STATE" command. Save the state: a x-state * STATE AQDLW45QdwAAAAMAAABuAQAAAAAAAFAcffYAPHnpFctbjlDbYQAAcEmzCwAA a OK State exported. Restore the state: b x-state AQDLW45QdwAAAAMAAABuAQAAAAAAAFAcffYAPHnpFctbjlDbYQAAcEmzCwAA b OK State imported. This could also be used to implement quick session state restoring for webmails (as suggested by Michael Slusarz). For getting the imap-idle process there would have to be code that: * triggers the session saving when process is IDLEing * figures out what filesystem paths the imap-idle should be looking at (i.e. paths to selected mailbox's dovecot.index.log file and maybe for e.g. maildir new/) * send the session state string, paths and imap connection fd to imap-idle process via UNIX socket * implement the actual imap-idle process * implement a way for imap-idle process to send back the state and connection fd to restore the imap process The patch is ugly and still missing many things. Anyway I thought I'd include it here just in case someone was really eager to continue implementing it. :) I'm not sure when I'll have time for it. A full patch would probably have to have some session_save()/session_restore() functions in lib-storage API. But a quick and dirty way is possible to implement for v2.1 as well, as long as some IMAP extensions aren't used (most importantly rfc5267).

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Re: [Dovecot] Changing password for users
by Joseph Tam 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Ben Morrow wrote: >> Maybe replace "/usr/bin/passwd" with htpasswd? > > Try pam_pwdfile with poppwd or some other poppassd that supports PAM. That's it! I was trying to remember the name of this PAM module. >>> and is there another way other than poppassd? >> >> Write your own PHP script -- it couldn't be more than a few dozen lines >> of code for a working skeleton. Or Google "php change password htpasswd". > > It's not as simple as you seem to think. Quite apart from getting the > password-changing itself right (have you considered what happens when > two users change their passwords at the same time? when Dovecot tries to > read the password file at the same time as you are changing it? when the > system crashes when you are halfway through rewriting the password > file?), you really shouldn't be running PHP as a user with write access > to a password file (even a virtual password file) in any case. I did consider it, and you're right, it is tricky to get it absolutely right. If robusteness and security was of utmost importance, I would abandon PHP too. I was scaling the solution to the OP's technical ability and apparent size of their operation -- if poppwd passes muster, this wouldn't be too far off. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] does dovecot interpret any mail headers specially with maildir?
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi. For mbox, http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox#Dovecot.27s_Metadata lists a numer of mail headers: - X-IMAPbase - X-IMAP - X-UID - Status - X-Status - X-Keywords - Content-Length that are treated specially by dovecot. It also suggests, that these should be stripped by the LDA (I guess in order that someone sending you such mail cannot set the status or keywords, or even "attack you" by setting a bogus Content-Length). I wondered, when using maildir, are there any headers that dovecote would treat specially, too? And which I therefore should strip? Thanks, Chris.

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[Dovecot] Problems with Virtual and mail-search.c
by Levent Dane 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

First, I don't know why but dovecot gots this error. Oct 15 13:24:02 widder dovecot: imap(limon): Panic: file mail-search.c: line 90 (mail_search_args_init_sub): assertion failed: (arg->value.keywords == NULL) Then, when I tried to run SELECT "INBOX/Code" (UNSEEN) virtual plugin got a segfault. Oct 15 13:24:03 widder kernel: imap[22749]: segfault at 2c ip b757f8ec sp bfa3a160 error 4 in lib20_virtual_plugin.so[b7579000+d000][b74b0000+d000] I'm running gentoo with kernel 2.6.32.12. My dovecot version is 2.1.10. I applied http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/raw-diff/0306792cc843/src/lib-storage/mai… But still, i'm getting this problem. Thanks, Levent Dane

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[Dovecot] No failover from director to backend?
by Patrick Westenberg 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hi everyone, short version: Is there no built in failover mechanism for the director service to handle a backend failure? Long version: I have a frontend server running the director service and two backends. Due to maintenance I had to shut down one of the backends which caused connection errors for the users being directed to this backend. I was very surprised as I expected the director to redirect these users to the remaining backend. Am I wrong or is the director not working as expected? Regards Patrick # 2.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.5 auth_mechanisms = plain login director_mail_servers = 172.17.1.1 172.17.1.2 director_servers = 172.17.1.3 172.17.1.4 lmtp_proxy = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { user = dovecot } } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { address = 172.17.1.3 port = 9090 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 172.17.1.3 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { executable = managesieve-login director inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap.xx.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imap.xx.key protocol !smtp { passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y starttls=any-cert driver = static } } protocol smtp { passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } } protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb }

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[Dovecot] INBOX permissios woes
by Josep L. Guallar-Esteve 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello, I have a dovecot system that uses winbind authentication against Active Directory. I set it up by following the directions in the wiki. That works great. When a new user receives an email, the inbox is created with permissions 600 (rw- --- --) and ownership user:mail , even though I did chmod 02770 /var/spool/mail. And then, when dovecot tries to access the inbox, it throws the error: Oct 29 13:47:59 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.6, lip=10.0.0.26, mpid=29047, secured Oct 29 13:47:59 imap(user1): Error: stat(/var/mail/user1) failed: Permission denied Oct 29 13:47:59 imap(user1): Error: stat(/var/mail/user1) failed: Permission denied Accessing users' Sent, Trash, creating new folders.... all that works fine. I've been looking at the documentation, reading the wiki, searching on google, asking on IRC. If you have any hint or documentation that I've must have overlooked, please let me know. Here's my dovecot information: [josep@testmail ]$ dovecot --version 2.0.9 [josep@testmail ]$ dovecot -n # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain ntlm login auth_use_winbind = yes auth_username_format = %Lu base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=503 gid=503 home=/home/vmail/%u driver = static } userdb { driver = passwd } [josep@testmail ]$ Thank you in advance, Josep This transmission is intended for the use of the entity or individual to which or whom it is addressed. The transmission or any documents accompanying the transmission may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of the transmission or the documents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this confidential transmission in error, please destroy it and any accompanying documents and notify the sender immediately. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] [dovecot} Invalid mailbox name.
by Alexander Weber 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hi, I've got some trouble here.. i created some sieve rules, but the debug log says that there is a invalid mailbox name error: msgid=<*>: failed to store into mailbox '/home/shared/.automail.Bugtracker/': Invalid mailbox name. ~/.dovecot.sieve if address :is "to" "mantis-admin@<*>" { fileinto "/home/shared/.automail.Bugtracker/"; } here's my doveconf -n output # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = * mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/home/shared:CONTROL=~/.Maildir/control/Shared:INDEX=~/.Maildir/index/Shared prefix = shared/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = public } namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } postmaster_address = postmaster@* protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/* ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/* ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/* userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } protocol imaps { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = postmaster quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " zlib, acl, imap_zlib" } any idea? Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards papaya Software GmbH i.A. Alexander Weber -- papaya Software GmbH | Im MediaPark 5 | 50670 Koeln | Germany Tel./Ph.: +49-221-5743-8070 | Fax: +49-221-5743-8099 mailto:weber@papaya-cms.com | http://www.papaya-cms.com/ -- Geschaeftsfuehrer: Andreas Jacobi, André Schnitzler, Daniel Schäfer Sitz& Registergericht: Koeln | HRB 60030 | USt.-Id.-Nr.: DE 255642963 --

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[Dovecot] Overlapping userdb/passdbs
by James Devine 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I have an ldap server for which each entry includes the email address and the username portion of the email address for authentication. Authentication works by username if the username is unique among all the entries. I need to now add some users which must authenticate even if the username is not unique. I figured one way to do this would be to add a second user/pass db which puts further restrictions on the ldap query to make it unique for those users. This doesn't seem to work however as if the user is found in the first ldap query but the password does not match it does not try the second. I would use the password as part of the query but this setup requires me to allow the client to hash the password. Is there a way to do this? Or maybe I am approaching the problem wrong.

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[Dovecot] dovecot lda - Permission denied
by tony.blue.mailinglist＠gmx.de 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hallo, please excuse my bad english. But I am not a native speaker. I changed my cyrus to dovecot (alltogehter: fetchmail - procmail - exim4 - dovecot). But I get (I think from /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver) the following error-message in my syslog: ... Oct 25 23:37:13 gustav dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=501(andy) egid=100(users) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) ... Oct 25 23:37:14 gustav dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(tony) egid=100(users) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) ... Dovecot is installed as !include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext. For all users there is a entry in der /etc/dovecot/users. Usaly the user rights are set to 600. I tryed 755, but I get the same errormessage. ... service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0755 user = mailstore group = mailstore } ... If I try "ls /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb -la" - i get: srwxr-xr-x 1 mailstore mailstore 0 Okt 25 23:36 /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb How can I solve this problem? Tony

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[Dovecot] Can Dovecot authenticate against an external email server?
by Marc Perkel 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Just wondering if anyone has done this. I have a spam filtering service where I am now storing spam for users I filter for. It's a filter and forward service so I don't control the recipient's email server. What I would like to do somehow is have the user enter their email address and password and then look up their POP/IMAP server from a database and try to authenticate from it. If sucessful then the user will be able to access their stored spam using Dovecot and Squirrelmail. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Dovecot sends BYE while fetching X-GM-MSGID
by Loshkovskyi Andrii 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello everyone, While using the following set of commands, I am having the error as below: FETCH 7 (X-GM-MSGID) A15 FETCH 7 (X-GM-MSGID) A15 BAD Error in IMAP command FETCH: Unknown parameter X-GM-MSGID Can I somehow disable such errors so that Dovecot won't send BYE on X-GM-MSGID but just proceed with following emails? -- My configuration is below: [root@server ~]# cat /etc/issue CentOS release 6.3 (Final) [root@server ~]# dovecot --version 2.0.9 [root@server ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.centos.plus.i686 i686 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 10000 default_process_limit = 300 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = scheme=SSHA512 username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } service imap-login { service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 128 M } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Thank you for any help.

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[Dovecot] Auth caching and password changes
by Angel L. Mateo 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello, In my system I have configured auth caching. The problem I have is that whenever a user changes his password, he/she can't login to dovecot after a while and the scenarios described at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching are not applied. I have tried also with "doveadm auth cache flush <login>", but it didn't work. He also could to login again if he waits for a time or if I run "doveadm auth cache flush" in the server, flushing all auth information from cache. I have attached the log I had when I changed my password (and suffered the problem). I have attached my doveconf -n too. -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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[Dovecot] trash plugin not doing it's job
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I enabled the trash plugin yesterday, adding "trash" to mail_plugins, and configuring the plugin setting "trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext". But I still see users with lots of files in INBOX.Trash getting bounced because of quota exceeded: postfix/lmtp[26273]:: C89F490061: to=<XXXXXXXXXXXXX(a)example.no>, relay=loadbalancers.example.net[192.168.42.15]:24, delay=1.2, delays=0.61/0.02/0/0.54, dsn=5.2.2, status=bounced (host loadbalancers.example.net[192.168.42.15] said: 552 5.2.2 <XXXXXXXXXXXXd(a)example.no> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) (in reply to end of DATA command)) dovecot:: lmtp(19730, XXXXXXX(a)example.no) Error: BErxFCyrf1ASTQAAWNPRnw: sieve: msgid=<e33d481dc9d9442fa79f55e45a516c82@BizWizard>: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) $ sudo doveadm quota get -u XXXXXXXX(a)example.no Quota name Type Value Limit % UserQuota STORAGE 1048559 1048576 99 UserQuota MESSAGE 4487 - 0 Postfix if delivering via LMTP trough dovecot director. Anybody see anything obvious in my config: ------------------------------------------------------------ # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) auth_cache_size = 100 M auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 disable_plaintext_auth = no login_trusted_networks = 192.168.0.0/16 109.247.114.192/27 mail_gid = 3000 mail_home = /srv/mailstore/%256LRHu/%Ld/%Ln mail_location = maildir:~/:INDEX=/indexes/%1u/%1.1u/%u mail_max_userip_connections = 20 c = quota zlib trash mail_uid = 3000 maildir_stat_dirs = yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { quota = dict:UserQuota::file:%h/dovecot-quota sieve = /sieve/%1Lu/%1.1Lu/%Lu/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /sieve/%1Lu/%1.1Lu/%Lu sieve_max_script_size = 1M trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.net protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { client_limit = 4521 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mode = 0600 user = atmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/imap-postlogin.sh } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 2048 } service lmtp { client_limit = 1 inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 24 } process_limit = 25 process_min_avail = 10 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = * port = 4190 } service_count = 1 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 110 } process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } service pop3-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/pop3-postlogin.sh } service pop3 { executable = pop3 pop3-postlogin process_limit = 2048 } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota zlib trash sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota zlib trash imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota zlib trash pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v } protocol sieve { managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o } ------------------------------------------------------------ and my trash config: $ cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext # Spam mailbox is emptied before Trash 1 INBOX.Spam # Trash mailbox is emptied before Sent 2 INBOX.Trash Global sieve script: $ cat /etc/dovecot/sieve/dovecot.sieve require ["comparator-i;ascii-numeric","relational","fileinto","mailbox"]; if allof ( not header :matches "x-spam-score" "-*", header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "x-spam-score" "10" ) { discard; stop; } elsif allof ( not header :matches "x-spam-score" "-*", header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "x-spam-score" "6" ) { fileinto :create "INBOX.Spam"; } -jf

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[Dovecot] Configuring Dovecot & Snarf plugin for the first time
by Jeffrey Ross 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I've been using uw-imap for some time on my linux system and have been running into issues with it so I've decided to move to Dovecote, so far it seems to have solved the issues I've been having however I need/want to move the incoming emails out of /var/spool/mail/{user} in the same (or similar fashion) that uw-imap did, and I found the snarf plugin. However whenever I enable the snarf plugin using the example on the wiki page my email is not loaded and when I remove my configuration for snarf my email re-appears. Based upon what I can tell the snarf plugin is either not loading (but I see it listed in the logs) or simply not working (which is probably because its not configured properly). The system is Fedora 16 (x86_64), the MTA is Exim, and Dovecot is 2.0.21 (version supplied with Fedora). I know I'm making a newbie mistake. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff dovecot -n provides the following: [root@xyzzy conf.d]# more /tmp/dovecot.changes # 2.0.21: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.4.11-1.fc16.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 16 (Verne) mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox mail_plugins = " zlib" mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace default { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace snarf { hidden = yes list = no location = mbox:/run/dovecot/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u prefix = /snarf separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename snarf = = /snarf/INBOX } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = localhost } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = localhost } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/XYZZY.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/certs/XYZZY.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " zlib imap_zlib snarf" } and the logs (in debug) show the following: Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jeff>, method=PLAIN, rip=98.109.156.118, lip=132.238.254.34, mpid=19627, TLS Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib05_snarf_plugin.so Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib30_imap_zlib_plugin.so Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Effective uid=500, gid=500, home=/home/jeff Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace default: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/home/jeff/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/home/jeff/mbox, alt= Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace snarf: type=private, prefix=/snarf, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:/run/dovecot/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/jeff Oct 20 21:29:45 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/run/dovecot/empty, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/jeff, alt= Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jeff>, method=PLAIN, rip=98.109.156.118, lip=132.238.254.34, mpid=19629, TLS Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib05_snarf_plugin.so Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib30_imap_zlib_plugin.so Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Effective uid=500, gid=500, home=/home/jeff Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace default: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/home/jeff/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/home/jeff/mbox, alt= Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace snarf: type=private, prefix=/snarf, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:/run/dovecot/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/jeff Oct 20 21:29:46 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/run/dovecot/empty, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/jeff, alt=

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[Dovecot] LDA without lookup as non-root?
by E.B. 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello, I'm having some problems getting LDA to work without userdb lookups and have a few related questions. This system has all users in MySQL, each user with unique UID/GID, no local users at all. Installation is from apt-get. 1) If LDA is invoked without lookups, is it correct to assume that the "service auth" and "service auth-worker" can be completely removed from dovecot master configuration? (I have tried commenting them out and logging into IMAP, which seems to work, not sure if anyone else needs the auth service) 2) If LDA is invoked without lookups, will I be unable to use Dovecot quota plugin? Does it need to have a user lookup to get quota info? (haven't added quota support, need to take this one step at a time) 3) The interesting part -- I am invoking LDA from Maildrop. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/65473 So when invoked, Maildrop has already dropped to the destination UID/GID and the needed paths are available in the environment. However, using as many permutations of calling LDA as I can think of (based on http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA ), I always get this: (command line usage error. Command output: lda: Fatal: Couldn't lookup our username (uid=2500) ) The UID is correct for the target user. If I add "-d $LOGNAME" to my LDA callout, I get permission denied on the userdb lookup, which I guess is another issue to work out if I want to go with lookups. But right now I am trying not to. Why does LDA seem to try for a lookup even when I follow the wiki instructions how to call it without a lookup? 3.5) Related question, my users have separate homedir and maildir, both paths are looked up by Maildrop. I think I need to call LDA with "HOME=$DEFAULT dovecot-lda -f $FROM". Is this correct?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot quota postgres dictionary problems
by tmihalicek 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I have a strange errors in .err log file, but the postgres seem to be filling with quota changes, i will also put configs in Oct 19 09:23:52 mailstore-node-01 dovecot: imap(test(a)example.net): Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict) failed: Timeout after 30 seconds Oct 19 09:24:22 mailstore-node-01 dovecot: imap(test(a)example.net): Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict) failed: Timeout after 30 seconds Oct 19 09:23:21 mailstore-node-01 dovecot: imap(test(a)example.net): Panic: file dict-client.c: line 270 (client_dict_finish_transaction): assertion failed: (dict->async_commits > 0) Oct 19 09:23:21 mailstore-node-01 dovecot: imap(test(a)example.net): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x484ea) [0x7fbed405d4ea] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x48536) [0x7fbed405d536] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7fbed4030eaf] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x22337) [0x7fbed4037337] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x2236b) [0x7fbed403736b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x22e78) [0x7fbed4037e78] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so(+0x8a3f) [0x7fbed2c76a3f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so(quota_get_resource+0x72) [0x7fbed2c73262] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so(quota_transaction_commit+0x1e7) [0x7fbed2c738d7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so(+0xb39f) [0x7fbed2c7939f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so(+0xb4f4) [0x7fbed2c794f4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_deinit+0x2a) [0x7fbed432396a] -> dovecot/imap [test(a)example.net 10.84.34.2 expunge](imap_sync_deinit+0x4d) [0x418edd] -> dovecot/imap [test(a)example.net 10.84.34.2 expunge]() [0x41918c] -> dovecot/imap [test(a)example.net 10.84.34.2 expunge](cmd_sync_delayed+0x1f5) [0x4195b5] -> dovecot/imap [test(a)example.net 10.84.34.2 expunge](client_handle_input+0x1fd) [0x41127d] -> dovecot/imap [test(a)example.net 10.84.34.2 expunge](client_input+0x5f) [0x411adf] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7fbed40696c6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7fbed406a6ff] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7fbed4069668] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7fbed4055043] -> dovecot/imap [test(a)example.net 10.84.34.2 expunge](main+0x2a4) [0x419d24] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fbed3cd1c8d] -> dovecot/imap [test(a)example.net 10.84.34.2 expunge]() [0x409059] doveconf.txt <http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/file/n38234/doveconf.txt> dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext <http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/file/n38234/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext> -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Dovecot-quota-postgres-dictionary-prob… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] mail open slowly
by Bernics Gábor | Penta Unió Zrt. 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello, I have a dovecot IMAP server (relative small hardware: HP Microserver with 6 Gbyte RAM, linux soft RAID1 with 2x 7200 SATA disk) with 100 Gbyte maildirs. Server works fine but sometimes I can open mails slowly (5-10 sec), typical with new mails. It's intresting when I open an another old mail (with 0 sec wait), after new mail open quickly. Is it dovecot mail indexes or I/O problem? Load and CPU use is small typical 0.10, 10%, I see small IO wait. Debian 6.0, Dovecot 1.2.15, fsync and nmap is disable Best Regards, Gabor

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[Dovecot] doveadm purge -A via doveadm-proxy director fails after some users
by Daniel Parthey 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

# 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-44-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS doveadm -c /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot-director.conf -D purge -A shows the following message in the log when iterating the 49th user: Oct 17 00:47:17 10.129.3.233 dovecot: doveadm: Error: purge: invalid option -- 'e' Oct 17 00:47:17 10.129.3.233 dovecot: doveadm(someuser(a)example-ll.org): Error: doveadm purge: Client sent unknown parameter: ? Any ideas on how this error gets triggered? Regards Daniel -- https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820

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[Dovecot] Active Directory 2003 user database and passwords with special characters
by Boris PINON 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello everybody, As explained in the topic, i have troubles with authentication of my users. First of all, sorry for my poor english... I'm running dovecot v1.2.15 on a Debian 6 64bits server up to date. My users database is an Active Directory 2003 (it's important to know that because Active Directory can't retrieve users passwords, you have to bind LDAP with a domain administrator). So, i'm using userdb ldap for authenticated my users and it works ! BUT... When an user having a password with special characters like " ² ° § µ à é è ç à â ê î ô û ù ä ë ï ö ü ", authentication does not work. And in my log file : MY_SERVER | mail/info | dovecot | 2012/08/27 10:42:14 | auth(default): cache(my_user,192.168.7.127): plain(RU0975é*) != 'RU0975Ã©*' As you can see, the character é has been replaced by Ã©. My dovecot.conf : protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve shutdown_clients = yes protocol imap { listen = 192.168.7.1:143 ssl_listen = 192.168.7.1:993 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { listen = 192.168.7.1:110 ssl_listen = 192.168.7.1:995 mail_plugins = quota pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol managesieve { listen = 192.168.7.1:4190 login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)contoso.fr hostname = webmail.contoso.fr sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail quota_full_tempfail = no auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail mail_debug = no auth_debug = no auth_debug_passwords = no ssl = required ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/webmail.contoso.fr.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/webmail.contoso.fr.key ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/certs/VERYSIGN.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = no mail_location = maildir:%h mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_uid = 500 mail_gid = 8 mail_privileged_group = mail first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_uid = 500 first_valid_gid = 8 last_valid_gid = 8 login_greeting = Webmail CONTOSO login_process_size = 256 login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 2 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_connections = 512 max_mail_processes = 1024 mail_process_size = 256 mail_max_keyword_length = 50 disable_plaintext_auth = yes auth_failure_delay = 2 auth_process_size = 256 auth_username_format = %Lu auth default { mechanisms = plain login auth_cache_size = 2048 passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = vmail count = 1 socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = mail } client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0666 user = vmail group = mail } } } dict { } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = bytes=80%% /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-warning 80 quota_warning2 = bytes=95%% /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-warning 95 quota_warning3 = bytes=99%% /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-warning 99 sieve=dovecot.sieve sieve_dir=~/.Sieve sieve_extensions=+imapflags autocreate = Spam autocreate2 = Trash autosubscribe = Spam autosubscribe2 = Trash autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts } And my dovecot-ldap.conf : # My domain controller uris = ldap://192.168.1.1:3268 dn = CN=ServerOperator,CN=Users,DC=contoso,DC=fr dnpass = MyPassword debug_level = 0 auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = CN=Users,DC=contoso,DC=fr deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mailDirectory=home=/var/spool/mail/%$,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,=quota_rule2=Trash:storage=100%% user_filter = (&(|(sAMAccountName=%n)(mailAcceptingGeneralID=%u)(mail=%u))(!(|(mailDrop="*|*")(mailDrop="*:*")(mailDrop="*/*")(userParams=noMail)))) pass_filter = (&(sAMAccountName=%n)(!(|(mailDrop="*|*")(mailDrop="*:*")(mailDrop="*/*")(userParams=noMail)))) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT Does anyone else have this problem? If yes, how to solve? Thank you in advance.

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[Dovecot] Problem with sieve. dovecot 2.0.17
by Eliezer Croitoru 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Since I have lots of filtering rules in thunderbird I was thinking of using sieve instead. I want to filter incoming mail into subdirectories. like "from" store at folder "old". the script is: require ["fileinto", "envelope"]; if envelope :is "from" "eliezer(a)test.dom" { fileinto "old"; } else { # The rest goes into INBOX # default is "implicit keep", we do it explicitly here keep; } the result is that the mail is stored in two folders instead of just one, INBOX and old. the logs shows: Oct 23 17:12:26 lda(eliezer(a)ngtech.co.il): Debug: sieve: executing script from /home/vmail/domain/eliezer/home/.dovecot.svbin Oct 23 17:12:26 lda(eliezer(a)test1.dom): Info: sieve: msgid=<5086B3C9.5030909(a)test.dom>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Oct 23 17:12:26 lda(eliezer(a)test1.dom): Info: sieve: msgid=<5086B3C9.5030909(a)test.dom>: stored mail into mailbox 'old' from unknown reason(or I didnt understood how sieve works?) plugin section from dovecot -n plugin { ... sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.debug +imapflags +relational +comparator-i;ascii-numeric } Thanks, Eliezer

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[Dovecot] How to activate antispam plugin
by Xavier Claude 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hello, I'm using dovecot 2.1.7 from the Debian backports package and I'm trying to get working the antispam plugin with dspam. I have followed the documentation http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Antispam but it does not seem to work. The /var/log/dspam folder is empty even after I put mail in the Spam folder. How can I see if the plugin is working and what config option am I missing ? Thank in advance for your help. Here is my config from dovecot -n: # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-xenU-6887-i386 i686 Debian 6.0.6 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { antispam_backend = dspam antispam_dspam_args = --mode=teft;--deliver=;--user;%u antispam_dspam_binary = /usr/bin/dspam antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing = move antispam_spam = Spam antispam_trash = trash;Corbeille;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap pop3" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = antispam } -- Xavier Claude claude.xavier(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Locking /var/mail/user issue with postfix and dovecot
by Robert JR 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Hello, I have a question regarding mailbox locking and hope any one can help me to better understanding the locking of mbox My Postfix lock option is fcntl dotlock mailbox_delivery_lock = fcntl, dotlock virtual_mailbox_lock = fcntl, dotlock My Dovecot lock option is fcntl only mbox_write_locks = fcntl mbox_read_locks = fcntl now, when user is download a large mail (20 MB) for example, dovecot locks /var/mail/user with fcntl until the users finish downloading the mail ok here comes my question. While the user is downloading the mail , a mail arrives so postfix make some thing weird 1- Postfix creates /var/mail/user.lock for 5 secs , then postfix defer the mail with reason that the /var/mail/user is locked and then delete the /var/mail/user.lock (after 5 secs) My question is ? why postfix create user.lock although it shouldn't because already dovecot fcntl it … 1- Dovecot locks /var/mail/user using FCNTL 2- Posttix at the same time tries to FCNTL /var/mail/user .. but it fail since dovecot already fcnl it. 3- Postfix at the same time add dot lock /var/mail/user for 5 secs then remove the lock. the question is how come postfix dot lock /var/mail although it couldn't FCNTL the file in the first place ??????? what i was expecting is 1- Dovecot locks /var/mail/user using FCNTL 2- Postfix tries to FCNTL /var/mail/user 3- POSTFIX WILL NOT CREATE DOTLOCK file unless the FCNTL is released by dovecot!!!! Please advise if postfix will dot lock the file even if it couldn't FCNTL the file in the first place…… Regards

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Re: [Dovecot] Changing password for users
by Mike John 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

> Hello, > > I am using dovecot (2.0.9) and using virtual users using > > passdb { > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecotpasswd > driver = passwd-file > } > > How can i make my virtual users change their passwords using web > interface ? > > My users already uses squirrelmail to access their mail. is there a > program to add to squirrelmail to add this function to the clients ? > or should i user different separate website for password changing ? > and what program/tool can help me with this ? > > Any ideas is greatly appreciated. > > Mike. >Mike, >I don't know about forcing users to change their passwords however > with >Squirrelmail there are several password change plugins available that >use "poppasswd" to actually change the password. >Of course poppasswd will probably need to be modified to go against > your >password data base, in my case it simply uses PAM. The version I use > is >poppassd version 1.8.5. >Oh you probably want to restrict access to the port from the local > host >only since passwords are transmitted in clear text. >Jeff I know about poppassd , but it works only for /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow, but my dovecot virtual users password files are in different location and i do not know how to modify poppassd, any idea how can i do that? and is there another way other than poppassd?

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Re: [Dovecot] Changing password for users
by Joseph Tam 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

> From: Mike John <mike(a)alaadin.org> > >> I know about poppassd , but it works only for /etc/passwd , >> /etc/shadow, but my dovecot virtual users password files >> are in different location and i do not know how to modify poppassd, >> any idea how can i do that? I downloaded and examined it; it's just a wrapper for /usr/bin/passwd, and there doesn't seem an easy way to modify it to use something other than the system password file. Maybe replace "/usr/bin/passwd" with htpasswd? > and is there another way other than poppassd? Write your own PHP script -- it couldn't be more than a few dozen lines of code for a working skeleton. Or Google "php change password htpasswd". Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] public mailbox not showing up in web client
by David Mehler 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hello, I'm trying to set up a public mailbox where users can receive notifications out of. I'm not getting any errors from Dovecot 2.1, but nothing is showing up in my user's web clients. In each /home/vmail/public/mailbox folder right now I just have one called testbox I have a dovecot-acl file with: user=testuser1 lr user=user1 lr etc. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave. # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 hostname = xxx last_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.error mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%n/home mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs mail_plugins = " acl quota zlib" mail_uid = vmail maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/home/vmail/public:LAYOUT=fs prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = public } namespace inbox { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile autocreate = Spam autosubscribe = Spam quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u } postmaster_address = postmaster@xxx protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 } inet_listener imaps { address = xxx xxx ssl = yes } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " acl quota zlib" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " acl quota zlib autocreate imap_acl imap_quota imap_zlib" }

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda delivery to Maildir/cur as 'seen'?
by Dale Gallagher 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi I've added a server-side feature where authenticated customers sending through our SMTP server have their outbound mail copied to their Sent folder (like Gmail does). The delivery script called by qmail calls dovecot-lda to deliver it to the user's Sent folder. The problem now, is that the Sent folder shows the mail as unread, which MUAs flag (and notify, in the case of some). I've searched the docs and mailing list, but can't find an option to tell dovecot-lda to mark the mail being delivered, as seen/read. If I've missed something, please let me know. If not, then I think it might be a good idea to add a feature to dovecot-lda permitting one to specify delivery to the ./cur subfolder of a Maildir, instead of ./new. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Shared folders not shown if "INBOX.shared.%.%" is used with dovecot 2.1.10
by Christoph Bußenius 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, Thunderbird uses the following IMAP command to list shared folders: . list "" INBOX.shared.%.% Dovecot 2.1.10 does not list any folders in response to this command. Dovecot 2.0.21 does list them: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.shared.user1.folder" . OK List completed. Both versions list the folders if "*" is used instead of "INBOX.shared.%.%". Because of this issue, shared folders are not shown in Thunderbird. The ACL of the folder in question is ACL "keilrwtscd" for user1 (who is trying to access them using Thunderbird). config: # 2.1.10: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-42-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mail mail_plugins = acl mail_uid = vmail namespace { inbox = no list = children location = mdbox:%%h/mail prefix = INBOX.shared.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace default { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/mail/shared-mailboxes } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = acl imap_acl acl } Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Bußenius Rechnerbetriebsgruppe der Fakultäten Informatik und Mathematik Technische Universität München +49 89-289-18519 <> Raum 00.05.040 <> Boltzmannstr. 3 <> Garching

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[Dovecot] Small issue with "submission host"
by Raphael Ordinas 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi everyone, I'm facing a small issue with the lda/lmtp "submission_host" feature in dovecot 2.0.14. When sending mail to MTA (in case of sieve filter forwarding for example), dovecot pass a RCPT TO command just after the EHLO. He's missing the MAIL FROM command. Therefore, my MTA show me a warning like this : "improper command pipelining after EHLO". How can i solve that ? Regards, Raphael

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[Dovecot] Public folders and groups
by b m 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Currently I have dovecot working with Active Directory authentication and public folders with acl. In acl I have the users I want to access the public folders. It'll be easier for me to use one group instead of 50 users but I can't get it to work. From where does dovecot get the "group" attribute for a user? Can it read the groups that a user belongs from AD?

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[Dovecot] Changing password for users
by Mike John 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hello, I am using dovecot (2.0.9) and using virtual users using passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecotpasswd driver = passwd-file } How can i make my virtual users change their passwords using web interface ? My users already uses squirrelmail to access their mail. is there a program to add to squirrelmail to add this function to the clients ? or should i user different separate website for password changing ? and what program/tool can help me with this ? Any ideas is greatly appreciated. Mike.

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[Dovecot] Snarf plugin
by Jeffrey Ross 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

I've now upgraded dovecot from 2.0.21 to 2.1.10 and the good news is I no longer see dovecot crashing when loading the snarf plugin however snarf still does not do anything except make the inbox disappear. I've come to the conclusion that either snarf does not actually work, possible, but I doubt it, or more likely I have a configuration issue preventing it from working. The system is simple, all email is stored in /var/spool/mail/{username} and I want all the mail moved to ~/mbox when the user logs in via imap, similar to uw-imap. Any guidance would really be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff dovecot -n # 2.1.10: //etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 16 (Verne) mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox mail_plugins = snarf zlib mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace default { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace snarf { hidden = yes list = no location = mbox:/run/dovecot/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY prefix = /snarf separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mbox_snarf = ~/mbox snarf = /snarf/INBOX } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = localhost } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = localhost } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/XYZZY.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/certs/XYZZY.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = snarf zlib imap_zlib } syslog: Oct 24 13:33:27 xyzzy dovecot: master: Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration Oct 24 13:33:27 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. in=277 out=106519 Oct 24 13:33:27 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. in=422 out=2893 Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jeff>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=28089, secured, session=<L6okfNHM2AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib05_snarf_plugin.so Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib30_imap_zlib_plugin.so Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Effective uid=500, gid=500, home=/home/jeff Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace default: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/home/jeff/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/home/jeff/mbox, alt= Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: Namespace snarf: type=private, prefix=/snarf, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:/run/dovecot/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/jeff:INDEX=MEMORY Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Debug: fs: root=/run/dovecot/empty, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/jeff, alt= Oct 24 13:33:29 xyzzy dovecot: imap(jeff): Disconnected: Logged out in=117 out=1504

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[Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process
by Bradley Rintoul 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hello: I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients. The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the Maildir "repository" using a Python email client (POP3 client). I am trying to create the dovecot-uidlist file and maintain the "next UID" value within it, but I am having trouble with the UIDVALIDITY and the 128 bit mailbox global UID among other things. How can I "seed" a dovecot-uidlist file with these values..? Sorry if the information is not much to go on, please let me know what more information you might need to help point me in the right direction. Thanks, B. RIntoul

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[Dovecot] spamc can't seem to call /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
by Troy Vitullo 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi, My server uses a system comprised of postfix, dovecot and dspam to filter and deliver mail. Postfix used the following flags in calling spamc and dovecot: flags=DRhu user=dovecot:secmail argv=/usr/bin/spamc -u ${recipient} -e /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} after an upgrade from Debian lenny to squeeze we were able to get everything working except spam filtering. Spamassassin is able to judge whether the mail coming in is spam but everything stops there. In mail.err I see: pamc[3608]: exec failed: Permission denied spamc shows the same thing in syslog: exec failed: Permission denied postfix delays the email: postfix/pipe[3607]: 50DEFF180EE: to=<[mail]>, relay=dovecot, delay=1.7, delays=0.07/0.01/0/1.6, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (system resource problem) Here are the permissions for deliver: -rwsr-x--- 1 root dovecot 865084 May 25 2011 /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver Here are the relevant groups: s1:~# grep dovecot /etc/group secmail:x:119:postfix,spamd,dovecot dovecot:x:111: here's the dovecot user: s1:~# grep dovecot /etc/passwd dovecot:x:108:111:Dovecot mail server,,,:/usr/lib/dovecot:/bin/false here's dovecot -n: # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 6.0.6 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3s pop3 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/s1.troyvit.com.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/s1.troyvit.com.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir/ mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_enable_last(default): no pop3_enable_last(imap): no pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls, oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)sphere.local auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/ mail_plugins: sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 user: dovecot plugin: sieve_global_path: /etc/dovecot/default.sieve sieve: /srv/%d/mail/%n/%n.sieve Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give. Troy

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[Dovecot] Dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
by Fasil 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Dear all, Thank you all for such a wonderful support. Hats off to all :) Few times I came across imap login issues where new users will not be allowed to login. /var/log/mail.err shows the error below Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now Aug 12 07:58:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Aug 12 07:59:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Aug 12 08:00:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files I have a dovecot (V 1.2.9) +postfix (V 2.7.0) setup on ubuntu 10.04 # ulimit -Hn 1024 # ulimit -Sn 1024 # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 1238548 # cat /proc/`pidof dovecot`/limits | grep 'Max open' Max open files 1024 1024 files Please advice how to get rid off this. Fasil.

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[Dovecot] dovecot auth against AD on samba4
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hi group I am currently running a mail server on ubuntu 11.04 with postfix 2.8.5, dovecot dovecot 2.0.13 and openldap 2.4.23. I have now read about sogo and I am thinking about installing it because of it's native outlook support capabilities. The ZEG appliance wouldn't be an option for me because I use a virtual server from a provider where I can't install my own vm or even an iso. When I go thru the documentation there is a part with installing OpenChange based on samba4. As far as I understood the OpenChange authentication is against the samba4 AD. Actually there is no support in syncing the AD against an OpenLdap Server and I would have to change the OpenLdap port because the AD is listening on port 389. To change the port wouldn't be a big deal, but what i was thinking about to run the dovecot auth also against the samba 4 AD. I searched around on the internet but didn't find a doc yet how to do that. Does anyone here could provide me with a link or a how-to ? Thanks very much in advance. Regards, Carsten Laun-De Lellis Hauptstrasse 13 D-67705 Trippstadt Phone: +49 6306 992140 Fax: +49 6306 992142 Mobile: +49 151 27530865 email: carsten.delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] Clarifications on Pigeonhole and MySQL lookups
by Sandro Tosi 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hello, we're scouting if it's possible to use Pigeonhole (currently v0.3.1, as this will be provided with an upcoming Debian package) with MySQL dict lookups with the mail setup we're designing. Our (main) goals are: 1. store the filters on the database 2. allow each user to enable/disable any of the filters set we provide (it's a static set of some general filters, available to all the users; we're currently not providing the possibility to users to write their own filters) For point 1) we already see[1] that's possible, but it uses the map construct that might not fit with our current database structure: we have a domain table (storing the domain info) and a mailbox table (storing the mailbox info, but the username is composed by the local part, stored in this table, and the domain part is a FK to the domain table, using an id). Do you think it's possible to run a join query on domain+mailbox to retrieve the mailbox_id needed to query the table for the filters? Or do we have to create the filter table and store the local(a)domain.ext info there ("relaxing" the integrity relationships between tables)? How do we specify which filters are enabled for any given user? We originally thought of an "Enabled" field on the filter table, but in the example in the doc[1] I hadn't seen a way to do that: it seems like the filter list is specified in the proxy definition - am I wrong? How can we do that? [1] http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole/file/e9ed5d5cef4b/doc/script-… I think it's enough for now, maybe additional questions will arise going deeper in details :) Thanks in advance, -- Sandro Tosi Product Engineer Shared Hosting Products R&D | Dada.pro eml sandro.tosi(a)register.it

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[Dovecot] Maildir hardlinks
by Benedetto Vassallo 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hello list, Excuse me for my poor english. I have updated on a test server dovecot 2.0.13 to dovecot 2.1.1. All works fine, but with the new version it seems that dovecot don't do hardlinks when deliver a message to multiple users. I have checked my config and the only rule I can see aboout that is maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf My mail location config is mail_location = maildir:~/MailDir:LAYOUT=fs I tryed using lmtp directly issuing 'telnet localhost 24' and sending a test message to 3 recipients. Then issuing a 'ls -il' in the "new" directory of that users, I saw the inode was not the same. I rechecked my config and take a look in the wiki and in the list for someone who had the same problems, but found nothing. Maybe I did something wrong, but I can't understand what. Can you help me? Thank you -- Benedetto Vassallo Sistema Informativo di Ateneo Settore Gestione Reti Hardware e Software U.O.B. Sviluppo e manutenzione dei sistemi Università degli studi di Palermo Phone: +3909123860056 Fax: +390916529124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using the University of Palermo web mail interface.

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[Dovecot] [2.2-UNSTABLE] compilation error: 'POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED' undeclared
by Michael Grimm 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hi -- I am trying to compile 2.2 (acd76b5272e9) at FreeBSD 9.0: | libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I/usr/local/include -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes \ -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 \ -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 \ -I/usr/local/include -MT fs-posix.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/fs-posix.Tpo \ -c fs-posix.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/fs-posix.o | fs-posix.c: In function 'fs_posix_prefetch': | fs-posix.c:298: warning: implicit declaration of function 'posix_fadvise' | fs-posix.c:298: error: 'POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED' undeclared (first use in this function) | fs-posix.c:298: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once | fs-posix.c:298: error: for each function it appears in.) | gmake[3]: *** [fs-posix.lo] Error 1 | gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2/src/lib-fs' | gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2/src' | gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2' | gmake: *** [all] Error 2 From configure logfile: | checking for posix_fadvise... no After a modification (stolen from src/lib-storage/index/index-mail.c) ... | --- dovecot-2.2-modified/src/lib-fs/fs-posix.c 2012-10-23 20:27:31.348919455 +0200 | +++ dovecot-2.2/src/lib-fs/fs-posix.c 2012-10-23 20:26:39.435300269 +0200 | @@ -295,10 +295,12 @@ | return TRUE; | } | | +#if defined(HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE) && defined(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) | if (posix_fadvise(file->fd, 0, length, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) < 0) { | i_error("posix_fadvise(%s) failed: %m", _file->path); | return TRUE; | } | +#endif | return FALSE; | } ... the compilations runs to completion, and dovecot-2.2 UNSTABLE is running. But: I do not have the knowledge to judge if that "fix" will be the right one. Just to let you know and with regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] index files created improperly in dovecot 1.2.16
by john roman 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Greetings, It seems to be a problem that ive seen occasionally on the web with few results as to a solution, but im experiencing it as well. Namely, dovecot creates index logs for users with a 600 permission, when it should create with a 700 permission. My indexes are stored in /var/indexes with the directory at 777 permission, the users are identified in MySQL. The error is as follows: Oct 23 09:03:13 mailer01 dovecot: POP3 (johnr(a)testing.com) stat(/var/indexes/j/johnr(a)testing.com/.INBOX) failed: Permission denied (euid=10509305(x10509305) egid=81607(pg199275) missing +x perm: /var/indexes/j) the permissions of /var/indexes/j are 700, owned by the euid and egid effectively. the only file that does not have this permission is in /var/indexes/j/johnr(a)testing.com/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log, at 600.

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[Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb [Resolved]
by Spyros Tsiolis 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hello all, I would like to thank you all for your kind replies and feedback in regards to migrating from a smaller hdd to a bigger one (namely from 72gb to 146gb). I finally found a painless way of doing this. Since I believe that this is still an off-topic post, if anyone is interested in the solution i've adopted for this, let me know by replying to me privately. If, however, you don't mind me posting here, let me know. Many many thanks go to Alexander Hoogerhuis, the "mad Norwegian" :-) who helped me on this too much to describe here. Alex, you are a true sport. Thank you again people. All the Best, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA message save logging
by Dominic Malolepszy 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hi, Is there any option in Dovecot that enables logging the full path of where a message is saved in the backend? Dominic

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[Dovecot] Anybody recognize these log lines?
by Knute Johnson 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot POP3', using last found WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot Secure POP3', using last found WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot IMAP', using last found WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot Secure IMAP', using last found Anybody know if these are dovecot generated? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson

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[Dovecot] (new) director issues in 2.1.10
by Kelsey Cummings 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Timo - I upgraded to 2.1.10 on our director servers two nights ago and apart from errors associated with the directors processes restarting everything looked great for ~24 hours until I failed our the real servers last night to update the nfs mount options for the spools. I followed the suggested procedure for each backend server, just run on one of the directors, which seemed to work as expected. doveadm director add x.x.x.x 0 doveadm director flush x.x.x.x The following errors on the directors that started after this went unnoticed until this AM. director: User bb host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 30 secs (Ring synced for 36 secs) director: User cc host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 48 secs (Ring synced for 66 secs, user refreshed 12 secs ago) director: User dd host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 124 secs (Ring synced for 119 secs, weak user, user refreshed 155 secs ago) director: User ee host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 79 secs (Ring synced for 119 secs, weak user, user refreshed 113 secs ago) ... User ff host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 30 secs (Ring synced for 7427 secs, weak user, user refreshed 620 secs ago) This continued, combined with occasional login timeouts (as reported by some internal imap clients.) The login delays/timeouts got bad enough that our load balancers dropped both the servers while I was investigating. They seem to be okay after being restarted. -K

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[Dovecot] auth timeout state=2, bad?
by Bernhard Schmidt 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Hello, we run Dovecot 2.1.7 as SASL backend for our Postfix SMTP-AUTH farm and see this error message occasionally Oct 22 16:15:32 lxmhs52 dovecot: auth: PLAIN(?,xx.xx.xx.xx): Request 0.21 timeouted after 150 secs, state=2 Since it is mostly the same IP repeating I'm assuming it's a client issue. Is that correct? What could cause this? Can we safely ignore it? Thanks, Bernhard

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[Dovecot] Marking all mail in one folder of public mailbox as read
by Frerich Raabe 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Hi, I'm running Dovecot 1.2.17 on FreeBSD 9 to serve an archive of a few internal mailinglists. The archive is implemented using a public namespace: namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Lists/ location = maildir:/home/vmail/lists/Maildir:CONTROL=~/Maildir/lists:INDEX=~/Maildir/lists subscriptions = no } As you can see, the CONTROL/INDEX files are stored per-user to allow private \Seen flags. The different mailinglists are all sent to the 'lists' user which has a Sieve script to file them into different folders, so I have directories on my harddisk like /home/vmail/lists/Maildir/.somelist /home/vmail/lists/Maildir/.anotherlist Now, I'd like to mark the mail in *one* of those folders as \Seen by default. If the INDEX files weren't per-user, it would simply be a matter of using 'addflag "\Seen";' in the Sieve script of the lists user. Alas, this has no effect. Hence my question - how can I have the mail of just one mailinglist get marked as "read" for all users? So far, the only option I see is to add a second public namespace, with a different prefix - and this namespace doesn't use private CONTROL/INDEX files. However, I'd like to keep using the "Lists" prefix if possible to avoid too many changes to the clients. -- Frerich Raabe - raabe(a)froglogic.com www.froglogic.com - Multi-Platform GUI Testing

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault in doveadm with lib01_acl_plugin.so
by Alessio Cecchi 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Hi, I'm running dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 6. When I run "doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d" it crash with "Segmentation fault" [15022673.496902] doveadm[13072]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f4b7041f551 sp 00007fffdab4f8c0 error 4 in lib01_acl_plugin.so[7f4b70415000+10000] If I add -D to doveadm I can see this: doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota_rule=*:backend=524288000S doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Effective uid=89, gid=89, home=/home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Quota root: name=UserQuota backend=maildir args= doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=UserQuota mailbox=* bytes=524288000 messages=0 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=UserQuota mailbox=Trash bytes=+104857600 messages=0 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:noenforcing:proxy::quota doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: dict quota: user=myuser(a)mydomain.com, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=1 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir, alt= doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl: acl username = myuser(a)mydomain.com doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl: owner = 1 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared/%n/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no location=maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%u doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: shared: root=/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/var/run/dovecot, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl: acl username = myuser(a)mydomain.com doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl: owner = 0 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=276 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=277 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=278 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=279 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=280 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=281 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=282 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=283 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=284 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=285 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=286 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=287 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=288 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=289 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=290 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=291 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=292 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=293 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=294 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=295 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=296 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=297 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=298 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=299 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=300 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=301 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=302 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=303 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=304 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=305 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=306 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=307 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=308 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=309 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: expunge: box=Trash uid=310 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Drafts not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir/.Drafts/dovecot-acl not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Spam not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir/.Spam/dovecot-acl not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Sent not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-acl not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Trash not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-acl not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/INBOX not found doveadm(myuser(a)mydomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/2/mydomain.com/myuser/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Segmentation fault If I disable "acl" plugin in dovecot all works fine. I think that this problem is connected with "Dovecot deliver Segmentation fault when arrive the first message" http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-September/068343.html that I'm still experiencing. How can get core dumps from "doveadm"? This is my dovecot config with acl enabled: # 2.1.10: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 auth_cache_size = 512 k auth_worker_max_count = 60 default_login_user = nobody dict { acl = mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-share-folder.conf quota = mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = quota acl maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mmap_disable = yes namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl quota = maildir:UserQuota quota2 = dict:User quota::noenforcing:proxy::quota quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_default = /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service imap-login { service_count = 0 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { service_count = 0 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/wildcard.net.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/wildcard.net.key userdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log mail_plugins = quota acl sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota acl imap_quota imap_acl } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 5 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } Thanks

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Re: [Dovecot] still having difficulties with per-user quotas
by Daniel Parthey 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

David Mehler wrote: > Thanks, so if I understand what your saying the reason I'm getting the > column update issues is Dovecot is reading from and writing to the > quota and quota_messages columns in my virtual_users table? > > My database user I believe only has select permissions on that table. > > So, I either need another table and to adjust my dovecot-dict.sql file > for that table, that's where Dovecot will write to, or two more > columns in the virtual_users table? > > Which way do you recommend? I would recommend to create a new table for dovecot_usage where dovecot is granted write permission. Regards Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] still having difficulties with per-user quotas
by Daniel Parthey 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

Hi Dave, David Mehler wrote: > Thanks for all your help so far. I have per-user quotas now working, I > had to also alter my dict config file as well. I am having two > outstanding issues, actually one outstanding issue and one question. > > Here's the question, given that the userdb sql query returns a default > quota entry for rows of zero in quota and quota_messages is the > default quota section needed in 90-quota.conf? > > plugin { > quota_rule = *:storage=1G > quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M > } You need quota_rule2 to give the user some additional space in the Trash folder if he/she wants to delete messages when over quota. The dict is also needed for quota lookup from the database. The only thing which might be omitted is the global quota_rule since it is returned by the userdb/passwd in any case, but I'm not sure what happens if you only configure a "quota_rule2" without configuring a "quota_rule". > My outstanding issue is whenever I as the root mysql user update a > user's quota the other user also gets an update, I noticed with one > the messages column on the other user went from 0 to 2, another time > the quota value went up from 0 to 3500 it seems random. You should not be accounting the actual mailbox usage in the same virtual_users table as the quota is read from. Use *different* column or table name in your dict file where dovecot may write the current storage/message count. > dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext > > map { > pattern = priv/quota/storage > table = virtual_users > username_field = user > value_field = quota value_field should be current_quota_storage (writable column) > } > map { > pattern = priv/quota/messages > table = virtual_users > username_field = user > value_field = quota_messages value_field should be current_quota_messages (writable column) > I'd like to know why these columns are updating. Dovecot stores the current storage and mailcount in there. These columns should be different from the columns defining the maximum limit. Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] fstat() failed with file */dovecot.index.log
by Nicolás 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

Hi list! I'm using Dovecot along with Postfix (with MySQL) and I'm having some curious error messages in the mail log. Everything runs normally and suddenly I start viewing messages like these: Oct 12 14:24:23 dovecot: last message repeated 5 times Oct 12 14:25:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:26:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:27:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:29:22 mail dovecot: imap(nicolas(a)devels.es): Error: fstat() failed with file /home/vmail/devels.es/nicolas/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Oct 12 14:30:23 dovecot: last message repeated 5 times Oct 12 14:31:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:33:22 mail dovecot: imap(nicolas(a)devels.es): Error: fstat() failed with file /home/vmail/devels.es/nicolas/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Oct 12 14:34:23 dovecot: last message repeated 5 times Oct 12 14:35:23 dovecot: last message repeated 6 times Oct 12 14:36:01 mail dovecot: imap(nicolas(a)devels.es): Error: fstat() failed with file /home/vmail/devels.es/nicolas/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory This file which Dovecot references to indeed exists, is accesible, etc. Once I get the first of these messages, the user stops receiving e-mails (the mail server keeps receiving them normally, though) until he restarts the mail client. Then the error msg is gone and he receives all their unreceived messages. This error appears in 6-12h. intervals once the user starts their client. Version is 2.0.19, and dovecot -n is: root@mail:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ext4 disable_plaintext_auth = no log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mailbox_idle_check_interval = 2 mins namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log postmaster_address = postmaster(a)devels.es } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Thanks so much for any help! Nicolás

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Re: [Dovecot] still having difficulties with per-user quotas
by Daniel Parthey 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

David Mehler wrote: > Thanks for your reply. So with the extending of the query to return a > default quota rule, do you have an example of that by the way, does > that mean I only have to put the overrided users in the quota table? Assuming that quota values are in the dovecot_users table... # passdb with userdb prefetch and default quota of 1024M for quota=0 rows # The userdb_ prefix is for prefetch userdb entries in password_query password_query = SELECT username AS user, \ password AS password, \ home AS userdb_home, \ uid AS userdb_uid, \ gid AS userdb_gid, \ CASE quota \ WHEN 0 \ THEN '*:bytes=1024M:messages=0' \ ELSE \ CONCAT('*:bytes=', CAST(quota AS CHAR), 'M:messages=', CAST(quota_message AS CHAR)) \ END AS `userdb_quota_rule` \ FROM dovecot_users \ WHERE username='%u'; # user_query with default quota of 1024M for quota=0 rows user_query = SELECT username AS user, \ home AS home, \ uid AS uid, \ gid as gid, \ CASE quota \ WHEN 0 \ THEN '*:bytes=1024M:messages=0' \ ELSE \ CONCAT('*:bytes=', CAST(quota AS CHAR), 'M:messages=', CAST(quota_message AS CHAR)) \ END AS `quota_rule` \ FROM dovecot_users \ WHERE username='%u'; Your user_query needs to return a row if the user exists, otherwise dovecot will assume that the user does not exist and the mail or user will be rejected. Regards Daniel -- https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820

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[Dovecot] still having difficulties with per-user quotas
by David Mehler 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hello, I am trying to get per-user quotas working. My thanks to all who have helped so far. To recap I am running Dovecot 2.1 and Mysql where I've got my virtual users. All virtual users are under the system user vmail with a UID and GID of 5000. Looking over the wiki docs I've added a quota table and got the dict service working, I am not having problems with permissions or the login username and password, all that is working fine. Here's my current doveconf -n output it is producing the following debug error related to the userdb sql query: # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # XXX dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 hostname = XXX last_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs mail_plugins = " quota" namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 } inet_listener imaps { address = xxx xxxx ssl = yes } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" } Oct 19 15:23:52 auth-worker(29279): Info: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Connected to database mail Oct 19 15:23:52 auth-worker(29279): Debug: sql(xxx,::1): query: SELECT user as user, password FROM virtual_users WHERE user='xxx@domain'; Oct 19 15:23:52 auth: Debug: client passdb out: OK 1 user=xxx Oct 19 15:23:52 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 3523346433 29276 1 f5cd16e3f5e078c28d850749e42c86cc Oct 19 15:23:52 auth-worker(29279): Debug: sql(xxx,::1): SELECT concat('*:storage=', bytes, 'M') as quota_rule FROM quota WHERE username='xxx'; Oct 19 15:23:52 auth: Debug: master userdb out: USER 3523346433 xxx quota_rule=*:storage=368485M Oct 19 15:23:52 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=29282, secured, session=</xKpcW7MFgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 19 15:23:52 imap(xxx): Error: user xxx: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) Oct 19 15:23:52 imap(xxx): Error: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. I am wanting a majority of my users to have the global 1GB quota, but the users in the quota table to have given quotas. Here's what the virtual_users and quota tables look like: mysql> describe virtual_users; +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | domain_id | int(11) | NO | MUL | NULL | | | user | varchar(40) | NO | | NULL | | | password | varchar(128) | NO | | NULL | | +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> describe quota; +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | username | varchar(100) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | bytes | bigint(20) | NO | | 0 | | | messages | int(11) | NO | | 0 | | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. Dave.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2 and TCP-Keepalive
by Sven Hartge 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi! I am about to migrate a perdition-based IMAP/POP3 proxy to Dovecot. Unfortunately some users are behind a firewall/NAT setup which throws away seemingly idle TCP connections sooner than the established default of 24 hours (more likely after 30 minutes ...) resulting in all kinds of weird client behavior. And unfortunately² this firewall/NAT setup is outside of my control and I have no means of correcting this (in my opinion) flawed configuration. Now, with perdition I was able to use the --tcp_keepalive option which totally solved the mentioned weird client behavior. My question is: does Dovecot2 use TCP-Keepalive on its sockets per default or do I need to enable it some way I have not yet discovered? The manual and wiki only talk about "keepalive" in connection with the IMAP protocol and IDLE and my C-fu is too weak to understand the source code. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2 quota limit and actual size (mysql)
by wamp 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hello, Can You explain to me how dovecot-lda knows actual size of virtual user directory? I want to keep max size of user directory in mysql - should I also use some kind of script to upgrade actual size information in mysql ? I read docs from wiki but still dont know it. thanks -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Dovecot-2-quota-limit-and-actual-size-… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Question about salted hashes
by Tobias Maffert 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hello. I'm switching from b1gmail to my own setup which consists of Postfix+Dovecot+MySQL (and maybe VBoxAdm). There are two problems: - b1gmail is using unsalted MD5 hashes. Is there any good way to make my new setup backward compatible? So I don't have to force all of my 50k users to change their password. - How do I change my setup to salted SHA256 (or an even better algorithm). And how do I make the hashes compatible between Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL (and maybe VBoxAdm)? My system: Debian Squeeze Postfix version: 2.7.1 Dovecot version: 1.2.15 ----------------------------------------------- dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.6 protocols: imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_access_groups: vmail mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v lda: postmaster_address: <postmaster-address> auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins: quota sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir ----------------------------------------------- driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=smail user=smail password=mypw default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT username AS user, password_enc AS password, CONCAT(homedir, maildir) AS userdb_home, uid AS userdb_uid, gid AS userdb_gid, CONCAT('maildir:', homedir, maildir) AS userdb_mail, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', (quota*1024)) as userdb_quota FROM mail_users WHERE (username = '%u' OR email = '%u') AND ((imap = 1 AND '%Ls' = 'imap') OR (pop3 = 1 AND '%Ls' = 'pop3') OR '%Ls' = 'smtp') user_query = SELECT CONCAT(homedir, maildir) AS home, CONCAT('maildir:', homedir, maildir) AS mail, uid, gid, CONCAT('*:storage=', (quota*1024)) as quota_rule FROM mail_users WHERE (username = '%u' OR email = '%u') ----------------------------------------------- Regards, Tobi M.

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[Dovecot] Add S=<size> to maildirfile
by Alessio Cecchi 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hi, in some old Maildir/ I have file without the S=<size> in file name. Is possibile to add the size to the file name with some tools like doveadm? Are there other methods to update these file? Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi is: @ ILS -> http://www.linux.it/~alessice/ on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi GNU/Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it

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[Dovecot] Emails from invalid local accounts
by Steven Kiehl 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.2.9 in a postfix/dovecot setup and I'm having issues with receiving spam where the "from" header contains an address like accounting(a)mydomain.com. Is there some way I can filter out these emails coming from outside our network with an account associated with our network which doesn't exist? Do I just need to configure some custom process to evaluate these addresses, or is there some way either in dovecot or spamassassin to do this? Thanks, Steve K

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[Dovecot] dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql for Debian squeeze
by Ricardo 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hello list apologize in advance for my bad English, this is the first time I write to a list if I mistake Excuse me I want to implement mail server with MySQL database, Postfix and Postfixadmin, dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d for multiple domains. I have problems installing the daemon dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d Debian squeeze, I'm using the repositories: deb http://ftp.ccc.uba.ar/pub/linux/debian/debian/ squeeze main deb-src http://ftp.ccc.uba.ar/pub/linux/debian/debian/ squeeze main deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main # squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.ccc.uba.ar/pub/linux/debian/debian/ squeeze-updates main deb-src http://ftp.ccc.uba.ar/pub/linux/debian/debian/ squeeze-updates main deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main to install dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql, install it without problems is the version (2.1.7-2 ~ bpo60 +1) of both packages, now wanting to install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d (version 1.2.15-7) breaks the dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql, apparently must be the same version all packages. Debian Wheezy, installs without problems but installs the version (dovecot-core_2.1.7-2 ~ ppa12.04 +1 _i386.deb) all packets are the same version. What is the correct version for Debian squeeze? Look for San Google but eh had success. Can anybody help? Ricardo

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[Dovecot] lmtp proxy logging
by Jack Bates 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

The logging on lmtp and lmtp proxy is pretty limited from what I can see. It seems to handle errors, Connect, Disconnect, and in the case of lmtp delivery, it logs where an email is saved to. The lmtp may be enough, "connect, saved user, saved user..., disconnect", but I was curious if it is worth while to add more info logging for the proxy, primarily which recipients are sent to which proxy. I was thinking of local patching it, but I'll generate up something more inline with official code if it is desired. My thought is to show 1 entry for each recipient, and the destination server chosen. If I recall correctly, the proxy code doesn't actually listen in on the conversation, so logging results would probably complicate the code. Jack

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[Dovecot] CAS Authentication
by b m 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi.I'm very sorry for the repost but I forgot the subject. So, I'm using dovecot 2.0.18 and I'm trying to authenticate through a CAS server (until now authentication was through MS Active Directory). I could not find anywhere some examples, so here is what i have done so far. -install phpcas and pam_cas -edit /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_cas.so -simap://webmail.mydomain.com -f /etc/pam_cas.conf -edit /etc.pam_cas.conf host mycas.mydomain.com port 443 uriValidate /cas/proxyValidate ssl on proxy ??????????????????????? trusted_ca /etc/cert/certificate.pem debug on - and finally dovecot.conf which I'm sure is complety wrong userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { driver = pam args = cache_key=%u dovecot } What I get in log is Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: pam(user,127.0.0.1): lookup service=dovecot Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: pam(user,127.0.0.1): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Info: pam(user,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Permission denied Oct 15 15:40:00 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=user Oct 15 15:40:00 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 15 15:40:00 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=9019) Any ideas? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Problem with process_limit
by FABIO FERRARI 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hello, i have a problem with the process_limit configuration. Occasionally, it happens that the dovecot.log shows this line: master: Warning: service(imap): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped So I checked, the process number, with the command: ps auxwww | grep imap | grep -v login | wc -l and it shows 1024. Then, i edited the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf and set the line process_limit = 1500 I checked if the dovecot had accepted the change with the command doveconf -n | grep process_limit and it shows process_limit = 1500 But it is dropping the connections when they reach 1024 anyway, the configuration parameter is totally ignored. Can anyone help? Am I editing the right parameter? thanks in advance Fabio Ferrari P.S. The version of the dovecot is dovecot-2.0.1-1_118.el5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga).

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[Dovecot] real_rip variable addition for dovecot 2.1.10
by Jack Bates 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Timo, Please check the code. I didn't add it, but a real_lip might be useful for some people as well. Also, I notice that pop3-proxy is doing a different xsession than the imap proxy. Is there an xsession standard that is different between the two, or just an oversight in the code? Both send the remote address/port, but only imap proxy sends the local address/port. This patch declares long variable %{real_rip} so that a backend server can declare a different login_log_format_elements login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l pip=%{real_rip} mpid=%e %c This is primarily useful for backend servers to log both the rip, lip, and in case of xsession, the real rip. I haven't done extensive testing yet, but as long as nothing does anything weird elsewhere in the code, it should be good. http://www.brightok.net/jbates/dovecot-2.1.10-real-ip.patch dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<test>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.5, lip=::1, pip=::1, mpid=8665, secured Jack Bates

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[Dovecot] Difference between Indexing and Rescan in FTS
by Fred Kilbourn 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

I've had squat running on dovecot 2.0 and have been updating all users mailbox indexes nighty via cron with this command: doveadm -v search -A text xyzzyx I've just updated to 2.1 and I'm migrating to lucene indexes, but reading the documentation I'm having a hard time understanding the semantic differences between indexing and rescanning. If I were to continue to run an all user all mailbox index every night, would that be appropriate? Would running this every night avoid the need to ever rescan? Should I run rescan instead of index? Should I run both rescan and index? In which order? Best Regards, FredK

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[Dovecot] Per user quotas
by David Travers 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi All, I keep going round in circles with this. I have quotas up and running but would like to add a couple of per user exceptions but can't figure out how to do it! I am using Open Xchange community edition on top of dovecot and tha tis showing the 200MB limit, if I change it in the dovecot.conf the change is reflected in open xchange, but can't figure out how to change for 1 user. I believe I need to add to a passwd file, but I have added to that and nothing has changed. # dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.5 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/postfix.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/postfix.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/mail/ mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 lda: mail_plugins: quota auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: quota: maildir:user quota quota_rule: *:storage=200M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% quota_rule2: SPAM:ignore quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 quota_exceeded_message: Quota exceeded, Please delete some emails Any help gratefully received Dave _________________________________________ This email has been scanned for malicious content. _________________________________________

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[Dovecot] Dsync clustering
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

I have not seen mention of using dsync for clustering Dovecot in some time on the mailing list, but I believe Timo was going to write a wiki page when v2.2 became more mature. Does this documentation exist yet, or are there any resources on what dsync replication is capable of at this point (looking on the wiki and google didn't reveal much)? Thank in advance.

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Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected for inactivity time.
by Joseph Tam 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Robert JR writes: > After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user (-ERR > Disconnected for inactivity.) > > What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity > logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time > > To 5 mins instead of 10 mins Looks like it's set in the source code pop3-client.c:#define CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MSECS (10*60*1000) but the output of # doveconf -a ... service pop3 { ... idle_kill = 0 ... } maybe points to the config that overrides this. Easy enough to test. It's non-RFC compliant as one poster points out, so unless you got a good reason to do this like lots of zombie pop3 processes, leave it alone. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Dovecot sieve and duplicate email subjects
by Benjamin Thomas 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi, I'm running a small email server with the help of iRedMail. I can manage sieve scripts from the Rouncube web interface or manually inside the user's personal sieve folder. I have an email account setup to receive automated tasks. Some of these "alerts" occur too often and they have the same subject line, but different senders. This is the rule I am currently using: ##CODE START## # rule:[AutoAlerts] if anyof ( header :matches "Subject" "AutoAlert Type1*", header :matches "Subject" "AutoAlert Type2*", header :matches "Subject" "AutoAlert Type3*" ) { fileinto "INBOX.AutoAlerts"; stop; } ##CODE END## I was wondering if it's possible to gracefully handle duplicate subjects lines (within a given time frame) with sieve filters ? Ideally, I would like the first email of the day with subject ""AutoAlert Type1..." to get moved to the subfolder given above. Subsequent "duplicate" emails would then go into a "duplicate" subfolder. Is this possible with sieve filters ? I could not find anything striking me as obvious while reading the page http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve. Thanks very much for your input.

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[Dovecot] Disconnected for inactivity time.
by Robert JR 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hello, After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user (-ERR Disconnected for inactivity.) What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time To 5 mins instead of 10 mins Please advise Robert JR

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[Dovecot] dovecot died
by Hendrik 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi All I have been trying to get this website running for months now. I get this emails from cpanel and don't know how to fix it. If anyone can help me please contact me at pipefab(a)mweb.co.za. Kind regards Hendrik imap failed @ Fri Oct 12 05:51:18 2012. A restart was attempted automagically. Service Check Method: [check command] Number of Restart Attempts: 1 Cmd Service Check Raw Output: dovecot is not running Startup Log: /etc/init.d/dovecot: line 15: 6043 Alarm clock /usr/sbin/dovecot > /dev/null 2>&1 Syslog Messages: Oct 12 04:01:01 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__lvgws_iymiqndfmflick2pa3yjzc56ukpa2t6x3 yj43fuh...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:01:02 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__lvgws_iymiqndfmflick2pa3yjzc56ukpa2t6x3y j43fuhjgeiqomc3dhlkyjwdq): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 04:06:06 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__jxy1xcsu0koedgkhexhexpu3_idp4ynukxpaou0 jaovpdr...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:06:06 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__jxy1xcsu0koedgkhexhexpu3_idp4ynukxpaou0j aovpdrgqjnf0_rxyi0wncetn): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/313 Oct 12 04:11:01 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__6oxwycgffp_5xkysaitw4eifev2nffi_dqlhj4z k8h05nx...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:11:01 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__6oxwycgffp_5xkysaitw4eifev2nffi_dqlhj4zk 8h05nx2p9n4yfxhrp3a2gjhl): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/313 Oct 12 04:16:08 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__7zurxql5qf5whp4rupxen3viduh5kucjqtrzigs c75cnov...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:16:09 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__7zurxql5qf5whp4rupxen3viduh5kucjqtrzigsc 75cnovslbll4702ue2veu2n3): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/318 Oct 12 04:21:10 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__cq4wbk6o7svgbljnmw1hx2iiaunvzp3w1cywwsf ou8d5ky...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:21:11 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__cq4wbk6o7svgbljnmw1hx2iiaunvzp3w1cywwsfo u8d5kysrfeaqvlmjgx6afvnb): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 04:26:35 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__uhyykmmdnf31il4pn_kfci9y2gw2o9skyz7zuoe oga08za...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:26:36 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__uhyykmmdnf31il4pn_kfci9y2gw2o9skyz7zuoeo ga08zaq_nh6yzqsmveqpvnxi): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/313 Oct 12 04:31:05 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__hka0onlsdbqugjyirdyygk_d9wtw_xtkl7jgaus tpvzl1q...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:31:05 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__hka0onlsdbqugjyirdyygk_d9wtw_xtkl7jgaust pvzl1qjjei5uuoi1c4g8tpea): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/313 Oct 12 04:36:02 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__ouonjmdpliwgyj8ij6gucv6y7fxq6ojdk9hsxjj fzonng9...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:36:03 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__ouonjmdpliwgyj8ij6gucv6y7fxq6ojdk9hsxjjf zonng9eqrsw5l5hg7xoejer2): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 04:41:03 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__wpwfzoyvnb2rsz2desu10swelok4cdwrqqw70gw eibvov1...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:41:04 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__wpwfzoyvnb2rsz2desu10swelok4cdwrqqw70gwe ibvov1_minfh7j4_4ejaz7v2): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 04:46:04 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__razxoe9ffiqhzj6rahuftwwqprhj2blovjvsbhd rhafjur...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:46:05 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__razxoe9ffiqhzj6rahuftwwqprhj2blovjvsbhdr hafjureydiuxbtbk2jkpkvlo): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 04:51:06 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__as64dk7mx4gfxupigti8wwrbqpqhetm9zyhzlrq h1iztqo...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:51:06 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__as64dk7mx4gfxupigti8wwrbqpqhetm9zyhzlrqh 1iztqosnzfwt28kkzv4riyd9): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 04:56:07 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__x0do00ujo_2w89kbu0kfk6s8evtdz9u3davldan 2pdmdvg...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 04:56:07 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__x0do00ujo_2w89kbu0kfk6s8evtdz9u3davldan2 pdmdvg6jofzylncdb3ytjaaz): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:01:08 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__lkup_seowtz4xhnmf5fkihlw6hpacvnfyeyzvir quwcv1z...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:01:08 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__lkup_seowtz4xhnmf5fkihlw6hpacvnfyeyzvirq uwcv1zhloqt12rqni_o2pqcj): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:06:09 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__yl1ivh4akxdj7vph6nz2w8jdmeuzukqkvezokgr cpi3usb...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:06:09 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__yl1ivh4akxdj7vph6nz2w8jdmeuzukqkvezokgrc pi3usbdjkiy2n8zy2bbvhhny): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:11:10 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__z0jltexjylqusc5j7qrtw5t7m_tqzcjyheljxrg 4vew3df...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:11:10 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__z0jltexjylqusc5j7qrtw5t7m_tqzcjyheljxrg4 vew3dfbyrglsasuldldaspck): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:16:11 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__0ycn3mqrthjv1aqo7w45zy1ndeodd2xxh92y3v0 e2bwtas...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:16:11 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__0ycn3mqrthjv1aqo7w45zy1ndeodd2xxh92y3v0e 2bwtastu0kton3azlhmmuhwi): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:21:12 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__ofmf6ptqgyhrzgrlsx3p33fz52q7j1afid0uszq mf4h8z1...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:21:12 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__ofmf6ptqgyhrzgrlsx3p33fz52q7j1afid0uszqm f4h8z1shjl34q9zpid3g4gsp): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:26:13 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__awz7xewlgj6pjfdz1dogl28vm9ld5fqfwviyaog ha3yc0w...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:26:13 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__awz7xewlgj6pjfdz1dogl28vm9ld5fqfwviyaogh a3yc0w6t7vvgyf1snz8vechf): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:31:14 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__uyfeustvewbyjgjyyrqgrflkxhuxfloywsash62 mucudsm...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:31:15 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__uyfeustvewbyjgjyyrqgrflkxhuxfloywsash62m ucudsmjfmyolzcpm9shakkiw): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:36:15 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__g6g0w1ikkl7h2dx3uw8hdpin8uhjml0lgk08zxc kmn7fkd...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:36:16 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__g6g0w1ikkl7h2dx3uw8hdpin8uhjml0lgk08zxck mn7fkdpsvbrjptqanfuljfv2): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:41:15 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__hucgkkpt7ggbzuudcxecprlhdf_c1qenb56hqun f1neeqb...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:41:16 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__hucgkkpt7ggbzuudcxecprlhdf_c1qenb56hqunf 1neeqbmzas00uqbzmmjsxiab): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:46:17 scene dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<__cpanel__service__auth__imap__09irfuxyirdwosv6_f9prfvxpxhozr8qfauvfre yewqvxx...>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 12 05:46:17 scene dovecot: IMAP(__cpanel__service__auth__imap__09irfuxyirdwosv6_f9prfvxpxhozr8qfauvfrey ewqvxxeoo7yhyiki7ghukxss): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=11/340 Oct 12 05:47:27 scene dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 35 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

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[Dovecot] Dovecot failed logins delay all logins
by Dominic Malolepszy 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi all, I have observed with my Dovecot setup that unique failed logins cause legitimate correct logins to be slowed. I am running two servers, each with two Dovecot instances, a Proxy with Director, and a backend Dovecot. I suspect that the backend instance is throttling connections from the same IP, and because I am running a Proxy, the backend will only see either of the two server IPs. I confirmed this by directly connecting to the backend, to bypass the proxy and rule it. I initiated dozens of unique failed logins from one IP and separately attempted to login from the same IP, and experienced an extended delay during login. At the same time a login from a different IP suceeded imediately. I see nothing in the logs suggesting some sort of process limits were exceeded, however I do see the following proc title for the backend auth process: "dovecot/auth [7 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb]" I have increased the mail_max_userip_connections to a very large value however I believe that setting is a per username/ip limit. Is there any sort of setting in Dovecot that I can configure that stops this authentication throttling per IP? Below is the configuration of the backend Dovecot instance. # 2.1.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3 secs auth_cache_size = 100 M auth_cache_ttl = 10 mins auth_default_realm = example.com auth_failure_delay = 5 secs auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 auth_worker_max_count = 25 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 12 first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_gid = 12 last_valid_uid = 8 login_greeting = Hello there. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c mail_fsync = always mail_gid = mail mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = " stats" mail_uid = mail mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:%h/Maildir prefix = INBOX. separator = . } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } protocols = pop3 imap service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0660 user = mail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 0.0.0.0 port = 9143 } process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service imap { process_limit = 1000 vsz_limit = 256 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 0.0.0.0 port = 9110 } process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service pop3 { process_limit = 1000 vsz_limit = 256 M } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = mail } inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } } ssl = no stats_memory_limit = 64 M userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_logout_format = bytes_read=%i bytes_send=%o mail_max_userip_connections = 1000 mail_plugins = " stats " } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 1000 } Dominic

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[Dovecot] LMTP userdb lookup
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Is it possible to have separate userdb lookups for LMTP and POP/IMAP?

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[Dovecot] Problem with quota update in dovecot 1.2
by tower 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi A have a problem with quota2 table, working under postfixadmin. When I login into imap server with thunderbird client everything works fine, quota is update when i receive a message, but when I move message to trash or any other folder value for messages field in table quota2 increases +1 instead decreases or have still this same value. Only if I close my imap client value descending -2. I wish to table quota2 will be updated immediately after any operation on inbox. Is there any mistake in my configuration? Thanks for any advice. ============================================================== dovecot -n print: # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-686 i686 Debian 6.0.3 ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 100 mail_privileged_group: Debian-exim mail_uid: 101 mail_gid: 103 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir mail_cache_min_mail_count: 100 mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): autocreate quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(imap): autocreate quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_id_log(default): * imap_id_log(imap): * imap_id_log(pop3): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)mydomain.com mail_plugins: quota log_path: /var/log/dovecot/lda-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: Debian-exim plugin: autocreate: INBOX autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Trash autocreate4: Drafts autocreate5: Junk autocreate6: Spam autosubscribe: INBOX autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Trash autosubscribe4: Drafts autosubscribe5: Junk autosubscribe6: Spam quota: dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule: Trash:storage=+20%% quota_rule2: Spam:ignore quota_rule3: Drafts:storage=+5%% quota_rule4: Sent:storage=+15%% quota_rule5: Junk:storage=+10%% quota_warning: storage=100%% quota-exceeded 100 %u quota_warning2: storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning3: storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning4: storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u quota_warning5: storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u quota_warning6: storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u quota_warning7: storage=70%% quota-warning 70 %u quota_warning8: storage=65%% quota-warning 65 %u trash: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change append mail_log_group_events: no mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size subject from dict: quotadict: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf ============================================= cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=eximdb user=eximdbadm password=************* default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = \ SELECT username as user, domain, password \ FROM mailbox WHERE username= '%u' AND active = 1 user_query = \ SELECT CONCAT('/var/mail/virtual/', maildir) AS home, 101 AS uid, 103 AS gid, concat('dict:storage=', CAST(ROUND(quota / 1024) AS CHAR), '::proxy::quotadict') AS quota, CONCAT('*:storage=', CAST(quota AS CHAR), 'B') AS quota_rule FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' ============================================= cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf connect = host=localhost dbname=eximdb user=eximdbadm password=********* map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota2 username_field = username value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota2 username_field = username value_field = messages } ============================================== cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf 1 Trash 2 Spam 3 Sent 4 Draft

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[Dovecot] Plugin hooks in login process
by Simone Lazzaris 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi all; I've setup dovecot (2.1.10) in a cluster configuration. We have two servers acting as frontend which authenticates users and proxy them to other two servers which handles the "real" work. Users credentials are on a mysql cluster; we have one master, in which read/write queries are processed, and many replicated slave, which process read-only queries. The frontend servers reads users credentials from the read-only mysql slaves. I'd like to execute a query once the client is verified to update the last login data. Right now, that query is executed on the backend servers, via a post-login service: protocols = imap service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/etc/dovecot/postlogin.sh unix_listener imap-postlogin { group = vchkpw mode = 0600 user = vpopmail } } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 2048 } Problem is, if I execute the update on the backend, I miss the information regarding the original IP, as I only see the IP of the proxies. I haven't been able to launch the postlogin service on the frontend, so I figured that I can try to write a plugin - that also seems to me the cleanest solution. Looking in the dovecot source code, I noticed that there aren't any hooks in the execution path used by the proxies; I am missing something ? I am the only one missing the presence of this hooks in the auth/proxy process ? I've also thought of a workaround for this problem. One way is to monitor the dovecot logs on the frontend and execute the update asyncronously. One other way is to query directly the main mysql server of the cluster and adjust the query making it call a stored procedure that updates the information in case of successful login. But I'd really prefer to create a plugin, that I'd be willing to share. I attach the configuration of the servers (front and back) generated via postfix -n. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Simone Lazzaris | Responsabile aree datacenter e VoIP Interactive Network srl | via Roggia Vignola 9, 24047 Treviglio (BG) Tel. 0363 1970352 | Fax 0363.1971971 | www.interactive.eu

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[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver Segmentation fault when arrive the first message
by Alessio Cecchi 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, I have found this strange problem. I'm working with Debian 6, dovecot 2.1.9 and vpopmail-auth. LDA is configured and works fine but the problem is when the first message arrive "dovecot-lda" return a "Segmentation fault", the message is written to the user's Mailbox but the message remains, also, in the queue of qmail (deferral: Segmentation_fault/) and at the second attempt is delivered fine. If disable ACL (acl and imap_acl from mail_plugins) in dovecot.conf "Segmentation fault" go away. Moreover, without ACL at the first delivery folders like Sent, Drafts, Trash, Spam appear immediately. An example, new user: root@demo-vpop ~ # tree /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/ -a /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/ ├── cur ├── maildirsize ├── new └── tmp root@demo-vpop ~ # cat testmail.txt | /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it Segmentation fault root@demo-vpop ~ # echo $? 139 root@demo-vpop ~ # tree /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/ -a /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/ ├── cur ├── dovecot-acl-list ├── dovecot.index.cache ├── dovecot.index.log ├── dovecot-uidlist ├── dovecot-uidvalidity ├── dovecot-uidvalidity.50599a7f ├── maildirsize ├── new │ └── 1348049535.M21758P19264.demo-vpop.cbsolt.net,S=2025,W=2071 └── tmp dovecot log (with ulimit -c unlimited before starting Dovecot): Sep 19 12:06:50 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot/auth Sep 19 12:06:50 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it service=lda Sep 19 12:06:50 auth-worker(18728): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot/auth Sep 19 12:06:50 auth-worker(18728): Debug: vpopmail(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): lookup user=cecchi2 domain=qboxdns.it Sep 19 12:06:50 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it uid=89 gid=89 home=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2 quota_rule=*:backend=10485760S Sep 19 12:06:50 dict: Info: mysql(localhost): Connected to database dovecot lda log: Sep 19 12:06:50 lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot Sep 19 12:06:50 lda: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so Sep 19 12:06:50 lda: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Sep 19 12:06:50 lda: Debug: auth input: cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it uid=89 gid=89 home=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2 quota_rule=*:backend=10485760S Sep 19 12:06:50 lda: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota_rule=*:backend=10485760S Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Effective uid=89, gid=89, home=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=UserQuota backend=maildir args= Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota rule: root=UserQuota mailbox=* bytes=10485760 messages=0 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota rule: root=UserQuota mailbox=Trash bytes=+104857600 messages=0 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:noenforcing:proxy::quota Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: dict quota: user=cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=1 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir, alt= Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: acl username = cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: owner = 1 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared/%n/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no location=maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%u Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: shared: root=/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/var/run/dovecot, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: acl username = cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=UserQuota backend=maildir args= Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:noenforcing:proxy::quota Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: dict quota: user=raw mail user, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=1 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Destination address: cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it (source: user@hostname) Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Info: msgid=<5059979E.3080402(a)cecchi.biz>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/INBOX not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Drafts not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Drafts/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Spam not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Spam/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Trash not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Sent not found Sep 19 12:06:50 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-acl not found now works fine: root@demo-vpop ~ # cat testmail.txt | /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it Sep 19 12:08:18 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it service=lda Sep 19 12:08:18 auth-worker(18763): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot/auth Sep 19 12:08:18 auth-worker(18763): Debug: vpopmail(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): lookup user=cecchi2 domain=qboxdns.it Sep 19 12:08:18 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it uid=89 gid=89 home=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2 quota_rule=*:backend=10485760S Sep 19 12:08:18 dict: Info: mysql(localhost): Connected to database dovecot Sep 19 12:08:18 lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot Sep 19 12:08:18 lda: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so Sep 19 12:08:18 lda: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Sep 19 12:08:18 lda: Debug: auth input: cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it uid=89 gid=89 home=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2 quota_rule=*:backend=10485760S Sep 19 12:08:18 lda: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota_rule=*:backend=10485760S Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Effective uid=89, gid=89, home=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=UserQuota backend=maildir args= Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota rule: root=UserQuota mailbox=* bytes=10485760 messages=0 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota rule: root=UserQuota mailbox=Trash bytes=+104857600 messages=0 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:noenforcing:proxy::quota Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: dict quota: user=cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=1 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir, alt= Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: acl username = cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: owner = 1 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared/%n/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no location=maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%u Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: shared: root=/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/var/run/dovecot, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: acl username = cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=UserQuota backend=maildir args= Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:noenforcing:proxy::quota Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: dict quota: user=raw mail user, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=1 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Destination address: cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it (source: user@hostname) Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Info: msgid=<5059979E.3080402(a)cecchi.biz>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/INBOX not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Drafts not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Drafts/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Drafts doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Spam not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Spam/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Spam doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Trash not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Trash doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls/Sent not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-acl not found Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir/.Sent doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vpopmail/domains/qboxdns.it/cecchi2/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 19 12:08:18 lda(cecchi2(a)qboxdns.it): Debug: acl vfile: file /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found # 2.1.9: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.5 auth_cache_size = 512 k auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 60 default_login_user = nobody dict { acl = mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-share-folder.conf quota = mysql:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = quota acl maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mmap_disable = yes namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = cache_key=%s%u webmail=192.168.113.215 driver = vpopmail } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl quota = maildir:UserQuota quota2 = dict:User quota::noenforcing:proxy::quota quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M } protocols = imap pop3 sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service imap-login { service_count = 0 } service pop3-login { service_count = 0 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/wildcard-cbsolt.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/wildcard-cbsolt.key userdb { args = quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota acl imap_quota imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 5 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi is: @ ILS -> http://www.linux.it/~alessice/ on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi GNU/Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it

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[Dovecot] Search for substring in header?
by Dave Abrahams 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, According to the IMAP spec (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2060#page-37) if I do a search for "TO isocpp.org" it should find all the messages whose To: field contains the string "isocpp.org", but dovecot is returning me an empty list. However, a search for "TO tm(a)isocpp.org" produces a long list of messages. What am I doing wrong? TIA, Dave -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb failed
by thefantaman 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, I work on test server and if I send an email on log i read lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=8135(vmail) egid=8135(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner) This is my dovecot.conf: auth_mechanisms = plain login info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot listen = 0.0.0.0 log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_greeting = Dovecot IMAP Server ready. mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u mail_privileged_group = vmail passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext.fabry driver = ldap } protocols = pop3 sieve imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = root group = root } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext.fabry } lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log } managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variab les body enotify environment mailbox date plugin { sieve_dir = /home/vmail/%d/%u/sieve sieve = /home/vmail/%d/%u/sieve/.dovecot.sieve } What did I do wrong? -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/var-run-dovecot-auth-userdb-failed-tp3… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] [BUG] Lucene plugin breaks header substring search
by Dave Abrahams 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

According to the IMAP spec if I do a search for "TO isocpp.org" it should find all the messages whose To: field contains the string "isocpp.org", but dovecot is returning me an empty list. However, a search for "TO tm(a)isocpp.org" produces a long list of messages. This behavior is present if I *even load* the lucene fts plugin. Note that lucene isn't in use (fts = squat); it's merely loaded. This behavior goes away if I don't load fts_lucene. Dovecot configuration with dovecot -n: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- # 2.1.6: /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.1.6/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 11.4.2 x86_64 hfs default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull mail_gid = 20 mail_location = mdbox:/Users/dave/Library/Data/LocalIMAP/mdbox mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot mail_plugins = fts fts_squat fts_lucene zlib mail_uid = 501 maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = uid=501 gid=20 home=/Users/dave nopassword=y driver = static } plugin { fts = squat zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = imap ssl = no protocol imap { mail_plugins = fts fts_squat fts_lucene zlib } --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Dovecot version: 2.1.6 Operating system or Linux distribution name: MacOS X 10.7, 10.8 CPU architecture (x86 or something else?): x86_64 Filesystem you used (especially if you use NFS or not): Mac Some kind of description of what you were doing and with what IMAP client.: Searching -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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Re: [Dovecot] per-user quotas
by David Mehler 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hello, Thanks for your replies so far. Still having issues with per-user quotas. To my Mysql virtual_users table I've added a column quota_kb and for a test user I've added in a value of 250000 going for a 250 megabyte quota. I've tried various sql queries they're returning empty sets not pulling out the information needed. Thanks. Dave. On 10/12/12, Daniel Parthey <daniel.parthey(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > David Mehler wrote: >> Thanks for your reply. I've written you directly as it is sounding >> like at least for now this isn't dovecot it's well a mysql issue with >> design. I don't have anything in my database setup with regards quota >> I've included it below. I've got one virtual mail user called vmail >> with UID/GID of 5000 who owns all the virtual mailboxes. If I'm >> understanding what I've read in the link, the dovecot wiki and your >> message since anything in a user section of Mysql will override the >> global configuration in 90-quota.conf, that being the case I should >> add an extra column to virtual users? Once that's done adjust the >> userdb query for dovecot to return quota information? > > Yes, the quota should be stored in an additional userdb column, > or you need at least an SQL statement which takes a username > and returns a quota rule. > > Quota of 0 is interpreted as "unlimited" by dovecot. > As already said, if the value in the quota column for the > user is 0, your SQL statement could also return a different > value (default quota) instead of 0 (using MySQL CASE/ELSE statement). > > Here is a short documentation on how it is done with Tine 2.0 Groupware: > http://www.tine20.org/wiki/index.php/Admins/Mailserver_integration > (it is a simple example which does not support a default quota fallback, > since Tine 2.0 writes the default quota as a value into the column > when the user is created) > > Regards > Daniel > -- > https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820 >

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[Dovecot] fts = squat solr
by Dave Abrahams 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

I don't know if this was supposed to have changed with dovecot2, but http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS shows fts = squat solr so, since I have the lucene plugin—"fts = lucene" works by itself—I tried fts = squat lucene but: $ doveadm index '*' doveadm(dave): Error: fts: Failed to initialize backend 'squat lucene': Unknown backend So, is that syntax obsolete, is the wiki wrong, or am I doing something wrong? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] POP UIDL
by simon.buongiorno＠gmail.com 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi I run a small mail server with Dovecot and postfix. Several of the accounts are popped by an external email provide I use, mostly out habit and also for a bit of redundancy. I have no details on that external server except that it uses exim. Lately, it's been repopping mail from accounts (mail is left on the server so I can use IMAP) at fairly frequent, but undetermined, intervals. Before I take it to them, I want to be sure it's not an error on my side. How can I be sure Dovecot does not have a problem with the UIDL list causing this external server to repop the mail? For the record, I'm not inclined to think it's a Dovecot issue, but since that's the bit I can fix, I'd like to be sure. Cheers Simon

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Hangs while mutile users download mail for same account using pop3
by Robert JR 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hello, I have a weird problem in dovecot, Dovecot Hangs while multiple users download mail for same account using pop3 Three persons use 1 same email , and three of them use outlook express to check That specific mail .. Also some times one of the three users check the mail for this Account using imap (squirrel mail) And here comes the problem. suddenly all the three users are unable to check the mail And when the outlook express connect to the pop3 server, they are unable to disconnect And the outlook express keep asking "the server is not responding for 60 mins would you like to wait ? i checked /var/log/maillog, i can see the following errors dovecot: pop3(sales): Disconnected: Storage error during logout. to=<sales(a)domain.com>, orig_to=<sales(a)domain.,com>, relay=local, delay=357, delays=338/0.01/0/19, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (cannot update mailbox /var/mail/sales for user sales. unable to lock for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable) When i used lsof | grep sales pop3 4278 sales 10u REG 8,3 22897673 12615705 /var/spool/mail/sales i went to /home/sales/mail/.imap/INBOX , but i didnot find any lock files -rw------- 1 sales sales 944 Oct 7 13:35 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 sales sales 49152 Oct 7 16:57 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 sales sales 14044 Oct 7 16:57 dovecot.index.log 1- So what is exactly the problem? is the problem that three users are checking the same exact mail ? 2- is the problem that 2 users checking mail using pop3 and the third one checking it using imap insame time ? 3- is dovecot locking the inbox file while one of the users getting the mail ? 4- What is the cause of the problem ? Please help Regards Robert JR

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[Dovecot] Where'd the Mail Go?
by John Reddy 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi; I ran this: echo "Hello me" | mail -s "Dovecot test" $USER then created a bash script: for mbox in /var/mail/$USER /var/spool/mail/$USER ~/mbox ~/mail/* ~/*; do grep -q "Dovecot test" $mbox && echo "mbox: $mbox" done grep -q "Dovecot test" ~/Maildir/new/* 2>/dev/null && echo "Maildir: ~/Maildir" and ran it but couldn't find where the mail went. I checked /var/mail/my_user_name and it wasn't there, either. How do I find it? TIA, John

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[Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release
by Marc Perkel 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, I'm looking for some advice to do a really advanced trick with Dovecot. I'm not sure if this can be done. I need to describe first. I have a spam filtering company that does front end spam filtering. (Junk Email Filter) I want to add a system where I store a copy of spam on a server and make it available to the customer to review and maybe resent on false positives. I know I could do something simple where I deliver all spam to a domain account and make it available to an administrator. Then if it's a false positive they would drag the message to a "resend" folder. I'll have something the checks the folder one a minute to pick up and resend. However What would be very cool is delivering the spam to individual accounts. So a user who logs in individually can see their own spam. But the admin for the domain would be able to see all users. Maybe the users would appear as folders? Then a master account (me) would be able to log in and see all the domains as folders and the users as folders inside the domains? One thing I can do is deliver the spam to 3 different places so it's visible on all levels. I'm just wondering if anyone out there has any ideas about that. And I'll need an authentication system.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Authentication Problem Can't Make it Work
by Howell Repaja 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi All, I am struggling for 2 weeks solving authentication problem in dovecot. logs from /etc/mail/maillog Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=26723) Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=pop3#011lip=10.0.0.123#011rip=88.22.197.66#011lport=110#011rport=2358#011resp=AGhvd2VsbEB0b3VyZm9yeW91LmluZm8AanVtb25n Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(howell(a)mydomain.info<howell(a)tourforyou.info>,88.22.33.66): lookup service=dovecot Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(howell(a)mydomain.info<howell(a)tourforyou.info>,88.22.197.66): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 15 18:00:37 localhost dovecot: auth: pam(howell(a)mydomain.info<howell(a)tourforyou.info>,88.22.197.66): unknown user Oct 15 18:00:39 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111#011user=howell(a)mydomain.info#011reason=Password<http://howell@tourforyou.info/#011reason=Password> : Oct 15 18:00:39 localhost dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<howell(a)mydomain.info <howell(a)tourforyou.info>>, method=PLAIN, rip=88.22.197.66, lip=10.0.0.123 Oct 15 18:01:05 localhost sendmail[26722]: q9FA15LB026722: [88.22.197.66] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) ext4 auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb disable_plaintext_auth = no last_valid_gid = 10 last_valid_uid = 650 listen = * login_greeting = Dovecot ready for you. mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date passdb { args = setcred=yes failure_show_msg=yes cache_key=%u dovecot driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv }

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[Dovecot] Can't Start Dovecot
by John Reddy 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi; I just installed dovecot from yum on CentOS5. ps wax grep "dovecot" only brings up the grep The command "dovecot" is not recognized. # ls /usr/local/bin/dove* doveadm doveconf No dovecot. What up? TIA, John

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by b m 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi. I'm using dovecot 2.0.18 and I'm trying to authenticate through a CAS server (until now authentication was through MS Active Directory). I could not find anywhere some examples, so here is what i have done so far. -install phpcas and pam_cas -edit /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_cas.so -simap://webmail.mydomain.com -f /etc/pam_cas.conf -edit /etc.pam_cas.conf host mycas.mydomain.com port 443 uriValidate /cas/proxyValidate ssl on proxy ??????????????????????? trusted_ca /etc/cert/certificate.pem debug on - and finally dovecot.conf which I'm sure is complety wrong userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { driver = pam args = cache_key=%u dovecot } What I get in log is Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: pam(user,127.0.0.1): lookup service=dovecot Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Debug: pam(user,127.0.0.1): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 15 15:39:58 auth-worker: Info: pam(user,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Permission denied Oct 15 15:40:00 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=user Oct 15 15:40:00 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 15 15:40:00 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=9019) Any ideas? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] [sieve] - counting headers
by kjonca＠o2.pl 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

In some of my maildrop filters I have rules with weighted scoring[1], but only to count headers (for example to count "Received:" header) ie. all these rules are of form "/pattern/:h,1" Can dovecot sieve do this? KJ [1] http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/maildropfilter.html -- http://blogdebart.pl/2012/06/24/hiena/ Wiesz, tryb tekstowy w Linuksie ma się tak do DOSu jak F-117A do paralotni. (c) Dawid Kuroczko

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[Dovecot] Help!
by Justin Vore 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

HELP! I have installed sendmail, dovecot, and squirrel mail. The squirrel mail portion of it works just fine, but I would like to have Mozilla Thunderbird as a client. Whenever I try and connect to the server it says "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account." We do have an MX record in DNS pointing to our server. We are using Ubuntu 12.0.4.1, and have Dovecot 2.2.6 sendmail version 8.14.4-2ubuntu2 We are doing this for a class project and it is due by Tuesday 10/16/2012.. Thanks, Justin

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[Dovecot] dsync ignores ssh-agent
by Mark Hills 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

I use IMAP over SSH, in pre-auth. I wanted to use dsync to offline mail to my laptop. dsync v2.1.10 would always ask for my SSH key/passphrase, ignoring ssh-agent. The culprit is the env_clean() in the stack below. Reading the source, I saw DOVECOT_PRESERVE_ENVS. When used as follows in my script it enables dsync to find my ssh-agent: export DOVECOT_PRESERVE_ENVS="SSH_AGENT_PID SSH_AUTH_SOCK" dsync mirror ssh imap.example.com /home/mark/opt/dovecot/bin/dsync and it now works without asking for password every time. I'm posting here so that anyone else googling for the same problem will hopefully find this, as I couldn't find anything about this in the docs. Also I'm interested in why dsync so aggressively cleans the environment; I tried a naive removal of env_clean() but this breaks basic functions. With this dsync is working very well for offline mail -- combined with alpine and a local exim for the outbound queue :) Thanks -- Mark Breakpoint 2, env_clean () at env-util.c:59 59 if (clearenv() < 0) (gdb) bt #0 env_clean () at env-util.c:59 #1 0xb7df10fc in master_service_env_clean () at master-service.c:454 #2 0xb7df26d4 in master_service_exec_config (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4) at master-service-settings.c:103 #3 0xb7df29be in config_exec_fallback (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4) at master-service-settings.c:153 #4 0xb7df2b65 in master_service_open_config (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4, path_r=0xbffff780, error_r=0xbffff7d8) at master-service-settings.c:206 #5 0xb7df3130 in master_service_settings_read (service=0x809e7d0, input=0xbffff7e4, output_r=0xbffff7dc, error_r=0xbffff7d8) at master-service-settings.c:345 #6 0x0805c672 in doveadm_read_settings () at doveadm.c:275 #7 0x0805c7d6 in main (argc=5, argv=0x809e1c0) at doveadm.c:342

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot cores
by Timo Sirainen 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

On 12.10.2012, at 10.02, dovecot(a)freakout.de wrote: > According to Timo Sirainen: >> Simply specifying -I or -L paths doesn't link with libmysql. What exactly did you use for CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS/configure? >> > > ok - i specified: CFLAGS="-I/opt/zlib/include -I/opt/ssl/include -I/opt/mysql/include" > LDFLAGS="-L/opt/zlib/lib -L/opt/ssl/lib -L/opt/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient" -lmysqlclient shouldn't be in LDFLAGS. > if i omit "-lmysqlclient" (seems to be the reason for the hassle) i get: > > libtool: link: gcc4 -std=gnu99 -g -I/opt/zlib/include -I/opt/ssl/include -I/opt/mysql/include -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/opt/ssl/include -o .libs/auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o > auth-master-connection.o auth-postfix-connection.o mech-otp-skey-common.o mech-plain-common.o auth-penalty.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-settings.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-checkpassword.o db-dict.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o > mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-external.o mech-gssapi.o mech-ntlm.o mech-otp.o mech-scram-sha1.o mech-skey.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o mech-winbind.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-dict.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-sia.o > passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o passdb-static.o passdb-template.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-checkpassword.o userdb-dict.o userdb-nss.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o userdb-template.o db-ldap.o passdb-ldap.o userdb-ldap.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/opt > /zlib/lib -L/opt/ssl/lib -L/opt/mysql/lib libpassword.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-otp/libotp.a ../../src/lib-sql/.libs/libsql.a ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -lcrypt -ldl -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/opt/dovecot/lib > ../../src/lib-sql/.libs/libsql.a(driver-mysql.o): In function `driver_mysql_connect': > /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.10/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c:83: undefined reference to `mysql_options' >>>> ... tons of other undefined reference to mysqlclient > /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.10/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c:470: undefined reference to `mysql_error' > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status I'm not sure why it's doing that. It really shouldn't. You could try SQL_LIBS=-lmysqlclient or AUTH_LIBS=-lmysqlclient or MYSQL_LIBS=-lmysqlclient if one of them helps.

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[Dovecot] INBOX.INBOX.Sent causes problems in 2.0
by Christoph Bußenius 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Hi, we have our namespace rooted at "INBOX.". Sometimes, users have folders like "INBOX.INBOX.Sent" or "INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Sent". I do not know why these folders are created; I suspect it is due to buggy MUAs. If a mailbox like INBOX.INBOX.Sent exists, then in some cases Dovecot counts all messages in INBOX twice. This behavior can be demonstrated as follows: 1) Create a folder named "INBOX.INBOX.Sent" (using the IMAP CREATE command) 2) Save a message to "INBOX" (in my example the message is 7 MB) 3) dovecot-quota contains: priv/quota/storage 7129025 priv/quota/messages 1 4) doveadm quota recalc -u user1 5) Now dovecot-quota contains priv/quota/storage 14258050 priv/quota/messages 2 I.e. the user will experience that his quota fills up very fast. "doveadm -f flow fetch -u user1 'mailbox guid' ALL" prints: mailbox=INBOX guid=040ce73645177850497d000040c59ffc mailbox=INBOX guid=040ce73645177850497d000040c59ffc However, "doveadm -f flow fetch -u user1 'mailbox guid' mailbox INBOX" prints the message only once: mailbox=INBOX guid=040ce73645177850497d000040c59ffc How can we prevent this kind of confusion? What I'd like most is prevent the creation of these weird folders. Most MUAs have problems listing them properly, especially if both "INBOX.Sent" and "INBOX.INBOX.Sent" exist. Dovecot 2.1 does not seem to count anything twice. Cheers, Christoph Config: # 2.0.21: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=4096 } is lower than required under max. load (6224) # OS: Linux 2.6.32-42-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mail mail_plugins = quota mail_uid = vmail namespace default { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { quota = dict:ROOT::file:%h/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=5G } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 } } service imap { process_limit = 5000 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } And the contents of the "users" file: user1:{plain}secret:::user1:/mail/users/user1:: -- Christoph Bußenius Rechnerbetriebsgruppe der Fakultäten Informatik und Mathematik Technische Universität München +49 89-289-18519 <> Raum 00.05.040 <> Boltzmannstr. 3 <> Garching

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] dovadm plugins underlinking
by Natanael Copa 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Hi, Running doveadm on Alpine Linux will show various underlinking errors: /usr/bin/doveadm: symbol 'acl_user_module': can't resolve symbol in lib '/usr/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so'. /usr/bin/doveadm: symbol 'acl_identifier_parse': can't resolve symbol in lib '/usr/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so'. ... (complete list is found here: http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/1274) I understand that those are "harmless" (at least as long as you dont use those plugins), and even if some dynamic linkers are forgiving, the doveadm plugin modules are technically underlinked. The lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so uses symbol acl_user_module: $ nm -D /usr/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so | grep acl_user_module U acl_user_module That symbol is defined in lib01_acl_plugin.so: $ nm -D /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so | grep acl_user_module 000000000020fb80 D acl_user_module Which means that lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so should be directly linked to lib01_acl_plugin.so. But it is not: $ readelf -d /usr/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so | grep NEEDED 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [librt.so.0.9.32] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.0.9.32] Below is a patch that should solve it. --- diff -r 4d268e810c15 src/plugins/acl/Makefile.am --- a/src/plugins/acl/Makefile.am Mon Oct 08 08:53:54 2012 +0300 +++ b/src/plugins/acl/Makefile.am Wed Oct 10 11:03:49 2012 +0200 @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ -I$(top_srcdir)/src/doveadm NOPLUGIN_LDFLAGS = -lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version +lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version -Wl,-rpath,$(moduledir) +lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin_la_LIBADD = $(module_LTLIBRARIES) lib01_acl_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version module_LTLIBRARIES = \ diff -r 4d268e810c15 src/plugins/expire/Makefile.am --- a/src/plugins/expire/Makefile.am Mon Oct 08 08:53:54 2012 +0300 +++ b/src/plugins/expire/Makefile.am Wed Oct 10 11:03:49 2012 +0200 @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ -I$(top_srcdir)/src/doveadm NOPLUGIN_LDFLAGS = -lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version +lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version -Wl,-rpath,$(moduledir) +lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin_la_LIBADD = $(module_LTLIBRARIES) lib20_expire_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version module_LTLIBRARIES = \ diff -r 4d268e810c15 src/plugins/fts/Makefile.am --- a/src/plugins/fts/Makefile.am Mon Oct 08 08:53:54 2012 +0300 +++ b/src/plugins/fts/Makefile.am Wed Oct 10 11:03:49 2012 +0200 @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ -I$(top_srcdir)/src/doveadm NOPLUGIN_LDFLAGS = -lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version +lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version -Wl,-rpath,$(moduledir) +lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin_la_LIBADD = $(module_LTLIBRARIES) lib20_fts_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version module_LTLIBRARIES = \ diff -r 4d268e810c15 src/plugins/quota/Makefile.am --- a/src/plugins/quota/Makefile.am Mon Oct 08 08:53:54 2012 +0300 +++ b/src/plugins/quota/Makefile.am Wed Oct 10 11:03:49 2012 +0200 @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ -I$(top_srcdir)/src/doveadm NOPLUGIN_LDFLAGS = -lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version +lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version -Wl,-rpath,$(moduledir) +lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin_la_LIBADD = $(module_LTLIBRARIES) lib10_quota_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version module_LTLIBRARIES = \ diff -r 4d268e810c15 src/plugins/zlib/Makefile.am --- a/src/plugins/zlib/Makefile.am Mon Oct 08 08:53:54 2012 +0300 +++ b/src/plugins/zlib/Makefile.am Wed Oct 10 11:03:49 2012 +0200 @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ -I$(top_srcdir)/src/doveadm NOPLUGIN_LDFLAGS = -lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version +lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version -Wl,-rpath,$(moduledir) +lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin_la_LIBADD = $(module_LTLIBRARIES) lib20_zlib_plugin_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version module_LTLIBRARIES = \

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[Dovecot] imap proxy setup - "killed with signal 11"
by btb 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

hi- i'm setting up an imap proxy in front of a novell groupwise server. it seems to so far be partially working, but dovecot is having trouble in certain cases. i expect that it's ultimately due to what i believe is a very poor implementation of imap provided by groupwise [at least based on other experiences in the past] - but that's a big part of why i'd like to have dovecot in between it and clients. below is information collected during starting of dovecot, opening/initial connection from a client [os x mail.app], closing of the client, and stopping of dovecot. os is ubuntu 12.10 development/beta, dovecot is 2.1.7 courtesy of ubuntu's packages. log entries: Oct 11 13:24:33 halo dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.7 starting up Oct 11 13:24:49 halo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.68.40.110, lip=10.59.1.53, mpid=14171, TLS, session=<iHgu2cvLlwAKRChu> Oct 11 13:24:50 halo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.68.40.110, lip=10.59.1.53, mpid=14174, TLS, session=<t1E/2cvLoQAKRChu> Oct 11 13:24:51 halo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.68.40.110, lip=10.59.1.53, mpid=14176, TLS, session=<OZlM2cvLqgAKRChu> Oct 11 13:24:51 halo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.68.40.110, lip=10.59.1.53, mpid=14178, TLS, session=<d3NU2cvLsQAKRChu> Oct 11 13:24:51 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Connection closed in=16 out=350 Oct 11 13:24:52 halo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.68.40.110, lip=10.59.1.53, mpid=14180, TLS, session=<oxNa2cvLtAAKRChu> Oct 11 13:24:52 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Error: imapc: Mailbox 'Trash' state corrupted: Expunged message reappeared in session (uid=6282 < next_uid=6283) Oct 11 13:24:52 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 14176 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Oct 11 13:24:57 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Error: imapc: Mailbox 'Trash' state corrupted: Expunged message reappeared in session (uid=6282 < next_uid=6283) Oct 11 13:24:57 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 14178 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Oct 11 13:24:57 halo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.68.40.110, lip=10.59.1.53, mpid=14182, TLS, session=<FUCv2cvLuAAKRChu> Oct 11 13:24:58 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Error: imapc: Mailbox 'Trash' state corrupted: Expunged message reappeared in session (uid=6282 < next_uid=6283) Oct 11 13:24:58 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 14180 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Oct 11 13:25:03 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Error: imapc: Mailbox 'Trash' state corrupted: Expunged message reappeared in session (uid=6282 < next_uid=6283) Oct 11 13:25:03 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 14182 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Oct 11 13:25:03 halo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jdoe>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.68.40.110, lip=10.59.1.53, mpid=14184, TLS, session=<DQkF2svLuwAKRChu> Oct 11 13:25:03 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Error: imapc: Mailbox 'Trash' state corrupted: Expunged message reappeared in session (uid=6282 < next_uid=6283) Oct 11 13:25:03 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 14184 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Oct 11 13:25:09 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Error: imapc: Mailbox 'Trash' state corrupted: Expunged message reappeared in session (uid=6282 < next_uid=6283) Oct 11 13:25:09 halo dovecot: imap(jdoe): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 14174 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) [repeats] Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: dns-client: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: dns-client: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: auth: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: config: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: ssl-params: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: anvil: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 11 13:25:27 halo dovecot: log: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill) gdb backtrace: ~ >gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /var/cache/imapproxy/jdoe/core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/imap...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/dovecot/imap...done. done. [New LWP 13939] warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () (gdb) bt full #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007fc7f6cb611e in imap_parser_reset (parser=0x7fc7f8a0f3a0) at imap-parser.c:93 No locals. #2 0x00007fc7f6f7ada7 in imapc_connection_input_reset (conn=conn@entry=0x7fc7f8a0d270) at imapc-connection.c:664 No locals. #3 0x00007fc7f6f7c6f4 in imapc_connection_input_untagged (conn=conn@entry=0x7fc7f8a0d270) at imapc-connection.c:908 imap_args = 0x7fc7f8a0f4f8 name = 0x7fc7f8a0f5d0 "" value = <optimized out> parser = 0x0 reply = {name = 0x7fc7f8a0f5d0 "", num = 11, args = 0x7fc7f8a0f4f8, file_args = 0x7fc7f8a0d5d0, file_args_count = 0, resp_text_key = 0x0, resp_text_value = 0x0, untagged_box_context = 0x7fc7f8a1ad70} ret = <optimized out> #4 0x00007fc7f6f7d25e in imapc_connection_input_one (conn=0x7fc7f8a0d270) at imapc-connection.c:1061 tag = 0x7fc7f8a0f5c0 "" ret = -1 #5 imapc_connection_input_pending (conn=0x7fc7f8a0d270) at imapc-connection.c:1407 _data_stack_cur_id = 6 ret = <optimized out> #6 0x00007fc7f6f7d2c2 in imapc_connection_input (conn=0x7fc7f6c8f798) at imapc-connection.c:1100 errstr = <optimized out> ret = <optimized out> #7 0x00007fc7f6cdf006 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x7fc7f8a23800) at ioloop.c:379 ioloop = 0x7fc7f8a23630 t_id = 5 #8 0x00007fc7f6cdfcb7 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=ioloop@entry=0x7fc7f8a23630) at ioloop-epoll.c:213 ctx = 0x7fc7f8a23850 events = 0x7fc7f8a245e0 event = 0x7fc7f8a238c0 list = 0x7fc7f8a24320 io = <optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 299, tv_usec = 999402} events_count = <optimized out> msecs = <optimized out> ret = 1 i = <optimized out> call = <optimized out> #9 0x00007fc7f6cdea18 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x7fc7f8a23630) at ioloop.c:398 No locals. #10 0x00007fc7f6f7a0f7 in imapc_client_run_pre (client=<optimized out>) at imapc-client.c:142 connp = 0x7fc7f8a0cfe0 prev_ioloop = 0x7fc7f89e3670 #11 imapc_client_run (client=0x7fc7f8a0ce80) at imapc-client.c:161 No locals. #12 0x00007fc7f6f79254 in imapc_storage_run (storage=0x7fc7f8a0be60) at imapc-storage.c:118 No locals. #13 0x00007fc7f6f78311 in imapc_sync_index (ctx=0x7fc7f8a1fc70) at imapc-sync.c:351 mbox = 0x7fc7f8a1ad70 sync_rec = {uid1 = 47, uid2 = 0, type = (unknown: 4171272512), add_flags = 199 '\307', remove_flags = 127 '\177', keyword_idx = 0, guid_128 = "\000\000\000\000)\235\312\366\307\177\000\000p\255\241", <incomplete sequence \370>} seq1 = 32767 seq2 = 0 #14 imapc_sync_begin (force=<optimized out>, ctx_r=<synthetic pointer>, mbox=0x7fc7f8a1ad70) at imapc-sync.c:422 ctx = 0x7fc7f8a1fc70 sync_flags = <optimized out> ret = <optimized out> #15 imapc_sync (mbox=0x7fc7f8a1ad70) at imapc-sync.c:464 sync_ctx = <optimized out> force = <optimized out> #16 imapc_mailbox_sync_init (box=0x7fc7f8a1ad70, flags=(MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ | MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FIX_INCONSISTENT)) at imapc-sync.c:498 mbox = 0x7fc7f8a1ad70 capabilities = <optimized out> changes = false ret = <optimized out> #17 0x00007fc7f6f8bd43 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x7fc7f8a1ad70, flags=(MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ | MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FIX_INCONSISTENT)) at mail-storage.c:1320 _data_stack_cur_id = 4 ctx = <optimized out> #18 0x00007fc7f6f8be67 in mailbox_sync (box=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>, flags@entry=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mail-storage.c:1368 ctx = <optimized out> status = {sync_delayed_expunges = 0} #19 0x00007fc7f74475d2 in select_open (readonly=false, mailbox=<optimized out>, ctx=0x7fc7f8a0da98) at cmd-select.c:296 client = 0x7fc7f8a13d30 status = {messages = 4171084000, recent = 32711, unseen = 0, uidvalidity = 0, uidnext = 13, first_unseen_seq = 0, first_recent_uid = 4137782496, last_cached_seq = 32711, highest_modseq = 13, keywords = 0x7fc7f6cd06fb <t_malloc0+43>, permanent_flags = 4171118192, nonpermanent_modseqs = 1, permanent_keywords = 1, allow_new_keywords = 1} flags = MAILBOX_FLAG_DROP_RECENT ret = <optimized out> #20 cmd_select_full (cmd=<optimized out>, readonly=<optimized out>) at cmd-select.c:419 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- client = <optimized out> ctx = <optimized out> args = 0x7fc7f8a18598 list_args = 0x7fc7f89db0e0 mailbox = 0x7fc7f89db310 "Trash" ret = 1 __FUNCTION__ = "cmd_select_full" #21 0x00007fc7f744b29c in command_exec (cmd=cmd@entry=0x7fc7f8a0d9a0) at imap-commands.c:148 hook = 0x7fc7f89e4cd0 ret = <optimized out> #22 0x00007fc7f744a2ee in client_command_input (cmd=0x7fc7f6c8f798) at imap-client.c:682 client = 0x7fc7f8a13d30 command = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #23 0x00007fc7f744a39a in client_command_input (cmd=0x7fc7f8a0d9a0) at imap-client.c:733 client = 0x7fc7f8a13d30 command = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #24 0x00007fc7f744a5fd in client_handle_next_command (remove_io_r=<synthetic pointer>, client=0x7fc7f8a13d30) at imap-client.c:774 size = 19 #25 client_handle_input (client=client@entry=0x7fc7f8a13d30) at imap-client.c:786 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ret = 112 remove_io = false handled_commands = false __FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #26 0x00007fc7f744aef5 in client_input (client=0x7fc7f8a13d30) at imap-client.c:825 cmd = <optimized out> output = 0x7fc7f8a0d868 bytes = 19 __FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #27 0x00007fc7f6cdf006 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x7fc7f8a11c90) at ioloop.c:379 ioloop = 0x7fc7f89e3670 t_id = 2 #28 0x00007fc7f6cdfcb7 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=ioloop@entry=0x7fc7f89e3670) at ioloop-epoll.c:213 ctx = 0x7fc7f89e39e0 events = 0x7fc7f8a245e0 event = 0x7fc7f89e3a50 list = 0x7fc7f8a0f380 io = <optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 1739, tv_usec = 996790} events_count = <optimized out> msecs = <optimized out> ret = 1 i = <optimized out> call = <optimized out> #29 0x00007fc7f6cdea18 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x7fc7f89e3670) at ioloop.c:398 No locals. #30 0x00007fc7f6ccb463 in master_service_run (service=0x7fc7f89e3520, callback=callback@entry=0x7fc7f7452f70 <client_connected>) at master-service.c:544 No locals. #31 0x00007fc7f74428c7 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fc7f89e3370) at main.c:389 set_roots = {0x7fc7f7658d20 <imap_setting_parser_info>, 0x0} login_set = {auth_socket_path = 0x7fc7f89db070 "/run/dovecot/auth-master", postlogin_socket_path = 0x0, postlogin_timeout_secs = 60, callback = 0x7fc7f7452e10 <login_client_connected>, failure_callback = 0x7fc7f7452b60 <login_client_failed>} service_flags = <optimized out> storage_service_flags = <optimized out> username = 0x0 c = <optimized out> (gdb) config: >doveconf -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 Ubuntu quantal (development branch) first_valid_gid = 999 first_valid_uid = 999 imapc_host = backend.example.com last_valid_gid = 999 last_valid_uid = 999 log_timestamp = "%d.%m.%Y %H.%M.%S " login_greeting = dovecot ready mail_gid = imapproxy mail_home = /var/cache/imapproxy/%u mail_location = imapc:%h/%n/Maildir mail_uid = imapproxy passdb { args = host=backend.example.com default_fields = userdb_imapc_user=%u userdb_imapc_password=%w driver = imap } protocols = " imap" service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/pki/mra.example.com-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/pki/mra.example.com-key.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } verbose_proctitle = yes thanks -ben

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot cores
by dovecot＠freakout.de 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

According to Timo Sirainen: > On 11.10.2012, at 9.43, dovecot(a)freakout.de wrote: > > Dovecot code is calling str_to_time() from libmysqlclient, > instead of from Dovecot's internal code. > Not the first time mysql conflicted with Dovecot code. > This could be worked around, but .. why is your dovecot > binary linked with libmysqlclient? > Only auth and dict binaries should be. > but dovecot's configure script does not allow to specify the mysql libs and headers explictly - only by global CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS extensions, which are used for all binaries - when i tried to specify: ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --mandir=/opt/dovecot/man \ --docdir=/opt/dovecot/doc --libexecdir=/opt/dovecot/sbin --datadir=/opt/dovecot \ --with-rundir=/var/dovecot/run --with-statedir=/var/dovecot/state \ --with-mysql=/opt/mysql/bin/mysql_config checking for ... checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes configure: error: --with-mysql=path not supported. You may want to use instead: CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/mysql/bin/mysql_config/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/mysql/bin/mysql_config/lib ./configure --with-mysql i followed the hint from the configure script above and run into the core-dumps due to symbol clash str_to_time. How to work around with mysql in non-standard location? Thanks Axel

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[Dovecot] per-user quotas
by David Mehler 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Hello, I've got quotas set up on an all-user basis on my system, it's a Postfix, Dovecot, Mysql virtual users setup. Currently I have each user getting a 1GB quota with these settings in 90-quota.conf: plugin { quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota } While this works it's not what I want for all users. Say I add a virtual user called user1 to the mysql database but he's a test user and I only want that user to have 25 megabytes of storage, reading the wiki on quotas per-user items such as for example in a database overrides the global items above, is this right? If so, I'm hoping I'm not going to have to redo my entire user database, some users will have per-user quotas while I'll let others have the global quota. Thanks. Dave.

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[Dovecot] Feature Request
by Marc Perkel 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

It would be handy (for me) if there were a userdb where a directory structure defined the db. userdb stat { mail_location=maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs } userdb stat { mail_location=maildir:/email/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs } The idea being that if the first directory doesn't exist then it will try the second one.

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[Dovecot] Multiple Maildir?
by Marc Perkel 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

OK - Getting close to everything working in my weird configuration. Here's a problem I'm still having. I'm authenticating with this: userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/master-combined-sql.conf } Default mail location: mail_location = maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs However - what I'd like to do is if the mail location doesn't exist then I want to try a second mail location: mail_location = maildir:/email/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs How do I do that? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Shared Squat index for public mailboxes
by Frerich Raabe 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi, I'm running Dovecot 1.2.17 for serving mail via IMAP as well as for providing access to a mailing list archive. The archive is implemented as a public read-only mailbox with per-user index files (i.e. the \Seen flags are per-user). I recently enbled the Squat plugin to accelerate searches in the message bodies and noticed that every user (I'm using a virtual user setup) gets his own dovecot.index.search and dovecot.index.search.uids copies. Is it possible to share those files among all users of the system? The squat plugin appears to store the search indices among the other index files (as explained on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Squat) no matter what; I considered storing a central copy of the index files somewhere and then creating symlinks for all users. It should be ok as far as file-permissions go since all mail is owned by a single vmail system user, but I wonder whether the indices are really the same (I noticed their md5 checksums differ) and whether there may be file locking issues in case two users search message bodies simultaneously. Can anybody shed some light? -- Frerich Raabe - raabe(a)froglogic.com www.froglogic.com - Multi-Platform GUI Testing

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[Dovecot] dovecot cores
by dovecot＠freakout.de 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi dovecot-community, i have set up a new dovecot server - everything is self-compiled and with newest versions. dovecot daemon dies every night: Bugreport Mail - dovecot cores with sig11 my dovecot daemon cores every night - no message in log file. Please help. It runs in an OpenVZ container - therefore reiserfs is reported as filesystem. root@glen ~]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.028stab101.1PAE i686 CentOS release 5.8 (Final) reiserfs auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 apop default_login_user = nobody disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 300 listen = * mail_gid = 332 mail_home = /var/dovecot mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/%d/%n mail_plugins = quota mail_uid = 332 passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota } protocols = imap pop3 ssl_cert = </etc/exim/glen.ypack.de.pem ssl_key = </etc/exim/glen.ypack.de.key userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } root@glen ~]# cat /etc/dovecot/sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=much dbname=toarx user=exim password=xxxxxxxx default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = select login as username, password, dbuser_uid, dbuser_gid, dbuser_home, dbuser_mail, userdb_quota_rule from vusers where email = '%u' user_query = select login as username, password, dbuser_uid, dbuser_gid, dbuser_home, dbuser_mail, userdb_quota_rule from vusers where email = '%u' iterate_query = select email as user from vusers where user != 'odmr' root@glen run]# gdb /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot /var/dovecot/run/core.20049 GNU gdb (GDB) CentOS (7.0.1-42.el5.centos.1) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /opt/dovecot-2.1.10-3/sbin/dovecot...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [New Thread 20049] Reading symbols from /opt/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 Reading symbols from /opt/dovecot/lib/libdovecot.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/dovecot/lib/libdovecot.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /opt/mysql/lib/libstrings.so...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/mysql/lib/libstrings.so Reading symbols from /opt/zlib/lib/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/zlib/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /opt/ssp/lib/libssp.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/ssp/lib/libssp.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Core was generated by `/opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xb7f95fe4 in str_to_time () from /opt/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7f95fe4 in str_to_time () from /opt/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 #1 0xb7f131c0 in master_instance_list_add_line (list=0x9d48880, line=0x9d540c8 "1349762052\tdovecot\t/var/dovecot/run\t") at master-instance.c:85 #2 0xb7f1331f in master_instance_list_refresh (list=0x9d48880) at master-instance.c:115 #3 0xb7f13620 in master_instance_write_init (list=0x9d48880, dotlock_r=0xbff6fb60) at master-instance.c:173 #4 0xb7f1390d in master_instance_list_set_name (list=0x9d48880, base_dir=0x8055300 "/var/dovecot/run", name=0x8055323 "dovecot") at master-instance.c:252 #5 0x0804c347 in net_accept () at network.c:502 #6 0xb7f3255b in io_loop_handle_timeouts_real (ioloop=0x9d465b0) at ioloop.c:354 #7 0xb7f325de in io_loop_handle_timeouts (ioloop=0x9d465b0) at ioloop.c:367 #8 0xb7f338b6 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x9d465b0) at ioloop-poll.c:171 #9 0xb7f326d3 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x9d465b0) at ioloop.c:398 #10 0xb7f17304 in master_service_run (service=0x9d464e0, callback=0) at master-service.c:543 #11 0x0804d375 in net_accept () at network.c:502 #12 0xb7d84e9c in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #13 0x0804b501 in net_accept () at network.c:502 (gdb) q Regards Axel

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[Dovecot] memory allocation in new thread
by . . 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi! I have some problems with memory allocation. I create new thread in cidir storage and call malloc(), and it fails to allocate even 1 byte. What can cause this problem? Dovecot vesrion is: 2.1.10 (130563b592c9+) Sample code looks like this (I also link to pthread with: -pthread): #define TEST_MALLOC() \ { \ void *p; \ p = malloc(1); \ if (!p) { \ i_info("%s: malloc() failed", __FUNCTION__); \ } else { \ i_info("%s: malloc() succeeded", __FUNCTION__); \ free(p); \ } \ } #include <pthread.h> static void *test_pthread_malloc_func(void *data_) { TEST_MALLOC(); return NULL; } static void test_pthread_malloc() { int ret; pthread_t tid; TEST_MALLOC(); ret = pthread_create(&tid, NULL, test_pthread_malloc_func, NULL); if (ret) { i_info("failed to start thread"); } else { pthread_join(tid, NULL); } } I call test_pthread_malloc() function. It produces following output: Oct 11 12:56:15 imap(guest): Info: test_pthread_malloc: malloc() succeeded Oct 11 12:56:15 imap(guest): Info: test_pthread_malloc_func: malloc() failed

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[Dovecot] Irrelevant information filling logs
by 3.listas＠adminlinux.com.br 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi, I have a "Ubuntu10.04 + dovecot-2.0.13" configuration in my server. My mailbox server is shared by ~ 10k domains. It works fine with ~50k accounts. There is a lot of logs of "quota exceeded" like this: Oct 10 13:00:56 mailboxserver5 dovecot: lmtp(29105, user@mailboxserver5): Error: ifcIN1NxdVCxcQAAMBx7mQ: sieve: msgid=unspecified: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) These messages are not important to me. But these messages fill the log files, damaging the display of messages that could be important. Is there a way to send specific Dovecot errors on specific files or just discard them? Thanks -- Thiago Henrique adminlinux.com.br

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[Dovecot] some questions on AOX or rather a mail system setup
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi folks. Perhaps you find some time to look into this,... I'm trying to plan my mail system and would have some questions. The overall idea is about the following: - There is a (internet) server, which is the MTA (which will be postfix) and imap and/or pop3 server (which shall be, guess, dovecot ... AOX comes in later). - Any spam filtering, virus-scanning, mail filtering happens on that server. - I have not yet decided on whether to use maildrop for this or Sieve. Maildrop is nice, but has one major deficiency which I don't know how to work around. - A few clients (that means I won't serve 100 of users) connect to that server via imap and should see all mails, etc. already in some fancy sorted hierarchy (that means filtered into different directories). So far nothing complicated. But now... - Apart from spam, I never delete mail; and because I'm subscribed to many lists, I get a lot of mail. - Storage on my server is limited and it's located somewhere at my ISP, so I generally do not trust it with respect to safety... For both reasons, I want the canonical archive of all mail to be at home at some local server. - The local server should also be an imap server, so that I can access the archive from may computers at home. - The local server won't be available from the internet. - The local archive should have the same folder hierarchy as the internet server (I'd prefer not to filter twice). - The local archive might be AOX... Mail Flow: - I generally want to have _all_ mail (which is not sorted out because of being spam) to be archived at the local server. - But(!) I want to selectively keep (in addition) mail at the internet server. For example I may want to select the folder that contains all mail form some friend to be kept online completely. But I may want to decide that mailinglists keep only the last 10 days and/or 1000 messages of mail. - The idea is, that the local server regularly (when it is online/running) catches new mail from the internet server... and stores it in the archive. - So apart from new mail that has not yet been read, that local archive contains always all mails that are also on the internet server... the later may contain (for specific directories) the same, or just parts of. - The MUAs will then have two imap accounts, one to the internet server and one to the local archive,... each one being usable, depending on where I am. 1) This is where my first problem arises: How can I implement that mail flow, especially: - How do I secure that all mail is read from the internet server (i.e. that nothing is "forgotten"? - How do I make sure that no mails are retrieved twice (or more)? A problem which I often had with pop, when the mail client crashed during sync? - Further it must be secured, that when I delete something on the internet server, it is NOT deleted on the local server (on the next mail-fetching).... this is why I don't use the word "sync". a) One stupid solution would be, that I duplicate all mail on the online server,... one part is for staying online, one part is for being fetched to the local archive. As soon as it was fetched... that copy gets removed (always). That solution would give a clean and secured separation of both? b) I don't think offlineimap or any other caching-like solution is the right thing... especially as one must always fear that such a cache may be accidentally wiped. Are there better solutions than (a)? 2) Problem would be already a refinement of a working solution for (1) (but obviously not when using (1).(a) ). When e.g. reply to or forward a mail using the online server,... and that mail had already been fetched,... can I make the flag synced? 3) Is AOX suitable for the local server? - I couldn't use maildir locally, because I loose just to much space to the block fragmentation. But I guess I won't have this problem with the DB backend. a) Is AOX able to manage a really big folder hierarchy that basically ever keeps growing... with easily several 100k mails per folder... and that is in total already over 100GB? I read that e.g. dovecot would have more performance problems with that. b) I would prefer to have fast full text search. Does AOX provide this? I read that IMAP has limitations which make full text search not really usable via it? Further, I remember some dovecot wiki page that showed a comparison which said that both do not perfectly implement imap. Thanks a lot, Chris.

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[Dovecot] iterate_query does not use userdb - mail_location not found
by dovecot＠freakout.de 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi dovecot-comminity, can't get iterate_query working. doveadm cannot find mail_location which comes from userdb query. dovecot itself works fine with sql. Whats wrong? please help: [root@glen exim]# /opt/dovecot/bin/doveadm search -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 90d doveadm(uwe(a)mitmachnet.de): Error: user uwe(a)mitmachnet.de: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=(not set) doveadm(uwe(a)mitmachnet.de): Error: User init failed dovecot.conf: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } sql.conf: driver = mysql connect = host=much dbname=toarx user=exim password=xxxxxxxx default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = select user as username, password, userdb_home, userdb_mail, userdb_quota_rule from vusers where email = '%u' user_query = select user as username, userdb_home, userdb_mail, userdb_quota_rule from vusers where email = '%u' iterate_query = select email as user from vusers Cheers Axel

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[Dovecot] Fwd: Re: Dovecot doesnot disconnect at end of pop3 session
by Robert JR 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

On 2012-10-10 17:47, Jack Bates wrote: > On 10/10/2012 9:40 AM, Robert JR wrote: > >> telnet mymail.com 110 user username pass password list quit all >> commands work except the quit command, Dovecot hang at this point >> !!! >> Why Dovecot hang on receiving the Quit command !!! and doesnot >> disconnect !! > Please include your dovecot version. Also, does the list command end > with a line that contains a period? You might want to include dovecot > -n > as well, which will show everyone what your mail storage type is and > other relevant information. Jack # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mal:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 4 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Please find the output of dovecot -n list command return msg number and size only. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Dovecot doesnot disconnect at end of pop3 session
by Robert JR 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hello, I have 3 users checking same email account using pop3 (outlook express) suddenly after some hours , users are unable to disconnect from pop3 after checking mail So i telnet to the pop3 and found that the issue is true but i do not know the reason telnet mymail.com 110 user username pass password list quit all commands work except the quit command, Dovecot hang at this point !!! Why Dovecot hang on receiving the Quit command !!! and doesnot disconnect !! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: [Dovecot] I need a quota expert
by Tibby 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

I'm having problems with dovecot quota configuration. If I Include the driver mysql in dovecot-sql.conf I'm getting this error: dovecot: dict: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf line 1: Unknown setting: driver dovecot: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quotadict' If I Don't include it: dovecot: auth(default): Fatal: sql: driver not set in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf dovecot: auth(default): Fatal: sql: driver not set in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf Now What??? How Should I configure quota ? My SQL has a mail db with a user table. The table has email, password, quota_kb fields. my dovecot.conf: ---------------- protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lda { log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address = postmaster(a)domain.tld mail_plugins = sieve quota global_script_path = /home/vmail/globalsieverc mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_plugins = quota } dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } plugin { quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule = *:storage=10M:messages=1000 } auth default { user = root passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } mail_uid = 5000 mail_gid = 5000 my dovecot-sql.conf: ---------------- driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mail user=****** password=****** default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT email as user, password, concat('*:storage=', quota_kb) AS quota_rule FROM users WHERE email='%u'; user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/vmail/',CONCAT(SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',-1),'/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',1))) AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, concat('*:storage=', quota_kb) AS quota_rule FROM users WHERE email='%u' map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = user username_field = user value_field = quota_kb } SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!!! :)

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[Dovecot] About ManageSieve and TLS
by 3.listas＠adminlinux.com.br 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hi, I have a "ubuntu10.04 + dovecot-2.0.13" configuration in my server. It works fine with ~50k accounts. Recently I enabled TLS: $ cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ... # Use SSL ? ssl = yes ... The goal was to provide only IMAPS and POP3S. But Managesieve says "STARTTLS": $ telnet _MY_IP_ 2000 Trying _MY_IP_... Connected to _MY_IP_. Escape character is '^]'. "IMPLEMENTATION" "K8 ManageSieve" "SIEVE" "comparator-i;ascii-numeric copy envelope fileinto imapflags include notify regex reject relational subaddress vacation" "SASL" "PLAIN LOGIN" "STARTTLS" "VERSION" "1.0" OK "K8 IMAP/POP3 server" doveconf -a shows: service managesieve-login { ... inet_listener sieve { address = _MY_IP_ port = 4190 ssl = no } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { address = _MY_IP_ port = 2000 ssl = no } ... } I think there is something wrong there but I don't know. I think Managesieve should not say "STARTTLS". Can someone help me? Thanks. -- Thiago Henrique adminlinux.com.br

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Re: [Dovecot] LDAP encryption
by James Devine 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

I don't think I understand. Right now the problem is the password retrieved from LDAP cannot be hashed to compare against what the user sent because it is encrypted. I have to perform my AES decryption before it can be hashed and compared. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, btb <btb(a)bitrate.net> wrote: > On 2012.10.09 14.41, James Devine wrote: > >> We have an LDAP server that contains AES encrypted passwords. So far I've >> been able to use this by adding a passdb module that encrypts the user's >> password prior to ldap comparison. Now I am looking at supporting >> client-side encrypted passwords. To do this I need to decrypt the >> password >> returned by LDAP. Is there a way to insert a module to do this decryption >> between ldap returning and the auth mechanism? >> >> that would be unwise, generally speaking. as a rule of thumb, in terms > of security fundamentals, only the rootdn [or equiv] should be able to read > the values in an ldap entry's password attribute. certainly the service > account used by dovecot should not. > > in the context of ldap, authentication should be accomplished by binding > as the user, not by retrieving attribute values and performing string > comparisons. among other things, this decouples the two components and > allows applications [e.g. dovecot] to be unconcerned with whatever password > hashing scheme the directory server might be using. > > -ben >

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[Dovecot] LDAP encryption
by James Devine 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

We have an LDAP server that contains AES encrypted passwords. So far I've been able to use this by adding a passdb module that encrypts the user's password prior to ldap comparison. Now I am looking at supporting client-side encrypted passwords. To do this I need to decrypt the password returned by LDAP. Is there a way to insert a module to do this decryption between ldap returning and the auth mechanism?

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[Dovecot] Quota - usage counting.
by wamp＠promax.media.pl 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hello, I use dovecot 1.2 version with postfix virtual users and mysql. All information about quota for every user is in mysql table. How dovecot compare if quota in database is over quota in /var/vmail/exampleuser directory ? It uses something like du command ? regards, Wamp

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[Dovecot] some questions on dovecot or rather a mail system setup
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hi folks. Perhaps you find some time to look into this,... if you think I should better direct this do some dovecot mailing list,.. just tell :) I'm trying to plan my mail system and would have some questions. The overall idea is about the following: - There is a (internet) server, which is the MTA (which will be postfix) and imap and/or pop3 server (which shall be, guess, dovecot!). - Any spam filtering, virus-scanning, mail filtering happens on that server. - I have not yet decided on whether to use maildrop for this or Sieve. Maildrop is nice, but has one major deficiency which I don't know how to work around. - A few clients (that means I won't serve 100 of users) connect to that server via imap and should see all mails, etc. already in some fancy sorted hierarchy (that means filtered into different directories). So far nothing complicated. But now... - Apart from spam, I never delete mail; and because I'm subscribed to many lists, I get a lot of mail. - Storage on my server is limited and it's located somewhere at my ISP, so I generally do not trust it with respect to safety... For both reasons, I want the canonical archive of all mail to be at home at some local server. - The local server should also be an imap server, so that I can access the archive from may computers at home. - The local server won't be available from the internet. - The local archive should have the same folder hierarchy as the internet server (I'd prefer not to filter twice). Mail Flow: - I generally want to have _all_ mail (which is not sorted out because of being spam) to be archived at the local server. - But(!) I want to selectively keep (in addition) mail at the internet server. For example I may want to select the folder that contains all mail form some friend to be kept online completely. But I may want to decide that mailinglists keep only the last 10 days and/or 1000 messages of mail. - The idea is, that the local server regularly (when it is online/running) catches new mail from the internet server... and stores it in the archive. - So apart from new mail that has not yet been read, that local archive contains always all mails that are also on the internet server... the later may contain (for specific directories) the same, or just parts of. - The MUAs will then have two imap accounts, one to the internet server and one to the local archive,... each one being usable, depending on where I am. 1) This is where my first problem arises: How can I implement that mail flow, especially: - How do I secure that all mail is read from the internet server (i.e. that nothing is "forgotten"? - How do I make sure that no mails are retrieved twice (or more)? A problem which I often had with pop, when the mail client crashed during sync? - Further it must be secured, that when I delete something on the internet server, it is NOT deleted on the local server (on the next mail-fetching).... this is why I don't use the word "sync". a) One stupid solution would be, that I duplicate all mail on the online server,... one part is for staying online, one part is for being fetched to the local archive. As soon as it was fetched... that copy gets removed (always). That solution would give a clean and secured separation of both? b) I don't think offlineimap or any other caching-like solution is the right thing... especially as one must always fear that such a cache may be accidentally wiped. Are there better solutions than (a)? 2) Problem would be already a refinement of a working solution for (1) (but obviously not when using (1).(a) ). When e.g. reply to or forward a mail using the online server,... and that mail had already been fetched,... can I make the flag synced? 3) Is dovecot suitable for the local server? - Ideally of course, I would use dovecot there, too... because that would mean one piece of software less to understand. - I couldn't sue maildir locally, because I loose just to much space to the block fragmentation. - I'd prefer not to use dbox (the thing that the indices are crucial scares me a bit off). a) When using mbox... is dovecot able to manage a really big folder hierarchy that basically ever keeps growing... with easily several 100k mails per folder... and that is in total already over 100GB? - I would prefer to have fast full text search. Does dovecot provide this? I was looking into database backed mail systems (again,... just for the local archive)... namely dbmail and archiveopteryx (are there other open source solutions?)... Not sure which of the two... or whether it's a good idea at all. I remember some dovecot wiki page that showed a comparison which said that both do not perfectly implement imap. Any suggestions with respect to that? Or is there even some SQL backend planned for dovecot? Thanks a lot, Chris.

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[Dovecot] Master User Question
by Marc Perkel 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

OK - I'm trying to do weird stuff so rather not answer why I'm doing this. Trying to log in using a master user: user@example.com*master@master.com When debugging the master authenticates - but then it tries to authenticate user(a)example.com and it's not found. And - it is true that the user doesn't actually exist. What I want to do is allow it to log in without checking if the user exists, just on the credentials of the master. I'm not quite understanding what the login attempt for user(a)example.com is trying to do. Is it looking for more necessary information? Hope I asked this clearly enough. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Namespace Prefix Tutorial?
by Marc Perkel 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

I'm trying to grasp the namespace and prefix stuff and looking for a good tutorial page that explains what it is and how to use it. Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] another mysql quota problem
by Tibby 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hello! I am using dovecot 1.2.15 on Debian 6 I have Postfix configured with mysql, and also dovecot is auth-ing form mysql users table. The users table has username password quota stored. When I set qouta to whatever number, it doesnt even show in dovecot. telnet localhost 143 a login username(a)domain.tld password a getquotaroot inbox * QUOTAROOT "INBOX" a OK Getquotaroot completed. Basicly it doesn't show any kind of quota. in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mail user=USERNAME password=PASSWORD default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM users WHERE email='%u'; user_query = SELECT CONCAT(('/home/vmail/'), SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',-1),'/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',1),'/') AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', floor(quota/1024)) AS quota FROM users WHERE email='%u'; Why it doesn't get the quota out from the mail DB's users table?

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[Dovecot] Large subjects increase memory-usage and enlarge index-files
by Peer Heinlein 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Several times we already had the problems, that accounts with more the 1.3 or 1.7 billion e-mails in one folder run out-of-memory, even if vsize_limit of 750 MB is set. In this case, the lmtpd-process haven't been able to allocate more memory to read/write/update the index-files and crashed (and the index-files become corrupted at the end.) [Please -- don't discuss about the need of INBOXes with 1.7 million (unread) e-mails (don't discuss that with ME. Personally, I agree, that there's NO need for that...).] But: We also noticed accounts with ~ 300.000 e-Mails running out of memory in the same situations. This happends, if the subject is very large (subject or some other header attributes). And: We've been able to reproduce out-of-memory-Problems with just 13.000 e-mails with VERY long subjects (e.g.: network monitoring status informations), even with a vsize_limit of 750 MB (which is already very much). 13.000 e-mails isn't very much. And it's easy to inject several thousands of prepared e-mails. Having many mails for accounts with huge (and broken) index-files slows down the delivery rate VERY much and increases the need for memory and cpu resources and I/O very much. So: This could be used for a very easy to do denial-of-service attac against Dovecot-based mailservers. I don't have a clear solution for that, Dovecot needs the subject information in its index files. But it looks like, it isn't a good idea to put the whole subject into the index. Maybe it's better/necessary to use just the first 50-70 characters for that and to keep the rest away from the index? I think I would prefer that even if that means, that accessing those folders with "special" e-mails will become slower because Dovecot has to get those informations directly from the e-mail. This performance issue is just a problem for the user. But crashing lmtpd-processes and lowering the delivery rate is a *real* problem for the whole IMAP-cluster. Peer -- Heinlein Support GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 405051-42 Fax: 030 / 405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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[Dovecot] [OT] How do I convert maildir to bsmtp format?
by Marc Perkel 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a spam filtering operation as a front end for other servers. I've created a virtual server for spam storage where the user will be able to log in using squirrelmail/dovecot to review and release their spam. The email is stored in maildir format. Piecing it together I can use squirrelmail to pipe the email into something so that if a use finds a false positive they can hit the "release" button and the message is sent on to the recipient. Squirrelmail sends the message as you would receive it as stored in maildir format. I need to take this format and translate it to send it on to the user. Wondering what is the best way to do that. Something that translated it into bsmtp format would be great. I'm sure thare must be something out there. I just haven't found it yet. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot configuration and question about IP trusted
by Mik J 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

Hello list, I've just finished to install Dovecot and things seems to work so far. After some little efforts though. My version is 2.0.20 Question 1: I'm trying to tighten the security a little bit and added in dovecot.conf login_trusted_networks = 192.168.1.0/30 Then restarted Dovecot My client has the IP 192.168.1.20 and it's still able to retrieve emails. I expected it to be forbidden. Am I missing something ? # dovecot -n | grep trust login_trusted_networks = 192.168.1.0/30 Question 2: I feel that Dovecot is slow. I'm doing my test with my iphone as an imap client. Test 1: I retrieve a mail on a remote server provided by a hosting company, it takes 2 seconds Test 2: I retrieve a mail on my server which is on my LAN, the mail includes a few letters in the subject and a few letters in the body. The action takes about 8 seconds. It's quite subtule to measure so first I would like to know if Dovecot tries to do a dns reverse lookup or something like that. And it would explain the overhead. Thank you

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[Dovecot] Getting rid of the subscription file
by Marc Perkel 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

I'd like to eliminate the subscription file and have it just list the folders that are there. How do I do that? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] doveadm purge -A via doveadm-proxy director fails after some users
by Daniel Parthey 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

Hi, we have configured userdb and passdb in the director and try to iterate all users and pass the "purge" command via doveadm proxy to port 19000 on the correct director backend host. A single purge -u username(a)example.org via doveadm-proxy works correctly, but iterating over some users with -A fails. Note: users/domains have been anonymized in output: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mail04:~# /usr/bin/doveadm -c /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot-director.conf -D purge -A 2>&1 doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol: acl_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol: expire_set_lookup (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_quota_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_zlib_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin.so: undefined symbol: i_stream_create_deflate (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fts_list_backend (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(user01(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user01(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user02(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user02(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user03(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user03(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.192 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user04(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user04(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.192 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user05(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user05(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user06(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user06(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user07(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user07(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user08(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user08(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user01(a)domain2.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user01(a)domain2.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user09(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user09(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=86400 10 / 94doveadm(user10(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user10(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user11(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user11(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.191 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user12(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user12(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user13(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user13(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user14(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user14(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user15(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user15(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.191 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user16(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user16(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.191 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user17(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user17(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user18(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user18(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user19(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user19(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.192 proxy_refresh=86400 20 / 94doveadm(user20(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user20(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user21(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user21(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user22(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user22(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user02(a)domain2.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user02(a)domain2.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user23(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user23(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user24(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user24(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user01(a)domain3.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user01(a)domain3.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user25(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user25(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.192 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user26(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user26(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.191 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user27(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user27(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.190 proxy_refresh=86400 30 / 94doveadm(user28(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user28(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user29(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user29(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.191 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user30(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user30(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user31(a)domain1.example.org): Debug: auth input: user=user31(a)domain1.example.org proxy host=10.129.3.193 proxy_refresh=86400 doveadm(user31(a)domain1.example.org): Error: doveadm server failure doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The user "user31(a)domain1.example.org" is proxied to the correct backend host according to director status, but the dovecot.log on the doveadm service backend host shows the following error: Jun 29 15:40:31 10.129.3.249 dovecot: doveadm(user31(a)domain1.example.org): Error: user user31(a)domain1.example.org: Error reading configuration: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/config) failed: Permission denied Jun 29 15:40:31 10.129.3.249 dovecot: doveadm(user31(a)domain1.example.org): Error: purge: User lookup failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. The wiki http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services#doveadm states that the privileges are (temporarily) dropped to the mail user's privileges after userdb lookup. It seems that from the second purge on which is passed over a single doveadm connection, the user lookup fails. It also seems a bit strange, that the "-A" parameter can be observed in the doveadm tcp stream to the backend, since iteration should be already done in the director and the backend should purge only a single user: D username(a)example.org purge -A Is there a bug or have I misconfigured/overlooked something? Configs of mailbox backend and director are attached. Kind regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] IPv6 & SSL
by Luigi Rosa 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a dual stack server with Dovecot 2.1.10 listening on v4 and v6 Dovecot has a Comodo SSL certificate issued via NameCheap that works as expected with IPv4 in 10-ssl.conf I have enabled these configuraction directives: ssl = yes ssl_cert = < /path/to/file.crt ssl_key = < /path/to/file.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 202 hours If I connect to Dovecot using the IPv6 address of the server with Thunderbird 15.0.1 uising CRAM-MD5 averything is ok. If I enable SSL _and_ IPv6 on Thunderbird I get this error: Oct 5 20:05:04 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 1 secs): user=<>, rip=2001:470:1f09:203:fdbf:508e:4a29:56c5, lip=2001:470:1f09:203::badd:ecaf, TLS: SSL_read() failed: error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca: SSL alert number 48, session=<ZcMRtlPLqgAgAQRwHwkCA/2/UI5KKVbF> Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star stuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective." --Delenn, "Distant Star", Babylon 5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBvI50ACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZRBSACfRkp4FYpWaEZUQhIh0t6Vfs/I JbcAoKGZ769yogYS7faCXKvPTuhQiHA8 =jxCB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] horde sync status ?
by Spyros Tsiolis 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Hello all, I had a quick look at the horde site and noticed that horde is being advertised as, let's say, "smartphone friendly". Does anyone know if the newest horde version can "talk" to smart phones in regards to e-mails ? In other words, can a user owning a smartphone get his/her e-mails on it apart from the webpage ? Thank you, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] bug formatting results when using doveadm-server
by Angel L. Mateo 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Hello, I have a infrastructure using director in front of backend servers. So I normally run doveadm commands in director servers, not the backends. The problem I have is when I try to concatenate commands like this: doveadm search -S /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb -u ${user} SAVEDSINCE 5w | while read guid uid; do doveadm fetch -S /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb -u ${user} size.physical mailbox-guid $guid uid $uid; done The problem is that although when I run doveadm search command in the backend server I correctly get the list of mails, each line with the mailbox-guid and the uid of the message, when I run the same command in the director server, format of the list is corrupted and there are lines that contains just the mailbox-guid and the next the uid (of the previous) and the mailbox-guid of next, and so on. Like: e62e0d3834ed094e5c7900007efb8a67 66 e62e0d3834ed094e5c7900007efb8a67 71 e62e0d3834ed094e5c7900007efb8a67 74 e62e0d3834ed094e5c7900007efb8a67 75 e62e0d3834ed094e5c7900007efb8a67 77 e62e0d3834ed094e5c7900007efb8a67 78 e62e0d3834ed094e5c7900007efb8a67 so I can't postprocess correctly the output. I think it could be a bug in the communication between the doveadm client and server. PS: As the time of writing this email, I have realized that I could use fetch command directly. But, anyway, I want to report the problem/bug so it can be fixed.

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[Dovecot] possible nfs issue
by Cor Bosman 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Hi all, we've started receiving complaints from users that seemingly use more quota than they actually have. We noticed that these users have (in some cases many) .nfs files in their mailspool. Some of our admins checked their own dirs, and noticed them there as well. This could of course be unrelated to dovecot (kernel issue, netapp issue) but maybe somehow has an idea about if dovecot could cause this. This has been going on for at least a year, not really enough to notice before now. root@userimap1# find . -type f|grep -i .nfs ./cur/.nfs00000000003967ad003c0603 ./cur/.nfs000000000757b44b003be609 ./cur/.nfs00000000035e89bd003be60b ./cur/.nfs000000000796251c003be60c ./cur/.nfs000000000796251f003be60e ./cur/.nfs000000000262f9a1003be33a ./cur/.nfs00000000096513f3003be524 ./cur/.nfs0000000007962525003be60f ./cur/.nfs0000000003e7d8ab003be62b ./cur/.nfs00000000026f4fad003be50d ./cur/.nfs0000000000bdaeab003c0611 ./cur/.nfs0000000005da42c7003be525 ./cur/.nfs0000000003d74729003be526 ./cur/.nfs000000000229769e003be535 ./cur/.nfs000000000440969e003be516 With NFS these files are created when a file gets unlinked, but another process still has it open. It disappears as soon as the other process closes it. For some reason they dont disappear. As far as I can tell we've had no server crashes that could explain this. One possible theory is that a rename happens after an unlink. In that case the file remains. This could possibly be a dovecot issue. Anyone else with NFS mailspools seeing this? Cor

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[Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

In the docs it states that LDA " ...takes mail from anMTAand delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date." I am wondering if LMTP also interacts with the Dovecot index files and keeps them up to date?

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Add SCRAM-SHA-1 password scheme
by Florian Zeitz 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hello, attached is an hg export on top of the current dovecot-2.2 branch, which adds support for a SCRAM-SHA-1 password scheme. Ideally I'd want doveadm pw's rounds flag to apply to this, but that's currently specific to the crypt password scheme, so I left it out for now. Regards, Florian Zeitz

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[Dovecot] Syntax for doveadm auth cache
by Angel L. Mateo 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hello, What is the correct syntax of doveadm auth cache command? According to command line help: usage: doveadm [-Dv] [-f <formatter>] <command> [<args>] altmove [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] [-r] <search query> auth [-a <auth socket path>] [-x <auth info>] <user> [<password>] auth cache but when I try to run doveadm auth cache, then I'm asked for a password, so I think the command is trying to authenticate cache user. Moreover... according to previous mails (thread http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-June/066691.html) there is a patch to remove a specific user entry from cache. This patch I think is included in dovecot 2.1.9 (which I'm running) and the syntax is (I think): doveadm auth cache flush <user> 4 cache entries flushed So I'm running this command. Whenever I run it, I get the message that 3 (sometimes, is 4) entries are removed, but user information isn't really reloaded and I doubt it is really removed from cache (I have the user in a passwd-file and information used by imap processes is still the old one, no the new one, changed before the flush) -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868887590 Fax: 868888337

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Re: [Dovecot] Logging IP address for failed login
by Joseph Tam 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Scott Neville <dovecot-in(a)keystealth.org> writes: > I am trying to use the logs to show the IP that brute force activity > comes from, but Im not succeeding. I have read the archives and seen > the advice others have had. I can see logs for repeated bad logins, > but I need the IP address from the attempts. > > ... > but only for successful logins. The brute force attempts dont log like that: > > Sep 16 00:02:58 olive dovecot: auth: pam(backup): unknown user This was similar to another complaint several months ago. I conjectured that these attempts are SMTP AUTH, not IMAP, brute forcing. Are you using the dovecot's SASL feature to authenticate outgoing Email (i.e. via Postfix?). Maybe you verify this hypothesis by checking the Postfix logs. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] segfault in Debian Squeeze + Dovecot 2.1.10
by Joe Auty 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hello, I'm seeing a lot of these in my /var/log/messages in Debian Squeeze, I suspect this might be causing performance issues. Any suggestions what I can try to fix this? > [7236671.301179] imap-login[9306]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f9ff83c7e14 > sp 00007fff49d385c0 error 4 in libdovecot.so.0.0.0[7f9ff837c000+8b000] I'm using the 2.1.10 packages obtained with the following in my sources.list: deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.1 main I need to use Dovecot 2.1.x because I need to support handling multiple SSL certs.

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[Dovecot] Spurious " Renaming not supported across conflicting directory permissions"
by tlhackque 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Dovecot 2.1.10 Client = Thunderbird. Local disks. mbox format. Attempted to rename a folder, failed with: CANNOT Renaming not supported across conflicting directory permissions I don't understand why this should happen. o I was renaming within a directory - the attempt was to rename "Domain Names &- SSL Certificates" to "Domain Names". No directory was specified o The reason the directory has g=s is for dovecot - so that the 'mail' group (12) will stick to any files created. I was getting more understandable permission failures before I added it. Since 's' doesn't apply to files, I don't see why this should be viewed as a conflict. o If I chmod g-s the directory, the command succeeds. But then I'm back to file ownership problems... drwxrws--- 4 4503 12 4096 Sep 22 06:17 F/N/ -rw-rw---- 1 4503 12 81530 Sep 22 06:17 F/N/Domain Names &- SSL Certificates Sequence from TB's trace (crlfs for clarity): 1140[11ebcf00]: 121e8c00:imap.example.com:A:SendData: 66 rename "F/N/Domain Names &- SSL Certificates" "F/N/Domain Names" 1140[11ebcf00]: ReadNextLine [stream=12135a28 nb=80 needmore=0] 1140[11ebcf00]: 121e8c00:imap.example.com:A:CreateNewLineFromSocket: 66 NO [CANNOT] Renaming not supported across conflicting directory permissions 9592[c7d6840]: ReadNextLine [stream=ab687e8 nb=22 needmore=0] Config: # 2.1.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 i686 Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) first_valid_gid = 4000 first_valid_uid = 4000 hostname = smtp.example.com login_greeting = Dovecot ready. Unauthorized access is prohibited. mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%n mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = imap.v4.example.com imap.v6.example.com port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = imap.v4.example.com imap.v6.example.com port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = pop.v4.example.com pop.v6.example.com port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = pop.v4.example.com pop.v6.example.com port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/tls/certs/example_com_ca-cert-crl.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/servers-example-com.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/servers-example-com.pmk userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } -- --------------------------------------------------------- This communication may not represent my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed.

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[Dovecot] noisy auth-worker messages in logs (dovecot 2.1.8 FreeBSD)
by Philippe Chevalier 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hello, I don't know if it's been addressed before, but anyway : In my dovecot setup, I have local and virtual users. So, I need multiple passdb backends. Namely, passwd for the local users and ldap for the virtual users. passdb { driver = passwd } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } Everything work correctly : when a user logs in (imap/pop3) there's a lookup in passwd and if it fails there's a lookup in ldap (if I understand the process correctly), which eventually succeeds. Except that every time a virtual user logs in, dovecot logs an error, like : dovecot: auth-worker(99126): Error: passwd(xxx(a)domain.org,12.34.254.255): getpwnam() failed: Invalid argument I guess it's because the login is a full email that getpwnam fails. Anyway, the user logs in just fine. But I would like to know if/how I can get rid of the messages filling my logs ? I tried : auth_debug_passwords = no auth_verbose = no But no dice. I used dovecot 1.x before and there was no such messages. Thanks for any advice. K. -- Kyoko Otonashi's shrine / Le temple de Kyoko Otonashi My tribute to Maison Ikkoku / Mon hommage a Maison Ikkoku Visit http://www.kyoko.org/

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[Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused
by Jack Bates 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs on the proxy server show: Sep 27 19:55:12 proxy1 dovecot: lmtp(9398): Connect from 69.8.2.71 Sep 27 19:55:24 proxy1 dovecot: lmtp(9398): Error: lmtp client: connect(lmtp, 7025) failed: Connection refused root 9398 1102 0 19:53 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/lmtp The proxy server is hard coded (not director in this case). I purposefully shut it down to see how the system would handle failures. Unfortunately, it appears that the process just hangs there. For fun, I tried a separate protocol lmtp option in the config to try proxy_timeout. It made no difference. Missing some error handling? protocol lmtp { passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y host=%s nopassword=y proxy_timeout=120 } } Jack

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[Dovecot] Antispam plugin problem (CRM114)
by Davide 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hi to all, sorry in advance for my poor english, this is the first time that i wrote to a list if i make mistake .... excuseme. My problem is this: i have dovecot 2.1.8 installed and functioning from 2 years one week ago i have installed crm114 for my last spam detection filter "version 20100106-BlameMichelson (TRE 0.8.0 (BSD))" My mail system is qmail that through .qmail default correctly tag with X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-27CA1CFB X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20120927_105129_798028_B0035817 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 28.64 ) headers dovecot.conf is as follow: plugin { . . . antispam_signature = X-CRM114-CacheID antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_debug_target = stderr antispam_backend = crm114 antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_trash = Trash antispam_spam = SPAM antispam_unsure = UNSURE antispam_crm_binary = /opt/crm114/mailreaver.crm antispam_crm_args = --fileprefix=/opt/crm114/ . . . } protocol imap { . . . mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota mail_log antispam . . . } I have a sieve default compiled script that automatically put mails in SPAM folder or UNSURE folder if respectively in message hedere there is the evaluation of crm114 (UNSURE or SPAM). When i move mails incorrectly tagged by crm (for example from SPAM to my inbox or from UNSURE to SPAM) thunderbird (company official mail client ver 15.01) go in error with the following message: "Operation failed over folder 'UNSURE'. Server for account davide.marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it said: [CANNOT] Failed to call crm114 binary.." I dont'know where is my mistake if someone can help me is much appreciated Thank you -- */Davide Marchi /Teorema Ferrara Srl /(Tel: /**/+39 0532 783161)/**/ (Fax: +/**/39 0532 783368/**/)/**//**/ /**//**/Davide.Marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it <mailto:davide.marchi@mail.cgilfe.it?subject=Info> /CONFIDENZIALITA’ *** Questo messaggio, inclusi gli eventuali allegati, è indirizzato solo ai destinatari e può contenere informazioni riservate e confidenziali. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio senza esserne un destinatario, siete pregati di non utilizzare, copiare o distribuire questo messaggio o i suoi allegati. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio per errore, siete pregati di cancellarlo dal vostro sistema, assieme a tutti gli allegati, e di informare immediatamente il mittente,sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 c.p., sia ai sensi del DL n. 196/03. *CONFIDENTIALITY*** This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient(s) or an authorized representative of the intended recipient(s), please do not use, copy, distribute this email or its attachments or take action based on them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. *Teorema FerraraSrl - Via Spronello, 7 - 44121 Ferrara Italia - P. IVA 01244490387** P**S**tampa questo messaggio solo se veramente necessario, pensa alla natura! - Please consider whether it is necessary to print this e-mail*

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[Dovecot] BUG to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2
by Fabio Depin 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hello, Today I needed to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2. When running 'make' getting the following error: -------------------------------------------------- -------- db-checkpassword.c: In function 'sigchld_handler': db-checkpassword.c: 426: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' db-checkpassword.c: 429: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' db-checkpassword.c: 431: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' db-checkpassword.c: 432: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' make [3]: ** [db-checkpassword.o] Error 1 make [3]: ** Waiting for other processes to finish. mv-f .deps / auth-worker-server.Tpo .deps / auth-worker-server.Po make [3]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7/src/auth ' make [2]: ** [all-recursive] Error 1 make [2]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7/src ' make [1]: ** [all-recursive] Error 1 make [1]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7 ' make: ** [all] Error 2 -------------------------------------------------- -------- -To work did the following: -------------------------------------------------- -------- 417a418 + Int stat = status-> status; 426c427 - If (WIFSIGNALED (status-> status)) { --- + If (WIFSIGNALED (stat)) { 429c430 - Dec2str (status-> pid), WTERMSIG (status-> status)); --- + Dec2str (status-> pid), WTERMSIG (stat)); 431.432 c432, 433 -} Else if (WIFEXITED (status-> status)) { - Request-> exit_status WEXITSTATUS = (status-> status); --- +} Else if (WIFEXITED (stat)) { + Request-> exit_status WEXITSTATUS = (stat); -------------------------------------------------- -------- With this change worked perfectly ntanto in debian 4 with gcc 4.1.2, as in debian 6 with gcc 4.4.5. -I wonder if I made the change may affect any function of dovecot, or if it is correct. Thank you for your attention. Fabio Depin

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[Dovecot] Logging IP address for failed login
by Scott Neville 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hi, I am trying to use the logs to show the IP that brute force activity comes from, but Im not succeeding. I have read the archives and seen the advice others have had. I can see logs for repeated bad logins, but I need the IP address from the attempts. dovecot 2.0.12 / CentOS 5.4 / imaps only (993) I have tried a bunch of different combinations of 10-logging.conf settings. This is what I have currently (that does not work the way I want): auth_verbose = yes #auth_verbose_passwords = no #auth_debug = yes #auth_debug_passwords = no #mail_debug = no I *dont* want to see the passwords, either failed or successful. I just want to see failed logins for whatever reason and the IP they came from. In /var/log/maillog I get lines like this: Oct 1 04:19:12 olive dovecot: auth: pam(marketing): unknown user Oct 1 04:19:17 olive dovecot: auth: pam(marketing): unknown user When i had debugging turned on, I would get lines like this: Sep 9 01:14:59 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(dbelan,62.128.300.94): lookup but only for successful logins. The brute force attempts dont log like that: Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): lookup service=dovecot Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): lookup service=dovecot Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): lookup service=dovecot Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Sep 16 00:02:58 olive dovecot: auth: pam(backup): unknown user No IP anywhere in that. fail2ban seems to rely on the pop-login or imap-login lines to pull the IP from. I get an imap-login for my real logins: Oct 1 12:38:56 olive dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dbelan>, method=PLAIN, rip=62.128.300.94, lip=204.152.189.165, mpid=20360, TLS but no similar line for the failed logins. So is this a dovecot logging configuration combination I need to find? Is it getting lost in pam? Is it specific to CentOS? Any help appreciated - happy to read up on it myself, but would need a pointer, since the docs so far either assume I get an imap-login line for failed logins which I dont, or they assume I just want to see the repeated attempts/passwords. Scott.

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[Dovecot] BUG to compile Plugin - deleted-to-trash on dovecot 2.1+
by Fabio Depin 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hello, Today I needed to compile the plugin deleted-to-trash for dovecot 1.2.10 (> 2.1) and had problems compiling. To solve the problem efetuei changes below: -------------------------------------------------- -------------------- deleted-to-trash-plugin.c 79.80 C79 - Mailbox_alloc box = (list, name, MAILBOX_FLAG_KEEP_RECENT | - MAILBOX_FLAG_NO_INDEX_FILES); --- + Box = mailbox_alloc (list, name, MAILBOX_FLAG_NO_INDEX_FILES); 136c135 - If (keywords! = NULL) mailbox_keywords_unref (trash_box, & keywords); --- + If (keywords! = NULL) mailbox_keywords_unref (& keywords); -------------------------------------------------- -------------------- I would like to verify that this is correct, or can generate a problem. Thank you for your attention. Fabio Depin

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[Dovecot] Log NAT IP address?
by Charles Marcus 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hi Timo/everyone, Currently we are logging the remote IP, but is there a way to show the IP address that the NAT connection is coming from? The reason I ask is, we are changing ISPs, and I would like to see in the logs when an external connection is coming from our OLD ISP connection, and when it is coming through our new one. We have a Watchguard firewall, and I have both External connections setup and working, and have just pointed our DNS records to the new public IP, and would like to be able to see which WAN connection/IP they are coming from. Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Problem: dovecot-lda doesn't auto-create folders
by Karim 'Kasi Mir' Senoucci 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hello everyone, I recently updated to dovecot 2.0.19 (in fact, I updated the whole system to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I am using the dovecot from the Ubuntu packages) and just today found out that the dovecot-lda for some reason doesn't auto-create missing folders anymore as it did with my old installation (1.0.10). I have a "system users" layout and send my mails through a user-specific procmail filter. Every delivery in those filters is done via dovecot-lda using a line list this: > |$DELIVER -d archive -m lists.hylafax-`date "+%Y%m"` where $DELIVER is set to > DELIVER="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda" (I use the sudo because some of the procmail lines deliver the mail to folders in a different user's mailbox.) This works fine for all users, unless the mail folder to be delivered to doesn't exist yet. Here's an example of such a delivery attempt: > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda: Debug: auth input: archive > system_groups_user=archive uid=1002 gid=1002 home=/home/archive > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Effective uid=1002, gid=1002, > home=/home/archive > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : type=private, > prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes > location=maildir:/home/archive/Maildir > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: maildir++: > root=/home/archive/Maildir, index=, control=, > inbox=/home/archive/Maildir, alt= > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, > inbox=, alt= > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Destination address: xxx(a)xxxx.de > (source: user@hostname) > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : > /home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using > default permissions > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions > from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1 > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : > /home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using > default permissions > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions > from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1 > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info: > msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_resp(a)earthshod.co.uk>: save failed > to open mailbox lists.hylafax-201210: Mailbox doesn't exist: > lists.hylafax-201210 > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info: > msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_resp(a)earthshod.co.uk>: saved mail to > INBOX Can anyone tell me what goes wrong here and how to fix it? From what I could find out dovecot-lda should auto-create those mailbox folders, but somehow it doesn't. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance Kasi Mir

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Authentication through different IMAP server?
by Marc Perkel 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Just wondering - is there any way for a dovecot server to authenticate against a different IMAP server? Here's what I'm thinking. I run a spam filtering service and thinking about a way to give users access to their stored spam on my servers. However real email is forwarded to their server, So I'm wondering if I can configure dovecot somehow to do a back end authentication to their email account to gain access to their spam. Open to suggestions

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Clustering with dsync over ssh
by weber＠zackbummfertig.de 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hello List, i only found an old post of tiemo where he announced that he will do an wiki article how to setup dovecot cluster with dsync over ssh. anyone knows if this artcile exists and where? i would like to setup a dovecot cluster with 2 machines. thanks for help marko

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[Dovecot] Hanging IMAP sessions on Mac OS X with dovecot 2.1.10 - worked fine with 2.0.15
by Clemens Schrimpe 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Ok, here's a toughie: Out of a whim (and because of the bad weather) I today decided to upgrade my completely functioning 2.0.15 installation on my Mac OS X 10.6.7 system. NB: It's not a Mac OS X "Server", as sold by Apple - I have compiled my dovecots myself for quite a while. Anyhow: At first everything appeared to work fine after the upgrade. Up until I created a new user and -while testing- SELECTed his INBOX. The SELECT was "stuck". Though the process seemed to be alive I could only get rid of it with a "kill -9 <pid>". The same happened when selecting a newly created mailbox on any of the other (otherwise functioning) accounts, so the problem had nothing to do with the new account, but rather with the fact, that it's INBOX was empty. Using dtruss and gdb I found out, that the dovecot process was trying to obtain a GUID and in the course of doing so invoked gethostbyname(), which intern caused a lot of "mach message" handling and somewhere, deep down there, the process was stuck. Well, that led my to believe, that there was something wrong with the -so called- "mach bootstrap context". I usually start dovecot from with a (home-brewn) startup-script, which invokes it (practically) like so: sudo /usr/libexec/StartupItemContext dovecot (again: all this was working fine under 2.0.15) Now with 2.1.10, when I manually invoke dovecot with just sudo dovecot Everything appears to work fine - at least the sessions don't get stuck any more. But as soon as I logout (with dovecot still running in the background) it loses it's "mach bootstrap context" and finds itself unable to perform even the simplest tasks, like mapping a username to a uid, etc. pp. -- so starting it without the "/usr/libexec/StartupItemContext" in the background is out of the question. Now -with all that said- here's my question: What has changed with regards to "processual context" between 2.0.15 and 2.1.10 when the "imap" process is spawned/exec'd? Any environmental cleanups, closing of unknown fds, deletion/modification of environment variables, process-group-handlers, etc.? It appears, that the imap process no longer "inherits" the StartupItemContext from the main process, so some change between 2.0.15 and 2.1.10 must have broken it ... Any help is highly appreciated - Clemens PS: I google'd around a lot and searched the mailing-lists, of course. I only found a post of someone who ran into the same/similar problem dating back to Feb 21st 2012 under the subject "dovecot freezes when trying to get mail from maildir with mail", but it was quickly dismissed without ever getting resolved and that was that. PS2: I intentionally didn't include any configs with this mail as they seem to be irrelevant, but of course I can generate the necessary output if needed.

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[Dovecot] Plugin "lazy_expunge" and subfolder
by Andreas Kossack 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi Timo, hi all, we want to use the "lazy_expunge" plugin (from dovecot 2.1.10) and had configured it in a test environemnt like described in "http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge" (1 namespace) There are some subfolders from "INBOX" (like "INBOX/SPAM") in a "maildir++" configuration. All actions on first level directories ".INBOX", ."Sent" or ".Archives" are working as expected. If there is an expunge activity on e.g. ".INBOX.SPAM" directory we get an error message in dovecot log: Sep 26 12:27:55 imap(testuser): Error: lazy_expunge: Couldn't open expunge mailbox: Character not allowed in mailbox name: '.' What can we do or change to make it work? -- Best regards A. Kossack _______________________________________________________________________________ Andreas Kossack Andreas.Kossack(a)TU-Cottbus.De BTU Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany, Walther-Pauer-Str.2, 03046 Cottbus http://wwwca.telesec.de/cgi-bin/caservice/Common/InstallRoot/DT-Root-CA-2.d… _______________________________________________________________________________

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[Dovecot] sieve vacation
by Bob Miller 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello, I set up pigeonhole on a server and am using roundcube's sieverules to create a set of rules. When using the vacation feature, I can see in the logs that dovecot is sending the vacation response, but the recipient never receives it. What method does dovecot use to send the response? Does it use the sendmail binary, does it use the mail command, does it connect to some smtp server somewhere, does it use qmail-inject if it finds it? I find no evidence it is using any of these methods on my server, but I am not sure if one of these methods is failing or if there is some place else I should be looking for the missing vacation response... Thank you for any suggestions... -- Computerisms Bob Miller 867-334-7117 / 867 633 3760 http://computerisms.ca

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[Dovecot] Deleted to trash plugin
by Humberto A. Pedroso 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello, Does anybody are using deleted_to_trash plugin with Dovecot 2.1.9? I'm trying to compile and I'm with some difficulties. I tested with dovecot 2.0 and it works very well. -- Humberto

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[Dovecot] with mbox format doveadm ignores subfolders of inbox
by Jürgen Obermann 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello. After we switched the format from mbox to mdbox on our dovecot (version 2.1.9) servers last week, some of our users were missing the subfolders of their inboxes. So far we thought that with the mbox format it is not possible to have mail folders containing both messages and subfolders. Now we know that there is one exception from this rule: the inbox. With mbox format dovecot supports subfolders of the inbox, and a few of our users actually detected and used this feature! Internally the messages are stored in /var/mail/user or in a file named 'inbox' and the subfolders are in the directory 'INBOX'. (The OS is case sensitiv.) The problem was that doveadm and dsync do not support subfolders of the inbox and therefore these folders did not get synchronized from our old mbox server to the new mdbox dovecot server. The command doveadm -o mail_location=mbox:~user123/Mail mailbox list -u user123 '*' did not show any subfolder of INBOX, whereas the the following with a wrong mail_location showed that there are subfolders of INBOX doveadm -o mail_location=mbox:~user123 mailbox list -u user123 '*' Finally we could import the missing subfolders one after one in the mdbox server with commands like this: doveadm import -u user123 mbox:~user123/Mail "" mailbox INBOX/subfolder all It would be nice if doveadm could be changed to not overlook subfolders of the inbox with mbox format. Greetings, Jürgen -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann/ Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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[Dovecot] Changing Quota downward for special Mailboxes? (2.1.6)
by Jost Krieger 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

It seems there is no way to correct te quota limit downward for some mailboxes, like: quota_rule9 = UCE-TMP:storage=-10%% The idea is to not eat up the users storage with spam, so that spam stays in the queue (for some time) while real mail gets delivered. There *is* a line } else if (*value != '-' && relative_rule) { in quota.c, but nothing else handles it, starting with quota_rule_parse_percentage. Yours Jost Krieger -- | Jost.Krieger+sig(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de Please help stamp out spam! | | Postmaster, JAPH, resident answer machine at RUB Comp. Center | | Sincere words are not sweet, sweet words are not sincere. | | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 |

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[Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
by Spyros Tsiolis 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello all, I have a DL360 G4 1U server that does a wonderfull job with dovecot horde, Xmail and OpenLDAP for a company and serving about 40 acouunts. The machine is wonderful. I am very happy with it. However, I am running out of disk space. It has two times 76Gb Drives in RAID1 (disk mirroring) and the capacity has reached 82%. I am starting of getting nervous. Does anyone know of a painless way to migrate the entire contents directly to another pair of 146Gb SCSI RAID1 disks ? I thought of downtime and using clonezilla, but my last experience with it was questionable. I remember having problems declaring disk re-sizing from the smaller capacity drives to the larger ones. CentOS 5.5 Manual install of : Mysql XMail (pop3/smtp) ASSP (anti spam) Apache / LAMP and last but by no means list : Dovecot Dovecot -n : # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: * Dovecot ready * login_max_processes_count: 96 mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins: zlib auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u userdb: driver: passwd Any help would be appreciated or any ideas you might have. Regards, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] second dovecot imap server
by Spyros Tsiolis 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello again all, I would like to thank everyone for rushing to help me with the dovecot migration issue. I am , currently, reading and studying what has been said by all the good and kind people who responded to this list. OK, on the same issue,I thought of adding a totally new server with dovecot acting as a secondary/backup server for the mail servicing. Would that be possible ? What if I manage to make it work; Can I retire the old(er) server ? I would think that this is more on-topic than my last post. If I am out of line again, please respond in private. Thank you all! spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] duplicate all emails for 'backup' after user deletes them?
by Voytek Eymont 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

I have a user who occasionally reads, then deletes emails using his phone, on his and others email accounts, causing emails deleted on mail server, then he says 'oops, can you recover emails I've deleted?' what's the best way to duplicate all emails to duplicate accounts ? backup folders ? so, next time he deletes emails they can be 'recovered' on the server ? I was thinking along the lines of duplicating ALL emails...? any tips and pointers appreciated -- Voytek

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[Dovecot] mail size needed in dovecot sieve log line
by Maciej Uhlig 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

This is a dovecot sieve log line: 2012-09-26T13:47:52+02:00 host/192.168.1.1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] lmtp(7565, user@domain): vTtJDTrrYlCNHQAAs1WjhA: sieve: msgid=<MSGID>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Would it be possible to have mail size logged here? MU

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Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
by Stan Hoeppner 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

On 9/25/2012 12:29 AM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: > My clients don't invest in hardware. I live in Greece. Things are really > bad right now. Not that if they were better they (the client) would invest > in their infrastructure. ... > Thank you very much Stan for you kind reply. > > I reply to you in private since I was told to stop the thread > on the dovecot list because it's off-topic. I'm going to bring it back on topic. To recap the issue: 1. 73GB volume, ~82% full. Volume contains OS, spool, and mailboxes 2. Two 146GB drives on hand that are impossible to employ in either a live or offline migration due to hardware limitations--drive slots (0.82*73GB=60GB)-5GB(OS)= ~55GB/40= ~1.375GB/user mailbox (This math assumes the box has already been scoured and things like source files and other temporary stuff has already been removed, along with anything and everything not necessary to the primary functions of this box) 1.375GB/user suggests these users seem to horde old emails, or simply don't keep their mailboxes tidy. Normally I'd guess that a lot of space in a situation like this is taken up by full text search indexes, but you don't appear to have these enabled. I notice in your 'dovecot -n' output that you are already employing zlib, but to what degree is currently unknown to the list. Are you compressing maildirs with a nightly script? If not, and you're compressing on an ad hoc basis, realtime compression during write could save you quite a bit of additional space, extending the operating life of your current drives. Of course a simple request to your users to clean up their mailboxes would surely help as well, if that's a possibility--some users would flog one for making such a suggestion. If you're not fully taking advantage of compression currently, you may want to consider upgrading to Dovecot 2.x which allows transparent compression to dbox and maildir storage. You may want to migrate to mdbox message store format while still using zlib, and enable single instance attachment storage (SIS). As the name suggests, SIS saves an attachment only once, regardless how many user emails in which it exists. See: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib I'd point you to the docs for SIS but I'm unable to find them in the Wiki. Surely someone else can provide the settings and/or update the wiki. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] Can`t get over 1024 processes on FreeBSD - possible bug?
by Tomáš Randa 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hello, I still cannot get dovecot running with more then 1000 processes, but hard limit is 8192 per user in box. I tried everything, including modifying startup script of dovecot to set ulimit -u 8192. Could it be some dovecot bug or dovecot<>freebsd bug? I also tried to set client_limit=2 in imap service to spawn more imap clients in one process, but still I am over 1000 processes with kernel message: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 89 Could anybody help? Many thanks Tomas My system have following settings: FreeBSD 9.0 / AMD64 Dovecot 2.1.8 kern.maxproc: 12288 kern.maxfilesperproc: 36864 kern.maxprocperuid: 8192 no limit for uid 89: # limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize 33554432 kbytes stacksize 524288 kbytes coredumpsize unlimited memoryuse unlimited vmemoryuse unlimited descriptors 36864 memorylocked unlimited maxproc 8192 sbsize unlimited swapsize unlimited My dovecot.conf: # 2.1.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64 auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 default_client_limit = 2048 default_process_limit = 2048 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 info_log_path = /data/logfiles/dovecot/dovecot-info.log last_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 listen = * log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Mail Toaster (Dovecot) ready. mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota" mail_privileged_group = mail maildir_broken_filename_sizes = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = Trash:ignore sieve = ~/.sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service anvil { client_limit = 6147 } service auth { client_limit = 8192 unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 } } service imap-login { process_limit = 2048 service_count = 1 } service imap { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 2048 } service managesieve { process_limit = 2048 } service pop3-login { process_limit = 2048 service_count = 1 } service pop3 { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 2048 } shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 2048 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 }

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[Dovecot] Traffic Accounting
by M. Naumann 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi, I'm trying to find out how to do traffic accounting with Dovecot 2.x, preferrably v2.0.9, preferrably on CentOS 6. I've previously asked on IRC, but there was little feedback, and my understanding is now this list is the preferred media for such inquiries. If I recall correctly, some weeks ago I was told that traffic accounting is not officially supported on Dovecot 2, but that there could still be ways to get it to work, but no details were provided. I can think of the following approaches: * rawlog, preferrably piped (if that's possible?) into something like wc to prevent privacy issues and to reduce the I/O overhead * maildrop filtering in front of dovecot LDA (for mail inbound to mail storage) * sieve filtering Unfortunately I have little experience with either so far, so it's hard to make a good choice. I would appreciate hints on these approaches, and on any other approaches you can think of, as well as any related documentation / how-to you could point me to. While I'm subscribed to the list (for mail authentication purposes), I've disabled receiving any e-mail form the list, so please CC me on any replies. Thanks in advance, Moritz

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[Dovecot] Patches and dovecot releases
by Jean Michel 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

I'd like to know if after a release, for example the recently release 2.1.10, its common to see few days from the release some bug reports and algo some patches, are theses patches applyed on the daily builds ? ------------------------------ Jean Michel Feltrin

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[Dovecot] Logging question regarding delete actions
by Ralf Hildebrandt 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

A user is logged in via imap from multiple devices. The log has this: Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15347, msgid=<1341851741.4ffb085d2e2b7(a)swift.generated>, size=15675 Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15739, msgid=<b23b2e42f6ae9ba1602690be42b7b5c7.squirrel(a)webmail.charite.de>, size=18134 Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15740, msgid=<3509D8B3F9054C4BB26C85F3E4B96563036822877538(a)EXCHANGE21.charite.de>, size=22226 Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15741, msgid=<C2E306F4-8622-4D0F-98BD-C67F31F2FF08(a)charite.de>, size=5160 How can I find out WHICH CLIENT caused the deletion? Same issue: Sep 21 09:36:05 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<awxxxxer>, method=PLAIN, rip=109.45.0.37, lip=141.42.206.36, mpid=30773, TLS, session=<e8TfSjHKgwBtLQAl> Sep 21 10:06:17 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): Disconnected for inactivity in=2255 out=4398 How can I be sure that the log entry from 10:06:17 "belongs" to the log entry from "09:36:05"? Also, what is the meaning of the "session=<e8TfSjHKgwBtLQAl>"? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] 2.1.10 imapc assert crash report
by Oli Schacher 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi Timo I have a simple imapc gmail proxy test setup which works fine on 2.1.9, but crashes on 2.1.10 # 2.1.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.4.7-1-ARCH x86_64 auth_mechanisms = plain login imapc_host = imap.gmail.com imapc_port = 993 imapc_ssl = imaps imapc_ssl_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs listen = 127.0.0.1 mail_gid = imapproxy mail_home = /home/imapproxy/%u mail_location = imapc:~/imapc mail_uid = imapproxy passdb { args = host=imap.gmail.com port=993 ssl=imaps default_fields = userdb_imapc_user=%u userdb_imapc_password=%w userdb_imapc_ssl=imaps userdb_imapc_port=993 driver = imap } protocols = imap ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } Log: Sep 24 10:21:58 codemonkey dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.10 starting up Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: auth: Panic: file imapc-connection.c: line 1289 (imapc_connection_connect_next_ip): assertion failed: (conn->client->set.max_idle_time > 0) Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x453aa) [0x7f8d5ce963aa] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x453ee) [0x7f8d5ce963ee] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f8d5ce6abd3] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_imap.so(+0x977c) [0x7f8d5be3677c] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3618e) [0x7f8d5ce8718e] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f8d5cea3006] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xa7) [0x7f8d5cea3df7] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f8d5cea2b48] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f8d5ce8eb93] -> dovecot/auth(main+0x2ff) [0x40ad4f] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f8d5c27d725] -> dovecot/auth() [0x40af61] Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 24008 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped) Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: imap-login: Warning: Auth connection closed with 1 pending requests (max 0 secs, pid=24007, EOF) Oli -- message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons

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[Dovecot] dsync
by Emmanuel Dreyfus 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi Testing dsync, things go wrong: doveadm sync -u user remote:root@mail2.example.net dsync-local(user): Error: Mailboxes don't have unique GUIDs: 72e3be2c6f203b50883c000044af56a8 is shared by RT and RT_72e3be2c6f203b50883c000044af56a8 Obviously RT_72e3be2c6f203b50883c000044af56a8 is an outdated copy of RT But .mailboxlist does not list that mailbox. Is there a trick to make sure dsync only use valid mailboxes? I have this in dovecot.conf mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/mail/indexes/%u:SUBSCRIPTI ONS=../.mailboxlist Another problem, that may or may not be related: dsync-local(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /home/user/mail/RT at 60298748 dsync-local(user): Error: Failed to sync mailbox RT: Timeout while waiting for lock dsync-local(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /home/user/mail/RT at 63587421 dsync-local(user): Error: Failed to sync mailbox RT: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files I also get this: dsync-local(user): Error: Failed to sync mailbox RT: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files dsync-local(user): Error: proxy client timed out (waiting for MSG-GET message from remote) And this: dsync-local(user): Error: read() from worker server failed: EOF And generally speaking ,how good is dsync? is it usabel in production? This is on dovecot 2.1.7 -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu(a)netbsd.org

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[Dovecot] Sieve as mail client?
by Tom Horsley 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

A slightly off topic question, but maybe someone here has seen something like this: I want a program that operates entirely on the client side of an IMAP server, and implements the sieve filtering language by doing the necessary client side operations to move mail on the IMAP server, expunge mail, etc. It would also act as a proxy between my real mail client and the IMAP server so I'd never see any mail that hasn't been filtered first. The benefits are obvious: I could finally get sieve filtering on my stupid corporate exchange mail server :-).

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[Dovecot] segfault in Debian Squeeze + Dovecot 2.1.10
by Joe Auty 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Hello, I'm seeing a lot of these in my /var/log/messages in Debian Squeeze, I suspect this might be causing performance issues. Any suggestions what I can try to fix this? > [7236671.301179] imap-login[9306]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f9ff83c7e14 > sp 00007fff49d385c0 error 4 in libdovecot.so.0.0.0[7f9ff837c000+8b000] I'm using the 2.1.10 packages obtained with the following in my sources.list: deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.1 main I need to use Dovecot 2.1.x because I need to support handling multiple SSL certs. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org <http://www.netmusician.org> joe(a)netmusician.org <mailto:joe@netmusician.org>

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[Dovecot] Update: Hanging IMAP sessions on Mac OS X with dovecot 2.1.10 - worked fine with 2.0.15 (and 2.0.21)
by Clemens Schrimpe 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Update: I tried with 2.0.21 and this also works just fine. So it must be something which came in with 2.1.x PS: Where is the documentaion for 2.1.x - i.e. for all the nice additions Timo made? The Website "only" has 2.0.x, as far as I can tell? (might be wrong here - hadn't touched the whole thing for a while, as my "civil life" had occupied me :-) Greetings, Clemens

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Re: [Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.3.2 for Dovecot v2.1.9
by Juan C. Blanco 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Hi Stephan, I'm traying to rebuild the RH (Centos) EL5 RPM with the new pigeonhole version, however I've got the follwing errors when compiling: gcc -shared .libs/rfc2822.o .libs/edit-mail.o .libs/sieve-settings.o .libs/sieve-message.o .libs/sieve-smtp.o .libs/sieve-lexer.o .libs/sieve-script.o .libs/sieve-script-file.o .libs/sieve-script-dict.o .libs/sieve-ast.o .libs/sieve-binary.o .libs/sieve-binary-file.o .libs/sieve-binary-code.o .libs/sieve-binary-debug.o .libs/sieve-parser.o .libs/sieve-address.o .libs/sieve-validator.o .libs/sieve-generator.o .libs/sieve-interpreter.o .libs/sieve-runtime-trace.o .libs/sieve-code-dumper.o .libs/sieve-binary-dumper.o .libs/sieve-result.o .libs/sieve-error.o .libs/sieve-objects.o .libs/sieve-stringlist.o .libs/sieve-comparators.o .libs/sieve-match-types.o .libs/sieve-address-parts.o .libs/sieve-match.o .libs/sieve-commands.o .libs/sieve-code.o .libs/sieve-actions.o .libs/sieve-extensions.o .libs/sieve-plugins.o .libs/cmp-i-octet.o .libs/cmp-i-ascii-casemap.o .libs/mcht-is.o .libs/mcht-contains.o .libs/mcht-matches.o .libs/tst-truefalse.o .libs/tst-not.o .libs/tst-anyof.o .libs/tst-allof.o .libs/tst-address.o .libs/tst-header.o .libs/tst-exists.o .libs/tst-size.o .libs/cmd-require.o .libs/cmd-stop.o .libs/cmd-if.o .libs/cmd-keep.o .libs/cmd-redirect.o .libs/cmd-discard.o .libs/ext-fileinto.o .libs/ext-reject.o .libs/ext-envelope.o .libs/ext-encoded-character.o .libs/sieve.o -Wl,--whole-archive ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/vacation/.libs/libsieve_ext_vacation.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/subaddress/.libs/libsieve_ext_subaddress.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/comparator-i-ascii-numeric/.libs/libsieve_ext_comparator-i-ascii-numeric.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/relational/.libs/libsieve_ext_relational.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/regex/.libs/libsieve_ext_regex.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/copy/.libs/libsieve_ext_copy.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/imap4flags/.libs/libsieve_ext_imap4flags.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/include/.libs/libsieve_ext_include.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/body/.libs/libsieve_ext_body.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/variables/.libs/libsieve_ext_variables.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/enotify/.libs/libsieve_ext_enotify.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/notify/.libs/libsieve_ext_notify.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/environment/.libs/libsieve_ext_environment.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/mailbox/.libs/libsieve_ext_mailbox.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/date/.libs/libsieve_ext_date.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/spamvirustest/.libs/libsieve_ext_spamvirustest.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/ihave/.libs/libsieve_ext_ihave.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/editheader/.libs/libsieve_ext_editheader.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/vnd.dovecot/debug/.libs/libsieve_ext_debug.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/vnd.dovecot/duplicate/.libs/libsieve_ext_duplicate.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/dovecot -L/var/tmp/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2-219_3-root/usr/lib64/dovecot -L/usr/lib64/dovecot -ldovecot-lda -L/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.9/src/lib-storage/.libs -L/usr/kerberos/lib64 -L/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.9/src/lib-dovecot/.libs -lrt -m64 -mtune=generic -Wl,-soname -Wl,libdovecot-sieve.so.0 -o .libs/libdovecot-sieve.so.0.0.0 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldovecot-lda collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libtool: install: error: relink `libdovecot-sieve.la' with the above command before installing it make[4]: *** [install-dovecot_pkglibLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src/lib-sieve' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src/lib-sieve' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src/lib-sieve' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50565 (%install) It seems that the error is related to the ld.gold fix, If I revert the c52a0c561311 patch the error is not produced Regards

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.11 panic in mail-transaction-log-view?
by Michael Durket 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

I'm seeing this periodically in my logs for a specific user (followed by a backtrace which I've deleted from this post): Panic: file dovecot-1.2.11/src/lib-index/mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 290 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || max_file_seq != view->head->hdr.file_seq || max_file_offset != (uoff_t)-1 || min_file_offset <= view->head->sync_offset) Is there something I can do to work around this problem for the user, or is this something new and I need to follow the instructions at http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html to send in a bug report?

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[Dovecot] thunderbird does not copy a tree-structure to dovecot imap
by Anton 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Hi, running in problems with KMail I decided to switch to dovecot-imap & thunderbird on my kubuntu 12.04 64 bit (so I can read my imap-folder-mails with KMail again if it gets more stable) What I did: - I wrote a python script to convert my KMail mails folder to a thunderbird mailfolder (directory tree containing mbox files and *.sbd folders) - I created a fake pop mail account in thunderbird and imported the whole mail-structure (i just copied it) - I create a local imap account ( so I have a ~/Maildir dovecot folder in my user dir) - In /etc/dovecot: 1. /etc/dovecot/10-mail.conf (line 10) I set: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs 2. /etc/dovecot/20-imap.conf (line 57) I set: imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep Now I want to copy the whole mailstructure from my imported fake pop mailfolder to the dovecot imap folder. What happens: Lets say my source structure is mailfolder1 + mail1 + mail2 + subMailFolder2 + mail1-in-subMailFolder2 + mail2-in-subMailFolder2 + subSubMailFolder3 + mail1-in-subMailFolder3 + mail2-in-subMailFolder3 I thunderbird (version 15) I drag and drop my mailFolder1 to the imap folder and I get: mailfolder1 + mail1 + mail2 + subMailFolder2 + subSubMailFolder3 as you See only the mails of the *TOP* folder are copied. All subfolders are created but they contain NO MAILS. Did somebody experience the same problem??? Otherwise I will write a python script to do that (I dont hope to need to write a mailclient in python ;-) ) Any hint is greatly welcome. Anton

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