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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.x masteruser proxy problem
by Tom Mihalicek 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Greetings to all I need a masteruser/proxy account for some applications to be implemented and i am having some problems. Normal users are proxyied through ldap queries to the remote machine and this is working like it sopose to, but i can't make the master user to work. Below are both the dovecot.conf and dovecot-ldap.conf and verbose logs on the proxy machine. If i log directly on the remote machine that should be proxied everything is working normal ... ### dovecot.conf protocols = pop3 imap managesieve mail_uid = 10021 mail_gid = 10021 mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_access_groups = vmail log_path = info_log_path = log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " disable_plaintext_auth = no login_process_per_connection=yes auth_default_realm = example.com login_processes_count = 8 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_connections = 256 verbose_proctitle = yes max_mail_processes = 512 mail_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * login_chroot = yes ssl = no protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep listen = xx.xx.xx.xx:143 imap_max_line_length = 65536 imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv listen = xx.xx.xx.xx:110 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol managesieve { listen = xx.xx.xx.xx:2000 login_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/managesieve managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) } auth default { mechanisms = plain login user = vmail passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers master = yes pass = yes } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/dovecot-auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } ### dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = ldap.example.com ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = yes dn = cn=vmail,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = secret_pass base = ou=Users,domainName=%d,o=domains,dc=example,dc=com scope = subtree deref = never user_filter = (&(mail=%u)(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls)) user_attrs = storageBaseDirectory=home,mailHost=host,=proxy=yes,=nologin=yes,=nodelay=yes pass_filter = (&(mail=%u)(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls)) pass_attrs = userPassword=password,mailHost=host,=proxy=yes,=nologin=yes,=nodelay=yes default_pass_scheme = CRYPT ### /var/log/mail/dovecot.info Nov 30 14:26:59 dougie dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=5873 Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip=xx.xx.xx.xx rip=192.168.22.222 lport=110 rport=36639 resp=AHRtaWhhbGljZWtAeG5ldC5sYW4qbWlncmF0aW9uQHhuZXQuaHIAbTFncjR0MTBu Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(migration(a)example.com,192.168.22.222,master): lookup: user=master_user(a)example.com file=/etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): passdb(master_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222,master): Master user logging in as some_user(a)example.com Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): ldap(some_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222): bind search: base=ou=Users,domainName=example.com,o=domains,dc=example,dc=com filter=(&(mail=some_user@example.com)(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=pop3)) Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): ldap(some_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222): result: mailHost(host)=xx.xx.xx.xx Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): ldap(some_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222): invalid credentials (given password: master_password) Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=some_user(a)example.com authz nodelay host=xx.xx.xx.xx proxynologin pass=master_password master=master_user(a)example.com Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: pop3-login: Ignoring unknown passdb extra field: authz -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-1.2.x-masteruser-proxy-problem-tp26574804p265… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot mode 750 too tight
by Frank Cusack 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

dovecot-1.2.8 creates /var/run/dovecot mode 750. I run postfix+dovecot in a virtual user setup. Postfix calls deliver as user vmail group vmail. Nov 29 12:53:04 imap.invalid dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] deliver(frank): userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(vmail) egid=500(vmail) missing +x perm: /var/run/dovecot) I will say this: dovecot's error reporting in general is head and shoulders above the norm. Makes tracking down problems sooo much easier. Something else I noticed, should the dict-server socket really be mode 777? At least a-x I would think. -frank

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[Dovecot] Everytime I start my mail client it downloads all message again!
by BeKi 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hello, I use Xdove 1.2 on my ts-409 together with IMAP/dovecot. I like to see the same folder structure on my different workstation (private/work ...). I move the mails into the folder structure I created. That works fine. But since I use Xdove with IMAP I have the problem that my mailclient loads all mails I already stored in different folders again into the INBOX (some mails also multiple with subfolders). These mails are duplicates (or multiples) because I delete them all. The mails in my folders are still there. Up to now I tried different mail clients. Thunderbird 2.x/3.x, Pegasus 4.5, Outlook Express. All behave the same way, so I think it must have something to do with the server. Maybe one of you heard about this and can give me hints where to look for. Which configuration files shall I post to help debug? Thanks, Bernd

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[Dovecot] init-script update for v2.0
by Pascal Volk 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Timo, please find attached a patch for the init script in the doc directory. * Added LSB-compliant info block (for insserv and friends) * Updated base_dir detection (for v2.0 config output) Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: decade.0932307(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Proxy, using checkpassword
by Aaron Roberts 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi all, I think I may be doing something wrong but, is it possible to proxy POP and IMAP users when using a checkpassword script as the passdb? I'm trying to write a perl script to handle authentication to a mix of SQL and POP3 sources whilst logging user passwords at the same time for a migration. At the moment, I'm trying to set environment variables to tell dovecot what to do: $ENV{'AUTHORIZED'} = 2; $ENV{'proxy'} = 'Y'; $ENV{'host'} = $pop_success; Dovecot is logging the following: Nov 27 10:35:01 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH#0118#011PLAIN#011service=pop3#011lip=192.168.100.143#011rip=192.168.100.60#011lport=110#011rport=3051#011resp=AGFpcmJlYXIAcG9uZGFhcjM= Nov 27 10:35:01 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): execute: /var/run/dovecot/login/authomatic.pl /usr/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-reply Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): Received input: userdb_uid=0#011userdb_gid=0#011 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): Received no input Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): exit_status=0 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK#0118#011user=airbear Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: dovecot: User airbear is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST#0115#01116075#0118 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0115#011airbear Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<airbear>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.100.60, lip=192.168.100.143 Thanks in advance, Aaron

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[Dovecot] is there a script to find a message from a given username easily?
by Gary Kline 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello people, I used primarily mutt and sendmail for many years. (And elm before mutt.) All my mail was saved into ~/Mail. Messages from, say, smith(a)foo.ber were stored in ~/Mail/smith; all mail from smith was catenated into one file, and if I wanted to find something that smith had written, I would just cd to ~/Mail and grep or egrep on a likely word or phrase. Is there a script that can reach into my server into My maildirectory and cp or symlink (say) ~/Maildir/smith's files: 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 780 Apr 18 2008 1208585354.91013_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 731 May 15 2008 1210901757.55602_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 566 May 18 2008 1211140486.77700_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 20 2008 1211326880.95596_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 21 2008 1211393732.2283_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 673 Apr 13 2009 1239636788.1457_3.aristotle:2,S 6 -rw------- 1 kline kline 4242 Apr 14 2009 1239748901.16354_4.aristotle:2,S into somthing named ~/Mail/smith, with all files catted together? tia, gary kline -- Gary Kline kline(a)thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

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[Dovecot] Acl Groups
by Dimitrios Karapiperis 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all! I have a corpus of virtual users ( user1(a)domain.tld , user2(a)domain.tld, user3(a)domain.tld,..., usern(a)domain.tld ... ) authenticated against Active Directory. Is it possible to group some users (virtual) and give appropriate ACLs on a shared imap public folder using an ACL vfile? thanks in advance Dimitrios

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hosts in France?
by Anatoly IVANOV 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi, * Would someone recommend web hosts in France using Dovecot, please? I'd prefer to outsource the server management to someone else (although I could install and run my own Dovecot server). I need the server to be located physically in a French datacenter for legal reasons. Sorry if I'm a bit off-topic. Not a technical question. Thanks in advance. ANATOLY IVANOV / PHOTOGRAPHY / DESIGN / PROSE http://www.anatolyivanov.com/ AI on Twitter http://twitter.com/anatolyivanov

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[Dovecot] 1.2.7: recs[i]->uid < rec-> uid
by Edgar Fuß 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

I'm getting this Panic with some users on dovecot-1.2.7: Panic: file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1242 (maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges): assertion failed: (recs[i]- >uid < rec-> uid) There's another dovecot-1.2.3 running on identical hardware accessing the same NFS mail storage without problems.

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[Dovecot] restrictions on folder length?
by Brett Dikeman 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Greetings all, After migrating a few dozen people to our departmental mailserver, we've run into a problem with one user who makes extensive use of folders and nesting them. I've seen as many as 8 levels. The longest resulting folder name is 113 characters, which results in a total path length of 137 characters (/var/spool/mail/******). Their old mail server handled this fine, but dovecot is choking on it; imapsync reports "invalid mailbox name", and he gets the same error clicking on the mailboxes in Thunderbird (they seem to have been created, despite the error messages.) Mail was imported over using imapsync, and did so flawlessly for all the other accounts. Are we running up against a soft (configuration file) or hard (source) limit? Or is this a bug? Thanks! Brett

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 typo patch
by Mike Abbott 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

--- a/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c +++ b/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ } } if (*set->mail_privileged_group != '\0') { - if (!parse_uid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) + if (!parse_gid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) i_fatal("Unknown mail_gid group: %s", set->mail_gid); } if (*set->mail_access_groups != '\0')

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[Dovecot] [OT] DRBD
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello all, has someone worked with DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) for HA of mail storage? if so, does it have stability issues? comments and experiences are thanked :) Thanks, Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] expire plugin + --exec-mail in 1.2.6 version
by Nikita Koshikov 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello list, After upgrade to dovecot version 1.2.6 I have noticed some quota malfunctions(users become often overquota). Looking at logs closely I have found that quota value resets to general dovecot-config( quota = maildir:Mailbox quota quota_rule = *:storage=500M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%% ), after dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh command. The problem that some users have their own quotas stored in ldap. For example, user sr(a)domain.com have maildirsize before running expire-tool(1G value from ldap): # head -2 /data/mail/domain.com/sr/data/maildirsize 10485760000S 836423205 8285 Then I run expire-tool with mail_debug enabled: # /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Info: Quota root: name=Mailbox quota backend=maildir args= Info: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=* bytes=524288000 messages=0 Info: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=Trash bytes=52428800 (10%) messages=0 Info: Quota warning: bytes=471859200 (90%) messages=0 command=/etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 Info: expire: pattern=Trash type=expunge secs=2592000 Info: expire: pattern=Spam type=expunge secs=2592000 Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=1 uid=1869: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=2 uid=1870: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=3 uid=1871: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=4 uid=1872: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=5 uid=1873: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=6 uid=1874: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=7 uid=1875: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=8 uid=1876: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=9 uid=1877: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=10 uid=1878: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=11 uid=1879: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=12 uid=1880: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: timestamp 1256618680 (Tue Oct 27 06:44:40 2009) -> 1256716674 (Wed Oct 28 09:57:54 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=578: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=2 uid=579: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=3 uid=580: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=4 uid=581: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=5 uid=582: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=6 uid=583: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=7 uid=584: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=8 uid=585: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=9 uid=586: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=10 uid=587: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=11 uid=588: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=12 uid=589: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=13 uid=590: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256627284 (Tue Oct 27 09:08:04 2009) -> 1256732991 (Wed Oct 28 14:29:51 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=14: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=2 uid=15: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=3 uid=16: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=4 uid=17: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=5 uid=18: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=6 uid=19: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=7 uid=20: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=8 uid=21: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=9 uid=22: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=10 uid=23: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=11 uid=24: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256630371 (Tue Oct 27 09:59:31 2009) -> 1256733711 (Wed Oct 28 14:41:51 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=2561: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256709279 (Wed Oct 28 07:54:39 2009) -> 1256795118 (Thu Oct 29 07:45:18 2009) Info: auth input: quota_rule=*:bytes=10485760000 Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/sr Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/sr/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/sr/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/sr/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=1 uid=405: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=2 uid=406: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=3 uid=407: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: timestamp 1256710764 (Wed Oct 28 08:19:24 2009) -> 1256980000 (Sat Oct 31 11:06:40 2009) Info: kolotilo.m(a)domain.com/Trash: stop, expire time in future: Wed Oct 28 10:27:41 2009 And after expire-tool ends it's stuff, user sr(a)domain.com have(512M from dovecot-config): 524288000SS 836423205 8285 As you can see - quota reset to default value. In changes to version 1.2.6 I see - dovecot --exec-mail was broken. Is fixes to 1.2.6 touch userdb lookups from --exec-mail ? With 1.2.4 expire-tool works correct and I have no config changes to dovecot setup. If dovecot -n output is needed, please let me know. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Berlin talk - video or audio available?
by James Brown 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Thanks Timo for putting up the .pdf and .ppt files for your talk at www.dovecot.org/talks . Is there a video or audio file of it? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] new to dovecot
by Lars Nielsen 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hi there, I have installed debian with exim4 postgresql 8.3 and dovecot 1.0.15. I have the mail delivery part done, so when i send mail it gets delivered in ~/MailDir/ I have tried to authenticate via passwd and postgresql but with no luck. I have read a lot on google but i cannot get dovecot to give me the mails via pop3. Is there a tutorial somewhere i have missed? so far i have messed up my config like this : # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/errors.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd regards Lars Nielsen

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[Dovecot] mailbox count folders issues
by Nikita Koshikov 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello list, I have one user, which have a lot of folders (not it is 414 without INBOX). When he tries to create one more folder with random name - the folder successfully created, but LIST command invokes out of memory to imap process. From the logs: Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435472 bytes Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: *** glibc detected *** imap: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0812ba00 *** Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: ======= Backtrace: ========= Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e8a714] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x9c)[0xb7e8bfcc] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(t_pop+0x7a)[0x80f0a1a] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(t_pop_check+0xf)[0x80f0b9f] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f199d] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f2285] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f1bd9] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f099d] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. Oct 26 15:26:38 dovecot: Error: child 9497 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f0e17] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80fccc8] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80efd3a] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(buffer_write+0xd2)[0x80f0242] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(buffer_append+0x26)[0x80f0366] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(mail_transaction_log_append+0x5dc)[0x80d457c] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80c90d9] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(mail_index_sync_commit+0xa5)[0x80cc625] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so[0xb7de7cee] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x71c)[0xb7dea7cc] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(mailbox_sync+0x35)[0x80b6335] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(cmd_select_full+0x3d8)[0x8065088] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(cmd_select+0x19)[0x80657e9] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x8067a9c] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x8067b35] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(client_handle_input+0x2d)[0x8067ced] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(client_input+0x5f)[0x80686af] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xe0)[0x80fae60] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(io_loop_run+0x20)[0x80fa2e0] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(main+0x5ea)[0x807116a] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7e35725] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80602b1] Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: ======= Memory map: ======== Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 08048000-08129000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 385446 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 08129000-0812a000 r--p 000e0000 08:02 385446 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 0812a000-0812c000 rw-p 000e1000 08:02 385446 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 0812c000-0bbbd000 rw-p 0812c000 00:00 0 [heap] Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 92600000-92621000 rw-p 92600000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 92621000-92700000 ---p 92621000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b280d000-b2819000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 263779 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b2819000-b281a000 r--p 0000b000 08:02 263779 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b281a000-b281b000 rw-p 0000c000 08:02 263779 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b2822000-b7d88000 rw-p b2822000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d88000-b7d90000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109678 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d90000-b7d95000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109800 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Furniture.Prima Ridhacitra.Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d95000-b7d9a000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24117515 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Furniture.Kappa Salotti.Outbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d9a000-b7d9f000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109096 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Furniture.Keoma Salotti.Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d9f000-b7da4000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109729 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Elements of illumination.Laber Agent.2 Outbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7da4000-b7da9000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109097 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Elements of illumination.Laber Agent.1 Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7da9000-b7dae000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24117749 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Structure of Agromat Company.Auto Logistics.1 Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dae000-b7dbd000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 562992 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.5 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dbd000-b7dbe000 r--p 0000e000 08:02 562992 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.5 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dbe000-b7dbf000 rw-p 0000f000 08:02 562992 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.5 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dbf000-b7dd1000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 562990 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dd1000-b7dd2000 r--p 00011000 08:02 562990 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dd2000-b7dd3000 rw-p 00012000 08:02 562990 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dd7000-b7dda000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109083 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/dovecot.index.log Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dda000-b7ddd000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269577 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7ddd000-b7dde000 r--p 00002000 08:02 269577 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dde000-b7ddf000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 269577 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7ddf000-b7dec000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269941 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dec000-b7ded000 r--p 0000c000 08:02 269941 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7ded000-b7dee000 rw-p 0000d000 08:02 269941 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dee000-b7df1000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 272179 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df1000-b7df2000 r--p 00002000 08:02 272179 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df2000-b7df3000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 272179 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df3000-b7df5000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269836 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df5000-b7df6000 r--p 00001000 08:02 269836 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df6000-b7df7000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 269836 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df7000-b7e04000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 270039 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e04000-b7e05000 r--p 0000c000 08:02 270039 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e05000-b7e06000 rw-p 0000d000 08:02 270039 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e06000-b7e07000 rw-p b7e06000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e07000-b7e1b000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 562206 /lib/libpthread-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1b000-b7e1c000 r--p 00013000 08:02 562206 /lib/libpthread-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1c000-b7e1d000 rw-p 00014000 08:02 562206 /lib/libpthread-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1d000-b7e1f000 rw-p b7e1d000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1f000-b7f5c000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563472 /lib/libc-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f5c000-b7f5e000 r--p 0013d000 08:02 563472 /lib/libc-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f5e000-b7f5f000 rw-p 0013f000 08:02 563472 /lib/libc-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f5f000-b7f62000 rw-p b7f5f000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f62000-b7f69000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563080 /lib/librt-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f69000-b7f6a000 r--p 00006000 08:02 563080 /lib/librt-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6a000-b7f6b000 rw-p 00007000 08:02 563080 /lib/librt-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6b000-b7f6d000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563473 /lib/libdl-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6d000-b7f6e000 r--p 00001000 08:02 563473 /lib/libdl-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6e000-b7f6f000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 563473 /lib/libdl-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6f000-b7f70000 rw-p b7f6f000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f70000-b7f71000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269571 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f71000-b7f72000 r--p 00000000 08:02 269571 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f72000-b7f73000 rw-p 00001000 08:02 269571 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f73000-b7f75000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 270032 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f75000-b7f76000 r--p 00001000 08:02 270032 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f76000-b7f77000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 270032 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f77000-b7f93000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563474 /lib/ld-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f93000-b7f94000 r--p 0001c000 08:02 563474 /lib/ld-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f94000-b7f95000 rw-p 0001d000 08:02 563474 /lib/ld-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: bfb7f000-bfb94000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0 [stack] Oct 26 15:26:47 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Oct 26 15:26:57 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435472 bytes And so on... I have tried to grow mail_process_size from 256 to 512, but this didn't help. My question - is there some hardcoded limit for mail directories or it's a bug ? dovecot -n: # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log protocols: imaps managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imaps.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imaps.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: Server ready. login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 512 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash expire zlib autocreate virtual mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash expire zlib autocreate virtual mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/data inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Company/ location: virtual:/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.com hostname: mail.domain.com mail_plugins: quota trash expire sieve virtual quota_full_tempfail: yes sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log global_script_path: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: domain.com cache_size: 10240 cache_negative_ttl: 0 user: dovecot_auth master_user_separator: * worker_max_count: 50 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/master.pwd master: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/users.pwd passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-userdb-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/users.pwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: mail group: dovecot_auth master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail group: mail plugin: quota_warning: storage=90%% /etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 quota: maildir:Mailbox quota quota_rule: *:storage=500M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% trash: /etc/dovecot/plugins/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 30 Spam 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire autocreate: Drafts autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Spam autocreate4: Trash autosubscribe: Drafts autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Spam autosubscribe4: Trash sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_extensions: +notify sieve_before: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve dict: expire: sqlite:/etc/dovecot/plugins/expire.conf

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[Dovecot] Newbee, some questions
by Spyros Tsiolis 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello list, OK, I just registered with the list, so please be tolerant :-) I've been using another MTA for about, oh, I'd say nine years now. Due to reasons beyond me (mainly my clients demanding more for their buck / things like webmail etc.), I was forced to start searching for (always) open source alternatives. The last MTA was only POP3/SMTP. It does no webmail. It interfaces with other software with a lot of pain and difficulty. I'll cut to the chase. I would like to start using some kind of software that can do the following : 1. Do multiple domain handling. 2. Have a centralized user base 3. Have a centralized mail repository for each user (like exchange, only without the admin/maintenance pain that comes with it) 4. be able to do IMAP/POP3 and not SMTP/POP3 (or do I need all three of them ?) 5. Interface with things like web-based mail software (LAMP ?) Am I in the right place ? I would certainly like to think so. However, the feedback belongs to you . Thank you kindly for your hospitality and patience, S. Tsiolis

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[Dovecot] shared mailboxes using namespaces in 1.2
by Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi! I've been using shared mailbox trees using maildir, unix permissions and separate namespaces per shared tree since dovecot 1.0. However now that I've upgraded to 1.2.8, I cannot create subfolders anymore. The server responds with "NO Invalid mailbox name: test/testsub". The hierarchy separator for the namespaces is / because I am mixing maildir and mbox namespaces and list=yes. The details: I am using a post-login script (attached) that detects all subfolders of /var/spool/mail/Shared for which the current user has at least read access. For every subfolder, it creates a separate namespace with the prefix Shared/<mailboxname>. The shared mailbox trees are in maildir format. If one of those namespace-prefixes is e.g. "Shared/sharedmailbox/", I am able to create "Shared/sharedmailbox/test" but trying to create "Shared/sharedmailbox/test/testsub" will fail with the above error. If I set the herarchy separator to '.' even creating "Shared/sharedmailbox/test" will fail. Any hints? Thanks, --leo -- e-mail ::: Leo.Bergolth (at) wu.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: IT-Services | Vienna University of Economics | Austria # 1.2.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) 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 first_valid_uid: 100 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_drop_priv_before_exec(default): yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec(imap): yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec(pop3): no mail_executable(default): /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-post-login.pl /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-post-login.pl /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 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 separator: / location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)strike.wu-wien.ac.at auth default: mechanisms: plain gssapi 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] Slow IMAP Auth
by Jeff Duncan 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello, I am experiencing IMAP authentication delays when a client first authenticates, or after the last auth timeout. There are only a handful of clients - less than 5 - using the server. I am using a mysql database and I have verified the PAM auth is commented out. Other than that I can't figure out what might be causing the slow authentication. The first time a client authenticates with SSL/CRAMD5 it takes almost 20 seconds. Does anyone have any suggestions? My config and version is below: mail:~# dovecot --version 1.1.11 mail:/usr/share/gallery2# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.3 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 first_valid_uid: 6060 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf passdb: driver: sql

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[Dovecot] Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected
by Lauryca Puyulik 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello all, I have a problem with my mail configuration and I don`t know how to resolve this error (listed bellow): deliver(mymail(a)testtest.ro): Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: Internal quota calculation error dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: dict: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf: 'username_field' missing dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quota1' deliver(mymail(a)testtest.ro): Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected deliver(mymail(a)testtest.ro): Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: Internal quota calculation error dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:56 Error: dict: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf: 'username_field' missing dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:56 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quota1' My dovecot configuration is: dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.7-9-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:::proxy::quota1 quota_rule: *:storage=50M:messages=10000 acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 dict: quota1: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf Another question that raise from these logs is what are the permissions for all files from /var/run/dovecot? In the master.cf file I have somthing like this: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} Regarding this log : "dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: dict: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf: 'username_field' missing", my dovecot-dict-quota.conf is correctly and that field exists. So...any idea? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Migrating existing local Maildir structure to dovecot server Maildir
by Halim Issa 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, I'm about to migrate a number of existing users who have been using POP3 with emails stored locally in KMail's Maildir format into an IMAP solution based on Dovecot. Will it be possible to simply move all the KDE Maildir folders from the local PCs to the Maildir folder on the IMAP server running Dovecot and then have the emails accessible on the server, or will this most likely mess up the Dovecot index files? If this causes index file trouble, is there any way to force a re-indexing of all these files, or is there another recommended way of migrating up to 7 years of email communication from local hosts to the IMAP server, for later putting them in folders? Thanks in advance! (PS. I noticed a few of the howto's on how to migrate to dovecot, but they only focus on moving from mbox to dovecot or similar, and not migrating existing Maildir emails to a new dovecot server... Any such pointers would be greatly appreciated :-)) -y1

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[Dovecot] dovecot ignoring folder permissions on directory creation
by Peter 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Ubuntu 8.04lts Dovecot 1.2.6 So, further to the 'deliver' problem posted yesterday I've also discovered another issue regarding permissions: files and directories are being created 0600/0700 by the IMAP and deliver process (depending on who gets there first!) preventing use of shared mailboxes. According to documentation: "When creating a new mailbox, Dovecot v1.2+ copies the permissions from the mailbox root directory." and "When creating new files inside a mailbox, Dovecot v1.2+ copies the read/write permissions from the mailbox's directory." (http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions) So, with an empty directory of: drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 21 2009-11-16 13:36 /home drwxrwx--x 3 nobody maildir 21 2009-11-16 13:36 /home/mail I would expect a user logging in to have their mail directory created automatically with the same permissions (but not necessarily the same group). What I see post-login is: drwxrwx--x 3 nobody maildir 21 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail drwx------ 3 auser adomain 18 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain drwx------ 3 auser adomain 20 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser drwx------ 5 auser adomain 4096 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir drwx------ 2 auser adomain 6 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/cur -rw------- 1 auser adomain 0 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-acl-list -rw------- 1 auser adomain 156 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 auser adomain 17 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 auser adomain 8 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 auser adomain 0 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-uidvalidity.4b0156e2 drwx------ 2 auser adomain 6 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/new drwx------ 2 auser adomain 6 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/tmp I've tried pre-creation of /home/mail/adomain, /home/mail/adomain/auser and /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir in each case with permissions 0770 but in each case subsequent subdirectories and files are 0700/0600. I've also tried use of a "dovecot-shared" file, but this also has no effect under any permutation I can create. Anyone else seen this?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Qnap ts-439
by BeKi 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, I use Xdove 1.2 on my ts-409 together with IMAP/dovecot. I like to see the same folder structure on my different workstation (private/work ...). I move the mails into the folder structure I created. That works fine. But since I use Xdove with IMAP I have the problem that my mailclient loads all mails I already stored in different folders again into the INBOX (some mails also multiple with subfolders). These mails are duplicates (or multiples) because I delete them all. The mails in my folders are still there. Up to now I tried different mail clients. Thunderbird 2.x/3.x, Pegasus 4.5, Outlook Express. All behave the same way, so I think it must have something to do with the server. The times when the clients loads the mails into INBOX are not regular intervals. It can be a day when this happens again or one week. Maybe one of you heard about this and can give me hints where to look for. Which configuration files shall I post to help debug? Thanks, Bernd

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[Dovecot] lda deliver + vpopmail
by Stéphane Cottin 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi all, I'm enjoying using dovecot deliver with qmail+vpopmail+dspam. It works mostly fine, I like the indexing and sieve features with dovecot deliver. I would like to get more details on trouble, the log entry is just : " 2009-11-18_20:38:55.64778 delivery 50833: deferral: " As you see, there no reason for the deferral. How can I make deliver more verbose ? I also have a vpopmail alias issue. Because some domains (sadly) needs a catchall, and to keep using the useful vpopmail alias features, I'm using the following ugly script : " #!/bin/sh email=`/usr/sbin/valias -- $1 2>/dev/null | cut -d" " -f3` if [ -z "$email" ];then email=$1 t=`/usr/sbin/vuserinfo -n -- $1 2>&1>/dev/null` t=$? if [ "$t" == "255" ];then domain=`echo "${1}" | cut -d'@' -f 2` dir=`/usr/sbin/vdominfo -d $domain 2> /dev/null| head -1` email=`cat ${dir}/.qmail-default | head -1 | awk -F# '{ print $2 }'` if [ "$email" == "bounce-no-mailbox" ];then email=$1 fi fi fi echo $email " my .qmail-default file contains : " #bounce-no-mailbox | /usr/bin/dspam --client --deliver=innocent,spam --user `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` --stdout | /usr/bin/preline -f /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` " or if using a catchall : " #catchall(a)domain.com | /usr/bin/dspam --client --deliver=innocent,spam --user `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` --stdout | /usr/bin/preline -f /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` " I don't like this way for design and security reasons and would prefer a more consistent approach. The vpopmail alias lookup should be made internally by deliver, and unlike my script, handle one to many aliasing. The catchall feature is (sadly) also needed, my implementation is ugly, in practice it works, but is limited as the catchall address must be on the same host. I'm thinking about adding a specific option to the deliver command line, but I'm not sure that's the better way to do it. Help needed please Stéphane

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[Dovecot] Anonymous SSL Ciphers
by Jeffrey Nikoletich 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Everyone, I am having an issue with getting anonymous ssl ciphers disabled in dovecot. I have googled like crazy to find the solution with no help. Here is my doveconf -n # 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) nfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/islandemail.com.wild.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/islandemail.com.wild.key ssl_cipher_list: HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Island Email - Ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 512 login_processes_count: 100 login_max_processes_count: 500 login_max_connections: 1000 max_mail_processes: 5000 mail_max_userip_connections: 2000 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mbox_read_locks: dotlock mbox_write_locks: dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log 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 pop3_save_uidl(default): no pop3_save_uidl(imap): no pop3_save_uidl(pop3): yes pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u lda: postmaster_address: xxxx(a)xxxxx.xxxx mail_plugins: sieve log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 failure_delay: 1 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes worker_max_count: 100 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/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mailowner group: mailowner plugin: mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename thanks in advance. Jeff N.

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[Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index
by Cliff Hayes 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Nevermind. I figured it out. I left off the INDEX command. Sorry to spam the mail list :( Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches: mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Cliff Hayes Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 4:02 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Hello, I just installed Fedora 11 with Dovecot 1.2.6 and am now seeing a steady stream of these in maillog: Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x4930ab] -> pop3 [0x493123] -> pop3 [0x4927b6] -> pop3 [0x43ddd4] -> pop3 [0x43de84] -> pop3(index_mail_set_seq+0x146) [0x449c16] -> pop3 [0x43e129] -> pop3(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x141) [0x44d5c1] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x20) [0x45b580] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next+0x26) [0x45b5d6] -> pop3 [0x419ef9] -> pop3(client_command_execute+0x666) [0x41abd6] -> pop3(client_handle_input+0x80) [0x418f80] -> pop3(io_loop_handler_run+0xbd) [0x49b02d] -> pop3(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x49a498] -> pop3(main+0x526) [0x41b286] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3a9b61ea2d] -> pop3 [0x418809] Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: dovecot: child 26792 (pop3) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I see nothing about this in the mail archives or on the internet! What could be happening and how do I fix? I'm also seeing lots of these: Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Log synchronization error at seq=12646,offset=172 for /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Extension introduction for unknown id 1 Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): fscking index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index Here are the only things I messed with in dovecot.conf: protocols = pop3 mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes Thanks in advance, Cliff

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[Dovecot] .temp file, public folders
by Mayer 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

We recently migrated from UW-Imap to dovecot. Our setup: dovecot 1.2.6 postfix 2.3.3 (from rhel) systemusers without shell access to the mailstore location = maildir:/maildir/%1n/%u:LAYOUT=fs All mails on local disks. Performance is great compared with mbox. But I still have some unresolved problems, mainly concerning deliver. Deliver sometimes wants to write a .temp.<hostname>.some-number file in the user's home directory. If the user is over quota (in his home!) he can't receive mails though no mails are stored in his home. The user homes are on a distributed filesystem (AFS). The mails are stored locally on the mailserver as I mentioned before. How can I tell deliver in the configuration to write the temp file at another location ? We would like to offer public folders for work groups. Reading with imap works fine. But I didn't find a way to tell deliver to drop mails directly in a public folder. Should I use Sieve instead ? Maybe this is rather a postfix question. Postfix is calling deliver. Userdb in the dovecot config is passwd. Postfix looks for local users in: local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps $recipient_canonical_maps unix:passwd.byname Any help is appreciated. Helga Mayer

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[Dovecot] mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Ivan S 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi All, Our webmail having an issue with the harddrive so I build new webmail on other machine (using Squirrelmail+dovecot+postfix). After copy all data/home folder from the backup, when this user want to access his Sent item, nothing's in it. I've checked the log and found the message as below. mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxx/mail/Sent (691 > 657, seq=473, idx_msgs=10950) mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxx/mail/Sent (691 > 657, seq=473, idx_msgs=10950) This is only happen with the Sent items, since I also found other similar log and this user advised that everything is fine with that folder mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxxx/mail/Accountant Info (327 > 326, seq=306, idx_msgs=353) mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxxx/mail/Accountant Info (327 > 326, seq=306, idx_msgs=353) I've rebuild the index file by delete the Sent item folder in .imap directory, no such luck. Any help would be really appreciated Thank you

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[Dovecot] NONEXISTENT status code
by Michael M. Slusarz 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I'm going to take exception to the way dovecot (1.2.8) is returning the NONEXISTENT response code in certain cases. For example, these transactions: c: 1 EXAMINE "foo" S: 1 NO [NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: foo C: 2 STATUS "foo" (MESSAGES) S: 2 NO [NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: foo ...don't appear to be the proper usage of NONEXISTENT. From RFC 5530[3]: NONEXISTENT The operation attempts to delete something that does not exist. NONEXISTENT should be used for RENAME or DELETE (also the UID EXPUNGE) commands. Although the textual description is appropriate in the above situations - the mailbox truly doesn't exist - this is not what the response code indicates. Under the RFCs, it seems that failure of a STATUS or EXAMINE command with a NO response *could* mean the mailbox doesn't exist, but there is no method of reporting this via a response code. michael

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[Dovecot] Upgrade Dovecot 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 on OS X (10.6.2)
by Tom Kardos 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi there, I've tried to update Dovecot to the latest version and have come upon an error during make. Previous upgrades have all been very easy (thank you!) and it appears that the updated make script includes a wget command and unfortunately OS X does not come with wget by default (curl is the default). Not being completely up to speed with the whole autoconf and make process, I'm a little at a loss as to where to even look for making a modification to use curl instead of wget - any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Tom

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[Dovecot] quota in SQL and static userdb
by Lampa 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, which solution will be working or will be working better (performance). Using dovecot 1.2.6 (plugin section contains quota_rule = *:storage=500M:messages=10000 and i need override this default quota for some users) A) passdb sql(SELECT userid AS user, pw AS password, quota AS userdb_quota_rule FROM users WHERE userid = '%u') + userdb static (uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/mail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes) - using extra fields quota with no prefetch userdb or B) passdb sql(SELECT userid AS user, pw AS password, quota AS userdb_quota_rule, CONCAT('/home/mail/', domain, '/', user) AS userdb_home, 500 AS userdb_uid, 500 AS userdb_gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u') + prefetch (eg same sql file) Solution for LDA only(postfix local delivery) and for another IMAP/POP3 dovecot instance? And how to implement domain quotas (something like user quotas using dict) ? Thank you. -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] How to remove leading dots from folder names with Layout=FS
by Tony Rutherford 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

We are looking to move to Dovecot from a customized Courier implementation. Our current format is maildir-like. It's basically a filesystem layout...hierarchies are identified by real directories/subdirectories. Our folder names do have a leading dot and for reasons related to other systems, we do not want to change our format at all.The Layout=FS is very close to working for us. The problem we have is the folder names are coming back with the leading dot to the clients. Is there a way through configuration to have the leading dot removed?So, just to clarify, under our maildir home, we have directories (folders) for example: .Trash, .Sent-Mail, etc. Then, any child folders would be resident in the physical subdirectories. Like I said, things appear to work ok, except our List is coming back with .Trash, .Sent-Mail, etc....we would like simply Trash, Sent-Mail, etc.Thanks,...Tony This message is intended solely for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you believe you received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete from your system. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] trivial documentation errata (1.2.7)
by Frank Cusack 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

The default dovecot.conf says # Dictionary can be used by some plugins to store key=value lists. # Currently this is only used by dict quota backend. Looks like expire uses dict as well. The managesieve comments are stale as well, with a reference to sieve_storage still in there. Or do they refer to the CMU sieve implementation? Anyway it is confusing. -frank

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[Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients
by Jonathan 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a new mail client. I know the problem lies with Thunderbird because everything is fine via RoundCube and if it tell Thunderbird to rebuild it's index it shows the folder correctly again. Except of course for a subset of the messages in my inbox that it insists where delivered at the exact time I re-indexed it, every time. So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key bindings because (probably like many of you) I get 100s of emails a day via lists and anything that speeds my way through them is good. I run my own server (probably obvious being on this list) and can install webmail clients as well. I ran squirrelmail for a while but although functional it's quite dated. I'm using RoundCube for access away from my systems now but it lacks keyboard shortcut support and trying to click one email after another with a laptop touchpad gets painful fast. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Override Quota with post-login scripting problem
by Yorck Koehler 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi everyone, I do have the following dovecot-setup: Passdb: PAM (Winbind-auth and pam_mkhomedir-session) Userdb: passwd (NSS-winbind) This validates/creates my users with aid of my running ActiveDirectory. Now the problem: My global quota policy works fine, but I need to override them for some users. I was sucessful within IMAP itself. I use post-login scripting for that. The mail-clients displays the user-quota correctly. But delivery is still a problem, because I'm unable to override the settings there with post-login scripting. Everytime I send messages to such a user, dovecot sends it back with "Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)"... My Question: Is it possible to override the lda quota like I can do it within imap ? (I dont want to change my setup to MYSQL DB only for per-user Quota, if its possible to use a simple file with names and quota) This is the post-login script: #quotaperuser.sh #!/bin/sh case "$USER" in "ZAGH-V+username") QUOTA_RULE='*:storage=500M';; "ZAGH-V+test") QUOTA_RULE='*:storage=5000M';; esac exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap $* My Configuration: {dovecot -n} # 1.2.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp i686 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imap imaps pop3 ssl_listen: * disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/bin/quotaperuser.sh mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/bin/quotaperuser.sh mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(pop3): quota expire mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)zag.de mail_plugins: sieve quota expire mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda quota_full_tempfail: no deliver_log_format: msgid=%m subject=%s from=%f status=%$ auth default: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@+ username_format: zagh-v+%u failure_delay: 0 passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes dovecot userdb: driver: passwd plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve quota: maildir:Quota quota_rule: *:storage=100M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=100M quota_warning: storage=90%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 90 quota_warning2: storage=75%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 75 expire: trash 7 expire_dict: proxy::expire

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[Dovecot] v1.2.8 released
by Timo Sirainen 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.8.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.8.tar.gz.sig This is mainly to fix the 0777 base_dir creation issue, which could be considered a security hole, exploitable by local users. An attacker could for example replace Dovecot's auth socket and log in as other users. Gaining root privileges isn't possible though. This affects only v1.2 users, v1.1 and older versions were creating the directory with 0755 permission. If your Dovecot's base_dir isn't in /var/run/dovecot/, you should also make sure that the $prefix/var/ and $prefix/var/run/ (i.e. /usr/local/var/, /usr/local/var/run/ by default) aren't 0777. * Dovecot v1.2.x had been creating base_dir (and its parents if necessary) with 0777 permissions. The base_dir's permissions get changed to 0755 automatically at startup, but you may need to chmod the parent directories manually. - acl: If user has rights from more than one group, merge them instead of choosing one group's rights and ignoring others. - virtual: When using a lot of mailboxes, the virtual mailbox's header could have grown over 32 kB and caused "out of memory" crashes. Also over 64 kB headers couldn't even be updated with existing transaction log records. Added a new record type that gets used with >=64 kB headers. Older Dovecot versions don't understand this header and will log errors if they see it. - FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE didn't return RFC 2231 "key*" fields correctly

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[Dovecot] migrating from Courier
by LuKreme 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I've been running postfix/courier-ssl/MySQL/postfixadmin for years, but since I am in the process of building a new server I decide to reexamine my options. I'm sticking with postfix, but I've decided to move from courier to dovecot because everyone is telling me it's much faster, and I really dislike courier's SASL setup and integration with other services. Of course, I have dozens (but not hundreds) of gigabytes of Courier Maildirs for all the users. Most of the users are in MySQL virtual domains and their mail is stored in a common directory (/usr/local/virtual) and owned by a single system user (vpopmail). I've even hacked together a postfix service to run procmail for the virtual users, though my intention of creating a webface allowing them to muck up their own .procmailrcs never came to fruition. I'm doing my user migration in two steps. First, I will rsync all the mail (and all the user webfiles) to the new server, do any setup/conversion/&c to the data on the new server and make sure everything is working and that passwords are preserved. Then, right before the server goes live I will shutdown mail on the old machine, rsync any new mail (hopefully no more than a couple of hours worth) over, do any conversion, and then fire up the new server. 1) what do I need to do to convert or prepare the courier maildirs for dovecot? 2) is the current setup of virtual users reasonable for dovecot? 2.1) Is there a better option than postfixadmin? 3) some of my users are not in MySQL, but are real system users. Is this going to confuse dovecot (it confuses courier no end). These system users are still using courier and courier maildirs. 4) would it be better to take the server live and THEN move/convert the old mail? 5) anything else obvious that I didn't mention or ask that I should have? The most important thing, of course, is to not lose anyone's email. -- "Two years from now, spam will be solved," -- Bill Gates, January, 2004

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and SATA Backend
by Nicolas GRENECHE 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi all, I plan to run a dovecot IMAPS and POPS service on our network. We handle about 3 000 mailboxes. I thought first buying a topnotch server (8 cores and 16 Go RAM) with equalogic iSCSI SAN SAS 15K for storage backend. On second though (and after a comprhensive read of dovecot features), I saw in http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation that index files can be created on a separete local filesystem. My question is : for 3000 users, is it possible to have only a SATA backend attached to my topnotch server (to handle bigger mail quotas) by storing index on local hard drives (SAS drives) ? Extra question, what is the better : iSCSI SATA backend or NFS share ? NFS share is more convenient to have a failover server. Thanks for your help. Regards, -- Nicolas Grenèche - Orléans University - France http://blog.garnett.fr (in french)

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve plugin: Filtering UTF-8 Emails
by micha＠pocomail.de 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Am Montag, den 23.11.2009 0:53:15 schrieb Pascal Volk <user+dovecot(a)localhost.localdomain.org>... > Please stop top posting. > > Your installation is horrible old. You may consider an update. > > You are using the omparator "i;ascii-casemap". Please read in RFC 2244 > section 3.4 about it <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2244#section-3.4>. > And you will know, why your rule never will match. > You could test my working script from my last message. > > > Regards, > Pascal okay, thank you !!!!!!! michael

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve plugin: Filtering UTF-8 Emails
by micha＠pocomail.de 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

hi Pascal, sorry, here are my infos: dovecot version: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 i am not sure how to find out, which version of cumsieve the server has, as far as i can see with a locate cumsieve, it must be version 1.0.3 or 1.1.6. the scripte and a test-email is attached. the log says: deliver(shop(a)xxxx.de): "2009-11-23 00:09:45 "Info: msgid=<4B09C4AE.3070306(a)xxxx.de>: saved mail to INBOX thanks for your help!! michael Am Sonntag, den 22.11.2009 23:01:35 schrieb Pascal Volk <user+dovecot(a)localhost.localdomain.org>... > On 11/22/2009 09:33 PM micha(a)pocomail.de wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> i hope it´s okay for questions about the sieve plugin here... >> > > Yes, this is the right mailing list for such questions… > > >> my problem is, that the filters do not seem to match utf8-content >> >> for instance: the email: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> Subject: >> =?utf-8?Q?Erinnerung:=20Bitte=20f=C3=BChren=20Sie=20die=20Kaufabwicklung=20durch?= >> >> when i use the same subject (of course in utf-8) in my ".dovecot.sieve", >> the filter never matches ;-(( >> >> does anyone have an idea howto make the sample here matching by sieve ??? >> > > Huh, where is your script? No script - no error checking. ;) > > Which Dovecot version? Which Sieve version? > > # file .dovecot.sieve > .dovecot.sieve: UTF-8 Unicode text > > ~/.dovecot.sieve: > require "fileinto"; > if header :matches "subject" "Erinnerung: Bitte führen Sie die Kaufabw*" { > fileinto "Trash"; > setflag "\\Seen"; > } > > Log: Info: sieve: msgid=<20091…ple.com>: stored mail into mailbox Trash' > The test message is attached. > > > Regards, > Pascal > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Betreff: > Erinnerung: Bitte führen Sie die Kaufabwicklung durch > Von: > spambot(a)example.com > Datum: > Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:29 +0100 (CET) > An: > sven(a)firma.tld > > An: > sven(a)firma.tld > > > <html> > <body> > <h1>Hello wordl</h1> > <p>foo bar baz</p> > </body> > </html> > # Erinnerung Kaufabwicklung if allof ( header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "Subject" "Erinnerung: Bitte führen Sie die Kaufabwicklung durch", ) { redirect "xxx(a)googlemail.com"; stop; }

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[Dovecot] Sieve plugin: Filtering UTF-8 Emails
by micha＠pocomail.de 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

hi all, i hope it´s okay for questions about the sieve plugin here... my problem is, that the filters do not seem to match utf8-content for instance: the email: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Erinnerung:=20Bitte=20f=C3=BChren=20Sie=20die=20Kaufabwicklung=20durch?= when i use the same subject (of course in utf-8) in my ".dovecot.sieve", the filter never matches ;-(( does anyone have an idea howto make the sample here matching by sieve ??? thank´s for any help! michael

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[Dovecot] quota dict
by Lampa 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hello, i'm using dict quota stored in mysql (/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf): connect = host=localhost dbname=vmail user=dovecot password= # CREATE TABLE quota ( # username varchar(100) not null, # bytes bigint not null default 0, # messages integer not null default 0, # primary key (username) # ); map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota username_field = username value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota username_field = username value_field = messages } ----------------------- from dovecot.conf (quota rule is get from passdb sql + prefetch): dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } plugin { quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_warning = storage=99%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 99 quota_warning2 = storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning3 = storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 80 But how to add another quota for Trash folder ? It seeems that will be needed another table something like quota2 but how to map it using map {} -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] kudos
by Frank Cusack 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

I'm sure this isn't said enough, so kudos to Timo for what has to be the best IMAP server anywhere, hands-down no qualifications! And to think, it's a one man operation ... although perhaps that is one of the reasons it is so good.

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[Dovecot] Problem compiling dovecot 1.2.8 on Solaris 10?
by Drew Schatt 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

I've got an issue using Sun's compilers on Solaris 10 - it appears that dovecot is trying to use the getopt function, that's part of GNU's glibc, and, therefore, not present when using Sun's compilers. Any ideas on how to resolve? cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-auth -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I../../src/lib-index -I../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -I../../src/auth -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -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 authtest.c "authtest.c", line 164: warning: implicit function declaration: getopt "authtest.c", line 167: undefined symbol: optarg "authtest.c", line 167: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "=" "authtest.c", line 170: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "=" "authtest.c", line 176: undefined symbol: optind "authtest.c", line 178: undefined symbol: optind cc: acomp failed for authtest.c -Drew Schatt

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[Dovecot] Plugin Compatibility
by Tony Rutherford 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

We are looking to develop a plugin against the 1.2.X line (8 as of right now). Seeing that v2.0 is not too far off, is there any reason to think that a plugin developed for 1.2.X would NOT be compatible with the 2.0 line?Thanks,Tony This message is intended solely for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you believe you received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete from your system. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] quota is not ignoring trash
by JC 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I have debian lenny configured with postfix 2.5.5 and dovecot 1.0.15 with mysql, every user has a different quota. The problem is that the quota is not ignoring trash folder, how can I solve this problem? And another question, is there a possibility to ignore sent folder?. this is my dovecot.conf smtp:# dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 imap 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 login_processes_count: 5 login_max_processes_count: 256 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 512 first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 mail_access_groups: vmail mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: vmail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:storage=51200:ignore=Trash trash: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf this is my dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=maildb user=xxx password=yyy default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT email AS user, password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT 'maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n' AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', ROUND( quota / 1000 ) ) AS quota FROM users WHERE email = '%u'

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[Dovecot] Postfix+Dovecot SASL+LDAP(AD)
by Vitaliy Vladimirovich 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I have tried configure Postfix with Dovecot SASL to authenticate remote users in LDAP (Active Directory). Below my dovecot.conf: protocols = none ssl = none auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf } } dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = 10.55.0.2:389 debug_level = 1 auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = cn=%n,dc=example,dc=gov,dc=ua ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example, dc=gov, dc=ua scope = subtree ## 10.55.0.2 - Domain Controller ## But it does not work:-( Where is mistake? Below log: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: connect from unknown[190.10.190.3] Nov 18 13:02:59 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[190.10.190.3] Nov 18 13:02:59 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: Anonymous TLS connection established from unknown[190.10.190.3]: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_simple_bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_sasl_bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_send_initial_request Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_send_server_request Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_result ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 (timeout 0 usec) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg continue ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Connections: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): * host: 10.55.0.2 port: 389 (default) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): refcnt: 2 status: Connected Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): last used: Wed Nov 18 13:02:59 2009 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Outstanding Requests: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): * msgid 3, origid 3, status InProgress Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): outstanding referrals 0, parent count 0 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 request count 1 (abandoned 0) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Response Queue: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Empty Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 response count 0 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList returns ld 0x11847020 NULL Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_int_select Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: ld 0x11847020 msgid 3 message type bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chase_referrals Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: V2 referral chased, mark request completed, id = 3 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: ld 0x11847020 0 new referrals Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: mark request completed, ld 0x11847020 msgid 3 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): request done: ld 0x11847020 msgid 3 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): res_errno: 49, res_error: <80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C090334, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 525, vece>, res_matched: <> Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_free_request (origid 3, msgid 3) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_parse_result Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_parse_result Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test_user(a)example.org.ua,190.10.190.3): invalid credentials Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_msgfree Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_result ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 (timeout 0 usec) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg continue ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Connections: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): * host: 10.55.0.2 port: 389 (default) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): refcnt: 1 status: Connected Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): last used: Wed Nov 18 13:02:59 2009 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Outstanding Requests: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Empty Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 request count 0 (abandoned 0) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Response Queue: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Empty Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 response count 0 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList returns ld 0x11847020 NULL Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_int_select Nov 18 13:03:01 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: warning: unknown[190.10.190.3]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6 Nov 18 13:03:01 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[190.10.190.3]

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[Dovecot] bug when creating /var/run/dovecot?
by Frank Cusack 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

dovecot-1.2.7 If /var/run/dovecot does not exist when dovecot starts up (e.g. required when /var/run is a tmpfs/ramfs), it creates it. But it creates it with the wrong file mode -- the directory is mode 777. Being world writable means any user could change the name of any file within the directory, including the login directory, and then create their own new login directory. Or remove the pid file, or perhaps cause other types of havoc. Comments? -frank

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[Dovecot] Errors in strace
by Jeffrey Nikoletich 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I keep getting the following when I do a strace on login processes in dovecot. Are there any issues with these errors: gettimeofday({1258671134, 941478}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434496, u64=534434496}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 70395}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434688, u64=534434688}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 167400}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(6, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434496, u64=534434496}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 388157}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434496, u64=534434496}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 570056}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434688, u64=534434688}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 572030}, {420, 0}) = 0 Jeffrey N.

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[Dovecot] Sieve compilation error
by Oli Schacher 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi list Trying to get sieve for 1.2 running (dovecot sieve, not cmusieve) I'm running on centos 5.4 64bit, dovecot rpms installed from http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/ ( dovecot-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm and dovecot-devel-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm ) I pulled the sieve sources ( hg clone http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve ) autogen.sh ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/include/dovecot/ so far so good but make fails: [...] make[4]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools/debug' make[4]: Entering directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/lib-sieve -I../../src/lib-sieve-tool -I./debug -I/usr/include/dovecot -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-mail -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-index -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-storage -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/deliver -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/kerberos/include -MT sievec.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/sievec.Tpo" -c -o sievec.o sievec.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/sievec.Tpo" ".deps/sievec.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/sievec.Tpo"; exit 1; fi make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a', needed by `sievec'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any hints? Thanks in advance Oli

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and SATA Backend - filesystems
by John Lyons 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

> The "generally don't see any bugs/issues" is the part I'm worried about > (generally isn't comforting). I was covering my **** on that one. Sods law dictates as soon as I say 'never' we'll discover an issue. > If you use a more traditional filesystem like ext2/ext3/ufs/etc then yes. > But you can use a cluster filesystem to get around this, and run > active-active. I've spent a week looking at the likes of PVFS, GFS, Lustre and a whole host of different systems, including pNFS (NFS 4.1) At the risk of diverting the thread away from the SATA backend, is there any recommendation for a fault tolerant file service. I'm really looking for 3 or 4 boxes to store data/metadata to support 10 Apache and Dovecot servers. The things I don't like are having a single metadata server be a single point of failure. Regards John

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[Dovecot] Fwd: Re: Dovecot and SATA Backend
by Joseba Torre 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I suppose this was for the list... -- Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación

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[Dovecot] configurable sieve_max_redirects
by Maciej Polewczyński 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Witam Sieve implementation in dovecot 1.2 have hard-coded limit for max redirect: SIEVE_DEFAULT_MAX_REDIRECTS 4. I have to rise this to much higher value, e.g. 64. Is there possibility to do this another way than recompiling source? Maybe adding an option to dovecot.conf in plugin section will be a good idea. -- Pozdrowienia Maciej Polewczynski Registered Linux user #117725 OGICOM Sp. z o.o., 61-131 Poznan, ul. Baraniaka 88 REGON 634407251, NIP 781-17-20-476, KRS 0000140692 kapital zakladowy: 410 000 PLN

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Re: [Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Steffen Kaiser 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Javier Vico Egea wrote: > In that case it works perfect but my problem are all the users using the old > vm-pop3 configuration with XXX!mysecondarydomain.es Yep, I just wanted confirmation :) There is currently no way to change this behaviour by configuration, but src/auth/auth-request.c contains function auth_request_fix_username(): The default domain is appended, before the character translation takes place. ======== if (strchr(username, '@') == NULL && request->auth->default_realm != NULL) { user = p_strconcat(request->pool, username, "@", request->auth->default_realm, NULL); } else { user = p_strdup(request->pool, username); } for (p = (unsigned char *)user; *p != '\0'; p++) { if (request->auth->username_translation[*p & 0xff] != 0) *p = request->auth->username_translation[*p & 0xff]; if (request->auth->username_chars[*p & 0xff] == 0) { *error_r = t_strdup_printf( "Username contains disallowed character: " "0x%02x", *p); return NULL; } } ========= I would change the first if() into: ========= if (strchr(username, '@') == NULL && strchr(username, '!') == NULL && request->auth->default_realm != NULL) { ========= Note the strchr() in the second line. The default domain is not appended, if either an Ad sign or exclamation mark is present in the username. Maybe, you ask Timo to have a way to conditionally let replace a set of characters into '@' before this check. Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSwVYSnWSIuGy1ktrAQI/4gf/TFGCcTnIaxWsZiRFi/P0iSr0uyPdFP8+ dQMgAVkYYt/sP7PH28vZbMHHtiBtIb7T3FTiuNclXXZcLrfj3NX3zf8XfNFknd4j BzcghW+wE+2I9v4O5/WmKRD79herBCGOTnswOMcRk9zPrIL2lEjuDhOFsePQXjTI IYBybQx+EebAYRUwtVgUc1leQtaD02QtFLLM2EbIbIbNhnYLaOr6+YQs2Ghi6LpL MAbfsRh00L/AmY5NNXZUPK2UKpTyppBxVMwwv+K12FqABzs6PAdQz8LpdwqrRDOX 7Raze+KD4U9M9imLVgcD8dgdRnl6wGQJnTFiA0kgb0fyEqk/pL/tpg== =KieQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Steffen Kaiser 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Javier Vico Egea wrote: > auth default: > default_realm: myprincipaldomain.es > username_chars: > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@! > username_translation: !@ > passdb: > driver: passwd-file > args: /etc/virtual/%d/passwd Hmm, what happens, if you login with: prueba(a)mysecondarydomain.es ? Note the @ Does it work? > userdb: > driver: static > args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/spool/virtual/%d Each use should have an unique home dir, I think. Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSwVMWXWSIuGy1ktrAQIRiggArndG34u+zfOU41LXb8Nj6A5UMQ8o1cMv P8Ax+uKXyo9b7kae5N+ZeMkiVVMiALmMr6e7HJeKbTUdl6CFVc+Wa0TBdlpNVEJ0 d49A4IetnfVSWlfu21VR5hpenpsNE2E8JRHQ5Mb0eBaEFneT/VEk2YB7WfsmsvbF pS2gXhnBl1q8x+VtC/y5fyYB/P8urQU8wwdVTb809fLxUuMVDEUC77bHtXBtRHYT C0mF3ZyRmh3vFLwBb6e7VwhWkttbKlAzO7lsfNujEqA0dpjzeA+qOw+A2JmyH6sl ZTFpDWc/jv12+7m+AJB46CsPeKZ8/cfFVITni6G7aBrmGPseIVF3+w== =il6+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Charles Marcus 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

On 11/19/2009, Javier Vico Egea (j.vico(a)dipualba.es) wrote: > # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf Not that this is the cause of your problem, but you do need to upgrade...

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[Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Vico 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello, I have a mail server running vm-pop3 and I am migrating it to Dovecot. I have a problem configuring Dovecot as a POP3 server only (I'm not interested in IMAP for now). I have two types of domains: one principal domain, whose users don't include the domain in the login process; and secondary domains, whose users include the domain part with the ! separator, instead of @ (i.e. prueba!mysecondarydomain.es). Because of that, I have set the following options in the configuration file: auth_default_realm = myprincipaldomain.es auth_username_translation = !@ The combination of these two parameters produces the following effect when I login with an user of a secondary domain (I have no problem with principal domain authentication): +OK Bienvenido al servidor de correo. user prueba!mysecondarydomain.es +OK pass prueba. -ERR Authentication failed. quit +OK Logging out This is the resulting log: Nov 19 09:58:51 prueba dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21953 Nov 19 09:59:04 prueba dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.84 rip=192.168.17.13 resp=AHBydWViYSF0b2JhcnJhLmVzAHBydWViYS4= Nov 19 09:59:04 prueba dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(prueba@mysecondarydomain.es@myprincipaldomain.es,192.168.17. 13): no passwd file: /etc/virtual/mysecondarydomain.es(a)myprincipaldomain.es/passwd Nov 19 09:59:05 prueba dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=prueba@mysecondarydomain.es@myprincipaldomain.es So, I think the problem is Dovecot tests if the default domain is needed before the character translation is done, so the character ! is not detected as a domain separator, so the default domain is always appended. The question is how I could resolve this problem. I need these two operations to be done because there is a lot of users already working with this configuration. Thank you in advance.

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Re: [Dovecot] failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001
by Jürgen Herrmann 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

On Wed, November 18, 2009 17:29, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:17 +0100, Jürgen Herrmann wrote: >> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: >> Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001) >> failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001) > > so "ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001" actually shows that the owner and > group is 2001? app3:~# ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001 drwx------ 4 2001 2001 4096 18. Nov 13:59 /home/mail_virtual/2001 app3:~# ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001/Maildir/ drwx------ 54 2001 2001 4096 18. Nov 18:07 /home/mail_virtual/2001/Maildir/ > > Do you have SELinux or something similar enabled? > no. regards, jürgen -- >> XLhost.de - eXperts in Linux hosting ® << XLhost.de GmbH Jürgen Herrmann, Geschäftsführer Boelckestrasse 21, 93051 Regensburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Volker Geith, Jürgen Herrmann Registriert unter: HRB9918 Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE245931218 Fon: +49 (0)800 XLHOSTDE [0800 95467833] Fax: +49 (0)800 95467830 WEB: http://www.XLhost.de IRC: #XLhost(a)irc.quakenet.org

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[Dovecot] unix_listener with user/group setting
by Pascal Volk 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi Timo, are there any plans for configurable user/group settings for a Unix socket? I had tried this configuration: service auth { user = nobody unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0600 user = postfix group = postfix } } The mode of the socket was fine but it was owned by nobody. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: fabaceae.0932304(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] v2.0.tip Panic: file index-storage.c: line 385 (index_storage_mailbox_open): assertion failed: (!box->opened)
by Pascal Volk 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi Timo, I've tried to convert the Maildir from the first user: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool j.doe(a)example.com \ /srv/mail/1/70003/70008 \ maildir:/srv/mail/1/70003/70008/Maildir \ mdbox:/srv/mail/1/70003/70008/mdbox Panic: file index-storage.c: line 385 (index_storage_mailbox_open): assertion failed: (!box->opened) Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xf7e7ef8b] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_error_handler+0) [0xf7e7f01b] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xf7e7f1ad] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0x9a) [0xf7f333ed] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(dbox_mailbox_open+0x76) [0xf7f43cb6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_open+0x7d) [0xf7edb915] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool [0x804a847] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool [0x804a996] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool(convert_storage+0x270) [0x804ad35] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool(main+0x333) [0x8049cc7] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xf7cfeb35] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool [0x8049901] Aborted (core dumped) The backtrace is attached. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: deadbeef.0931510(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Unknown column mail_plugins in field list
by juan carlos 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have installed debian lenny, postfix 2.5.5 and dovecot 1.0.15 and can't send emails locally. this is the error in the log Error: auth-worker(default): sql(xxx(a)yyy.com): User query failed: Unknown column 'mail_plugins' in 'field list'

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[Dovecot] Maildirs++ on ext4
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, happy after migrating from Courier to Dovecot without major issues, and saving 3 Gb of RAM after the migration, now I'm going to move everything to a 5 Tb RAID6 array. There's another thread on SATA and cluster fs, but for now I'm looking for the best filesystem in your experience. Currently I use Reiser, but I'd like to know if someone has worked with ext4 and Dovecot's maildir++. Thanks. P.S. I have UPS and generator, but my RAID card doesn't have backup battery.

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Re: [Dovecot] expire_dict - Folder names with spaces
by michael＠euroinfissi.eu 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Yes but how to setup the expire tool for foldernames that contain spaces? expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy?usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 does not work... and expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 produces the following: Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] Starting Dovecot Imap: ☺ILoading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so ☺IEffective uid=99, gid=99, home=/tmp ☺IQuota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::quota ☺IQuota rule: root=user mailbox=* bytes=1073741824 messages=0 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=1020054732 (95%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=858993459 (80%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci type=expunge secs=604800 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Elementy type=expunge secs=0 ☺Iexpire: pattern=7 type=expunge secs=0 ☺Fexpire: Missing expire days for mailbox '365' Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf

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[Dovecot] Web-Interface for Dovecot-Sieve?
by Daniel Spannbauer 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello, is there anywhere a web-interface for managing sieve-filters with dovecot? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Software Entwicklung marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4 - 6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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[Dovecot] cache auth clear
by Juan Carlos Sanchez 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello: Have found probably auth cache clearing is not working well. I get this log after issuing several SIGUSR2 and SIGHUP from command line: Nov 18 13:56:26 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.6 starting up Nov 18 13:56:33 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 5/14 (35%) Nov 18 13:56:33 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 9 1213B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:57:40 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 47/112 (41%) Nov 18 13:57:40 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 65 8322B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:58:00 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 25/45 (55%) Nov 18 13:58:00 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 21 2721B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:58:24 auth(default): Info: SIGHUP received, clearing cache Nov 18 13:58:57 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 58/121 (47%) Nov 18 13:58:57 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 63 8223B, negative: 0 0B As you can see after the SIGHUP and supposed cache clearing, then cache stats continue growing as if nothing had been cleaned. Is this normal behaviour ? Dovecot version is 1.2.6 Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Juan Carlos Sanchez Hernandez Responsable de Seguridad y Correo Electronico Servicio de Planificacion Informatica y Comunicaciones Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Rectorado Avda. Ramiro de Maeztu 7 28040 Madrid ------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001
by Jürgen Herrmann 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

hi there! i'm trying to run dovecot 1.2.4 managesieve service with mysql auth. authentication is obviously going fine, i have debug_auth set to on and can see log lines indicating auth success: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=10100 rport=42497 resp=<hidden> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT alias as user, password, home as userdb_home, vuid as userdb_uid, vgid as userdb_gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=jh(a)new.xlhost.de 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 1 27482 1 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): SELECT home, vuid AS uid, vgid AS gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 1 jh(a)new.xlhost.de home=/home/mail_virtual/2001 uid=2001 gid=2001 2009-11-18 16:04:24 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<jh(a)new.xlhost.de>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured however then managesieve tries to chdir to the user's homedir, which fails: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001) 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Error: child 27589 (pop3) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) the user's homedir /home/mail_virtual/2001 ist set to 705 (also tried 700, 755, 770, 775 and 777) but still not write access. the mail/homedirs are definitely writeable by their respective (virtual) owners because postfix/maildrop is delivering to it and courier imap is currently reading from it just fine. any hints, please? best regards, jürgen herrmann -- >> XLhost.de - eXperts in Linux hosting ® << XLhost.de GmbH Jürgen Herrmann, Geschäftsführer Boelckestrasse 21, 93051 Regensburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Volker Geith, Jürgen Herrmann Registriert unter: HRB9918 Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE245931218 Fon: +49 (0)800 XLHOSTDE [0800 95467833] Fax: +49 (0)800 95467830 WEB: http://www.XLhost.de IRC: #XLhost(a)irc.quakenet.org

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Search Folder failures
by Michael Durket 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

In converting everyone at our site from UW-IMAP I've run into another problem with Thunderbird users that I'm hoping someone can help me with. The dovecot version I'm running is old (1.0.13 - we don't do production upgrades that often but I'm perfectly willing to install a newer version). The affected Thunderbird users are running Thunderbird version 2.0023 under Windows. All mail is stored in mbox format. What appears to be happening is that searches looking for string matches in the message body don't work. I set up a test case with the affected user. We created a folder that had 6 messages: 5 containing the string in the message body and 1 that did not. Then we set up a search folder that looked for the string. Opening the Thunderbird search folder yielded no messages matching the search. A rawlog trace of the search in dovecot showed that dovecot had indeed responded that no messages were found (when 5 should have been). This doesn't happen with UW-IMAP (version imap-2007e which I think is the last version with bug fixes ever issued). Is this perhaps a known bug in dovecot that was fixed many releases ago and I should upgrade?

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Re: [Dovecot] setting up home directories
by Steffen Kaiser 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Cliff Hayes wrote: > I did look at that prior to posting. I'm not using virtual users ... all my > users are system users. It does not matter whether you have system users or not, the useage is the same. > Do I just add the maildir component as follows the home directory is no mail_location. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSwOwbHWSIuGy1ktrAQIZ8Af/fPr1Ll1SpB1vIzQ+5Rrq0rPsbt5cyAfn /KQi/4AEO4A83ZXgUgcri0swjFf6HzzUpRbUogjatltE7pJcYLEb46Ufz+Eh9mOx JsP+6Ez/0+LA4uyuWD7E1jur9ibQFi9QpUXGrleVfnLxPWwyfcptL0GuiMh6ZPVj +zM4mBzoBUVrxQ0kc4s2/qtuLzKqpMazNxnqpvYyv7I1jzwteTD7v1XhynJeBD3g krSPXzuv1UZiCSO5fRlPbaQhN/MEyf4dLQxDhjCnI2K20o+GZ/G9fqWd8bhl295B 3kdxjyM8JgPKfstV24zgT+DiASe+vrzAOOihYSXGqMq2maBMbn14PQ== =T+sB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine in my Debian sid machine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] plugin cmusieve not found
by juan carlos 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have debian lenny and dovecot 1.2.4 and a problem with the plugin cmusieve. protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)cablenet.com.pe mail_plugins = cmusieve quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } the log /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log shows me the following Fatal: Plugin cmusieve not found from directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda When I list the directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda, it was not found the cmusieve plugin. Where can i get it? # ls -l /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib01_acl_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib10_quota_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib11_trash_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_autocreate_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_convert_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 nov 12 21:20 lib20_expire_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib20_fts_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_listescape_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 nov 12 21:20 lib20_mail_log_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_virtual_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 nov 12 21:20 lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3663976 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1777465 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.so

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 ssl_ca_file is broken
by Mike Abbott 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

In dovecot-2.0.alpha3, setting "ssl_ca_file = /path/to/file" in conf.d/ssl.conf does not work, because imap-login chroots before opening the ca_file. Perhaps this parameter could be replaced with "ssl_ca = </path/to/file" as was done with ssl_cert and ssl_key. Tue Nov 17 11:19:38 server dovecot[1143]: imap-login: Fatal: Error reading configuration: Invalid settings: ssl_ca_file: access(/path/to/file) failed: No such file or directory

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[Dovecot] automatically compiling sieve scripts
by Edgar Fuß 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Without having looked into the code: Does Pigeonhole automatically compile a sieve script if the compiled form is not /strictly/ newer than the text form? I'm running into the problem that during automatic installation of a global sieve-after script, my Makefile has a rule to compile, yet afterwards, the sieve plugin complains about not being able to compile (which is correct, but it shouldn't try in the first place). Both text and binary form have identical time stamps. I don't want to sleep between install and sievec.

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 dovecot/auth works multiplying
by Alan Commike 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I setup a test machine with 2.0.alpha3 - Linux, Centos 5.4. I'm using Postfix as my MTA with dovecot to do SASL authorization from /etc/{passwd,shadow}. I'm getting 'dovecot/auth -w' processes hanging around, over a few days I've reached into the 100s. As a test I set auth_worker_max_count = 2, didn't make a difference. Attaching with strace, looks like they're in their standard poll loop waiting for input. Any ideas? I haven't instrumented any of the code yet to see what's going on. I expect somehow you're losing track that the auth worker is out there? I have an old 1.x installation working with a similar setup. Here's the config: [root@pf ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.alpha3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 2 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir passdb { deny = no driver = shadow } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)projectfoodie.com protocols = imap imaps service imap-login { inet_listener { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 511 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes -- Alan Commike Founder, QEDLabs commike(a)qedlabs.com http://www.qedlabs.com 408.472.3202

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[Dovecot] Problem with stored procedure
by Fcuk F 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi Timo/all I am trying to use stored procedure for password query when it try to connect i get authenticated only for the first user after that for subsequent user it gives me this error. Password query failed: Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now You might have solved this issue before, did some search just found this http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-October/017041.html (not resloved) Could you please guide me how to resolve this issue. thanks in advance. *dovecot-mysql.conf* connect = host=xxxx dbname=dovecot user=xxx password=xxxxx client_flags=65536 user_query = SELECT xx as uid, xx as gid, home FROM table WHERE User = '%u' password_query = call proxyMayBe('%u','%w','%r'); *Dovecot -n : *# 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap pop3 listen: * ssl: no 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: 30 mail_location: maildir:~/ mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf

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[Dovecot] setting up home directories
by Cliff Hayes 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, I have not been using the home directory but I read in MailLocation.txt that I probably should. Does dovecot create each directory? What does it put in there? My server uses mbox format. My users all look like this: [root@sendmail log]# finger chayes Login: chayes Name: 50387.00 Directory: /home/chayes Shell: /sbin/nologin Never logged in. Mail last read Mon Nov 16 19:56 2009 (CST) No Plan. So each user does have a home directory assigned, but it is never created. Here is my current mail_location: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u Do I just add the maildir component as follows: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u:maildir:/home /u% I'm confused by the MailLocation.txt entry below which says not to mix maildir and mbox formats. ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.INBOX ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Note that it's still not possible to mix maildir and mbox formats this way. You need to use<namespaces> [Namespaces.txt] for that. Thanks in advance, Cliff

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.7 : configure: error: Can't build with LDAP support: libldap not found
by Santhosh A. J 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

hi i have downloaded the dovecot 1.2.7 source when i tried to compile with ldap support it gives the error "configure: error: Can't build with LDAP support: libldap not found". i am attaching the log file with this mail. i want to use it with latest apacheDS. Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] deliver is ignoring mail_access_groups
by Peter 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Ubuntu 8.04LTS Dovecot 1.2.6 Postfix 2.5.1 I'm using dovecot imap/deliver in an environment where I don't want users with shell access to reach their mail folders (partly to do with IMAP ACLs requiring open group permissions and partly to do with not wanting users to mess their mail folders / sieve configs up). I specifically don't want to switch to a "single dovecot user" style installation. Current config: mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail mail_access_groups = maildir drwxrws--- 3 nobody maildir 21 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail drwxrws--- 4 nobody adomain.com 30 2009-11-15 12:12 /home/mail/adomain.com/ drwxrws--- 3 auser adomain.com 20 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail/adomain.com/auser drwxrws--- 3 auser adomain.com 20 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir And so on... As expected IMAP and Managesieve work perfectly, but deliver fails: Nov 15 12:48:26 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): sieve: stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/.dovecot.sieve) failed: Permission denied (using global script path in stead) Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir) failed: Permission denied Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1002(auser) egid=1001(adomain.com) missing +x perm: /home/mail) Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): msgid=<20091115122806.79A0F80034F(a)servername.com>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-11-15 12:28:06] Opening the permissions on /home/mail (6771) allows deliver to succeed suggesting that mail_access_groups is being ignored by deliver. As a work-around I can set /home/mail to 6771 but this is not ideal as anyone somehow guessing the directory structure could access mail of another user in the same group regardless of IMAP acl settings. Yes, I can severely obfuscate it but it's not secure. I've spent about half a day trying to figure this out, I'm assuming at this point that either I'm missing something obvious or something else is wrong. Any ideas? Peter.

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[Dovecot] read() failed with subscription file
by david＠davidwbrown.name 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello Dovecot folks, I have Dovecot running reasonably well against my Postfix SMPTd. All mail is stored in Maildir format only. In my Thunderbird client I can see the Inbox, Trash and Sent folders in the Thunderbird pane but no other directories. I have very many Maildir format directories under my Inbox directory but I cannot see them in the Thunderbird client. I have the Dovecot info and debug log runnning with the solitary error message being displayed in the log when ever I access the Thunderbird client folders pane as stated below. Particulars follow and please advise, David. OS: CentOS 5.2 Postfix: 2.3.3 Dovecot: 1.2 Dovecot log: dovecot: IMAP(user): read() failed with subscription file /home/user/Maildir/subscriptions: Is a directory

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[Dovecot] Replace message headers
by Matthias-Christian Ott 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I'm looking for a way to replace specific message headers of a mail via the mail storage API. Any suggestions? Regards, Matthias-Christian

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[Dovecot] fetch bodystructure filename problem rfc2231
by myleetlist＠gmx.de 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I have a problem with the filename of attachments in some clients. # dovecot 1.2.(5|7) * 3 FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 13 1 NIL NIL NIL NIL)("text" "plain" ("charset" "UTF-8" "name" "ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt") NIL NIL "8bit" 27 1 NIL ("attachment" ("filename" "ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt")) NIL NIL) "mixed" ("boundary" "=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu") NIL NIL NIL)) -> wrong filename in client: ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt # cyrus * 808 FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE (("TEXT" "PLAIN" NIL NIL NIL "7BIT" 13 1 NIL NIL NIL)("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("NAME*" {28} ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt "CHARSET" "UTF-8") NIL NIL "8BIT" 27 1 NIL ("ATTACHMENT" ("FILENAME*" {28} ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt)) NIL) "MIXED" ("BOUNDARY" "=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu") NIL NIL)) -> correct filename in client: testanhäng.txt I think "name" should be "name*" (rfc 2231?) What can I do? Test mail: --> Subject: test From: ... To: ... Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu" Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:48:26 +0000 Message-Id: <1257500906.7739.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 X-CheckCompat: OK --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit inhalt mail --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt Content-Type: text/plain; name*=ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit inhalt.. auch mit umlaüt --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu-- <-- -- DSL-Preisknaller: DSL Komplettpakete von GMX schon für 16,99 Euro mtl.!* Hier klicken: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02

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[Dovecot] Dovecot+Sieve Please Help!...
by Andrey Garkin 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Dovecot Sieve Plugin... 1. ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot make make install protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)kipalex.ru mail_plugins = sieve } plugin { sieve = /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/dovecot.sieve } 2. dovecot.sieve file in /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru require "fileinto"; if header :contains "Subject" "***SPAM***" { fileinto "/home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/.Spam/new"; } And in the dovecot.log I see: 2009-11-16 13:45:55 deliver(andrey(a)kipalex.ru): Error: sieve: msgid=<351009bd0911160227r6ef9f39fja32c2893cb7fc54e(a)mail.gmail.com>: failed to store into mailbox '/home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/.Spam/new': Invalid mailbox name 2009-11-16 13:45:55 deliver(andrey(a)kipalex.ru): Error: sieve: execution of script /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful Mail system is already up and working... Please Help... Why Dovecot plugin is not working???

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[Dovecot] More dovecot-2.0.alpha2 problems
by Mike Abbott 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

1. My earlier patch to fix a typo in array.h was not good enough. Here's one that not only compiles, but also doesn't crash: --- dovecot-2.0.alpha2/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-08 10:04:35.000000000 -0500 +++ dovecot/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-29 20:47:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ (elem)++) # define array_foreach_modifiable(array, elem) \ for (elem = ARRAY_TYPE_CAST_MODIFIABLE(array) \ - buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)->arr.buffer, NULL)) + \ - (array)->arr.buffer->used; \ + buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)->arr.buffer, NULL); \ elem != CONST_PTR_OFFSET(*(array)->v, (array)->arr.buffer- >used); \ (elem)++) #endif 2. Sometimes I see a flood of these errors in the log: [...] Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap-login: Login: user=<userX>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.8, lip=192.168.1.7, pid=11362 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap(pid 11362 user userX): Connection closed bytes=118/934 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: dup2(-1, 5) failed: Bad file descriptor Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap-login: Login: user=<userY>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.8, lip=192.168.1.7, pid=11363 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap(pid 11363 user userY): Connection closed bytes=118/972 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: dup2(-1, 5) failed: Bad file descriptor Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed [...] 3. imap crashed when using mdbox: Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): dbox /Volumes/Mail/userZ/mailboxes/INBOX/Sent/dbox-Mails: map uidvalidity mismatch (1256918863 vs 1256919073) Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-10-30 14:54:49] bytes=553447/2146313 Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): dbox /Volumes/Mail/userZ/storage: rebuilding indexes Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user user): Panic: file dbox-file.c: line 308 (dbox_file_get_mail_stream): assertion failed: (file->input != NULL) 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eba __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eac kill + 14 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87683519 raise + 25 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876a4e12 abort + 90 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e8027 i_set_failure_file + 275 5 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e6eef i_set_failure_internal + 103 6 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e76d2 i_debug + 0 7 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010005768a dbox_file_seek_next + 0 8 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010005772a dbox_file_seek_next + 160 9 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100084266 mdbox_storage_rebuild + 1406 10 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100085617 mdbox_mailbox_alloc + 1271 11 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x00000001000271e1 mail_storage_unref + 93 12 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100023386 mail_namespace_get_storage_name + 162 13 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100023429 mail_namespaces_deinit + 35 14 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100028c39 mail_user_alloc + 311 15 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010002889a mail_user_unref + 40 16 imap 0x0000000100007fa4 client_destroy + 404 17 imap 0x0000000100006eb3 client_input + 87 18 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000eca50 io_loop_handler_run + 224 19 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000ed55a io_loop_run + 56 20 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e393d master_service_run + 27 21 imap 0x000000010000fb45 main + 557 22 imap 0x0000000100000dd0 start + 52 Hope this helps.

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[Dovecot] file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory
by Rene Bakkum 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I am having some problems with my vacation messages using dovecot. The mail is send without problems, and the auto-respond is working as well. But its always auto-responding, because the lda-dupes file can't be created. See mail log below: Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/smtpd[6501]: connect from mail-bw0-f211.google.com[209.85.218.211] Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/smtpd[6501]: D6FE6F64F: client=mail-bw0-f211.google.com[209.85.218.211] Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/cleanup[6505]: D6FE6F64F: message-id=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: D6FE6F64F: from=<[my.gmail.account]>, size=1946, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/pickup[5934]: F202DF690: uid=5000 from=<> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): msgid=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com>: sent vacation response to <[my.gmail.account]> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/cleanup[6505]: F202DF690: message-id=<dovecot-1258375383-947629-0@mail003> Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: F202DF690: from=<>, size=570, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): msgid=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/pipe[6506]: D6FE6F64F: to=<[my.test.account]>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.21, delays=0.08/0.01/0/0.12, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: D6FE6F64F: removed Nov 16 13:43:05 mail003 postfix/smtp[6510]: F202DF690: to=<[my.gmail.account]>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.93.114]:25, delay=1.6, delays=0.07/0.01/0.32/1.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1258375453 7si18156568qwb.35) Nov 16 13:43:05 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: F202DF690: removed I manually created the file, but its keeping getting the message: root@mail003:/home/vmail/mydomain.com/info/.Maildir# ls -la drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 . drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 12:37 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 340 2009-11-16 13:49 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 22528 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 7000 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot.index.log -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 0 2009-11-16 14:03 .dovecot.lda-dupes -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 485 2009-11-16 12:33 .dovecot.sieve -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 208 2009-11-16 12:56 .dovecot.sievec -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 522 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 2009-11-11 14:31 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 2009-11-11 14:31 dovecot-uidvalidity.4afabcaa drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 new -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 6 2009-11-11 14:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 tmp drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-11 14:45 .Trash Is the ~/.dovecot.lda-dupes linking to another path, and how can I adjust this so it searches for /home/vmail/%d/%n/.Maildir/ ? Thanks, - Rene

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[Dovecot] Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index
by Cliff Hayes 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello, I just installed Fedora 11 with Dovecot 1.2.6 and am now seeing a steady stream of these in maillog: Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x4930ab] -> pop3 [0x493123] -> pop3 [0x4927b6] -> pop3 [0x43ddd4] -> pop3 [0x43de84] -> pop3(index_mail_set_seq+0x146) [0x449c16] -> pop3 [0x43e129] -> pop3(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x141) [0x44d5c1] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x20) [0x45b580] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next+0x26) [0x45b5d6] -> pop3 [0x419ef9] -> pop3(client_command_execute+0x666) [0x41abd6] -> pop3(client_handle_input+0x80) [0x418f80] -> pop3(io_loop_handler_run+0xbd) [0x49b02d] -> pop3(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x49a498] -> pop3(main+0x526) [0x41b286] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3a9b61ea2d] -> pop3 [0x418809] Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: dovecot: child 26792 (pop3) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I see nothing about this in the mail archives or on the internet! What could be happening and how do I fix? I'm also seeing lots of these: Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Log synchronization error at seq=12646,offset=172 for /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Extension introduction for unknown id 1 Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): fscking index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index Here are the only things I messed with in dovecot.conf: protocols = pop3 mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes Thanks in advance, Cliff

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[Dovecot] IMAP folders' codepages problem ?
by michael＠euroinfissi.eu 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi! I probably have a problem with the imap folders codepages. I use polish email clients such as MS Outlook and Windows Mail. The clients try to create folders like Wiadomości-Śmieci but Dovecot creates Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVs-mieci This happens on two different dovecot installations 1: Installation A # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) info_log_path: /var/log/maillog protocols: imaps ssl_listen: * ssl: required ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/certs/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/certs/dovecot/dovecot_key.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: dovecot_mail mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: autocreate quota imap_quota expire lda: postmaster_address: root@localhost auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf plugin: autocreate: Trash autosubscribe: Trash quota: dict:user::proxy::quota quota_rule: *:storage=1048576 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 expire: Trash 7 INBOX 365 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: quota: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf 2: Installation B # 1.1.19: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 x86_64 Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) base_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/log/dovecot_log info_log_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/log/dovecot_log protocols: imaps ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot/certificate_04102009.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot/privateKey_04102009.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: dovecot_login mail_privileged_group: dovecot_mail mail_plugins: expire quota imap_quota trash lda: postmaster_address: root@localhost hostname: filemon mail_plugins: expire quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/passwd.dovecot socket: type: listen master: path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail plugin: quota: dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule: *:storage=5G:messages=2000 quota_rule2: Trash:storage=1G:messages=1000 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 trash: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 7 Spam 7 INBOX 180 Sent 180 auth_socket_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: quotadict: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf expire: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf Please help :-) What should I do to have the right codes for the folder names? Best regards Michael Lattari

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[Dovecot] v1.2.7 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.7.tar.gz.sig * IMAP: IDLE now sends "Still here" notifications to same user's connections at the same time. This hopefully reduces power usage of some mobile clients that use multiple IDLEing connections. * IMAP: If imap_capability is set, show it in the login banner. + IMAP: Implemented SORT=DISPLAY extension. - Login process creation could have sometimes failed with epoll_ctl() errors or without epoll probably some other strange things could have happened. - Maildir: Fixed some performance issues - Maildir: Fixed crash when using a lot of keywords. - Several fixes to QRESYNC extension and modseq handling - mbox: Make sure failed saves get rolled back with NFS. - dbox: Several fixes.

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[Dovecot] v1.1.20 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.20.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.20.tar.gz.sig Hopefully one of the last v1.1 releases. * Upgraded to Unicode 5.2.0 - Maildir: Fixed crash when using a lot of keywords. - file_set_size() was broken with OSes that didn't support posix_fallocate() (almost everyone except Linux), causing all kinds of index file errors.

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[Dovecot] Ownership and permissions for the index directory/filesystem
by Stewart Dean 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

I recently upgraded from DC 1.1.15 to 1.2.6. The /var/dcindx index root directory is: drwxrwsrwt 3962 root sys 192512 Nov 13 11:56 ./ thus 3777. It appears that the user index directories created under DC1.1 look like this (here for /var/dcindx/cep): drwx--S--- 5 cep sys 256 Nov 13 14:26 cep/ while those created under V1.2 look like: drwx------ 3 lrenart sys 256 Nov 12 14:59 lrenart/ It seems that the first time that DC goes to do indexing, I now see this error msg: Nov 12 11:45:15 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(bpyi): open(/var/spool/mail/bpyi) failed: Permission denied (euid=2586(bpyi) egid=2000(bard2) missing +w perm: /var/spool/mail) ...but never again... Questions: 1) Are the ownership and permissions on the /var/dcindx index root directory ideal or should they be something else? 2) Ideally what should the ownership and permissions be for individual user subdirs? I create the user mail directories when creating a new account, so it would be little extra trouble to create and set the ownership and permissions. I am currently using mbox mailbox format but will be migrating to maildir over the next some months. Dovecot -n > # 1.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf > # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 > listen: *:143 > ssl_listen: *:993 > disable_plaintext_auth: no > verbose_ssl: yes > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > login_processes_count: 12 > login_max_processes_count: 774 > max_mail_processes: 1280 > mail_max_userip_connections: 12 > verbose_proctitle: yes > first_valid_uid: 200 > mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u > mbox_write_locks: fcntl > mbox_dirty_syncs: no > lda: > postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com > auth default: > passdb: > driver: pam > userdb: > driver: passwd -- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Index file (date timestamp) issue on OS X 10.6.2 Server
by Darren Latter 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi, I've run into a bit of a problem and exhausted my knowledge and research. I'm hoping that I've overlooked something very obvious! I moved from a single Apple OS X 10.6.2 server Dovecot environment to a NFS clustered environment, currently with two servers. Both servers are identical hardware, software. Currently both the Dovecot index and data files are on the NFS RAID array. Both servers are configured to work with NFS per the Dovecot guides. The index and data files are accessed via a target link to the NFS mount via /var/spool/imap/dovecot. Email can be sent and received via either server and there are no errors being reported (both platforms are in debug mode). In essence everything appears to be working fine. The issue is that after the index is initially built (all email timestamps are correct) however any new incoming email is timestamped: 8 July 2037 23:53 I checked the index files: drwx------ 5 XXXX mail 4096 Nov 12 20:41 .UND -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 1472 Nov 13 12:30 .nfs.2005105c.0583 -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 56668 Nov 13 15:44 .nfs.200514ff.0583 -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 1364 Nov 13 15:44 .nfs.20051500.0583 drwx------ 2 XXXX mail 12288 Nov 13 15:44 cur -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 118 Nov 13 10:04 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 5359 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 8 Nov 12 21:12 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 0 Jul 8 2037 dovecot-uidvalidity.4afc7a3a -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 1472 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot.index -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 56668 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 1364 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 3859 Nov 13 15:47 maildirsize drwx------ 2 XXXX mail 4096 Nov 13 15:44 new -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 902 Nov 1 14:07 subscriptions drwx------ 2 XXXX mail 4096 Nov 13 15:44 tmp When checking the "stand alone" old data - the files are all correctly dated. This issue is the same for all users. Any ideas? Many thanks, Darren sh-3.2# /usr/sbin/dovecotd -n # 1.1.17apple0.5: /private/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 456). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Darwin 10.0.0 i386 nfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local6 protocols: managesieve imaps listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_cert_file: /etc/certificates/X.X.org.X.cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/certificates/X.X.org.X.key.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_user: _dovecot login_process_per_connection: no max_mail_processes: 200 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 6 first_valid_gid: 6 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: no mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes lock_method: dotlock mbox_read_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_sharing(default): full mail_process_sharing(imap): full mail_process_sharing(managesieve): none mail_max_connections(default): 5 mail_max_connections(imap): 5 mail_max_connections(managesieve): 20 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve auth default: mechanisms: gssapi cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: od userdb: driver: od args: partition=/etc/dovecot/partition_map.conf enforce_quotas=no socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: _dovecot group: mail plugin: quota_warning: storage=100%% /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh quota: maildir:User quota sieve: /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve

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Re: [Dovecot] Index file (date timestamp) issue on OS X 10.6.2 Server
by Darren Latter 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Squirrelmail operates fine no date/time issues - it's the only bit that works without a problem :) On 13 Nov 2009, at 21:00, Bruce Bodger wrote: > Right... I wasn't thinking of either Postfix or Dovecot, I was thinking that the program that was used to create the actual message may be squirrelmail or some other phpmailer-like affair. > > Good luck, > Bruce > > On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Darren Latter wrote: > >> Hi Bruce, >> >> OS X 10.6 Server uses Postfix and Dovecot so no PHP that I'm aware of - but thanks for the thought! >> I'm wondering if Apple have "enhanced" Dovecot for XSAN clustering/integration? I know that there are several parameters in the dovecot.conf file (mail file locations, index status) that are overridden by other Apple files. >> >> >> >> On 13 Nov 2009, at 20:23, Bruce Bodger wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Darren Latter wrote: >>> >>>> Volumes of emails arriving - hits either server, some will be correctly received with date/time, others time stamped with 8 July 2037, 23:53 >>>> Same server could give either the correct or the 2037 timestamp. >>> >>> It's a long shot, but are the emails that contain the errant date/time stamp being created by any php mail routine? We ask because we've seen similar issues with dates from a PEAR/Date library that's not php v5.3 compliant. >>> >>> B. Bodger >>> >> >> >

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[Dovecot] vacation
by selaci selaci 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

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[Dovecot] read/connect anvil-auth-penalty failed: EOF/Connection refused
by Pascal Volk 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Since the changesets: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/9bec70f26637 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/75b48fa3aec4 there is another problem. A `dovecot stop`, while auth and auth -w are still running, logs: Nov 12 03:17:00 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=31656 uid=0 code=kill) Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection refused Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection refused This problem doesn't occur with changeset 49d92c3fa17a. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: face1e55.0931603(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Rewriting username at login
by Gerry Demaret 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

I am trying to make a switch from Cyrus to Dovecot which has some "historical accidents" to it that I have to deal with and ideally would like to get rid of. One of them is that about half of the existing accounts have a different format for their login. All the newer accounts have their email address as login, the old ones use a dot instead of an at: - new: user1(a)domain.tld - old: user2.domain.tld I would like to migrate away from the all-dots notation since it leads to a lot of support questions, and for that I'd like to run in a compatibility-mode for a few months. Effectively, I want to get rid of all the old users and convert them all to the new scheme, and have the username rewritten at login, so every second to last dot gets rewritten to an at. This would ensure that we have no complaints and allow our users to migrate slowly. All users are currently stored in a MySQL database for Cyrus, but this will be changed to a Dovecot-LDAP combination. Is this possible? How could I achieve this? Kind regards, Gerry.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot setuid, setgid, permission denied Problem!
by "Яцко Эллад Геннадьевич (ngs)" 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello! Please, help! I have trouble with Dovecot's Deliver utility. I don't know how to avoid errors. Let me know what additional related information do you need? 1) Its call in Exim's configure: ========================================== local_delivery_spam_transport: driver = pipe command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -d $local_part@$domain -m Junk message_prefix = message_suffix = log_output = true delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add user = mailnull group = mail ========================================== 2) maillog output: ========================================== Nov 13 11:16:50 srvgate-msk exim[47586]: 1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu <= eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru H=main.domain.runoguy.ru [172.16.77.11] P=esmtpa A=auth_plain:eyatsko@runoguy.ru S=42548 from <eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru> for eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47593]: 1N8rKt-000CNd-D2 <= eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru U=mailnull P=spam-scanned S=43507 id=E1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu(a)srvgate-msk.runoguy.ru from <mailnull(a)runoguy.ru> for eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47587]: 1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu => eyatsko <eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru> R=dspam_spamscan_router T=dspam_spamscan_transport Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47587]: 1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu Completed Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): auth input: home=/var/mail/exim Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): auth input: uid=26 Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): auth input: gid=26 Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): Fatal: setgid(26(mailnull)) failed with euid=26(mailnull), gid=6(mail), egid=6(mail): Operation not permitted Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47594]: 1N8rKt-000CNd-D2 == eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru R=local_delivery_spam_router T=local_delivery_spam_transport defer (0): Child process of local_delivery_spam_transport transport returned 75 (could mean temporary error) from command: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver ========================================== 3) dovecot-mysql.conf ========================================== driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=exim user=exim password=***** default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT `username` as `user`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '%n@%d' AND `active`='Y' user_query = SELECT `home`, 26 AS `uid`, 26 AS `gid` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '%n@%d' AND `active`='Y' ========================================== 4) Owner and permissions on mailbox-directory: ========================================== /usr/local/etc/exim> ll /var/mail/exim/runoguy.ru/ total 6 drwxrwx--- 10 mailnull mail 512 Nov 13 10:40 eyatsko drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 22:17 nkolobovnikova drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 22:30 oyatsko /usr/local/etc/exim> ========================================== 5) Junk folder: ========================================== /usr/local/etc/exim> ll /var/mail/exim/runoguy.ru/eyatsko/ total 46 drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 10 21:29 .Drafts drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 10 21:34 .Junk drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 17:24 .Outgoing drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 14:01 .Sent drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 17:24 .Trash drwxrwx--- 2 mailnull mail 1024 Nov 13 10:40 cur -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 17 Nov 10 18:47 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 19 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot-uidlist -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 8 Nov 10 21:24 dovecot-uidvalidity -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 0 Nov 10 17:17 dovecot-uidvalidity.4af975ff -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 384 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot.index -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 16916 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 116 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot.index.log drwxrwx--- 2 mailnull mail 512 Nov 13 10:33 new -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 38 Nov 10 21:28 subscriptions drwxrwx--- 2 mailnull mail 512 Nov 13 10:33 tmp /usr/local/etc/exim> ========================================== mailnull has system uid=26, mail has system gid=26. Kind regards. Ellad G. Yatsko.

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[Dovecot] Turning off "Fixed Duplicates" feature
by Jordan Tardif 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Is there a way to disable this feature? Seems to be causing more harm then good right now. Without getting into too much details it is fixing the duplcates but it does not remove the old file, and the new file it creates is not marked as read like the old one was. I understand that this problem can be created by multiple rsyncs and files changing in between, but is there any way that I can just turn this feature off all together? I do not see anything in the wiki regrading settings to disable. -- Jordan Tardif DreamHost

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[Dovecot] Sieve and ACL problem
by Gregory Finch 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've come across a problem that I can't figure out. I'm using Dovecot 1.2.6 and Sieve 0.1.13. I'm using the following sieve script to sort my incoming mail. require ["fileinto", "envelope"]; if envelope :all :is "from" "sopprde(a)newport.th.gov.bc.ca" { fileinto "Public/Weather"; } elsif envelope :all :is "from" "apache(a)ldmltd.ca" { fileinto "hwcr"; } elsif envelope :all :is "from" "weatherdirect(a)pelmorex.ca" { fileinto "Public/Weather"; } elsif envelope :all :is "from" "Drive.BC(a)gems2.gov.bc.ca" { fileinto "Public/Weather"; } elsif header :contains "List-Id" "Dovecot Mailing List" { fileinto "Dovecot"; } else { keep; } It works for saving to my private email folders, but I get a permission denied error when trying to save to a public folder. maillog - showing error Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: B36E77800088: from=<weatherdirect(a)pelmorex.ca>, size=35572, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 12 12:26:57 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: msgid=<3708845-2200911412202651769(a)pelmorex.ca>: failed to store into mailbox 'Public/Weather': Permission denied Nov 12 12:26:57 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: msgid=<3708845-2200911412202651769(a)pelmorex.ca>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Nov 12 12:26:57 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: execution of script /srv/dovecot/gfinch/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/pipe[15363]: B36E77800088: to=<gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.66, delays=0.62/0/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: B36E77800088: removed Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/smtpd[15365]: disconnect from mail127c0.megamailservers.com[69.49.121.237] maillog - showing working Nov 12 09:44:42 app postfix/smtpd[13094]: connect from dovecot.org[82.118.211.50] Nov 12 09:44:42 app postfix/smtpd[13094]: E08BC7800085: client=dovecot.org[82.118.211.50] Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/cleanup[13097]: E08BC7800085: message-id=<1258047854.3022.401.camel@timo-desktop> Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: E08BC7800085: from=<dovecot-bounces+gfinch=app.ldmltd.ca(a)dovecot.org>, size=2518, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/smtpd[13094]: disconnect from dovecot.org[82.118.211.50] Nov 12 09:44:43 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: msgid=<1258047854.3022.401.camel@timo-desktop>: stored mail into mailbox 'Dovecot' Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/pipe[13099]: E08BC7800085: to=<gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.32, delays=0.27/0.01/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: E08BC7800085: removed As for the permissions, I can save messages to the public folder with no problems from my email client over IMAP, so I'm assuming the acl file is correct. dovecot-acl for Public/Weather authenticated lrs user=gfinch lrwstipekxa # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.23.1-smp-LDM i686 Slackware 12.0.0 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl_ca_file: /etc/dovecot/ca.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot1.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot1.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 500 mail_uid: 500 mail_gid: 500 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs fsync_disable: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_idle_notify_interval(default): 1200 imap_idle_notify_interval(imap): 1200 imap_idle_notify_interval(managesieve): 120 namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: Shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=~/shared/%%u list: children namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/srv/dovecot/public:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=~/public list: children lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)ldmltd.ca mail_plugins: acl sieve fsync_disable: no auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%Ln /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/srv/dovecot/%Ln 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 plugin: acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict: file:/etc/dovecot/shared/mailboxes sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve I don't know what I missed in the config, as everything else works perfectly. Thank you, - -Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkr8jEwACgkQeflWWP27iA+UQgCgni3jztUw6PRCH9Z1tljVbv09 dQ8AnjBx+cYEmSfiZzTItbR/ZsmGcQQi =WzVp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Deliver and file system quota
by Rainer Frey 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi, what is the quota plugin for deliver supposed to do when using fs quota? With IMAP, and not using noenforcing, a user that is over Soft limit can't copy mails. With deliver, the mail is delivered normally. When hard limit is exceeded, there is an error "rejected: Not enough disk space", just like when I don't use the plugin in lda. Even the lda setting "quota_full_tempfail = yes" works without the plugin configured in lda section. So is there any effect of the quota plugin in lda with file system quota? Thanks Rainer

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[Dovecot] sieve files wont get parsed/compiled using cmusieve
by Moritz Krinke 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello, im trying to get sieve up and running, but apparently my sieve rules file doesnt get parsed / compiled and i cant see any errors in my logfile which would point me to the problem. im using ubuntu 9.10 (and the dovecot packages from it), dovecot version is 1.1.11. in the protocol lda section of the config file i have added: mail_plugins = cmusieve mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda and in the plugins section: sieve = /var/vmail/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve root@mail:/# l /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247470 2009-10-15 06:38 /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038 2009-10-15 06:37 /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141384 2009-10-15 06:38 /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so in /var/vmail/%d/%n/ i have a dir "sieve", containing a sieve rule file and a symlink to it: ls -la .dovecot.sieve lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-11-07 17:14 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/roundcube.sieve ls -la sieve/ total 16 drwxrw-rw- 3 vmail mail 4096 2009-11-07 17:02 . drwxrw---- 20 vmail mail 4096 2009-11-07 17:20 .. -rwxrw-rw- 1 vmail mail 359 2009-11-07 17:02 roundcube.sieve as i understand the documentation there should be a ".dovecot.sievec" file after the first mail arrived. But there isnt. There also is nor err file . Since the dovecot user is in the group "mail", deliver should have rw-access to the sieve file/directory. The Upload of the sieve rule via dovecots managesieve did work as expected. Would be great if anyone had an idea what/where to check next...? ;-) Thanks, Moritz

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[Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem
by Timo Sirainen 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Currently mailbox names are stored in IMAP's modified-UTF-7 format in filesystem. I was wondering about changing this in v2.0. The default would still be to use mUTF-7 in filesystem, but just adding :UTF8 or something to mail_location could enable UTF-8. Any thoughts? Could this be dangerous somehow? UTF-8 enables a lot of weird characters, perhaps no one really wants to see them on filesystem since there's no way to type the characters? But for small systems this probably isn't a problem.

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[Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot SASL
by Rene Bakkum 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hello all, I am struggeling to get my Dovecot SASL to work within postfix. I have used the configuration example listed on the main-site of dovecot and it basically isn't giving me any success at all. I am probably missing something easy, but after spending a few days testing and walking through everything I could think about I thought figured it was better to ask :) Hope someone can point me to the right direction. My setup is that I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 (64bit), postfix and dovecot linked to a MySQL database. The services are using maildirs which are stored locally (no NFS). Postfix is using the LDA from dovecot to deliver the mail and dovecot is used for IMAP and POP3. This is working and no problems at all so far. The problem starts when I just want to enable the SASL authentication from Dovecot. I used the 'guide' posted on http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL When I try to telnet to port 25 (smtp) than I doesn't looks like the SASL is working... 220 mail003 ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) ehlo localhost 250-mail003 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN Anything I missed in my configuration from either postfix/dovecot? root@mail003:/etc/postfix# dovecot --version 1.1.11 root@mail003:~# dpkg-query -l postfix +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii postfix 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport agent Here are my configurations of both: root@mail003:/etc/postfix# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28-16-server x86_64 Ubuntu 9.04 ext4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s managesieve 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 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 login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_greeting_capability(managesieve): no 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_uid: 5000 mail_gid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/.Maildir 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): sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(pop3): sieve_storage(managesieve): ~/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(pop3): sieve(managesieve): ~/.dovecot.sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login 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/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail root@mail003:/etc/postfix# postconf | grep sasl broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes cyrus_sasl_config_path = lmtp_sasl_auth_cache_name = lmtp_sasl_auth_cache_time = 90d lmtp_sasl_auth_enable = no lmtp_sasl_auth_soft_bounce = yes lmtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = lmtp_sasl_password_maps = lmtp_sasl_path = lmtp_sasl_security_options = noplaintext, noanonymous lmtp_sasl_tls_security_options = $lmtp_sasl_security_options lmtp_sasl_tls_verified_security_options = $lmtp_sasl_tls_security_options lmtp_sasl_type = cyrus proxy_write_maps = $smtp_sasl_auth_cache_name $lmtp_sasl_auth_cache_name send_cyrus_sasl_authzid = no smtp_sasl_auth_cache_name = smtp_sasl_auth_cache_time = 90d smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no smtp_sasl_auth_soft_bounce = yes smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = smtp_sasl_password_maps = smtp_sasl_path = smtp_sasl_security_options = noplaintext, noanonymous smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtp_sasl_security_options smtp_sasl_tls_verified_security_options = $smtp_sasl_tls_security_options smtp_sasl_type = cyrus smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_unauth_pipelining, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_sasl_path = private/dovecot-auth smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot Any ideas? Thanks for the response. - Rene

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[Dovecot] dovecot-2.0.alpha2 doesn't compile on Mac OS X
by Mike Abbott 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Howdy, dovecot-2.0.alpha2 doesn't compile on Mac OS X. First, trivially, there's a typo in array.h: --- a/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-08 10:04:35.000000000 -0500 +++ b/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-27 10:35:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ (elem)++) # define array_foreach_modifiable(array, elem) \ for (elem = ARRAY_TYPE_CAST_MODIFIABLE(array) \ - buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)- >arr.buffer, NULL)) + \ + buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)->arr.buffer, NULL) + \ (array)->arr.buffer->used; \ elem != CONST_PTR_OFFSET(*(array)->v, (array)->arr.buffer- >used); \ (elem)++) Second, Mac OS X can't link loadable modules against other loadable modules (http://www.finkproject.org/doc/porting/porting.en.html#shared.lib-and-mod ): --- a/src/plugins/fts-squat/Makefile.am 2009-10-18 16:28:45.000000000 -0500 +++ b/src/plugins/fts-squat/Makefile.am 2009-10-27 10:35:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ module_LTLIBRARIES = \ lib21_fts_squat_plugin.la -lib21_fts_squat_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ - ../fts/lib20_fts_plugin.la +# Apple can't link loadable modules against other loadable modules +#lib21_fts_squat_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ +# ../fts/lib20_fts_plugin.la lib21_fts_squat_plugin_la_SOURCES = \ fts-squat-plugin.c \ --- a/src/plugins/imap-acl/Makefile.am 2009-10-09 13:02:15.000000000 -0500 +++ b/src/plugins/imap-acl/Makefile.am 2009-10-27 10:35:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ imap_module_LTLIBRARIES = \ lib02_imap_acl_plugin.la -lib02_imap_acl_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ - ../acl/lib01_acl_plugin.la +# Apple can't link loadable modules against other loadable modules +#lib02_imap_acl_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ +# ../acl/lib01_acl_plugin.la lib02_imap_acl_plugin_la_SOURCES = \ imap-acl-plugin.c --- a/src/plugins/imap-quota/Makefile.am 2009-10-09 13:02:15.000000000 -0500 +++ b/src/plugins/imap-quota/Makefile.am 2009-10-27 10:35:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ imap_module_LTLIBRARIES = \ lib11_imap_quota_plugin.la -lib11_imap_quota_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ - ../quota/lib10_quota_plugin.la +# Apple can't link loadable modules against other loadable modules +#lib11_imap_quota_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ +# ../quota/lib10_quota_plugin.la lib11_imap_quota_plugin_la_SOURCES = \ imap-quota-plugin.c --- a/src/plugins/mail-log/Makefile.am 2009-10-09 13:02:15.000000000 -0500 +++ b/src/plugins/mail-log/Makefile.am 2009-10-27 10:35:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ module_LTLIBRARIES = \ lib20_mail_log_plugin.la -lib20_mail_log_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ - ../notify/lib15_notify_plugin.la +# Apple can't link loadable modules against other loadable modules +#lib20_mail_log_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ +# ../notify/lib15_notify_plugin.la lib20_mail_log_plugin_la_SOURCES = \ mail-log-plugin.c --- a/src/plugins/trash/Makefile.am 2009-10-09 13:02:15.000000000 -0500 +++ b/src/plugins/trash/Makefile.am 2009-10-27 10:35:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ module_LTLIBRARIES = \ lib11_trash_plugin.la -lib11_trash_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ - ../quota/lib10_quota_plugin.la +# Apple can't link loadable modules against other loadable modules +#lib11_trash_plugin_la_LIBADD = \ +# ../quota/lib10_quota_plugin.la lib11_trash_plugin_la_SOURCES = \ trash-plugin.c Third, for cross-compiling the value of WORDS_BIGENDIAN needs to be tested, not its presence: --- a/src/lib-index/mail-transaction-log-file.c 2009-10-15 21:26:13.000000000 -0500 +++ b/src/lib-index/mail-transaction-log-file.c 2009-10-27 10:35:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ hdr->hdr_size = sizeof(struct mail_transaction_log_header); hdr->indexid = log->index->indexid; hdr->create_stamp = ioloop_time; -#ifndef WORDS_BIGENDIAN +#if !WORDS_BIGENDIAN hdr->compat_flags |= MAIL_INDEX_COMPAT_LITTLE_ENDIAN; #endif @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ /* we have compatibility flags */ enum mail_index_header_compat_flags compat_flags = 0; -#ifndef WORDS_BIGENDIAN +#if !WORDS_BIGENDIAN compat_flags |= MAIL_INDEX_COMPAT_LITTLE_ENDIAN; #endif if (file->hdr.compat_flags != compat_flags) {

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[Dovecot] multiple connections per imap/pop3 process in 2.0
by Mike Abbott 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

When I set this in master.conf: service imap { service_count = 5 } I see this error when two imap users log in: Nov 11 16:54:16 server dovecot[5432]: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.100.0.84, lip=10.80.0.163, pid=5573 Nov 11 16:54:31 server dovecot[5432]: imap-login: Login: user=<user2>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, secured, pid=5573 Nov 11 16:54:31 server dovecot[5432]: imap(pid 5573 user user2): Fatal: setgid(2002) failed with euid=2001(user1), gid=2001, egid=2001: Operation not permitted Then both users are logged out. Is there another setting I have to change to enable multiple connections per imap/pop3 process in dovecot-2.0, or does it just not work yet? I tried changing client_limit=5 but that had no effect. (I suggest that master.conf needs more documentation.) Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Sluggish log process
by Pascal Volk 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

After the first `dovecot reload` the initial log process will not terminate immediately. The master logs: Nov 11 23:30:04 master: Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration Nov 11 23:31:04 master: Warning: Processes aren't dying after reload, sending SIGTERM. Nov 11 23:32:04 master: Warning: Processes aren't dying after reload, sending SIGTERM. Nov 11 23:32:04 log: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=21639 uid=0 code=kill) With succeeding `dovecot reload`s the current log process terminates immediately Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: 5e1f1e55.0931602(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] patch for 2.0.alpha3 crash
by Mike Abbott 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Dovecot-2.0.alpha3 crashes on startup for me on Mac OS X. It hits a segmentation fault at: 0 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000100025e9f master_service_set_die_with_master + 10 1 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000100025d93 master_service_settings_read + 1818 2 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000100025e63 master_service_settings_read_simple + 110 3 dovecot 0x00000001000021d3 main + 846 4 dovecot 0x0000000100001650 start + 52 This appears to be because lib-master's master_service global (in the libdovecot shared library) is different from master's master_service global (in the dovecot binary). Here's a patch to fix it: --- a/src/master/main.c 2009-11-09 19:53:11.000000000 -0600 +++ b/src/master/main.c 2009-11-11 14:12:55.000000000 -0600 @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ #define MASTER_PID_FILE_NAME "master.pid" #define SERVICE_TIME_MOVED_BACKWARDS_MAX_THROTTLE_SECS (60*3) -struct master_service *master_service; uid_t master_uid; gid_t master_gid; bool core_dumps_disabled;

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[Dovecot] v2.0.tip master: service(auth): kill(pid, SIGINT) failed: Operation not permitted
by Pascal Volk 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Hi Timo, I've configured the user nobody for the the service auth. doveconf -n # 2.0.alpha3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid … service auth { user = nobody } … The other processes are executed by root (or logged in user): root 8758 0.0 0.0 2604 1052 ? Ss 07:21 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot root 8759 0.0 0.0 2308 808 ? S 07:21 0:00 \_ dovecot/anvil root 10869 0.0 0.0 2308 996 ? S 08:18 0:00 \_ dovecot/log nobody 10884 0.0 0.0 7292 2176 ? S 08:18 0:00 \_ dovecot/auth Logins are not a problem. But since the last logout, Dovceot logs once a minute: Nov 11 hh:mm:23 el-negro dovecot: master: service(auth): kill(10884, SIGINT) failed: Operation not permitted Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: cafefeed.0931509(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] selective disable_plaintext_auth
by Mariano Absatz 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Hi, I've been using dovecot for some time now, always with the setting: disable_plaintext_auth = yes so that no user can accidentally expose their username/password in the open. However, I'm now trying to configure a webmail client in a nearby server which doesn't support TLS or SSL IMAP connections :-( Is there any way to allow plaintext_auth only for a small set of IP addresses (for what I see in the comment, this is automatic for local addresses, alas, the webmail client is on another host). TIA -- Mariano Absatz - "El Baby" el.baby(a)gmail.com www.clueless.com.ar -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Theory is when you know something but it doesn't work. - Practice is when something works but you don't know why. - Usually we combine theory and practice: Nothing works and we don't know why. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org

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[Dovecot] panic 1.2.7
by Cor Bosman 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Im getting a panic from a specific user: Nov 11 13:53:29 userimap24.xs4all.nl dovecot: IMAP(xxxxxx): Panic: file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1242 (maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges): assertion failed: (recs[i]- >uid < rec->uid) Nov 11 13:53:29 userimap24.xs4all.nl dovecot: IMAP(xxxxxx): Raw backtrace: imap [0x4a6c02] -> imap [0x4a6c83] -> imap [0x4a6346] -> imap [0x444d6d] -> imap(maildir_uidlist_sync_finish+0x2d3) [0x445d83] - > imap [0x440d7e] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x148) [0x441338] -> imap(mailbox_sync+0x30) [0x46d3b0] -> imap(imap_status_get+0x88) [0x42a9d8] -> imap(cmd_status+0x12f) [0x421e0f] -> imap [0x423b7c] -> imap [0x423c2d] -> imap(client_handle_input+0x45) [0x423da5] -> imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x42473f] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xcb) [0x4aedab] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x4ae228] -> imap(main+0x537) [0x42c707] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f0cef0471a6] - > imap [0x41c859] Nov 11 13:53:30 userimap24.xs4all.nl dovecot: dovecot: child 3594 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) 1.2.7, Linux/Debian Lenny, amd64, NFS spool and index. Seems to be happing every few minutes, probably every time they check mail. The command they're sending: A002 STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT) Output doesnt show any result, only their login: A001 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN QUOTA] Logged in Regards, Cor

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[Dovecot] System Users with IMAP
by Shane Arnold 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Hi All, Sorry if this is a dumb questions, but what methods are available for retrieving mail for a system user i.e www-data. Basically my setup is just a normal Dovecot-IMAP which is working fine for shell users, but I want to be able to read mail for system users via IMAP. Is this doable? Cheers

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[Dovecot] log pop3/imap logins
by Chantal Rosmuller 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Hi List, I would like to log pop3/imap login events but I don't see them in the logfiles. What am I doing wrong? dovecot version: 1.1.11 dovecot -n: # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28-13-server i686 Ubuntu 9.04 nfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:/var/vmail/%2d/%d/%n mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: no mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes 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 pysieved: user: vmail passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/pysieved/auth mode: 432 user: vmail group: mail master: path: /var/run/pysieved/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: mail auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/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: 384 user: vmail

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[Dovecot] Multiple instances of dovecot in the same machine.
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hello all, I'm trying to run several instances of dovecot, with a different config each one, following the instructions from here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/RunningDovecot I try the command dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/installN/dovecot.conf and get: --- Error: ssl_cert_file: Can't use /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/installN --- but in my /etc/dovecot/installN/dovecot.conf file I have these lines: ssl_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/installN/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/dovecot/installN/ssl/private/dovecot.pem where both files exist and are valid. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re: Bug in BODYSTRUCTURE]
by Charles Marcus 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Fyi... Sam Varshavik (courier-imap developer) claims (on the courier-imap list, see attached) dovecot is incorrectly parsing messages with missing/invalid "MIME-Version:" header... I have no clue if he is correct... if so, maybe this has already been fixed?

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[Dovecot] homedir auto-creat
by Frank Bonnet 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hello Is it possible to activate home directories auto creation when using real UNIX users ( NIS ) on the dovecot server ? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Missing 'mailbox' variable ?
by David Goncalves 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hi, I'm using Dovecot with LDAP. My users have an home directory and a field named 'mailMessageStore'. Then the full mailbox path is 'homeDirectory/mailMessageStore' In dovecot-ldap.conf i configured as follows : user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(cn=%u)) user_attrs = qmailUID=uid,qmailGID=gid,homeDirectory=home,mailMessageStore=mail=maildir:~/%$ Everything is working as expected but... I'm using sieve and in the 'dovecot.conf' there is no way to get a variable containing the mailbox path... As the mailMessageStore field can contain something different than the login or uid, how can i get the mailbox path in the conf ? Regards. -- David Goncalves - http://www.lestat.st

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[Dovecot] Auth failure delays
by Timo Sirainen 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Currently Dovecot works like this when authentication fails: - the delay is always at least auth_failure_delay seconds (default: 2s) - each failed attempt doubles the delay for that specific imap/pop3 connection (no such delays for e.g. smtp) - the delay's upper limit is 3 minutes For v2.0 I was planning on making dovecot-auth process do these checks and keeping the state in anvil process: - the delay is always at least auth_failure_delay seconds (default: 2s) - for each remote IP address the delay is doubled, regardless of how the request comes (imap, pop3, smtp, etc). - the delay's upper limit is .. hardcoded to 15 secs? i kind of hate the thought of making this configurable. - each successful authentication from the IP resets the IP's delay - the delay happens before authentication is even attempted, so even successful auth attempts will have the delay (unless of course there haven't been auth failures from that IP) If the upper limit is 15 secs, that means max. 240 auth attempts per hour per IP. The reason I was thinking 15 secs is because I have some vague memories about Thunderbird dropping connection after 15 or maybe 30 seconds of idling. If user has one successful login, it's of course possible to get around the delay doubling by just doing failed attempt -> successful attempt -> failed -> success -> etc. But probably no one is really going to try to do that, and even if they did it's still not that bad. The second successful login will still have that 2 second delay before it resets the delay. So that's still max one auth/2 seconds or max. 1800 auth attempts/hour. Any thoughts?

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[Dovecot] pop3-login: Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 5):
by Mark Sapiro 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

I have been running Dovecot 1.2.5 since Sept 14. Beginning at about 03:28 on Sept 21 for no apparent (to me) reason and continuing through the present, I am seeing log messages like the following and am experiencing delays logging in. Sep 22 19:07:15 sbh16 dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now Sep 22 19:07:15 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 5): Operation not permitted Sep 22 19:07:48 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=APOP, rip=68.183.193.239, lip=72.52.113.16, TLS Sep 22 19:07:48 sbh16 dovecot: POP3(mark): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/218, size=2550090 Sep 22 19:08:15 sbh16 dovecot: dovecot: Created login processes successfully, unstalling Sep 22 19:08:15 sbh16 dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now Sep 22 19:08:15 sbh16 dovecot: dovecot: child 21735 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Sep 22 19:08:15 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 5): Operation not permitted Sep 22 19:08:21 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=APOP, rip=68.183.193.239, lip=72.52.113.16, TLS Sep 22 19:08:22 sbh16 dovecot: POP3(mark): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/57566, del=0/218, size=2550090 Sep 22 19:09:15 sbh16 dovecot: dovecot: Created login processes successfully, unstalling Is this a dovecot issue, some other issue or perhaps some kind of denial of service attack? Here's my dovecot -n # 1.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i686 CentOS release 5 (Final) protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/sbh16-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/sbh16-key.pem login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: mechanisms: plain apop login worker_max_count: 5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix [root@sbh16 ~]# -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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[Dovecot] deliver_log_format ignored
by Lampa 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Hello, seems that LDA ignores deliver_log_format (still log with format: "msgid=%m: %$") # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid xfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: none listen: none disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.tld mail_plugins: sieve quota deliver_log_format: from=%f msgid=%m: %$ auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/mail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes 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 plugin: quota: dict:user::file:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir/dovecot-quota quota_rule: *:storage=500M:messages=10000 quota_warning: storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh quota_warning2: storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh global_script_path: /home/mail/globalsieverc Is there some change from this http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-April/039013.html or http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-May/039269.html ? -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] Question regarding performance of dovecot-1.0.15
by Hanno Wagner 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hi, I have a dovect 1.0.15 on my mailserver and as a Client I use offlineimap. Since some time now my mailsynchronisation got slow - I don't know exactly where the problem is, but I tried to track it down. Usually the UID-Searches are fast (according to the offlineimap-debugging) but as soon as it comes to big folders it takes a long time: [..] DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.22 < * 1 RECENT DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.22 matched r'\* (?P<data>\d+) (?P<type>[A- Z-]+)( (?P<data2>.*))?' => ('1', 'RECENT', None, None) DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.22 untagged_responses[RECENT] 1 += ["1"] DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.22 < HAMH49 OK Append completed. DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.22 matched r'(?P<tag>HAMH\d+) (?P<type>[A- Z]+) (?P<data>.*)' => ('HAMH49', 'OK', 'Append completed.') DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.22 > HAMH50 CHECK DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.49 < HAMH50 OK Check completed. DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.49 matched r'(?P<tag>HAMH\d+) (?P<type>[A- Z]+) (?P<data>.*)' => ('HAMH50', 'OK', 'Check completed.') DEBUG[imap]: savemessage: first attempt to get new UID DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_searchforheader called for X-OfflineIMAP- x601334136 -52656d6f7465496d61704976616e6f7661 -446174656e73636875747a2e4343432e646562617465: 1257496634-0840104922121-v5.99.4 DEBUG[imap]: 37:15.49 > HAMH51 UID SEARCH HEADER X-OfflineIMAP- x601334136 -52656d6f7465496d61704976616e6f7661 -446174656e73636875747a2e4343432e646562617465 "1257496634-0840104922121-v5.99.4" DEBUG[imap]: 42:46.80 < * SEARCH 24578 DEBUG[imap]: 42:46.80 matched r'\* (?P<type>[A-Z-]+)( (? P<data>.*))?' => ('SEARCH', ' 24578', '24578') DEBUG[imap]: 42:46.80 untagged_responses[SEARCH] 0 += ["24578"] DEBUG[imap]: 42:46.80 < HAMH51 OK Search completed. DEBUG[imap]: 42:46.80 matched r'(?P<tag>HAMH\d+) (?P<type>[A- Z]+) (?P<data>.*)' => ('HAMH51', 'OK', 'Search completed.') DEBUG[imap]: 42:46.80 untagged_responses[SEARCH] => ['24578'] DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_searchforheader got initial matchinguids: '24578' DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_searchforheader: matchinguids now ['24578'] DEBUG[imap]: savemessage: returning 24578 Copy message 9480 Maildir[.Datenschutz.CCC.debate] -> IMAP[Datenschutz.CCC.debate], LocalStatus[.Datenschutz.CCC.debate] DEBUG[imap]: savemessage: called DEBUG[imap]: savemessage: using date "15-Mar-2009 18:04:01 +0100" DEBUG[imap]: savemessage: initial content is: 'Return-path: [..] (here is the mail) DEBUG[imap]: savemessage: new headers are: X-OfflineIMAP- x1331546026 -52656d6f7465496d61704976616e6f7661 -446174656e73636875747a2e4343432e646562617465: 1257496966-0335241954714-v5.99.4 DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_addheader: called to add X-OfflineIMAP- x1331546026 -52656d6f7465496d61704976616e6f7661 -446174656e73636875747a2e4343432e646562617465: 1257496966-0335241954714-v5.99.4 DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_addheader: insertionpoint = 63 DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_addheader: leader = 'Return-path: <debate-return-45711-wagner=fitug.de(a)lists.ccc.de >' DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_addheader: newline = '\r\nX-OfflineIMAP- x1331546026 -52656d6f7465496d61704976616e6f7661 -446174656e73636875747a2e4343432e646562617465: 1257496966-0335241954714-v5.99.4' DEBUG[imap]: savemessage_addheader: trailer = '\r\nEnvelope-to:[..] the mail.. As you can see at the timestamp, it took roundabout 5 minutes to find the next mail. Is this normal? In this mailbox there are right now around 20.000 mails, which shouldn't be too hard then... or am I missing something there? Is there a way to see why dovecot needs so long to find the next mail to synchronise? my configuration: # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /home/rince/dovecot-debug.log info_log_path: /home/rince/dovecot-debug.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s imap listen(default): 10.11.12.1 listen(imap): 10.11.12.1 listen(pop3): * ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ivanova.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ivanova.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 login_user: dovecot-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: user: dovecot-auth passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd Unfortunately, except the starting-up message, there comes nothing in the debug-logfiles. Ciao, Hanno -- Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck. (Lucius Fox, Morgan Freeman, The Dark Knight)

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[Dovecot] scenario with one lda and 4 imapds/pop3ds
by Lampa 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hello, i want to create following scenario: one dovecot using ONLY LDA (using sql ) # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid xfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_timestamp: %FT%T%z protocols: none listen: none disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.com mail_plugins: quota sieve deliver_log_format: from=%f msgid=%m: %$ auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info2.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/mail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes 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 plugin: quota: dict:user::file:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir/dovecot-quota quota_rule: *:storage=500M:messages=10000 quota_warning: storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh quota_warning2: storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh global_script_path: /home/mail/globalsieverc other 4 dovecots for serving imaps pop3s (each will have own ssl certificate and using own ip address) my idea is using only one auth mechanism provided by dovecot LDA (above) - eg using one SQL connection question is, how to force other 4 dovecots use auth from LDA dovecot ? is possible to do this ? is enough to use: auth external { socket connect { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } } } Thank you for advices and help. -- Lampa

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Re: [Dovecot] Help needed: Index filesystem permissions problem after switch to V1.2 and back to V1.1
by Steffen Kaiser 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Stewart Dean wrote: > So you say that the /var/dcindx permissions should be 1777? Not 2777? What No, not 2777, your "/tmp" is not 2777 either, I guess. > userid/group should own the directory? I use root:root. In fact, because multiple uids (and gids) have to create a directory there, you have to use a tmp-like directory. "1xxx" means the sticky-bit, so users may not remove an entry owned by another user. Because root is owner of /var/dvindex, you have just those two users able to remove: root and the owning user of the subdir. The user-specific subdirectories should be 0700 or something like that, so the security is OK. DoS is possible by filling the partition completely, but this ability is available in other scenarios as well. > > #2: Under both V1.1 and V1.2, the vast majority of users *can* and have > created their index directories, but others can't. How can this be? This > shows up as errmsgs like > Nov 5 09:36:06 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(ahinds): > mkdir(/var/dcindx/ahinds/.imap/Apple M > ail To Do) failed: Permission denied All I can think of is that: a) the existing subdirs had be created earlier e.g. by root or migration, b) those few users use a different group. IMHO, as soon as you have system users the /var/dcindex must be 1777, the few exceptions, when all users share a single group, or you can pre-create the directories are the special cases. BTW: _If_ you use system users and your account name <-> uid relationship can change, you should use an template different than /var/dcindex/%u, e.g. /var/dcindex/%i, because if a new user with an name already used in past, but with another uid logs on the server, the uid cannot access the old /var/dcindex/ahinds tree. The leftover files should not make much worries, except the subscription perhaps. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSvQCuXWSIuGy1ktrAQIXFQgAwtHVLIpt9Kr+QCulz0NunTdAbtamiMrb 9i2ZVG9Sb5swAYmeRKOHYAWnVIcGA8gPnKDadVuG/+6+ZjDhcapk4MTlb8NzaKNV 6Rwr9I+JYdQI/HnLzHHj+WJxn6bgr5fe21LN1WXgwtIccAbOPSj7mzUih+p0V/RX ZXpzLHgu6+BrdWdFgmnDUA1nidXCtV8/V9b1b6P4j591yeOnnXs3sJlhoucD3Pyt Pt/8toXeJJMmxdbTSJME9ov5ZxfQHg8lBxVgB04RvhSP3CN4c3ijLI93heRUub0k zeG79mS9xfHbXlxDHM4qUsxkOUgZyk7RU6q27arB5HFT3v/J/uVyFQ== =YhYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] unsubscribe
by Jon Essen-Moller 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 22:42, Lampa <lampacz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > seems that LDA ignores deliver_log_format (still log with format: > "msgid=%m: %$") > > # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.31 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid xfs > log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log > info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log > log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S > protocols: none > listen: none > disable_plaintext_auth: no > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login > mail_location: maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir > mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock > lda: > postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.tld > mail_plugins: sieve quota > deliver_log_format: from=%f msgid=%m: %$ > auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > auth default: > mechanisms: plain login > verbose: yes > debug: yes > debug_passwords: yes > passdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > userdb: > driver: static > args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/mail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes > 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 > plugin: > quota: dict:user::file:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir/dovecot-quota > quota_rule: *:storage=500M:messages=10000 > quota_warning: storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh > quota_warning2: storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh > global_script_path: /home/mail/globalsieverc > > > Is there some change from this > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-April/039013.html or > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-May/039269.html ? > > -- > Lampa >

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[Dovecot] config typo in 2.0.alpha2
by Mike Abbott 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

The mdbox_rotate_size and mdbox_rotate_min_size parameters are specified in bytes not kilobytes. doc/example-config/conf.d/mail.conf: # Maximum dbox file size in kilobytes until it's rotated. #mdbox_rotate_size = 2048 # Minimum dbox file size in kilobytes before it's rotated # (overrides mdbox_rotate_days) #mdbox_rotate_min_size = 16 src/lib-storage/index/dbox-multi/mdbox-settings.c: MEMBER(mdbox_rotate_size) 2048*1024, MEMBER(mdbox_rotate_min_size) 16*1024,

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[Dovecot] v2.0 lmtp logging
by Pascal Volk 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi, I am not yet completely happy with the logging behavior of the lmtp. It logs informative messages like 'lmtp: Info: Connection closed' or 'lmtp: Info: Disconnected for inactivity'. Hm, which server was connected to the lmtp? Who was disconnected for inactivity? I think it would be useful if the lmtp would also log new connections. For example: a) TCP connections: lmtp: Info: Connection: rip=10.1.2.3, lip=10.1.2.5, cid=1255555555.12345 b) Socket connections: lmtp: Info: Connection: via socket, cid=1255555777.10452 rip: There may be multiple SMTP servers in front the IMAP server(s) lip: The lmpt may listen to more than one address cid: The 'connection ID', consists of the current unix time and the pid of the lmtp process. (Or some other values in some other format) The cid should be used in the 'saved' messages. So the delivering MTA would see something like '250 2.0.0 OK: 1255555555.12345 Saved', instead of a message like '250 2.0.0 <jdoe(a)example.com> Saved'. The lmtp should also write the cid to the log. For example: 'lmtp(jdoe): Info: msgid=123, cid=1255555555.12345: saved mail to INBOX' (or discarded because of a matching sieve rule). With this connection ID it would be possible to trace the route which the e-mail has taken. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcafe.0929623(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Worker-server timeout
by Jeffrey Nikoletich 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hello Everyone, First wanted to say thanks for any help in advance. I have a clustered mail system each running on centos 5.2. I have a test box that I am running the newest version on dovecot on and I am getting some random authnication failed errors. Here is the error below: Nov 04 17:31:22 auth(default): Error: worker-server(xxx(a)xxxx.com): Aborted: Lookup timed out Nov 04 17:31:23 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL 2 user=xxx(a)xxxx.com temp The thing is, the errors only show when the user is attempting to send a message. Here is my dovecot -n # 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) nfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot 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_size: 512 login_processes_count: 500 login_max_processes_count: 5000 login_max_connections: 1000 max_mail_processes: 5000 mail_max_userip_connections: 2000 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/export/monster/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/export/ monster/mail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes maildir_stat_dirs: yes mbox_read_locks: dotlock mbox_write_locks: dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log 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 pop3_save_uidl(default): no pop3_save_uidl(imap): no pop3_save_uidl(pop3): yes pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu lda: postmaster_address: xxx(a)xxxx.net mail_plugins: sieve log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login failure_delay: 1 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes worker_max_count: 500 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/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mailowner group: mailowner plugin: mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename Also here is my dovecot-sql.conf user_query = SELECT '/export/monster/mail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/ export/monster/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/export/monster/mail/%d/%n' as mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, concat('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule FROM mailbox WHERE username ='%u' AND active ='1' password_query = SELECT MB.password FROM (mailbox as MB) LEFT JOIN domain as D ON (D.id=MB.domain_id AND D.active='1') WHERE MB.username = '%u' AND MB.active = '1' AND (D.id IS NOT NULL OR (MB.domain_id=0 and MB.name='SASL')) I have disabled user prefetch because for some reason, I get this error when it is active: Nov 04 17:05:25 auth(default): Info: prefetch (xxx(a)xxxx.net,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) passdb didn't return userdb entries, trying the next userdb Thanks for any help you can offer. Jeffrey Nikoletich

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[Dovecot] meaning of parameter imap_idle_notify_interval??
by Ingo Thierack 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hello, is my understanding of the parameter "imap_idle_notify_interval" right, if i say, it's the time between two point where dovecot tells the client he is here, and sould have nothing directly todo with the notification of new mails arrived. I played with the values around. And the courios is, in thunderbird the folloing. set to 30 seconds. Thunderbird pop up around 25 seconds after the message is deliverd to the inbox. set to 60 seconds. Thunderbird pup up around 50 seconds after the message is deliverd to the inbox. I switch over from archiveopteryx, where no such delay was. Regards, Ingo

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[Dovecot] Seeing "Corrupted transaction log file" error messages.
by Stewart Dean 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

In V1.1.15 that I fell back to. Again: # 1.1.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd This is happening during peak load; the error msgs I'm seeing look like: Nov 5 15:01:47 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Corrupted transaction log file /var/dci ndx/olson/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 742: file_seq=742, min_file_offset (24) < hdr_size (40) (sync_offset=24) Nov 5 15:04:13 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(herchenr): Corrupted transaction log file /var/ dcindx/herchenr/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 357: file_seq=357, min_file_offset (24) < hdr_size (40) (sync_offset=24) Nov 5 15:04:13 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(herchenr): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Re fer to server log for more information. [2009-11-05 15:04:13] bytes=1314/18024 Nov 5 15:04:33 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Transaction log file /var/dcindx/olson/ .imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Nov 5 15:06:17 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Corrupted transaction log file /var/dci ndx/olson/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 742: file_seq=742, min_file_offset (24) < hdr_size (40) (sync_offset=24) Nov 5 15:06:17 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(olson): Transaction log got desynced for index /var/dcindx/olson/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index Is worrisome or inconsequential? About 40 such messages in 30 minutes, mostly clumped together -- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Help needed: Index filesystem permissions problem after switch to V1.2 and back to V1.1
by Stewart Dean 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

After V1.2 had been up for a while, I started seeing tons of syslog error messages like this: Nov 5 09:11:52 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): stat(/var/dcindx/sdean/.imap/DadEstate) failed: Permission denied (euid=202(sdean) egid=200(hcrc) missing +x perm: /var/dcindx) Ownernship and Permissions are: The index filesystem 2726 root@mercury:/var/dcindx ## ls -ald drwx--S--- 3946 dovecot system 192512 Nov 05 08:59 ./ A user's directory is: 2729 root@mercury:/var/dcindx ## ls -al sdean total 400 drwx--S--- 7 sdean sys 256 Sep 29 04:43 ./ drwx--S--- 3946 dovecot system 192512 Nov 05 08:59 ../ drwx--S--- 139 sdean sys 8192 Sep 29 04:43 .imap/ and for the directory with the problem: 2731 root@mercury:/var/dcindx ## ls -al sdean/.imap/DadEstate total 48 drwx--S--- 2 sdean sys 256 Sep 29 04:43 ./ drwx--S--- 139 sdean sys 8192 Sep 29 04:43 ../ -rw------- 1 sdean sys 408 Jan 14 2009 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 sdean sys 18432 May 05 2009 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 sdean sys 828 Jan 14 2009 dovecot.index.log I switched back to V1.1, but the situation persists dovecot -n: # 1.1.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Quota email
by Peter Fraser 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi All Just a quick question. Is it possible for the postmaster to get an email when a user goes over quota or is close to it? That is, aside for using the same script used to alert the user?

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[Dovecot] defunct in 1.24 on FreeBSD Alphaserver
by Paweł Kaczor 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hello, I've recently upgraded Dovecot from 1.1.16 to 1.2.4 on FreeSBD 6.3- RELEASE running on old Alphaserver 1200. Some time after this upgrade all user's MUAs showed error that user password was not accepted. I've noticed many zombies of imap and pop3 processes on my server (all in defunct state). Looks like when "login_max_processes_count" was reached, Dovecot canceled all new connections. I've setup completely new configuration based on http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation and no error was produced but every time I closed telnet the imap process became defunct. So, I tried to trace what was happening with ktrace: ktrace -d -f log -p pid_of_imap_process In attached file is a part of ktrace output at the moment when I close telnet connection. What is interesting (at last for me, but I'm lamer) is an error: 1576 imap 1256902587.568406 CALL close(0xffffffffffffffff) 1576 imap 1256902587.568448 RET close -1 errno 9 Bad file descriptor AFAIK, such error could be produced by inconsistent file system so I double checked OS and I'm 100% sure it's OK. At the very end of this history I had to switch back to 1.1.16 version of Dovecot which works OK now. I'll be very thankful if somebody could point me to explanation what can cause such strange behavior. Regards, Pawel Kaczor -- "A z kwiatków, jakie pan lubi najbardziej? Sztukamięs z kwiatkiem" Paweł Kaczor <paczor(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] IMAP goes down from time to time
by Juan Felipe Estrada 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Good Morning I´m writing back cause the IMAP going down issue has changed a little, i still have the dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5 but with 2 changes; I added to the dovecot.conf the outlook-idle workaround, and the three login_processes parameters login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 Since I added this parameters the IMAP process has gone down just 1 time in 2 weeks, before this, the proccess was going down about 4 times a day so I think this is suitable, the next step i´ll take is to update the Dovecot. Thanks for your help Juan Felipe Estrada dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org escribió: > Send dovecot mailing list submissions to > dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of dovecot digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Panic when using QRESYNC (Michael M. Slusarz) > 2. Re: Capability info in hello message not complete? (Timo Sirainen) > 3. Re: Expire plugin per domain (Timo Sirainen) > 4. Re: Expire plugin per domain (Jose Luis Marin Perez) > 5. Re: Expire plugin per domain (Timo Sirainen) > 6. Re: Expire plugin per domain (Jose Luis Marin Perez) > 7. Re: IMAP goes down from time to time (Juan Felipe Estrada) > 8. Re: deliver+sieve: Destination address (-a) parsing changes > (Timo Sirainen) > 9. Re: deliver+sieve: Destination address (-a) parsing changes > (Frank Behrens) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:48:32 -0600 > From: "Michael M. Slusarz" <slusarz(a)curecanti.org> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Panic when using QRESYNC > To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <20091020134832.Horde.gkck4wsoc00o(a)bigworm.curecanti.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes > > Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi>: > > >> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:38 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 13:34 -0600, Michael M. Slusarz wrote: >>> >>>> Hmmm... Rebuilt with the latest 1.2.7-pre code yesterday, and I am >>>> still seeing this (on at least 2 different mailboxes in the last day): >>>> >>>> Oct 20 13:23:32 bigworm dovecot: IMAP(slusarz): Panic: file >>>> imap-fetch.c: line 2 >>>> 27 (get_expunges_fallback): assertion failed: (mail->uid > next_uid) >>>> >>> Is it logging any other errors anymore? I can't really see how the code >>> is broken to cause this. >>> >> Oh, this actually should fix it: >> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/36b8d97d0f58 >> > > OK - I'm building with the latest source and will keep my eye out for > any issues. > > michael > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:49:45 -0400 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Capability info in hello message not complete? > To: Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink(a)redhat.com> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <1256068185.4605.834.camel@timo-desktop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:10 +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > >> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:10:15 Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 17:26 +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: >>> >>>> would it be possible to: >>>> a) send content of imap_capability in greeting message? It should be >>>> user's responsibility if it's set to something "weird" >>>> >>> I guess I could do this. >>> >> "could" - does it mean you are waiting for my response? If yes this option is >> fine for me, since it should fix the issue. >> > > It meant I added it to my TODO list, but hadn't yet got around to doing > it. Anyway, done now: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/ab32d7e2c0d6 > >

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[Dovecot] dovecot + dns srv registers
by maximatt 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

hi... Dovecot support dns srv registers... for ldap service? thanks in advance :) -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] Post login script issue with pop3 protocol
by Zhang Huangbin 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi, all. I want to track user last login data (ip address, login date, etc) with dovecot, followed dovecot tutorial[1], and it now works with IMAP, but failed with POP3. i don't know why. My script: ---- LDAP_URI='ldap://127.0.0.1:389' LDAP_BASEDN='o=domains,dc=iredmail,dc=org' BIND_DN='cn=vmailadmin,dc=iredmail,dc=org' BIND_PW='plain_passwd' if [ X"${USER}" != X"dump-capability" ]; then ldapmodify -c -x \ -H "${LDAP_URI}" \ -D "${BIND_DN}" \ -w "${BIND_PW}" <<EOF dn: mail=${USER},ou=Users,domainName=$(echo ${USER} | awk -F'@' '{print $2}'),${LDAP_BASEDN} changetype: modify replace: lastLoginDate lastLoginDate: $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ) - replace: lastLoginIP lastLoginIP: ${IP} - replace: lastLoginProtocol lastLoginProtocol: pop3 EOF fi ---- It works with IMAP protocol, but failed with POP3 protocol. Error msg in Thunderbird: ---- The STAT command did not succeed. Error getting message number and sizes. Mail server r6.iredmail.org responsed: ying entry "mail=www(a)a.cn,ou=Users,domainName=a.cn,o=domains,dc=iredmail,dc=org" ---- [1] Post-login scripting: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu: http://www.iredmail.org/

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot lock problem
by Simon Gao 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

> >What is the process doing? Check with "strace -p <imap process pid>"? > >How large is the user's mailbox? We just have another user reporting problem. There is no lock on /var/spool/mail/<user> file. The strace has following: # strace -p 8117 Process 8117 attached - interrupt to quit fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362101 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362101 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362106 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362106 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362111 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362111 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362116 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362116 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362121 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362121 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362126 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362126 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362131 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362131 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362136 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362136 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362141 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362141 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362146 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362146 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0} # strace -p 8117 Process 8117 attached - interrupt to quit fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362101 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362101 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362106 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362106 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362111 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362111 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362116 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362116 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362121 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362121 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362126 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362126 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362131 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362131 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362136 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362136 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362141 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362141 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362146 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362146 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362151 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362151 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362156 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362156 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362161 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362161 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362166 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362166 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362171 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362171 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362176 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362176 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xff9f4db4) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) time(NULL) = 1257362181 alarm(5) = 0 time(NULL) = 1257362181 fcntl64(8, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0} I did see somewhere log says "no lock file found, abort, etc". Simon

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[Dovecot] quota ignore sent folder
by juan carlos 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

I have configured postfix and dovecot and I want to know hot to configure quota in order to ignore sent folder. Now it does work ignoring trash folder but I want to ignore sent.

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[Dovecot] login BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
by Yaron B 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

hi, i can open telnet on port 143 but failing on login user/pass and getting - "login BAD Error in IMAP command received by server." i assume that i didnt setup properly the authentication method and user/pass does Dovecot can use postfix user/pass ? less /var/mail/maillog Nov 3 11:21:45 localhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<info>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, secured Nov 3 11:21:45 localhost dovecot: IMAP(info): Connection closed bytes=41/347 [root@fedora ~]# dovecot --version 1.2.6 [root@fedora ~]# dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 i686 Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) ext4 protocols: imap pop3 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 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:/var/mail/%u maildir_very_dirty_syncs: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): imap_client_workarounds(imap): imap_client_workarounds(pop3): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Why : dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 ?
by Koenraad Lelong 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hi all, I'm trying to activate sieve. In all tutorials I have seen I need to set dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 in Postfix's main.cf. Can anyone explain why ? I like to know because when I set this and the dovecot transport in Postfix, I'm having problems when aliasses are used that map to different recipients, i.e. info@... results in user1@..., user2@..., etc. The problems are an error from Postfix : Oct 30 09:25:19 lace3 postfix/pipe[19729]: 8A77E2D5B5B: to=<some.body(a)some.where.org>, relay=dovecot, delay=2390, delays=2390/0.04/0/0.01, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (mail system configuration error) Oct 30 09:25:19 lace3 postfix/pipe[19729]: warning: pipe flag `D' requires dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 Thanks for any info. Regards, Koenraad Lelong.

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[Dovecot] X.509 certificate based IMAP login
by dovecotlist＠encambio.com 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hello list, The dovecot version is 1.2.6 running on Solaris x86 11 (nv-b91). The relevant configuration lines are: passdb ldap { # LDAP database (doc/wiki/AuthDatabase.LDAP.txt.) args = /pfx/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } The file dovecot-ldap.conf is correct and LDAP authentication is working well. We would like to make it possible for users with a X.509 client certificate to log in without providing LDAP or any other credentials. Is there something like: passdb x509 { args = /pfx/etc/dovecot/dovecot-caroots.pem nopwd = yes } ...avaibable, or is there another solution? Thanks, Brian

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[Dovecot] something similar to last login but for aliases
by Bradley Giesbrecht 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

I'm using dovecot deliver with postfix. Is there a place to hook in a db update when an alias is hit? I'm wanting to delete aliases that haven't been used in x time. Thank you, Brad

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[Dovecot] second fs quota root crashes
by Juergen Obermann 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hallo. In our dovecot 1.2.6 server running under Solaris 9 I would like to set up a second quota root because the mail folders are in the users home directories and the inboxes of all users are in /var/mail. As soon as I add quota2 = fs:INBOX:noenforcing:mount=/var/mail the imap client crashes repeatedly as soon as the user tries to open a mail folder. Thanks for any help. Dovecot Logfile: ================ Oct 20 14:12:49 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] Dovecot v1.2.6 starting up Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8214 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8216 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8217 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8218 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8219 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8220 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8222 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8225 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8223 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8230 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8228 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8229 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8224 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8221 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8233 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8231 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8226 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8237 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8236 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8232 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8234 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8235 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8238 Oct 20 14:12:50 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8227 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=134.176.2.11 rip=134.176.150.104 lport=993 rport=1397 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGcwMzMAcmVkIHNreQ== Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth-worker(default): pam(g033,134.176.150.104): lookup service=dovecot Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth-worker(default): pam(g033,134.176.150.104): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=g033 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 8236 1 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): passwd(g033,134.176.150.104): lookup Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): master out: USER 1 g033 system_groups_user=g033 uid=10033 gid=10010 home=/home/hrz/g033 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] imap-login: Login: user=<g033>, method=PLAIN, rip=134.176.150.104, lip=134.176.2.11, TLS Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8236 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Loading modules from directory: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Module loaded: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Module loaded: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Effective uid=10033, gid=10010, home=/home/hrz/g033 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Quota root: name=Home-Verzeichnis backend=fs args=noenforcing Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Quota root: name=INBOX backend=fs args=noenforcing:mount=/var/mail Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): mbox: data=~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs: root=/home/hrz/g033/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota add storage dir = /home/hrz/g033/Mail Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota block device = fileserv:/export/home1/hrz Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota mount point = /home/hrz Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Mail/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): mbox: data=~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:00 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs: root=/home/hrz/g033/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:01 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8236 Oct 20 14:13:01 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] dovecot: child 8241 (imap) killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=134.176.2.11 rip=134.176.150.104 lport=993 rport=1398 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGcwMzMAcmVkIHNreQ== Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth-worker(default): pam(g033,134.176.150.104): lookup service=dovecot Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth-worker(default): pam(g033,134.176.150.104): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): master in: REQUEST 2 8227 1 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): passwd(g033,134.176.150.104): lookup Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): master out: USER 2 g033 system_groups_user=g033 uid=10033 gid=10010 home=/home/hrz/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] imap-login: Login: user=<g033>, method=PLAIN, rip=134.176.150.104, lip=134.176.2.11, TLS Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8227 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Loading modules from directory: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Module loaded: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Module loaded: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Effective uid=10033, gid=10010, home=/home/hrz/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Quota root: name=Home-Verzeichnis backend=fs args=noenforcing Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Quota root: name=INBOX backend=fs args=noenforcing:mount=/var/mail Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): mbox: data=~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs: root=/home/hrz/g033/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota add storage dir = /home/hrz/g033/Mail Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota block device = fileserv:/export/home1/hrz Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota mount point = /home/hrz Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Mail/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): mbox: data=~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs: root=/home/hrz/g033/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8227 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] dovecot: child 8242 (imap) killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=134.176.2.11 rip=134.176.150.104 lport=993 rport=1399 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client out: CONT 2 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client in: CONT 2 AGcwMzMAcmVkIHNreQ== Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth-worker(default): pam(g033,134.176.150.104): lookup service=dovecot Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth-worker(default): pam(g033,134.176.150.104): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): client out: OK 2 user=g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): master in: REQUEST 3 8227 2 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): passwd(g033,134.176.150.104): lookup Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): master out: USER 3 g033 system_groups_user=g033 uid=10033 gid=10010 home=/home/hrz/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] imap-login: Login: user=<g033>, method=PLAIN, rip=134.176.150.104, lip=134.176.2.11, TLS Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8227 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Loading modules from directory: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Module loaded: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Module loaded: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Effective uid=10033, gid=10010, home=/home/hrz/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Quota root: name=Home-Verzeichnis backend=fs args=noenforcing Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Quota root: name=INBOX backend=fs args=noenforcing:mount=/var/mail Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): mbox: data=~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs: root=/home/hrz/g033/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota add storage dir = /home/hrz/g033/Mail Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota block device = fileserv:/export/home1/hrz Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs quota mount point = /home/hrz Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Mail/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): mbox: data=~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:02 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] IMAP(g033): fs: root=/home/hrz/g033/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/g033 Oct 20 14:13:03 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8227 Oct 20 14:13:03 horus dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] dovecot: child 8243 (imap) killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Core file backtrace: ==================== horus{g033}1053:>gdb /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap core GNU gdb 5.3 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"... Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librt.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsendfile.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libsendfile.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmp.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libmp.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libaio.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libaio.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmd5.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libmd5.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Reading symbols from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/libmd5_psr.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/libmd5_psr.so.1 Reading symbols from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so #0 0xff0b467c in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt full #0 0xff0b467c in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #1 0xff107588 in _doprnt () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #2 0xff1095f8 in vsnprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #3 0x000e6d44 in str_vprintfa () No symbol table info available. #4 0x000d2ffc in internal_handler () No symbol table info available. #5 0x000d30b8 in i_internal_error_handler () No symbol table info available. #6 0x000d2ac0 in i_error () No symbol table info available. #7 0xfefe6cec in fs_quota_match_box () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #8 0xfefe473c in quota_root_is_visible () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #9 0xfefe47e4 in quota_root_iter_next () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #10 0xfefa1430 in cmd_getquotaroot () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #11 0x00032ca8 in client_command_input () No symbol table info available. #12 0x00032f54 in client_handle_next_command () No symbol table info available. #13 0x00032fd0 in client_handle_input () No symbol table info available. #14 0x00033130 in client_input () No symbol table info available. #15 0x000dbc84 in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #16 0x000db48c in io_loop_run () No symbol table info available. #17 0x0003e49c in main () No symbol table info available. (gdb) quit Dovecot configuration: ====================== # 1.2.6: /opt/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4u syslog_facility: local0 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/server.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/server.key disable_plaintext_auth: no version_ignore: yes login_dir: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 12 max_mail_processes: 4096 mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu 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: private separator: / prefix: Mail/ hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs:Home-Verzeichnis:noenforcing quota2: fs:INBOX:noenforcing:mount=/var/mail -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g033 Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.2.6: Panic: pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed
by Mike Abbott 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

When playing with large numbers of IMAP keywords on dovecot-1.2.6 imap crashed: Panic: pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed Looks like either maildir_file_do() shouldn't T_BEGIN/T_END or the keywords array should start larger. 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eba __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eac kill + 14 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87683519 raise + 25 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876a4e12 abort + 90 4 imap 0x000000010008022f default_fatal_finish + 69 5 imap 0x000000010007f4b4 i_internal_error_handler + 0 6 imap 0x000000010007fa36 i_info + 0 7 imap 0x000000010008987e pool_data_stack_realloc + 150 8 imap 0x000000010007d77c buffer_alloc + 60 9 imap 0x000000010007d947 buffer_check_limits + 113 10 imap 0x000000010007dde8 buffer_append + 38 11 imap 0x0000000100060c50 mail_index_sync_keywords_apply + 88 12 imap 0x0000000100043f20 index_sync_changes_apply + 184 13 imap 0x0000000100026b6d maildir_sync_flags + 131 14 imap 0x000000010002a7c6 maildir_file_do_try + 334 15 imap 0x000000010002a34e maildir_file_do + 58 16 imap 0x00000001000263c4 maildir_sync_index + 1102 17 imap 0x000000010002588e maildir_sync_context + 806 18 imap 0x0000000100025aa4 maildir_storage_sync_init + 92 19 imap 0x000000010004ad9c mailbox_sync_init + 16 20 imap 0x000000010000ebc8 imap_sync_init + 98 21 imap 0x000000010000fd29 cmd_sync_delayed + 425 22 imap 0x000000010000814c client_handle_input + 442 23 imap 0x00000001000074ea client_input + 104 24 imap 0x0000000100087c20 io_loop_handler_run + 246 25 imap 0x0000000100086f16 io_loop_run + 56 26 imap 0x000000010001063b main + 1629 27 imap 0x00000001000010b8 start + 52 also 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eba __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eac kill + 14 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87683519 raise + 25 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876a4e12 abort + 90 4 imap 0x000000010008022f default_fatal_finish + 69 5 imap 0x000000010007f4b4 i_internal_error_handler + 0 6 imap 0x000000010007fa36 i_info + 0 7 imap 0x000000010008987e pool_data_stack_realloc + 150 8 imap 0x000000010007d77c buffer_alloc + 60 9 imap 0x000000010007d947 buffer_check_limits + 113 10 imap 0x000000010007dde8 buffer_append + 38 11 imap 0x0000000100060c50 mail_index_sync_keywords_apply + 88 12 imap 0x0000000100043f20 index_sync_changes_apply + 184 13 imap 0x0000000100026b6d maildir_sync_flags + 131 14 imap 0x000000010002a7c6 maildir_file_do_try + 334 15 imap 0x000000010002a34e maildir_file_do + 58 16 imap 0x00000001000263c4 maildir_sync_index + 1102 17 imap 0x000000010002588e maildir_sync_context + 806 18 imap 0x0000000100025aa4 maildir_storage_sync_init + 92 19 imap 0x000000010004ad9c mailbox_sync_init + 16 20 imap 0x000000010004ade0 mailbox_sync + 48 21 imap 0x00000001000058b8 cmd_select_full + 1748 22 imap 0x0000000100005d9b cmd_select + 11 23 imap 0x0000000100007de6 client_command_input + 36 24 imap 0x0000000100007f17 client_command_input + 341 25 imap 0x0000000100008086 client_handle_input + 244 26 imap 0x00000001000074ea client_input + 104 27 imap 0x0000000100087c20 io_loop_handler_run + 246 28 imap 0x0000000100086f16 io_loop_run + 56 29 imap 0x000000010001063b main + 1629 30 imap 0x00000001000010b8 start + 52

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[Dovecot] Related 2.0.alpha2 issue
by Mike Abbott 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Just saw this new twist to an issue I reported last week with dovecot-2.0.alpha2. I logged into an IMAP account using telnet to port 143. After 30 seconds dovecot closed the connection. Mon Nov 2 16:00:07 server dovecot[52355]: imap: dup2(-1, 5) failed: Bad file descriptor Mon Nov 2 16:00:07 server dovecot[52355]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed Mon Nov 2 16:00:07 server dovecot[52355]: imap-login: Login: user=<userV>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.10, lip=192.168.1.7, pid=59521 Mon Nov 2 16:00:37 server dovecot[52353]: master: service(imap): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Mon Nov 2 16:00:37 server dovecot[52353]: master: service(imap): child 59521 killed with signal 9 Mon Nov 2 16:00:37 server dovecot[52353]: master: service(imap): command startup failed, throttling

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[Dovecot] Unable to create imap nested dirs.
by Leo 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi all, I'm trying to config a dovecot server on a debian-lenny box but I'm experiencing a problem that serveral users have on the net, but I haven't found any solution. I'm trying to create nested dirs with my thunderbird 2.0.0.23 client but without any luck :( I can create dir in the root, but not subdirs. have you any ideas? here you can you see the small config and attached my full config dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.12.6-arm1 armv5tejl Debian 5.0.3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd # dovecot -a # 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.12.6-arm1 armv5tejl Debian 5.0.3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: info_log_path: log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: mail protocols: imaps listen: * ssl_listen: ssl: yes ssl_ca_file: ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 168 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_cert_username_field: commonName ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_trusted_networks: login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 512 mail_max_userip_connections: 10 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: 500 last_valid_uid: 0 first_valid_gid: 1 last_valid_gid: 0 mail_access_groups: mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail_gid: mail_location: mail_cache_fields: mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: no mail_full_filesystem_access: no mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mmap_disable: no dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: no mail_nfs_storage: no mail_nfs_index: no mailbox_list_index_disable: yes lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: no maildir_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins: mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 10 imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds: imap_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o imap_id_send: imap_id_log: imap_idle_notify_interval: 120 pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s dict_db_config: dict_process_count: 1 managesieve_max_line_length: 65536 managesieve_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o managesieve_implementation_string: dovecot auth default: mechanisms: plain realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 cache_negative_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: root chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ username_translation: username_format: master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: gssapi_hostname: winbind_helper_path: /usr/bin/ntlm_auth failure_delay: 2 verbose: no debug: no debug_passwords: no ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no use_winbind: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: pam args: deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: passwd args:

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[Dovecot] Another 2.0.alpha2 panic
by Mike Abbott 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

This time using maildir instead of mdbox. Fri Oct 30 21:08:16 server dovecot[27407]: lda(pid 27407 user userW): Panic: file istream.c: line 104 (i_stream_read): assertion failed: ((size_t)ret+old_size == _stream->pos - _stream->skip) 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eba __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eac kill + 14 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87683519 raise + 25 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876a4e12 abort + 90 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000d1027 i_set_failure_file + 275 5 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000d03ec i_syslog_error_handler + 0 6 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000d06d2 i_debug + 0 7 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000d9c00 i_stream_read + 392 8 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000d8104 i_stream_create_limit + 436 9 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000d9ab7 i_stream_read + 63 10 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000d9cf1 i_stream_read_data + 103 11 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000c4bef message_parse_header_next + 145 12 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000c646f message_parser_init_from_parts + 287 13 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000c5a4b message_parser_parse_next_block + 133 14 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000c5bc8 message_parser_parse_header + 64 15 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100043883 index_mail_parse_headers + 189 16 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100043b53 index_mail_get_header_stream + 597 17 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100043f89 index_mail_get_first_header + 49 18 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100011d1d mail_get_first_header + 15 19 dovecot-lda 0x0000000100002eda mail_deliver_get_address + 24 20 dovecot-lda 0x00000001000020f0 main + 2484 21 dovecot-lda 0x0000000100001734 start + 52

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[Dovecot] How to create nested dirs
by SKAL 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hi all, I'm experiencing a problem that several users had, but I could not find a solution. I cannot create any subfolders with my thunderbird 2.0.0.23 client, but I can creat other folders. Any ideas? tnx leo # dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.12.6-arm1 armv5tejl Debian 5.0.3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd # dovecot -a # 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.12.6-arm1 armv5tejl Debian 5.0.3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: info_log_path: log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: mail protocols: imaps listen: * ssl_listen: ssl: yes ssl_ca_file: ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 168 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_cert_username_field: commonName ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_trusted_networks: login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 512 mail_max_userip_connections: 10 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: 500 last_valid_uid: 0 first_valid_gid: 1 last_valid_gid: 0 mail_access_groups: mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail_gid: mail_location: mail_cache_fields: mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: no mail_full_filesystem_access: no mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mmap_disable: no dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: no mail_nfs_storage: no mail_nfs_index: no mailbox_list_index_disable: yes lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: no maildir_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins: mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 10 imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds: imap_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o imap_id_send: imap_id_log: imap_idle_notify_interval: 120 pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s dict_db_config: dict_process_count: 1 managesieve_max_line_length: 65536 managesieve_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o managesieve_implementation_string: dovecot auth default: mechanisms: plain realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 cache_negative_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: root chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ username_translation: username_format: master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: gssapi_hostname: winbind_helper_path: /usr/bin/ntlm_auth failure_delay: 2 verbose: no debug: no debug_passwords: no ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no use_winbind: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: pam args: deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: passwd args:

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[Dovecot] Author wanted for Dovecot article in Linux Magazine (Germany)
by Markus Feilner 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi list, I am an editor at the German Linux Magazine and I am searching for an author or input on Dovecot, its advantages and especially the recent features. I had organized some authors, but unfortunately they don't have time right now. :-) Nevertheless I heard many positive comments on Dovecot. I can write or help writing the article, but I would love to have some input from an experienced dovecot admin - perhaps with some stunning, unusual setup that might interest our readers (most of them are skilled admins and programmers...) Something that can't be easily done with other mail servers would be great, something spectacular that is suitable to convince an mail admin why he should migrate to Dovecot. It won't be long, just about 2-3 pages (a maximum of 15000 characters) including screen shots and/or listings, code, > 10 Links and an author's biography with photo. Anybody interested? That would be great, feel free to send me a mail to: mfeilner(a)linuxnewmedia.de Unfortunately, we don't have much time, there's only two weeks left, but I will help and do a lot of work for the article. And don't worry about language! :-) Thanks a lot! -- Best Regards - Mit freundlichen Gruessen Markus Feilner ------------------------- Feilner IT Linux & GIS Linux Solutions, Training, Seminare und Workshops - auch Inhouse Koetztingerstr 6c 93057 Regensburg Telefon: +49 941 8 10 79 89 Mobil: +49 170 3 02 70 92 WWW: www.feilner-it.net mail: mfeilner(a)feilner-it.net Bei Xing: http://www.xing.com/profile/Markus_Feilner -------------------------------------- My OpenVPN book - OPENVPN : Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks http://www.packtpub.com/openvpn/book My new book - Out now: SCALIX Linux Administrator's Guide http://www.packtpub.com/scalix/book

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[Dovecot] Dovecot in-house benchmarking
by Joseba Torre 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi, Before some major changes in our infrastructure, I was interested in the performance impact of moving indexes to our NAS (Emc Celerra v5.5). So I downloaded both dovecot-1.1.19 and dovecot-1.2.6, compiled them and wrote 2 confs for each of them, one with local indexes and another with indexes in the NAS. Then I created 19 pam users, and tested system performance this way: - uninstall current installed version - install a new version - start dovecot - for each user run: imaptest user=user pass=pass host=localhost port=143 mbox=${MBOX} seed=123 secs=300 | tail -1 > file - stop dovecot I'm not sure if these tests are real, but our results are: * In our conf, 1.1.19 and 1.2.6 performance are roughly the same * Moving the indexes to our NAS makes the system 3 times slower As we currently only have 1 system accessing mails or indexes, I tried later with nfs_* = no, and mmap_disable = no. This makes performance 10% better in any situation. Our testing setup (very close to the real one) - Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2 P4 Xeon 3GHz, 3GB RAM - RHEL 4.7 (not sure about this, the last RHEL4) 32 bits - mailboxes are always in a nfs filesystem - for testing mbox file I've used dovecot-cvs.mbox I've attached a couple of graphs to show this results (I've a lot of them, but result are pretty close from one to another). Also, dovecot -n output for 1.2.6 with indexes in the NAS. Only needed changes have been applied from one conf to another. If you feel that the benchmark can be more "real" with some changes, just tell me. Also, if you are interested in the rest of graphs or date, tell me. Next week I'll be quite busy, but as soon as possible I'll test with an iSCSI disk for indexes. Aaaaaaaaaaagur. -- Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación

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[Dovecot] How to see if sieve is active ?
by Koenraad Lelong 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi, I think I activated sieve, but it's doing nothing. I know manage-sieve works so I made some rules. But they do nothing. I ran sieve-test, which seems to work, but does not move the mail I test. Is this how it works ? I thought the -e parameter just "tested" the rules and did nothing and my command was supposed to do the "real thing". I read there should be a log. I don't find this, how should I enable this ? I just found that lda can have a separate log. I'll enable this and see. I read the wiki-page different times, but I don't see what I'm doing wrong. I attached some files. Sieve-test.txt is the command and output from sieve-test. Phpscript.sieve is the file .dovecot.sieve points to, and dovecot-config is my dovecot config ;-). Thanks for any pointers. Regards, Koenraad Lelong. # 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.22.19-0.4-default x86_64 openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(managesieve): * ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(managesieve): ssl_ca_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/cacert.org.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/mailbox.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/mailboxkey.pem 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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login first_valid_uid: 499 last_valid_uid: 499 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve managesieve_logout_format(default): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(imap): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(managesieve): bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)ace-electronics.be sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins: sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: nobody 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: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve-test .dovecot.sieve new/1256755771.V6806I4ec63M549667.lace3 Performed actions: * store message in folder: Opensuse Implicit keep: (none) Info: final result: success # This script has been automatically generated by avelsieve # (Sieve Mail Filters Plugin for Squirrelmail) # Warning: If you edit this manually, then the changes will not # be reflected in the users' front-end! #AVELSIEVE_VERSIONYTo0OntzOjU6Im1ham9yIjtpOjE7czo1OiJtaW5vciI7aTo5O3M6NzoicmVsZWFzZSI7aTo5O3M6Njoic3RyaW5nIjtzOjU6IjEuOS45Ijt9 #AVELSIEVE_CREATED1256640979 #AVELSIEVE_MODIFIED1256715146 require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imap4flags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","body","date"]; #START_SIEVE_RULEYTo2OntzOjQ6ImNvbmQiO2E6MTp7aTowO2E6NTp7czo0OiJraW5kIjtzOjc6Im1lc3NhZ2UiO3M6NDoidHlwZSI7czo2OiJoZWFkZXIiO3M6NjoiaGVhZGVyIjtzOjc6IlN1YmplY3QiO3M6OToibWF0Y2h0eXBlIjtzOjg6ImNvbnRhaW5zIjtzOjExOiJoZWFkZXJtYXRjaCI7czoxMDoiW29wZW5zdXNlXSI7fX1zOjQ6InR5cGUiO3M6MToiMSI7czo5OiJjb25kaXRpb24iO3M6MzoiYW5kIjtzOjY6ImFjdGlvbiI7czoxOiI1IjtzOjY6ImZvbGRlciI7czo4OiJPcGVuc3VzZSI7czo0OiJzdG9wIjtzOjI6Im9uIjt9END_SIEVE_RULE if header :contains "Subject" "[opensuse]" { fileinto "Opensuse"; stop; } #START_SIEVE_RULEYTo2OntzOjQ6ImNvbmQiO2E6MTp7aTowO2E6NTp7czo0OiJraW5kIjtzOjc6Im1lc3NhZ2UiO3M6NDoidHlwZSI7czo2OiJoZWFkZXIiO3M6NjoiaGVhZGVyIjtzOjc6IlN1YmplY3QiO3M6OToibWF0Y2h0eXBlIjtzOjg6ImNvbnRhaW5zIjtzOjExOiJoZWFkZXJtYXRjaCI7czo5OiJbRG92ZWNvdF0iO319czo0OiJ0eXBlIjtzOjE6IjEiO3M6OToiY29uZGl0aW9uIjtzOjM6ImFuZCI7czo2OiJhY3Rpb24iO3M6MToiNSI7czo2OiJmb2xkZXIiO3M6NzoiZG92ZWNvdCI7czo0OiJzdG9wIjtzOjI6Im9uIjt9END_SIEVE_RULE if header :contains "Subject" "[Dovecot]" { fileinto "dovecot"; stop; } #START_SIEVE_RULEYTo2OntzOjQ6ImNvbmQiO2E6MTp7aTowO2E6NTp7czo0OiJraW5kIjtzOjc6Im1lc3NhZ2UiO3M6NDoidHlwZSI7czo2OiJoZWFkZXIiO3M6NjoiaGVhZGVyIjtzOjc6IlN1YmplY3QiO3M6OToibWF0Y2h0eXBlIjtzOjg6ImNvbnRhaW5zIjtzOjExOiJoZWFkZXJtYXRjaCI7czoxNDoiW0JhY3VsYS11c2Vyc10iO319czo0OiJ0eXBlIjtzOjE6IjEiO3M6OToiY29uZGl0aW9uIjtzOjM6ImFuZCI7czo2OiJhY3Rpb24iO3M6MToiNSI7czo2OiJmb2xkZXIiO3M6NjoiQmFjdWxhIjtzOjQ6InN0b3AiO3M6Mjoib24iO30%3DEND_SIEVE_RULE if header :contains "Subject" "[Bacula-users]" { fileinto "Bacula"; stop; } #START_SIEVE_RULEYTo2OntzOjQ6ImNvbmQiO2E6MTp7aTowO2E6NTp7czo0OiJraW5kIjtzOjc6Im1lc3NhZ2UiO3M6NDoidHlwZSI7czo2OiJoZWFkZXIiO3M6NjoiaGVhZGVyIjtzOjc6IlN1YmplY3QiO3M6OToibWF0Y2h0eXBlIjtzOjg6ImNvbnRhaW5zIjtzOjExOiJoZWFkZXJtYXRjaCI7czoxMjoiW01haWEtdXNlcnNdIjt9fXM6NDoidHlwZSI7czoxOiIxIjtzOjk6ImNvbmRpdGlvbiI7czozOiJhbmQiO3M6NjoiYWN0aW9uIjtzOjE6IjUiO3M6NjoiZm9sZGVyIjtzOjQ6Ik1haWEiO3M6NDoic3RvcCI7czoyOiJvbiI7fQ%3D%3DEND_SIEVE_RULE if header :contains "Subject" "[Maia-users]" { fileinto "Maia"; stop; } #START_SIEVE_RULEYTo2OntzOjQ6ImNvbmQiO2E6MTp7aTowO2E6NTp7czo0OiJraW5kIjtzOjc6Im1lc3NhZ2UiO3M6NDoidHlwZSI7czo2OiJoZWFkZXIiO3M6NjoiaGVhZGVyIjtzOjc6IlN1YmplY3QiO3M6OToibWF0Y2h0eXBlIjtzOjg6ImNvbnRhaW5zIjtzOjExOiJoZWFkZXJtYXRjaCI7czo2OiJbdGVzdF0iO319czo0OiJ0eXBlIjtzOjE6IjEiO3M6OToiY29uZGl0aW9uIjtzOjM6ImFuZCI7czo2OiJhY3Rpb24iO3M6MToiNSI7czo2OiJmb2xkZXIiO3M6NzoiZG92ZWNvdCI7czo0OiJzdG9wIjtzOjI6Im9uIjt9END_SIEVE_RULE if header :contains "Subject" "[test]" { fileinto "dovecot"; stop; }

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Re: [Dovecot] Public Folder Quotas
by Anton Dollmaier 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

> OK thanks just one last query, would the quota rule be something like this? > quota_rule2 = Public*:storage=100M =========== namespace public { prefix = shared. separator = . (...) } dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf } quota = dict:INBOX::proxy::quotadict quota2 = dict:shared:%d:ns=shared.:proxy::quotadict quota_rule = *:storage=50M:messages=1000 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=50M:messages=100 quota2_rule = *:storage=100M:messages=1000 =========== this currently works - you must use the prefix of the namespace as parameter in the quota-definition.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-shared and shared "\Seen" flags
by Dave 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

(Running Dovecot 1.1.0) Is it possible to either - (a) Still have shared "\Seen" flags even while using the dovecot-shared file or (b) Indicate to Dovecot in some way other than the dovecot-shared file which permissions to use for any messages created? The problem is, in my shared folder (using symlinks) scenario I am using, I have to use the dovecot-shared file to make sure new messages get written with the correct user and group permissions so that everyone appropriate can access them, but I still would like the functionality of the shared "\Seen" flags in these shared/symlinked folders (which having dovecot-shared seems to knock out). Is it possible to do both somehow? Dave

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.1 Quota Question
by Marty Anstey 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

>>> We are currently running Dovecot 1.1.16 & Postfix; maildir++. >>> >>> When a message arrives for a mailbox which is over quota, it is bounced. >>> Obviously, this isn't very desirable; the primary downside to this is >>> that when junk mail hits a full mailbox it's bounced to that recipient >>> of the message. On a busy mail system, that could potentially get us >>> blacklisted pretty quickly. Ideally we would like to reject the messages >>> inline. Is there an easy way to set this up? >>> >> >> a) Use deliver -e parameter and configure your MTA to wait on replying >> to DATA command until deliver has finished. I don't know how to make >> Postfix do this (or perhaps it does it by default? dunno). >> >> b) Use quota_warning scripts on 100% quota usage to update user's "quota >> full" bit in a database (or wherever) and have Postfix reject RCPT TO >> command based on that information. I don't know how to do that on >> Postfix's side either. Thanks for the feedback. Option (a) sounds like the cleanest solution, but a bit of testing showed that Postfix doesn't wait on deliver before replying to DATA so this seems to always result in a bounce. I've perused the postfix documentation but so far no luck; if anyone reading this has any insight on how we might configure postfix to behave this way, could you please let me know (maybe offlist would be best, as this may be considered somewhat off-topic). We are using something similar to option (b) currently, but it's not really an elegant approach and we would really like to move away from it. Option (a) sounds great, if we can somehow get it to work. TIA, Marty

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[Dovecot] Question about Windows Mail for Vista IMAP client
by Stewart Dean 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

When TBird logs on, it does it quietly, that is it opens one or two logins. When you start working it'll open a few more. Quiet, no thrashing around When WM4Vista opens, it appears to login and disconnect (immediately) once for every folder a person has. 20 folders, 20 logins and disconnect, ripple fire. Anybody have an idea why WM4V is so busy and TB is quiet doing the same thing? I fell over this doing testing on V1.2.6 but find it's also the case back on my production V1.1.15 -- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Error: NO Mailbox is locked
by Giovanni Mancuso 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi to all, i migrate an imap server from courier-imap to dovecot 1.1.13. After the migration i have often this error in imap communication: * NO Mailbox is locked, will abort in 122 seconds * NO Mailbox is locked, will abort in 92 seconds * NO Mailbox is locked, will abort in 62 seconds * NO Mailbox is locked, will abort in 32 seconds I use maildir and all data are in nfs server. My dovecot configuration is: protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_cert_file = /opt/dovecot/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file = /opt/dovecot/certs/imapd.pem login_user = dovecot mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir mail_uid = 104 mail_gid = 102 mail_privileged_group = vmail first_valid_uid = 0 last_valid_uid = 0 first_valid_gid = 0 last_valid_gid = 0 ssl_disable = no disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes log_path = /opt/dovecot/logs/dovecot.log mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mmap_disable = yes protocol imap { listen = *:143 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota ssl_listen = *:993 mail_executable = /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/automigrateimap } protocol pop3 { listen = *:110 pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v ssl_listen = *:995 mail_executable = /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/automigratepop3 mail_plugins = quota } auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain # passdb pam { # } passdb ldap { args = /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } # userdb passwd { # } userdb ldap { args = /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root } dict { } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M } namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } Have You any idea? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Wish-list: X-Delivered-To headers generated by dovecot-deliver
by Andrzej Adam Filip 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Would it be sensible/"cost effective" to make dovecot-deliver generated X-Delivered-To header(s) based on command line parameter(s)? [after striping such existing headers, before consulting sieve] I need it to: a) *clearly* mark POP/IMAP account fetched by fetchmail [with fetchmail using directly dovecot-deliver in --mda option] b) cleanly implement "shared mailboxes" with MTA such as sendmail that can be easily forced to generate "one header per one recipient" [AFAIK] -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi(a)onet.eu Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown. -- Thomas Mann

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[Dovecot] Multiple LDAP Userdb lookups
by David 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hello one & all, I understand it is possible to do multiple lookups for userdb info of different types, for instance a local "real" account & virtual MySql lookups. Is it possible to do two separate ldap lookups to differnt parts of the same AD domain? I have a config file to do my authentication lookup against the domain. Then I have a 2nd config file for the userdb lookups which uses ldap to query our AD for their userdb info. I need to query a 2nd part of the AD for another group of users & unfortunately putting all users into one container isn't possible. So, if I add another ldap stanza to dovecot.conf will I break anything? Cheers, David. This email is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the parties to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly forbidden. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Newcastle College. Although this email and its attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defects which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received, no responsibility is accepted by Newcastle College or any of its associated companies for any loss or damage arising in any way from the receipt or use thereof.

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird and Trash folder
by Stefan Onken 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hello, I have my problems with the Trash folder in thunderbird. Most of the times (it did work, but only for a short period) Thunderbird is not considering the "Trash" folder (or in my case the "Papierkorb") as the trash folder. The symbol disappears and I am not able to delete folders. Deleted emails are disappearing at all. The usual Google solutions like maildir vs. mbox doesn't help a lot, I am using maildir and the directory structure looks fine. I noticed that I have two trash folders, one with "INBOX.", one without. That may be a problem with Squirrelmail, because I am using both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail. Any idea to solve this issue with Thunderbird ? Thank you, Stonki Dovecot -a: http://www.pastebin.org/49066 Directory structure: http://www.pastebin.org/49067

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[Dovecot] Multiple SSL certs question
by Jean-Baptiste Vignaud 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hello; I was reading the message "how to config dovecot for multiple domains, multiple SSL certs, and conditional IP access -- with passwd-file passdb?", and i was wondering if Dovecot could support the SNI extention of TLS ? SNI is Server Name Indication where during the TLS negotiation, the client set the name of the server it tries to reach I dont know if any imap/pop client support this yet, but this would be a great feature for one IP/multiple virtual domains. Each SNI client would have the correct certificate and not the "main/generic' one. It seems that mutt has a patch for that http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-dev@mutt.org/msg05251.html

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[Dovecot] Hundreds of auth-worker sockets in /etc/dovecot
by Eggert Ehmke 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

I run dovecot 1.2.6, before last update I had 1.2.2. on Debian Lenny. I noticed that my config directory /etc/dovecot is filled up with hundreds of old auth-worker.12345 sockets. I guess they should have been cleaned up, is there a misconfiguration? When I remember right, this did not happen with dovecot 1.1.

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[Dovecot] Help request
by Roy Lozano 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

I'm very new to Linux and especially Dovecot. We are using Dovecot IMAP/POP3 for mail services. I was moving mail from one user account to another new account and the mail just disappeared. Do I have a way to recover the mail? Please help Duane

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[Dovecot] listing available subscriptions - shared mailboxes
by Hendrik Pahl 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

hi everybody, got a strange issue with 1.2.4 on SLES11. When listing the user's available subscriptions with any client, every shared mailbox that can be subscribed is listed twice, once with it's correct name, 'folder' for example. the second appereance is without the last letter of the name, 'folde' for example. strange behaviour, since this happens with any client. i hope somebody know what is wrong here. thanks in advance, hendrik -- LWsystems GmbH & Co. KG ++ http://www.lw-systems.de/impressum Tel: +49 (0)5403 / 5556 ++ Fax: +49 (0)5403 / 7 95 89 97 Ihr Spezialist für Linux, Open Source & IT-Sicherheit ### ### LWsystems veranstaltet den LINUX SOLUTION DAY 2009 ### 29. Oktober 2009 ab 13.30 Uhr in Osnabrück ### Alle Details und Agenda unter: http://www.linux-solution-day.de ### ### Gleich anmelden: mailto:info@linux-solution-day.de?subject=Anmeldung ### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LWsystems GmbH & Co. KG Sitz der Gesellschaft: Tegelerweg 11, 49186 Bad Iburg Telefon +49 (0)5403 5556 Telefax +49 (0)5403 7958997 Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRA 110668 USt.-ID-Nr. DE23852211 Persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin: LWsystems Verwaltungs GmbH Sitz der Gesellschaft: Tegelerweg 11, 49186 Bad Iburg Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 111163 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Ansgar H. Licher, Bad Iburg Dipl.-Ing. Martin Werthmöller, Ibbenbüren Für weitere Firmendetails zu LWsystems siehe / For further company details please look at: http://www.lw-systems.de/impressum ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[Dovecot] Dovecot
by Claudio Prono 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello all, I use dovecot11-1.1.7-1.4.1 with OpenSuse 11.1. Everything works fine, except the vacation with managesieve. When i send a mail to an address with vacation, i recieve back a vacation message, but i read an error like this into dovecot-deliver.log: Error: file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory And then the vacation is send any time, without limits. I think the problem is dovecot can't find home directory for the mail to write the .dovecot.lda-dupes, but i don't know how to specify that. Here is my config: # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.29-0.1-default x86_64 openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot-err.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-inf.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve 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 first_valid_uid: 51 last_valid_uid: 51 first_valid_gid: 51 last_valid_gid: 51 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u mail_debug: yes 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_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v pop3_uidl_format(managesieve): %08Xu%08Xv sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(pop3): sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(pop3): sieve(managesieve): /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/.dovecot.sieve namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/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: 384 plugin: quota: maildir quota: maildir:User quota quota_warning: storage=80%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 80 quota_warning2: storage=90%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90 quota_warning3: storage=99%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90 sieve: /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/sieve And this is my vacation script (generated with smartsieve): #Mail filter rules for claudio(a)mediaservice.net #Generated by claudio(a)mediaservice.net using SmartSieve 1.0.0-RC2 2009/10/26 12:34:19 require ["vacation"]; vacation :days 1 :addresses ["claudio(a)mediaservice.net"] text: sono assente . ; ##PSEUDO script start #SmartSieveRule#a:6:{s:6:"status";s:7:"ENABLED";s:7:"control";N;s:8:"matchAny";N;s:10:"conditions";a:0:{}s:7:"special";s:8:"vacation";s:7:"actions";a:1:{i:0;a:4:{s:4:"type";s:8:"vacation";s:7:"message";s:12:"sono assente";s:4:"days";s:1:"1";s:9:"addresses";a:1:{i:0;s:24:"claudio(a)mediaservice.net";}}}} #mode&&basic How i can fix this? Thank u, Claudio. -- ------------ Claudio Prono Systems Development @ PSS Srl, Divisione Implementazione Sistemi Via San Bernardino, 17 - 10137 Torino (TO) - IT Tel +39-011.32.72.100 Fax +39-011.32.46.497 PGP Fingerprint: 75C2 4049 E23D 2FBF A65F 40DB EA5C 11AC C2B0 3647 Disclaimer: http://atpss.net/disclaimer ------------

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[Dovecot] Sieve vacation with russian subject
by Nikita Koshikov 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello list, I have noticed that sieve vacation action breaks some non-english letters in the subject. I tested with russian language, if subject contains letters from specific diapason russian alphabet, the message received with unreadable subject, but text in the body with the same letters looks ok. Here is example of full subject header, it contains russian alphabet: Subject: абвгде�?жзийклмноп�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�?�? Maybe this headers will be usefull: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit .dovecot.sieve file looks correct, here is it: require ["vacation"]; # rule:[test] if anyof (true) { vacation :days 1 :addresses ["user(a)domain.com"] :subject "абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя" text: Тестовое русское сообщение(Test russian message). ; } I'm running dovecot-1.1.16 with dovecot-sieve-1.1.6 and managesieve-0.10.6. Please tell, is it possible to fix this ?

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[Dovecot] sieve and fileinto encoding
by proton-sss 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello All! I`m using dovecot 1.2.6 I have folder named in russian "САПП", and when in filter i wrote: fileinto "САПП"; all works well. Now i find 2 web applications to manage sieve filters (horde-ingo and squirrelmail/avelsieve) - then creates filter like this: if header :contains "Subject" "САПП" { fileinto "&BCEEEAQfBB8-"; stop; } And creates another folder ".&-BCEEEAQfBB8-", but GOOD folder name already exist ".&BCEEEAQfBB8-". Please help to understand why dovecots deliver make this happen. Best regards Michael p.s. dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28-hardened-r9 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 reiserfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot_err.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot_info.log protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/mail.proton-sss.ru.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/mail.proton-sss.ru.key disable_plaintext_auth: no 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_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/.maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/.maildir/:INDEX=%h/.maildir/shared/%%u list: children subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com mail_plugins: acl sieve mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda log_path: /var/log/dovecot_deliver.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: mail group: users plugin: acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes sieve: %h/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: %h/sieve dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db

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[Dovecot] antispam-plugin 1.2 and trailing carriage-returns
by Karsten Bräckelmann 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Guys, Dovecot 1.0.15 [1], just built the latest antispam-plugin 1.2 (tarball) for testing, mailtrain backend for SA integration. Both built from custom spec files. The mail that is being trained is different than its respective source in the mbox file. The trained one shows added, trailing carriage-return chars for all headers, which are not in the headers in the mbox file. This breaks sa-learn -- both these variations are different, and SA would learn *both* when run against each one separately. How comes? Any insight? How could I fix this, other than wrapping the sa-learn inside another shell script and have sed strip off the noise? This becomes more of an issue, once I switch from sa-learn to the lightning-fast spamc training variant. TIA guenther [1] Yes, I know, sorry. Don't want to change everything at the same time, and the target system I'm experimenting for runs that version, too. -- char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}

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[Dovecot] Public Folder Quotas
by Peter Fraser 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi All I'm really busy adding features to dovecot running on my dev box to later move into prod. I saw where public mailbox quotas was added to 1.2 Does anyone have this working? I haven't been able to find docs on that as of yet.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, Shared Mailboxes (via symlink), and ACLs
by Dave 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello! I just joined the list and will be happy to help where I can in my limited experience, but also come to the table with a question. I think there's something I'm missing regarding shared mailboxes and ACLs, so I will describe my situation and see if I am understanding correctly (running Dovecot 1.1.10). I have read over the Dovecot Wiki many times and have scoured many forums but still can't seem to find a solution. I have an IMAP mailbox that is working fine (user imapuser), so the maildir and related structure is in: /home/imapuser/Maildir I have another IMAP mailbox for another imap user, newuser1, also working fine, with maildir and related structure in: /home/newuser1/Maildir I have created a symlink under newuser1's Maildir to imapuser's Maildir so as to give newuser1 access to the things in imapusers's inbox. I have also symlinked inside the newuser1 Maildir to a folder under imapusers's inbox, let's call it "MailingList", basically settiing up something like: /home/newuser1/Maildir: cur/ .imapuserinbox -> /home/imapuser/Maildir .imapusermailinglist -> /home/imapuser/Maildir/MailingList new/ tmp/ (... and various other Dovecot-related files, nothing ACL related.) Now, I have gotten the shared boxes to work IF I changed the permissions to be rwx for user and group on /home/imapuser/Maildir/*, but this makes procmail (and .procmailrc) unhappy and it starts sending things to mbox files (old system) instead of sending them on to the Maildir. So that doesn't seem to work. Which led me to ACLs. Now, I've tried (after enabling the two appropriate lines in dovecot.conf and restarting dovecot, etc) both per-directory ACL files and global ACLs, and while I can get some things to *change* as viewed by my mail client, I can't seem to create consistent behavior. I know that's fairly vague, but it's like I'll change something in the global ACL and folders are affected that I wouldn't anticipate, based on what I'm understanding of ACLs. So, in the example above, if I enable global ACLs, what names do I use to refer to those shared boxes I'm trying to access? Do I use the link name I made, .imapuserinbox or .imapusermailinglist (without leading periods), like /etc/dovecot/acls/imapuserinbox, or is it based off of the original dir name? Like do I need something like /etc/dovecot/acls/MailingList ? What about the "inbox" I'm sharing in /home/imapuser/Maildir, how do I reference that? Is there a way to do it without affecting or changing permissions of other IMAP users and inboxes on the same system? One thing I am receiving consistently in the error logs is: mail dovecot: IMAP(newuser1): stat(/home/newuser1/Maildir/.imapuserinbox/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=152(newuser1) egid=100(usergroup) UNIX perms seem ok, ACL problem?) So it seems if I get the ACL stuff right, I will be in business. Any ideas?? Thanks for any help anyone can give!! Dave

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[Dovecot] 1.1 Quota Question
by Marty Anstey 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, I'm not sure if this question has been asked before but some googling hasn't turned up anything really relevant. We are currently running Dovecot 1.1.16 & Postfix; maildir++. When a message arrives for a mailbox which is over quota, it is bounced. Obviously, this isn't very desirable; the primary downside to this is that when junk mail hits a full mailbox it's bounced to that recipient of the message. On a busy mail system, that could potentially get us blacklisted pretty quickly. Ideally we would like to reject the messages inline. Is there an easy way to set this up? Thanks, Marty

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[Dovecot] Error: userdb lookup
by kfx 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi list, I am trying to get rid of the "Error: file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory" by adding home directories to my virtual users (ldap). I want this home dir' to be specified like this: /var/vmail/$USER/home/ and the sieve scripts to go to: /var/vmail/$USER/home/sieve/ So as suggested before in this list, I have replaced: user_attrs = mailMessageStore=mail,mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ by user_attrs = mailMessageStore=mail,mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$, =home=/var/vmail/%u/home But then the userdb lookup fail and it tells me this in the log: deliver(user@mydomain): Error: userdb lookup: connect(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory This is strange because: a. the socket is at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master b. it is working flawlessly with the original user_attrs value So I am thinking that this setting is totally ignored by dovecot at some point. I must be missing something. Any help please ? My postfix's master.cf with the deliver relevant line: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} My postfix's main.cf with the deliver relevant line: mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver And my dovecot.conf and dovecot-ldap.conf: # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot-error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-debug.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/CA/chaine.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/mail.mydomain.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/mail.mydomain.key login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: Welcome login_processes_count: 8 login_max_processes_count: 192 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@mydomain hostname: mydomain mail_plugins: quota sieve auth default: username_format: %Ln passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=10GB quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% sieve_dir: /var/vmail/%u/home/sieve sieve: /var/sieve-scripts/%u.sieve ############################## dovecot-ldap.conf: uris = ldaps://ldap.mydomain ldaps://ldap2.mydomain tls = no tls_ca_cert_file = /etc/pki/CA/chaine.crt tls_require_cert = never auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=people,dc=mydomain base = ou=people,dc=mydomain user_attrs = mailMessageStore=mail,mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(accountStatus=active)(uid=%n)) pass_filter = (&(accountStatus=active)(uid=%u)) ########################################

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[Dovecot] dovecot.log file permissions and ownership
by Jerry 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Using FreeBSD-7.2 and Dovecot v1.2.4 what user does dovecot use to write to its log file? I have the logfile located in the /var/log directory. I have Postfix configured to use 'virtual' users and use dovecot for delivery. While dove can write to the file when accessed for POP services, when accessed via Postfix, I get this error message: Oct 25 07:02:15 scorpio postfix/pipe[56956]: B01BD2287E: to=<user(a)domain.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=220, delays=220/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: Permission denied ) I have used the following ownership types for the file: 1) root:wheel 2) dovecot:dovecot 3) root:dovecot 4) dovecot:wheel The only thing that works all the time is to give the file full r/w (0666) permission. That seems extreme. -- Jerry gesbbb(a)yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

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[Dovecot] SetUID check problem
by Thomas Berezansky 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Running dovecot 1.2.4 on FreeBSD using Postfix. Everything works fine normally, but deliver is executable by world. This is not normally a problem, as I don't run deliver SetUID root. But for whatever reason, when deliver is called by something that IS SetUID root I get the following error: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver must not be both world-executable and setuid-root. This allows root exploits. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#multipleuids Deliver's permissions look like this: -r-xr-xr-x While the program calling deliver has permissions like this: -r-s--x--- If it isn't possible for deliver to differentiate between being called by setuid root programs and being setuid root itself I don't think it should be doing that particular security check. Alternatively, there should be an option to turn that particular check off, but what little I saw of the source code and found searching the documentation told me that there doesn't seem to be such an option already. I also couldn't find any mention that this is fixed by 1.2.5 or 1.2.6. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium

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[Dovecot] Test environment question
by Stewart Dean 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

I want to test out my first V1.2 Dovecot (upgraded from V1.1) instance. What I have in mind to do is to run it on another machine that has the Inbox dir and homedirs NFS import mounted from the production mailserver. I then have 5 people test it in this test environment.... A) Then I can deal with the index filesystem in one of two ways: 1) Make it local OR 2) NFS import it from the production DC server Comments as to which is best? I have used #1 before...which caused some temporary unhappiness with the switchover and switchback....during which time the index is badly wrong and DC auto-rebuilds it... B) Is there anything else I should do/not do? C) Any ugliness that will surface in this testing lashup but isn't important? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Multiple identities
by Koenraad Lelong 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hi, I recently moved from courier-imap to dovecot, to be able to work with managesieve. I use version 1.2.5, on suse 10.3. I used the script to migrate the courier maildir to dovecot format. It seems to work fine except for one problem : I use a number of aliasses and with Thunderbird I can select which alias (e-mail-address) to use as my identity when sending a mail. I sniffed with wireshark, and with my standard identity, I see the message appended to "Sent", like I expect. If I use an alias, I see a folder being created : "INBOX.Sent", and then the message is appended there. Why the difference ? I'm trying to debug this but dovecot does not help much. I tried rawlog but there is no output (that I see) from it, no log-files in my maildir. Any hints how to proceed ? Output op dovecot -n : # 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.22.19-0.4-default x86_64 openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_ca_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/cacert.org.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/mailbox.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/certificate/mailboxkey.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 499 last_valid_uid: 499 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)mydomain.com sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins: cmusieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: nobody verbose: yes debug: 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: 432 user: vmail group: vmail Kind regards, Koenraad Lelong.

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[Dovecot] Maildir autocreation
by Proskurin Kirill 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hello. Today i found what maildir autocreation stop work. May be after upgrade to 1.2. Here logs: Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: auth input: quota_rule=*:storage=2046M Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: auth input: uid=1002 Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: auth input: gid=1002 Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: auth input: home=/var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Home dir not found: /var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Quota root: name= backend=maildir args= Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Quota rule: root= mailbox=* bytes=2145386496 messages=0 Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Quota rule: root= mailbox=Trash bytes=1317011456 messages=0 Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Quota rule: root= mailbox=SPAM ignored Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Quota warning: bytes=2038117171 (95%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: Quota warning: bytes=1716309196 (80%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: maildir autodetect: stat(/var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa//cur) failed: No such file or directory Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: mbox autodetect: data=/var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa/ Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat(/var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa/) failed: No such file or directory Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat(/var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa//.imap) failed: No such file or directory Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat(/var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa//inbox) failed: No such file or directory Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Info: mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat(/var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa//mbox) failed: No such file or directory Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Error: mail_location: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/spool/dovecot/domains/fxclub.org/shershov-oa/ (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) Oct 21 11:01:25 deliver(shershov-oa(a)fxclub.org): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p7 i386 ufs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/GlobalSignCA.crt ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/fxclub_org.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/fxclub_org.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_process_size: 128 login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 512 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 256 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 256 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: dmail mail_gid: dmail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota autocreate mail_log mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota autocreate mail_log mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep 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(a)fxclub.org hostname: mail.fxclub.org mail_plugins: sieve quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda quota_full_tempfail: yes deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ %f %s log_path: /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: dovecot-auth username_format: %Lu worker_max_count: 100 passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: exim master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: dmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=1024M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=1256M quota_rule3: SPAM:ignore quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Spam autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Spam sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_global_path: /var/spool/dovecot/global.sieve mail_location: /var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n/ mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill

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[Dovecot] Multiple postfix + single dovecot - optimal configuration
by Tomek 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hello, I want to setup dovecot with two postfix servers on three machines: - dovecot - with huge amount of disk space - where all user emails will be kept, - postfix1 - with greylisting, amavisd-new (spamassassin, clamav, etc), with mysql backend, - postfix2 - same as postfix1. MX priority will be set to the same value for both postfix machines. For now I don't know how to "glue" these severs: - if I should install dovecot on both postfix and use third servers as a NFS share? - or maybe it is possible to communicate with dovecot on third server via LMTP? - or should I run third postfix daemon (without antyspam etc - simple configuration) on the same machine as dovecot only for delivering local mails? I will be grateful for any advice, howto or good practices example. -- Regards, Thomas.

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[Dovecot] protocol configure confusion
by Stewart Dean 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

The docs say: > > *protocol*s = imap *imaps* > *Protocol*s we want to be serving: imap *imaps* pop3 pop3s If you > only want to use dovecot-auth, you can set this to "none". > and..... > > If you want to specify ports for each service, you will need to > configure these settings inside the *protocol* imap/pop3 { ... } > section, so you can specify different ports for IMAP/POP3. For example: > > # *protocol* imap { > # listen = *:10143 > # ssl_listen = *:10943 > # .. > # } > So if I want to run both imap and imaps AND configure the port, do I do: # *protocol* imap { # listen = *:143 # ssl_listen = *:10943 # } OR # *protocol* imap { # listen = *:143 # } # *protocol* imaps { # listen = *:993 # }

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[Dovecot] Ubuntu stable versions
by Stefan Onken 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hello, I am using ubuntu-server for some of my servers. Unfortunately the latest version available is 1.1.11. Is there any alternative than building it from source to get the latest dovecot version ? Thanks Stonki

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[Dovecot] Rotating the dovecot log file
by Jerry 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Using FreeBSD-7.2, I am attempting to configure the system newsyslog utility to rotate the dovecot.log file. I would prefer to use the system utility rather than the one described on the dovecot wiki for rotating the file. Unfortunately, it is not working. This is the error message that is spawned: newsyslog: illegal signal number in config file: /var/log/dovecot.log root:wheel 0666 1 * $M1D0 CJ /var/run/dovecot/master.pid USR1 Does anyone have an idea how to get this to work? Thanks! -- Jerry gesbbb(a)yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | Wilner's Observation: All conversations with a potato should be conducted in private.

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[Dovecot] New error messages
by Robin Atwood 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I was glancing at my logwatch report when I noticed: dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fchown(/home/robinmail/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 10(wheel)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=100(users), group based on /var/mail/robinmail): 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(robinmail): fchown(/home/robinmail/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 10(wheel)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=100(users), group based on /var/mail/robinmail): 3 Time(s) So what's going on here? :) I am fairly sure I never had them before. Running dovecot 1.2.6. TIA -Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] v2.0.alpha2 released
by Timo Sirainen 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/alpha/dovecot-2.0.alpha2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/alpha/dovecot-2.0.alpha2.tar.gz.sig Changes since alpha1: - All debug messages are now logged to debug log (debug_log_path setting, defaults to info_log_path). Patch by Pascal Volk. - Added support for SORT=DISPLAY IMAP extension. - Added doveadm who command for listing currently logged in users. - ssl_ciphers_list: Disable anonymous and export ciphers by default. - mail_chroot can now contain %variables (e.g. /home/%u) - fixed a bad maildir crashing bug - ssl-params is now run with +15 priority when generating the ssl parameters - Redesigned how login processes log in and create imap/pop3 processes. This fixes several settings and some other problems, plus it's now also possible for a single imap/pop3 process to handle multiple connections. If you want to try this, modify master.conf: service imap { # comment out: #service_count = 1 # This should be at least the number of CPUs, maybe more (2-3x?) process_min_avail = 4 # Limit the number of clients a single process can handle. # Disk IO is blocking, so some commands can take a while. client_limit = 5 } It currently doesn't even try to group same user's connections to same process, they'll just go randomly to whichever process manages to accept it first. Some day perhaps there should be a new service in the middle that keeps track of existing connections and forwards new ones to right mail processes. v2.0.beta1 TODO list: - master.conf has to be somehow put into defaults, so doveconf -n doesn't show its contents. an example master.conf would be minimal and show only those settings that admin might want to change (and those would show up in doveconf -n) - verbose_proctitle=yes is now quite useless because of the imap/pop3 process creation change. Probably enable linux-proctitle-hack and start changing the proctitle much more often. For example it could contain the command that's currently being run by user. And login processes could contain how many client connections they currently have. And other processes too something similar.. - change plugin hook design to allow multiple users in same process to run different plugins See alpha1 release announcement for more about these TODO: - v1.x config backwards compatibility - dsync is buggy - config process is slow - tcp-wrappers support

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[Dovecot] Capability info in hello message not complete?
by Michal Hlavinka 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi, one Fedora user complains about not some troubles after update to dovecot 1.2. He suspects wrong capability information given by dovecot 1.2 In dovecot.conf he uses imap_capability= option. While response to 'A CAPABILITY' respects imap_capability value, the capability info in hello message does not. for imap_capability=IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL NAMESPACE CHILDREN SORT QUOTA THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT UNSELECT IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN A CAPABILITY response is: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL NAMESPACE CHILDREN SORT QUOTA THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT UNSELECT IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN but hello message is: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. But it seems even when imap_capability is not used capability in hello message is not complete: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. vs. * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN is this expected? Do you think capability information in hello message really can befool clients? Regards, Michal Hlavinka

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[Dovecot] HA Dovecot Config?
by dovecot＠corwyn.net 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi! I'm currently running Dovecot 1.1.8 on a HP server using CentOS 5.2 as my IMAP server, receiving mail from postfix, and also using squirrelmail as the frontend. As I look at upgrading the mail server, I'd like to change to a higher availability configuration (where the server can fail and I don't have to reconfig my imap users). For the SMTP that's easy, because I can use multiple MX records, and I can redirect a port forward from one server to another. But IMAP doesn't have the same functionality, because it's the storage that matters. What's the "best" way to do that? Clustered servers using a SAN? NAS? some sort of appliance in front? Suggestions? Thanks! Rick Rick Steeves http://www.sinister.net In reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future - Alexander Supertramp

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[Dovecot] doveadm who
by Timo Sirainen 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Pascal Volk suggested this, and it was pretty quick to implement for Dovecot v2.0. Ideas welcome how to improve it, or if it's already perfect :) The first line is written to stderr, so |sort can be used: # doveadm who|sort username # (ips) (pids) timo 1 (127.0.0.1) (2457) tss 2 (127.0.0.1) (617 1345) tss2 2 (127.0.0.2 127.0.0.1) (2392 2799) # doveadm who|sort -k2 -nr username # (ips) (pids) tss2 2 (127.0.0.2 127.0.0.1) (2392 2799) tss 2 (127.0.0.1) (617 1345) timo 1 (127.0.0.1) (2457) You can filter connections: # doveadm who 127.0.0.2 username # (ips) (pids) tss2 2 (127.0.0.2 127.0.0.1) (2392 2799) # doveadm who 127.0.0.0/24 username # (ips) (pids) tss2 2 (127.0.0.2 127.0.0.1) (2392 2799) timo 1 (127.0.0.1) (2457) tss 2 (127.0.0.1) (617 1345) # doveadm who tss username # (ips) (pids) tss2 2 (127.0.0.2 127.0.0.1) (2392 2799) tss 2 (127.0.0.1) (617 1345) # doveadm who tss 127.0.0.1 username # (ips) (pids) tss2 2 (127.0.0.2 127.0.0.1) (2392 2799) tss 2 (127.0.0.1) (617 1345)

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[Dovecot] Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help
by Marc Perkel 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Excuse me for being stupid and confused. I'm trying to convert my dovecot install from passwd-file to mysql. I have a single table called "users" that has 3 fields, user_name, domain_name and password. The data came from passwd/shadow files so it uses the same password encryption as the shadow files do. The directory where the email is stored is calculated elsewhere and not stored in the database. The UID and GID are both mail for all virtual users. The user logs in passing the full email address and the password. So - what would be the config for using MySQL? Do I even need a userdb? If so - what would it be? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] VZW Blackberry BIS problems?
by B. Cook 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Ever since Columbus day things have been strange with my two dovecot servers, according to my Blackberry users. We do not have a BES just the standard BIS that comes with a personal account. Several people have told me that since that Monday that they get occasional duplicate copies of messages which only appear singularly in their Maildir inboxes. I myself even called VZW and got transferred to RIM themselves where they 'reset' my account; (same as me going into the BIS server and deleting and adding again) only to have the same thing happen; again occasionally.. Below is relevant dovecot info.. -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 164064 Oct 1 17:16 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot (date it was built; prior to any problems.. *whew*) ;) 1 # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf 2 # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 3 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/ssl/mail.poughkeepsieschools.org.pem 4 ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/ssl/mail.poughkeepsieschools.org.pem 5 disable_plaintext_auth: no 6 verbose_ssl: yes 7 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login 8 login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login 9 login_greeting: mail.poughkeepsieschools.org OK 10 first_valid_uid: 89 11 last_valid_uid: 89 12 first_valid_gid: 89 13 last_valid_gid: 89 14 maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes 15 mail_plugins: quota imap_quota 16 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep 17 auth default: 18 mechanisms: plain login 19 user: vpopmail 20 passdb: 21 driver: vpopmail 22 userdb: 23 driver: vpopmail 24 socket: 25 type: listen 26 client: 27 path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client 28 mode: 438 29 plugin: 30 quota: maildir:User quota 31 expire: Trash 7 Spam 30 Now what does not show here is something that I put in that it looked like it was supposed to help but didn't.. mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 after looking around at other people complaining about BIS and possible dovecot issues it seemed that that entry was the 'magic' the BIS was missing; except I never had it and never had troubles. I'm assuming this is a BIS issue of some sort, but I can't tell. After looking on the wiki I didn't see anything that says "BIS users look here for tips.. " So I'm assuming there aren't any; I think it should just work with the IMAP server.. Any help would be appreciated as everyone thinks this is 'our problem' and "if we had an exchange server we wouldn't be having these problems.." Thanks in advance..

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[Dovecot] sieve + redirect + as attachment
by Jerry 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Is it possible to use the 'redirect' function in 'sieve' to forward a message as an attachment rather than in-line? -- Jerry gesbbb(a)yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers, it was clearly platoonic.

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[Dovecot] Public Folders
by Peter Fraser 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi All I'm trying to implement public folders. My dovecot -n readout is at the bottom. I created a maildir called resumes in /home/public Its contents are: mail# ls -la /home/public/resumes total 6 drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 512 Oct 22 08:58 . drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 512 Oct 22 08:47 .. drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 512 Oct 22 08:58 Maildir -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 21 18:30 dovecot-acl-list Then I created a directory called resumes in /usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls and in it, I created the file dovecot-acl I put the following entries in dovecot-acl owner lrwstiekxa user=user1 rwl When I connect as user1 in thunderbird, right click on the inbox and go subscribe, I see a greyed out public which I cannot subscribe to. I do not see resumes. Any ideas on why this is? mail# dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 i386 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Mail Server ready. verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/:INDEX=~/Maildir/tmp/index mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota acl imap_acl mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh dict_db_config: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-db.conf namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: public/ location: maildir:/home/public list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/Maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: mail_plugins: quota acl postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu debug: yes passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes dovecot passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=1002 gid=1002 home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: maildir quota2: maildir:user quota quota_rule: *:storage=512M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10M quota_rule3: SPAM:ignore quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 80 acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=300

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Re: [Dovecot] pop3-login: Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 5):
by Brandon Davidson 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi Marco, On 10/22/09 1:50 AM, "Marco Nenciarini" <mnencia(a)prato.linux.it> wrote: > This morning it happened another time, another time during the daily > cron execution. > > Oct 22 06:26:57 server dovecot: pop3-login: Panic: Leaked file fd 5: dev > 0.12 inode 1005 > Oct 22 06:26:57 server dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating > login processes, slowing down for now > Oct 22 06:26:57 server dovecot: dovecot: child 21311 (login) killed with > signal 6 (core dumps disabled) > > I have dovecot 1.2.6 with Timo's patch to check leaked descriptors. I rebuilt the binaries on our hosts with optimization disabled, and I'm still waiting for it to reoccur so I can gather file descriptor information and a core. I don't have the leak-detect patch applied. Let's see what Timo has to say about that log file bit. Since it seems to happen to you fairly frequently, it might be worth enabling core dumps as well? -Brad

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[Dovecot] NFS random redirects
by Thomas Hummel 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hello, Dovecot documentation states that the "random redirects to multiple servers" NFS solution is to be avoided and I'm investigation the actual risks of it and a way to put it to test. I'm running dovecot-1.2.6 with Maildir (indexes, mailboxes and control files are all on NFS) and I'm using procmail instead of deliver as the LDA. 1. Documentation says : "Dovecot locks the maildir while doing modifications to it or while looking for new messages in it" and then mention the "dovecot-uidlist.lock" dotlock file. a) if that file fcntl'ed in addition (i.e. dotlocked + fcntled or just dotlocked) ? b) is that file THE way to lock the Maildir mentionned above or is it just something else used only for updating that particular file (i.e. is Maildir locked in some way + dovecot-uidlist.lock created or just dovecot-uidlist.lock created) ? 2. Documentation says : "NFS caching is a big problem when multiple computers are accessing the same mailbox simultaneously" I guess it's because of the dotlocks files and not fcntl locking ? Is there anything else than dovecot-uidlist which is dotlocked ? If yes, is it dotlocked only or dotlocked and fcntled ? 3. Documentation says : "Dovecot v1.1 flushes NFS caches when needed if you set mail_nfs_storage=yes" How can a program flush the NFS caches ? By which (system) call ? 4. Documentation says : "Besides the NFS cache problems described above, mailbox contents can't be cached as well in the memory either." Is it about in-memory indexes or part of indexes loaded into memory ? 5. How can I torture-test concurrent access to the same mailbox through 2 dovecot servers ? I don't see imaptest.c anymore on http://dovecot.org/tools but I see 2 nfs_test ? Is there some command line options I should use ? 6. when and why can a random redirect to multiple server can cause mailbox corruption ? On flags only or on content as well ? Thanks -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] deliver+sieve: Destination address (-a) parsing changes
by Frank Behrens 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

When I upgraded my old, long running dovecot 1.1 to newer dovecot-1.2.4 + doevecot-sieve- 0.1.12 I observed a change in destination address (-a) parsing. Old behaviour: When Timo introduced this feature (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-September/025813.html) it was possible to hand over only the detail part. In my sendmail configuration I used "-a +$h", where $h contains the detail part and may be empty. By default sendmail can call the delivery agent with the following information: $u: The recipient user (always set) $h: Detail part, may be empty $g: The sender address (relative to the recipient). New behaviour: The current sieve version needs a complete address with local- and domain-part. Otherwise we get a warning like deliver(user): sieve: envelope recipient address 'user' is unparseable. The problem is, that the domain part is not always available, e.g. for local delivered emails. This is the main problem, although the setup could be simplified if deliver would accept the old syntax. I'm going to make modifications to sendmail to be able to have all address information available, but this will not solve the problem with missing domain. Now comes my question: Is it better to enhance the address parsing in sieve plugin or should I use a wrapper around deliver? The latter is not very difficult, but introduces an additional process (that may fail). Regards, Frank -- Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.

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[Dovecot] Courier to dovecot migration issue
by Rami Rami 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hello, I am trying to migrate users form courier to dovecot 1.2.6. The main configuration parameters are as follows : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # 1.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 2304). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 i686 Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) base_dir: /usr/local/var/run/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/maillog protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes: 2048 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 100 last_valid_uid: 1000000 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/tmp/QUOTA/index/%u:CONTROL=/tmp/QUOTA/control/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs:acad_proto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After using the "courier-dovecot-migrate.pl" script users using pop3 are re-downloading their old emails as duplicates. This issue is resolved by replacing : maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/tmp/QUOTA/index/%u:CONTROL=/tmp/QUOTA/control/%u with maildir:~/Maildir any idea on the reason of these duplicates or workarounds to prevent them while keeping indexes in /tmp. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] testing needed
by Timo Sirainen 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Can someone find an OS where the attached program doesn't work? It should print "success". So far tested for success: Linux 2.6, Solaris 10, FreeBSD 7.2, OpenBSD 4.2.

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP goes down from time to time
by Juan Felipe Estrada 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Good afternoon again I was thinking about the Dovecot upgrading so i´m doing this in the next hours. in the other hand here i show you the dovecot-ldap.conf file I think it has just the necessary options to bind the LDAP server. /hosts = ********* base = ou=People,o=*****,o=****** ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=People,o=******,o=****** /About the dovecot.conf should I use some login options as /login_process_per_connection = yes /or /login_processes_count = 1/? For now thanks so much for the help i´ll inform about the new version installation Juan Felipe Estrada dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org escribió: > Send dovecot mailing list submissions to > dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of dovecot digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help (Jerry) > 2. Re: Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help (Marc Perkel) > 3. Re: Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help > (Andreas Ntaflos) > 4. Re: Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help > (Andreas Ntaflos) > 5. IMAP goes down from time to time (Juan Felipe Estrada) > 6. Re: VZW Blackberry BIS problems? (Patrick Domack) > 7. Re: IMAP goes down from time to time (Andreas Ntaflos) > 8. Re: IMAP goes down from time to time (Timo Sirainen) > 9. Re: VZW Blackberry BIS problems? (Timo Sirainen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:49:16 -0400 > From: Jerry <gesbbb(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <20091020124916.114b8820(a)scorpio.seibercom.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:57:35 +0200 > Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)dword.org> wrote: > > >> On Tuesday 20 October 2009 17:07:49 Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >>> On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: >>> >>>> I'd say you need a static userdb. Something like this: >>>> >>> A couple of small things: >>> >>>> passdb sql { >>>> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >>>> } >>>> >>>> userdb static { >>>> args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln >>>> allow_all_users=yes } >>>> >>> %Ld/%Ln at this point works for now, but maybe not in future. I'd >>> have passdb already change it lowercase. Also allow_all_users=yes >>> isn't required (but maybe not harmful) since passdb sql is used. >>> >> That's good to know, thanks. And you're right of course, the passdb >> should already return the correct information, Dovecot shouldn't be >> asked to change anything afterwards. >> >> Fortunately I myself don't use MySQL anymore but have migrated >> everything to PostgreSQL. It does a much better job as a DBMS >> (remote, secured access to the DB, fine-grained permissions and >> rules) and also knows about case sensitivity. So foobar(a)example.com >> is not the same as FooBar(a)example.com. Which eliminates this problem >> class altogether. >> > > MySQL, since at least 5.x knows about case. You can Google for the > information if you want. > > >>>> password_query = SELECT password FROM view_users WHERE email='%u'; >>>> >>> SELECT password, email AS user FROM .. >>> >>> changes username to same case as it's in the database (so lowercase >>> probably) and there's no need to use %L anymore. >>> >> You mean something like >> >> SELECT password, LOWER(email) as user FROM view_users WHERE email='%u' >> >> should do the trick? I shall test this on my test server, just for >> fun. >> >> Andreas >>

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin per domain
by Jose Luis Marin Perez 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Dear Timo thank you for the help your giving me these. I want to set expire plugin only for some domains in the same way I set autocreate plugin. vchkpw-wrapper.sh #!/bin/bash DOMAIN=`echo $VPOPUSER|sed s/^.*@//` echo $USER > /tmp/autocreate echo $DOMAIN >> /tmp/autocreate if [ "$DOMAIN" = "operaciones.qnet.com.pe" ]; then export USERDB_AUTOCREATE=INBOX.Spam export USERDB_AUTOSUBSCRIBE=INBOX.Spam export USERDB_EXPIRE="INBOX.Spam 1 INBOX.Spam.* 1" export USERDB_EXPIRE_DICT="proxy::expire" export EXTRA="USERDB_AUTOCREATE USERDB_AUTOSUBSCRIBE USERDB_EXPIRE USERDB_EXPIRE_DICT" set > /tmp/environment fi unset USER exec $* Record the right information in the database but when you run /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test Displays the following message Fatal: expire and expire_altmove settings not set You told me it was to migrate to Dovecot 1.2.6 with support for userdb chkpassword to use the following configuration: userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: checkpassword args: /usr/local/bin/userdb.sh My problem is that I have no idea how to create the userdb.sh Please could help in the creation of this script? Thanks Jose Luis _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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[Dovecot] Panic when using QRESYNC
by Michael M. Slusarz 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Been seeing these occasionally for the last few weeks. Only way to fix is to remove cache files in the affected mailbox. Reproduced with both 1.2.5 and 1.2.6. IMAP transaction: ----------------- * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in as slusarz 1 enable qresync * ENABLED QRESYNC 1 OK Enabled. 2 EXAMINE "INBOX" (QRESYNC (1254166848 789 1,2,6,7,109,113,193,230,231,279,284)) Log output: ----------- Oct 9 12:49:30 bigworm EXT(slusarz): : /home/slusarz/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Transaction log changed unexpectedly, can't get modseq Oct 9 12:49:30 bigworm EXT(slusarz): : Panic: file imap-fetch.c: line 227 (get_expunges_fallback): assertion failed: (mail->uid > next_uid) Oct 9 12:49:30 bigworm EXT(slusarz): : Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x4a199b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(i_syslog_fatal_handler+0x2b) [0x4a1a5b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x4a10f6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(imap_fetch_begin+0x6bb) [0x42415b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(cmd_select_full+0x54a) [0x41e5ba] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x420b4d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x420c2d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x135) [0x420e55] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5c) [0x42192c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xbd) [0x4a988d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x4a8d08] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(main+0x531) [0x429441] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7ffff76a09ed] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x4199f9] Oct 9 12:49:30 bigworm dovecot: dovecot: child 9556 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) GDB output: ----------- Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00007ffff76b3f15 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007ffff76b3f15 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007ffff76b5340 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000004a19ad in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00000000004a1a5b in i_syslog_fatal_handler () No symbol table info available. #4 0x00000000004a10f6 in i_panic () No symbol table info available. #5 0x000000000042415b in imap_fetch_begin () No symbol table info available. #6 0x000000000041e5ba in cmd_select_full () No symbol table info available. #7 0x0000000000420b4d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #8 0x0000000000420c2d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #9 0x0000000000420e55 in client_handle_input () No symbol table info available. #10 0x000000000042192c in client_input () No symbol table info available. #11 0x00000000004a988d in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #12 0x00000000004a8d08 in io_loop_run () No symbol table info available. #13 0x0000000000429441 in main () No symbol table info available.

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[Dovecot] IMAP goes down from time to time
by Juan Felipe Estrada 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Good Afternoon I´m really new at this and i don´t know if i´m posting at the right place. My problem is that our Dovecot IMAP is stopping from time to time with no info in the log, i just realize about this when our support person call me saying that the whatsup monitor is showing the IMAP4 process down. I can figure about this too by trying to get in our webmail Horde and i cannot login. Here i post my Dovecot -n command i´ll appreciate any help. /# 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/unimail.uninorte.edu.co.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/unimail.uninorte.edu.co.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 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 mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 300 cache_ttl: 600 worker_max_count: 200 passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/vmail/%u userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix / Thanks so much Juan Felipe Estrada Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia

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[Dovecot] Question about IMAP IDLE (and Palm Pre)
by Ingo Thierack 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Hello, i try to understand, how it works (IDLE). Try to get it successfully work with my new Palm Pre ;-) which looks like to have a lot issues wir imap... so i'll blame not dovecot for the issues. Sent a mail, from googlemail. processed by dovecot ad 12:11. what me now confusing, is, that there in the out-log is nothing visible, I expected, to see there was sent an notification, there was a new mail. Do i miss something? After arounde 15 minutes the Palm sent a "DONE" and reconnect. then the messages was received. Regards Ingo email come in 2009-10-19 12:11:27 | dovecot: | deliver(xxxxxxx(a)ghostdive.org): sieve: msgid=<ac2e3a8f0910190311t381d9e33j99e6aa4d1e07c88a(a)mail.gmail.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' outfile-log * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-19 12:09:33 <<<~~A4 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in >>> <<<* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CH ILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH ~~A5 OK Capability completed. >>> <<<* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk \*)] Flags permitted. * 42 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1252956599] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 156] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 132] Highest ~~A6 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. >>> <<<* SEARCH 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 155 ~~A7 OK Search completed (0.000 secs). >>> <<<* SEARCH ~~A8 OK Search completed (0.000 secs). >>> <<<* SEARCH ~~A9 OK Search completed (0.000 secs). >>> <<<* SEARCH ~~A10 OK Search completed (0.000 secs). >>> <<<* SEARCH 155 ~~A11 OK Search completed (0.000 secs). >>> <<<+ idling >>> * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-19 12:14:36 <<<* OK Still here >>> * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2009-10-19 12:19:36 <<<* OK Still here >>> in-log <<<~~A5 capability >>> <<<~~A6 select "Inbox" >>> <<<~~A7 UID SEARCH ALL UID 124:* >>> <<<~~A8 uid search unseen UID 124:* >>> <<<~~A9 uid search answered UID 124:* >>> <<<~~A10 uid search flagged UID 124:* >>> <<<~~A11 uid search deleted UID 124:* >>> <<<~~A12 IDLE >>> <<<DONE >>>

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[Dovecot] deliver and stale NFS file handles
by Leon Meßner 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Hello, since updating two of our backup mailservers from dovecot 1.1.16 to 1.2.4 i get the following errors from dovecot-deliver when receiving (smtp) mail. Oct 16 00:10:42 mail3 dovecot: deliver(user): write_full(/home/r/user/.temp.backupmail.22774.d17050a07b2108e8) failed: Stale NFS file handle Oct 16 00:10:42 mail3 dovecot: deliver(user): copy: i_stream_read() failed: Stale NFS file handle Oct 16 00:10:43 mail3 dovecot: deliver(user): msgid=<d0acb2021be1922ae2d35fbd6b09994c.squirrel(a)www.physik.tu-berlin.de>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-10-16 00:10:42] It nearly never happens with text/plain mails but _very_ often when mails have attachments of some different type. This is inside a 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD jail. The NFS export is mounted from the machine that is running the jail. Locking with lockf works. Following is the output of `dovecot -n` from the mailserver. Please tell me if you need any further information. Thanks in Advance, Leon $ dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s managesieve listen: mail3.physik.tu-berlin.de ssl_cert_file: /etc/private/backupmail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/private/backupmail_privatekey.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_processes_count: 6 login_max_processes_count: 256 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 first_valid_gid: 300 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/maildir mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): 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): namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: mbox:~/mail list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)physik.tu-berlin.de log_path: info_log_path: mail_plugins: sieve quota_full_tempfail: yes sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: gssapi plain login username_format: %Lu krb5_keytab: /etc/mail3.krb5.keytab gssapi_hostname: backupmail worker_max_count: 120 passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes failure_show_msg=yes max_requests=100 dovecot userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/.sieve

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[Dovecot] Unknown setting: driver
by Rodolfo González González 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Hi, the conversion from courier was done without problems, but now I have a problem with my auth config. I followed the sql example included in the latest dovecot source, and put driver=mysql in dovecot.conf (outside any section), and now I get: --- Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 50: Unknown setting: driver Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Starting DovecotError: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 50: Unknown setting: driver Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf --- So I'm lost... what's wrong? if I followed the example :o Then, another question: I had to go back to courier so my users still can work, but I already created the files using the migration script: do I need to rerun the migration script? or what do I need to do when I manage to fix the error above and run dovecot? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] clarify 'type', 'executable' & 'path' in 2.0 master.conf?
by PGNet Dev 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

@2.0's master.conf, there's, e.g., service config { type= config executable =config unix_listener { path = config mode = 0666 } } can someone please explain function/usage for the 'type', 'executable' & 'path' fields? and, for any file paths, are the presumed to be _relative_ to the dovecot executable? in $PATH? can they accept full/absolute paths? thanks.

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[Dovecot] Can't use string ("0") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/local/sbin/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl line 300.
by Rodolfo González González 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hello, I need to migrate from courier-imap to dovecot. I'm trying to use courier-dovecot-migrate.pl to migrate the users' maildirs but I'm getting these messages: --- # courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --to-dovecot --recursive mydomain.com Testing conversion to Dovecot format Finding maildirs under mydomain.com mydomain.com/contact/./Maildir: No imap/pop3 uidlist files mydomain.com/someone/./Maildir/courierpop3dsizelist: Broken header: /1 9 Can't use string ("0") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/local/sbin/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl line 300. --- The courierpop3dsizelist files have contents like this one: --- /1 9 1181869523.M278844P24357V000000000000080CI006E803B_0.email,S=1216:2, 1241 8 --- and it seems that the script is failing with all the maildirs with courierpop3dsizelist. I use courier-imap 4.6.0, access using pop3 causes no problems. Any hint on what's wrong is appreciated, thanks. Salut, Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] Detect client application
by Thu NGUYEN 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hello, Do you have any way to detect the client which is connecting to our IMAP server? I actually have an mail server which use dovecot but I just want to allow mobile device access to this server to get email, not desktop as Outlook, Thunderbird ... Thanks for your advice. -- Regards, Thu NGUYEN

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