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[Dovecot] Performance of Maildir vs sdbox/mdbox
by Lee Standen 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi Guys, I've been desperately trying to find some comparative performance information about the different mailbox formats supported by Dovecot in order to make an assessment on which format is right for our environment. This is a brand new build, with customer mailboxes to be migrated in over the course of 3-4 months. Some details on our new environment: * Approximately 1.6M+ mailboxes once all legacy systems are combined * NetApp FAS6280 storage w/ 120TB usable for mail storage, 1TB of FlashCache in each controller * All mail storage presented via NFS over 10Gbps Ethernet (Jumbo Frames) * Postfix will feed new email to Dovecot via LMTP * Dovecot servers have been split based on their role - Dovecot LDA Servers (running LMTP protocol) - Dovecot POP/IMAP servers (running POP/IMAP protocols) - LDA & POP/IMAP servers are segmented into geographically split groups (so no server sees every single mailbox) - Nginx proxy used to terminate customer connections, connections are redirected to the appropriate geographic servers * Apache Lucene indexes will be used to accelerate IMAP search for users Our closest current live configuration (Qmail SMTP, Courier IMAP, Maildir) has 600K mailboxes and pushes ~ 35,000 NFS operations per second at peak Some of the things I would like to know: * Are we likely to see a reduction in IOPS/User by using Maildir alone under Dovecot? * What kind of IOPS/User reduction could we expect to see under mdbox? * If someone can give some technical reasoning behind why mdbox does less IOPS than Maildir? I understand some of the reasons for the mdbox IOPS question, but I need some more information so we can discuss internally and make a decision as to whether we're comfortable going with mdbox from day one. We're very familiar with Maidlir, and there's just some uneasiness internally around going to a new mail storage format. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections exceeded.
by Simon Brereton 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi I'm using Dovecot version 1:1.2.15-7 installed on Debian Squeeze via apt-get.. I have this error in the logs. /var/log/mail.log.1:2490:Jan 19 12:02:55 mail dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<user(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, secured I never changed this from the default 10. When I googled this error there was a thread on this list from May 2011 that indicated one would need one connection per user per subscribed folder. However, I know that user doesn't have 10 folders, let alone 10 subscribed folders! I can increase, it but it's not going to scale well. And there are people on this list with many 1000x users than I have - so how do they deal with that? 127.0.0.1 is obviously webmail (IMP5). So, how/why am I seeing this, and should I be concerned? Simon

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[Dovecot] Notify plugin: segmentation fault
by Ewald Dieterich 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

I'm trying to develop a plugin that uses the hooks provided by the notify plugin. The notify plugin segfaults if you don't set the mailbox_rename hook. I attached a patch to notify-plugin.c from Dovecot 2.0.16 that should fix this. Ewald

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[Dovecot] shared folder files not displaying in thunderbird
by Eric Broch 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hello, I have dovecot installed with the configuration below. One of the subfolders created (using the email client) under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share no longer (it used to) displays the files located in it. There are about 150 folders under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share all of which display the files located in them, the one mentioned used to display the contents but no longer does. What would be the reason that one folder would no longer display existing files in the email client (Thunderbird) and the other folders would? And, how do I fix this? I've already tried unsubscribing and resubscribing the folder. This did not work. Would it now be simply a matter of unsubscribing the folder, deleting the dovecot files, and resubscribing to the folder? Eric # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects prefix = projects. separator = . type = public } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail }

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[Dovecot] Problems sending email direct into publich folders
by Bohlken, Henning 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hi, i want to send mails direct into a public folder. If i send an email via my local postfix the mail will be handled as a normal private mail. Dovecot does create a mailbox in the private Namespace and do use not the mailbox in public one. I hope you can help me with my little problem. Here sone informations about my configuration: [root@imap1 etc]# ls -la /var/dovecot/imap/public/ insgesamt 16 drwxr-x--- 3 vmail vmail 4096 19. Jan 10:12 . drwxr-x--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 18. Jan 08:41 .. -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 0 19. Jan 10:11 dovecot-acl-list -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 8 19. Jan 10:12 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 19. Jan 10:12 dovecot-uidvalidity.4f17de84 drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 19. Jan 10:12 .hrztest and here is me configuration: # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago) auth_username_format = %Ln disable_plaintext_auth = no login_greeting = Dovecot IMAP der Jade Hochschule. mail_access_groups = vmail mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_plugins = quota acl mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date imapflags notify mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:/var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/dovecot/imap/public/ prefix = public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = dict:user::file:/var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=50MB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10% sieve = /var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_quota_max_scripts = 2 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)jade-hs.de protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=501 gid=502 home=/home/vmail/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota acl sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota acl imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } -- HS Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth Jade Hochschule Hochschulrechenzentrum Dipl.-Ing. Henning Bohlken Friedrich-Paffrath-Str. 101 26389 Wilhelmshaven

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[Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?
by Charles Marcus 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hi everyone, Was just perusing this article about how trivial it is to decrypt passwords that are stored using most (standard) encryption methods (like MD5), and was wondering - is it possible to use bcrypt with dovecot+postfix+mysql (or posgres)? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] MASTER_AUTH_MAX_DATA_SIZE
by Mike Abbott 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

In 2.0.17 you increased LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE from 1024 to 4096. Should you also have increased MASTER_AUTH_MAX_DATA_SIZE from (1024*2) to (4096*2)? /* This should be kept in sync with LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE. Multiply it by two to make sure there's space to transfer the command tag */

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Re: [Dovecot] shared folder files not displaying in thunderbird
by Eric Broch 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Can anyone help me figure out why email in a sub-folder (created using Thunderbird) of a dovecot namespace will not display in Thunderbird? ... Hello, I have dovecot installed with the configuration below. One of the subfolders created (using the email client) under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share no longer (it used to) displays the files located in it. There are about 150 folders under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share all of which display the files located in them, the one mentioned used to display the contents but no longer does. What would be the reason that one folder would no longer display existing files in the email client (Thunderbird) and the other folders would? And, how do I fix this? I've already tried unsubscribing and resubscribing the folder. This did not work. Would it now be simply a matter of unsubscribing the folder, deleting the dovecot files, and resubscribing to the folder? Eric # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects prefix = projects. separator = . type = public } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail }

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[Dovecot] Panic: file mbox-sync.c: line 1348: assertion failed
by Jürgen Obermann 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hallo, I have the following problem with doveadm: # gdb --args /opt/local/bin/doveadm -v mailbox status -u userxy/g029 'messages' "Software-alle/AK-Software-Tagung" 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"... (gdb) run Starting program: /opt/local/bin/doveadm -v mailbox status -u g029 messages Software-alle/AK-Software-Tagung warning: Lowest section in /lib/libthread.so.1 is .dynamic at 00000074 warning: Lowest section in /lib/libdl.so.1 is .hash at 000000b4 doveadm(g029): Panic: file mbox-sync.c: line 1348: assertion failed: (file_size >= sync_ctx->expunged_space + trailer_size) doveadm(g029): Error: Raw backtrace: 0xff1cbc30 -> 0xff319544 -> 0xff319fa8 -> 0xff31add8 -> 0xff31b278 -> 0xff2a69b0 -> 0xff2a6bac -> 0x16808 -> 0x1b8fc -> 0x16ba0 -> 0x177cc -> 0x17944 -> 0x17a50 -> 0x204e8 -> 0x165c8 Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0xfe94dcdc in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt full #0 0xfe94dcdc in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #1 0xfe8e6fb4 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #2 0xfe8c2078 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #3 0xff1cb984 in default_fatal_finish () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #4 0xff1cbc38 in i_panic () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #5 0xff31954c in mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #6 0xff319fb0 in mbox_sync_do () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #7 0xff31ade0 in mbox_sync_int () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #8 0xff31b280 in mbox_storage_sync_init () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0xff2a69b8 in mailbox_sync_init () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #10 0xff2a6bb4 in mailbox_sync () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #11 0x00016810 in doveadm_mailbox_find_and_sync () No symbol table info available. #12 0x0001b904 in cmd_mailbox_status_run () No symbol table info available. #13 0x00016ba8 in doveadm_mail_next_user () No symbol table info available. #14 0x000177d4 in doveadm_mail_cmd () No symbol table info available. #15 0x0001794c in doveadm_mail_try_run_multi_word () No symbol table info available. #16 0x00017a58 in doveadm_mail_try_run () No symbol table info available. #17 0x000204f0 in main () No symbol table info available. (gdb) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y My configuration ist as follows: # /opt/local/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.16: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = imap.hrz.uni-giessen.de localhost mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mdbox_rotate_size = 16 M namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = Mail/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = caughtspam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = caughtspam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 3 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de quota_full_tempfail = yes sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail service auth { client_limit = 11120 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 640 M } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 1 G } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/imap_hrz.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/imap_hrz.key syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol lda { info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib autocreate imap_zlib } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } Greetings, Jürgen Obermann -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann/ Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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[Dovecot] Quota won't work
by Markus Fritz 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

I tried to set a quota setting. I installed dovecot with newest version, patched it and started it. dovecot -n: # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 ext4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_listen: 143 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)opsys.de mail_plugins: sieve quota log_path: auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir 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 /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=mailuser password=****** default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%u'; user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/mail/', maildir) AS home, CONCAT('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule \ FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%u' virtual_users has this: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `virtual_users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `domain_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `password` varchar(32) NOT NULL, `email` varchar(100) NOT NULL, `quota` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '629145600', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`), KEY `domain_id` (`domain_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; Also postfix is installed with this (not the hole cfg): virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_inbox = no virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-quota.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-mailbox-maps.cf virtual_maildir_extended = yes virtual_maildir_limit_message = "The user you are trying to reach is over quota." virtual_maildir_limit_message_maps = mail:/etc/postfix/mysql-quota.cf virtual_overquota_bounce = yes /etc/postfix/mysql-quota.cf: user = mailuser password = ****** hosts = 127.0.0.1 dbname = mailserver query = SELECT quota FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%s' I changed the quota of my mail account to 40, so 40Byte should be the maximum. My account is at a size of 600KB now. I still recieve mails, also they will be saved without errors. /var/log/mail.log says nothing to quota, just normal recieve and store entries. What to fix? -- Markus Fritz Administration opsys.de

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[Dovecot] LMTP Logging
by Mark Moseley 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Just had a minor suggestion, with no clue how hard/easy it would be to implement: The %f flag in deliver_log_format seems to pick up the From: header, instead of the "MAIL FROM:<...>" arg. It'd be handy to have a %F that shows the "MAIL FROM" arg instead. I'm looking at tracking emails through logs from Exim to Dovecot easily. I know Message-ID can be used for correlation but it adds some complexity to searching, i.e. I can't just grep for the sender (as logged by Exim), unless I assume "MAIL FROM" always == From:

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[Dovecot] v2.x services documentation
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

If you've ever wanted to know everything about the service {} blocks, this should be quite helpful: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services

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[Dovecot] 2.1.rc3 (1a722c7676bb): doveadm mailbox list -> Segmentation fault
by Pascal Volk 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Oops, I did it again. -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.1201514(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] v2.1.rc3 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz.sig Whops, rc2 was missing a file. I always run "make distcheck", which should catch these, but recently it has always failed due to clang static checking giving one "error" that I didn't really want to fix. Because of that the distcheck didn't finish and didn't check for the missing file. So, anyway, I've made clang happy again, and now that I see how bad idea it is to just ignore the failed distcheck, I won't do that again in future. :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox
by Jason X, Maney 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Dear all, I hope someone can point me in the right direction. here. I have setup my Dovecot v2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10. The logs tells me that the mail location has failed as follows: ========= Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<userA>, method=PLAIN, rip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, lip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=1360, TLS Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. ========= Yet my config also come out strangely as below: ========= root@guyana:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 passdb { driver = pam } protocols = " imap pop3" ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } root@guyana:~# ========= My mailbox location setting is as follows: ========= cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location # path given in the mail_location setting. # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # explicitly, ie. mail_location does nothing unless you have a namespace # mail_location, which is also the default for it. ========= I am wondering how best to work around this Dovecot problem. Please help. Regards Jason.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Solutions company update
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi, A small update: My Dovecot support company finally has web pages: http://www.dovecot.fi/ We've also started providing 24/7 support.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot did not accept Login from Host
by email＠randpoger.org 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi! My Dovecot is running and i can connect + login through telnet: -------------------------------------------- >> telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. >> 1 login user passwort 1 OK [...] Logged in -------------------------------------------- But through my domain i can only connect, but than i get an error: -------------------------------------------- >> telnet domain.de 143 Trying xx.xxx.xxx.xx... Connected to domain.de. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. >> 1 login user passwort 1 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. -------------------------------------------- My dovecot.conf: -------------------------------------------- protocols = imap imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem mail_location= /var/mail/%u log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes protocol imap { } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } -------------------------------------------- If i try to connect+login through an domain, dovecot write NOTHING into the .log Someone ideas about this?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crashes totally
by Gordon Grubert 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hello, our dovecot server crashes totally without any really useful log messages. The error log can be found in the attachment. The only way to get dovecot running again is a complete system restart. Dovecot version: 2:2.0.15-0~auto+5 (2.0.15 (6b7242ead6ed)) Configuration : see attachment OS : Debian Squeeze amd64 Dovecot source : http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ \ stable-auto/dovecot-2.0 main This problem has already occurred with the version 2.0.13 where the log says as few as the current logs :-( Best regards, Gordon -- Leiter AG Technische Infrastruktur und Basisdienste Universitaetsrechenzentrum (URZ) E.-M.-Arndt-Universitaet Greifswald Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 12 17489 Greifswald Germany Tel. +49 3834 86-1456 Fax. +49 3834 86-1401

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[Dovecot] [Dovecot 2.1] ACL plugin makes imap service crash when using some clients
by interfaSys sàrl 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hello, I've just noticed that when Horde is connecting to Dovecot 2.1, it crashes the imap service if Dovecot is configured to use the ACL plugin. I'm not sure what's so special about the command Horde sends, but it shouldn't make Dovecot crash. Everything is fine when using Thunderbird. Here is the message in Dovecot's logs "Fatal: master: service(imap): child 89974 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped)" The message says that the core is not dumped, even though I did add drop_priv_before_exec=yes to my config file. I've tried connecting to the pid using gdb, but the process just hangs as soon as I'm connected. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] resolve mail_home ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

I now have "mail_home = /srv/mailstore/%256RHu/%d/%n". Is there any way of asking dovecot where a user's home directory is? It's not in "doveadm user": $ doveadm user -f home janfrode(a)lyse.net $ doveadm user janfrode(a)tanso.net userdb: janfrode(a)tanso.net mail : mdbox:~/mdbox quota_rule: *:storage=1048576 Alternatively, is there an easy way to calculate the %256RHu hash ? -jf

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[Dovecot] little bug with Director in 2.1?
by Luca Di Vizio 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi, in 2.1rc3 the "director_servers" setting does not accept hostnames as documented (with ip no problems). It works correctly in 2.0.17. Greetings, Luca

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[Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation
by IVO GELOV (CRM) 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hello to all members. I am using Dovecot for 5 years, but this is my first post here. I am aware of the various autoresponder scripts for vacation autoreplies (I am using Virtual Vacation 3.1 by Mischa Peters). I have an issue with auto-replies - it is vulnerable to spamming with forged email address. Forging can be prevented with several Postfix settings, which I did in the past - but was forced to remove, because our company occasionaly has clients with improper configurations and those settings prevent us to receive their legitimate mail (and this of course is not good for the business). So I have though about another idea. Since I use Dovecot-auth to verify mailbox existence - I just wonder is it possible to somehow indicate specific error code (and hopefully descriptive text also) to Postfix (e.g. 450 or some other temporary failure) when the owner of the mailbox is currently on vacation ? Best wishes, IVO GELOV

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[Dovecot] IMAP maillog error: file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= ((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1)))
by Charles Thompson 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Dear Mailing List, What does this error mean and how do I fix it? I am on a Centos 4.9 >From /var/log/maillog : Jan 14 11:54:51 hostname imap(username): file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= ((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1))) Version information : root(a)hostname[/etc/rc.d/rc3.d]# dovecot --version ; dovecot -n ; cat /etc/*release* 0.99.11 Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] Fatal: Unknown argument: -n CentOS release 4.9 (Final) root(a)hostname[/etc/rc.d/rc3.d]# Thank you. -- Sincerely, Charles Thompson *UNIX & Linux Administrator* Tel* : *(650) 906-9156 Web : www.kinesis.me Mail: mail(a)kinesis.me

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] support master user to login as other users by DIGEST-MD5 SASL proxy authorization
by Yubao Liu 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi Timo, As http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers states, currently the first way for master users to log in as other users only supports PLAIN SASL mechanism, and because DIGEST-MD5 uses user name to calculate MD5 digest, the second way can't support DIGEST-MD5. I enhance the code to support DIGEST-MD5 too for the first way, please review the attached patch against dovecot-2.0 HG tip. The patch also contains a little fix to "nonce-count" string, RFC 2831 shows it should be "nc". I tested it on Debian Wheezy, it seems OK. Below are my verification steps. (Debian packaged 2.0.15 + http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/bed15faedfd4 + attached patch) $ doveconf -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae i686 Debian wheezy/sid auth_default_realm = corp.example.com auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot.keytab auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = gssapi digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_realms = corp.example.com auth_username_format = %n first_valid_gid = 1000 first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_location = mdbox:/srv/mail/%u/Mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = /srv/mail/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /srv/mail/%u/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = Debian-exim mode = 0660 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = home=/srv/mail/%u driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } $ grep webmail2 /etc/dovecot/master-users webmail2:{DIGEST-MD5}458af98b24dce5db79f852d146d5a5ca $ gsasl -m DIGEST-MD5 --imap imap.corp.example.com -z dieken -a webmail2 -p 123456 -r corp.example.com Trying `gold.corp.example.com'... * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. . CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 . OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login capabilities have more. . STARTTLS . OK Begin TLS negotiation now. . CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 . OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login capabilities have more. . AUTHENTICATE DIGEST-MD5 + cmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLG5vbmNlPSI2Y0tvRWpoRkREQVpsRHM4Q05QTUx3PT0iLHFvcD0iYXV0aCIsY2hhcnNldD0idXRmLTgiLGFsZ29yaXRobT0ibWQ1LXNlc3Mi Enter quality of protection (optional, e.g. 'qop-int'): dXNlcm5hbWU9IndlYm1haWwyIiwgcmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLCBub25jZT0iNmNLb0VqaEZEREFabERzOENOUE1Mdz09IiwgY25vbmNlPSJIUUZKQy9VbnFSb3lGb3orTWpOY2hnPT0iLCBuYz0wMDAwMDAwMSwgcW9wPWF1dGgsIGRpZ2VzdC11cmk9ImltYXAvaW1hcC5jb3JwLmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIiwgcmVzcG9uc2U9NjU0MTQ0NzM5MTFhNjNlMjE4ZDJmZjc0NmNjZjk0MjUsIGNoYXJzZXQ9dXRmLTgsIGF1dGh6aWQ9ImRpZWtlbiI= + cnNwYXV0aD04ZTNiZmZhMmNhOWM4YzczODU3Zjc2OWZiOGRlMTU3MQ== * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS Client authentication finished (server trusted)... Enter application data (EOF to finish): Session finished... . LOGOUT . OK Logged in * BYE Logging out $ sudo tail -f 30 /var/log/mail.log .... Jan 14 20:35:30 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011DIGEST-MD5#011service=imap#011secured#011lip=127.0.1.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011lport=143#011rport=54455 Jan 14 20:35:30 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: CONT#0111#011cmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLG5vbmNlPSJsQzM0dlQ3QkxUOHdlc2VOOWIybzhnPT0iLHFvcD0iYXV0aCIsY2hhcnNldD0idXRmLTgiLGFsZ29yaXRobT0ibWQ1LXNlc3Mi Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT#0111#011dXNlcm5hbWU9IndlYm1haWwyIiwgcmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLCBub25jZT0ibEMzNHZUN0JMVDh3ZXNlTjliMm84Zz09IiwgY25vbmNlPSJQOTFta2VHZjFFS2kzQVgxMWVVT3FnPT0iLCBuYz0wMDAwMDAwMSwgcW9wPWF1dGgsIGRpZ2VzdC11cmk9ImltYXAvaW1hcC5jb3JwLmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIiwgcmVzcG9uc2U9OTllNzM2MDc0ZWE3YjE2NTE4NGQ3ZGVjY2E5ZGExNTgsIGNoYXJzZXQ9dXRmLTgsIGF1dGh6aWQ9ImRpZWtlbiI= Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: auth(webmail2,127.0.0.1,master): Master user lookup for login: dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file(webmail2,127.0.0.1,master): lookup: user=webmail2 file=/etc/dovecot/master-users Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: passdb(webmail2,127.0.0.1,master): Master user logging in as dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: password(dieken,127.0.0.1): Credentials: 458af98b24dce5db79f852d146d5a5ca Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: CONT#0111#011cnNwYXV0aD04YmU5ZjFmN2UyMTRlMjI3MmY2YjEwMDU0YmYwNmMwZg== Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT#0111#011 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: OK#0111#011user=dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST#0112451832833#01115973#0111#011b7ff18971fd6967b00e2ea0ed2ef6278 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(dieken,127.0.0.1): lookup Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER#0112451832833#011dieken#011home=/srv/mail/dieken#011system_groups_user=dieken#011uid=1000#011gid=1000#011master_user=webmail2 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dieken>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, mpid=15974, TLS Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/master_user=webmail2 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/srv/mail/dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Debug: fs: root=/srv/mail/dieken/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /srv/mail/dieken/Mail: mode=0700 gid=-1 Jan 14 20:35:34 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=8/329 Jan 14 20:35:34 gold dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4008, ret=256: warning close notify [127.0.0.1] Jan 14 21:04:50 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=131/533 Jan 14 21:33:59 gold dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dieken>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, mpid=16114, TLS Jan 14 21:34:03 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=8/329 Jan 14 21:36:56 gold dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1 Jan 14 21:36:56 gold dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1 Jan 14 21:36:58 gold dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dieken>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, mpid=16135, TLS Jan 14 21:37:00 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=10/377 Regards, Yubao Liu

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[Dovecot] Server Time 45min ahead
by maximus12 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi, I have the issue that my server clock is 45min fast. Therefore I would like to install ntp. I read a lot on the internet about dovecot and ntp. My issue is that 45 min are a lot an I would like to minimize mail server downtimes as much as possible. I don't care if the time corrections with ntp takes more than a few month. Does anyone know how I should proceed (e.g. how I have to setup ntp -> no time jump during installation and afterwards). Thanks a lot for your help! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Server-Time-45min-ahead-tp33126760p33126760.html Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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