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[Dovecot] How to set up a passwd file for virtual hosting
by Richard Freeman 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi, Exim4 is running fine and I am trying to set up Dovecot 0.99 to handle virtual users (http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VirtualhostingWithExim) so I don't have to set up user accounts for each e-mail address I want to server out via pop3. I need to create a user and passd file, a bit like /etc/passwd, but in a different location for my dovecot virtual users. I can create a blank file such as /etc/dovecot/users (beware my increasing vi skills...) but how do I add users and passwords to this? Can I just type them in and separate them with colons? If so, how would I add a password to the file? I am happy using the passwd command which alters my user passwords in /etc/passwd. Can I use it or something similar to create the passwords for the users in my new file /etc/dovecot/users ? Is there any way I can use an MD5 hash or CRYPT format for the passwords? Yours, Richard

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD Ports Issues
by Barry Jeung 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Installed dovecot for the first time, using the FreeBSD port. Found 2 issues with the port, and I've only been able to resolve one of them. First of all, the port, (or perhaps dovecot) does work with mysql 4.1 encryption. I had to create a user with access to the mysql table, then do 'set password = old_password('password');' in order to get dovecot to talk to the server. The second issue, is that dovecot seems to be ignoring my user_query settings. I have the following in dovecot-sql.conf: password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 125 as uid, 125 as gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' The password query works, however the user query seems to default to something else, and no matter how I change the user_query line in dovecot-sql.conf, it uses the same query. Here's an excerpt from my logs: dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:30 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:31 Info: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to (null) (postfix) dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)example.com,1.2.3.4): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'user(a)example.com' dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=5.6.7.8 rip=1.2.3.4 resp=AGJqZXVuZ0Bjb2JhbHQtaXQuY29tAHRlc3Q= dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=user(a)example.com dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 13590 1 dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)example.com,1.2.3.4): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)example.com' dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)example.com,1.2.3.4): User query failed: Table 'postfix.users' doesn't exist dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<user(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=67.188.145.230, lip=209.25.157.150, TLS So obviously the query fails because that table doesn't exist. However that's not the query that I have in the configuration file. As a matter of fact, I have no idea where it's pulling that query from. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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[Dovecot] How to deny access from some ip or network
by Alisher Minarov 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Version: dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4 OS: Linux mail.server 2.6.9-1.667smp #1 SMP How I should call daemon in hosts.deny file to deny access from some ip or network? Or it can be do by dovecot itself?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on FC3 with Active Directory authentication
by Jeff Ramsey 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

I am building an IMAP server that uses Dovecot/Sendmail on FC3 to replace our POP server that uses Dovecot (via POP)/Sendmail on FC2. My new server is authenticating users via winbind/smb against my WIndows 2003 Active Directory. The authentication is working great. The problem come up when a user gets an email and has not ever logged into the IMAP server via SSH, local, or GDM, therefore that user has no home directory. /etc/pam.d/ssh, /etc/pam.d/login, and /etc/pam.d/gdm all have a line calling mkhomedir.so, which is using the /etc/skel home directory skeleton to create the user's home dir upon successful login, however, when I add that line to /etc/pam.d/dovecot, I get a permission denied error in /var/log/maillog. I'm assuming this is because dovecot is running as the user at this point, and therefore does not have the necessary permissions to create a folder under / home/DOMAIN/, which is where the home dir is supposed to be. If I manually create the folder, and set it's permissions, or if the user logs in via any of the before-mentioned methods, dovecot and sendmail work great. Does anyone else run a similar setup? If so, how did you overcome this problem? If not, can some Linux gurus recommend either altering the write permissions on the /home/DOMAIN directory, or should I try to call the mkhomdir app earlier in the process somehow? Any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to make this as seamless as possible. Basically, I can manually create all the home dirs well enough, but when I add a new user to the Active Directory, it would be nice if this part was automated as much as possible. Thanks, Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] Mapping username only for auth
by Andy Cravens 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

I am running Dovecot alpha 3 with authentication from the local shadow file. I'd like to change the authentication to use our radius server. I can probably do this through pam. The usernames on the mail server are set up as first initial + last name ( jdoe for John Doe ). The usernames on the radius server are the employee number. Is there a way to map the username to the employee number in dovecot before handing off the authentication to the radius server? I want the usernames on the mail server to remain first initial + last name. I don't mind maintaining a mapping file to go from username to employee number because I can automate this task. Has anybody done this?

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[Dovecot] saslauthd/dovecot/root
by Andrew Instone-Cowie 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi, I am using SMTP-AUTH over TLS with sendmail, to allow remote users to authenticate and send mail via my server, and this uses saslauthd to authenticate users. I have set up saslauthd with the "MECH=rimap" mechanism, so it uses the local IMAP server, Dovecot, for authentication. I want to do this because Dovecot is set up to use /etc/passwd for user credentials (so I don't have multiple password files to manage), and Dovecot handles restricting the range of valid UIDs (including blocking root). (Using the default MECH=shadow with saslauthd allows all users to authenticate, which I don't want) For real "normal" users, this all works fine - right password = user can relay mail, wrong password = relaying denied. So far so good. If I try to authenticate as root (which I want NEVER to work), with the wrong password, Dovecot correctly refuses to allow root IMAP access and saslauthd/sendmail denies the relay. But if I try to authenticate as root with the correct password (which I still want NOT to work!), Dovecot still refuses IMAP access, and puts this in the maillog: Oct 5 14:16:18 hadrian dovecot: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user root) Oct 5 14:16:18 hadrian imap-login: Internal login failure: root [127.0.0.1] But saslauthd seems to treat this as a successful authentication and still allows root to relay email! So: Dovecot problem or saslauthd problem? Server is running CentOS 4.1, fully patched. Packages are dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1, cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5.EL4, sendmail-8.13.1-2. Thanks Andrew

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[Dovecot] Confused
by Matt Juszczak 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi all, I really don't know where to go from here. I've traced and pasted, but never heard responses.... I'm getting the following (see bottom of this email) in a single day of dmesg....most of the time the error message in the log file is something like: Oct 5 09:21:43 mail1 dovecot: imap(*****): file mbox-save.c: line 280 (mbox_save_init_file): assertion failed: (mbox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) Some of them also have something to do with storage space. Any ideas at all? Thanks :) Regards, Matt ---dmesg snip---- pid 20905 (imap), uid 34411: exited on signal 6 pid 42237 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 42757 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 43036 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 41987 (imap), uid 32768: exited on signal 6 pid 99572 (imap), uid 35371: exited on signal 6 pid 99759 (imap), uid 35371: exited on signal 6 pid 49474 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 82739 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 67938 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68042 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68115 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68169 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68869 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 72285 (imap), uid 31502: exited on signal 6 pid 98711 (imap), uid 32277: exited on signal 6 pid 99429 (imap), uid 32277: exited on signal 6 pid 36768 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 38110 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 38115 (imap), uid 34959: exited on signal 6 pid 53649 (imap), uid 34910: exited on signal 6 pid 53943 (imap), uid 34910: exited on signal 6 pid 70003 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 23368 (imap), uid 31646: exited on signal 6 pid 59048 (imap), uid 34709: exited on signal 6 pid 59164 (imap), uid 34709: exited on signal 6 pid 59347 (imap), uid 34709: exited on signal 6 pid 13848 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6

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[Dovecot] Dovecot error: Unknown protocol 'imap\
by Paul E Virgo 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

First, thanks to Timo for the patch -- fixed missing protocol name error on my Solaris box. Now, I've moved the whole distro, part and parcel, to a Centos 4.0 Linux box, with the HOPE of getting it working there. But when I've set all of it up, I get the error message, mentioned in the 'Subject' line, in my /var/log/dovecot file. Any clues? PEV

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[Dovecot] Dovecot pop3 locking up
by Neil Wilson 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi guys and girls, I am having a problem with Dovecot. It seems like it's the dovecot auth daemon that is locking up(I'm guessing) I am running SuSe 9.3 Pro, and Dovecot 0.99.14 Everything works perfectly for a few days, and then eventually I end up with tons of what look to be "stale" processes.(I'm guessing roughly 300 like below.) 4204 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24722 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24723 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24724 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24921 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth When I "telnet 127.0.0.1 110" I get a login, and I can type "User blabla" I get an "OK" then I type in "pass blabla" and then I don't get any response, and I have to kill my session with "Ctrl ]" and then "quit". I am using both POP3 and IMAP, but it seems to be only the POP3 daemon that dies. There are roughly 60 users on the network, and it dies after roughly 5 days of usage, and I then have to restart Dovecot by running /etc/init.d/dovecot stop and then start Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Neil Wilson

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[Dovecot] deliver: select destination folder
by Dominik Werder 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hello, I wanted a commandline switch within deliver to select the destination folder within an IMAP account, so I added the -f switch, heres the diff, the implementation is only "proof of concept" hehe, I didnt checked if theres any security riscs in doing this. Could we add something like this to dovecot? diff deliver.c.orig deliver.c 342c342 < const char *destination, *mail; --- > const char *destination, *mail, *folder; 355a356 > folder = NULL; 364a366,373 > } else if (strcmp(argv[i], "-f") == 0) { > /* destination folder */ > i++; > if (i == argc) { > i_fatal_status(EX_USAGE, > "Missing folder argument"); > } > folder = argv[i]; 378a388,391 > if (folder == NULL) { > folder = "INBOX"; > } > 449c462 < if (save_mail(storage, "INBOX", input) < 0) --- > if (save_mail(storage, folder, input) < 0) bye! Dominik

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[Dovecot] Problem with pop3 and alpha3
by Alfonso Sparano 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

I don't know. I'm not tried with a real client but only with telnet. I would like to be sure that everything is correct before try with outlook/Eudora/thunderbird at all. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] Per conto di Andrew Hutchings Inviato: domenica 16 ottobre 2005 10.21 A: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Oggetto: Re: [Dovecot] Problem with pop3 and alpha3 On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 10:06 +0200, aspar(a)unisa.it wrote: > Hi all, I have a problem with dovecot-alpha3 and pop3 protocol (on a tru64 > 5.1a...) > > In my Maildir/cur there are 8144 mails and if I use pop3 protocol I receive in > the output 8146 line instead of 8144. The problem is that 2 mails are > duplicated . The output of "List" command is like: > > 1 51265 > 2 261783 > . > . > . > 2987 30291 > 2987 30291 (duplicated line) > 2988 16631 > .. > 4601 1231 > 4602 8921 > 4602 8921 (Another duplicated line) > 4603 1313 > . > > I've deleted dovecot.* and dovecot-uidlist in the Maildir path but the problem > remains. > > Suggest? Is a bug? > I've tried also to remove the first 1000 messages but the problem now is on the > mail number 2635 and not 1987 like I can think. > > Alfonso Is the client generating mail not found errors when this happens? If so it may be related to the problem I am seeing. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 37: "Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), "contented" means it has either just gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Take it from me, I'm an expert on penguins, those are really the only two options." - Linus Torvalds

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[Dovecot] new to dovecot
by John O'Loughlin 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

Hello all I'm new to dovecot (and imap in general!) having installed only only today. My current set up is exim as MTA with procmail delivering /var/spool/mail/%user (which gets nfs exported). We also have a pop3 server running as well. I'm moving to new machine and though I'd look at dovecot and squirrelmail. In /etc/dovecot.conf I'm confused by the default_mail_env, what exactly are we trying to set here? We have $MAIL set already, so for example what does the line: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u try to set Cheers John

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[Dovecot] Does anyone have SQL working in 1.03?
by Jonathan 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

This just isn't working for me. I've tried everything. Trailing the logs with debug and vebose... we connect fine === Oct 15 22:51:35 rsrr1 dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Oct 15 22:51:37 rsrr1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up Oct 15 22:51:38 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to vmail === and then we die: === Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): sql (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) query: SELECT password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = 'username' AND domain = 'domain.com' AND active = 'Y' LIMIT 1; Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=username(a)domain.com Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 24 33278 1 Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): passwd (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) unknown user Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): passdb (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) passdb didn't return userdb entries Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): userdb (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) user not found from userdb Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 24 Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<username(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=69.86.67.250, lip=66.250.131.114, TLS === I've tried both of these selects on the password: password_query = SELECT local_part || '@' || domain as user, password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND a ctive = 'Y' ; password_query = SELECT password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' LIMIT 1; and this, and some variants, on the user user_query = SELECT home_dir AS home, uid, gid FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' LIMIT 1; all mimic the functionality of the conf example files.

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[Dovecot] Same email recieved
by Bob Hope 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Some of my users seem to be receiving the same e-mail over and over. This doesn't happen all the time, just once in a while it seems to get stuck in a loop. Is it possible that dovecot is the culprit here or is this a problem with something else? I'm running Postfix/amavisd/dovecot on Slackware 10.1. Regards, Savage

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[Dovecot] 1.0a3: assert and core dump
by Jeff A. Earickson 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Timo, A rare assert and core dump out of 1.0alpha3. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format, using imap only. Built dovecot with gcc 4.0.1. The syslog for this was: Oct 14 11:57:56 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<epmccull>, method=PLAIN, rip=137.146.210.59, lip=137.146.210.52, TLS Oct 14 11:58:56 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<epmccull>, method=PLAIN, rip=137.146.210.59, lip=137.146.210.52, TLS Oct 14 11:59:03 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): Corrupted index cache file /home/students/e/epmccull/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Oct 14 11:59:38 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): Corrupted index cache file /home/students/e/epmccull/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Cache record offset 1768 points outside file Oct 14 11:59:39 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): Corrupted index cache file /home/students/e/epmccull/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: used_file_size too small Oct 14 11:59:39 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): file mbox-lock.c: line 518 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || mbox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) Attached is a gdb session on the core dump. Thanks. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0 alpha3 slower?
by Danel 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Hi Is 1.0 alpha3 a bit slower than the dovecot-1.0.stable branch? Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] Message not
by Andrew Hutchings 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi, I'm sure this is a bug fixed in CVS or something stupid I did in the config but here goes: I am getting at least one complaint a day about POP login customers getting 'Message not found' errors while getting their mail. The only thing I can find in the messages that could be related is: Oct 12 15:40:18 svr21 dovecot: pop3(user): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 It doesn't happen on a very high percentage of logins which makes me think its a locking problem of some kind. Any ideas? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 186: "... the whole documentation is not unreasonably transportable in a student's briefcase." - John Lions describing UNIX 6th Edition

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[Dovecot] dovecot won't launch
by Chad Cunningham 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Hi, I downloaded the latest dovecot (1.0 alpha 3) and tried numerous installs which get me nothing. No errors, no crashes, no segfaults and no running dovecot. It just seems to silently exit. I was trying to build with mysql support but I've also tried a plain old install, just configure, make install, etc. I get nada. strace doesn't show anything, at least as far as I can tell. No messages are logged. No output to the console. Any ideas? My only guess, no idea if it matters, is that dovecot doesn't like the fact that this is a VPS (User Mode Linux, Fedora Core 3). But I don't see any reason why not, other mail servers are pretty happy... Here's the strace: -bash-3.00# strace dovecot execve("/usr/local/sbin/dovecot", ["dovecot"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="monkey", ...}) = 0 set_tid_address(0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) brk(0) = 0x805eed0 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24400, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 24400, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libssl.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\226"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=211948, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 212692, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4001d000 old_mmap(0x4004e000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x31000) = 0x4004e000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcrypto.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\251\2"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=935112, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 953048, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40051000 old_mmap(0x40125000, 69632, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xd3000) = 0x40125000 old_mmap(0x40136000, 15064, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40136000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240S\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1504728, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4013a000 old_mmap(NULL, 1219876, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4013b000 mprotect(0x4025e000, 27940, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x4025f000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x123000) = 0x4025f000 old_mmap(0x40263000, 7460, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40263000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360J\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=80948, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 79792, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40265000 old_mmap(0x40278000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13000) = 0x40278000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\370\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=413704, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 413000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40279000 old_mmap(0x402dc000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x63000) = 0x402dc000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcom_err.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\354\10"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=5668, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 8636, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x402de000 old_mmap(0x402e0000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x402e0000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`2\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=134640, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 134560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x402e1000 old_mmap(0x40301000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x20000) = 0x40301000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360#\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=79572, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 80040, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40302000 mprotect(0x40311000, 18600, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x40312000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xf000) = 0x40312000 old_mmap(0x40314000, 6312, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40314000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\v\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=15208, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40316000 old_mmap(NULL, 12388, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40317000 old_mmap(0x40319000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x40319000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\25"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=62152, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 65028, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4031b000 old_mmap(0x4032a000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe000) = 0x4032a000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0x40319000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x40312000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x4025f000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x40015000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 24400) = 0 time(NULL) = 1129055371 brk(0) = 0x805eed0 brk(0x807fed0) = 0x807fed0 brk(0x8080000) = 0x8080000 uname({sys="Linux", node="monkey", ...}) = 0 getpid() = 8518 geteuid32() = 0 open("/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29028, ...}) = 0 pread(3, "## Dovecot 1.0 configuration fil"..., 2048, 0) = 2048 pread(3, "and RSA parameters.\n#ssl_paramet"..., 2019, 2048) = 2019 pread(3, "d in it\'s own process (yes), or "..., 2017, 4067) = 2017 pread(3, "es\n# (eg. shared mailboxes or if"..., 1977, 6084) = 1977 pread(3, "d in\n# doc/mail-storages.txt. Th"..., 1990, 8061) = 1990 pread(3, "erent namespaces which you want "..., 2014, 10051) = 2014 pread(3, "ll with Linux and FreeBSD.\n# But"..., 1999, 12065) = 1999 pread(3, "le. Works with NFS too if lockd "..., 2018, 14064) = 2018 pread(3, "se you don\'t get core dumps. It "..., 2018, 16082) = 2018 pread(3, "ss never abort IDLE command, so "..., 2015, 18100) = 2015 pread(3, "us (<= 2.1.3) : %u\n # Cyrus"..., 2040, 20115) = 2040 pread(3, "of allowed characters in usernam"..., 2041, 22155) = 2041 pread(3, "nd immediately close PAM session"..., 2013, 24196) = 2013 pread(3, "#userdb sql {\n # Path for SQL"..., 2046, 26209) = 2046 pread(3, "r/run/dovecot-auth-master\n# "..., 2031, 28255) = 773 pread(3, "", 1258, 29028) = 0 close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1696, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 read(3, "#\n# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# An ex"..., 4096) = 1696 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24400, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 24400, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\33\0 \000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=47244, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 41628, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4032b000 old_mmap(0x40334000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x8000) = 0x40334000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0x40334000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 24400) = 0 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1274, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 1274 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 access("/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap", X_OK) = 0 access("/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem", R_OK) = 0 access("/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem", R_OK) = 0 getegid32() = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 open("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE| O_NOFOLLOW) = 4 fchdir(4) = 0 open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory) open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 5 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(5, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 close(5) = 0 fchdir(3) = 0 close(3) = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 access("/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login", X_OK) = 0 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1274, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 1274 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 access("/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth", X_OK) = 0 open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 dup(3) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 5 setsockopt(5, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 setsockopt(5, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0 bind(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr ("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 getsockname(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 listen(5, 8) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 6 setsockopt(6, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 setsockopt(6, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0 bind(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(993), sin_addr=inet_addr ("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 getsockname(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(993), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 listen(6, 8) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(6, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 dup2(4, 0) = 0 dup2(4, 1) = 1 dup2(4, 2) = 2 fork() = 8519 exit_group(0) = ?

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[Dovecot] Building dovecot with SSL support on Solaris
by Christian Schmidt 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hi all, I'm just trying to build dovecot-1.0.alpha3 on a Solaris 9 machine with SSL support. No matter which options I call ./configure with - it always results in: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : no <-- ! Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with user database modules . : static passdb passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Some more details: $ uname -a SunOS ns 5.9 Generic_117171-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R $ /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 On another system, the build succeeds - including SSL support: $ uname -a SunOS excalibur 5.9 Generic_117171-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 $ /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004 I have tried lots of hints Google found in the mailing list archives, but none of them succeeded. I'm looking forward to getting any further hints. If you need some further information, I will post it. Regards & thanks in advance, Christian -- Alle Dinge geschehen aus Notwendigkeit. Es gibt in der Natur kein Gutes und kein Schlechtes. -- Baruch de Spinoza

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[Dovecot] Backup Maildir
by Gabe Granger 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi All, I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? -- Gabe Granger Pancentric results-driven communications and e-solutions +44 (0) 20 8877 0230 http://www.pancentric.com

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[Dovecot] SOLVED: chdir failed: Permission denied
by Joe Sislow 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Ok, so if anyone runs into a problem where dovecot reports chdir(/home/BLAH) failed with uid NNN: Permission denied in Fedora Core 4 or otherwise, it seems to be a SELinux problem. Turn OFF SELinux and the problem goes away.

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[Dovecot] time out error and email with attachments
by Roberto Cipollini 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

I'm facing some problem with emails and attachments. I'm not sure it's dealing with MTU (it is set to the maximum number before a fragmentation occurs). I have no errors from pop3, but the following message is the best I can show you just to understand my problem. The log shows this: "imap(roberto.cipollini(a)allmediasolution.com): Oct 04 17:35:03 Error: Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /mail/allmediasolution.com/roberto.cipollini/.INBOX/.imap.index " I think that the pop3 process is locking the index file (thunderbird was waiting to download the file) and the imap (i tried to get the file from webmail) is going time out. Can anyone tell me how to fix the time out? any suggestion? do you need more information/logs? can I try different setting in dovecot conf? thanks for any kind of help. Roberto

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[Dovecot] 1.0.a3 does not start on FreeBSD 5.21
by Adamson H 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi, This morning I portupgraded dovecot 0.99.14 to 1.0.a3 on two of my FreeBSD servers and found that the new dovecot refused to start on FreeBSD 5.21 server. However, it works ok on FreeBSD 5.4. Please help me with the FreeBSD 5.21 one. #uname -a FreeBSD fileserver.xxx.local 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE- p14 #3: Sun Aug 7 13:24:38 CST 2005 xxx@xxx.xxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GATEWAY i386 ## /etc/rc.conf dovecot_enable="YES" ## /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_disable = yes (I only changed the above line in dovecot.conf.sample.) ## ports fileserver# make clean ===> Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2_1 ===> Cleaning for libtool-1.5.20 ===> Cleaning for perl-5.8.7 ===> Cleaning for cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 ===> Cleaning for openssl-0.9.8_1 ===> Cleaning for dovecot-1.0.a3 ## error messages Oct 9 11:50:01 fileserver dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42837 (login) returned error 89 Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42836 (login) returned error 89 Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42838 (login) returned error 89 Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42835 (auth) returned error 89 Thanks in advance for your help. Adamson Huang

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[Dovecot] chdir failed: Permission denied
by Joe Sislow 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi there, Upgrading to Fedora Core 4 from an old server running Red Hat 7.3. I'm moving accounts over by hand, and I'm having the following error crop up for *everyone*. chdir(/home/BLAH) failed with uid 500: Permission denied Now, that UID is correct, the user has that access, and there are no permissions problems changing to that directory. I've got the mail in /var/mail/XXX for each user as a simple mbox. I was browsing through the code to check for what *exactly* dovecot is doing when it's trying to change directory there. The error reporting is a bit spotty. It could be that it can't change to that directory (unlikely). It could be that something in that path is a problem (also unlikely, as the /home directory is world readable and executable), or, it could have something to do with a file or directory it's trying to create. I'm not sure. Could someone let me in on what files or directories that dovecot tries to create by default? This permission denied error doesn't make any sense (I created a brand new user with nothing there, made all of his directories readable/writeable, and executable by EVERYONE, and it STILL gives me this error.

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[Dovecot] passdb error
by Richard Wilkinson 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

I have just installed Dovecot on Redhat 9 system when starting dovecot I get the following error Unknown passdb driver 'pam' This is a new venture for me so any help would be appreciated Thanks rw

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