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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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[Dovecot] key -> object mailstore
by Damien Churchill 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi, I was wondering what would be entailed in modifying dovecot 2.2 to support storing mail in an object store. I've seen a few mails dotted around in the ML history about supporting such a thing and seen it's basically dependant upon some changes in lib-storage to support writing messages without locking. Is this still the case? Regards, Damien

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[Dovecot] http://xi.rename-it.nl down?
by Matthias 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello! Could it be, that http://xi.rename-it.nl is down? Thanks, Matthias

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[Dovecot] userdb missing driver
by Surreal 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Good Day, I'm using dovecot 2.1.8 and this is my dovecot -n output: # 2.1.8: dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE i386 auth_default_realm = domain.xxx auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_realms = domainone.xxx domaintwo.xxx disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_plugins = quota expire mail_log notify mail_temp_dir = /var/tmp mail_uid = 5000 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 = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { expire = Trash mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = maildir:User quota quota2_rule = *:storage=3G quota_rule = *:storage=3G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+30%% quota_rule3 = Sent:storage=+30%% quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u } sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = vmail } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota expire mail_log notify imap_quota imap_zlib } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 2 } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: userdb is missing driver ---------------------------- This is my dovecot-sql.conf.ext connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=3306 user=daemonuser password=password dbname=postfix driver = mysql default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT password_query = SELECT password,CONCAT('/mail/', maildir) AS userdb_home,\ '5000' AS userdb_uid, '5000' AS userdb_gid, allow_nets,\ concat('*:bytes=', quota) AS userdb_quota_rule\ FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND domain='%d' AND active=1 user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/mail/', maildir) AS home, 'maildir:~/' as mail, '5000' AS uid, '5000' AS gid,\ concat('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule\ FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND domain='%d' AND active=1 #iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM mailbox ------------------------------ I'm sure i granted all privileges to daemonuser to postfix db. This is my first on dovecot so my knowledge is very minimal, all help possible is very much appreciated. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Trouble implementing Antispam plug-in for Dovecot
by Ben Johnson 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello, I am attempting to use the Antispam plug-in for Dovecot and am having trouble with the implementation. My configuration is Dovecot (1.2.9) + Sieve + SpamAssassin on Ubuntu 10.04. Mail that SpamAssassin tags as SPAM is moved into the affected user's "Junk" folder (/var/vmail/example.com/user/Maildir/.Junk). I followed the Wiki article at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Antispam . After restarting Dovecot, my IMAP client (Thunderbird v15) reports the following whenever I attempt to move mail from Inbox to "Junk" directory: "[CANNOT] antispam plugin not configured" That exact phrase appears only once in a Google search ( http://dovecot-antispam.sourcearchive.com/documentation/1.1plus-p20090218.g… ): if (!hamaddr || !spamaddr) { mail_storage_set_error(t->box->storage, ME(NOTPOSSIBLE) "antispam plugin not configured"); return -1; } Based on the surrounding source code, which I realize may be old, it seems that Ham and Spam addresses are required, or similar. I am using the following configuration options: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -------------------- ## IMAP specific settings protocol imap { mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugins = quota imap_quota antispam } # [...] plugin { antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_backend = pipe antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = spam;junk } -------------------- For what it's worth, the logging directives seem not to have any effect (and perhaps the rest of the directives do not, either, hence the problem I'm having). I tried changing the above directives to their older directive names (I also changed the order slightly, which may be irrelevant): -------------------- plugin { antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_backend = pipe antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = spam;junk } -------------------- This changed the message in my IMAP client, when attempting to move a message from my Inbox to the Junk folder, to: "[SERVERBUG] failed to send mail" Does this indicate a problem with the "/usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh" script that is provided on the Wiki (cited above)? Also, it was not clear from the documentation ( http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/antispam.html ) whether or not the Pipe back-end requires the X-DSPAM-Signature header, and if so, to what value it should be set when using SpamAssassin. Thanks for any pointers, -Ben

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[Dovecot] Wrong quota calculation
by Cibest ML 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi, We've a strange quota behavior on our dovecot servers. It seems that it's somehow doubling the real used storage (or could be something like twice the inbox size + size of other folders, hard to know for sure). It was initial setup with the maildir++ system. Now it's been configured with dict and mysql table but the result is the same. Dovecot version : 2.1.7 (from squeeze-backports). Maildir format is used As example, let's use mailbox(a)domain.com. If I check in the quota table, I'll find : - size : 697151354 - number of files : 1510 Now if I check the Maildir folder on the filesystem, I'll find : - size : 347960000 - number of files : 824 (using find . -type f|grep -v dovecot|wc -l, not 100% accurate) Another mail box Reported by dovecot : 503446986 1081 Filesystem : 248592000 598 Does anyone has an idea of what could be possibly wrong. We've checked & double-checked everything and nothing seems to be wrong (no dsync used). -- Regards Sébastien

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[Dovecot] v2.1.10 released
by Timo Sirainen 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.10.tar.gz.sig The director bugfix is pretty important at least when running in two director setups, since it can break the directors until both of them are manually shut down. I'm not entirely sure if the same happens in >2 director setups, but I'd think so (although I do wonder why I haven't seen it happen in them). BTW. I'm hoping for v2.2.alpha1 release within a week or two and to get it stabilized rather quickly. + imap: Implemented THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT extension. + Added "doveadm exec" command to easily execute commands from libexec_dir, e.g. "doveadm exec imap -u user@domain" + Added "doveadm copy" command. + doveadm copy/move: Added optional user parameter to specify the source username. This allows easily copying mails between different users. + Added namespace { disabled } setting to quickly enable/disable namespaces. This is especially useful when its value is returned by userdb. + Added mailbox_alias plugin. It allows creating mailbox aliases using symlinks. + imapc storage: Added imapc_max_idle_time setting to force activity on connection. + fts-solr: Expunging multiple messages is now faster. - director: In some conditions director may have disconnected from another director (without logging about it), thinking it was sending invalid data. - imap: Various fixes to listing mailboxes. - pop3-migration plugin: Avoid disconnection from POP3 server due to idling. - login processes crashed if there were a lot of local {} or remote {} settings blocks.

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[Dovecot] Prevent Download messages from server
by Selcuk Yazar 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi, can we prevent download messages from server user by user ? sme common used mail's message must be remain at the server, but sometimes we download them ? thanks in advance -- Selçuk YAZAR

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Re: [Dovecot] Prevent Download messages from server
by Peter Mogensen 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

> we have no problem, just i want to learn how can i do that. i think > it's clear . Well... I'm pretty sure most others don't. But anyway. As in ALL Internet protocols (IMAP being no exception), letting the client read data on the server requires it to download the data. Preventing download will prevent reading the mail. Period. So if you're fine with that and just want to learn how to do it, then just disable the account in the user database. /Peter

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot deliver Segmentation fault when arrive the first message
by interfaSys sàrl 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

I see the same crashes on FreeBSD. Turning off ACL makes the crashes disappear. I'm getting a different backtrace though and it doesn't seem to be related to ACL: Core was generated by `imap-login'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.8...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.8...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librt.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libthr.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libthr.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x00000000104b99a6 in hash_table_destroy (_table=0x28) at _ctype.h:143 143 return (_c < 0 || _c >= __mb_sb_limit) ? _c : [New Thread 10e041c0 (LWP 103332/initial thread)] (gdb) bt full #0 0x00000000104b99a6 in hash_table_destroy (_table=0x28) at _ctype.h:143 table = (struct hash_table *) 0x10e29700 #1 0x0000000010478cf1 in settings_parser_deinit (_ctx=0x10e29778) at array.h:197 ctx = (struct setting_parser_context *) 0x0 #2 0x00000000104ac4ea in master_service_settings_cache_deinit (_cache=0x1045da08) at master-service-settings-cache.c:81 cache = (struct master_service_settings_cache *) 0x10e2e040 entry = (struct settings_entry *) 0x10e29740 next = (struct settings_entry *) 0x0 __FUNCTION__ = "master_service_settings_cache_deinit" #3 0x000000001044d1df in login_settings_deinit () at login-settings.c:129 No locals. #4 0x000000001044dd7e in main_deinit () at main.c:62 No locals. #5 0x000000001044df5c in login_binary_run (binary=0x4051c0, argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffebd8) at main.c:62 service_flags = 72 set_pool = 0x10e2d020 allow_core_dumps = true login_socket = 0x10457491 "login" c = -1 #6 0x00000000004036ee in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffebd8) at client.c:40 No locals. Cheers, Olivier

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Re: [Dovecot] [PATCH] Generalize HMAC implementation
by Florian Zeitz 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Am 11.09.2012 20:21, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On 11.9.2012, at 21.07, Florian Zeitz wrote: > >>> I think we could simply #define the largest allowed context_size, use it for these buffers' sizes and then add i_assert(meth->context_size <= HMAC_MAX_CONTEXT_SIZE) >>> >> Well, either that, or we could use a union of all known context structs >> there. > > That annoyingly requires #including in hmac.h all the different .h files that contain hash contexts. When new hashes are added I doubt anyone remembers to update that. And since the hmac_context is rather rarely used I don't think it matters if we just use a somewhat large context size. > >> Or we could use i_malloc() and i_free() under the assumption hmac_init() >> + hmac_final() calls are always matched. > > Yeah, that's not too bad either I guess. Although it is different from other hash_init()+final calls which don't require it, and it's also wasting CPU a bit. > Here is an updated version of the patch. It uses the variant defining the largest allowed content size. I choose 1024 bit (128 Byte), since that is what most of the SHA-3 candidates use, so it's hopefully somewhat future proof. It's also rebased to the current head and switches the hmac uses added since the last version over to the changed API. It also fixes an "interesting" compiler warning I got with clang, which complained about the fact that struct hmac_context* was (re)declared in the prototype of hmac_md5_get_cram_context() and therefore separate from the one declared in hmac.h. Regards, Florian

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[Dovecot] Deleting a folder with & character
by Angel L. Mateo 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello, One of my users has a mailbox named 'INBOX.Kron & SPM' (maybe created a long time ago, when we use courier imap as pop/imap server, but I'm not sure). I can see the maildir with a doveadm list command: amateo_adm@myotis31:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox list -u <user> ... INBOX.Kron & SPM ... but I can't delete it, neithe rename it: amateo_adm@myotis31:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox delete -u <user> 'INBOX.Kron & SPM' doveadm(jrfv): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX.Kron & SPM: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Kron &- SPM amateo_adm@myotis31:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox delete -u <user> 'INBOX.Kron \& SPM' doveadm(jrfv): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX.Kron \& SPM: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Kron \&- SPM is there any way to delete it with doveadm command? should I use a specific syntax or escape to indicate the name?

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[Dovecot] 2.1.10 crashes at login (buf->used <= buf->alloc)
by interfaSys sàrl 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello, There is a big problem with 2.1.10. Here is what I saw in the logs: Sep 18 22:22:23 imap(): Panic: file buffer.c: line 86 (buffer_check_limits): assertion failed: (buf->used <= buf->alloc) Sep 18 22:22:23 imap(): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 26833 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Reverting to 2.1.9 with the exact same config file works just fine Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] ssl cert for mail server
by cc "maco" young 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

for testing a new ssl cert. it works ok for browsers, but > openssl s_client -crlf -connect ms1.trailsandtribulations.net:443 => verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain is this ssl cert - as it's constructed - is ok for mail clients? (realize needs to be on mail port etc - right now talking about the cert itself.) have had problems with thunderbird, and was wondering if this might be part of the problem.

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.3.3 for Dovecot v2.1.10
by Stephan Bosch 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello Dovecot users, Version 0.3.2 was a bit broken, because it failed to compile against installed Dovecot headers. Changelog v0.3.3: - Fixed compile against installed Dovecot headers. This was broken by the ld.gold fix in the previous release. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.3.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.3.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] lda bug: multiple passdb ignored
by Алексей Панкратов 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Greetings. When dovecot configured to use multiple passdb and static userdb as: #password database in multiple ldap subtree passdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dv-ldap-real.conf } passdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dv-ldap-virtual.conf } userdb { driver = static args = uid=pop gid=mailnull } all works fine but... When LDA deliver mail it check passdb but only first appeared in configuration: 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 info(a)zzz.zz service=lda 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: cache(info(a)zzz.zz): miss 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: ldap(info(a)zzz.zz): pass search: base=ou=account,ou=it,dc=planar,dc=local scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=x-mailUser)(uid=info)) fields=x-mailPassword 18.09.2012 15:00:18 lda: Debug: auth input: 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: cache(info(a)planar.spb.ru): hit: 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: master out: NOTFOUND 1 1 P.S. dovecot version 2.1.7 sysytem x86 FreeBSD 9.0

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[Dovecot] Proxy connection timeouts
by Kelsey Cummings 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

We are seeing a few (0-15) proxy failures like the following out of ~3m successful proxied connections a day. Average session creation load over our peak hour is about 47/sec. The backend servers aren't logging anything that would suggest any internal problem like insufficient processes to handle the load. It doesn't seem to happen when utilization is lowest at night. dovecot: imap-login: Error: proxy(foo): connect(1.1.1.1, 143) failed: Connection timed out (after 63 secs) I'm curious if anyone else has seen any similar problems or has any suggestions. # dovecot -n # 2.1.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon) auth_master_user_separator = * auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 auth_worker_max_count = 64 mail_fsync = always mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u): session=%{session} " mail_plugins = stats zlib maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = imap driver = pam } plugin { lazy_expunge = DELETED_MESSAGES. stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } protocols = imap pop3 service anvil { client_limit = 10000 } service auth { client_limit = 10000 vsz_limit = 512 M } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 1842 } unix_listener doveadm-server { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 7000 process_min_avail = 32 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login -d /etc/dovecot/bin/sonic-imap-postlogin user = $default_internal_user } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 512 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } process_limit = 2000 process_min_avail = 32 } service pop3-postlogin { executable = script-login -d /etc/dovecot/bin/sonic-pop3-postlogin user = $default_internal_user } service pop3 { executable = pop3 pop3-postlogin process_limit = 4096 } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0666 } } shutdown_clients = no ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 1 days syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_id_send = support-url support-email mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = stats zlib mwi_update mail_log notify imap_stats imap_zlib ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.key } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = stats zlib lazy_expunge pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_uidl_format = %f ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.key }

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[Dovecot] Mailbox aliases
by Timo Sirainen 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

I've been wondering about ways to handle all the various different Sent/Sent Messages/Sent Items/etc mailboxes that different clients create and if there could be a way to make them work at least somewhat better. I'm mainly thinking about ISP-like installations where users are using tons of different clients and there's no way to get everyone configured properly. Of course the eventual solution is hopefully that all the clients will support SPECIAL-USE extension, but while waiting for that maybe mailbox aliases could help some. So one possibility would be to force autocreation of wanted specific mailbox names, and create aliases for the other commonly used mailboxes. The main difference here for the current behavior is that all of the mailboxes would contain the same mails, instead of different mails going to different mailboxes with different clients. So for example: .. mailbox Sent { auto = create special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent alias_for = Sent } .. If "Sent Messages" doesn't exist: - DELETE Sent works as usual - RENAME Sent works as usual If "Sent Messages" is created: - it's symlinked to Sent - DELETE "Sent messages" deletes the symlink, not the contents - RENAME "Sent messages" isn't allowed - DELETE/RENAME Sent fails with message: Delete/Rename for Sent not allowed before "Sent Messages" is deleted. Thoughts? The main disadvantage is that clients would still see two different mailboxes, and some would download contents from both of them. I was thinking about creating some wiki page which could list the best working configurations and also a client list, which would specify if it supports SPECIAL-USE and what the default mailbox names it uses are.

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.3.2 for Dovecot v2.1.9
by Stephan Bosch 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello Dovecot users, I've been busy recently with some wholly unrelated Dovecot IMAP patches, so Sieve development moved a bit into the background. This release therefore consists mostly of small bugfixes. The most important change is the fix of a bug in ManageSieve's CHECKSCRIPT command that causes a segfault. Quite a few people have encountered this problem recently, so it is about time I release this now. Changelog v0.3.2: + sieve-refilter tool: improved man page documentation by explicitly specifying the syntax used for mailbox arguments. + Sieve: spamtest and virustest extensions: improved trace debugging of score calculation. + Sieve: made error messages about exceeding the maximum number of actions more verbose. - Sieve tools: fixed problems with running as root: sievec and sieve-dump now ignore mail_uid and mail_gid settings when run as root. - Sieve: fixed bug in action accounting (for limit checking): increase action instance count only when an action is actually created. - Sieve: include extension: fixed namespace separation of :global and :personal scripts. - ManageSieve: fixed segfault bug triggered by CHECKSCRIPT command. - Fixed linking with ld.gold. - Fixed several Clang compile warnings and a few potential bugs. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] trash plugin together with sieve_before ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

We have a sieve script doing sieve_before to sort spam to spam-folders. Now I'm trying to configure the "Trash" plugin, but it doesn't seem to work.. I noticed my config file says: # Space separated list of plugins to load (none known to be useful so far). Do NOT # try to load IMAP plugins here. #mail_plugins = and that doveconf doesn't list any plugins loaded for "protocol sieve". Should we load quota and trash here ? -jf

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[Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes in a multi domain environment
by Alessio Cecchi 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi, I would like to enable mailbox sharing for my users. I'm using dovecot 2.1.9 with vpopmail authentication. For security reason shared mailboxes should be available only for users of the same domain. Dovecot's wiki suggest to enable acl like this: plugin { # assumes mailboxes are in /var/mail/%d/%n: acl_shared_dict = file:/var/mail/%d/shared-mailboxes.db } but in vpopmail, and also in many others configuration, mailboxes are, for example, in /var/mail/nas1/%d, /var/mail/nas2/%d and so on, so it's difficult to restrict shared mailboxes available only for the same domain. A trick could be set acl_shared_dict to /var/mail/%d-shared-mailboxes.db, but I don't know if it's safe on an NFS environment. So, why don't provide a way to restrict shared mailboxes also for dict in SQL? One way could be to add to "user_shares" table a column "domains" which is the same domain of the mailbox'owner and a config option, for acl, like acl_only_for_same_domain =yes/no so dovecot can add a "WHERE %n = domain" for the SELECT. Are there other possible solutions? 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] dovecot 1.x: problem with quota
by Toni Mueller 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi, I have now verified that there is a problem with quota (and sieve?). Summary: If the "maildirsize" file gets garbled (= every once in a while), mail is getting lost randomly. Details: I have a Debian box (6.0.5/amd64) with a Postfix server (2.7.1), which delivers email via Dovecot (1.2.15) to local disk (ext3). My email is filtered via a sieve script (wish I could have something better, eg. procmail). The account data is fetched from an SQL database, and I have a default quota set in dovecot.conf (200MB). My own mailbox has no quota (*:storage=0, mentioned in the database). A client sent an email to me, which is logged as being delivered like normal to my mailbox, but doesn't show up there. After poking around, I decided to simply delete the maildirsize file and have the client send that email again, and voila, it shows up in my mailbox. At the same time, however, other emails get delivered just fine, so the heinous thing is that you don't immediately notice that something fishy is going on - only when the client actually calls you (sort of defeats some uses of email)... The problem is worsened by the fact that you can't tell *which* emails get lost - you only end up with a random subset of "your" messages. The problem occurred now after running for a few months. FWIW, the problem with the garbled maildirsize file resulted in a different user's email getting bounced due to "mailbox full", when it wasn't. Questions: * Is this a known problem (Google was unhelpful/unwieldy)? * How can I prevent the problem, short of setting up a cron job to delete that file every week? * How can I log the delivery of messages in dovecot's log, not only the POP3/IMAP activity when people fetch their email? TIA! Kind regards, --Toni++

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[Dovecot] Can`t get over 1024 processes
by Tomáš Randa 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hello, I have configuration question. Running FreeBSD 9.0 / AMD64 / Dovecot 2.1.8 version and cannot get over 1024 processes. I`ve increased process_limit in imap and pop3 and still have messages in syslog like: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 89, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5). Did I forget to increase some other value? System values are higher - kern.maxprocperuid: 8192 and kern.maxproc: 12288 I`d like to have more secure configuration > one process to one connection. Thanks for help. Tomas My config: # OS: FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64 auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 default_client_limit = 6200 default_process_limit = 4096 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 info_log_path = /var/log/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_privileged_group = mail maildir_broken_filename_sizes = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = Trash:ignore } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 } } service imap-login { process_limit = 1536 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 2048 } service pop3-login { service_count = 1 } service pop3 { 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 = 1024 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail } -- Tomáš Randa, Blueboard.cz s.r.o. ---------------------------------- http://hosting.blueboard.cz GSM: +420 775 086 575 Jabber: tomas(a)blueboard.cz Tel: +420 245 008 678 -- Tomáš Randa, Blueboard.cz s.r.o. ---------------------------------- http://hosting.blueboard.cz GSM: +420 775 086 575 Jabber: tomas(a)blueboard.cz Tel: +420 245 008 678

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[Dovecot] clucene build warnings?
by Charles Marcus 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi all/Timo, Is clucene still the best/recommended method for enabling full text search? Although I haven't enabled FTS yet, I plan on doing sometime in the future, and was going to be using clucene, but before I do, I'd like to see if I need to worry about an issue I've been seeing ever since I first installed clucene (and still get every time it is upgraded)... I run gentoo linux on an amd64 server, and have always gotten this warning whenever it is updated (and also got it when I first installed it): QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it may exhibit random runtime failures. /var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/clucene-2.3.3.4-r4/work/clucene-core-2.3.3.4/src/core/CLucene/index/DocumentsWriter.cpp:129:33: warning: passing NULL to non-pointer argument 2 of ‘void* memset(void*, int, size_t)’ Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. Homepage:http://clucene.sourceforge.net/ Has anyone else ever seen similar warnings when building clucene? Is the gentoo ebuild output correct that this is not a gentoo bug, but is in fact a problem with upstream? If so, is it harmless? Or should I try to get upstream to fix it? That said, being that ianap, I probably wouldn't be much help to them, so, Timo, any chance you can see if this is a problem that needs to be addressed with them? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Mailbox directory permissions (LDA, 0600 -> 0660, virtual users)
by Marcin Hłybin 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hello, I have a quite common dovecot configuration with virtual users support: 1. User configuration is stored in MySQL database. 2. Mailboxes are owned by vmail:vmail with permission 0600 or drwx------. Is it possible to change mailbox mode to 0660? Dovecot version is 2.1.7 Part of SQL configuration: user_query = \ SELECT \ CONCAT_WS('/', home, u.uid, d.domain_name, u.user_name) AS home, \ 500 AS uid, \ 500 AS gid \ FROM users u \ LEFT JOIN domains d ON u.domain_id = d.id \ WHERE \ u.user_name = '%n' AND \ d.domain_name = '%d' AND \ u.active = 1 Regards. -- M.

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[Dovecot] doveadm backup - Fatal: All your namespaces have a location setting.
by Tobias Hachmer 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hello list, I am using dovecot v2.1.9 and have a problem with doveadm backup: # doveadm backup -u user(a)domain.com maildir:/backup/domain.com/user/Maildir doveadm(user(a)domain.com): Fatal: All your namespaces have a location setting. It should be empty (default mail_location) in the namespace to be converted. Here my namespace config: namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/vmail/%%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/vmail/%d/%n/shared/%%u prefix = Gemeinsame-Postfaecher/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/vmail/indexes/%u prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } Have I got a problem with my namespace config? Regards, Tobias Hachmer

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[Dovecot] RFC 6154: German umlauts in special_use folder names
by Daniel Parthey 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi, the Drafts special folder is called "Entwürfe" in German locale. How should the special_use entry in the config file look like? Would you recommended to use the encoded folder name... mailbox "Entw&APw-rfe" { special_use = \Drafts } ...or rather the utf-8 Encoding in the dovecot config file? mailbox "Entwürfe" { special_use = \Drafts } Regards Daniel -- https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820

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[Dovecot] Strip backslash from usernames
by Dominic Malolepszy 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi, Is there a way to strip a backslash if it exists at the start of username like \user(a)example.com within the Dovecot LDA? I am using Dovecot 2.1.9 with a LDAP backend, so I cannot do any sort of SQL trickery. Dominic.

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[Dovecot] Edit an existing message or replacing it
by Mostafa Rokooie 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hi, I want to know is there any solution to edit an existing message in mailbox via IMAP? or replace it with a new message (store a new message with same UID)? Thank you very much, --Mostafa Rokooie

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[Dovecot] Error: User doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hi all I receive the following error in my mail.log. Does anybody know how to configure dovecot to get rid of this ? I have one server up and running with postfix, dovecot and a mysql backend. The error above happens on another server with postfix, dovecot and a ldap backend. Any hints ? Mit freundlichem Gruß Carsten Laun-De Lellis Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Hauptstrasse 13 D-67705 Trippstadt Phone: +49 (6306) 992140 Mobile: +49 (151) 27530865 Fax: +49 (6306) 992142 email: <mailto:carsten.delellis@delellis.net> carsten.delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] POP3S PORT
by Robert JR 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hello I am using dovecot with POP3S and IMAPS ports, When client connect to POP3S port (995) , i can see in dovecot log file that the protocol is TLSv1 So how come the protocol is TLSv1 and not SSL ? Does the user connect t port 995 with SSL protocol then encrypt again inside the SSL session to make The TLSv1 protocol ? Or does the client use TLSv1 Protocol immediately when connect to port 995 without Using SSL protocol ? Please Help. Robert JR

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[Dovecot] sieve_execute_bytecode failed with squirrelmail
by Gregory Charot (EVENIUM) 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hello all, I'm using dovecot on CentOS 5.8 (official CentOS package) and have lot of lock and "sieve_execute_bytecode error" in my dovecot.log. $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.8 (Final) $ dovecot --version 1.0.13 The sieve scripts are generated by squirrelmail mail and are mostly mail filters and vacations notices. $ yum info squirrelmail.noarch Installed Packages Name : squirrelmail Arch : noarch Version : 1.4.8 Release : 5.el5.centos.13 When I look at my dovecot.log I have a lot of sieve error : deliver(foo): Sep 11 15:08:04 Info: msgid=<1881992580.96697.1347363282479.JavaMail.jboss(a)gula1.xxx.com>: save failed to EvSUPPORT: Timeout while wait ing for lock deliver(foo): Sep 11 15:08:04 Info: sieve runtime error: Fileinto: Generic Error deliver(foo): Sep 11 15:08:04 Error: sieve_execute_bytecode(/home/foo/.dovecot.sievec) failed The server hosts around 50 mailboxes, some people does have sieve errors some doesn't. Is there any way to get more details about the runtime error ? How can I debug this issue ? Thanks a lot in advance, Greg My config below : #dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/roch_crt/roch_evenium_com.ca-bundle ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/roch_crt/roch_evenium_com.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/roch_crt/private/roch-private.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+SSLv3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 256 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_connections: 32 mail_privileged_group: mail dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls,oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 438 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384

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[Dovecot] Possible mbox corruption if mail is saved with wrong Content-Length header (2.1.6)
by Jost Krieger 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

One of our users likes to delete attachments from his mails. He is using roundcube and we installed a plugin for that. He reports that from time to time one of his mails gets corrupted (cut off in the middle). I could verify there is something wrong in the logs: imap(x1234567): Error: Cached message size larger than expected (6796 > 2844) imap(x1234567): Error: Corrupted index cache file /net/mbx3/disc2/home/85/x1234567/Index/.imap/Sent/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 5001 imap(x1234567): Error: read(/net/mbx3/disc2/home/85/x1234567/Mail/Sent) failed: Input/output error (FETCH for mailbox Sent UID 5001) imap(x1234567): Info: Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-08-23 00:00:49] in=1124145 out=1324791 I had a look at the plugin and it works by duplicating the message and leaving out the attachment(s). The headers are also duplicated, including Content-Length. I've fixed that in the plugin, (don't know yet if it helps), but I think it shouldn't cause such breakage in dovecot. # doveconf -n # 2.1.6: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-103.ELsmp i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 9) doveconf: Warning: Dovecot was last started using /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf, but this config is /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf auth_master_user_separator = * disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_password = (hidden) lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes log_path = /dev/stderr log_timestamp = mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mailbox:INDEX=~/Index mail_plugins = " quota zlib mail_log notify virtual" mdbox_rotate_size = 5 M namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = children location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = "#MD/" separator = / type = private } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/passwd.dovcot.master driver = passwd-file master = yes } plugin { acl = vfile mail_log_events = undelete mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mailbox_create mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = fs:Disk quota } protocols = pop3 imap service auth { client_limit = 4300 user = root } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 542 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 134.147.64.42 port = 143 } service_count = 0 } service imap { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 1 G } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 134.147.64.42 port = 110 } service_count = 0 } service pop3 { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 2048 vsz_limit = 512 M } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = " quota zlib mail_log notify virtual imap_quota imap_zlib" } Thanks Jost Krieger -- | Helft Spam ausrotten! HTML in Mail ist unhöflich. | | Postmaster, JAPH, manchmal Wahrsager am RZ der RUB | | Wahre Worte sind nicht gefällig, gefällige Worte sind nicht wahr.| | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 |

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[Dovecot] Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hi all I hope anyone could help me out with my problem regarding the user_id settings. I am running my mail servers just for fun and I am not a professional mail admin. After I am using postfix and dovecot for my mail servers with a mysql backend for the last 2 years I have tried to set up an installation with a ldap backend. I followed the how-to from the Postfix Book and now I have always the following error message: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) This error message occurs whenever I try to connect via a mail client. System emails were delivered the way I expected. So I assume postfix is working fine. The ldap search I use for user authentication is as follows: uris = ldap://myserver.com dn = cn=admin, dc=mydomain, dc=com dnpass = secure tls = no base = ou=mailuser,dc=mydomain,dc=com ldap_version = 3 user_attrs = pfMailMessageStore=home user_filter = (&(objectClass=PFMailAccount)(pfMail=%u)) pass_attrs = pfClearPassword=password,pfMailMessageStore=userdb_home pass_filter = (&(objectClass=PFMailAccount)(pfMail=%u)) default_pass_scheme = PLAIN user_global_uid = 5000 user_global_gid = 5000 I am using dovecot 2.1.9, postfix 2.8.5 and openldap 2.4.23 I would appreciate any help or tipps. ~ Mit freundlichem Gruß Carsten Laun-De Lellis Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Hauptstrasse 13 D-67705 Trippstadt Phone: +49 (6306) 992140 Mobile: +49 (151) 27530865 Fax: +49 (6306) 992142 email: <mailto:carsten.delellis@delellis.net> carsten.delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] best way to activate quota
by Angel L. Mateo 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hello, I'm planning to activate quota control in dovecot, with maildir quota backend. I have about 70k users in my system directed to 4 backend servers (with a director to ensure that a user is always directed to the same server). I have tried to activate it in one of my nodes. The problem is that load of it has increase a lot, as much as the system was unusable (maildir is in nfs storage, with indexes in local disks). What do you think is the best to activate it? I have think that I could use doveadm commands to calculate an initial quota (on low load periods) and then activate quota, hoping that although quota is not correct, it would be used. Should this work?

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[Dovecot] antispam_plugin prevents IMAP login (error 3) [Dovecot 2.0.19]
by dof＠projektfabrik.com 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Hi everybody, trying to get the Dovecot antispam_plugin to work and I must be doing something wrong, because as soon as it is enabled with a certain backend, imap logins do not work anymore (the session is immediately closed after a successful login). Interestingly, pipe and spool2dir are working (that is, the session won't be closed), dspam-exec and crm114-exec are not. If this happens, mail_debug output is as follows: imap-login: Login: user=<dof>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=10420, secured imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_fts_plugin.so imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_antispam_plugin.so imap(dof): Debug: Effective uid=23244, gid=8, home=/var/spool/dovecot/userdata/dof imap(dof): Debug: Home dir not found: /var/spool/dovecot/userdata/dof master: Error: service(imap): child 10420 returned error 3 Without the plugin I get: imap-login: Login: user=<dof>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=10469, secured imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_fts_plugin.so imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so imap(dof): Debug: Effective uid=23244, gid=8, home=/var/spool/dovecot/userdata/dof imap(dof): Debug: Home dir not found: /var/spool/dovecot/userdata/dof imap(dof): Debug: fs: root=/var/spool/dovecot/mail/dof, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/dovecot/mail/dof/INBOX, alt= imap(dof): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/dovecot/mail/dof: mode=0755 gid=-1 Hopefully this is just a configuration problem. I tried the plugin in the Ubuntu repository (I'm using LTS 12.04) and even checked out the source from git and compiled it myself, but to no avail. Thanks a lot in advance and best regards, Florian ------------------- dovecot -n output: auth_cache_size = 128 k auth_cache_ttl = 20 mins auth_failure_delay = 10 secs auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no login_greeting = Projektfabrik IMAP ready. mail_gid = mail mail_home = /var/spool/dovecot/userdata/%u mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/mail/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/dovecot/mail/%u/INBOX:LAYOUT=fs mail_uid = dovemail 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 = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { antispam_backend = dspam-exec antispam_dspam_binary = /usr/bin/dspam antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_spam = Spam antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages autocreate = INBOX/Sent Mail autocreate2 = INBOX/Spam autocreate3 = INBOX/Trash autosubscribe = INBOX/Sent Mail autosubscribe2 = INBOX/Spam autosubscribe3 = INBOX/Trash fts = squat sieve = /var/spool/dovecot/sieve/%u/defaultbc sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/spam.sieve sieve_dir = /var/spool/dovecot/sieve/%u } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = dovemail } user = dovenull } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = localhost port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = localhost XX.XXX.XX.XXX port = 993 } service_count = 1 user = dovenull } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = localhost port = 2000 } service_count = 1 user = dovenull } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = localhost port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = XX.XXX.XX.XXX port = 995 } service_count = 1 user = dovenull } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/dovecot/cacert.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/key.pem protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_plugins = antispam autocreate fts fts_squat } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_lock_session = yes } protocol lda { mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)projektfabrik.com }

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[Dovecot] cyrus2dovecot script converts mailboxes to bigger sizes
by Igor Zinovik 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Hello, list. I'm asking question not directly connected with dovecot. I'm planning a migration from cyrus-imapd to dovecot and i'm using cyrus2dovecot script (by Freie Universität Berlin) to convert mailboxes of users, but i'm wondering why size of mailbox in Maildir++ is so much bigger than mailbox in cyrus format after conversion: linux-a9qw:~/ # du -sh /mnt/imap/z/user/zinovik /srv/vmail/petrsu.ru/z/zinovik/Maildir 238M /mnt/imap/z/user/zinovik 1.2G /srv/vmail/mydom.ru/z/zinovik/Maildir I was planning to implement quota for mailboxes about 1 gigabyte, but after conversion I would not be able to receive messages to my own box, because i'm overquota. I think the only way would be to set quota up to 15 GB since some of users have mailbox with 12GB after conversion, but I have no such disk capacity to allow more than 1500 users have 15GB quota. Would it be practical solution to compress all files after conversion and enable zlib support in dovecot?

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[Dovecot] doveadm director map : User listing returned failure
by Ramón Frontera 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Hello we are running Dovecot 2.1.9. We have 2 proxies with director and 4 mail servers. We have the user information in a LDAP. I try to do: # doveadm director map doveadm(root): Error: User listing returned failure doveadm(root): Error: user listing failed user mail server ip expire time <unknown> x.x.x.x 2012-09-12 10:52:17 <unknown> x.x.x.x 2012-09-12 10:55:53 in the dovecot log i have found: dovecot: auth: Error: Trying to iterate users, but userdbs don't support it What can I do to solve this problem? Thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------ Ramon Frontera Gallardo Universitat de les Illes Balears

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.x POP3 to Dovecot 2.x POP3 mbox to Maildir best transfer program/method
by Tim E. 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

I have a box running Dovecot 1.x POP3 only server using mbox format. I want to port the mail over to a Centos 6.3 box running a Dovecot 2.x POP3 only server using Maildir format. The main thing I want to do is support XUID/read/unread status so the transfer is transparent for the end user. I have been able to achieve transfers from the mbox format to Maildir but loose the XUID/read/unread status so that the Thunderbird client always re-downloads all the mail as if it were new. Ive googled and I have tried the following: dsync : dovecot 1.x server is too old and doesnt support the command? mb2md.pl: transfers the mbox to maildir and creates file dovecot-uidlist but the Thunderbird client redownloads the files virtualmin copy-mailbox: transfers the mailbox to Maildir but doesnt reproduce the dovecot indexes. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I would like to produce a howto of the process when I am done.

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[Dovecot] TIMO HELP! director ring wont stay connected
by Kelsey Cummings 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

I've had 2x director ring up and running with production load on 2.1.8 with around 10,000 active connections for two weeks and everything has been working great - until this morning. There isn't anything obvious in the logs beyond the fact that the director connections started bouncing. It was not resolved by reloads or restarts or an upgrade to 2.1.9 (only the directors.) I've dropped one of the servers out of the ring to prevent suffering but this is a less than ideal situation. Any idea what is going on? Load today is consistent with low weekend load since it is a major US holiday so this wouldn't appear to be a load related issue. auth_master_user_separator = * auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 10000 director_mail_servers = 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 1.1.1.3 1.1.1.4 director_servers = a.director.foo b.director.foo disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_proxy_port = 1842 login_trusted_networks = 10.0.0.1 mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y driver = static } service anvil { client_limit = 20103 } service auth { client_limit = 41704 } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 9321 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director process_limit = 20000 process_min_avail = 32 } service imap { process_limit = 20480 } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director process_limit = 20000 process_min_avail = 32 } ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 1 days syslog_facility = local0 protocol imap { ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.key } protocol pop3 { ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.key } >Sep 3 09:22:42 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/right disconnected >Sep 3 09:22:45 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.37:9321/left disconnected >Sep 3 09:22:49 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/left disconnected >Sep 3 09:22:53 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/left disconnected >Sep 3 09:22:54 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.37:9321/left disconnected >Sep 3 09:22:59 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/left disconnected >Sep 3 09:23:02 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.37:9321/right disconnected >Sep 3 09:23:02 a.director. a dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:23:02 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/right disconnected >Sep 3 09:23:02 b.director. b dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:23:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: director: User foo host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 47 secs (Ring synced for 30 secs, weak user, user refreshed 47 secs ago) >Sep 3 09:23:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: director: User bar host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 38 secs (Ring synced for 30 secs, weak user, user refreshed 38 secs ago) >Sep 3 09:23:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: director: User bla host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 30 secs (Ring synced for 30 secs) >Sep 3 09:23:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: director: User bla2 host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 30 secs (Ring synced for 30 secs) >Sep 3 09:23:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.37:9321/right disconnected >Sep 3 09:23:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:23:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:23:32 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/out disconnected before handshake finished >Sep 3 09:23:32 b.director. b dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:24:02 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/out disconnected before handshake finished >Sep 3 09:24:02 b.director. b dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:24:05 a.director. a dovecot: director: Warning: Delaying new user requests until ring is synced >Sep 3 09:24:32 a.director. a dovecot: director: Warning: Ring is synced, continuing delayed requests >Sep 3 09:24:41 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.71:9321/right disconnected >Sep 3 09:24:41 b.director. b dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:24:41 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.37:9321/right disconnected >Sep 3 09:24:41 a.director. a dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director left >Sep 3 09:25:11 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: User hash 2285697953 is being redirected to two hosts: 10.10.10.39 and 10.10.10.76 (old_ts=1346689481,handshaking,recv_ts=1346689467) >Sep 3 09:25:12 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: User hash 623192092 is being redirected to two hosts: 10.10.10.76 and 10.10.10.39 (old_ts=1346689481,handshaking,recv_ts=1346689468) >Sep 3 09:25:12 b.director. b dovecot: director: Error: User hash 1683990717 is being redirected to two hosts: 10.10.10.43 and 10.10.10.76 (old_ts=1346689481,handshaking,recv_ts=1346689468) >Sep 3 09:25:12 a.director. a dovecot: director: Error: Director 10.10.10.37:9321/right disconnected >Sep 3 09:25:12 a.director. a dovecot: director: Warning: director: Couldn't connect to right side, we must be the only director lef -- Kelsey Cummings - kgc(a)corp.sonic.net sonic.net, inc. System Architect 2260 Apollo Way 707.522.1000 Santa Rosa, CA 95407

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin with multiple mail servers
by Ramón Frontera 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Hello we are running Dovecot 2.1.9 and I want to configure expire plugin. We have 2 proxies with director and 4 mail servers. I have configured expire plugin on a single mail server and it works Ok. I don't konw how to configure with 4 mail servers and 2 proxies. My first idea is create on each mailserver one sqlite database and configure the expire plugin on proxy, but I don't know if this is a good idea. I don't know if the database should be in one proxy, and I don't know which server has to do the "doveadm expunge" command Do you have any idea how is the best way to configure expire plugin on this scenario? Thanks in advance. -- Ramon Frontera Gallardo Universitat de les Illes Balears

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[Dovecot] dovecot/log not running
by Mark Hinch 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

I'm running 2.1.7 as downloaded/installed by Debian (and then appropriately setup for my config, ...). It almost works. I can send/receive email from thunderbird, squirrelmail, ... However there are two anomalies: 1. dovecot/log is not running. After restarting dovecot (and waiting 30 seconds), I have this in the log files: Sep 6 17:42:16 hinch4 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.7 starting up (core dumps disabled) Sep 6 17:42:56 hinch4 dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Sep 6 17:42:56 hinch4 dovecot: master: Error: service(log): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Sep 6 17:42:56 hinch4 dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Sep 6 17:42:56 hinch4 dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 31286 killed with signal 9 After 30 seconds, a "ps -ef | grep dovecot" yields: dovenull 1858 20223 0 18:56 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap-login root 1859 20223 0 18:56 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/auth -w mhinch 1860 20223 0 18:56 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap root 1862 14520 0 18:56 pts/3 00:00:00 grep dovecot root 20223 1 0 18:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf dovenull 25144 20223 0 18:55 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap-login dovecot 25147 20223 0 18:55 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/anvil root 25148 20223 0 18:55 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/config dovecot 25161 20223 0 18:55 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/auth root 25174 20223 0 18:55 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/ssl-params mhinch 25208 20223 0 18:55 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap Seems like everything is there except dovecot/log. ssl-params and anvil came back (?!?). A "doveadm log find" dumps this in the log: Sep 6 18:52:24 hinch4 dovecot: doveadm: Debug: This is Dovecot's debug log (1346975543) Sep 6 18:52:24 hinch4 dovecot: doveadm: This is Dovecot's info log (1346975543) Sep 6 18:52:24 hinch4 dovecot: doveadm: Warning: This is Dovecot's warning log (1346975543) Sep 6 18:52:24 hinch4 dovecot: doveadm: Error: This is Dovecot's error log (1346975543) Sep 6 18:52:24 hinch4 dovecot: doveadm: Fatal: This is Dovecot's fatal log (1346975543) However, further debugging that I try to do (see next problem) does not result in ANY further input to the log files, even though I have all known logging turned on. So I *think* that logging is not actually running. If I can get that started, then I'll take a crack at the next problem myself ... 2. However, as long as I have your attention, my next problem is that it seems like dovecot/imap-login hangs(?). After a few hours, I have something like: # ps -ef | grep dovecot dovecot 530 31186 0 18:49 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/auth root 13277 31186 0 17:47 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/config dovenull 13664 31186 0 18:44 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap-login root 20207 14520 0 18:54 pts/3 00:00:00 grep dovecot dovenull 27599 31186 0 18:45 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap-login dovenull 27601 31186 0 18:45 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap-login dovenull 27603 31186 0 18:45 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap-login dovenull 27607 31186 0 18:45 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/imap-login root 31186 1 0 17:42 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf dovecot 31289 31186 0 17:42 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/anvil with exactly 100 imap-login processes. I'm the only meaningful user on the machine (unless somebody is imap DoS-ing me), so this does not make much sense. Obviously thunderbird is polling the machine and each time is leaving around a imap-log process. As far as I can tell, thunderbird successfully logs in (i.e., I get mail) though I can't be sure whether these are successful logins or not (no logging!). What hangs imap-log processes for hours at a time? After a while of course, dovecot will not start any new imap-login processes so Thunderbird cannot get any more mail until I restart dovecot. Then everything is OK for another 12 hours or so. Ideas on either problem? -Mark

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[Dovecot] Found bug on doing IMAP search with UTF8 chars
by Weinreich, Nico 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Hi! I'm using Roundcube 0.9git as mail frontend and have installed Dovecot 2.1.7 on Debian Squeeze. When searching for mail via Roundcube and the keyword contains "special" chars (like german umlauts), then Dovecot seems to die when the folder does not contain a message which contains this keyword, i.e. folder contains message /w subject "Dies ist eine Nachricht" => search for "Nachricht" => Roundcube shows that messages folder contains message /w subject "Dies ist eine Nachricht" => search for "Nachricht123" => Roundcube shows error that no messages where found folder contains message /w subject "Auflösung der Frage" => search for "Lösung" => Roundcube shows that messages folder contains message /w subject "Auflösung der Frage" => search for "Lösung123" => Roundcube shows error saying: "Connection to storage server failed" Looking into /var/log/mail.log shows: Sep 5 11:43:32 mail dovecot: imap(abc(a)def.de): Panic: search key not utf8: L.sung123 dsr_sub_allocation Sep 5 11:43:32 mail dovecot: imap(abc(a)def.de): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4478a) [0 x7f065ba8e78a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x447d6) [0x7f065ba8e7d6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f065ba655ef ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x9a3cb) [0x7f065bd6f3cb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x9a8aa) [0x7f065bd6f8 aa] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x78641) [0x7f065bd4d641] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_search_args_fore ach+0x3c) [0x7f065bd4d7bc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parse_header+0x29) [0x7f065ba78eb9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-st orage.so.0(+0x9a0cf) [0x7f065bd6f0cf] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x9b160) [0x7f065bd70160] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x48) [0x7f065bd706e8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_search_next_nonbl ock+0x27) [0x7f065bd51a07] -> dovecot/imap() [0x41668f] -> dovecot/imap(imap_search_start+0xd8) [0x416ad8] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_sort+0x1e6) [ 0x40e636] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x3d) [0x41157d] -> dovecot/imap() [0x4104fe] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x135) [0x410805] - > dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x41112f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f065ba9a926] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/ libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f065ba9b95f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f065ba9a8c8] -> /usr/li b/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f065ba87053] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2a4) [0x419354] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_ma in+0xfd) [0x7f065b706c8d] -> dovecot/imap() [0x408e79] Huh? This error only occurs when I search for a keyword, that contains probably non-ASCII-US chars (like umlauts, euro sign EUR ...) and no message was found in that folder. When there is any message which contains this keyword, then Roundcube is fine and there error above cannot be found in mail.log. Can anybody confirm this behaviour? Regards

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[Dovecot] Resynchronization of indexes (or Warning: Maildir Scanning <dir> took <X> seconds)
by Angel L. Mateo 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Hello, We have a dovecot servers farm with storage in NFS and indexes in local files. Under heavy load conditions we a log of messages in the form: Sep 3 12:35:49 myotis32 dovecot: imap(<imapuser>): Warning: Maildir: Scanning <maildir cur directory> took 62 seconds (9516 readdir()s, 0 rename()s to cur/, why=0x80) We have check that messages are directed with lmtp to the same server the user (scenario 3 at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS with director in front of backend servers). So my question is why is dovecot using these readdirs operations? why it is scanning the whole cur directory of the user? I guess this is an index resynchronization, but I don't know could it be the cause. PS: I have attached my dovecot -n output

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[Dovecot] dsync issue: "Server sent invalid input: Error parsing input: Unexpected ')'"
by Gábor Lénárt 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Hi, I'm trying to use dsync (dovecot version 2.1.9) for IMAP only per-user migration from other IMAP servers to my shiny new one. One worked quite well, but there is a problem with an old IMAP server: dsync(migtest@office): Debug: imapc(imap-sunw-old.servers.intra:143): Looking up IP address dsync(migtest@office): Debug: imapc(imap-sunw-old.servers.intra:143): Connecting to 192.168.10.100:143 dsync(migtest@office): Error: imapc(imap-sunw-old.servers.intra:143): Server sent invalid input: Error parsing input: Unexpected ')' dsync(migtest@office): Debug: imapc(imap-sunw-old.servers.intra:143): Disconnected dsync(migtest@office): Error: imapc: Command failed: Disconnected from server dsync(migtest@office): Error: user migtest@office: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: imapc: LIST failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-09-10 11:49:02] dsync(migtest@office): Fatal: User init failed What can cause this? "By hand" test with telnet'ing says: dovecot-test:~$ telnet imap-sunw-old.servers.intra 143 Trying 192.168.10.100... Connected to imap-sunw-old.servers.intra. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS CHILDREN BINARY UNSELECT SORT LANGUAGE XSENDER X-NETSCAPE XSERVERINFO X-SUN-SORT X-SUN-IMAP X-ANNOTATEMORE X-UNAUTHENTICATE XUM1 AUTH=PLAIN] imap-sunw-old.servers.intra IMAP4 service (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-5.02 (built Oct 12 2007; 32bit)) (this is one line of course) Is it possible that the problem about ')' is caused by this line? Or is it tottaly different issue? I just think this, because the the major difference between this and the working server on migration is to have ')' and '(' at the imap "greeting", the working server does not have those, and the error message is about something with ')'. The command was the following (no configuration in dovecot for this, only this command is given at shell level - currently mainly for testing if it works or not); doveadm -D -v -o imapc_features=rfc822.size \ -o imapc_host=192.168.10.100 \ -o imapc_user=migtest@office -o imapc_password=SECRET backup -R -f \ -u migtest@office imapc: This was OK with a dovecot v1 as the "source" (as I've written) but has the problem I've desribed with that "old" sun messaging server as the source. I've also used tcpdump then wireshark's "follow TCP stream" on it: the communication seems to be just that "greeting" line, then my (target) dovecot sends FIN. That "old" server works otherwise since years with various IMAP clients. The log of my server does not contain too much just the db lookups, which works nicely (the same for working and non-working source IMAP servers): Sep 10 11:49:02 dovecot-test dovecot: auth: Debug: prefetch(migtest@office): passdb didn't return userdb entries, trying the next userdb Sep 10 11:49:02 dovecot-test dovecot: auth: Debug: ldap(migtest@office): user search: base=cn=mail,dc=office,dc=intra scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=mailUser)(uid=migtest@office)) fields=uid Sep 10 11:49:02 dovecot-test dovecot: auth: Debug: ldap(migtest@office): result: uid=migtest@office Any help is welcome, - Gábor

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Generalize HMAC implementation
by Florian Zeitz 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hello everyone and Timo in particular, about a year ago I implemented a SHA-1 variant of the HMAC(-MD5) present in Dovecot. I had always disliked this a bit, because it replicates a lot of code. This patch generalizes the HMAC function to take a hash_method struct as parameter, and changes existing code which uses the "old" HMAC function to use this new one. I'm not really sure this is actually a good idea, but I still felt I should provide the code in case you would want to merge it upstream. Attached is the patch as a hg export based on the revision of dovecot-2.2 current at the time of writing. Regards, Florian Zeitz

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[Dovecot] FTS indexing
by Ralf Hildebrandt 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

I'm reacreating all FTS indices on all my users' INBOX folders: mkdir ~%s/Maildir/lucene-indexes && chown %s:users ~%s/Maildir/lucene-indexes doveadm index -u %s -q INBOX In "ps auxwww" I'm seeing this: tbudkevy 29186 3.7 0.0 6616 3056 ? S 18:11 0:15 dovecot/indexer-worker [tschuetz INBOX] how can a dovecot/indexer-worker actually access the INBOX of the user "tschuetz" (where "tbudkevy" doesn't have access, due to the different UID)...? Should ~%s/Maildir/lucene-indexes be filled after having run the command sequence for all users? -- 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] Quota less mailbox with mdbox
by Héctor Moreno Blanco 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Good morning everyone, I have a little doubt about setting a quotaless mailbox with mdbox. Currently we have dovecot 2.0.10 with Maildir as mailbox system. We want to migrate to mdbox. The migration is simple and easy, but there are some configuration settings we cannot set to work properly. In our dovecot with Maildir we have the namespace INBOX with certain quota and another one without quota. This is working like a charm. Dovecot.conf: ... namespace { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes type = private } namespace { inbox = no location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . hidden = yes type = private list = no } namespace { location = maildir:%h/Maildir/_backup prefix = _backup. separator = . type = private } ... plugin/quota = maildir:_backup:ns= ... Dovecot-ldap.conf: ... pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(uid=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password, mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home, mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(|(mailAlternateAddress=%u)(mail=%u)(uid=%u))(accountActive=TRUE)) ... When migrated to mdbox and changing the configuration, we don't know how to get it work. We have also tried to follow the instructions from the wiki of dovecot2 without success. Could anyone give us a clue please? If additional information is needed, please let me know. Thank you very much in advanced. Kind regards. ________________________________ [Descripción: C:\Documents and Settings\hhmb\Datos de programa\Microsoft\Firmas\logo_gmv.gif] Héctor Moreno Blanco División de Seguridad e Infraestructuras / Security and Infrastructures Division GMV Isaac Newton, 11 P.T.M. Tres Cantos E-28760 Madrid Tel. +34 91 807 21 00 Fax +34 91 807 21 99 www.gmv.com <http://www.gmv.com/> [Descripción: C:\Documents and Settings\hhmb\Datos de programa\Microsoft\Firmas\icon_blog.gif]<http://www.gmv.com/b2_gmv> [Descripción: C:\Documents and Settings\hhmb\Datos de programa\Microsoft\Firmas\icon_facebook.gif]<http://www.facebook.com/infoGMV> [Descripción: C:\Documents and Settings\hhmb\Datos de programa\Microsoft\Firmas\icon_twitter.gif]<http://www.twitter.com/infoGMV_es> [Descripción: C:\Documents and Settings\hhmb\Datos de programa\Microsoft\Firmas\icon_youtube.gif]<http://www.youtube.com/infoGMV> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ______________________ This message including any attachments may contain confidential information, according to our Information Security Management System, and intended solely for a specific individual to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised copy, disclosure or distribution of this message is strictly forbidden. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it. ______________________ Este mensaje, y en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, puede contener informacion clasificada por su emisor como confidencial en el marco de su Sistema de Gestion de Seguridad de la Informacion siendo para uso exclusivo del destinatario, quedando prohibida su divulgacion copia o distribucion a terceros sin la autorizacion expresa del remitente. Si Vd. ha recibido este mensaje erroneamente, se ruega lo notifique al remitente y proceda a su borrado. Gracias por su colaboracion. ______________________

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[Dovecot] Memory leak by getting the virtual size of a IMAP folder
by Dafan Zhai 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi everyone, I am writing a dovecot statistic plugin, which calls the 'mailbox_get_metadata' function with MAILBOX_METADATA_VIRTUAL_SIZE as the 2nd parameter. enum mailbox_status_items metadata_items = MAILBOX_METADATA_VIRTUAL_SIZE; struct mailbox_metadata metadata; mailbox_get_metadata(mailbox, metadata_items, &metadata); but Valgrind finds a memory leak when this function is called: ---------------------------------------------------snip-------------------------------------------------------------- ==10304== 12,288 bytes in 3 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 74 of 76 ==10304== at 0x40222A4: calloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so) ==10304== by 0x416EE9F: block_alloc (mempool-alloconly.c:237) ==10304== by 0x416F16C: pool_alloconly_create (mempool-alloconly.c:140) ==10304== by 0x409C07D: mail_search_build_init (mail-search-build.c:187) ==10304== by 0x40C77F1: index_mailbox_get_metadata (index-status.c:200) ==10304== by 0x4067102: maildir_mailbox_get_metadata (maildir-storage.c:486) ==10304== by 0x409F78B: mailbox_get_metadata (mail-storage.c:1298) ==10304== by 0x490492D: mailbox_status_update (statistic-plugin.c:310) ==10304== by 0x4904E2E: statistic_mail_save (statistic-plugin.c:426) ==10304== by 0x41A054D: notify_contexts_mail_save (notify-plugin.c:61) ==10304== by 0x41A104F: notify_save_finish (notify-storage.c:143) ==10304== by 0x409EE94: mailbox_save_finish (mail-storage.c:1673) ---------------------------------------------------snip-------------------------------------------------------------- I have looked into the source code, and found that from the 'mail_search_build_init' function call in lib-storage/index/index-status.c:200 a pool is created, but the pool is not freed in the mailbox_search_deinit function call in lib-storage/index/index-status.c:218. This may be the reason of the memory leak. But I do not know how to free the pool. It seems to me that doveadm is having the same memory leak because it is using 'mail_search_build_init' too. ---------------------------------------------------snip-------------------------------------------------------------- # valgrind --leak-check=full doveadm mailbox status -u testuser1 vsize INBOX ==10457== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==10457== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==10457== Using Valgrind-3.6.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==10457== Command: doveadm mailbox status -u testuser1 vsize INBOX ==10457== INBOX vsize=41643319 ==10457== ==10457== HEAP SUMMARY: ==10457== in use at exit: 4,356 bytes in 3 blocks ==10457== total heap usage: 440 allocs, 437 frees, 539,124 bytes allocated ==10457== ==10457== 4,096 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 3 of 3 ==10457== at 0x40222A4: calloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so) ==10457== by 0x41AEE9F: ??? (in /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0.0.0) ==10457== by 0x41AF16C: pool_alloconly_create (in /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0.0.0) ==10457== by 0x40DC07D: mail_search_build_init (in /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0) ==10457== by 0x8057EB8: doveadm_mail_mailbox_search_args_build (in /usr/bin/doveadm) ==10457== by 0x805855A: ??? (in /usr/bin/doveadm) ==10457== by 0x8053A7B: doveadm_mail_single_user (in /usr/bin/doveadm) ==10457== by 0x8053D2B: ??? (in /usr/bin/doveadm) ==10457== by 0x80541CF: doveadm_mail_try_run (in /usr/bin/doveadm) ==10457== by 0x805B863: main (in /usr/bin/doveadm) ==10457== ==10457== LEAK SUMMARY: ==10457== definitely lost: 4,096 bytes in 1 blocks ==10457== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==10457== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==10457== still reachable: 260 bytes in 2 blocks ==10457== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==10457== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown. ==10457== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes ==10457== ==10457== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==10457== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 122 from 35) ---------------------------------------------------snip-------------------------------------------------------------- Dovecot version: 2.1.9 OS: Linux 3.0.30-dist i686 maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX I have applied the following patches from the dovecot 2.1 branch fixing memory leaks: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/7bdbca7b0913 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/963482677c0b It would be nice if you could give me some hints how I can address this issue? Thanks in advance! Greetings, Dafan

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[Dovecot] dovecot proxy ssl-parameter from database?
by Daniel Funke 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi List, I want to migrate my IMAP-users from an old Courier-IMAP-Server to a new dovecot-Server. The old server supports IMAP without and with TLS. The new one only with TLS. To users should be migrated one by one with changing some client parameters. To leave the servername of the imap server I want to use the dovecot proxy during migration. the proxy uses a sql db to look for the old or new host for every user. So far all works fine. My question is the TLS or noTLS connection from the client to the proxy. How can I make the ssl-parameter user-dependant? clients to the old courier server should work without or with tls through the proxy and clients to the new dovecot server should only work WITH TLS between Client and proxy. (After migration of all clients the proxy should be switched off an all clients connect directly to the dovecot server.) I tried with http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields and returned a field "userdb_ssl" ("required" for host dovecot, "yes" for host courier). But it doesn't work. A migrated user can still login without tls to the proxy and the dovecot backend. Any ideas? Daniel Here is my doveconf -n # 2.1.9: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (1503) # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain login default_process_limit = 500 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * 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 passdb { args = /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/sql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 0 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/server.key userdb { driver = prefetch } verbose_proctitle = yes

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[Dovecot] Alerts when process limits are met
by David Anderson 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi, I've not found the answer to this question anywhere - please forgive me if I overlooked. I'd like to be able to be automatically alerted if process limits are hit (e.g. max POP3 logins). Is there a way that I can configure a script to be run, in the same way that I can with quota warnings? I can of course use logwatch, but this alerts me the next day, and logwatch can be noisy and it's easy to overlook. My motivation: for some reason my POP3 listener was hanging, and I had to restart dovecot (this is 2.0.9). But I was not aware - the process was still there, it was accepting connections (but not doing anything useful with them) and was actually managing to log the fact that the process limit was being hit (as more and more connections came in). If I could have been alerted I could have restarted dovecot earlier. Many thanks, David -- WordShell - WordPress fast from the CLI - www.wordshell.net

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[Dovecot] ACL MySQL dict: to_user==from_user entries
by Roland Rosenfeld 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi! We run dovecot 2.1.6 with ACL support and MySQL dict for shared/shared-boxes/user/$to/$from. When a user does a SETACL (via IMAP) to himself he is added as $to and $from to the MySQL dict. Se for example this IMAP conversation: 5 GETACL INBOX * ACL "INBOX" "user@domain" lrwstipekxacd 5 OK Getacl completed. 6 SETACL INBOX user@domain lrwstipekxacd 6 OK Setacl complete. 7 GETACL INBOX * ACL "INBOX" "user@domain" akxeilprwtscd 7 OK Getacl completed. As you can see, user@domain sets the ACL of his INBOX to the same value it was set before (reading it from the server after this idempotent write changed the order but none of the flags). But after "SETACL INBOX user@domain lrwstipekxacd" I see a new entry in my imap_acl_shares table where to_user and from_user both contain the value "user@domain". As far as I can see, this entry does not make much sense in the database, because every user should be able so see its own folders. But adding this line may blow up the database especially according to the full table scan problem for acl dict rebuild mentioned in http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-August/067548.html. Does it make sense to run a daily cron job, that removes all entries with from_user=to_user or may this cause other inconsistencies? If you need to have a look at my complete setup, it's in http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-July/067130.html, so I don't have to clone this here. Tschoeeee Roland

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[Dovecot] imap_idle_notify_interval
by Andreas Meyer 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi! I want to change the imap_idle_notify_interval t0 29 minutes and have edited the 20-imap.conf with imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins and restarted the server. doveconf -n shows me this: .... protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota autocreate" } .... doveconf |grep idle shows me the following output: default_idle_kill = 1 mins imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins I see two line of imap_idle_notify_interval. What is the right one? Greetings Andreas

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[Dovecot] Is it possible to save only some messages compressed to mdbox? (2.1.6)
by Jost Krieger 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

I'm trying to save some messages as compressed (via zlib plugin) and it doesn't seem to work. Here's a log line (I'm logging to stderr): d k 1345467448.705591500 1345467448.705596500 1345467448.974808500 1650 <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(a)YYY.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> local.jost.krieger+hirn(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de 10909 80 Extra: -o plugin/zlib_save_level=9 -o plugin/zlib_save=bz2 lda(kriegjcb): Info: msgid=<20120820125728.58CC9172B6C(a)c2-4-7.noc.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>: saved mail to Hirn-2012-08 did 0+0+1 This probably doesn't make much sense to anyone except the last line but 1. It is a somewhat complicated qmail/maildrop/dovecot setup, which works for the standard cases. The Extra gets interpolated into the lda command and this works because an incorrect option blows up the delivery. The mails arrive uncompressed. So here's the questions: 1. Is it possible to have compressed/uncompressed mails mixed in an mdbox? 2. Will it work via "-o" in lda delivery? I tried to find out in the source but found it hard to see which options are pulled in when. Thanks Jost Krieger -- | Helft Spam ausrotten! HTML in Mail ist unhöflich. | | Postmaster, JAPH, manchmal Wahrsager am RZ der RUB | | Wahre Worte sind nicht gefällig, gefällige Worte sind nicht wahr.| | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 |

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Re: [Dovecot] ChgrpNoPerm issue
by Joseph Tam 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Robert JR <roundcube222(a)alaadin.org> writes: > The problem is /var/mail (Owner is > useraccount and the group us mail) , and here comes the problem > Dovecot > keeps trying to chown the imap folder inside the homedirectory with > user:mail account and since > And this is the reason of error that appears > in my log file. Dovecot is trying to keep the permission of your index caches consistent with that of your mailbox it indexes. The INBOX index cache is kept in your user's mail directory (as per your default settings), although you can change that location. > The option mail_access_groups=mail solve the problem.. > but I read it is not secure.. > With my current configutation, users login > with imap to read mail , can they use > any the mail_access_groups=mail > and read other poeple mail ? Yes, that's the security problem. > does my configutation > is a shard mailbox > and could be unsecure.. Could not parse your question/comment. > why didnot have > this issue with uw-imapd? and why dovecot try to chown the .imap > folder > with the mail group ? uw-imapd was not as picky. The extra consideration for group ownership is so that shared access to mailbox files, and their associated index caches, remain consistent. For example, if you shared a mailbox among your colleagues in group "staff" and the mailbox has group=staff,perm=g+rw, then the index caches will inherit those permissions, and members of group staff can access mailbox and indices alike. [You later write ...] > Sep 9 11:22:30 dovecot: pop3(r): Error: > fchown(/home/r/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) > failed: Operation not permitted (egid=501(r), group based on > /var/mail/r) > > i know that chmod 0600 /var/mail , will solve the problem > and i will no longer receive the above errors again You also have to make sure that autocreated INBOXs (i.e. a brand new account) does not start out with anything other than 0600. You may have to use dovecot's LDA or twist your LDA's arm to create mailboxes that way. I guess you can also avoid these errors by using memory indices, but you forego the advantages of persistent indices. > But my question is > that incase i did not set chmod /var/mail 0600, can i ignore such > errors, is these errors harmful ? if this errors keep coming and i > ignored them would this cause mbx corruption .. please advise No, you can't ignore these errors. They will break IMAP access to those mailboxes (as you will find out). Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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