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[Dovecot] SIS
by Daniel L. Miller 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Is SIS for dbox included in the 2.0.2 sources? Or only via Mercurial? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Sieve problems - compiled script does not get updated
by aditsu 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi, I'm using Dovecot 1.1.7 with sieve and managesieve, and Thunderbird with the sieve plugin (0.1.10). Sieve filters are generally working, but I noticed a situation where a script wrongly remains in effect. Here's how to reproduce the problem: - write 2 sieve scripts (in Thunderbird), say A and B, triggered by different things - activate script A and send an email that triggers it (so that it gets compiled) - change the active script to B (by clicking its "active" icon in the list) - send an email that triggers B; it will not work - send an email that triggers A; it will still work The only way I found to fix it is to hunt down the corresponding .dovecot.sievec file and delete it (the .dovecot.sieve symlink gets updated correctly, but .dovecot.sievec doesn't). After deleting it, the correct script is compiled and executed. Is this problem fixed in a newer version of dovecot? Thanks Adrian -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Sieve-problems---compiled-script-does-not-get-updated… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] sieve rules quiestion (deduplicate e-mails)
by Vasiliy G Tolstov 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hello. I'm successful use sieve for filtering e-mail from various subscriptions. But if i have subscription for 2 or more mailing lists and user write email to list1(a)xxx.org and list2(a)yyy.org by REPLY TO ALL or make a CC header, i'm recieve email twice, if i reply in some list to user and user REPLY TO ALL - i'm recieve email 3 times :) How can i'm eliminate this duplications? For example i want to recive all emails, but put only one in subscription folder. And other silently discard.... And second question is - i have many subsections to mailing lists, sieve rules looks like this: elsif header :contains "List-Id" ["cfe-dev.cs.uiuc.edu"] { fileinto "Subscriptions/Clang"; } elsif header :contains "List-Id" ["jabberd2-lists.xiaoka.com"] { fileinto "Subscriptions/Jabberd2"; } elsif header :contains "List-Id" ["chef.lists.opscode.com"] { fileinto "Subscriptions/Chef"; } elsif header :contains "List-Id" ["help-cfengine.cfengine.org"] { fileinto "Subscriptions/Cfengine"; } # rule:[Exherbo] elsif header :contains "List-Id" ["exherbo-dev.lists.exherbo.org","exherbo-commits.lists.exherbo.org"] { fileinto "Subscriptions/Exherbo"; } # rule:[Php] elsif header :contains "List-Id" ["highload-php-ru.googlegroups.com","highload-php-en.googlegroups.com"] { fileinto "Subscriptions/Php"; } # rule:[Btrfs] elsif header :contains ["List-Id"] ["linux-btrfs.vger.kernel.org"] { fileinto "Subscriptions/Btrfs"; How can i minimize this rules and save desired functionality? -- Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru> Selfip.Ru

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[Dovecot] Compiling Dovecot 2.0.2 on Solaris 10 SPARC - libssl.so.1.0.0: open failed
by Edward Carraro 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

I'm trying to compile the source for Dovecot 2.0.2 on a Solaris 10 SPARC machine. > uname -a SunOS ommtca013 5.10 Generic_138888-07 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-T6300 Solaris > cat /etc/release Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC I've installed the following binaries from sunfreeware for dovecot 1.1 to use with 2.0.2 gcc-3.4.6-sol10-sparc-local ncurses-5.7-sol10-sparc-local libiconv-1.13.1-sol10-sparc-local libintl-3.4.0-sol10-sparc-local nano-2.2.5-sol10-sparc-local gmp-4.2.1-sol10-sparc-local coreutils-8.5-sol10-sparc-local libtool-2.2.6b-sol10-sparc-local openssl-1.0.0a-sol10-sparc-local db-4.7.25.NC-sol10-sparc-local sasl-2.1.21-sol10-sparc-local openldap-2.4.22-sol10-sparc-local zlib-1.2.5-sol10-sparc-local mysql-5.0.67-sol10-sparc-local bzip2-1.0.5-sol10-sparc-local libnet-1.1.2.1-sol10-sparc-local readline-5.2-sol10-sparc-local postgresql-8.4.4-sol10-sparc-local When I compile using: > ./configure --with-ldap or > CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ldl" ./configure --with-ldap or > CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ldl" ./configure --with-ldap --with-ssl I get the following error when starting up dovecot: Sep 15 11:34:16 master: Error: service(ssl-params): child 12239 killed with signal 9 Sep 15 11:34:16 master: Error: service(ssl-params): command startup failed, throttling Sep 15 11:34:16 ssl-params: Error: ld.so.1: ssl-params: fatal: libssl.so.1.0.0: open failed: No such file or directory libssl.so.1.0.0 exists in /usr/local/ssl/lib... which is what I've passed in LDFLAGS What parameters am I suppose to pass to configure?

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[Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot
by Donny Brooks 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hello, Currently our mail server is setup to use postfix and dovecot, which is fine except it is setup to use mbox format mail. That and procmail as we need to move to sieve but that is a different issue. I have searched until blue in the face and cannot find a 100% working solution that doesn't require alot of manual interaction to move the mail boxes from mbox to maildir. I have tried the mb2md.pl stuff but with over 150+ users that can get tedious having to log in as each one of them to migrate them. I also tried the convert plugin located here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert but it kept erroring about not able to convert the box and exiting. We have approx 200GB of mail total that needs to be migrated. Maybe I am just simply missing something but is there a way that we can migrate all the users with minimal end user interaction and minimal administration time? We need this done asap as our backups are killing us with the large mbox style files. Thanks in advance for any and all input to this. -- Donny B.

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[Dovecot] Authentication with lower case username ONLY
by Leander S. 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, how do you guys force your users to authenticate with lower case letters ONLY? Or convert it? Is there a SASL Option to force that - or are you using scripts i.e. a bash script in combination with the command "tr" ... or a third solution I didn't think of yet? I'm using Postfix / Dovecot combination. Postfix is told to use Dovecots SASL Service to authenticate it's users. For my outgoing eMails I already wrote a script with tr which forms upercase usernames to lowercase ones ... but it's not enough. SpamAssassin is still confused and writes uppercase letters in it's Database etc. ... So that's why I'm looking for a more universal solution. P.S. I would basically prefer a convertation - but I would also be fine with a forced lower case auth system. Thanks & Regards

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[Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '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. Remember to read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 before upgrading from v1.x. Although there is automatic config conversion, it can't handle everything, so reserve some extra time for upgrading. If you find an upgrade problem that isn't listed on the wiki page, please add it there or email Dovecot mailing list about it. Pigeonhole Sieve and ManageSieve support can now be installed without patching Dovecot. Unfortunately there isn't a Pigeonhole release yet for v2.0, but its Mercurial code tree should be quite stable. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole There are no changes since v2.0.rc6. The largest changes since v1.2 are: * Dovecot uses two system users for internal purposes now by default: dovenull and dovecot. You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user setting. * Global ACLs are now looked up using namespace prefixes. For example if you previously had INBOX. namespace prefix and a global ACL for "INBOX.Sent", it's now looked up from "INBOX.Sent" file instead of "Sent" as before. * Maildir: File permissions are no longer based on dovecot-shared file, but the mailbox directory. + Redesigned master process. It's now more modular and there is less code running as root. + Configuration supports now per-local/remote ip/network settings. + dsync utility does a two-way mailbox synchronization. + LMTP server and proxying. + Added mdbox (multi-dbox) mail storage backend. + doveadm utility can be used to do all kinds of administration functions. Old dovecotpw and *view utilities now exist in its subcommands. + imap and pop3 processes can now handle multiple connections. + IMAP: COMPRESS=DEFLATE is supported by imap_zlib plugin + director service helps NFS installations to redirect users always to same server to avoid corruption

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[Dovecot] dsync crash
by Василий Шоков 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hello, When I run dsync -u v.shokov -Dv mirror sdbox:/dsync/v.shokov first time, process halting. On second time I receive this error: dsync(root): Debug: auth input: v.shokov system_groups_user=v.shokov uid=10000 gid=100 home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=10000, gid=100, home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/home/v.shokov/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov, control=, inbox= dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=.INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox, control=, inbox=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=10000, gid=100, home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=sdbox:/dsync/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: fs: root=/dsync/v.shokov, index=, control=, inbox= dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=.INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox, control=, inbox=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox dsync(v.shokov): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/v.shokov/mail: mode=0700 gid=-1 dsync(v.shokov): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /dsync/v.shokov: mode=0777 gid=-1 dsync(v.shokov): Panic: file mailbox-list-fs.c: line 150 (fs_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_pattern(_list, name)) dsync(v.shokov): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x224ae0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x45) [0x224bd5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x224168] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x181866] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_get_path+0x1d) [0x14d9bd] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x182724] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(fs_list_iter_next+0x42) [0x182262] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x14da42] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x14ec7f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x14da42] -> dsync [0x80580a6] -> dsync [0x804ed08] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x447) [0x804e067] -> dsync [0x804ef29] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x3f6) [0x804e016] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync_all+0x18) [0x804ec08] -> dsync(main+0x52b) [0x804d06b] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x2e8f90] -> dsync [0x804c951] My Dovecot version is 2.0.2. My config file is: # 2.0.2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.23.15-80.0.120asp i686 Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = yes listen = 10.62.1.250 lock_method = dotlock log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_fsync = never mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/%u mmap_disable = yes namespace { hidden = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes location = maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/%u/inbox prefix = .INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls } service auth { user = root } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 inet_listener imaps { address = * } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 user = dovecot } service pop3-login { client_limit = 3 inet_listener pop3s { address = * } process_limit = 10 process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 1 user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot mail_plugins = acl } protocol lda { postmaster_address = root(a)rittal.ru } Kind regards, Vasiliy Shokov

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[Dovecot] sieve is broken in the latest revision
by interfaSys sàrl 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

All the sudden messages filtered by sieve are delivered to folders named after the recipient instead of sticking to the rules and delivering the messages to the INBOX. Is this an intended change? Instead of Maildir/.INBOX it goes to Maildir/.user(a)domain.com Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] autogen.sh fails
by interfaSys sàrl 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

autogen.sh fails on FreeBSD 8.1 m4 1.4.15 autoconf 2.67 Here is the error message: libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. configure:20543: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FDdnl If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Dsync error, Targer mailbox already exists
by Henrique Fernandes 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hey, why i am getting this error ? dsync(user(a)example.com): Error: Can't rename mailbox VoIP_08300a224c41694c0d0f000020ce4ec5 to VoIP: Target mailbox already exists It happens when i run dsync twice, but it should do only changes right ? dovecot 2.0 I am traying to convert all my user mboc to maildir so i made an script to help. The enveriment: Have dovecot looking into file conf and in mysql. Mysql over rides file conf. in file have mail_location mbox:path:INBOX:path2 so i run this comand: dsync -v -u user(a)domain.com mirror maildir:~/mail/ I run this command to all user in my server, about 8000 After the first dsync it will take a while, but dovecot is still running and looking at mail_location to mbox. So now, i run again dsync, but now i thought it would do only changes, email that arrived while i was converting, but is not doing this and i am getting that stuff, so i get duplicated mailbox. Anyway, my ideia after this second sync that should be much faster i would change in mysql to mail_location maildir:~/mail/ And from now on this user would receive mail to maildir location, and i would run now the dsync but now reversed. like this: dsync -v -u user(a)domain.com mirror mbox:/pathl:INBOX=path And it should be working now right ? Without any down time ? Does any one have a better ideia about how to sync this mails without down time ? Thanks for all! But the bigs quest here is about the error: dsync(user(a)example.com): Error: Can't rename mailbox VoIP_08300a224c41694c0d0f000020ce4ec5 to VoIP: Target mailbox already exists Any one ? []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] quota dict play nice with existing tables
by Miha Vrhovnik 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi, I'm trying to set Dovecot 2.0 with postgresql dict. It's kind of working but not as I'd like to. Dovecot expects to get a dedicated table for quota management. When I've run *doveadm quota recalc -A* I've noticed in the logs that Dovecot tries to run DELETE statements. Fortunately it didn't succeed as I've only given it SELECT and UPDATE permissions on the fields that it needs. I'd like to configure it, in UPDATE only mode as rows already exist and there is no need to issue any other statement. Regards, Miha -- It's time to get rid of your current e-mail client ... ... and start using si.Mail. It's small & free. ( http://www.simail.si/ )

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[Dovecot] need help with shared mailboxes
by alex 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have some problems with setting shared mailboxes . I use dovecot 1.2.11 with following namespaces : mail_location: maildir:~ namespace: type: private separator: . inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: . prefix: shared.%%n. location: maildir:/home/sites/%d/mail/%%n/Maildir/ list: children plugin: acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: proxy::acl dict: acl: mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-share-sql.conf In the private namespace I use to have only INBOX. space because I have migrate from courier and I ahave problemes with duplicate folders. The disk structure looks like : /home/sites/domain.tld/mail/user(withoutdomain)/Maildir What I'am trying to do is to give access to a user (user2(a)domain.tld) some other user mailbox (user1(a)domain.tld) in the /home/sites/domain.tld/mail/user1/Maildir I have created a file dovecot-acl with : owner lrwstipekxa user=user2(a)domain.tld rl - in the dovecot-share-sql.conf I have : connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=xxxx user=xxx password=postfixpass map { pattern = shared/shared-boxes/user/$to/$from table = user_shares value_field = dummy fields { from_user = $from to_user = $to } } and in the user_share table : +-------------------+------------------+-------+ | from_user | to_user | dummy | +-------------------+------------------+-------+ | user1(a)myhost.ro | user2(a)domain.tld | 1 | | user1 | user2 | 1 | +-------------------+------------------+-------+ (not sure what I need %n or %u) Now , in TB under the user2 , if I check subscribe , under the shared, I have a INBOX folder that is always check but nothing else. From what I understand I suppose to see user1 folders and I think it is something wrong with my config (namespaces, paths). If someone have succeeded to configure dovecot with shared mailboxes and namespaces that use . as separator please help me. Alex.

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[Dovecot] DC 2.0.2 | Panic: file istream-crlf.c: line 101
by interfaSys sàrl 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

There is a new error showing up in my logs Sep 14 11:04:57 lda(user(a)domain.com): Panic: file istream-crlf.c: line 101 (i_stream_crlf_read_crlf): assertion failed: (src == ptr + 1) It seems to only happen with one account Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] dspam + dovecot LDA
by Paweł Madej 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hello, Is there any possibility to make dspam transport validated emails directly to dovecot LDA? for now I use such schema: postfix > dspam > postfix > dovecot LDA but wanted to not return emails to postfix. I've found that such configuration is possible with dspam+ cyrus IMAP. Documentation of dovecot is great but I haven't found such solution. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Greets Paweł Madej Poland

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[Dovecot] weird dovecot+outlook problem
by Per Jessen 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have some per-user, read-only mailboxes that I'm auto-subscribing users to. With Thunderbird I have no problems, but with Outlook, the contents of the 'To:' column is not shown until a user actually retrieves the mail. Does this ring a bell with anyone? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] fts plugin for xapian ?
by Per Jessen 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have googled it some, and found a couple of references, but nothing specific - has anyone already started work on such a plugin? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] Problem with Sieve Vacation
by Birger Schacht 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, dovecot version 1.2.12 on freebsd 7.0 with dovecot-sieve-1.2+0.1.17 I have users in ldap and aliases in /etc/aliases and i use postfix. There is an alias testuser@hostname for tuser@hostname. When tuser uses sieve vacation and uses the :addresses options with his email address (tuser@hostname), the response is also sent, if a mail to testuser@hostname is sent. in the postfix master.cf the line for deliver is flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} -a ${original_recipient} is this a bug, or do i have some quirks in my configuration? birger ps: not on this list, so please cc answers to me - -- GPG: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5DF89014F45C1912 GPG FP: 479E 1F02 12BD AA8A C4A9 0F19 5DF8 9014 F45C 1912 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyGC8wACgkQXfiQFPRcGRL0vwCgz/EZveKjTgNPkRvkzSQGd5sH RkEAnAqch133qYi2eCZ85IydBjDNuKWu =NSXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] LMTP Proxy not logging users' IP
by Luca Palazzo 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi All, is there any way to enable logging of users' IP address in dovecot director host? It actually logs only: Sep 14 07:32:29 mailgw-lb dovecot: lmtp(17615): Connect from xx.xx.xx.xx Sep 14 07:32:29 mailgw-lb dovecot: lmtp(17615): Disconnect from xx.xx.xx.xx: Client quit Thanks Luca

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[Dovecot] Lost %d variable
by Aladdin 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I'm trying to set up sieve with dovecot, and for some reason, sieve is not getting the %d variable that is part of the path to where its script should be. Here's the version: ops:/var/log/mail# dovecot --version 1.2.13 And, here's the configuration (I've left it all for reference, but moved the lda & plugins portions together and marked them out): ops:/var/log/mail# dovecot -n # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 i686 Debian 4.0 ext3 log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.info log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:CONTROL=/var/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/mail/%d/%n:INBOX= /var/mail/%d/%n 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 ----------- Start lda/sieve part -------------- lda: log_path: /var/log/mail/deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/deliver.log postmaster_address: aladdin(a)csunv.com mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda mail_plugins: sieve plugin: sieve: /var/mail/%d/%n/.sieve ----------- End lda/sieve part -------------- auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/home/%u userdb: driver: passwd plugin: sieve: /var/mail/%d/%n/.sieve And, here is the log output: ops:/var/log/mail# cat deliver-errors.log 2010-09-11 18:23:46 deliver(aladdin): Error: sieve: failed to stat user's sieve script: stat(/var/mail//aladdin/.sieve) failed: Not a directory (using global script path in stead) 2010-09-11 18:23:46 deliver(aladdin): Error: stat(/var/mail//aladdin/tmp) failed: Not a directory Obviously, the double slashes shouldn't be there; there should be the domain name: /var/mail/csunv.com/aladdin The "regular" dovecot gets the path fine; that is also where it puts the mail, and I'm getting mail just fine. TIA, Allen

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[Dovecot] fetchmail and lmtp -> auth crashing
by Dirk Heinrichs 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, while trying to get new mails into dovecot 2.0.1 via fetchmail and lmtp, auth process crashes: Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: lmtp(29944): Error: userdb lookup(heini@localhost): Disconnected unexpectedly Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox fetchmail[29928]: Nachricht USER@ISP:1 von 2 wird gelesen (2204 Bytes im Nachrichtenkopf) (Log-Meldung unvollständig) Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox fetchmail[29928]: LMTP-Fehler: 451 4.3.0 <heini@localhost> Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): child 29949 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped) Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling # 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 = oldbox.altum.de 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 lmtp service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 user = fetchmail } } 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 } fetchmailrc: set postmaster "postmaster" set nobouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" set daemon 60 set syslog poll ISP with proto IMAP user 'USER' there with password 'password' is 'heini' here options stripcr fetchsizelimit 0 ssl expunge 500 smtphost /var/run/dovecot/lmtp Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks... Dirk

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[Dovecot] dsync: mbox to maildir hangs
by Burckhard Schmidt 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello, after successfully converting some mailboxes I have a problem: dsync does not finish its work. dovecot 2.0.2. mail-location maildir:~/maildir I have copied the old Inbox and folders into /mailstore1/import-inbox and /mailstore1/import-home to the new server. (used with Dovecot 1.0.13 before) For one account I have now 356 folders containing about 60000 emails. (35 folders with about 40000 emails had been converted without problems) I used: dsync -v -u account mirror mbox:/mailstore1/import-home/~account:INBOX=/mailstore1/import-inbox/account dsync shoes after two minutes a list of all folders like this dsync(account): Info: Mail/folderx: only in dest After about 8 minutes some folders are converted. But then it hangs inside a folder which is just converting. I see entries (emails) inside "folder/tmp" but not all. And the "folder/cur" is still empty. dsync uses about 75% of one cpu all the time. I was waiting more than 50 minutes but no progress. I have to use kill -9 to stop it. If I delete this folder it still happens with a different one. Are there any limitations? Any advice? Regards - Burckhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole proxy errors
by Cassidy Larson 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I'm trying to upgrade my proxy front-ends to 2.0.2. I have the latest Pigeonhole release installed, and whenever I connect to the sieve port this gets logged in the syslog: managesieve-login: Error: auth: connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied (euid=144(<unknown>) egid=144(<unknown>) missing +x perm: /, euid is not dir owner) I dont get any capabilities displayed on the client side. I'm not sure why it's referring to the '/' directory. On 1.2.x, I authenticate the user and proxy to the sieve process on appropriate users back-end storage node. Here is the sieve config in my dovecot config file: ------------ service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = a.b.c.d port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { address = a.b.c.d port = 2000 } } protocol sieve { managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole mail_debug=no } -------- Any help would be great. thanks!

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[Dovecot] It's broke but I can't see why
by Ian macdonald 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi All, My Dovecot was working I made a change and receive this error Sep 13 17:01:42 geomail dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=192.168.1.80, TLS Sep 13 17:01:43 geomail dovecot: dovecot: Relative home directory paths not supported (user user): I had changed mechanisms = plain to mechanisms = plain login I removed the extra login and it still reports the same error, I must have changed something else by mistake, but I just cannot see what I have done, I was stupid and the backup config is older and not working properly with shared files:-( dovecot -n gives # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public/:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u list: yes lda: postmaster_address: user@domain mail_plugins: acl auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: home= socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: deleted_to_trash_folder: Trash acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db Thank you Ian

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.2 compile issues on Solaris 10u8 Sparc
by Jerry K 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I am having compile problems with Dovecot v2.0.2 on a well patched Solaris 10u8 Sparc system using the included gcc compiler. Version 2.0.0 compiled with out any issues using the same configure syntax. My ./configure syntax looks like this: ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-shadow Yahoo and Google searches turned up nothing for me. Reviewing the file mountpoint.c between version 2.0.0 and 2.0.2 shows the files to be identical, so I have a problem somewhere else, I am just not sure where. TIA for any pointers, Jerry \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c -o module-dir.lo module-dir.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c module-dir.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/module-dir.o libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c module-dir.c -o module-dir.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .deps/module-dir.Tpo .deps/module-dir.Plo /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mountpoint.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mountpoint.Tpo -c -o mountpoint.lo mountpoint.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mountpoint.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mountpoint.Tpo -c mountpoint.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mountpoint.o mountpoint.c: In function `mountpoint_get': mountpoint.c:88: error: field `ent' has incomplete type mountpoint.c:89: error: field `ext' has incomplete type mountpoint.c:172: warning: implicit declaration of function `resetmnttab' mountpoint.c:173: warning: implicit declaration of function `getextmntent' mountpoint.c:174: warning: implicit declaration of function `hasmntopt' make[4]: *** [mountpoint.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src/lib' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2' make: *** [all] Error 2

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[Dovecot] using palm pre client with imap server
by zhong ming wu 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello Anyone here tried to use palm pre built-in email client with imap server (TLS)? Mine does not work; only one line in the log. imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=xxx.xxx.19.21, lip=xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-42.ELsmp i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local0 protocols: imap listen: xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/ca.crt.crl ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/private/ssl.crt.key.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/private/ssl.crt.key.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 29 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Mail auth default: user: squab username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567890.-_@ username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf

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[Dovecot] LMTP proxying strategy with multiple recipient delivery
by Luca Palazzo 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi Timo and All, how does Dovecot act when an MTA tries to deliver a multiple recipient message to a LMTP proxied system? Does it uses server affinity table for each recipient? I use lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 setting in postfix to avoid multiple recipient delivery. Is it right? I use lmtp_destination_concurrency_limit = 1 too, but i think that it's useless or, maybe, it can make performance worst. Luca

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Re: [Dovecot] Upgraded dovecot - now it insists on imap TLS
by Alan Brown 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > What am I missing? > dovecot -n output would help. It would, but I found/fixed the problem already. I had to set the following: protocol imap { disable_plaintext_auth=no } The default has changed from "no" to "yes" between 1.1.20 and 2.0.1, but the conversion routine didn't pick it up (the wiki Documentation suggests the default is still "no". Perhaps this should be updated?) This still requires TLS on port 993, so there's no additional hole opened. Ironically, we published plans some time back to disable local-access plaintext imap logins in October and have been warning users to change their settings but 90% of them hadn't yet done so.

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[Dovecot] Virtual mailbox help
by Joy 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Dear All, I am trying to configure Virtual mailbox but having issue my squirrelmail is showing following error:- ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: LSUB "" "*" I have also check Thunderbird but having same issue. Please check my configuration and let me know any issue detected in it, Here is my configuration:- # 2.0.0: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.5 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota acl virtual namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { location = virtual:~/Maildir/.virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ prefix = virtual. separator = . } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot-acl/acl } After doing all configuration i created the following dir under .virtual dir. /home/domain/user/Maildir/.virtual/.Unseen /home/domain/user/Maildir/.virtual/.Unseen/ here created dovecot-virtual file with following text .. INBOX Unseen Restarted and set proper permission on all created directories then tried to login to client and getting the follwoing error in log file .. Sep 09 13:02:47 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<piyush>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=3505, secured Sep 09 13:02:48 imap(piyush): Panic: file strfuncs.c: line 72 (p_strndup): assertion failed: (max_chars != (size_t)-1) Sep 09 13:02:48 imap(piyush): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9fefd9e1] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9fefda5f] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x9fefdd18] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9ff1a2df] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(t_strndup+0x30) [0x9ff1a310] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x9fd32747] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x9ff559f2] -> dovecot/imap [0x8051deb] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_list_full+0x424) [0x8052d34] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_lsub+0x19) [0x8053129] -> dovecot/imap [0x805671c] -> dovecot/imap [0x80567b9] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x2d) [0x805692d] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x805731f] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xf5) [0x9ff0a275] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x30) [0x9ff09250] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2a) [0x9fef672a] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2b5) [0x805ff95] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0x9fd66455] -> dovecot/imap [0x804eac1] Sep 09 13:02:48 master: Error: service(imap): child 3505 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Please let me know the issue ??

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.2 breakes LMTP delivery for me
by Fabian Ruff 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, I'm onboard Debian Lenny (amd64) and just reverted from 2.0.2-0~auto+4 back to 2.0.1-0~auto+1 because LMTP stopped working completly with the above Package. In my setup delivery is done from exim via LMTP to dovecot (Maildir/ext3). The lmtp dovecot config looks like this: > service lmtp { > user = vmail > inet_listener lmtp { > address = 127.0.0.1 > port = 24 > } > > unix_listener lmtp { > } > } > protocol lmtp { > hostname = [...].de > mail_plugins = sieve quota listescape > postmaster_address = postmaster@[...].de > } With the new version I get no LMTP log message at all from dovecot and Exim fails with: > LMTP timeout after initial connection When I do "/etc/init.d/dovecot stop" some process remain alive and I ultimately have to SIGKILL the lmtp process to get rid of it. > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2643 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > dovecot 32368 0.0 0.0 12656 996 ? S 22:40 0:00 dovecot/anvil > root 32369 0.0 0.0 12788 1124 ? S 22:40 0:00 dovecot/log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.9 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:08 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# kill 32368 > trench:/tmp# kill 32369 > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2689 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.8 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:20 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2692 0.0 0.0 8224 764 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.9 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:28 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# kill 32764 > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2700 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:50 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log > root 32371 0.0 0.0 20148 4404 ? S 22:40 0:00 > dovecot/config > vmail 32764 99.9 0.0 36400 2612 ? R 22:40 10:41 dovecot/lmtp > trench:/tmp# kill -9 32764 > trench:/tmp# ps auwx |grep dovecot > root 2830 0.0 0.0 8224 768 pts/1 R+ 22:51 0:00 grep dovecot > root 31778 0.0 0.0 12384 684 pts/2 S+ 22:36 0:00 tail -f > /var/log/mail/dovecot.log The older version works without any problems for me. Any ideas whats the Problem? Could there be a regression from the LMTP fixes introduced in 2.0.2? Cheers, Fabian Ruff

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[Dovecot] xxxx-login: Error: open(proxy-notify) failed: No such file or directory
by Luca Palazzo 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi All, just noted this error message. What does it mean? System seem to work fine but i get a lot of them. Luca

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[Dovecot] Global ACLs
by Paweł Madej 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello, how can I do this every user have .Spam mailbox and i want user spamadmin to have access to it i got global acl file with content user=spamadmin lrp but I cannot list other users .Spam mailboxes Greets and thanks in advance for any help and suggestions -- Paweł Madej

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[Dovecot] Certificate for outlook 2003
by Richard Gliebe 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi all, We are running "dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5" on a CentOS release 5.5 (Final) box. I know, its an old version, but it cames up with the CentOS release (yum). Anyway. Is there a way to import the certificate, which was generated with "mkcert_dovecot.sh", permanently to the outlook 2003 clients? Every time, when our office 2003 clients fetches there emails (POP3s) from our dovecot server, they will be asked "......, the CN-Name of this certificate doesn't match with the taken Value. Do you want to continue with this server?. sorry for the poor english translation. Here in german (for some german people): Der Server, mit dem Sie verbunden sind, verwendet ein Sicherheitszertifikat, das nicht verifiziert werden konnte. Der CN-Name des Zertifikates stimmt nicht mit dem übergebenen Wert überein. Möchten Sie diesen Server weiterhin verwenden? many thanks for some hints Richard

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[Dovecot] mdbox, doveadm force-resync crashing
by Brandon Lamb 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

doveadm force-resync -u johnh(a)vinemaker.com INBOX doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Corrupted index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (414 > 385) doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Warning: fscking index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Fixed index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index: messages_count 414 -> 385 doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Fixed index file /mail/mail2/j/vinemaker.com/johnh/./mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index: seen_messages_count 386 -> 379 doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Panic: file mail-index-write.c: line 188 (mail_index_write): assertion failed: (index->log_locked) doveadm(johnh(a)vinemaker.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x39c1a) [0x7f39c4bf5c1a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x37) [0x7f39c4bf5cf7] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f39c4bd3026] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_write+0x793) [0x7f39c56eac73] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_fsck+0xc7e) [0x7f39c56d5cee] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x42577) [0x7f39c56d8577] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x59) [0x7f39c56d8a79] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x3d599) [0x7f39c56d3599] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x118) [0x7f39c56d3938] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0xbc) [0x7f39c5705e9c] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(dbox_mailbox_open+0x61) [0x7f39c5720f61] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x2e161) [0x7f39c56c4161] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409518] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x4095cf] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409aee] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm(doveadm_mail_single_user+0x53) [0x409be3] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409f51] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm(doveadm_mail_try_run+0x141) [0x40a191] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm(main+0x381) [0x40e091] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f39c446dc4d] -> /usr/local/bin/doveadm() [0x409319] Aborted

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[Dovecot] v2.0.2 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.2.tar.gz.sig Many small fixes and logging improvements, but most importantly fixes LMTP with Maildir. * vpopmail support is disabled for now, since it's broken. You can use it via checkpassword support or its sql/ldap database directly. - maildir: Fixed "duplicate uidlist entry" errors that happened at least with LMTP when mail was delivered to multiple recipients - Deleting ACLs didn't cause entries to be removed from acl_shared_dict - mail_max_lock_timeout setting wasn't working with all locks - auth_cache_size setting's old-style value wasn't autoconverted and it usually also caused a crash

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[Dovecot] Upgraded dovecot - now it insists on imap TLS
by Alan Brown 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

This is definitely an operator error issue, but I'm under a bit of pressure. I updated our 1.1.20 installation to 2.0.1 over the weekend and discovered this morning that it's insisting on TLS imap on port 143 as well as port 993 What am I missing? Thanks in advance Alan

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[Dovecot] SSHA256 password too short
by Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi all I am upgrading a mail system. So I installed aside a new server with debian lenny dovecot 1.2 from backports , postfix 2.5, mysql 5. I recovered the database from the actual production system with a dump. But when i started testing I found this in my logs Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Error: ssha256_verify(user(a)domain.tld): SSHA256 password too short Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Warning: Invalid OTP data in passdb Sep 13 09:45:07 auth-worker(default): Warning: Invalid OTP data in passdb But the same users gets connected normally to the production system. I use mysql as driver and my default_schema is md5 Any ideas ?? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Proper use of convert plugin?
by Donny Brooks 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I am trying to convert from mbox to maildir on our mail server here at work. The specs are as follows: Fedora 11 x86-64 dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 postfix-2.5.6-3.fc11.x86_64 dovecot-managesieve-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64 We are currently using mbox format with the users INBOX set to /var/spool/mail/username and other mail is in /home/username/Mail. I would like to migrate to maildir format. I tried using the convert plugin as the wiki suggested: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir protocol imap { mail_plugins = convert } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = convert } plugin { convert_mail = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u } When doing this I get this scrolling in the /var/log/maillog... Sep 11 14:41:38 roark dovecot: IMAP(username): Mailbox conversion: Lock creation timeouted Sep 11 14:41:39 roark dovecot: IMAP(username): Fatal: Mailbox conversion failed, exiting Sep 11 14:56:53 roark dovecot: POP3(otheruser): Mailbox conversion: rename(/home/otheruser/Mail, /home/otheruser/Mail-converted) failed: Directory not empty it does this for some users only. Mine for instance never errored and completed perfectly from what I can tell (other than the new mail issue below). The server load has skyrocketed though, so that is most likely part of it. Also, while testing this, new mail was not delivered to the maildir but rather to the old mbox in /var/spool/mail/username. The new mail never showed up until I switched the config back over to the mbox settings. Am I missing something here? Thanks for any insight -- Donny B.

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[Dovecot] Question about LDA+spamassassin
by Javier de Miguel Rodríguez 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello I am using dovecot 1.2.11 (openexchange not still fully supported with dovecot 2.0). In my setup I use ldap to store quota information, and I want to accomplish the following: per-user spamassassin rules (MDA style), but my setup has the following requeriments: mail_uid= entrega mail_gid= entrega LDA & SIEVE: sieve_dir=/buzones/my_domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/sieve/ mail_location=maildir:/buzones/my_domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n I have been reading in the wiki, but I am not sure how I can have in $mail_location/user1 a .spamassassin directory per-user and lda+sieve work together to make spam rules by user Regards Javier

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.2 and Pigeonhole-0.2.0
by Matthias Quernheim 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

I upgraded today to Dovecot 2.0.2 and Pigeonhole-0.2.0 based on debian lenny. Looked not to bad, but when I activated sieve in the lda section the following error appeared for each delivery Sep 11 18:13:11 lda: Error: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tried_default_save Sep 11 18:13:11 lda: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins I found some hints regarding on old versoin of deliver, but it is the current one. Any ideas? Thanks Matthias

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Re: [Dovecot] lda: internal error
by Dirk Heinrichs 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Am 11.09.2010 12:53, schrieb axel Egal: > all files in /etc/dovecot have already 0666 permission. What about the directory? Bye... Dirk

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[Dovecot] lda: internal error
by axel Egal 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi, i'm trying to relay local post from Postfix to Dovecot-lda. It's running on opensuse11.3-64bit with postfix V2.7.1 and dovecot V2.01. sending local message like: echo foo | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f root root gets no logdata in dovecot.err, -.info,-.debug. but the postfix-logfile tells: Sep 11 10:56:12 server postfix/cleanup[3027]: 94027A65BC: message-id=<20100911085612.94027A65BC(a)Server.Firma> Sep 11 10:56:12 server postfix/qmgr[1544]: 94027A65BC: from=<root(a)Server.Firma>, size=277, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 11 10:56:12 server postfix/local[3029]: 94027A65BC: to=<root(a)Server.Firma>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local, delay=0.22, delays=0.14/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: lda: Error: user root: Error reading configuration: net_connect_unix(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: Permission denied lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. ) There is no further loginfo in any other logfiles Is the internal-error a result of wrong parameters?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.1 Quota dict timeout
by David Jonas 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Since an upgrade to 2.0.1 from 1.2.x we're seeing this on (mostly) large mailboxes (Maildir) Sep 4 11:27:25 dovecot: dict: mysql: Connected to 192.168.dd.dd (accounts) ... Sep 4 11:27:46 kelly-a dovecot: lda(u1(a)example.com):) msgid=<123@xxx>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 4 11:27:47 dovecot: dict: Error: sql dict: commit failed: Not connected to database Sep 4 11:27:47 dovecot: imap(u1(a)example.com): Error: dict quota: Quota update failed, it's now desynced The dict is MySQL on another server, same switch. It does appear that the quota gets out of sync. From the entries I checked an email is often being delivered shortly before the error (as above). But I also see it happen with the lda: Sep 4 08:27:11 dovecot: pop3(u2(a)example.com): Disconnected: Logged out... Sep 4 08:42:48 dovecot: lda(u2(a)example.com): msgid=<123@aaa>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 4 08:43:26 dovecot: lda(u2(a)example.com): msgid=<123@bbb>: saved mail to INBOX Sep 4 08:43:26 dovecot: dict: Error: sql dict: commit failed: Not connected to database Sep 4 08:43:26 dovecot: lda(u2(a)example.com): Error: dict quota: Quota update failed, it's now desynced Sep 4 08:46:14 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<u2(a)example.com>,... This is happening on two different dovecot servers. The only thing they share is the MySQL server, but it has a load of 0.5 at peak. Is there something that can be tuned to keep this from happening? Possibly relevant entries from `doveconf -n`. Any tuning regarding dict can be assumed as default: maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mail_plugins = quota plugin { quota = dict:user:%LTd-%LTn:proxy::quota } Thanks! David

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[Dovecot] nfs director
by Edward avanti 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Halo, Please can you explain why this is advantage over a hardware load balancer. I fail to see advantage if anything it add in more point of failure, with several hundred thousand user, we can ill afford to mess around or add to complexity, sometime keeping it simple is simply way to be, when use qmail/vpopmail, we never had one failure or problem, ever, we very proud of this record so our users. if director service assign 60K user to each front end, how it handle if 5K simultaneous user login, but all 5K happen to be assign to that one machine, it do all work whilst other 7 server sit there do nothing negating what the LB is design for? Is it really worth it? Do we really need this, or just let foundry switch handle it as it does now. We also have 24 front end SMTP server, these deliver mail to netapp filer, all 24 plus 8 pop3 server and 2 webmail imap server all mount /vmail, so all access same maildir. it seem work very effective thus far and for many many year when we use qmail and vpopmail. Thaks

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[Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi again, I just recognized a problem concerning subfolders after converting from maildir to mdbox. Thunderbird and SeaMonkey don´t show folders that are subfolders of subfolders. Have a look at the filesystem: discovery:/var/mail/domain.tld/patrick/mdbox/mailboxes/Folder1/Folder2# ls -l insgesamt 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 5. Sep 23:42 dbox-Mails drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 5. Sep 23:42 Folder3 Using Thunderbird or Seamonkey, Folder1 and Folder2 are listed and can be subscribed to but Folder3 never gets listed. If I create Folder4 as a new subfolder from Folder2 it works, so the problem only exists with existing folders from converted maildirs. I had to use a namespace for the convert from my old Courier IMAP. Any hints? Regards Patrick # 2.0.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.5 auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota mail_uid = vmail 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota } protocols = imap sieve service imap-login { service_count = 1 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } service_count = 1 } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/certs/imap.key userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota }

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.2.0 for Dovecot v2.0.2
by Stephan Bosch 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hello Dovecot users, I have finally finished the first release of Pigeonhole for Dovecot v2.0. The most notable change from previous Dovecot v1.2 Sieve/ManageSieve releases is that all is now integrated in a single package and there is no need to patch Dovecot anymore to gain ManageSieve support. Changelog v0.2.0: * Merged Sieve and ManageSieve packages into a single Pigeonhole package. There is also no need to patch Dovecot anymore to gain ManageSieve support. Version numbering of previous Sieve releases is continued as v0.2.0. The sources originally branched off from Sieve v0.1.5 and ManageSieve v0.11.4, but the NEWS history of much more recent releases for Dovecot v1.2 is included since these changes are all included in this release as well. * The ManageSieve service now binds to TCP port 4190 by default due to the IANA port assignment for the ManageSieve service. When upgrading from v1.2, this should be taken into account. The service can be configured manually to listen on both 2000 and 4190. * The Dovecot configuration now calls the ManageSieve protocol 'sieve' in stead of 'managesieve' because it is registered as such with IANA. The binaries and the services are still called managesieve and managesieve-login. * The binary representation of a compiled Sieve script is updated to include source code locations of all commands and arguments. This is implemented in a similar manner as such debug information is included in some system executables and libraries (DWARF-like). Run-time errors can now always refer to the proper line number in the Sieve source script. * The Sieve plugin is adapted to work properly with the new LMTP service introduced with Dovecot v2.0. The same plugin is used for both LDA and LMTP. * The 'sieve_subaddress_sep' setting for the Sieve subaddress extension is now known as 'recipient_delimiter'. Although the deprecated sieve_subaddress_sep setting is still recognized for backwards compatibility, it is recommended to update the setting to the new name, since the new LMTP service also use the recipient_delimiter setting. * ManageSieve: changed default IMPLEMENTATION capability to from 'Dovecot' to 'Dovecot Pigeonhole'. * Renamed the sieved tool to sieve-dump. The original name was somewhat confusing. * Updated man pages to match style and structure of new Dovecot man pages. * Made testsuite commands more uniform and cleaned up many of the testsuite scripts. Some minor new tests were added in the process. + Simplified string matching API to use abstract string lists as data sources. This will also make implementing the index extension easier in the future. + Significantly improved trace debugging with the sieve-test tool. The full execution of the script can be examined, including the matched values and keys of the respective Sieve test commands. The executed statements are listed with their line number (and code address when requested). The level of detail is configurable from the command line. + The SIEVE and NOTIFY capabilities reported by the ManageSieve protocol can now be configured manually. If left unconfigured, the capabilities are determined from the default Sieve and ManageSieve configuration. User-specific capabilities aren't reported until after authentication. + Significantly improved file error handling. This means that administrators get a more useful and informative log message when file operations fail. The most notable example is that when the LDA Sieve plugin is trying to store a binary for a global script, the resulting failure message also points the administrator towards pre-compiling the script with sievec. + Added runtime argument value checking for several commands (redirect, date, vacation). When variables are used, these checks cannot be performed at compiletime. A proper runtime error now is produced when invalid data is encountered. + UTF8 validity of fileinto command argument is now checked either at compile time or at runtime. Previously, it was not checked until the store action was executed. + Validity of IMAP flags for the imap4flags extension is now checked also at runtime. Previously, it was not checked until the store action was executed. + Simplified and restructured error handling. Also made sure that user-caused errors are no longer written to the Dovecot master/LDA log. - Multiscript: fixed duplicate implicit keep caused by erroneous execution state update. - Prevented assertion failure due to currupt binary string representation. If the string was missing a final \0 character an assertion was produced in stead of a binary corruption error. - Imap4flags: fixed bug in setflag command; when parameter was a stringlist, only the last item was actually set. - Variables extension: fixed :length set modifier to recognize utf8 characters in stead of octets. - Testsuite: prevented innocent warning messages, i.e. those that are part of the test, from showing up by default. - ManageSieve/Sieve storage: fixed error handling of PUTSCRIPT commmand; save commit errors would not make the command fail. - ManageSieve: enforced protocol syntax better with some of the commands; some commands allowed spurious extra arguments. - Fixed Sieve script name checking to properly handle length limit and added 0x00ff as invalid character. - Removed spurious old stdio.h (top) includes; these caused compile issues on specific systems. - Fixed default Sieve capability (as reported by ManageSieve): extra extensions spamtest, spamtestplus and virustest were enabled by default. These should, however, only be enabled when properly configured and there is no default configuration. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.0.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.0.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.0 wiki for more information. Have fun testing this first release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. The bugfixes above are also applied to the Dovecot v1.2 Sieve and ManageSieve sources and I'll produce new releases for those in the next few days. Oh.. and if anyone is wondering what those duplicate notifications are on the dovecot-cvs list.. well.. oops. :) Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] master user login dovecot 2.02 trouble
by Robert Schetterer 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi , i got trouble with master login thunderbird anounces no INBOX there at master login also telnet looks strange normal user login 1 login ...... 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 2 list "" "*" 2 BAD Error in IMAP command : Unknown command. 3 list "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Templates" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Archives" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" 3 OK List completed. 4 logout master login * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] imap, pop ready 1 login .....*...... 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 2 list "" "*" * LIST (\Unmarked) "/" "INBOX" 2 OK List completed. 3 logout * BYE Logging out 3 OK Logout completed. something broken ? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Question on Mail Formats
by Giovanni Giorgi 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi, I am still tuning my dovecot, but I find myself very confortable with it. I am going to structure my imap folder with a new namespace (somthing you cannot do with GMail :) and I can choose the mailbox format. What is the difference between the two mailbox format "mbox" and "maildir"? I know mbox is older, but there is a good reason to use maildir instead? I can get for instance some performance improvement? Better archiving? Thank you! -- Senior Consultant http://gioorgi.com

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[Dovecot] LMTP logging configuration
by Rainer Frey 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi, I'm using Dovecot 2.0.1, and I log to a custom syslog facility (local0) in the main configuration (I want a separate log file, but I want to make use of rsyslogd's capabilities). I overwrite the syslog facility for LDA (mail) to have all delivery related stuff in /var/log/mail.log, and that works fine. I tried to do the same for LMTP with protocol lmtp { syslog_facility = mail } but this has no effect, LMTP logs to local0. Is this supposed to work, or is this not implemented at all? If not, is using a logfile in main config, but syslog in lmtp supported? Thanks Rainer

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and OpenSSO
by Javier de Miguel Rodríguez 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Has anybody tried to use opensso as authentication source for dovecot ? Maybe using PAM+Opensso? Regards Javier

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole and Dovecot2 with custom config file
by Cassidy Larson 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

I start my dovecot with the "-c /path/to/custom/config" option so I can run multiple instances. Been trying out 2.0.1 so I can upgrade my boxes cleanly, but I require managesieve. So after installing the latest sources of the Pigeonhole plugin, I'm getting this when trying to start dovecot: # /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot_custom.conf managesieve(root): Fatal: Error reading configuration: net_connect_unix(/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89 Running Dovecot 2.0.1 on FreeBSD 8.1. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Cassidy

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Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Timo Sirainen schrieb: > Or just from mdbox:~/mdbox to mdbox:~/mdbox:LAYOUT=maildir++ This doesn´t work: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.': Mailbox list driver maildir++: maildir_name not supported by this driver or without namespace: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: Mailbox list driver maildir++: maildir_name not supported by this driver

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[Dovecot] What's %%h ?
by William Blunn 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

What's %%h ? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables says that "%%" expands to "%", so according to that, "%%h" expands to "%h". But I have seen people using "%%h", so it must mean something else. Bill

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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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