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[Dovecot] Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
by William Blunn 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ <div style="padding: 0.2em; background-color: #50bead"> This documentation is for<strong>Dovecot v2.0</strong>, see<a href="http://wiki1.dovecot.org/ <view-source:http://wiki1.dovecot.org/>">wiki1</a> for v1.x documentation.</a> </div> After "documentation." there is a closing</a> tag with no corresponding opening tag. A similar issue appears on http://wiki.dovecot.org/ Bill

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[Dovecot] Problems setting up dovecot 2.0.1 with kerberos auth
by Dirk Heinrichs 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi, I'm trying to setup dovecot 2.0.1 on a debian squeeze test box. I want to integrate it into an already working kerberos5 setup, but I don't get it to work. I've added created host/ smtp/ and imap/ service principals with random key for the test machine and added them to its keytab. I can also obtain user credentials using kinit, but when I try to telnet to port 143, I only get the following: # kinit heini Password for heini(a)ALTUM.DE: # klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: heini(a)ALTUM.DE Valid starting Expires Service principal 09/05/10 18:56:30 09/06/10 04:56:30 krbtgt/ALTUM.DE(a)ALTUM.DE renew until 09/06/10 18:56:27 # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=GSSAPI] Dovecot ready. a authenticate GSSAPI a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. ^] telnet> Connection closed. This is in the logs: Sep 5 18:56:47 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Sep 5 18:56:47 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=27684) Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011GSSAPI#011service=imap#011secured#011lip=127.0.0.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011lport=143#011rport=33753 Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): Obtaining credentials for imap@rohan Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): While acquiring service credentials: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): While acquiring service credentials: Permission denied Sep 5 18:57:00 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111#011temp Sep 5 18:57:05 oldbox dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=GSSAPI, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=0, secured My configuration: # doveconf -n # 2.0.1 (a05834588ffb): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 i586 Debian squeeze/sid auth_debug = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = rohan auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = gssapi auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u driver = static } And here's the content of the kerberos keytab: # ktutil ktutil: rkt /etc/krb5.keytab ktutil: l slot KVNO Principal ---- ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 2 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 3 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 4 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 5 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 6 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 7 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 8 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 9 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 10 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 11 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 12 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE I also don't see any connection attempt in the KDC's log file. Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks... Dirk

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[Dovecot] dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line
by Luca Palazzo 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi All, we are experiencing another strange problem after upgrading to 2.0.1 from 1.2. Many people's client aree-retrieving mail from server due to some problem with dovecot-uidlist file. Looking at log file seem that all file content is sometime duplicated and appended to the and of same file. It look as another process was accesing and trying to modify uidlist table. Our setup has a load balance (dovecot director) and three backend server. All of them use 2.0.1. MTA is a cluster of postfix that deliver mail to load balancer by LMTP. How can I collect some more information? or, better, solve it? Regards Luca PS: Backend configuration is: # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem i686 Debian 5.0.5 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = $mail_plugins notify mail_log quota managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date spamtest spamtestplus virustest passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from size quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning.sh 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning.sh 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0600 user = dovecot } } service director { inet_listener { port = 8100 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service quota-warning { executable = script /virtual/shared/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota }

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[Dovecot] Dovecot director - silly questions
by Guy 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi, I'm currently using Dovecot 1.1.18 with storage over NFS and there's been the occasional corrupt index. I'm going to be installing a new set of servers soon and would like to start using Dovecot 2.0. I've had a look at the bit there is on the new Dovecot director, but I'm not totally sure how it's intended to be used. Should I install Dovecot on the software load balancers (IMAP/POP3 and other services balanced by haproxy) and configure the director on there? I'm also using maildrop at the moment but would like to switch to Dovecot deliver at some stage. Since mail is delivered to a random mail server (they both have access to the NFS shares), won't I run into the same index problem? Should I look at per user transports before then or can director also be used to effect Dovecot deliver? Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] cant see public mailbox
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

hi.. im running dovecot 2.0.1 sharing mailboxes works like a charm, but now im trying to create a public undetected-SPAM folder. thunderbird shows the public namespace but no mailboxes. ive created the public folder and did a mkdir for the folder.. after that doesnt work ive created cur,new,tmp in .undetected-SPAM /home/MAILBOXES/public# ls -al drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 74 7. Sep 14:23 . drwxr-xr-x 57 vmail vmail 4096 7. Sep 14:23 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 7. Sep 14:23 dovecot-acl-list -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 0 7. Sep 13:19 dovecot-shared drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 36 7. Sep 14:17 .undetected-SPAM doveconf -n mail_location = maildir:~/mail namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/mail:INDEX=~/mail/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/home/MAILBOXES/public:INDEX=~/mail/public prefix = public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } any ideas ? Hans

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[Dovecot] v1.2.14 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.14.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.14.tar.gz.sig + virtual mailboxes: Added support for IDLE notifications. - master: Don't crash on config reload when using dict processes. - IMAP: QRESYNC parameters for SELECT weren't handled correctly.

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[Dovecot] Plugin execution order and Sieve
by Charly 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hello, I use dovecot 2.0.1 and pigeonhole Sieve (version of August), I try to create a deliver plugin (lda or lmtp), but if I declare, in addition to my plugin, sieve, sieve is called first, and my plugin is never called. I tried to change the order of declaration of plugins, but nothing changes. If I remove Sieve, my plugin is properly called. protocol lmtp { #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins myplugin sieve ## sieve called first, my plugin is never called #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve myplugin ## sieve called first, my plugin is never called mail_plugins = $mail_plugins myplugin ## my plugin is called } I try to patch Pigeonhole Sieve to call other plugin at the end of execution with : --- dovecot-2-0-pigeonhole-d51650c8af85/src/plugins/lda-sieve/lda-sieve-plugin.c.next_deliver 2010-08-23 19:26:12.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-2-0-pigeonhole-d51650c8af85/src/plugins/lda-sieve/lda-sieve-plugin.c 2010-09-02 11:48:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -775,7 +775,8 @@ } T_END; - return ret; + //return ret; + return next_deliver_mail(mdctx,storage_r); } /* With this patch, my plugin is called, but, always AFTER Sieve... How can I call my plugin before Sieve and do I need to patch Pigeonhole Sieve ? Thank you, Charly.

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[Dovecot] LAYOUT=maildir++ under mbox?
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Whilst documenting LAYOUT=maildir++ under dbox, that got me thinking: Can we specify :LAYOUT=maildir++ with mbox? If I have it right, this should then remove the problem of not being able to have messages and mail subfolders in the same mail folder. So for example if we had mail location specified as: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir++ we would have files: ~/mail/inbox - file storing messages in INBOX ~/mail/.foo - file storing messages in mail folder "foo" ~/mail/.foo.bar - file storing messages in mail folder "foo/bar" and I think all of Dovecot's indexes would go under ~/mail/.imap Bill

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[Dovecot] extended search
by Daniel-Constantin Mierla 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, is it safe to use arg_new_human_date() from src/lib-storage/mail-search-register-human.c instead of arg_new_date() inside src/lib-storage/mail-search-register-imap.c? The benefit is ability to use interval based search rules, e.g., SINCE 2days. I run it for couple of days and looks fine, used for virtual folders. This kind of search I missed for usage on laptop - I have pretty huge inboxes, thunderbird was over 20% CPU all the time. I switched on using dovecot locally and thunderbird connected to it, my common searches (before: thunderbird's "save as folder" searches) are virtual folders. Everything works great, cpu usage is less than 1% (I have to say that I also moved many filtering rules (for sorting incoming messages to folders) from TB to be done by imapfilter, but the reason was mainly sorting flexibility and rescanning folders). If all is safe, would it be considered for addition in the future version? The patch is trivial, I can leave with patching every release, but I believe is a nice thing to have. Afaik, should not break IMAP SEARCH specs, being an extended version. An alternative would be to add 'X-' commands (e.g., X-SINCE 2days). Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel-Constantin Mierla http://www.asipto.com

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[Dovecot] Problems with zlib
by Andre 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Sometimes I see lines like these in my log: 20100906 11:34:32 imap(username(a)domain.com): Panic: file istream-zlib.c: line 173 (i_stream_zlib_read): assertion failed: (zstream->high_pos == 0) 20100906 11:34:32 imap(username(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d2244a2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d22450a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f328d2248b3] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so [0x7f328be444fc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read+0x6b) [0x7f328d22a10b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read_data+0x4d) [0x7f328d22a3fd] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d21476e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d214cbe] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_next_block+0x29) [0x7f328d2148c9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_body+0x23) [0x7f328d214a43] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x7f328d4cb72f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x7f328d4cb84a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_special+0x3dc) [0x7f328d4cc99c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x7f328d4dd86d] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x41256a] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](imap_fetch_more+0x16c) [0x412b0c] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](cmd_fetch+0x3fa) [0x40acea] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x41031c] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x4103cd] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](client_handle_input+0x45) [0x410545] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](client_input+0x62) [0x410f72] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xcb) [0x7f328d22f3ab] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x7f328d22e4c8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f328d21dd63] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](main+0x281) [0x419201] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f328caa81a6] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x408bd9] Here is the backtrace: [New process 11474] #0 0x00007f328cabbed5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f328cabbed5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f328cabd3f3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007f328d2244b5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #3 0x00007f328d22450a in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #4 0x00007f328d2248b3 in i_panic () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #5 0x00007f328be444fc in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so #6 0x00007f328d22a10b in i_stream_read () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #7 0x00007f328d22a3fd in i_stream_read_data () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #8 0x00007f328d21476e in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #9 0x00007f328d214cbe in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #10 0x00007f328d2148c9 in message_parser_parse_next_block () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #11 0x00007f328d214a43 in message_parser_parse_body () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #12 0x00007f328d4cb72f in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #13 0x00007f328d4cb84a in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #14 0x00007f328d4cc99c in index_mail_get_special () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #15 0x00007f328d4dd86d in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #16 0x000000000041256a in ?? () #17 0x0000000000412b0c in imap_fetch_more () #18 0x000000000040acea in cmd_fetch () #19 0x000000000041031c in ?? () #20 0x00000000004103cd in ?? () #21 0x0000000000410545 in client_handle_input () #22 0x0000000000410f72 in client_input () #23 0x00007f328d22f3ab in io_loop_handler_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #24 0x00007f328d22e4c8 in io_loop_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #25 0x00007f328d21dd63 in master_service_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #26 0x0000000000419201 in main () here is the relevant plugin section: plugin { zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } What can I do to investigate deeper? TIA Andre

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 89, Issue 27
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

> > Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 14:26 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > > > > Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in > > > > Dovecot? > > > > > No. > > > > Would you consider it as a feature request? > What if you just create a script that automatically archives older mails to <box>/archive/yyyy-mm mailboxes when number of messages in a mailbox increases too high for too long? Or something like that. I'm looking at doing that anyway, however it would be much easier to train the users if the server says "folder full"

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 89, Issue 25
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 14:26 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > > Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in > > Dovecot? > No. Would you consider it as a feature request? > > We're finding major performance hits once a threshold of files/directory > > is exceeded. This applies across all common filesystems with the > > threshold differing depending on the FS. GFS2 pretty much _STOPS_ for 10 > > minutes when users put 65k+ messages in one folder... > mdbox would probably work nicely. :) Yes, it probably would, however I have several layers of resistance to get past in order to implement that (ie, up to 2 years to get approval to switch to dbox) > > I'm currently running 1.1.20 but looking to update (RHEL5 cluster > > installation) > With v1.2+ you could also try maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes That won't help much for initial directory opens, which is where most of the pain is. Past that point, the index of ~/Maildir/.folder/cur is mostly cached until you hit about 16,000 messages(files) on GFS2 and some people are insisting on 32k+ files in one folder with the odd few trying 65k or more (I'm surprised their clients don't break). For info sake: we have Dovecot running on a pair of dedicated dual E5530 (quad-core X86 1300MHZ FSB cpu) servers (RH cluster+GFS2) with 24Gb RAM apiece and ~2TB of 8Gb/s san-attached storage available. There are only ~250 accounts but there's around 600Gb in the maildir folder areas and another 300Gb in a separate dedicated inbox area - and I believe there's another 1TB of stuff in client local folders we're trying to pull back to the servers in order to simplify backups. Even with this kind of horsepower available, over-large folders can render the setup completely unresponsive for minutes at a time. I know this is a case of "work smarter, not harder", but I'm facing major delays until we're able to change the on-disk storage format. Alan

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 89, Issue 26
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Wrote: >On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:37 +0100, William Blunn wrote: > > Whilst documenting LAYOUT=maildir++ under dbox, that got me thinking: > > > > Can we specify :LAYOUT=maildir++ with mbox? > Yes, ever since LAYOUT was added. > > If I have it right, this should then remove the problem of not being > > able to have messages and mail subfolders in the same mail folder. > Yes. Also it might be possible to use DIRNAME with LAYOUT=fs to solve > that problem, but I'm less sure about that. I anyway doubt most mbox > users want to switch to a whole new layout. Mbox users might not, but Maildir or dbox users might want to, especially if users have a lot of folders (One of mine has ~2500) Directories definitely get slower to list with more files/subdirectories in them and there are knee points beyond which they get substantially slower (Where the knee is depends on the type of FS but it's usually a power of 2)

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[Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called "dbox-Mails" (2.0beta5)
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

I am trying out "mdbox" under Dovecot 2.0beta5. Looking in the "mailboxes" directory under the mdbox storage root ("~/dbox" in my case), I can see that the mail folders are mapped into filesystem directories. But Dovecot seems to put all the message list information ("dovecot.index.cache", "dovecot.index.log") for any given mail folder into a directory called "dbox-Mails"... But this directory name exists in the same namespace as that used for mail subfolders... So this means we cannot create a mail subfolder whose name is "dbox-Mails"! I concede that this eventuality may be unlikely, but when designing in a green field, surely we should avoid such obvious pitfalls? Surely we would want to make it so that these objects exist in different namespaces, so that mail folders can be created with any name? So perhaps the directory "dbox-Mails" should use a character in its name which could not be used in mail folder names. Or mail folder names could have a non-identity mapping into directory names such that the directory name can never be "dbox-Mails". Regards, Bill

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[Dovecot] Specify auth service for protocols
by Lukas Garberg 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi all, I'm building a mail system where two machines are functioning both as POP3/IMAP-proxy (using dovecot 1.2.12) and SMTP-server with authentication for outgoing mail. The SMTP-server is postfix with dovecot SASL as authentication backend. User credentials for SMTP auth as well as the mapping from account to final server for the proxy is stored in a MySQL-database which dovecot queries. As I want the POP3/IMAP-proxy to accept any username and password (as the final POP3/IMAP server takes care of the authentication) the passdb SQL query has the statements "NULL AS password, 'Y' AS nopassword, 'Y' AS proxy" added to the query. As these additions cannot be used in the SQL query for the auth service used by postfix (as users would be able to authenticate with any password) I have defined a second auth service (auth postfix { ... }) in dovecot.conf which is slightly different; it returns the password hash instead of NULL as password and skips the proxy and nopasswd part. This works fine on one server, but on the other one the auth services get mixed up and the service defined for postfix (missing password and proxy stuff) is used by the POP3 and IMAP services and vice versa, which breaks the proxying. I've been trying my best to find any difference between the configuration of the two machines, but without result. The configurations are simply copies of each other. So, to finally arrive at my question: Is there any way to specify which authentication service is to be used by each protocol in dovecot.conf? Or is the solution instead to rewrite the passdb-query to take the service into account and return 'Y' AS proxy when the service is postfix and 'N' AS proxy when the service is POP3 or IMAP as I then would be able to use only one authentication backend? Sorry for the lengthy post and thank you in advance! Regards, Lukas Garberg

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[Dovecot] notification plugin
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, I'm pretty new to dovecot's codebase and trying to write a plugin which performs certain plugins if new mail arrives in a user's mailbox. I saw the mail-log plugin and was playing around with it but it seems to not create events if new mails arrive but only if mail are copied or saved from an IMAP connection. Are there any hooks I can base my plugin on to get events in the above case? Any pointers? Thanks, Wolfgang

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[Dovecot] Quotas - per folder message limits?
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in Dovecot? We're finding major performance hits once a threshold of files/directory is exceeded. This applies across all common filesystems with the threshold differing depending on the FS. GFS2 pretty much _STOPS_ for 10 minutes when users put 65k+ messages in one folder... I'm currently running 1.1.20 but looking to update (RHEL5 cluster installation)

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[Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. We have a few mentions at: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove But I was thinking it would be helpful if there could be a page about alternate storage. I could write the page, but I currently have so many unknowns that I think it would be better to gather some more information before writing the first draft. Note that I don't necessarily fully understand all the surrounding concepts, so I could have written something below which is based on a (vague) belief. Please correct me if I am wrong, or even if it's sort-of right but doesn't quite hit the point squarely. We might want to have a name for the wiki page. Perhaps "AlternateStorage"? Of course if it only applies to dbox, then another idea is to make it a section on the page "MailboxFormat/dbox". All suggestions gratefully received. I would be interested in an overview of what alternate storage is. It seems to be a way of transparently moving message data to alternare storage, with the idea that the alternate storage may be on a different filesystem which may be cheaper and/or slower than the main storage, which may be an economic way to store messages where the fastest access to them is less important. It is transparent in as much as IMAP/POP users will not normally be able to tell if any given message has been moved to alternate storage. A single mail folder can end up containing a mixture of messages stored in main storage and alternate storage. (Another question begged here of what consistent term should be used to refer to the main storage. Could be "main storage", "normal storage", "ordinary storage".) Also I would be interested to know the development/stability status of alternate storage: experimental / alpha / beta / stable. Also I would be interested to know the applicability against mailbox formats: mbox / maildir / sdbox / mdbox / cydir. Also I would be interested to know which data gets moved to the alternate storage, and which data stays in the main storage: message-data / control-data / index-data / combined-control-and-index-data. Also I would be interested to know how data can be moved to alternate storage. Seems to be that is only done by invocation of "doveadm altmove". There is a page for that already so we can link to that. Also it would be interesting to have some idea of how it works. For example there might be an "alternate storage" flag in the indexes, or Dovecot tries the main location first and if not found there then it tries the alternate storage. Just a brief overview, and any pertinent ramifications of that. Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST
by Samuel Kvasnica 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi Timo, >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder1" >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder2" >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" {9} >> six"wafer >> . OK List completed. >> >> Note the {9} length of the following real folder name. Is this normal >> handling of special folder names ? >Yes. Well, I did try other servers and e.g. on scalix I'm getting this: * LIST (\X-DirectRef=000d7f94a4731510 \X-ModDate=20100814200222) "/" "six\"wafer" I cannot find anything relevant in RFC3501 >> Mail clients do not seem to like this response. >What clients? They're buggy then.. Well, of course, way too many clients are :( at least Thunderbird will go totally crazy when getting this kind response. (My old python scripts expecting string, not a tuple go crazy as well... :-< )

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[Dovecot] Alternate mail_location prefix for homedir
by Henry C. 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, I'm switching from UW-imap to dovecot 2.0.1 and was wondering about the mail_location config: mail_location = mbox:~/.:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Notice '.' in '~/.' above. This seems to resolve the ~/mail problem when switching from UW-imap (ie, no 'mail' prefix). doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt doesn't mention using '~/.', so I was wondering whether there are any gotchas anyone can think of. Thanks Henry

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[Dovecot] psr2md
by Benoit LORAND 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

hello, I just write script who converts outlook pst files to the maildir format. I want to share it to community. I have tried it with outlook 2003 and outlook 2007. http://www.blorand.org/index.php/Pst2md i hope it will help someone. -- Benoît LORAND http://www.blorand.org benoit.lorand(a)blorand.org

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Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Why so complicated?   ---- Originalnachricht ---- Von: fakessh <fakessh(a)fakessh.eu> Gesendet: 4 Sep 2010 17:31 +02:00 An: Patrick Westenberg <pw(a)wk-serv.de> CC: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:27:26 +0200, Patrick Westenberg <pw(a)wk-serv.de> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I tried to use a global sieve skript to sort spam mails into > a subfolder of INBOX. I´m using mdbox. > > The log shows that the script is called and executed but it is > not able to find or create the mailbox: > > Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/Spamverdacht > Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 > > Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX.Spamverdacht > Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 > > My skript looks like this: > > require "fileinto"; > if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { > fileinto "Spamverdacht"; > } > > I also tried: > > require "fileinto"; > if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { > fileinto "INBOX.Spamverdacht"; > } > > How can I fix this? > > Regards > Patrick the script should be require ["fileinto","regex","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","reject","relational"]; # rule:[spammanage-before] if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["500"] { discard; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["100"] { fileinto "Junk.spam"; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["10"] { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains "Received" [ "[4.63. "[218.160.", "[218.242.]" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains ["SPAM", "X-Spam-hits"] ["ADDRESSES_ON_CD", "X_OSIRU_DUL", "X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE", "X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; }

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[Dovecot] fts, solr, and client support
by Kelsey Cummings 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

I've been playing around with the fts plugins and currently have solr up and running. While the initial indexing time is pretty rough, the search performance is impressive. I've run into a problem though- so far as I can tell, thunderbird (and most other popular clients?) won't actually take advantage of it. Even using thunderbird's advanced search and checking the 'run serach on server' box doesn't push the search to the server. If most popular clients don't support it, there doesn't seem much point in setting it up; which is a shame, solr beats the snot out of the built in search for thunderbird. That said, is anyone running any of the fts plugins in a large scale environment? If so, what kind of scaling issues do you see? How do the search servers compare hardware wise to users count/spool size? -- 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] a question about QRESYNC extension
by Joe Wong 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Hi Timo, How long is the MODSEQ NUMBER kept for each UID ever exists in the mailbox? - Joe

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[Dovecot] user/domain-dependent autosubscribe ?
by Per Jessen 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Newbie alert! Dovecot 2.0rc3 I've got autosubscribe working very well, but I need to make it dependent on the domain - e.g. domain example.com will have folders (a,b,c), while domain example2.com will have (d,e,f). Any hints on how to achieve that? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] SIS for maildir?
by Mike Abbott 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

When might deduplication of attachments work with maildir?

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[Dovecot] Best way to migrate from qmail-ldap's autoreply?
by Attila Nagy 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi, qmail-ldap uses four LDAP attributes for handling autoreplies in qmail-local: - deliverymode (to see whether the autoreply should be send) - mailreplytext, which is a base64 encoded multiline string* - mailreplystart and mailreplystop, unix dates I'm wondering how this could be handled with Dovecot (2.0) in the most easier way. All I could find out so far: - patching the code - writing a plugin (it it possible to get these LDAP attributes in the LMTPd with a single userdb-lookup and get it from the plugin during a new mail event? Any examples?) - conditionally provide these values to a sieve script and process them accordingly (the base64 string and maybe the dates seem to be hard for the first glimpse) the mad stuff: - using an LD_PRELOAD library, which emulates per user sieve scripts according to LDAP lookups (gives a lot more flexibility) - an LMTP proxy/server, which does all this and forwards the traffic to the Dovecot LMTPd/deliver process * a sample mailreplytext looks like this: '''%HEADER% Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" távol vagyok''' (of course this is in UTF-8).

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[Dovecot] Maybe wrong quota recalculation behaviour on overquota delivery try
by Luca Palazzo 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi all, we are experencing some, may be strange, slowness in our dovecot/postfix mail system. We have three dovecot 2.0.1 server with LMTP, POP3 and IMAP enabled. Three shared OCFS2 filesystem are used for mail storage. We have too a load balancer based on dovecot director in front of these three server. Our SMTP cluster receives mail and send by LMTP to load balancer. Everything work flowless, but sometime, under heavy load, three server slow down a lot. Our mail gateway logs a lot of: status=deferred (host 10.194.1.20[10.194.1.20] said: 451 4.4.0 Remote server not answering (DATA output timeout) IP 10.194.1.20 is dovecot director. Looking at mbox servers log nothing seem to happen, but stracing lmtp process we can see stat system calls to all Maildir files, as if dovecot was recalculating quota and regenerating maildirsize file. It happens always when LMTP tries to deliver a mail to an overquota account. Is this possible and right? How can we look deeper in system to have more information? Best regards Luca PS: dovecot configuration for maildir servers is: # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem i686 Debian 5.0.5 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = $mail_plugins notify mail_log quota managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date spamtest spamtestplus virustest passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from size quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning.sh 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning.sh 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0600 user = dovecot } } service director { inet_listener { port = 8100 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service quota-warning { executable = script /virtual/shared/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota }

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[Dovecot] minor director issues
by Cor Bosman 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

I noticed 2 minor things with the director. 1) if I start 2 directors, but in 1 of them I dont add the other as a director_servers, they both start spamming the logfiles really really fast. It seems there is no backoff mechanism in the protocol between directors. 2) user mail server ip expire time cor 194.109.26.171 2010-09-02 14:32:13 <unknown> 194.109.26.172 2010-09-02 14:33:13 Why does it say 'unknown'? That session is active, im manually logged in with telnet, issued a login and a select inbox. The first one is a normal mail client login. Regards, Cor

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[Dovecot] safe_memset
by Len7hir 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

samples % lib function 4 0.0525 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 sha1_result_libmysqlcli(..) 7 0.0919 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 io_loop_handler_run 36 0.4729 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_reset 227 2.9817 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_unref 7339 96.4009 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear 7710 3.2463 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset 7710 100.000 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset [self] ------- 1 0.0148 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 i_stream_limit_read 2 0.0296 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 i_stream_header_filt(..) 6 0.0888 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_destroy 8 0.1184 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 settings_parser_deinit 230 3.4039 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_reset 6510 96.3445 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_unref 598 0.2518 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear 7339 89.8286 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset 598 7.3195 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear [self] 232 2.8397 libc-2.3.6.so (no symbols) 1 0.0122 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 body ------- 4 0.0525 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 sha1_result_libmysqlclient_craps_all_over 7 0.0919 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 io_loop_handler_run 36 0.4729 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_reset 227 2.9817 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_unref 7339 96.4009 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear 7710 3.2463 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset 7710 100.000 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset [self] Mostly safe_memset is called from pool_alloconly_clear. I attach result from oprofile - functions (with call tree) that have more than 2% of all oprofile samples in libdovecot.so. p_strdup is on the list, but it is lower than before last optimisations. As You see there is no other optimised functions :) -- Len7hir

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[Dovecot] apply sieve filter to old mails
by Giovanni Mancuso 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi, i install dovecot 2.0.1 with managesieve support in my test machine. If i create a sieve filter and i send the mail to my user thi filter is applied. Is there a way to apply this filter to old mails too? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Suggested location for single-dbox
by William Blunn 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

I've updated http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation regarding a typical mail_location entry for dbox. Previously it said: mail_location = dbox:~/dbox but of course "dbox" is now the old name for "sdbox", so the example should be updated to say "sdbox" and there might/ought also to be an example for "mdbox". In http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox the example mail_location for mdbox is given as "mdbox:~/mdbox", so I have followed that for "MailLocation". So I have changed it to say # single-dbox mail_location = sdbox:~/dbox or: # multi-dbox mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox I didn't know whether to change the directory for sdbox to "~/sdbox" or to leave it as it is. For the time being I have left it at "~/dbox" --- following the example given should allow new installations of Dovecot 2 to be able to read any existing single-dbox data which used the historically-suggested "~/dbox" location, whilst at the same time avoiding using the old mailbox format name of "dbox". Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] Some doubts about quota
by Andre 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Il giorno 03/set/2010, alle ore 10.37, Andre ha scritto: > Hi to all, > we are using quota to collect statistics about usage of mailboxes (thanks to the one who implemented :noenforcing) and we are using “maildir” backend, but we are thinking to migrate to *dbox (as soon as “per-user \Seen flag” would be implemented) and we should need a faster way to collect statistics, so I’ve tried to use Postgresql as a backend. I’ve follwed literally instructions from wiki2 (and part from wiki), but quota is not automatically updated as soon as a messages is delivered to user or deleted from mailbox, we need to perform a “doveadm quota recalc -A” to have it updated. Is it the normal behavior of quota plugin or do I missed something? > > TIA > Andrea Mistrali > am(a)am.cx Solved! I’ve had disabled quota plugin in LDA & LMTP. Now it works, sorry to have bothered you all and wasted your bandwidth Andrea Mistrali am(a)am.cx

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[Dovecot] Some doubts about quota
by Andre 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi to all, we are using quota to collect statistics about usage of mailboxes (thanks to the one who implemented :noenforcing) and we are using “maildir” backend, but we are thinking to migrate to *dbox (as soon as “per-user \Seen flag” would be implemented) and we should need a faster way to collect statistics, so I’ve tried to use Postgresql as a backend. I’ve follwed literally instructions from wiki2 (and part from wiki), but quota is not automatically updated as soon as a messages is delivered to user or deleted from mailbox, we need to perform a “doveadm quota recalc -A” to have it updated. Is it the normal behavior of quota plugin or do I missed something? TIA Andrea Mistrali am(a)am.cx

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[Dovecot] bogus fts percentage
by Mike Abbott 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Sometimes dovecot-2.0 sends this untagged response to clients: * OK Indexed -2147483648% of the mailbox, ETA 0:00 I imagine there's a bug in there somewhere.

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[Dovecot] LMTP plugin with MySQL query
by Charly 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hello, I want to create a plugin to dovecot 2.0.1, to call a on the deliver action. My plugin work even if I include other libs like mysql or wathever I tried to use the "sql-api.h" (lib-sql), but at runtime, I have : "undefined symbol: sql_init", "Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins" Is it possible to use lib-sql api or mysql libs in a plugin ? I've tried with lda or lmtp plugin with the same result... Any idea ? Charly.

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[Dovecot] My "%%" variables in the namespace settings do not appear to be expanding.
by Kenneth Cope 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello, I've been using the dovecot 1.2.x branch server software for a while now. With the advent of the 2.0.x branch going 'stable' I decided to attempt a migration and make use of some of the features that I've not needed before. One of these is the shared folder/namespace feature. No luck. I've hit a wall and can not determine the problem. At the moment it looks like a bug to me, but it may well be that I'm missing some related configuration, or file permission. I can not get the %% variable expansion in a namespace to work. What I end up with, on an IMAP connection is a directory named, for instance, '%h'. The same goes for any of the %% variables used at this point. My current set-up is 'not' the same as the current setup and I'm using virtual users that are not 'live' on the current system. I would really appreciate it if someone could cast an eye over my config and let me know if I've missed something obvious. Thanks. Kenneth Cope kenneth(a)CopeOnThe.net ---- I'm using a dovecot compiled with the following options: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1 \ --enable-dependency-tracking INSTALL_DATA="install -c -p -m644" \ --docdir=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/docs/ --disable-static \ --disable-rpath --with-nss --with-zlib --with-bzlib --with-libcap \ --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/ssl \ --with-docs \ ---- The 'test' configuration is as follows: # > /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.1: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-89.0.26.ELsmp i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 apop auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_ @& auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 10000 default_internal_user = mail default_login_user = dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 12 first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_gid = 12 last_valid_uid = 8 log_path = /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/dovecot.log login_log_format_elements = [%p:%e] %Us(%u) method=%m rip=%r:%b lip=%l:%a %c %k mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:%h/ mail_log_prefix = [%p] %Us(%u): mail_max_keyword_length = 30 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota zlib acl mailbox_idle_check_interval = 120 s namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h:LAYOUT=maildir++:INDEX=~/shared.%Dn_%Dd prefix = shared/%n@%d. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace { location = prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/auth/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes mail_log_events = all mail_log_fields = uid, box, msgid, from, subject, size, vsize, flags mail_log_group_events = yes quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = ?:storage=400M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10% zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 9 } service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0664 user = mail } user = $default_internal_user } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 9143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 9993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 268435456 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 9110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 9995 ssl = yes } } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mail.cert ssl_key = </etc/ssl/mail.cert userdb { args = username_format=%u /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/auth/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } verbose_ssl = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail imap_id_log = * imap_idle_notify_interval = 120 s imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota zlib imap_zlib imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins zlib pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s bytes=%i/%o pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes pop3_save_uidl = yes pop3_uidl_format = %Mf } ---- The contents of .../var/run/dovecot # > ls -lA total 12 srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 anvil srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-client srw------- 1 mail root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-login srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-master srw-rw-r-- 1 mail dovecot 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-userdb srw------- 1 mail root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-worker srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 config srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 dict srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 director-admin srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 director-userdb srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 dns-client srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 doveadm-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Aug 31 11:25 dovecot.conf -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 11:25 empty srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 lmtp drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 Aug 31 11:25 login -rw------- 1 root root 6 Aug 31 11:25 master.pid

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[Dovecot] Segfault on dovecot 2.0.1 w/ACLs
by Michael M. Slusarz 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in as slusarz 5 LIST (SUBSCRIBED) "" (*) RETURN (SUBSCRIBED) * LIST (\Subscribed) "." "INBOX" [...] * LIST (\Subscribed) "." "Mileage Plus" Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff6d0cd61 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007ffff6d0cd61 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007ffff7b40eea in mailbox_list_iter_next () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #2 0x000000000040b209 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x000000000040c030 in cmd_list_full () No symbol table info available. #4 0x000000000040f9dd in ?? () No symbol table info available. #5 0x000000000040fab2 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #6 0x000000000040fcfd in client_handle_input () No symbol table info available. #7 0x000000000041059f in client_input () No symbol table info available. #8 0x00007ffff78d8e85 in io_loop_handler_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0x00007ffff78d80f8 in io_loop_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #10 0x00007ffff78c76f3 in master_service_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #11 0x0000000000418791 in main () No symbol table info available. # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-ARCH x86_64 plugin { acl = vfile quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=10485769 } Can verify that disabling acl makes the segfault go away. michael

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[Dovecot] [pigeonhole] Libraries not linked correctly
by pyther 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello All I am trying to compile and use pigeonhole and I am experiencing the same exact problem that is stated here: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-August/051859.htm [root@mongo dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-build]# ldd /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb777e000) libdovecot-login.so.0 => not found libdovecot.so.0 => not found libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7622000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb777f000) lt does not seem as if -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/dovecot is being appended to gcc -std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -o managesieve-login client.o client-authenticate.o managesieve-login-settings.o managesieve-proxy.o ../../src/lib-managesieve/libmanagesieve.a -ldovecot-login -L/usr/lib/dovecot -ldovecot -lrt ^^See: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-August/051907.html However, my lack of programming knowledge and skills prohibit me from trying to fix this myself. I am hoping some kind soul would be nice enough to fix it. Thank you!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - some more optimisations
by Len7hir 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

I did some more optimisation. Most performance hit in Dovecot do "for loop" in string operations. In one case (in message-parser.c) "for loop" has another "for" inside with the same variable used as iterator. This case is very hard to optimise by compiler. I do changes only in top functions listed in oprofile. Maybe I do more in future. Code was analysed and tested but it's hard to generate all cases. It's working well in production server (I'm monitoring). In istream-crlf.c I've changed one thing. When destination buffer is full after '\r' addition (to dest), It didn't skip '\n' in source buffer. I think this was buggy in earlier code, and '\n' was skipped (this piece of code is used very rare). Please check this out. This can help in huge e-mail systems :P And another problem. Why You use safe_memset instead of memset? Now this function have the largest impact in Dovecot performance. Another on list is t_push. Regards, Len7hir

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[Dovecot] Passdb filter question - LDAP.
by Lauro Costa G. Borges 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.1 ---- I don't know if I can solve this problem with Dovecot, or if it's an LDAP matter. I'm authenticating users with saslauthd/LDAP, and using Dovecot LDA. ---- dovecot.conf passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-passdb.conf } userdb prefetch { } # The userdb below is used only by deliver. userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf } ----- ----- dovecot-ldap-passdb.conf search base is dc=example,dc=org pass_filter = (&(objectclass=brPerson)(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = userPassword=password,%u=user ----- ----- dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf search base is ou=%d,ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org user_filter = (&(objectclass=nisMailAlias)(cn=%n)) user_attrs = rfc822MailMember=user,EmailQuota=quota_rule=*:storage=%$M ----- Here is how the LDAP tree is: ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org ou=subdomain1.example.org,ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org example entry under "ou=subdomain1.example.org" --- dn: cn=userfoo,ou=subdomain1,ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org cn: userfoo edupersonprincipalname: WEMHVDEA-FUAOBAAA(a)example.org (some sort of unique identifier) emailquota: 512 objectclass: eduPerson objectclass: nisMailAlias rfc822mailmember: userfoo(a)subdomain1.example.org --- ou=people,dc=example,dc=org dn: uid=29859085900(a)example.org,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org uid: 29859085900(a)example.org eduPersonPrincipalName: WEMHVDEA-FUAOBAAA(a)example.org userPassword: {MD5}6ZoYxCjLONXyYIU2eJIuAw== objectClass: person objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: eduPerson mail: 29859085900(a)example.org mail: userf(a)director.example.org mail: userfoo(a)dptoxyz.example.org mail: userfoo(a)subdomain1.example.org When delivering email, it must search under "services", for the proper "rfc822mailmember", which is the mailbox. When authenticating, there's where my problem is, I can't have ALL user e-mails under "ou=people", maybe just 1, so I need to search under "ou=services", there I have all user email addresses, and by using "edupersonPrincipalName", I want to point to the right location under "ou=people", where I have the user password. edupersonPrincipalName is the attribute present under "ou=services" and "ou=people" that links the entries. I tried to do it by changing passdb filter file, like this: pass_filter = (&(objectclass=eduPerson)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = userPassword=userdb_password,eduPersonPrincipalName=userdb_user It works, but changes the username to the value of "edupersonprincipalname", and this changes the mailbox name. Dovecot accesses the wrong mailbox then (something like 29859085900(a)example.org) * My question is: is it possible to change the passdb filter, so it searches for somemail(a)sub1.example.org (under ou=services), then it gets the value of "edupersonprincipalname" (the unique identifier, present under "services" and "people"), and with that value, it looks under "people" the person with that identifier and validates the password. It would be a filter inside a filter, sort of. thanks, and sorry if this is a little offtopic. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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[Dovecot] Filtering virtual mailbox using other virtual mailbox?
by Giovanni Giorgi 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi All, my name is Giovanni and I am new to dovecot. I have installed version 2.0 the past week and I find it very powerful. I have started to play with the virtual mailbox plugin. I was unable to do a virtual mailbox filtering out the contents of other mailbox, for instance I have a virtual/spam mailbox which filter out all the spam thanks to spamassassin. This mailbox is virtual, its description is INBOX -Trash -Trash/* -Junk subject SPAM I'd like to do a simple virtual/ham mbox using this dovecot-virtual INBOX -virtual/spam to: jj(a)gioorgi.com but it seems not working. it does not filter the spam. It is possible to do such thing, or I am trying to do something not possible at all? Thank you (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") Giovanni Giorgi jj(a)gioorgi.com

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[Dovecot] Shared mail folders
by Ian macdonald 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi All, I am trying to configure shared mail folders and have made some progress, however I am just stuck lack of experience I think. I have ubuntu 10.04 postfix and dovecot (working well) using dovecot deliver as LDA thunderbird reports that folders are shared flat file database has the shares My problem is I am missing something on the userdb I wish to use auth passwd as it is a small system of 20 system users I have the following from dovecot -n auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd I get the following IMAP(peter): userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: IMAP(peter): Namespace 'shared/': Could not lookup home for user ian I am lost and would be grateful for any help all the best Ian

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[Dovecot] Virtual plugin speedup?
by Giovanni Giorgi 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, I am using the virtual plugin on divecot2. It seems a bit slow when accessing from my iPhone. How can I speed it up? The full text search plugin can help? Inviato da iPhone

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[Dovecot] Help with Public Folder Configuration
by Joy 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Dear All, I am trying to use Public Folder feature of dovecot but having some confusion with the configuration part as well as understanding the same. Here is output of doveconf -n which i think required to help me - mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot-acl/acl } after making this configuration i also created subfolder inside /var/mail/public which looks like following:- mail1:~# less /var/mail/public/ dovecot-acl-list .Public/ mail1:~# less /var/mail/public/.Public/Maildir/ cur/ new/ tmp/ I have changed default permission to [ chown -R vmail:vmail /var/mail ] on base public folder. Now I am able to see the public folder from webmail as well as from thunderbird but no display for .Public folder. I am expecting that .Public folder will be visible to all but no one will be allowed to delete and make any change in that folder, I am also using global ACL in my configuration. Please let me know what i am doing wrong because not getting any error in log, Correct me if i am understanding wrong. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Broken SELECT ""/EXAMINE ""
by Michael M. Slusarz 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

a EXAMINE INBOX [...] a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. a EXAMINE "" a NO Empty mailbox name. [Should be in authenticated mode with no active mailbox. But...] a STATUS INBOX (UIDVALIDITY) * STATUS "INBOX" (UIDVALIDITY 1255685337) a OK [CLIENTBUG] Status on selected mailbox completed. a UNSELECT a OK Unselect completed. a STATUS INBOX (UIDVALIDITY) * STATUS "INBOX" (UIDVALIDITY 1255685337) a OK Status completed. Seeing a whole bunch of the CLIENTBUGs in the logs since IMP uses imapproxy and relies on the proxy to unselect the mailbox when a LOGOUT is caught. Thus, when we rebuild the connection on the next page connection, we assume that there is no active mailbox (we actually use LIST-STATUS to do folder polling, but we still use STATUS when we only need data on a single mailbox). imapproxy *should* really be using UNSELECT, but that looks like a different (imapproxy) bug. michael

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[Dovecot] 2.0 migration weirdnesses: logs and hang
by Kyle Wheeler 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hello, I'm testing out an upgrade to dovecot 2.0 from 1.2.11, and I've stumbled across two weirdnesses that I need help with. First, I'm only getting one log message: master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.0 starting up After that, while I can connect, log in, read mail, etc., no further log messages are created. I have log_path set to /dev/stderr, and no syslog_facility setting, so... what could be going wrong? Second, when I create a new mailbox and copy messages across namespaces, dovecot hangs. The mailbox is created and the messages are copied successfully, but dovecot simply stops responding. I can't even logout! I'm attaching my config file, if it helps. ~Kyle -- The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. -- Edmund Burke

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[Dovecot] Some questions about Shared mailboxes
by Mihajlin Evgenij 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, again. 1. Can somebody explain me about dovecot's shared mailboxes? 2. What does it do while searching shared mailboxes (debug_log cannot explain it)? What files is it looking for? 3. Need i set dovecot-shared file into directory which are shared (if i want to have separate flags for separate users)? 4. Some errors are hard to understand. For example, # pwd /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua # ls -l drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:24 admin drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Июн 3 10:51 exim drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Мар 26 15:08 iif drwx-w---- 3 mailnull mail 4096 Мар 11 15:53 jack drwx------ 2 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:28 Maildir drwx-w---- 3 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:25 test Why did dovecot create Maildir folder??? And what mean this lines at the end of debug.log. Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared/%n/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: shared: root=/var/run/dovecot, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir, index=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/shared/(a)badmltd.dn.ua, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Permission lookup failed from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Using permissions from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes with dovecot.
by Mihajlin Evgenij 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, first of all for forgive me for my english. I have several questions. 1. There are 2 user/passwd databases in my setup - ldap and mysql. when i login into one user with telnet 127.0.0.1 143 and share inbox to some users - records in dict-file apears? but if i delete some acls - records indict-file stays same. 2. I see in error.log such errors. can somebody explain what do dovecot list shared folder (what files is looking for, how it see variables %u and %%u, ...) Aug 26 15:44:19 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared//': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:44:53 imap(admin(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared/shared/': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/shared(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:44:56 imap(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared/shared/': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/shared(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:46:36 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared//': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:48:04 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared//': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) *********************debug.log******************* Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack uid=47 gid=12 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot Aug 26 15:48:03 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so Aug 26 15:48:03 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Effective uid=47, gid=12, home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 1 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared/%n/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: shared: root=/var/run/dovecot, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.&BB4EQgQ,BEAEMAQyBDsENQQ9BD0ESwQ1-/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.&BCcENQRABD0EPgQyBDgEOgQ4-/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua service=lib-storage Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: sql(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = 'zakaz' AND active = 'Y' Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz uid=47 gid=12 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: auth input: zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz uid=47 gid=12 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir, index=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/shared/zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir/dovecot-acl Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master in: USER 2 test(a)badmltd.dn.ua service=lib-storage Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: sql(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = 'test' AND active = 'Y' Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: ldap(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): user search: base=dc=Donetsk, dc=Office, dc=badm, dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectclass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)) (mail=test(a)badmltd.dn.ua)) fields= Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: ldap(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): result: objectClass(?unknown?)= cn(?unknown?)= givenName(?unknown?)= distinguishedName(?unknown?)= instanceType(?unknown?)= whenCreated(?unknown?)= whenChanged(?unknown?)= displayName(?unknown?)= uSNCreated(?unknown?)= uSNChanged(?unknown?)= name(?unknown?)= objectGUID(?unknown?)= userAccountControl(?unknown?)= primaryGroupID(?unknown?)= objectSid(?unknown?)= sAMAccountName(?unknown?)= sAMAccountType(?unknown?)= userPrincipalName(?unknown?)= objectCategory(?unknown?)= dSCorePropagationData(?unknown?)= lastLogonTimestamp(?unknown?)= mail(?unknown?)= Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: USER 2 test(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test mail=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: auth input: test(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test mail=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir, index=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/shared/test(a)badmltd.dn.ua, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir/.kde/dovecot-acl Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master in: USER 3 @badmltd.dn.ua service=lib-storage Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: sql((a)badmltd.dn.ua): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = '' AND active = 'Y' Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: ldap((a)badmltd.dn.ua): user search: base=dc=Donetsk, dc=Office, dc=badm, dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectclass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)) (mail=(a)badmltd.dn.ua)) fields= Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: NOTFOUND 3 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: auth input: Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua, index=, control=, inbox=/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Permission lookup failed from /var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Using permissions from /var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 26 15:48:04 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.shared.test.kde/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:04 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.shared.zakaz.INBOX/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:08 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir: mode=0720 gid=-1 my setup: dovecot -n # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 13 (Goddard) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 12 first_valid_uid = 47 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 12 mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = acl mail_uid = 47 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/tmp/shared-mailboxes } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)badmltd.dn.ua protocols = imap pop3 service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 user = mailnull } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lda { debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/delivery-debug.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/delivery-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/delivery.log } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl } # cat /tmp/shared-mailboxes shared/shared-boxes/user/admin@badmltd.dn.ua/test@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/admin@badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/jack@badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/test@badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/jack@badmltd.dn.ua/test@badmltd.dn.ua 1 # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=****** user=**** password=***** default_pass_scheme=plain password_query = SELECT passwd as password FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND active = 'Y' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND active = 'Y' #password_query = SELECT crypt as password FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' #user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext hosts = 10.1.11.3:3268 172.27.1.2:3268 dn = cn=****,cn=Users,dc=****,dc=Office,dc=****,dc=com dnpass = ***** auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=*****k, dc=Office, dc=****, dc=com deref = searching scope = subtree user_attrs = =home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/%d/%n,=mail=/var/spool/vmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir user_filter = (&(objectclass=user)(! (userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(mail=%u)) pass_filter = (&(objectclass=user)(! (userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(mail=%u)) # cat /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir/dovecot-acl user=admin(a)badmltd.dn.ua lrws user=jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua lrws user=test(a)badmltd.dn.ua lrws

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[Dovecot] doveadm search/expunge with public folders
by Ralf Zimmermann 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi all, can I expunge or search emails in public folders? The command 'doveadm expunge -u rzimmermann mailbox Public/folder all' does not delete emails in the folder 'Public/folder'. The command 'doveadm expunge -u rzimmermann mailbox Spam all' does delete emails in the folder 'Spam'. The user rzimmermann has all rights in 'Public/folder'. Greets Ralf Zimmermann -- .''`. Ralf Zimmermann : :' : SIEGNETZ.IT GmbH `. `' Schneppenkauten 1a `- 57076 Siegen Tel.: +49 271 68193 13 Fax.: +49 271 68193 29 Amtsgericht Siegen HRB4838 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Oliver Seitz Sitz der Gesellschaft ist Siegen

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Alexander Cherniak 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, I'd like to use Global ACLs to limit user's access to individual folders (e.g. read only). The dovecot-acl file limiting my user "test": user=test lr works fine when I put it into the user's mailbox /home/vmail/test/Maildir/.Records but gets ignored in /etc/dovecot/acls/Records Bellow is my dovecot -n output: # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain ntlm disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls } protocols = imap userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl } Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] configure forgets to add -lgcc_s under Solaris 10
by Stephan Schulz 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi all! I built dovecot-1.2.14 on Solaris 10 with gcc as well as cc and had reproducible crashes of imap-login: Aug 31 19:00:05 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.14 starting up Aug 31 19:00:10 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<someuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=<remote_ip>, lip=<local_ip> Aug 31 19:00:10 IMAP(someuser): Error: ld.so.1: imap: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Aug 31 19:00:10 dovecot: Error: child 26222 (imap) killed with signal 9 To solution was to set the environment variable LIBS to "-lgcc_s" before running configure. I think this is a bug as this library should be added automatically by configure to the Makefile when considered necessary. The same problem applies to Dovecot-2.0.1 also, which gave the same error message. regards, Stephan P.S. I found a similar message of this issue for version 1.0.rc27 but the suggestions didn't help (i.e. /usr/sfw/lib is already in the RPATH).

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[Dovecot] Lazy expunge plugin - delete folder result error.
by Kui Zhang 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hello Is it a bug in lazy expunge plugin or am I missing something? Dovecot v2.0.1 (c5111fb65b0b) home = /mail/%Ld/%Ln mail_location = mdbox:/mail/%Ld/%Ln/mdbox sources.list - debian (squeeze) .. deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian testing-auto/dovecot-2.0 main Config changes - - - plugin { lazy_expunge = .EXPUNGED/ } namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = inbox = yes list = yes } # lazy_expunge namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = .EXPUNGED/ #location = mdbox:~/mdbox:MAILBOXDIR=expunged location = mdbox:~/expunged:MAILBOXDIR=expunged list = children subscriptions = no - - - When: location = mdbox:~/mdbox:MAILBOXDIR=expunged expunged folder gets created inside mail_location delete/expunge email works delete/expunge folder works When: location = mdbox:~/expunged:MAILBOXDIR=expunged expunged folder gets created inside mail home delete/expunge email works delete/expunge folder DOES NOT WORK. To reproduce the problem in outlook 2003: Delete a messages in the Inbox. Then edit/purge deleted messages. Create a new folder, then delete the new folder... error prompt Server Responded: "CANNOT] Can't rename mailboxes across specified storages." Folder does not get unsubscribe/move no core dump. when try to delete the same folder again. Server Responded: "NONEXISTENT] Mailbox was deleted under us" Thanks

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[Dovecot] Static passdb support?
by Brad Davidson 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Timo, Do you have any plans to add a static passdb? I'm essentially emulating one with sqlite on my director - have it connect to /dev/null and return three static fields for all queries. Works fine, but it would seem a little cleaner to me if I could just do: passdb { driver = static args = password='' nopasswd='Y' proxy='Y' } -Brad

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[Dovecot] doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d iterate_query LDAP
by Tomislav Mihalicek 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

hi everyone after doing this in shell #/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/bin/doveadm expunge -u tmihal mailbox INBOX savedbefore 1d everything is working as it should but ... #/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/bin/doveadm expunge -A mailbox INBOX savedbefore 1d doveadm(root): Error: userdb list: Disconnected unexpectedly doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users #cat /etc/dovecot2/dovecot-ldap.conf tls = no hosts = blah ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = no dn = blah.blah dnpass = blah scope = onelevel deref = never pass_attrs = userPassword=password default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_attrs = mail=%u,homeDirectory=home,mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,mailQuotaCount=quota_rule2=*:messages=%$ base = ou=accounts,dc=xnet,dc=hr user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(accountStatus=enabled)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls%Lc)(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u))) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(accountStatus=enabled)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls%Lc)(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u))) # Attributes and filter to get a list of all users iterate_attrs = mail=%u iterate_filter = (objectClass=qmailUser) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: LIST 1 Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) failed: Permission denied Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/lib/dovecot/auth Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers: Read 1 users Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17731) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17729) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17734) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17735) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17737) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17739) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17742) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17741) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17740) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17730) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17738) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17733) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17743) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17728) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17736) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17732) any clues? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/doveadm-expunge--A-mailbox-Trash-savedbefore-30d-iter… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] doveadm quota get -u someone@ourdomains.com
by Jerrale G 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

With the expire running from mysql, on 2.0.1, we get no errors with: " doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 7d" we have the mail_plugins defined differently for each protocol ({imap=quota,expire,imap_quota} {pop3=quota,expire} {lda=quota,expire,sieve}). When trying "doveadm quota get -u someone(a)ourdomains.com" the output is: "doveadm(root): Fatal: Unknown command 'quota', but plugin quota exists. Try to set mail_plugins=quota" When adding an additional, global mail_plugins=quota, we get: "Segmentation fault" Is there a specific, proper way beyond the way I read of 1.2.x for defining the plugins. Please let me know how and what plugins I should define Jerrale G -- Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot creating aditional folders?
by Pablo 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Thank you again. Yes, you're on the way :-) Problem was that in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf was: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ instead of my new line: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u/ I think it's all right now. Well...not all right, I see no mails with a client (it's on the mailserver filesystem) but it's another history ;-) Thanks in advance! 2010/9/1 <spamvoll(a)googlemail.com>: > mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ > > check if there is the correct home in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > > maybe that is different, but not sure > > 2010/9/1 Pablo <boinker(a)gmail.com>: >> Thank you for your response. >> >> Yes, I know that I'm using maildir, but when we create an account, >> file sistem look likes: >> >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/new >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/cur >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/tmp >> >> My problem is that dovecot is creating additional folders: >> >> /home/vmail/user1/new >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user/cur >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user/tmp >> >> Mail are received in first directories, second ones are created but not used. >> >> What's the problem? >> >> Thanks again! >> >> 2010/9/1 <spamvoll(a)googlemail.com>: >>> its because u using maildir to store your mails. >>> >>> THE MAILDIR STRUCTURE >>> A directory in maildir format has three subdirectories, all >>> on the same filesystem: tmp, new, and cur. >>> >>> 2010/9/1 Pablo <boinker(a)gmail.com>: >>>> Hi guys. >>>> >>>> My conf: >>>> >>>> # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >>>> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs >>>> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S >>>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >>>> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt >>>> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key >>>> 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_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ >>>> 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_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap >>>> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap >>>> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 >>>> auth default: >>>> mechanisms: plain login >>>> verbose: yes >>>> debug: yes >>>> debug_passwords: yes >>>> passdb: >>>> driver: sql >>>> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >>>> userdb: >>>> driver: sql >>>> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >>>> socket: >>>> type: listen >>>> client: >>>> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth >>>> mode: 432 >>>> user: postfix >>>> group: postfix >>>> master: >>>> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >>>> mode: 384 >>>> user: vmail >>>> group: vmail >>>> ------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> My problem is that dovecot is creating aditional folders: >>>> >>>> #ls -l /home/vmail >>>> >>>> drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 184 2010-09-01 01:31 escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >>>> drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 392 2010-09-01 10:58 >>>> pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >>>> >>>> # ls -l escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >>>> drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-08-30 14:35 pablo.rodriguez >>>> >>>> I'm receiving mail in >>>> /home/vmail/escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/new without >>>> problem, but why is dovecot creating aditional folders? >>>> >>>> My log: >>>> >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: >>>> REQUEST^I162^I4003^I1 >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): >>>> sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT >>>> maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = >>>> 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: >>>> USER^I162^Ipablo.rodriguez@escuelasuperiordecoaching.com^Imaildir=escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001 >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Login: >>>> user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, >>>> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Effective >>>> uid=1001, gid=1001, home=(none) >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir: >>>> data=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir++: >>>> root=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com, >>>> index=, control=, >>>> inbox=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Namespace : Using >>>> permissions from >>>> /home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com: mode=0700 >>>> gid=-1 >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Disconnected: >>>> Logged out bytes=117/1383 >>>> >>>> I can see that Dovecot is creating when...I login? >>>> >>>> What's the problem? I can't understand... >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance. >>>> >>> >> >

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[Dovecot] Dovecot creating aditional folders?
by Pablo 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi guys. My conf: # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key 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_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ 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_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail ------------------------------------- My problem is that dovecot is creating aditional folders: #ls -l /home/vmail drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 184 2010-09-01 01:31 escuelasuperiordecoaching.com drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 392 2010-09-01 10:58 pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com # ls -l escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-08-30 14:35 pablo.rodriguez I'm receiving mail in /home/vmail/escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/new without problem, but why is dovecot creating aditional folders? My log: Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I162^I4003^I1 Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I162^Ipablo.rodriguez@escuelasuperiordecoaching.com^Imaildir=escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001 Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Effective uid=1001, gid=1001, home=(none) Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir: data=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir++: root=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=117/1383 I can see that Dovecot is creating when...I login? What's the problem? I can't understand... Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] sieve + homedirectory
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

hi.. system: dovecot 2.0.1 + pigenhole my global sieve script is used but my users sieve scrips not. the user scripts arent even compiled. so i think the problem is with the home path im using ldap as userdb (ive tryed staticdb but i need the uid from my ldap, path is /home/MAILBOXES/hpeter/mail) user_attrs = homeDirectory=home=/home/MAILBOXES/%$/,uid=mail=maildir:/home/MAILBOXES/%$/mail user_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(|(mail=%u)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%u)(uid=%u))) in sieve i use: sieve_dir = ~/sieve any ideas ? all mails are stored correctly Hans

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot creating aditional folders?
by Pablo 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Thank you for your response. Yes, I know that I'm using maildir, but when we create an account, file sistem look likes: /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/new /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/cur /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/tmp My problem is that dovecot is creating additional folders: /home/vmail/user1/new /home/vmail/domain.com/user/cur /home/vmail/domain.com/user/tmp Mail are received in first directories, second ones are created but not used. What's the problem? Thanks again! 2010/9/1 <spamvoll(a)googlemail.com>: > its because u using maildir to store your mails. > > THE MAILDIR STRUCTURE > A directory in maildir format has three subdirectories, all > on the same filesystem: tmp, new, and cur. > > 2010/9/1 Pablo <boinker(a)gmail.com>: >> Hi guys. >> >> My conf: >> >> # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs >> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S >> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt >> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key >> 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_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ >> 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_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap >> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap >> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 >> auth default: >> mechanisms: plain login >> verbose: yes >> debug: yes >> debug_passwords: yes >> passdb: >> driver: sql >> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >> userdb: >> driver: sql >> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >> socket: >> type: listen >> client: >> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth >> mode: 432 >> user: postfix >> group: postfix >> master: >> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >> mode: 384 >> user: vmail >> group: vmail >> ------------------------------------- >> >> My problem is that dovecot is creating aditional folders: >> >> #ls -l /home/vmail >> >> drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 184 2010-09-01 01:31 escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >> drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 392 2010-09-01 10:58 >> pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >> >> # ls -l escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >> drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-08-30 14:35 pablo.rodriguez >> >> I'm receiving mail in >> /home/vmail/escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/new without >> problem, but why is dovecot creating aditional folders? >> >> My log: >> >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: >> REQUEST^I162^I4003^I1 >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): >> sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT >> maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = >> 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: >> USER^I162^Ipablo.rodriguez@escuelasuperiordecoaching.com^Imaildir=escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001 >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Login: >> user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Effective >> uid=1001, gid=1001, home=(none) >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir: >> data=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir++: >> root=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com, >> index=, control=, >> inbox=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Namespace : Using >> permissions from >> /home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com: mode=0700 >> gid=-1 >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Disconnected: >> Logged out bytes=117/1383 >> >> I can see that Dovecot is creating when...I login? >> >> What's the problem? I can't understand... >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >

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[Dovecot] vpopmail auth always return "unknown user"
by Toorop 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, I'm working on a setup of dovecot 2 + netqmail + vpopmail 5.5 but auth doesn't works :( dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.1-rscloud x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot ready. mail_debug = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_ssl = yes LOG: -------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 27 14:11:55 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=184.106.217.69 rip=178.32.33.247 lport=143 rport=33875 Aug 27 14:11:55 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 Aug 27 14:11:56 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 AHRvb3JvcEByZXNwdWJsaWNhLmZyAG11cnBoeTI1 Aug 27 14:11:56 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 27 14:11:56 auth: Info: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): unknown user Aug 27 14:11:58 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=toorop(a)respublica.fr Aug 27 14:11:58 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=184.106.217.69 rip=178.32.33.247 lport=143 rport=33875 resp=AHRvb3JvcEByZXNwdWJsaWNhLmZyAG11cnBoeTI1 Aug 27 14:12:02 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 27 14:12:02 auth: Info: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): unknown user Aug 27 14:12:04 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 2 user=toorop(a)respublica.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------- ./vuserinfo toorop(a)respublica.fr name: toorop passwd: $1$sOC22F4C$8.ciZmdTZkNnFLFB8EsZm0 clear passwd: clearpass comment/gecos: toorop uid: 1 gid: 0 flags: 0 gecos: toorop limits: No user limits set. dir: /home/vpopmail/domains/respublica.fr/toorop quota: NOQUOTA usage: 0% (8487 byte(s) in 3 file(s)) Any idea ? Thanks. -- Toorop «Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait.» Mark Twain

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.x and 2.x on the same machine ?
by Frank Bonnet 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hello Would it be possible to run two instances of Dovecot in order to test V 2 on the SAME machine that runs V 1 One Dovecot 1.x instance on std TCP ports One Dovecot 2.x instance on custom TCP ports and custom directories Thanks

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[Dovecot] Wiki page for the 2.x version of the antispam plugin
by interfaSys sàrl 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Since I had to collect information from different places to get it right, I decided to paste what I had into a wiki page. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Antispam Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox
by Christian Felsing 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hello, I would like to convert all users mail from maildir to mdbox. My Dovecot version is 2.0.1, converted from 1.2.13 but config was rewritten from scratch. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat says following: maildir -> mdbox migration. Set mail_location=mdbox:~/mdbox and run doveadm convert -u username maildir:~/Maildir but doveadm does not know a command like "convert". Is there a _working_ way to convert maildir to mdbox ? How to do that with all Dovecot mail users (about 10000) ? Christian

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[Dovecot] status of antispam plugin for DC 2.x ?
by interfaSys sàrl 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hello, I saw that there is now an antispam plugin repository for the V2.x version. It doesn't compile and it seems it cannot be configured like the old one. Any ETA? Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Running auth as root
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I seem to be forced to run the auth proces as root because I want to use pam for local users. My gut feeling says that this is Not Good. Is there another way? For the virtual users 'vmail' is good enough because that user may access the MySQL database. This is on Ubuntu server 10.04.1 and Dovecot 1.2.9. TIA, Egbert Jan

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[Dovecot] Size limit for a single mail in the IMAP store?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Postfix has "message_size_limit = 26214400", but that doesn't keep my users from sending huge messages which canot be sent, but can be stored in the IMAP "Sent" folder. Is it possible to set a size limit for the size of a single mail? -- 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] doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d
by Jerrale G 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

In the shell: ,doveadm(root): Error: User listing returned failure,doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users In the log: dovecot: auth: Error: sql: Iterate query failed: Table 'mail.users' doesn't exist (using built-in default iterate_query: SELECT username, domain FROM users) Why is dovecot trying to "select username, domain from users" when the "service auth" is setup to "select homedir, maildir, sieve_dir, from MAILBOXES.... the same with the password query except for selecting password from mail.mailboxes. The expire dictionary is EXACTLY like the example you posted in the wiki2. I can't remember whether I posted this thread before or not; I remember writing it two days ago but I'm not sure if I sent it as I can't find it in this "mailing lists" folder. Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Is there a way to catch mailbox and message flag changes?
by John O'Brien 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Guys, We have been trying to establish if there is a way to get some type of notification from Dovecot when a message is appended to a mailbox or when a message has its flags updated. These are the 2 use cases: A message is appended to the mailbox "/Watch", we want to trigger "processing" of the message immediately it arrives. A message in the "Inbox" has its status changed from Unseen to Seen, we want to trigger some code to indicate the message has been "processed". Regards, John

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Re: [Dovecot] LDAP & static userdb
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

ive added args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/ mail=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail and it work. Im not really sure about the hole LDAP thing :) my conf: uris = ldaps://ldap.example.org:636 dn = cn=dovecot server,ou=people,ou=Server,dc=example,dc=org dnpass = hiddenpw auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=org scope = subtree user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uid=mail=maildir:/home/%$/mail user_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(|(mail=%u)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%u)(uid=%u))) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(uid=%u)) (yea on 1.2 my home was /home/%uid but that suxx and i want to move it to /home/MAILBOXES/%uid) 1) I have a user that can read the PW so i dont need "auth_bind = yes", right? 2) user_* and pass_* i dont need them anymore cause its always: home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/ mail=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail 2010/8/27 Mihajlin Evgenij <skyworker(a)ooobadm.dp.ua>: > В сообщении от 27 августа 2010 17:32:04 автор spamvoll(a)googlemail.com написал: > >> > log say: >> > dovecot: imap(hpeter): Error: user hpeter: Initialization failed: >> > mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage >> > autodetection failed with home=/home/MAILBOXES/hpeter/mail > > may be try to set into 10-mail.conf or in namespace private (if you have such) > mail_localtion = ~/Maildir > >

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[Dovecot] MainConfig for dovecot 2.0
by Sascha Peters 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hey, for dovecot 1.2 there is a very good reference page for all options. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig is there a reference for dovecot 2.0 in the new wiki? If not, when will be this page online? Thanks a lot. -- Gruß Sascha

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[Dovecot] NTLM authentication does not work
by Alexander Cherniak 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Dear Experts, I configured Samba, Kerberos, etc., can login to my CentOS using ADS account, but missing something in my Dovecot config. Windbind seems to work: [root@aCentOs2 dovecot]# wbinfo -a wAlex%pass plaintext password authentication succeeded challenge/response password authentication succeeded Same is true for ntlm_auth helper: [root@aCentOs2 dovecot]# /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --username=wAlex --password=pass NT_STATUS_OK: Success (0x0) But I couldn't get into Dovecot (with or without auth_use_winbind option): . login wAlex pass . NO [ALERT] Unsupported authentication mechanism. Despite very verbose logging, there no clues there. Bellow's my dovecot -n output: # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = ntlm auth_use_winbind = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot_debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot_info.log log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes driver = static } It might be irrelevant, but although the lines "auth_use_winbind = yes" and "auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth" are close together in the config file, I cannot see the latter when run dovecot -n. I am quite new to Dovecot and will appreciate any help. Thanks, Alex.

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[Dovecot] Possible erroneous "aborted login attempts"
by Jerrale G 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Aug 29 22:51:27 server1 dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=(obfuscated), lip=173.50.101.12, TLS Aug 29 22:51:27 server1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=........... before most every successful login, the same second of time, dovecot has the above message. This is not a huge problem but our firewall is looking for aborted login attempts, for imap/pop3 (relevant to dovecot) dos attempts and, if many people start having problems of their packets being dropped, we will have to stop looking for the statement or lower security slightly, more attempts over a period of time before filtering. However, thanks to your idle feature, there is less of these messages; so, I don't think we will have a problem. The only client that doesn't have a problem is our php webmail but we don't look in dovecot's log for failed attempts from here; as, it is from the same ip, to dovecot from php, constantly without reference to the user. This has been happening since 1.2.11 with us. We don't use any imap relay but was looking into imapproxy for cacheing speed and preventing advanced ddos attempts, those from users with access. Jerrale G. errale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] dovecot lda issue
by Joy 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

I am using dovecot lda and everything is working fine for me except the sieve rule which is built for rejecting mail from a specific sender. message is being rejected but from address is not correct in rejection mail which looks like the following :- <<>@mail.xyz.net> sieve rule :- require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imap4flags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","body","date"]; if address :contains "From" "xyz(a)gmail.com" { reject text: Please do not send mail to me piyush .... . ; } Please let me know where is the issue with sieve rule or with lda setting :- lda has been configured with the following parameter :- postmaster_address = postmaster(a)xyz.net

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[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

> >>>> Hi, >>>> I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works >>>> perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the >>>> application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried >>>> explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I >>>> have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a >>>> solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the >>>> same problem. The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a >>>> corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like: >>>> >>>> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times --- >>>> >>>> where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP >>>> address. For all of the other services I've used, the process name >>>> (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead >>>> of the funny characters. Any advice on how I could resolve this issue >>>> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! >>> >>> >> >> I was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use. I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall works fine with postfix and several file services I use (enabling/disabling works as expected, process names get logged as expected, etc). Thanks! >> >> Patrick > > So, you're running Dovecot and Postfix on a laptop? WTF? > > -- > Stan Hi, Sorry for the confusion--no laptop involved. Postfix, dovecot, etc, all running on intel-based desktop mac (a mac pro). Patrick

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[Dovecot] mixing 1.2 and 2.0?
by Cor Bosman 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi all, anyone know if it's safe to mix a 1.2 environment with 2.0 servers? Im planning on adding some 2.0 servers for test purposes, but now im wondering if thats going to mess up index files or other files for users selecting the test server and then switching back to our normal servers. Regards, Cor

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, Thanks everyone for your help and input. I think perhaps my attempt to be brief and focused in posing my question has led to some confusion about my needs and configuration. I do not have the luxury of being able to segregate the server (postfix and dovecot) from client (GUI, etc) on different machines. I am, as Charles' surmised, using this to aggregate disparate mail streams into a single location, and using dovecot to serve it. Since I must run client-ish applications on this machine, the application firewall is desirable. The anticipated load on this system from the server side is quite light, so the throughput overhead incurred by the application firewall is negligible. The problem appears to be that--for some reason--dovecot identifies itself incorrectly to the application firewall, resulting in the garbage shown in the logs and failure to permit this connection (the firewall is configured to explicitly permit connections for dovecot). I note that other daemons (e.g. postfix, sshd, etc) do not exhibit this defect; the firewall works as expected for every other service I've tried except dovecot. The logs for the firewall appear as: Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Both of these are dovecot hits--but the name is different each time. Also the ?'s aren't really "?" marks; they're trans-ascii characters with high bits set that my mailer doesn't like very much. It really looks like a misdirected pointer or something somewhere, but I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to know where to start looking, or if in fact it is something else that is misconfigured. Any thoughts on how to resolve this? Patrick

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[Dovecot] getdents() with 4KB buffer - seems slow (Maildir, large inbox)
by Marinos Yannikos 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I have a very large inbox (~146K mails) in Maildir format and dovecot seems to spend a lot of time rescanning the directory, especially when the server is loaded. I'm not sure whether this is triggered by Thunderbird or done regularly, but it takes longer when the server is loaded, so sometimes it seems that it is scanning continuously. Since it takes around 2000 getdents64() syscalls to scan my inbox, I'm wondering whether the buffer size is a bit small with 4KB and might benefit from being configurable: ... getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 ... (strace output of an imap process belonging to me) The behaviour is identical on 1.0.15 and 1.2.13 (I just upgraded). Regards, Marinos PS. I know that the main reason for slowness is my large inbox and the server being loaded (disk I/O), but still, so many syscalls just to rescan the inbox seems wasteful. # dovecot -n # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686 i686 Debian 4.0 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_listen: * ssl_cert_file: XXXXX (censored) ssl_key_file: XXXXX login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_process_size: 32 login_processes_count: 8 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_process_size: 2048 imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] Mail error in log
by Ian macdonald 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi All, I am getting the following in the mail error log deliver(julie): safe_mkstemp(/home/julie/.temp.geomail.10443.) failed: Permission denied This is correct julie does not have access to write to her home directory Julie is a system user who is chrooted so her home is owned by root, this is for when she logs in via sftp to retrieve files she can only access folders below her home. I am using Maildir and julie does have access to ~Maildir, is there any reason why deliver is attempting to use her user directory and not her Maildir? Cheers Ian

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[Dovecot] istream_read like zlib, but without zlib
by Alex Baule 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hy Timo ! I Made some modification in stream_read in zlib. I remove all zlib part, because i don't need this, but i need to read a istream to change it. Well, i create a size_t called supersize, with is a substitute for stream->zs.avail_in. The trouble is, my debug file have a lot of "READ Plugin\n", and i think it's because my read becomes a loop, i think it's because i don't know to identify the EOF from the istream. you can help me to identify the EOF and set it ? Tks .!!! static ssize_t i_stream_emx_read(struct istream_private *stream) { struct emx_istream *emxstream = (struct emx_istream *)stream; const unsigned char *data; uoff_t high_offset; size_t size; int ret; fprintf(emxstream->debug,"READ Plugin\n"); fflush(emxstream->debug); high_offset = stream->istream.v_offset + (stream->pos - stream->skip); if (emxstream->eof_offset == high_offset) { i_assert(emxstream->high_pos == 0); stream->istream.eof = TRUE; return -1; } if (stream->pos < emxstream->high_pos) { /* we're here because we seeked back within the read buffer. */ ret = emxstream->high_pos - stream->pos; stream->pos = emxstream->high_pos; emxstream->high_pos = 0; return ret; } emxstream->high_pos = 0; if (stream->pos + CHUNK_SIZE > stream->buffer_size) { /* try to keep at least CHUNK_SIZE available */ if (!emxstream->marked && stream->skip > 0) { /* don't try to keep anything cached if we don't have a seek mark. */ i_stream_compress(stream); } if (stream->max_buffer_size == 0 || stream->buffer_size < stream->max_buffer_size) i_stream_grow_buffer(stream, CHUNK_SIZE); if (stream->pos == stream->buffer_size) { if (stream->skip > 0) { /* lose our buffer cache */ i_stream_compress(stream); } if (stream->pos == stream->buffer_size) return -2; /* buffer full */ } } if(emxstream->supersize == 0){ /* need to read more data. try to read a full CHUNK_SIZE */ i_stream_skip(stream->parent, emxstream->prev_size); if (i_stream_read_data(stream->parent, &data, &size, CHUNK_SIZE-1) == -1 && size == 0) { if (stream->parent->stream_errno != 0) { stream->istream.stream_errno = stream->parent->stream_errno; } else { i_assert(stream->parent->eof); stream->istream.stream_errno = EPIPE; } return -1; } emxstream->prev_size = size; if (size == 0) { /* no more input */ stream->istream.eof = TRUE; i_assert(!stream->istream.blocking); return 0; } fprintf(emxstream->debug,"READ =|%s|= Plugin\n",data); fflush(emxstream->debug); memcpy(stream->w_buffer + stream->pos, data,size); emxstream->supersize = size; } size = stream->buffer_size - stream->pos; stream->pos += size; if(stream->istream.eof == TRUE){ emxstream->eof_offset = stream->istream.v_offset + stream->pos; i_stream_skip(stream->parent, emxstream->prev_size - emxstream->supersize); emxstream->supersize = 0; emxstream->prev_size = 0; } if (size == 0) { /* read more input */ return i_stream_emx_read(stream); } return size; }

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Re: [Dovecot] fetchmail wakeup
by Amon Ott 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

On Tuesday 31 August 2010 wrote Peter Dungel: > Does someone know, if in the new release of dovecot 2.x.x there is a > feature implemented, that wakes fetchmail or any other program on a client > request, or is the "fetchmail wakeup" plugin still the only way to do this > (at least I've not found any other, and that plugin never worked for me),.. You could replace the imap or pop3 helper program with a wrapper that first sends the fetchmail daemon a wakeup signal, waits a few secs and then calls the original. Amon Ott -- Dr. Amon Ott - m-privacy GmbH Am Köllnischen Park 1, 10179 Berlin Tel: +49 30 24342334 Fax: +49 30 24342336 Web: http://www.m-privacy.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 84946 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Kfm. Holger Maczkowsky, Roman Maczkowsky GnuPG-Key-ID: EA898571

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[Dovecot] fetchmail wakeup
by Peter Dungel 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Does someone know, if in the new release of dovecot 2.x.x there is a feature implemented, that wakes fetchmail or any other program on a client request, or is the "fetchmail wakeup" plugin still the only way to do this (at least I've not found any other, and that plugin never worked for me),.. Yours Peter

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[Dovecot] Wrong MySQL sintax, I can't login
by Pablo 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi guys: I can't login as a user: The output of mail.log: Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=imap^Ilip=178.63.82.247^Irip=81.39.27.227^Ilport=143^Irport=33715^Iresp=AHBhYmxvLnJvZHJpZ3VlekBlc2N1ZWxhc3VwZXJpb3JkZWNvYWNoaW5nLmNvbQBwZXJpa2l0YS4= Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,81.39.27.227): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I65^I16796^I1 Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,81.39.27.227): SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,81.39.27.227): User query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' at line 1 Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: FAIL^I65 Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=81.39.27.227, lip=178.63.82.247 My Dovecot version: 1.2.9 My Dovecot configuration: # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key 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_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ 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_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail My Dovecot MySQL configuration: driver=mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=xxxxxx default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u Can anyone help me? I've seen that log told me "wrong syntax", but I think upper query is right, isn't it? Any hint? Thanks in advance :-)

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[Dovecot] Combining ManageSieve with hand-written scripts
by Jason Bleazard 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi, new to Dovecot, forgive me if I'm missing something basic... I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to use a couple of custom rules alongside ManageSieve. Most of the time I like the ManageSieve interface in Roundcube, but there's one rule that I can't get it to do the way I want (it's a notify rule, and I don't like the way Roundcube constructs the notify). I figured out how to write it by hand, but of course I can't put my own rules in Roundcube's file or it gets really confused. I tried adding an include to the generated file, but Roundcube politely removes it for me the next time I use the rule editor. (Squirrelmail doesn't seem to be any better in this regard.) I thought I could do something like sieve_before = ~/sieve/custom.sieve but that doesn't seem to work. I couldn't even see any evidence in the log that it attempted to look at that file. Apparently sieve_before isn't meant to work on a per-user basis. If I do a global sieve_before, can I have it "include :personal"? If so, what's going to happen with the script compilation? From what I understand, it can't be compiled globally, since each user has a different custom rule set. Am I trying to do the impossible here? Thanks for any ideas, Jason Bleazard

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[Dovecot] Different IPs should use different ssl-certs/keys
by Peer Heinlein 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I don't understand how to use multiple keys/certs on different IPs without SNI. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration explains how to use different keys for different protocols like POP3 and IMAP. But how to bind those keys/ on IPs/Ports? Looks like it is not possible to use ssl_cert inside service { inet_listener {} } Is it still necessary to run multiple instances like it was in Dovecot 1.2.x? Peer -- Heinlein Professional Linux Support GmbH Linux: Akademie - Support - Hosting http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 40 50 51 - 0 Fax: 030 / 40 50 51 - 19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot dict process privileges
by Mike Mimic 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi! Is it possible to configure Dovecot so that it drops privileges for dict process? Currently this process is running as root. (At least on my system with Dovecot 1.2.) Best regards Mike

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

> On 8/29/2010 8:51 PM, Patrick Fay wrote: >> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> >> Both of these are dovecot hits--but the name is different each time. >> Also the ?'s aren't really "?" marks; they're trans-ascii characters >> with high bits set that my mailer doesn't like very much. It really >> looks like a misdirected pointer or something somewhere, but I'm not >> familiar enough with the codebase to know where to start looking, or >> if in fact it is something else that is misconfigured. Any thoughts >> on how to resolve this? > > Dovecot version? > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > My apologies-- dovecot version 1.2.11. Patrick

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Re: [Dovecot] doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d
by Jerrale G 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Could you explain the iterate_query in any kind of sql. I'm guessing to just use the query, correctly, that's failing as iterate_query= and put it in the service auth file which includes password_query and user_query. then, I'm guessing to add something like: iteratedb { driver = sql args = /path/to/sql.conf } The wiki2 only says: "When the SQL userdb module is used make sure that the iterate_query setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches your database layout." it should give an example query. I don't know if its wanting to list the fields or the contents of a field. Thanks, Jerrale G Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Can't get dovecot to see email folders
by Blaster 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

So I'm very frustrated, I've spent the better part of a day trying to get dovecot 2.0.1 working...Most of the documentation on the Wiki seems to think you are running an older version and therefore very little of it applies. I'm running 2.0.1 on OpenSolaris. I seem to have 2 remaining issues: 1) Dovecot is not able to determine the home directory 2) IMAP clients can not get to the mail folder directory. One client is reporting that it can't open it in read only mode. 3) I tried to get raw logging working, but apparently I couldn't because of #1. The architecture of Dovecot makes it difficult to transition from another IMAP server. If I force the MBOX to be /home/%u/mail, all of my clients think the folders are in /home/%u/mail/mail. If I set mbox location to /home/%u, then dovecot tries to create .subscription and .imap files/directories in the users home dir which it doesn't have permission to do. It would be nice if you could configure Dovecot in such a way as to make transition easier, such as the ability to strip off a duplicate trailing path, ie /home/%u/mail/mail becomes /home/%u/mail....Otherwise this necessitates visiting countless IMAP clients for reconfiguration... Here is my config file: /opt/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ mail_debug = yes mail_gid = mail mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = dovecot passdb { driver = pam } plugin { home = /home/%u } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { address = * port = 0 } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </usr/local/ssl/private/dovecot.pem gremlin [/opt/bin] # gremlin [/opt/bin] #

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[Dovecot] PAM authentication fails
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Hi, I'm fighting all weekend on with auth and pam to authenticate local system users. testuser is such local user and is in passwd and shadow. I want to have local system users (testuser is one of them) and virtual users. The virtual part works fine but I cannot get the local user to connect. Still pam fails finding the user. The suggested password mismatch at the end is, in my eyes, because there is no user in the first place. I verified the password by interactive login to the account. The pam module (dovecot) is just the default file with three @includes in it. Syslog: Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH#0112#011LOGIN#011service=imap#011lip=2a02:968:1:2:212:72:224:16#011rip=2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c#011lport=143#011rport=1093 Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT#0112#011VXNlcm5hbWU6 Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT#0112#011dGVzdHVzZXI= Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT#0112#011UGFzc3dvcmQ6 Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT#0112#011dmF4dm1z Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): lookup service=dovecot Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): cache(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): miss Aug 29 20:18:04 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): cache(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): hit: Aug 29 20:18:04 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): cache(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): User unknown Aug 29 20:18:04 mail-dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (password mismatch?) (given password: xxxxxxxx) Aug 29 20:18:06 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL#0112#011user=testuser Relevant settings in dovecot: root@mail-dev:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ext4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s managesieve listen: *, [::] ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-mail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-mail.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM 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 login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/home/vmail/%d/%n 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_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login realms: kader.hcc.nl hobby.nl cache_size: 1024 user: vmail verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam args: setcred=yes failure_show_msg=yes cache_key=%u 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/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail Where should I look further for this dovecot pam problem? Is there such a thing as pam debugging? TIA Egbert Jan

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[Dovecot] Sent mail issue
by Piyush Joshi 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Dear All, I have few question regarding dovecot configuration for specific need which are as follows:- 1. I have IMAP folder with the name Sent Mail and i want whenever client uses any MUA to send mail from my server his mail must be kept in server's IMAP folder which is Sent Mail instead of local Sent folder. 2. Whenever user configures account in MUA, MUA automatically create some new folder like Junk Mail etc. while i am already using Spam folder to keep spam message in that folder so let me know how can i save myself from this. 3. Is there any thing which can also put deleted message in my server's Trash folder. Thanks

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[Dovecot] "Multiple Commands in Progress" support
by Mike Cardwell 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Section 5.5 of RFC3501 discusses the ability of IMAP servers to receive and execute multiple commands asynchronously on a single IMAP connection, not necessarily responding in the same order the commands were received: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-5.5 Does Dovecot take advantage of this ability, or does it simply queue up the commands and execute them synchronously in order? -- Mike Cardwell - Perl/Java/Web developer, Linux admin, Email admin Read my tech Blog - https://secure.grepular.com/ Follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/mickeyc Hire me - http://cardwellit.com/ http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mikecardwell

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

>> Hi, >> I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works >> perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the >> application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried >> explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I >> have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a >> solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the >> same problem. The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a >> corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like: >> >> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times --- >> >> where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP >> address. For all of the other services I've used, the process name >> (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead >> of the funny characters. Any advice on how I could resolve this issue >> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! > > The application level firewall in OSX is aimed at _client_ use, not > server use. It's similar to Novell's AppArmor, etc. Leave it turned off. > > Simply because a piece of software (in this case an OS) offers any given > option does not mean every system needs it. Can you offer a compelling > reason why you _need_ the OSX application level firewall enabled? > Please point us to documentation that advises using it for any of your > services/daemons. > > -- > Stan > Hi was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use. I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall works fine with postfix and several file services I use (enabling/disabling works as expected, process names get logged as expected, etc). Thanks! Patrick

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[Dovecot] When should dictionary entries for the expire plugin be added/updated?
by Ralph Seichter 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I've set up Dovecot 2.0 with the expire plugin using an SQLite DB, and when mail is delivered via dovecto-lda, the DB gets updated as expected. However, when I use Thunderbird 3.1.2 for Mac OS X to move a message to any of the folders known to the expire plugin (e.g. the 'tmp' folder), the SQLite DB is not updated. Here is an excerpt of my current configuration: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf dict { expire = sqlite:/etc/dovecot/dict-expire.conf } plugin { expire = Junk expire2 = Trash expire3 = tmp expire4 = *.News expire5 = *.Reports expire_dict = proxy::expire sieve = /etc/dovecot/sieve/%u.sieve } service dict { unix_listener dict { # Ensure that there is no permission-related problem mode = 0666 } } protocol lda { mail_plugins = expire sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)domain.tld sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail } # /etc/dovecot/dict-expire.conf connect = /var/lib/dovecot/expires.sqlite map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = expires value_field = expire fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } # Schema dump of /var/lib/dovecot/expires.sqlite PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF; BEGIN TRANSACTION; CREATE TABLE expires ( username VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL, mailbox VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, expire integer NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (username, mailbox) ); CREATE TRIGGER mergeexpire BEFORE INSERT ON expires FOR EACH ROW BEGIN UPDATE expires SET expire=NEW.expire WHERE username=NEW.username AND mailbox=NEW.mailbox; SELECT RAISE(IGNORE) WHERE (SELECT 1 FROM expires WHERE username=NEW.username AND mailbox=NEW.mailbox) IS NOT NULL; END; COMMIT; With these settings, rows will be inserted to (or updated within) expires.sqlite when dovecot-lda stores messages to any of my "Reports" folders using sieve rules. When I manually move messages to "tmp" or "Junk", the database remains unchanged. Also, when I delete messages in Thunderbird, I'd expect database additions for the folder "Trash", but this does not happen either. What am I doing wrong here? -Ralph

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[Dovecot] Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11
by Toorop 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi, Auth always crash (segfault) using vpopmail backend. Any idea ? vpopmail 5.5.0 os: ubuntu 10.04 on rackspace cloud # dovecot -n dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.1-rscloud x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0600 user = vpopmail } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } Log: Aug 28 10:59:48 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Aug 28 10:59:48 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=2211) Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 CRAM-MD5 service=imap secured lip=184.106.217.69 rip=178.32.33.247 lport=143 rport=49099 Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 PDM3MjI0MzQ4NjQzNTI3NjUuMTI4Mjk5MzE4OUByYWNrc3BhY2UuZGVkaW1haWwuZXU+ Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=toorop(a)respublica.fr Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 1 2211 1 e4920e51f96ae453663098df19c5b374 Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 28 10:59:49 imap-login: Info: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<toorop(a)respublica.fr>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=178.32.33.247, lip=184.106.217.69, mpid=2214, TLS Aug 28 10:59:49 master: Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) strace : http://pastebin.com/kYsWHP5J Thanks, -- Toorop «Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait.» Mark Twain

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[Dovecot] Roff typo in sievec.1.in
by Mike Abbott 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

There is a roff typo in pigeonhole's sievec.1.in. Roff treats the leading apostrophe on line 54 as an invalid command and produces bad output: dump to be written to stdout. The out-file argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect as for a com- piled Sieve binary file. Note that this option is not The output should be: dump to be written to stdout. The out-file argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect as '-'. The output is identical to what the sieve-dump(1) command pro- duces for a compiled Sieve binary file. Note that this Here is a patch: --- a/doc/man/sievec.1.in +++ b/doc/man/sievec.1.in @@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ Don\(aqt write the binary to \fIout\-file\fP, but write a textual dump of the binary instead. In this context, the \fIout\-file\fP value '\-' has special meaning: it causes the the textual dump to be written to \fBstdout\fP. -The \fIout\-file\fP argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect as -'\-'. The output is identical to what the \fBsieve\-dump\fP(1) command produces +The \fIout\-file\fP argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect +as '\-'. +The output is identical to what the \fBsieve\-dump\fP(1) command produces for a compiled Sieve binary file. Note that this option is not allowed when the \fIout\-file\fP argument is a directory. .TP

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole needs to ship doc/man/{reporting-bugs.inc, sed.sh}
by Paul Howarth 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

A tarball created from current pigeonhole hg using "make dist" doesn't include the files doc/man/{reporting-bugs.inc,sed.sh} and fails to build as a result. Attached patch works for me. Paul

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[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi, I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the same problem. The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like: Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H�^U��^Z connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times --- where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP address. For all of the other services I've used, the process name (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead of the funny characters. Any advice on how I could resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] LDAP & static userdb
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

hi.. im just testing 2.0 before upgrading to v1.2 :) in auth-ldap.conf.ext i found # If you don't have any user-specific settings, you can avoid the userdb LDAP # lookup by using userdb static instead of userdb ldap, for example: # <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.Static.txt> #userdb { #driver = static #args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u #} On 1.2 im using LDAP lookup and everthing works like a charm. user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uid=mail=maildir:/home/MAILBOXES/%$/mail On 2.0 is now tried to use this option cause all my mail are stored in /home/MAILBOXES/%uid/mail userdb { driver = static args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail } and that doesnt work log say: dovecot: imap(hpeter): Error: user hpeter: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/MAILBOXES/hpeter/mail Hans

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Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage
by Damon Atkins 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Some interesting reading on SHA256 checksum http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/improving_zfs_dedup_performance_via

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[Dovecot] Single instance storage - testing please
by Timo Sirainen 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0-sis contains the code for it. Otherwise it's the latest (as of writing this) dovecot-2.0 hg tree. Please test if you're interested in SIS. :) Once there's at least some testing, I'll probably add this to v2.0.x since very little of this new code is used when SIS is disabled (which is the default of course). SIS works pretty much like explained in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-July/050832.html and http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-July/050992.html Two things I'm not yet entirely sure about: 1. What hash algorithm to use? Currently it's hard coded to SHA1. Besides more CPU usage, the other potential problem with larger hashes is that they also generate larger filenames. The filenames are currently hex-encoded, but to save space they could be changed to some kind of modified-base64 (base64 uses '/' chars, so it can't be regular base64). Example filename lengths: hex modified-base64 SHA1 73 50 SHA256 97 66 SHA512 161 109 Yet another possibility would be to use SHA256/SHA512 and just truncate the hash length to less number of bits. 2. Should I add support for trusting hash uniqueness and to avoid disk I/O generated by the byte-by-byte comparison? It could still first check that the file sizes match. Usage ----- You can enable SIS for sdbox and mdbox: mail_attachment_dir = /var/attachments Just setting the above enables "instant SIS", where byte-by-byte comparison is done immediately during saving mails. Alternative is to leave the comparing later by setting: mail_attachment_fs = sis-queue /var/attachments/queue:posix This does no deduplication itself yet. To do that you'll need a nighty (or whatever) run, which calls: doveadm sis deduplicate /var/attachments /var/attachments/queue There's also a feature to easily find all attachments based on a hash. For example: % sha1sum foo 351641b73feb7cf7e87e5a8c3ca9a37d7b21e525 foo % doveadm sis find /var/attachments 351641b73feb7cf7e87e5a8c3ca9a37d7b21e525 /var/attachments/35/16/351641b73feb7cf7e87e5a8c3ca9a37d7b21e525-e13a841f28ba764c123b00008c4a11c1 /var/attachments/35/16/351641b73feb7cf7e87e5a8c3ca9a37d7b21e525-1d3b940628ba764c0b3b00008c4a11c1 If you want to save attachments to a separate files without SIS (e.g. you want to use your filesystems deduplication), set: mail_attachment_fs = posix By default only attachments larger than 128 kB are written to attachment storage. You can change it from: mail_attachment_min_size = 128k It's also possible to create a plugin that adds further restrictions to when the attachment is saved separately. This might be useful to reduce disk seeks for attachments that are typically shown inline by clients/webmail. You can do this by overriding mailbox.save_is_attachment() method. If you want to distribute attachments to multiple filesystems, just create /var/attachments/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f] as symlinks pointing to whatever mount paths you want.

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[Dovecot] Panic, rawtrace, log, etc
by Brandon Lamb 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

While running some doveadm expunge -A mailbox Spam savedbefore 30d and doveadm purge -A after 2010-08-26 16:20:51 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files 2010-08-26 16:20:51 master: Warning: service(auth): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Panic: file auth-request-handler.c: line 85 (auth_request_handler_unref): assertion failed: (hash_table_count(handler->requests) == 0) 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x39c1a) [0x7fe41f5f5c1a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x39c6a) [0x7fe41f5f5c6a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7fe41f5d3026] -> dovecot/auth [8 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x412153] -> dovecot/auth [8 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x40c3ad] -> dovecot/auth [8 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb](auth_client_connections_deinit+0x41) [0x40c461] -> dovecot/auth [8 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb](main+0x2ea) [0x4168ca] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fe41e60ac4d] -> dovecot/auth [8 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x40b1f9] 2010-08-26 16:21:21 master: Error: service(auth): child 14880 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for nonexistent client 14875 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for nonexistent client 14873 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for nonexistent client 14873 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for client 14874 with invalid cookie 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for client 14874 with invalid cookie 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for client 14875 with invalid cookie 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for client 14876 with invalid cookie 2010-08-26 16:21:21 auth: Error: Master requested auth for client 14875 with invalid cookie

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[Dovecot] Configuration Update From v1.x To v2.0.1-2
by Carlos Mennens 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I just upgraded my Dovecot IMAP package on my mail server and when I restarted the service, I got the following warnings... doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:12: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:14: passdb pam {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=pam } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:16: userdb passwd {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=passwd } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:18: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } The list was much longer but I was able to self resolve them. I was wondering if someone here can assist me in converting my 'dovecot.conf' file? Below is how my dovecot.conf file appears: protocols = imap disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:~/mail auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root socket listen { client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client user = postfix group = postfix mode = 0660 } } } ***doveconf -n*** [root@mail /]# doveconf -n # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:12: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:14: passdb pam {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=pam } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:16: userdb passwd {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=passwd } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:18: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } # OS: Linux 2.6.35 x86_64 auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:~/mail passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep }

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[Dovecot] How to pipe to external program
by Egbert 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi, Second try... I have mailsystem with virtual users only (/home/vmail/domain/user). I need to integrate RT3.x (a ticketing system). I have installed the RT-client but I need to send the mail to an extrnal program. Rt wants me to insert: |/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bla --action bla --url http://bla.bal/ In /etc/postfix/aliases. That does not work for me becase my local delivery agent is dovecot. The Sieve plugin seems not capable to forward to a external program. What is the right way to achieve that mail to rt@mydomain is sent to the pipe? TIA Egbert Jan

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Re: [Dovecot] Investigating suspected cache corruption
by Maria Elinger 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi David and all, I´ve read the mail you posted in the Dovecot list. We´re are having this same problem in a site which is very similar to yours. We also migrated from Courier to Dovecot nearly 9 months ago, and every now and then users complain about slowness in the imap connection. We fix it by removing the index files in the user's maildir. We use Horde as webmail, but the problem appears with any imap or pop connection, so we feel that the problem is in Dovecot. Did you find any solution or workaround at your site?, it would be very useful if you gave us a hint on this. Thanks in advance, María Elinger [Dovecot] Investigating suspected cache corruption David Warden Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:18:17 Hi All, I'm running Dovecot 1.1.11 for a site of about 7000 active users with a Squirrelmail frontend. We migrated from Courier (big shout to everyone who worked on the wonderful part of the Dovecot wiki that deals with Courier migration) and I have been extremely happy with the performance gains Dovecot has given us. Not only is the IMAP part of Squirrelmail faster, but our same hardware is under far less stress than it was before the migration. To date, the only problem we have experienced is a seemingly random but significant slowdown in Squirrelmail's loading of the messages in a user's Inbox. Each time, I have been able to fix the problem by deleting the user's dovecot.index, dovecot.index.cache and dovecot.index.log files in the user's INDEX directory for their dovecot Inbox. I tried having users experiencing this problem log in to a test Squirrelmail box with mail_debug on, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary and they report the same slowness on the test server. I don't see anything but normal login/logout IMAP lines in the production dovecot logs. I have hesitated a bit in posting to the list since this seems to be happening to a small percentage of users and it technically may be a problem with Squirrelmail, but the fact that I'm able to fix the problem by nuking Dovecot's index files has me concerned - does anyone have any suggestions for troubleshooting? My first idea when I get another one of these is to do a telnet IMAP session to Dovecot on one of the Squirrelmail boxes and see if I can get it to slow down when retrieving messages from the Inbox. We are using Maildir over NFS with the control/index files stored on NFS as well. We're doing FS quota over NFS using rquotad to query the NFS server for each user's quota. Here's the output of dovecot -n: # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1536). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) 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_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 512 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 0 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:CONTROL=/Mail/mailhome/ %u/.dovecot:INDEX=/Mail/mailhome/%u/.dovecot mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(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 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_logout_format(default): bytes(in/out)=%i/%o imap_logout_format(imap): bytes(in/out)=%i/%o imap_logout_format(pop3): bytes=%i/%o pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v 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(count/bytes)=%t/%p, retr(count/bytes)=%r/ %b, del(deleted/pre-deleted)=%d/%m, mailbox-size(bytes)=%s namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs:Mail Quota:user Many thanks, David Warden

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[Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.
by David Woodhouse 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Aug 18 22:07:31 twosheds IMAP(dwmw2): : Panic: file mail-index-transaction.c: line 637 (mail_index_transaction_lookup): assertion failed: (seq >= t->first_new_seq && seq <= t->last_new_seq) * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in as dwmw2 0 enable condstore qresync * ENABLED CONDSTORE QRESYNC 0 OK Enabled. A00131 SELECT lists.bluez (QRESYNC (1154090296 1861 1:* (1,120,1578,2064,2226,2280,2298 1,120,12037,12523,12685,12739,12757))) Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00000034ace326c5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-9.fc12.x86_64 glibc-2.11.2-1.x86_64 keyutils-libs-1.2-6.fc12.x86_64 krb5-libs-1.7.1-9.fc12.x86_64 libcom_err-1.41.9-8.fc12.x86_64 libgcc-4.4.4-10.fc12.x86_64 libselinux-2.0.90-5.fc12.x86_64 nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.6-2.fc12.1.x86_64 openldap-2.4.19-4.fc12.x86_64 openssl-1.0.0a-1.fc12.x86_64 zlib-1.2.3-23.fc12.x86_64 (gdb) bt #0 0x00000034ace326c5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00000034ace33ea5 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00000000004a2698 in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:160 #3 0x00000000004a273b in i_syslog_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at failures.c:315 #4 0x00000000004a1d86 in i_panic (format=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>) at failures.c:207 #5 0x00000000004787f0 in mail_index_transaction_lookup ( t=<value optimized out>, seq=<value optimized out>) at mail-index-transaction.c:637 #6 0x000000000047be45 in tview_lookup_uid (view=<value optimized out>, seq=<value optimized out>, uid_r=<value optimized out>) at mail-index-transaction-view.c:162 #7 0x00000000004580fb in index_mail_set_seq (_mail=0x7282b8, seq=1578) at index-mail.c:1229 #8 0x0000000000423eb4 in expunges_drop_known (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:178 #9 get_expunges_fallback (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:269 #10 imap_fetch_send_vanished (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:291 #11 imap_fetch_begin (ctx=0x70a628) at imap-fetch.c:314 #12 0x000000000041e8e2 in select_qresync (cmd=<value optimized out>, ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- readonly=<value optimized out>) at cmd-select.c:243 #13 select_open (cmd=<value optimized out>, readonly=<value optimized out>) at cmd-select.c:320 #14 cmd_select_full (cmd=<value optimized out>, readonly=<value optimized out>) at cmd-select.c:382 #15 0x0000000000420ead in client_command_input (cmd=0x70a458) at client.c:612 #16 0x0000000000420f8d in client_command_input (cmd=0x70a458) at client.c:661 #17 0x00000000004211b5 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x709ff0) at client.c:702 #18 client_handle_input (client=0x709ff0) at client.c:714 #19 0x0000000000421a5c in client_input (client=0x709ff0) at client.c:753 #20 0x00000000004aa7cd in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 #21 0x00000000004a9c38 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x707cc0) at ioloop.c:335 #22 0x0000000000429726 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>, envp=<value optimized out>) at main.c:327 It's a public mailing list folder, so I've uploaded it to http://david.woodhou.se/bluez-maildir.tar.gz Filed as Red Hat bug #625907: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625207 -- dwmw2

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[Dovecot] New problem with migration to 2.0
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi guys After fixing my master_auth problem i have one error message left and i don't know what to do. The message from dovecot -n is: service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0666 } } My conf file looks like userdb { driver=static args = uid=10000 gid=10000 home=/mail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } As you can see pretty simple, but for me it looks like that the driver=static won't be accepted. Does anyone know which driver to use here ? 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 email: carsten.laun-delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] migration to dovecot 2.0
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi everyone I am not the dovecot guru and i would appreciate if anyone could help me on my problems. I am running a mail server on dovecot 1.2 and want to migrate to dovecot 2. I have edited the conf file and now using the new keywords and got everything fixed but the following error message still exists, when i try to start dovecot. doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1036: Unknown setting: auth_socket doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89 doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file ./dovecot.conf line 1036: Unknown setting: auth_socket My conf file looks like auth_socket listen { master { # Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically # used to give Dovecot's local delivery agent access to userdb so it # can find mailbox locations. path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = vmail #group = } client { # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups # using it. path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } I would appreciate any hints and help. 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 email: carsten.laun-delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] Does Dovecot support the use of the INDEX directive for mdbox?
by William Blunn 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Does Dovecot support the use of the INDEX directive for mdbox? e.g. mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u Bill

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[Dovecot] Table mail.users doesn't exist (using built-in default iterate_query: SELECT username, domain FROM users)
by Jerrale G 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

connect = host=127.0.0.1 user=mail password=thecorrectpass dbname=mail map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = mail.expires value_field = expire_stamp fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } dovecot: auth: Error: mysql: Query failed, retrying: Table 'mail.users' doesn't exist Aug 26 05:16:24 server1 dovecot: auth: Error: sql: Iterate query failed: Table 'mail.users' doesn't exist (using built-in default iterate_query: SELECT username, domain FROM users) Why isn't the expire dict trying to use the defined working mysql auth instead of using the built-in default? The howto doesn't say how to override this, at wiki2.dovecot.org, and I didn't know the expire dict wanted to lookup the mailbox table; I thought it only wanted to lookup the expire table and use that soley for deleting messages as all info needed was stored, in the expire table, by the expire plugin on message delivery or copy. Jerrale G rrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] best way something thinks to upgrade dovecot to 1.2.* 2.0.*
by fakessh 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

hello all hello dovecot network hello timo What are your tips for successful migration for dovecot (atrpms , atrpms-testing depot for centos ) the page of wiki http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 explains the method to upgrade I tried on my personal machine and the command cites wiki returns errors on the terminal what to do with errors: correct the error in the configuration file ? the question may seem simple but it is not pointless many returns are welcome something thinks are welcome thanks

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1 to 2 migration FreeBSD
by Frank Bonnet 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hello is there some specials recommentations to migrate from dovecot 1.1.x to 2.0.1 with FreeBSD boxes ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Home directories
by Timo Sirainen 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I've noticed that a lot of people are using e.g.: mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n Then either they don't have home directory set, or their home directory is the same as the maildir. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home explains all the problems of not separate home and mail directories. Also whenever I try to suggest using a separate home and mail directory, the answer is way too often: "But I'm using virtual users. (They don't have home directories.)" So I started wondering. Maybe simply renaming the "home" to something else would help here at least some. Make all of the documentation use only the new word, and add alias for userdb so that the new name and the "home" both work (I guess docs would need to keep using the "home" as field name for some more years). So far I've only come up with "vhome" as the replacement name. Other ideas?

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[Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation
by Marc Perkel 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Started looking into the dsync utility and the doc are seriously incomplete. I can of course scour the internet looking for the missing information but that doesn't fix the problem with the docs. I might try to rewrite the docs myself once I figure it out.

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[Dovecot] Pure virtual user and RT3.x
by Egbert 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi, I have mailsystem with virtual users only (/home/vmail/domain/user). I need to integrate RT3.x (a ticketing system). I have installed the client but I need to send mail to a pipe. Rt wants me to insert: |/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bla --action bla --url http://bla.bal/ In /etc/postfix/aliases. That does not work for me. What is the right way to achieve that mail to rt@mydomain is sent to the pipe? Should I install, configure and use a Sieve filter? I have none installed at the moment. Or are there other (simpler?) ways? TIA Egbert Jan

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Re: [Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4 (Timo Sirainen)
by Eric Boltz (MMI / UPC) 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > Two potential problems I see with this: > 1. If users can do any changes on the secondary server (flag changes, > saving new mails, etc), you're going to have problems syncing the > changes back (without losing any changes or causing other problems). > > 2. If users can access the secondary server via IMAP clients, the > clients could become confused if the secondary server isn't completely > up-to-date. > > With v2.0 dsync would help with the first problem. Change in strategy. Primary rsyncs regularly to the secondary which keeps all mail services off. When primary fails email services are started manually until primary back online. Then I (or another ITer) manually stop the backup, rsycn and restart services on the primary. A bit labor intensive, but it should work.

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[Dovecot] Problems compiling Dovecot 2.0.0 on Solaris 10 x86
by Drew Schatt 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

I'm having issues getting Dovecot 2.0.0 to compile - I get the following error: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-master -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/usr/local/libexec/dovecot"\" -DEXAMPLE_CONFIG_DIR=\""/usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example-config"\" -DMODULEDIR=\""/usr/local/lib/dovecot"\" -DSSLDIR=\""/etc/ssl\"" -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -D_XPG6 -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -KPIC -lm -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xc99 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -D_XPG6 -xstrconst -KPIC -lm -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c doveconf.c "config-request.h", line 6: warning: useless declaration "doveconf.c", line 554: undefined symbol: optarg "doveconf.c", line 554: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: arg #2 "doveconf.c", line 560: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "=" "doveconf.c", line 581: undefined symbol: optind "doveconf.c", line 583: undefined symbol: optind "doveconf.c", line 584: undefined symbol: optind cc: acomp failed for doveconf.c gmake[3]: *** [doveconf.o] Error 2 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/schatt/code/evaluation_src/dovecot-2.0.0/src/config' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/schatt/code/evaluation_src/dovecot-2.0.0/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/schatt/code/evaluation_src/dovecot-2.0.0' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 Anyone have any idea on how to resolve this one? -Drew

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[Dovecot] Signal 11 - can't get core dump?
by Marty Anstey 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi all, We have been running Dovecot for over a year now in our moderate volume mail environment (>4000 mailboxes) and it's been running great. However, over the past month or so we've begun to experience issues where IMAP clients will appear to "hang" for a period of time, we then see a sig 11, and afterwards mailflow returns to normal. This usually happens a few times a day. Naturally, our first instinct was to try and get a core dump, but after following the instructions at http://www.dovecot.org/bugreport.html we now recieve this warning: 2010-08-24T13:33:56-07:00 mail dovecot: child 9728 (login) killed with signal 11 (core not dumped - add -D to login_executable) (ip=208.98.210.13) Adding -D to the login_executable lines didn't seem to have any effect, we are still receiving the same message. Did we perhaps misinterpret the hint? As we've been trying for over a week now to find a way to get a dump without any success, we figured posing this to the list might help us shed some light on the issue. Any suggestions would be appreciated! dovecot -n -- # 1.1.20: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) nfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ listen: 208.98.210.10 ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/sunwave.net.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/sunwave.net.key ssl_parameters_regenerate: 1 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login -D login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login -D login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login -D mail_max_userip_connections(default): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 first_valid_uid: 200 last_valid_uid: 200 first_valid_gid: 200 last_valid_gid: 200 mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%Ld/%1Lu/%Ln/Maildir mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/bin/mailtools/mail_imap.sh mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/bin/mailtools/mail_imap.sh mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/bin/mailtools/mail_pop3.sh mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: do_not_reply(a)sunwave.net mail_plugins: quota cmusieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: sunwave.net verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.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: 511 user: vmail plugin: sieve: /var/spool/mail/%Ld/%1Lu/%Ln/Maildir/.sieve quota: maildir:Quota quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% quota_warning: storage=70%% /usr/local/bin/mailtools/quota-warning.sh 70 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/mailtools/quota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning3: storage=90%% /usr/local/bin/mailtools/quota-warning.sh 90 trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf Thanks, Marty

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[Dovecot] Help needed with plugin - Read Only access to IMAP mailbox
by Chris Moules 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

System info: # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem i686 Debian squeeze/sid .. mail_plugins: readonly .. I have a requirement to have read-only to a mailbox. I have been researching through the wiki, the mailing list archives and good old Google. There was a number of similar questions with no real definitive answer. Option 1: ACL This can work, but not if the mailbox(s) can change without you knowing how. I.E. a online read-only archive of someone else's mailbox. There is no wild-card or recursive ACL options. Rsync style backups don't allow for easy creation of custom ACL files per mailbox. Option 2: Read-only filesystem (Linux) This seems easy, but it's not. 1) how do you update your archive? I tried with a bind mount, this does not let you set the 'ro' option *directly*. You must then use "-o remount,ro" to get your read-only bind mount. This is a little messy (needs custom init scripts for mounting on boot), but do-able. 2) Dovecot needs write access to CONTROL and INDEX files. This lead me to using the "CONTROL" and "INDEX" options on the mail_locaiton. Setting these to the original 'rw' mount and the rest to my 'ro' bind mount. Again, messy but do-able. 3) Clients try to move messages from 'new' to 'cur' for Maildir. Every time I opened a maildir I got an error per mail (dovecot log) about read-only filesysem as the client was trying to set the Seen flag and dovecot was trying to move the 'new' mail to the 'cur' folder. My test client, mutt, has a 'read_only' option when connecting. This eliminates this issue, but I cannot get everyone to use this archive with a correctly configured mutt. This sent me looking for 'read only' options in other clients. I could hardly find any. I noted that mutt send an EXAMINE and not a SELECT to open the mailbox when in read_only mode and this set me thinking about doing this in another way. Option 3: Dovecot Plugin I started looking into the dovecot plugins. Being more a systems administrator than developer I have cobbled together a working plugin. It nearly does what I want, but not quite, and I don't know why. NOTE: I no longer use the setup that I had to test Options 1 and 2. I thought that this plugin can either be used server-wide or with the 'mail_plugins' userdb option. The plugin forces the MAILBOX_OPEN_READONLY flag in a mailbox_open() call. The plugin returns an error for all mailbox_create() calls. Testing in mutt: - I am unable to delete a mail - I am unable to create a new folder So far so good. However: - I am able to move/copy a mail to an *existing* mailbox (note, the move operation makes the copy but fails to set the 'delete' flag) I do not understand why this works. I have been grep-ing through the source of dovecot and the plugins to find some answer, but without luck. Attached is the full source to my plugin and the Makefile (adapted from Johannes Berg's antispam plugin Makefile) When finished, I will be happy to release this to the dovecot community under the GPL/LGPL or whatever. Regards Chris

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[Dovecot] v2.0.1 released
by Timo Sirainen 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.1.tar.gz.sig Some small fixes mainly, but since people aren't reporting much bugs for v2.0.0 anymore maybe v2.0.1 release will change that. :) Some of the more important changes since v2.0.0 are: * When dsync is started as root, remote dsync command is now also executed as root instead of with dropped privileges. - IMAP: QRESYNC parameters for SELECT weren't handled correctly. - UTF-8 string validity checking wasn't done correctly (e.g. mailbox names in Sieve fileinto) - dsync: Fixed a random assert-crash with remote dsyncing

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[Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4
by Eric Boltz (MMI/UPC) 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

I want to set up mirrored postfix/dovecot servers using two mac mini servers (OSX 10.6.4) located in different locations (Canada and the US to be specific) for redundancy. The idea is to have one as the primary MX ("mail.corp.com") and the other as the secondary ("webmail.corp.com"). If the primary goes down clients would revert to webmail until the primary is back up. The plan is to use rsync for this. My challenge, however, is what all I need to rsync to have a "live" backup. Rsync for backup isn't an issue, but I will need to rsync users (system and virtual). Anyone have experience with this? So far it seems that apple puts things in lots of non-standard locations. I suppose I could to a blanket rsync on /var, but that seems a bit much. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Fully kerberized mail system
by Dr Matthew Williams 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, Is it possible to use Dovecot in a fully kerberized mail system? We have configured authentication via kerberos, now we would like the imap deamon to access a kerberized nfs file system. Has any one any experiences? Regards, Matthew. -- Dr Matthew Williams MEng PhD MBCS Systems Administrator - IT Services - Bangor University Prifysgol Bangor Tel: (44) (0)1248 382414 Adeilad Deiniol Mob: (44) (0)7979 778269 Ffordd Deiniol URL: www.bangor.ac.uk Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UX EMail: matthew.williams(a)bangor.ac.uk

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[Dovecot] Messages causing an error from Solr.
by Erik Hetzner 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, I am trying to use the fts_solr plugin, and having some success. Unfortunately some spam messages I had lying around generate an error from Solr, e.g.: HTTP/1.1 400 ParseError at [row,col]:[5,29] Message: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xd84e) was found in the element content of the document. While I assume that these messages do indeed contain bad unicode, my searches seem to hang when they get an error back from Solr, causing other problems, so it would be nice if these messages did not cause an error from Solr. I isolated some of these messages and have attached them. I hope that the problematic characters come through properly. I have more messages that cause this problem (sometimes with difference unicode codepoints than the one in the message above), but I don’t want to clog the list up. Thank you for your help. best, Erik Hetzner Config: # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps login_dir: /usr/local/stow/dovecot-1.2.13/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/stow/dovecot-1.2.13/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_plugins: virtual fts fts_solr namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: virtual/ location: virtual:~/Maildir_virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: fts: solr fts_solr: url=http://localhost:8080/solr/ break-imap-search debug

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[Dovecot] PATCH: SQL connect crash
by Leandro Santi 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi! Dovecot 2.0.0 auth process seems to crash while attempting to connect to a nonexistent SQL database. A shallow look at the code reveals that NULL module->conn in passdb-sql.c is being erroneously dereferenced while trying to clean up after a failed connection attempt: (gdb) bt #0 0x0806240e in sql_query_callback (result=0x8076c40, sql_request=0x808ff90) at passdb-sql.c:70 #1 0x08069b66 in sqlpool_request_abort (_request=<value optimized out>) at driver-sqlpool.c:114 #2 0x0806ab2a in driver_sqlpool_deinit (_db=0x808b970) at driver-sqlpool.c:448 #3 0x0806970a in sql_deinit (_db=0x808b5bc) at sql-api.c:87 #4 0x0805a3ac in db_sql_unref (_conn=0x807fc60) at db-sql.c:119 #5 0x08062be2 in userdb_deinit (userdb=0x807fc48) at userdb.c:177 #6 0x0804ff4b in auths_deinit () at auth.c:213 #7 0x0805b7bc in main (argc=1474660693, argv=0xec835356) at main.c:160 gdb) print ((struct sql_passdb_module *) _module)->conn $20 = (struct sql_connection *) 0x0 It seems that module->conn for passdb is being zeroed at auth_deinit(), passdb_deinit() completes succesfully but then userdb_deinit() does the illegal access. The following hack seems to eliminate the symptom, however I'd strongly recommend to take a deeper look at the issue. I suspect that a higher level fix would be more appropriate. --- dovecot-2.0.rc6.orig/src/auth/passdb-sql.c 2010-07-21 14:13:29.000000000 +0000 +++ dovecot-2.0.rc6.patched/src/auth/passdb-sql.c 2010-08-18 21:07:05.000000000 +0000 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ ret = sql_result_next_row(result); if (ret < 0) { - if (!module->conn->default_password_query) { + if (!module->conn || !module->conn->default_password_query) { auth_request_log_error(auth_request, "sql", "Password query failed: %s", sql_result_get_error(result)); Leandro

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[Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root
by Ralph Seichter 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

I'm currently trying to set up a Dovecot 2.0.0 server for backup purposes. There's an existing server which I successfully migrated to Dovecot 2.0.0, and it uses LDAP for authentication. For the backup server, which will not be exposed to users, I tried both PAM and PASSWD authentication, but all I are syslog entries like these: dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo>, method=PLAIN, rip=[...], lip=[...], mpid=20059, TLS dovecot: imap(foo): Error: user foo: Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root dovecot: imap(foo): Error: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Here is my current configuration: # doveconf -n # 2.0.0: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r1-v3 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1 auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir passdb { args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap ssl_cert = </usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/server.crt ssl_key = </usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/server.key The password file contents: # cat /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd foo:{CRYPT}xxx:1000:1000:Foo Backup:/home/foo:/bin/bash I searched the Dovecot Wiki and also tried MARC and Google, but I can't seem to find a solution for this problem. Could you please point me in the right direction? I have probably missed something. Thanks! -Ralph

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0 and BSDI 4.X
by The Doctor 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

All right, I am trying to migrating to 2.0 but running into problems. from my typescript: Script started on Wed Aug 18 23:24:58 2010 doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/home/doctor$ tail -f /var/log/maillog | egrep dovecot Aug 18 23:25:31 doctor dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.0 starting up (core dumps disabled) Aug 18 23:25:31 doctor dovecot: log: Error: net_accept() failed: Invalid argument Aug 18 23:25:31 doctor dovecot: master: Warning: service(anvil): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped quit ^C doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/home/doctor$ /usr/doc veo cot/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.0: /usr/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: BSD/OS 4.3 i386 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600 s base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100 listen = * login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_log_prefix = %Us(%u): mdbox_rotate_size = 2048 passdb { args = /etc/master.passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = pop3 imap service auth { executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/auth user = root vsz_limit = 256 } service imap-login { chroot = login client_limit = 256 executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login inet_listener imaps { address = 204.209.81.1 } process_limit = 128 process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 1 user = dovecot vsz_limit = 64 } service imap { executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap process_limit = 512 vsz_limit = 256 } service pop3-login { chroot = login client_limit = 256 executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login inet_listener pop3s { address = 204.209.81.1 } process_limit = 128 process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 1 user = dovecot vsz_limit = 64 } service pop3 { executable = /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 process_limit = 512 vsz_limit = 256 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_idle_notify_interval = 120 s imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugin_dir = /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugin_dir = /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_enable_last = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_save_uidl = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } You have new mail in /var/mail/doctor doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/home/doctor$ exit exit Script done on Wed Aug 18 23:26:07 2010 telneting into the ports work, but the clients seem to stuck in an infinite loop. -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee Australia!! Vote to throw the REpublicans to the sharks!

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[Dovecot] Over-quota bounces seeming to lack sender
by Dave Brenner 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

We're seeing an issue with 1.2.12 where over-quota rejection messages are appearing in the logs with <> as the sender. The sender of the original message sees the appropriate sender (postmaster@) on the rejection, but as the message makes its way through the postfix/amavis chain, I can see that the sender address is missing. Aug 20 10:55:56 inet1 amavis[21822]: [ID 702911 mail.info] (21822-05) Checking: rGDWxOHFPBdY <> -> <xxxx(a)toledotel.com> Aug 20 03:12:39 inet1 amavis[9724]: [ID 702911 mail.info] (09724-37) skip local delivery(3): <> -> <bad-header-quarantine> Aug 19 10:15:47 2010 (1570) xxxxxxxx-users: bounce message w/no discernable addresses: <dovecot-1282238146-79394-0@inet1> (that last one is from Mailman logs) Has anyone else run into this? -- Dave Brenner - david(a)toledotel.com The Toledo Telephone Company, Inc.

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[Dovecot] imap, imaps, ports; config for secure-only service
by Ronald Leach 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hello, having difficulty setting up a 'secure-only' service on a non-standard port. Objective is to open a secure Dovecot service on an internet-visible port, while also using an insecure service for hosts on an internal network (so that one particular client which is not SSL/TLS-capable can continue to use the service). Checking wiki1 and wiki2, I think that port 143 can be used for a service in both encrypted and unencrypted operations. (Wiki2 describes how port 143 can be used with or without STARTTLS.) I've managed to run both TB/Vista, and KMail/Debian on 143 from local machines, and they seem to work fine. (Though they do only work if the clients are set to use 'unencrypted logins' such as KMail's 'clear text' setting, and TB's 'don't use secure authentication'.) Dovecot's SSL certificate on the server expires in 2028. But I cannot get my 'secure-only service' working at all. I've chosen port 10943 for that service, and have been testing from both KMail on the server, and TB/Vista on another local machine. Here's the config: protocol imap { # inet users, and also users presented from offsite via an SSH tunnel, # will use IMAP (any capability) on 143. listen = *:143 # 143 will not be reachable from outside the internal network (except # via an SSH tunnel) # # External users will be allowed only to use port 10943 (as forwarded # from the gateway), and will have to use SSL ssl_listen = *:10943 } Other settings include: #other settings protocols = imap imaps disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = no ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW ssl_require_client_cert = no ssl_username_from_cert = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir #log and debug settings mail_debug = yes auth_debug = yes Log from a successful session on port 143: Logs (using port 143, KMail on the server) 14:43:22 auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Isecured^Ilip=127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=<hidden> 14:43:22 auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=ron 14:43:22 auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I1^I4057^I1 14:43:22 auth(default): master out: USER^I1^Iron^Isystem_user=ron^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001^Ihome=/home/ron 14:43:22 IMAP(ron): Effective uid=1001, gid=1001 14:43:22 IMAP(ron): maildir: data=/home/ron/Maildir 14:43:22 IMAP(ron): maildir: root=/home/ron/Maildir, index=/home/ron/Maildir, control=, inbox= 14:43:22 imap-login: Login: user=<ron>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS Unsuccessful session Logs (using 10943, KMail on the server) - absolutely no sign of any authentication, and the client reports a timeout. 17:03:30 imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshake 17:04:06 imap-login: Disconnected: rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshake 17:05:08 imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshake 143 works fine, so Dovecot is (of course) perfectly good at managing the auth and service, so I must have something wrong in the config. I cannot see it. Could anyone share a config they've used for *secure-only* IMAP service on an internet-visible port? I'd like to compare the settings. regards, Ron

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[Dovecot] Build failure building dbox and gnutls
by Elisamuel Resto 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hello! I'm having two issues building dovecot, one is with dbox storage, and another building gnutls as the SSL backend (builds fine with openssl). Software versions are Dovecot v2.0.0, GnuTLS 2.8.6 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a Configure: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules --with-zlib --with-sqlite --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-gssapi --with-pam --with-bzlib --with-docs --without-mysql --without-vpopmail --without-sia --without-bsdauth --with-libcap --with-ioloop=epoll --with-storages=maildir,mbox,dbox,mdbox For the dbox build error, the log states: libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `dbox_storage' Configure: http://pastie.org/1106301 - Make: http://pastie.org/private/qtt76kxomhmwqwii20oroq Configure: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules --with-zlib --with-sqlite --with-ssl=gnutls --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-gssapi --with-pam --with-bzlib --with-docs --without-mysql --without-vpopmail --without-sia --without-bsdauth --with-libcap --with-ioloop=epoll For the gnutls build error, the log states quite a few errors, so see the linked logs. Configure: http://pastie.org/1108356 - Make: http://pastie.org/private/dxmmmopnodptut77o6fx2g -- Elisamuel Resto <ryuji(a)codemages.net> http://www.simplysam.us/ - Simply Sam Blog

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[Dovecot] Mobile phone client detects 'PUSH' server
by Ron Leach 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Does Dovecot really provide a 'PUSH' email service? The mobile phone client (standard with SonyEricsson C510, in this case) reported that the server (our Dovecot installation) offered PUSH email service. I hadn't seen that in the documentation that I'd read and had understood the client-server protocol to be a client-PULL service, in that the clients decide which folders to retrieve, and check what messages there are and fetch any new messages. The clients we've used so far have settings for frequency of these checks. I didn't explore the option further, yet, being unsure whether there was a genuine PUSH service from our server or whether the phone was using a proxy somewhere (not ours) which would provide an intermediate fetch/aggregation/'pull then push' service of some sort - perhaps similar to the public offers from Yahoo etc. regards, Ron

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[Dovecot] sieve rule help
by Piyush Joshi 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Dear All, I am using dovecot-2.0.0 version and all my sieve filters are working perfectly except the following one. I am trying to flag message coming from jagdish(a)example.net mail id. require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imap4flags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","body","date"]; if address :contains "From" "jagdish(a)example.net" { keep :flags ["Flagged"] ; } Is it possible to make it work without using addflag to add a flag ?

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[Dovecot] dsync and active-active fault tolerance mail servers
by Luigi Rosa 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I would like to set up an active-active fault tolerance couple of mail servers. Is the following procedure correct? Let's suppose I want to set up two servers for acme.com, mail1.acme.com and mail2.acme.com I declare both servers as MX in DNS configuration. Mailbox are stored in maildir with a single UID/GID owner for all the maildir files Userbase is MySQL, user tables are replicated using MySQL tools; in this case, the replica is one way, that is mail1.acme.com holds the "master" copy of MySQL tables and mail2.acme.com hold the "copy". The replica is done via dsync with a procedure like this executed on mail1.acme.com server: foreach mailbox { dsync mirror mailbox } Where mailbox is the full mail address, used also as a login name for authentication. My goal is to allow users to connect the mail servers they like and have all their mail (a 10/15 minute of sync delay is acceptable). This is the theory, now some questions. 1) Use Linux user/group owner of the files and directories are the same on both hosts (they are both foobar), but have different numeric ID, in one host foobat has UID 1234 and on the other host foobar has UID 2345. Is this an issue? 2) Mail location path is the same on both hosts, but where does dsync get it? Does dsync get all the information from the userbase defined in dovecot.conf (and other included files)? 3) Have I to scan the entire userbase and execute dsync for each user, or is there a trick to do for every user with a single command? 4) How often is good to run the synchronization? 5 minutes? 10? 15? 5) What is the correct command line to invoke dsync in this scenario? 6) Does anyone else tried this? :) Thank you. Ciao, luigi -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes.

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[Dovecot] sieve_after scripts with virtual domains
by Ciro Scognamiglio 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, first of all I am new to the list, so hello everyone :) I recently encountered an annoying problem with sieve, I am using dovecot version 1.2.13 on centos 5.5, the packages installed are the following: dovecot-sieve-0.1.17-5.el5 dovecot-managesieve-0.11.11-0_4.el5 dovecot-1.2.13-1_111.el5 the mail server is configured with virtual hosts (mysql), also the sieve plugin and managesieve are active. Users can create their own filters through roundcube and everything works fine. I also put two script to be executed before all sieve scripts in sieve_before, they just move any SPAM or VIRUS tagged message to a Junk folder. The problem is that while this works for my domain (that is also the server domain) it doesn't for the others domains, it seems the sieve_before scripts get ignored. I made many tests with the domains I am hosting, if I send a spam message (I am using the spamassassin test messages) it gets marked as SPAM, but gets only moved to the junk folder if the recipient is @cslash.net (that is my domain). here is some config extracts: === dovecot.conf === plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_before = /srv/mail/sieve-before sieve_after = /srv/mail/sieve-after } ======= /srv/mail $ cat sieve-before/spam.sieve require "fileinto"; if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { fileinto "Junk"; } P.S. The sieve scripts are all compiled.

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole sieve imapflags bug
by Tim Traver 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, ok, I just instealled the dovecot 2.0.0 release, and the latest mercurial pigeonhole source. All is well, except for a particular sieve rule that may not be working right. It is a simple rule that looks like this : require ["fileinto","imap4flags"]; # rule:[Past Due Notices] if allof (header :contains "Subject" "Account Past Due Notice") { fileinto "Billing"; setflag "\\Seen"; stop; } Anyways, what happens is the message that matches that rule does indeed get moved to the "Billing" folder, but it does not get marked as read. BUT! if I change the order of the actions to mark it as read first, then move it to the "Billing" folder, it does both of those actions... Is that the way it is supposed to work? or is that a bug? Thanks, Tim.

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[Dovecot] Logged out format in log
by Jerrale G 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I was naive to not check the log more thoroughly for changes. I need "dovecot: imap(jerrale(a)sheltoncomputers.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=1921/2983" to say the rip (ip address) as 1.2.x did; how do I accompish such? Jerrale G SC Senior Admin SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Mobile phone client - first access
by Ron Leach 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning! With my first post to the list, may I begin by saying how impressed I have been by Dovecot's performance on our Debian server. We've configured it to run with Exim and Fetchmail, using Dovecot to manage professional and domestic emails for a small home office, serving a number of Windows and Linux clients both on the internal network and, when working overseas, via SSH tunnels back to the Debian server. Dovecot's performance has been, simply, rock-solid; a very impressive piece of work by Timo and all those supporting him. My ordinary mobile phone - a Sony Ericsson C510 - includes an email client with IMAP capability (and none, TLS, or SSL encryption). Configured to access our server across the mobile carrier's network, the results surprised me; they were not what I expected. The first surprise was, it worked. More seriously, the messages it retrieved were not what I expected; the phone received around 58 messages, but from the 'inbox', the 'junk' box, and a couple from a 'project' box. I had expected to only retrieve the messages that were in the 'inbox'. How does Dovecot 'decide' what messages to give the phone client? [I think I may have the wrong 'mental model' of what should have happened, and would appreciate being put right.] Is it possible to configure Dovecot to only serve specific boxes? The mobile phone client is extremely simple - it does not have the facility to 'browse' the folders, it only has an inbox, sentbox, etc; I have wondered whether there might be a 'jar' email client that is richer, and which might help - I will look for something anyway. But I was impressed that my mobile phone could check our home and office email while offsite; if I can get that working it will save having to fire up the laptop at each opportunity. Thanks very much for reading this far, and, also, thanks everyone who takes the time to contribute to the list, regards, Ron

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[Dovecot] Director mailserver health monitoring script
by Brad Davidson 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Timo et al; The last bit of functionality that the Dovecot director is missing compared to our existing load balancers is mailserver health monitoring. As I understand it, if a mailserver goes down, Dovecot does not take any action to route connections around the offline node, and will keep trying to proxy clients to it. Since we're hoping to cut over to Directors soon, but don't want to lose any functionality, I've hacked up a script that: * Polls the local director for a list of mailservers * Performs health checks against a list of ports on each mailserver * Disables or enables mailservers (by altering the vhost count) as necessary I've published the script on github in hopes that it might be useful to others: http://github.com/brandond/poolmon/ Maybe someday Dovecot will do something like this internally and I won't need the script any more, but for now I'm pretty happy with it. -Brad

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[Dovecot] Weird Problem with subscriptions
by Harry Lachanas 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Dovecot Version 1.2.11 Created Public Namespaces and folders idx and control are created in each users Maildir/ aka namespace public { prefix=Public/ separator = / location = maildir:/home/Public-Folders-Mail/Public-RO:INDEX=~/Maildir/p1-idx:CONTROL=~/Maildir/p1-ctrl hidden = no subscriptions = no inbox = no } The problem occurs after a user has subscribed to The Folder dovecot complaints about ... dovecot: IMAP(grharry): open(/home/grharry/Maildir/p1-idx/.production/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=1004(grharry) egid=1000(vmail) missing +x perm: /home/grharry/Maildir/p1-idx/.production) After changing manually the perm in the above dir +x all works fine. I've tried unsubscribing and deleting the p1-ctl p1-idx dir structures The same problem occured ( This hapens in the users own Maildir ) Your help will be appreciated Regards Harry

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[Dovecot] Disable APOP challenge in POP3 login greeting
by Brad Davidson 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Timo, It looks like Dovecot 2.0 appends an APOP challenge to the POP3 greeting even if APOP is not an enabled auth mechanism. Is there any way to disable this? We don't support APOP, and the challenge includes the private hostname of the server, which we'd rather not have in the banner. It looks like get_apop_challenge in 1.2 returns NULL if APOP isn't supported, which causes auth_client_ready to omit the banner... but I see no such check (in fact, no way for get_apop_challenge to return NULL) in 2.0, even though pop3_client_send_greeting tests for it. Thanks, -Brad

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[Dovecot] mailbox utilities
by Terry 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hello, Are there any utilities that will spit out statistics about some mailboxes I have on my server? For example, how many messages are in each mailbox? They appear to be in mbox format (default?). Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities
by Kádár Tamás 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

P.S. It's not *exactly* what you are looking for -- but it can still spit you out some useful and semi-related statistics. -----Original Message----- From: "Kádár Tamás" tamas.kadar(a)espell.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:37:01 To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Reply-To: tamas.kadar(a)espell.com Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities If you happen to use Postfix, you can use pflogsumm which is crude, but works. ------Original Message------ From: Terry Sender: dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell.com(a)dovecot.org To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities Sent: Aug 19, 2010 21:25 Hello, Are there any utilities that will spit out statistics about some mailboxes I have on my server? For example, how many messages are in each mailbox? They appear to be in mbox format (default?). Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities
by Kádár Tamás 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

If you happen to use Postfix, you can use pflogsumm which is crude, but works. ------Original Message------ From: Terry Sender: dovecot-bounces+tamas.kadar=espell.com(a)dovecot.org To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] mailbox utilities Sent: Aug 19, 2010 21:25 Hello, Are there any utilities that will spit out statistics about some mailboxes I have on my server? For example, how many messages are in each mailbox? They appear to be in mbox format (default?). Thanks!

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2 and quota_rules from AD
by Christian Lyra 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi I´m trying to figure how to proper configure postfix+dovecot to enforce quotas from a AD (ldap). I´m using the following configuration: dovecot.conf: ... protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota .. } auth default { passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-pass.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } ... } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota #quota_rule = *:storage=2M // tried with and without this line } dovecot-ldap.conf: ... user_attrs = sAMAccountName=mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%$/Maildir, quotaMail=quota_rule=*:storage=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(|(mail=%u)(sAMAccountName=%u))) pass_attrs = sAMAaccountName=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(sAMAaccountName=%u)) Quotas are set by the quotaMail in AD. And here is the log: Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): master in: USER#0111#011testeti(a)teste.mydomain#011service=deliver Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): user search: base=dc=mydomain scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=person)(| (mail=testeti@teste.mydomain)(sAMAccountName=testeti@teste.mydomain))) fields=sAMAccountName,quotaMail Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): result: sAMAccountName(mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%$/Maildir)=maildir:/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0111#011testeti@teste.mydomain#011mail=maildir:/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): auth input: mail=maildir:/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args= Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): maildir: data=/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): maildir++: root=/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/testeti/Maildir Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/testeti/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 9 11:41:37 vm29 dovecot: deliver(testeti(a)teste.mydomain): msgid=<201008091142.53089.lyra(a)pop-pr.rnp.br>: saved mail to INBOX There´s no quota_rule in logs... uncomenting the line quota_rule = *:storage=2M I got quota, bu only this static one, and not per-user. What I´m doing wrong? Btw... with static configuration the maildirsize file is created, but without static configuration it´s not (well.. no quota_rule...). thanks in advance, -- Christian Lyra POP-PR - RNP

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole and utf-8 error
by Xavier Pons 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi, now, I'm working with the last version of dovecot and pigeonhole sieve, and when apply a sieve filter on a new message, and it try to move this mail to a folder with special character like accent give me the error 'mailbox name not utf-8: ...' >Aug 17 09:22:40 imap1 dovecot: lmtp(19629,miel): Error: kea6K484akytTAAAJBW4rA: sieve: msgid= ><1099311971.505.1282029699154.JavaMail.open-xchange(a)o.uib.es>: failed to store into mailbox 'atenció': >mailbox name not utf-8: atenció dovecot it's working without problem on this folder. I suppose it's a misconfiguration, but I don't find where... Xavier

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[Dovecot] Dovecot lda with qmail
by Piyush Joshi 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Dear All, According to my setup i can not call |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda from my /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery file, Instead making a perl file which will call the same for delivery of mails. If i put the following code in my mail.pl |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda then it throws error in running file from command line. Warning: Use of "-f" without parentheses is ambiguous at /var/qmail/bin/mail.pl line 2. syntax error at /var/qmail/bin/mail.pl line 2, near "|" Execution of /var/qmail/bin/mail.pl aborted due to compilation errors. content of mail.pl #!/usr/bin/perl |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda Any help will be useful for me. Thanks

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[Dovecot] EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN: Thanks, Administrators of Dovecot!
by Jerrale G 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

With the release of dovecot 2.0, the community of the Dovecot mailling list, and us at Shelton Computers, would sincerely like to thank the developers of Dovecot. For, if it were not for you, we would be stuck with Courier and would not have the impressive features of Sieve, as opposed to the unmanageable scripts, by end users, of maildrop. *Our gratitude goes to, but not limited to:* *Timo Sirainen and Charles Marcus* *We apologize if we have missed anyone and ask that EVERYONE using dovecot would express their thanks and gratitude by signing this thread, to also include any people beyond the mentioned.* Please, Mr. Sirainen, make a donation link as we have tried to find one on dovecot.org! Sincerely, Jerrale Gayle, Senior Technical Admin of Shelton Computers

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda logging
by Nishant Limbachia 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi everyone, I'm using Postfix and Dovecot with dovecot-lda used for local delivery. I've successfully migrated from 1.2.13 to 2.0.0 however I have a little problem with dovecot-lda logging. With version 1.2.13, I use to log dovecot-lda to /var/log/dovecot-lda.log with world-writable mode. With version 2.0.0, postfix complains: "Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: permission denied". This is understandable because my dovecot.log file is 0600 mode. My question is how do I retain the 1.2.13 functionality of logging dovecot-lda to /var/log/dovecot-lda.log. I've read the LDA.txt in the wiki documentation and it states I can override log_path & info_log_path like this: protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log } What I don't know is where to add that segment. Should I add it to 10-logging.conf or 15-lda.conf? Right now I've added that to both the files but I still see the postfix permission denied message. I will appreciate if someone can help out. Thanks! BTW, Great work Timo!!! Thank you very much for a great piece of software!

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[Dovecot] Linux should be as easy as Windows
by Dennis Clarke 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

>From a "Standards" thread I saw this : "Linux should be as easy as Windows" I would like to point out that this is a thinking problem. A shift in thinking is required. That should say : "Open source and Free software should be as easy as Windows" In this way we allow someone running BSD, Solaris or some port of Debian to an old Dec AlphaServer will have the same level of functionality provided standards are adhered to. Once programmers begin to see everything in the light of Linux then we can also kiss goodbye the opportunity for portability to other OS types. Dennis

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole: error while loading shared libraries
by Sebastian Köhler 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi, I built pigeonhole from the hg repo for Dovecot 2.0. Local sieve scripts work fine. But as soon as I try to connect via managesieve I get this errror: managesieve-login: Error: dovecot/managesieve-login: error while loading shared libraries: libdovecot-login.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory My dovecot install is in /usr/lib/dovecot and I had to symlink the libs in the dovecot folder to /usr/lib to make managesieve work. My configure options were: "--prefix=/usr --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot" Sebastian -- The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

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[Dovecot] OT [Fwd: Fwd: Re: EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN: Thanks, Administrators of Dovecot!]
by Noel Butler 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

CharlesMarcus LOL, you kinda contradicted yourself here charlie boy and personal RBL? yup, but its not just used by me, its used by a few if you read the link, a few involving millions of emails a day, but shouldnt be a problem giving the geographical locations... and lied? list msgs caught in spam rules, I guess you dont know how to configure SA URI's... now, please stop trying to avoid bans or i shall notify your isp you have violated their T%C ------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Charles <libertytrek(a)gmail.com> To: noel.butler(a)ausics.net Subject: Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN: Thanks, Administrators of Dovecot! Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:52:35 -0400 So, you're a liar as well. You lied when you said my messages were getting caught in your anti-spam filter. They weren't, they were getting blocked by your silly little personal rbl. If you weren't blocking list traffic, you would have seen that I already corrected the record on that myself. Don't bother replying - I won't be rejecting your messages on this account, I just give them the attention they deserve (straight to the shit-can).

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[Dovecot] Unexpectedly lost message
by Tom Goerger 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, We're having some issues with certain messages not being able to be read by Dovecot. Can anyone tell me under what conditions the error messages below could be caused? Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu imap(user): : [ID 887855 local6.error] Next message unexpectedly lost from 1913995 Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu last message repeated 2 times Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu imap(user): : [ID 107833 local6.crit] Panic: file istream.c: line 76: assertion failed: (_stream->skip != _stream->pos) Aug 17 15:58:26 server.tc.umn.edu dovecot: [ID 684838 local6.error] child 13169 (imap) killed with signal 6 Thanks, -- Tom Goerger University of Minnesota - Internet Services

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[Dovecot] rare index cache error with dovecot 1.2.10
by Wolfgang.Friebel＠desy.de 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, since some time for a single user updating the Maildir/dovecot.index.cache file produced errors whenever it needed to be updated: Aug 15 04:16:40 imapsrv dovecot: deliver(user): pwrite() failed: File too large Aug 15 04:16:40 imapsrv dovecot: deliver(user): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /var/spool/mail/mamuzic/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: File too large The file itself was 55115776 bytes and a test program using pwrite with any reasonable size or offset does not produce the EFBIG error. Looking to the file contents the start of the file looks correct to me ( according to src/lib-index/mail-cache-private.h ) and despite of the error message the file gets updated and contains always the headers of the most recent incoming mail near the end of the file. After removing the file the cache was rebuilt properly (currently at 9MB). As this happened only for a single user out of approx 500 and after more than one year of using dovecot without any other problems I guess this is a very rare case. As pwrite tests do not show the error this seems not to be an issue with low file limits (as suggested in another mail on this topic) but maybe a lookup of corrupt addresses from the index.cache. I have saved the dovecot.index.cache, but as it is rather large (55MB) and does contain a lot of privacy information I would rather not make it accessible. Is there something I can further check to see whether dovecot is missing a sanity check? -- Wolfgang Friebel Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Phone/Fax: +49 33762 77372/216 Platanenallee 6 Mail: Wolfgang.Friebel AT desy.de D-15738 Zeuthen Germany

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[Dovecot] REpeated e-mail
by The Doctor 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Using 1.2.11 I am getting some people repeating that they are getting repeated POP3 e-mails. My configuration is # 1.2.11: /usr/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: BSD/OS 4.3 i386 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_listen: 204.209.81.1 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 first_valid_uid: 100 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u dbox_rotate_days: 0 mail_executable(default): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes pop3_enable_last(default): no pop3_enable_last(imap): no pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes pop3_save_uidl(default): no pop3_save_uidl(imap): no pop3_save_uidl(pop3): yes pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: executable: /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/master.passwd userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee Australia!! Vote to throw the REpublicans to the sharks!

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[Dovecot] Error: Index file too large ? 904 bytes ?
by Dennis Clarke 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

My 1.2.13 build is giving me errors based on the same conf file that was working perfectly for 1.2.12 : Aug 18 03:28:27 IMAP(dclarke): Error: Index file too large: /var/mail/dclarke/dovecot.index Aug 18 03:28:27 IMAP(dclarke): Fatal: block_alloc(2147483648): Out of memory Aug 18 03:28:27 dovecot: Error: child 12560 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory - see mail_process_size setting) The file in question is 904 bytes in size : bash-4.1# ls -l /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot.index -rw------- 1 dclarke csw 904 Aug 4 16:05 /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot.index So this seems insane. SO I made sure the conf file had this in it : mail_process_size = 256 I then restart the daemon and see this : Aug 18 03:37:02 IMAP(dclarke): Fatal: block_alloc(1073741824): Out of memory Aug 18 03:37:02 dovecot: Error: child 12620 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory - see mail_process_size setting) Aug 18 03:37:07 IMAP(dclarke): Error: Index file too large: /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot.index Aug 18 03:37:07 IMAP(dclarke): Warning: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (837089755 vs 1282102627): /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist Aug 18 03:37:07 IMAP(dclarke): Fatal: block_alloc(1073741824): Out of memory Aug 18 03:37:07 dovecot: Error: child 12622 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory - see mail_process_size setting) Aug 18 03:37:09 IMAP(dclarke): Error: Index file too large: /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot.index Aug 18 03:37:09 IMAP(dclarke): Warning: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (527779909 vs 1282102629): /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist Aug 18 03:37:09 IMAP(dclarke): Fatal: block_alloc(1073741824): Out of memory Aug 18 03:37:09 dovecot: Error: child 12624 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory - see mail_process_size setting) Sure enough dovecot catches a timestamp issue : bash-4.1# date Wed Aug 18 03:39:24 GMT 2010 bash-4.1# ls -lapE /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 dclarke csw 1806 2010-08-16 13:52:16.442510077 +0000 /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist bash-4.1# touch /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist bash-4.1# ls -lapE /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 dclarke csw 1806 2010-08-18 03:39:53.263345256 +0000 /export/home/dclarke/mail/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist However the inability to deal with a 904 byte file is a bit of an issue here. Anyone know why mail_process_size = 256 is the wrong thing to look at ? Dennis

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[Dovecot] Extension for sorting mails by Displayname
by Michael Kliewe 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi everybody, first of all, thanks Timo for version 2.0. Currently I want to sort mails server-side by displayname of FROM and TO. There is an extension for it, but I think dovecot does not support it at the moment. It is defined in RFC 5957: https://www.tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5957 Is there an dovecot extension for it, how can I get that running? Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] wake up getamail on imap request
by Timo Sirainen 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:28 +0200, Peter Dungel wrote: > The only issue I'm still facing is, that I don't like to run getmail as a > cronjob that connects to my online mailboxes every minute or so, I'd rather > want it to do so every thirty minutes and whenever I request so by fetching > my mails at my mailclient (e.g. outlook), I've font the Fetchmail Wakeup > plugin, but according to the description this only works for version 1.1.x > and 1.2.x but I'm running 1.0.13. You could create a plugin that triggers getmail every time IMAP's STATUS command is sent. Or probably best to do it on mailbox_opened hook (in v2.0).

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Re: [Dovecot] wake up getamail on imap request
by William Blunn 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

On 18/08/2010 13:28, Peter Dungel wrote: > i've set up a little mailserver for my homeoffice, and after some > problems everything works fine for me, I've some virtual users which > get their mail delivered via getmail, and I can access my mails from > my windows mailclient. > > The only issue I'm still facing is, that I don't like to run getmail > as a cronjob that connects to my online mailboxes every minute or so, > I'd rather want it to do so every thirty minutes and whenever I > request so by fetching my mails at my mailclient (e.g. outlook), I've > font the Fetchmail Wakeup plugin, but according to the description > this only works for version 1.1.x and 1.2.x but I'm running 1.0.13. > > Anyone has any idea how to solve this or has a workaround? Upgrade to 1.1.x or 1.2.x? I believe that many people consider 1.0.x to be hideously ancient. I believe that many people on this list will be significantly reluctant to help you with anything before 1.2.x. Version 2.0.0 was declared the current release version last Monday (16 Aug 2010), with the previous current release version before that being 1.2.13. I believe that many people on this will not consider "But My Distro Provides Version X!" to be a valid excuse. Find a more up-to-date binary package, upgrade your distro, install from source; there is always a way. Bill

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[Dovecot] wake up getamail on imap request
by Peter Dungel 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, i've set up a little mailserver for my homeoffice, and after some problems everything works fine for me, I've some virtual users which get their mail delivered via getmail, and I can access my mails from my windows mailclient. The only issue I'm still facing is, that I don't like to run getmail as a cronjob that connects to my online mailboxes every minute or so, I'd rather want it to do so every thirty minutes and whenever I request so by fetching my mails at my mailclient (e.g. outlook), I've font the Fetchmail Wakeup plugin, but according to the description this only works for version 1.1.x and 1.2.x but I'm running 1.0.13. Anyone has any idea how to solve this or has a workaround? Thanks Petr

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[Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth
by Marc Perkel 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary.

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[Dovecot] Problem with compile
by Mišel Mešnjak 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi! I have a problem compiling v2.0 of dovecot mail server on one old server running RHEL 3. This is error messaage I get (googled for it and have not found anything useful): passdb-vpopmail.o(.text+0x39a): In function `vpopmail_preinit': /root/dovecot-2.0.0/src/auth/passdb-vpopmail.c:185: undefined reference to `vauth_load_module' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-2.0.0/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-2.0.0/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-2.0.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks and bye!

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[Dovecot] Delete user data from Dovecot server
by Thiago Henrique 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hello, I'm testing Dovecot 2.0. I plan to use Dovecot 2.0 with thousands of domains per server. My user base is under virtual MySQL. when I add a user in the database, it is automatically created in the structure of Dovecot at first login. Is there a easy way to delete a user ? Thank you. -- Atenciosamente, Thiago Henrique (21)2233-5950 ramal 27 Infra Estrutura Linux Hostnet Internet - www.hostnet.com.br Digirati Telecomunicações - www.digirati.com.br

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[Dovecot] reverting back to 1.2.12
by Dennis Clarke 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

ver 1.2.13 is also tossing these : Aug 18 03:37:49 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 805c600 (27) Aug 18 03:37:49 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 805c600 (25) Aug 18 03:37:49 dovecot: Warning: I/O leak: 805c600 (23) I have reverted back to 1.2.12 which "just works". I will go back and recompile 1.2.13 and 2.0.0 again. Maybe the addition of postgressql libs linked in or the use of GCC is the issue on Solaris. Not sure but 1.2.12 to 1.2.13 did not go smoothly at all. Dennis

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole
by Xavier Pons 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, I'm trying to compile the last mercurial release of dovecot-pigeonhole 2.0 and get this error: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/kerberos/include -o .libs/sievec sievec.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../../src/lib-sieve/.libs/libdovecot-sieve.so ../../src/lib-sieve-tool/.libs/libsieve-tool.a ./debug/.libs/libsieve_ext_debug.a /root/dovecot/dovecot-hg/dovecot-2.0/src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so /root/dovecot/dovecot-hg/dovecot-2.0/src/lib-lda/.libs/libdovecot-lda.so /root/dovecot/dovecot-hg/dovecot-2.0/src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -ldl -lrt -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/dovecot ../../src/lib-sieve/.libs/libdovecot-sieve.so: undefined reference to `sieve_stringlist_get_length' ../../src/lib-sieve/.libs/libdovecot-sieve.so: undefined reference to `sieve_stringlist_read_all' ../../src/lib-sieve/.libs/libdovecot-sieve.so: undefined reference to `sieve_single_stringlist_create_cstr' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [sievec] Error 1 any idea? thanks Xavier

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[Dovecot] 2.0 and vpopmail
by Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Does 2.0 require a specific version of vpopmail? I'm getting this on my build attempt : /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-2.0.0/src/auth/passdb-vpopmail.c:185: undefined reference to `vauth_load_module' Yes, it's an RPM, that's how I roll. I'm not finding vauth_load_module anywhere on my system.. I'm running vpopmail 5.4.30 which is, I believe the latest stable release.. Thanks, - --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold xenophage(a)godshell.com - --------------------------- "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." - - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkxp/6YACgkQ8CjzPZyTUTT0tACgi5WLR2IcGvhmvmIGlmZpeg1P tUQAn2zx6HuIR3QHIGt/aYCP7nRNBvJ7 =yYrj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Using dovecot with vpopmail and mysql auth?
by Aaron Greengrass 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, Does anyone happen to know the right strings to do authentication against mysql storing vpopmail data, vs using the vpopmail auth module? I'm trying to get up to both vpopmail 5.5, and dovecot 2.0, and dovecot-auth seems to reliably segfault on the 5.5 vpopmail module. I've tried downgrading vpopmail as well, with less than stellar results. I saw an old article about doing exactly that -- switching from the vpop module, while still using it's DB, but it is both a) old, and b) confusing. Any help you can offer -- or urls in a pinch -- would be appreciated.

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[Dovecot] Very complex Master User Examples using MySQL
by Marc Perkel 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

For those who are interested I have posted in the Wiki examples of using master users in very interesting ways. In these example we will create 3 kinds of master users. The first will be users who can read all email for all domains. The next example will be users who can read all email for their domain only. The third example will be users who can read email of domains listed in a separate ownership table. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers Go to Advanced SQL Examples at bottom Let me know what you think. In order to actually make this work you'll have to apply this patch Timo just posted: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/3ba227176cde

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 convert script
by Marc Perkel 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Since my old config had this: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem then the convert script should have added ssl = yes Just trying to document all the little issues as I find them.

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[Dovecot] Tricky Master User Query - need MySQL help
by Marc Perkel 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

OK - I want to do something very tricky with master users and if I get it to work I'm adding it to the wiki for everyone to use. So far I have a MySQL database that servers multiple domains. I can set a flag making someone a domain owner that allows that person to become master of that domain. Here's the query for that. password_query = SELECT user_name, domain_name, password FROM users WHERE user_name = '%n' AND domain_name = '%d' AND owns_domain='1' AND '%d'='%{login_domain}' So - here's where we get tricky. I have another table called "ownership" where I have 2 fields which is a pairing of email addresses (login_id) and domains owned (owned_object). Data might look like this: joe(a)blow.com domain1.com joe(a)blow.com domain2.com Since joe(a)blow.com owns both domain1.com and domain2.com I want him to be able to log in as anyone in those 2 domains as a master user. Examples: tom@domain1.com*joe@blow.com harry@domain2.com*joe@blow.com So the idea is to create a MySQL query so that if the master user matches the domain part of the login user then it returns true and allows the login. What MySQL query will do that?

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[Dovecot] Master Login using MySQL problem - %{login_domain}
by Marc Perkel 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi Timo, Been trying to track this problem down further. The problem seems to be related to verifying the master user failing. My passdb looks like this: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-domain-owner-sql.conf master = yes pass = yes } dovecot-domain-owner-sql.conf contains: user_query = SELECT user_name, domain_name FROM users WHERE user_name = '%n' AND domain_name = '%d' AND owns_domain='1' password_query = SELECT user_name, domain_name, password FROM users WHERE user_name = '%n' AND domain_name = '%d' AND owns_domain='1' AND '%d'='%{login_domain}' In this example - bill(a)plf.net is an ordinary user. tom(a)plf.net is a domain owner. Tom wants to read bills email. The login is: bill@plf.net*tom@plf.net This results in tom(a)plf.net being classified as an unknown user. Aug 17 08:38:30 auth: Debug: sql(tom(a)plf.net,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT user_name, domain_name, password FROM users WHERE user_name = 'tom' AND domain_name = 'plf.net' AND owns_domain='1' AND 'plf.net'='' Aug 17 08:38:30 auth: Info: sql(tom(a)plf.net,127.0.0.1): unknown user Aug 17 08:38:32 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 15 user=tom(a)plf.net Aug 17 08:38:32 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<tom(a)plf.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=0, secured Note that the query used to determine that tom(a)plf.net is valid is the password_query and not the user_query resulting in unknown user. I think that's where the problem is.

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[Dovecot] Managesieve and Dovecot 2.0: clients incompatible?
by Jerrale G 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

I successfully converted my 1.2.x config and am trying to use managesieve. This configuration is really for 1.2.x even though it says for 2.0: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/Configuration Trying to assign the port number is not by using "listen". Anyway, I just reverted, on the client, to using the default port 2000. The managesieve client now hangs trying to login and eventually times out. Is the new pigeonhole managesieve incompatible with clients that worked with managesieve 0.11.11? There is no output in the log concerning managesieve from pigeonhole. I guess I could put log=/path/to/a/file in the managesieve part and see what happens. In the old dovecot 1.2, we would get a "managesieve-login" in the log when a client even TRIED to login; now, nothing! -- Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Well , configure looked good and the summary seemed fine : Install prefix . : /opt/csw File offsets ... : 64bit I/O polling .... : poll I/O notifys .... : none SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL) GSSAPI ......... : yes passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword ldap sql : -bsdauth -sia -vpopmail userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword ldap sql : -vpopmail -nss SQL drivers .... : pgsql mysql sqlite Everything was going swimmingly and then poof : libtool: compile: /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-charset -I../../src/lib-mail -I/opt/csw/include:/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql:/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -I/opt/csw/include -xstrconst -xildoff -xarch=v8 -xnolibmil -Xa -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -g -xs -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql -I/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -D_TS_ERRNO -DSOLARIS2=8 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/opt/csw/include -c imap-id.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/imap-id.o libtool: compile: /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-charset -I../../src/lib-mail -I/opt/csw/include:/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql:/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -I/opt/csw/include -xstrconst -xildoff -xarch=v8 -xnolibmil -Xa -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -g -xs -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql -I/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -D_TS_ERRNO -DSOLARIS2=8 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/opt/csw/include -c imap-id.c -o imap-id.o >/dev/null 2>&1 source='imap-match.c' object='imap-match.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /opt/csw/bin/bash ../../depcomp \ /opt/csw/bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-charset -I../../src/lib-mail -I/opt/csw/include:/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql:/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -I/opt/csw/include -xstrconst -xildoff -xarch=v8 -xnolibmil -Xa -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -g -xs -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql -I/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -D_TS_ERRNO -DSOLARIS2=8 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/opt/csw/include -c -o imap-match.lo imap-match.c libtool: compile: /opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-charset -I../../src/lib-mail -I/opt/csw/include:/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql:/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -I/opt/csw/include -xstrconst -xildoff -xarch=v8 -xnolibmil -Xa -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -g -xs -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/mysql51/include/mysql -I/opt/csw/postgresql83/include -D_TS_ERRNO -DSOLARIS2=8 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/opt/csw/include -c imap-match.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/imap-match.o "imap-match.c", line 199: identifier redeclared: imap_match_dup current : function(pointer to struct pool {pointer to const struct pool_vfuncs {..} v, unsigned int alloconly_pool :1, unsigned int datastack_pool :1}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning pointer to struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data} previous: function(pointer to struct pool {pointer to const struct pool_vfuncs {..} v, unsigned int alloconly_pool :1, unsigned int datastack_pool :1}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning pointer to struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data} : "imap-match.h", line 33 "imap-match.c", line 214: identifier redeclared: imap_match_globs_equal current : function(pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning _Bool previous: function(pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning _Bool : "imap-match.h", line 36 cc: acomp failed for imap-match.c gmake[3]: *** [imap-match.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/dclarke/build/dovecot/sparc/dovecot-2.0.0-sparcv8-001/src/lib-imap' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/dclarke/build/dovecot/sparc/dovecot-2.0.0-sparcv8-001/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/dclarke/build/dovecot/sparc/dovecot-2.0.0-sparcv8-001' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 [mimas] So that stops me while I figure out what the issue is with imap-match.h and/or imap-match.c in the Solaris world while using Sun Studio 11. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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[Dovecot] authentication failure with known good credentials???
by Dave Stevens 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi, I have a problem on my server. To illustrate, I created a new user, unclewiggly, and set up a password. I then used sent an email from my usual account. Logging in with my browser I am able to see the inbox, the mail and contents correctly. I then set up a new instance of Eudora 7.1 on my windows 7 box with the appropriate login id and check the account using the correct password. The fetch fails with the client reporting an authentication failure. Ideas? Places to look? Logfiles I can search? Maillog doesn't seem very informative, should I send a snippet? Thanks, Dave -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti

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[Dovecot] Using a BSDI 4.X system for Dovecot
by The Doctor 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

It might be old but still worked. I am using Dovecot 1.2.11 hoping to replace QualComm Eudora and Cyrus IMAP. dovecot -n yields base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_listen: 204.209.81.1 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 first_valid_uid: 100 last_valid_uid: 65535 last_valid_gid: 65535 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u dbox_rotate_days: 0 mail_executable(default): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): auth default: executable: /usr/contrib/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/master.passwd userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd And running SSL here In my logs I see Aug 17 00:35:10 doctor dovecot: POP3(user1): Fatal: setregid(100(user),14(mail)) failed with euid=0(root): Operation not permitted Aug 17 00:35:15 doctor dovecot: IMAP(user2): Fatal: setregid(100(user),14(mail)) failed with euid=0(root): Operation not permitted Question: What are am I not doing right? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee Australia!! Vote to throw the REpublicans to the sharks!

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[Dovecot] 2.0 not starting
by Luciano Mannucci 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi everybody, I tried to upgrade my 1.2.13 dovecot to 2.0. The configure/make/install process seemed to work flawlessly. I created the dovenull user, converted my config with #src/config/doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot.conf > /tmp/dovecot.conf and moved the result manually to /etc/dovecot. By typing "dovecot" (after having stopped the previous instance :), I get: Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address already in use Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use Fatal: Failed to start listeners tough nor "netstat -ta" nor "lsof -i" do show anything using port 110 or 143. What did I wrong? Here is my doveconf -n: baobab:/usr/src/local/mail/dovecot/current/dovecot-2.0.0 # doveconf -n # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.45-0.1-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) ext3 doveconf: Warning: Dovecot was last started using /etc/dovecot.conf, but this config is /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf auth_cache_size = 3072 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 0 first_valid_uid = 100 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/logfile.info log_path = /var/log/dovecot/logfile login_greeting = Dovecot at Baobab ready. mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mailboxes/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:DIRNAME=mbox:INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=300M } protocols = pop3 imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { address = 212.45.144.44, 212.45.144.70, 192.168.134.44 } process_limit = 512 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { address = 212.45.144.44, 212.45.144.70, 192.168.134.44 } process_limit = 512 } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/ca.crt ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = yes } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mcs.it } luciano. -- /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster(a)sublink.sublink.ORG / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.mannucci.ORG/

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[Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see
by Marc Perkel 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Here's what I'd like. Limited master users, where someone can be a master users for some domains but not others. I think I could do what I want with the right kinds of variable passing that doesn't yet exist. Let me see if I can explain clearly. From the example in the wiki: auth_master_user_separator = * passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext master = yes pass = yes } passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } Login looks like this: # telnet localhost 143 * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login loginuser*masteruser masterpass 1 OK Logged in. I'm assuming that the masteruser and masterpass is passed to the master passdb and when doing so the variable %u is the master user. I assume that %n and %d also represent the name and domain part of the master user. What I need is to also be able to have variables for the loginuser passed to the master user query. Something like %lu, %ln, and %ld perhaps. That way with MySQL tricks I might be able to see if the master user is master for that particular login user. That way I can give domain owners or owners of multiple domains the ability to manage the email accounts within their scope of permission.

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[Dovecot] cluster with dsync mirror
by Bryan Vyhmeister 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

I have an idea for running a pair of redundant dovecot mail servers that may be odd but it might work. I'm interested in any thoughts on the topic. Would it work to run 'dsync mirror' every minute against either mdbox or sdbox mailbox on a dedicated network connection between two (or potentially three or four) mail servers? I'm trying to avoid using a NAS/SAN or some other dedicated NFS server in a simple environment with a limited number of users. Everything else about the systems could be identical. Both could receive mail using Postfix with dovecot LDA. Thank you. Bryan

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

> On 16.8.2010, at 23.25, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> "imap-match.c", line 199: identifier redeclared: imap_match_dup > > I think someone reported this problem earlier .. but I'm not sure. Anyway > I've no idea why it would complain about this. > >> So that stops me while I figure out what the issue is with imap-match.h >> and/or imap-match.c in the Solaris world while using Sun Studio 11. > > I heard it compiles ok with Sun Studio 12.1. > Everything was going swimmingly with a GCC based compile. After that was finished I then moved onto a "make install" of course, then this happened : gmake[3]: Entering directory `/export/medusa/dclarke/build/dovecot/sparc/dovecot-2.0.0-sparcv8-002/src/auth' test -z "/opt/csw/libexec/dovecot" || ../.././install-sh -c -d "/opt/csw/libexec/dovecot" /opt/csw/bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=install ../.././install-sh -c auth checkpassword-reply '/opt/csw/libexec/dovecot' libtool: install: ../.././install-sh -c .libs/auth /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth libtool: install: ../.././install-sh -c .libs/checkpassword-reply /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-reply test -z "/opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth" || ../.././install-sh -c -d "/opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth" mkdir: "/opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth": Exists but is not a directory mkdir: "/opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth": Exists but is not a directory gmake[3]: *** [install-auth_moduleLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/dclarke/build/dovecot/sparc/dovecot-2.0.0-sparcv8-002/src/auth' gmake[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/dclarke/build/dovecot/sparc/dovecot-2.0.0-sparcv8-002/src/auth' gmake[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/dclarke/build/dovecot/sparc/dovecot-2.0.0-sparcv8-002/src' gmake: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 # file /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped # ls -lap /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 338312 Aug 17 02:33 /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth # I'm not sure why /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/auth would be expected to be a dir as opposed to the file that it is. However .. this is where I get stopped. I should point out that I created the users dovenull and dovecot with both in group dovecot however I doubt that has anything to do with the install failing. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

> I wonder how GCCFSS would do. Will it even run under Solaris 8? # which gcc /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc # gcc --version gcc (Blastwave.org Inc. Mon Aug 9 07:10:45 GMT 2010) 4.5.1 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. # uname -a SunOS mimas 5.8 Generic_127721-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 # psrinfo -v Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 08/17/10 00:58:04 on-line since 07/06/10 12:03:37. The sparcv9 processor operates at 500 MHz, and has a sparcv9 floating point processor. Is that baseline Sparc enough for you ? ;-) -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

> On 8/16/10 8:38 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> Works fine here with the 12.1 compiler. Solaris 10 on UltraSPARC, >>> current patches, on both the OS and the compilers. My CFLAGS: >>> >>> -fast -xtarget=ultra3 -m32 -xarch=sparcvis2 > > >> The is ye ol'production Solaris 8 and thus Sun Studio 11 is needed. > > Oh. Eeeew. :) Hey, there are banks and telco places all over that are running it and they *refuse* to upgrade. I know of government sites that are still on old E450's because they have not died yet. No kidding. Some of that old Sun gear just WILL NOT bloody die. The way to justify the capital expenditure on a new Sun Sparc server is to spill a coffee on/in it. 8-P >> Problem solved simply by using GCC 4.5.1 from Blastwave ( of course ). > > I wonder how GCCFSS would do. Will it even run under Solaris 8? Why not ? It is a rock solid kernel and you can build it and see :-) >> Question for you: why would you use -m32 with an -xarch=sparcvis2 ? Why >> not go for greatest possible portability and range of processors with >> something like this : >> >> CFLAGS=-m32 -Qy -Xa -xbuiltin=%none -xnolibmil -xnolibmopt -xcode=pic32 >> -xildoff -xregs=no%appl -xs -xstrconst -D_TS_ERRNO > > Because I don't intend to run it on a range of processors. =) ah ... I am in a different world. >> If you feel like some optimization then chuck in -xO3 and -xdepend >> however >> I'd test the resultant bins from a basic compile first. >> >> Just my 0.02 > > Fair enough, and I appreciate your advice. My goal in this case is > to generate the fastest binaries possible on the machine it's being > built on, which is identical to the machine it's going to be run on. > There's zero need for portable binaries in this particular installation. > In that case run fpversion : fpversion A SPARC-based CPU is available. Kernel says CPU's clock rate is 900.0 MHz. Kernel says main memory's clock rate is 150.0 MHz. Sun-4 floating-point controller version 0 found. An UltraSPARC chip is available. Use "-xtarget=ultra3cu -xcache=64/32/4:8192/512/2" code-generation option. See those compiler options ? Use them. Also put in -xO3 and -xdepend and then the compile will take a lot longer but you will be happy you waited. Sun Studio compilers can really rock if you know how to push them. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

> On 17.8.2010, at 1.28, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> *** Warning: Linking the shared library lib30_imap_zlib_plugin.la >> against >> the loadable module >> *** lib20_zlib_plugin.so is not portable! >> >> Not too sure what is up with that but I'll look into it. > > That's normal. It doesn't need to be portable. > In that case ... awesome :-) I'll let you know when I get packages into testing QC and then for release. However I am going to rename the package to dovecot2 in order to separate it from dovecot 1.x installs. My idea there is to allow the user to continue with the dovecot 1.x line in the event of patch updates and further releases from that tree ( like dovecot 1.2.13 ) while also maintaining the ver 2.x family. However I don't think I'll support multiple instances of dovecot ( regardless of version ) in the same Solaris zone. If the user wants that then they can do all the uid/pid hackery themselves. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

>> So that stops me while I figure out what the issue is with imap-match.h >> and/or imap-match.c in the Solaris world while using Sun Studio 11. > > Works fine here with the 12.1 compiler. Solaris 10 on UltraSPARC, > current patches, on both the OS and the compilers. My CFLAGS: > > -fast -xtarget=ultra3 -m32 -xarch=sparcvis2 > The is ye ol'production Solaris 8 and thus Sun Studio 11 is needed. Problem solved simply by using GCC 4.5.1 from Blastwave ( of course ). Question for you: why would you use -m32 with an -xarch=sparcvis2 ? Why not go for greatest possible portability and range of processors with something like this : CFLAGS=-m32 -Qy -Xa -xbuiltin=%none -xnolibmil -xnolibmopt -xcode=pic32 -xildoff -xregs=no%appl -xs -xstrconst -D_TS_ERRNO If you feel like some optimization then chuck in -xO3 and -xdepend however I'd test the resultant bins from a basic compile first. Just my 0.02 -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

> On 16.8.2010, at 23.25, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> "imap-match.c", line 199: identifier redeclared: imap_match_dup > > I think someone reported this problem earlier .. but I'm not sure. Anyway > I've no idea why it would complain about this. > >> So that stops me while I figure out what the issue is with imap-match.h >> and/or imap-match.c in the Solaris world while using Sun Studio 11. > > I heard it compiles ok with Sun Studio 12.1. I will try GCC and let you know what I see : [mimas] gcc --version gcc (Blastwave.org Inc. Mon Aug 9 07:10:45 GMT 2010) 4.5.1 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. No surprise that GCC works fine : [mimas] ls -lap ./src/master/.libs/dovecot -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 86388 Aug 17 00:09 ./src/master/.libs/dovecot [mimas] file ./src/master/.libs/dovecot ./src/master/.libs/dovecot: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped [mimas] elfdump -d ./src/master/.libs/dovecot Dynamic Section: .dynamic index tag value [0] NEEDED 0xe21 libdovecot.so.0 [1] NEEDED 0xe31 libintl.so.8 [2] NEEDED 0xe3e libdl.so.1 [3] NEEDED 0xe49 libnsl.so.1 [4] NEEDED 0xdf6 libsocket.so.1 [5] NEEDED 0xe55 libiconv.so.2 [6] NEEDED 0xe0e libc.so.1 [7] NEEDED 0xe63 librt.so.1 [8] INIT 0x1b71c [9] FINI 0x1b738 etc etc ... I did see a few odd messages fly by like this : *** Warning: Linking the shared library lib30_imap_zlib_plugin.la against the loadable module *** lib20_zlib_plugin.so is not portable! Not too sure what is up with that but I'll look into it. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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[Dovecot] Imap, flags. Dsync
by Henrique Fernandes 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Does dsync mirror follow up flags ? I am testing here, and if i flag an msg as follow up, dsync does not do anything. It suppouse to be like that ? Thanks! []'sf.rique

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Re: [Dovecot] Subdomain Migration
by Jerrale G 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

On 8/16/2010 3:44 AM, ramesh wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like have suggestion for changing subdomain (belongs to ISP) to own domain, the scenario as below. > > Presently we have subdomain from ISP ( @xxx.isp.net) > email id : ramesh(a)xxx.isp.net > > ISP charges huge amount,thou others ISP charges less. so we have planned to migrate to our own registered domain and terminate existing ISP. > > Now my requirement is email coming to ramesh(a)xxx.isp.net (Mail server connected to present ISP) should forward to ramesh(a)mydomain.co.in (Mail server connected to new ISP) > > Please send me suggestion to follow or URL's explain briefly. > > Thanks. > > Regards, > Ramesh > > > > > > They have to send mail to you(a)yournewdomain.com unless you plan on keeping your isp's subdomain Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

> On 08/16/2010 06:46 PM Dennis Clarke wrote: >> â¦ >> NOTE: This is the UNSTABLE development branch of Dovecot v2.0. >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > See: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-August/051736.html > wow ... I was hoping I was the first :-\ -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Dennis Clarke 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz > http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz.sig > > As promised last Friday, here's the v2.0.0 release finally. I'm > cautiously optimistic that v2.0.1 won't (have to) be released for a few > weeks, since there was quite a lot of testing and fixing going on in the > RC stage. > cool .. .however .. should I see this message at the end of the configure stage : . . . passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword ldap sql : -bsdauth -sia -vpopmail userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword ldap sql : -vpopmail -nss SQL drivers .... : mysql sqlite : -pgsql NOTE: This is the UNSTABLE development branch of Dovecot v2.0. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That won't go well with the Solaris crowd. Just FYI. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth
by Dennis Clarke 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

> On 2010-08-16 07:16:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> Maybe dovecot could use the "nobody" user if dovenull doesn't exist? > > you could just read the warning message, create the user and stop > worrying? > > and no ... it shouldnt fallback to nobody. a broken set up is a broken > setup and needs to be fixed. > Wow. Well said. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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[Dovecot] dovecot: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=14267
by Jerrale G 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I don't know if dovecot 2.0 will have this already or not but, when dovecot is stopped or started, it would be nice to have the PID reported in the log for various uses. Jerrale Gayle SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Split number of imap-login and pop3-login processes
by Mischa Peters 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi All, Is there a way to define the number for imap-login processes and pop3-login processes separately? My mail server is getting more IMAP clients and much less POP3 clients these days and it continues to run out of authentication processes. I have been increasing login_max_processes_count the last couple of days and I noticed that it's split between IMAP and POP3. All 129 imap-login processes are tied up while there are only 3 of the 129 pop3-login processes in use. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanx!! Mischa mail:~ # dovecot --version 1.2.12 mail:~ # dovecot -n # 1.2.12: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 zfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *,[::]:143 listen(imap): *,[::]:143 listen(pop3): *,[::]:110 ssl_listen(default): *,[::]:993 ssl_listen(imap): *,[::]:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *,[::]:995 ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/cert.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/key.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_processes_count: 256 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 6 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 144 first_valid_gid: 144 mail_access_groups: postfix mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%u/ mbox_write_locks: fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix @mail:~ # grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql default_pass_scheme = CRYPT connect = host=***** dbname=postfix user=postfix password=******** password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND active='1' user_query = SELECT maildir, 144 AS uid, 144 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND active='1'

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[Dovecot] Forcing users to change passwords
by Marc Perkel 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Suppose I have users with a default password like "change-my-password" and I want to detect users who haven't changed their password and alert (nag) them about changing it. How would I do that?

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[Dovecot] Address book for 2.0?
by Jerrale G 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

2.0 could include a directory service, like MS Exchange, where people's address books within IMAP clients could be stored on the server and retrievable by the clients. Its a headache for users to roam from pc to pc and not have someone's address stored locally on another. Jerrale G SC Senior Admin

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Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth
by Dennis Clarke 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

> On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: >> dovenull >> >> Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why >> it is necessary. > > I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 : > > - Dovecot uses two internal users now by default: dovenull and dovecot. > You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user > setting. > Dovecot 2.x seems to be very close to release grade. Could you provide a guess as to when it will be released so that I can plan downtime for the upgrade on my production servers? -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] turn Usernames in Lowercase
by Leander S. 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi again, I solved the issue. Thanks any way and excuse the noise. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables Regards ________________________________________________________________________ Hi, I'm just curious how to force usernames to be modified to lowercase letters if one mixes uper and lower case letters to one salad? Cause my SpamAssassin gets confuesd and treats different spellings of Usernames as different Users - which is uncool. I've heard about something you can add in your dovecot.config to enforce lowercase letters only. Thanks

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[Dovecot] turn Usernames in Lowercase
by Leander S. 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi, I'm just curious how to force usernames to be modified to lowercase letters if one mixes uper and lower case letters to one salad? Cause my SpamAssassin gets confuesd and treats different spellings of Usernames as different Users - which is uncool. I've heard about something you can add in your dovecot.config to enforce lowercase letters only. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Fatal: dict_driver_register(mysql): Already registered
by Jerrale G 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /var/run/dovecot/login ls -l /var/run/dovecot srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 10 15:02 auth-master srw------- 1 mail mail 0 Aug 10 15:02 auth-worker.2774 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 10 15:02 dict-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 10 15:02 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot.conf drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 Aug 10 15:02 login -rw------- 1 root root 5 Aug 10 15:02 master.pid Everything works, eventually. All mail will sooner or later get delivered, using dovecot LDA from postfix, but these errors rampage the log several times. I recently added managesieve, expires, and finished the quota which I thought was achived by simply having quota_rule as a result of mysql. Aug 10 15:07:57 server1 dovecot: IMAP(someone(a)sheltoncomputers.com): read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Timeout after 30 seconds Aug 10 15:07:57 server1 dovecot: dict: Fatal: dict_driver_register(mysql): Already registered Aug 10 15:08:09 server1 last message repeated 4428 times On another note, Thunderbird is starting to get on my nerves, sending this message before I was finished. Here is the relevant config: dovecot-mysql query: user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/') AS home, CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/sieve/', mailboxes.username, '.sieve') as sieve, CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/sieve/') as sieve_dir, CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/mail/') AS maildir, uid AS uid, gid AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', ROUND(mailboxes.quota/1200), 'M') AS quota_rule, 'Trash:ignore' AS quota_rule2 FROM mail.mailboxes WHERE username = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = '1' dovecot.conf: protocol managesieve { listen = localhost:2001 managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login } auth_debug = no auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf # scheme = cram-md5 } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf } user = mail socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth user = postfix group = postfix mode = 0660 } master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } } } dict { # # NOTE: dict process currently runs as root, so this file will be owned as root. expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dict-expire.conf quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dict-quota.conf } plugin { quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict expire = Trash 7 Trash/* 7 Spam 30 expire_dict = proxy::expire expire_altmove = * 2555 sieve_global_path = /home/mail/sieve/global.sieve sieve_global_dir = /home/mail/sieve sieve_dir=/home/mail/%d/%n/sieve } As said, everything works, eventually, but mail delivery is delayed a lot. With The dict {} and expire-related parts commented out, operation has no errors or delays; performance is exceptional with maildir, quota, sieve, and managesieve. I don't think managesieve would patch any part of the dictionary code as it only has to do with another service process, not a plugin; if the patching was to cause problems with other services, for the service definition coding, the other services would have a problem, correct? The expires dictionary mysql table was being correctly used, with one day of use, as there are 10000 records; I'm going to have to revise the mysql indexes for performance in case I am able to fix the dictionary problem. We like the 1.2.13 version of dovecot, as far as security, and wonder how I can find a correct defintion scripting for the dict {}, from a previous version, and merge. We are use to windows compilations. I am skeptical to go to dovecot 2.0 as our services are in production and 2.0 is beta. I have recompiled several times with fresh sources of dovecot 1.2.13, managesieve 0.11.11 patchl, and sieve 1.0.17 as directed by the Dovecot Wiki. Jerrale G, SCA

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Upgrade Manual for 2.0 from 1.2.14 snapshot
by Jerrale G 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Is there a reference manual for changes in configuration between dovecot 1.2.X to 2.0 rc5. I know there is a config upgrade tool but I would rather learn the new changes and then implement them? -- Jerrale G. Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST
by Timo Sirainen 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

On 14.8.2010, at 20.52, Samuel Kvasnica wrote: > * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder1" > * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder2" > * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" {9} > six"wafer > . OK List completed. > > Note the {9} length of the following real folder name. Is this normal > handling of special folder names ? Yes. > Mail clients do not seem to like this response. What clients? They're buggy then.. Well, of course, way too many clients are :(

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[Dovecot] v2.0.rc6 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/rc/dovecot-2.0.rc6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/rc/dovecot-2.0.rc6.tar.gz.sig I expect this to be the last release candidate. Unless release critical bugs are reported, I'll update the version number to v2.0.0 on Monday morning without any other changes. Since rc5 there have been mainly some small fixes and some error message improvements. The only (somewhat) important fixes are: - dict quota didn't always decrease quota when messages were expunged - Shared INBOX wasn't always listed with FS layout

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[Dovecot] Dovecot mailing list filter update
by Timo Sirainen 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

I added some new filters to this list that will bounce your mail if it doesn't like it. If you think your bounced mail was legitimate, let me know and I'll look at fixing the scripts.

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[Dovecot] Maildir over NFS
by CJ Keist 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

I'm working on bring up a new mail server to replace our current one. Our current mail server is running dovecot 1.1.16, with postfix using mbox format. User inboxes are stored locally on the mail server and all other mail folders in users home directory under mail which is NFS mounted on the mail server. For our new mail server I'm looking to switch to the Maildir format. Some years ago I remember reading that it was not recommended to run Maildir format over NFS. Now I'm looking at several posts that seem to indicate that Maildir should run fine over NFS. I'm a little concerned about running Maildir over NFS, especially from the howto conversion pages I read would move all messages over to the User ~/Maildir folder including the inbox. So having every single mail transaction going over NFS doesn't seem the smart thing to do. So question I have for the dovecot team, does running Maildir over NFS work well? Or would you recommend that all user mail folders be stored locally on the mail server when using Maildir? We have about 3400 users, doing about 30k mail deliveries daily. Some users have 10's of thousands of mail messages in hundreds of mail folders. Thanks... -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness'

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