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[Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT
by Thomas Koch 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hi, somebody from the kolab groupware project recently explained me that the Bus- Factor[1] of around 1 would be one of their primary reasons not to use Dovecot and stick with Cyrus. What do you think about that? Is the bus factor much higher then 1? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor Somehow related: Since the free software world[2] slowly converges towards GIT as the "one and only" VCS, have you thought about a switch? It's much more likely that somebody checks out your code, looks into it and provides patches if the VCS is already installed. [2] Android, Debian, Drupal, Eclipse, Fedora, Gnome, KDE, Linux Kernel, Perl, PHP (ongoing), PostgreSQL, Qt, Ruby on Rails, X.org (freedesktop.org) Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

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[Dovecot] submission_host problem
by Bambero 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hello, I configured dovecot to use submission smtp host becouse of chroot. submission_host = 127.0.0.1 Unfortunatelly: Nov 12 05:11:15 myhost exim[23366]: 2011-11-12 05:11:15 SMTP protocol synchronization error (next input sent too soon: pipelining was not advertised): rejected "EHLO myhost" H=localhost [127.0.0.1] next input="MAIL FROM:<root@myhost>\\r\\n" Nov 12 05:11:15 myhost exim[23366]: 2011-11-12 05:11:15 SMTP protocol synchronization error (next input sent too soon: pipelining was not advertised): rejected "EHLO myhost" H=localhost [127.0.0.1] next input="MAIL FROM:<root@myhost>\\r\\n" Nov 12 05:11:15 myhost dovecot: lda(alias(a)apisoft.pl): Error: smtp(127.0.0.1): RCPT TO failed: 554 SMTP synchronization error Nov 12 05:11:15 myhost dovecot: lda(alias(a)apisoft.pl): Error: sieve: msgid=<E1RP4uv-00043S-L7@myhost>: failed to redirect message to <bambero(a)gmail.com> (refer to server log for more information) Does anyone know how to fix it ? Regards, Bambero

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[Dovecot] Glued-together private namespaces
by Mark Moseley 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

I've been goofing with this all day with 2.0.15 and I'm starting to realize that either a) I'm not that smart, b) it's been so long since I messed with namespaces that I'm going about it completely wrong, or c) it's just not possible. I haven't posted 'doveconf -n' and other details, because mainly I'm just looking for 'yes, this is possible' or 'no, you're smoking crack' before posting further details. At this point, it's all maildir and moving to mdbox, while highly desirable in the future, is not possible in the near- to medium-term. I'm trying to glue a namespace underneath INBOX: namespace INBOX { type = private separator = . prefix = INBOX. # Yes, this used to be on Courier inbox = yes list = yes hidden = no subscriptions = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace archive { type = private separator = . prefix = INBOX.Archives. inbox = no list = children subscriptions = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir-Archive } I've tried putting namespace archive's 'prefix' as just "Archives", but Tbird doesn't seem to see this namespace, regardless of how much I futz with the imap settings in tbird. With the above setup, it actually seems to work correctly (provided ~/Maildir-Archive exists), though I'm sure a big gotcha is waiting in the wings. I can move messages around, create subfolders, subscribe to folders in ~/Maildir-Archive). The only thing I can't seem to get working is quotas. With my password_query like: password_query = ... CONCAT( '*:bytes=', "1M" ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule', \ CONCAT( '*:messages=10' ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule2', \ CONCAT( 'INBOX.Archives:bytes=+4900M' ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule3', \ CONCAT( 'INBOX.Archives:messages=+3900' ) AS 'userdb_quota_rule4' ... only the default quota seems to be in place for any subfolder of INBOX.Archives and for INBOX.Archives itself, i.e. *:bytes still applies to INBOX.Archives. The debug log show that: Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args= Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=1048576 messages=0 Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=1048576 messages=10 Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=INBOX.Archives bytes=+5138022400 messages=0 Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=INBOX.Archives bytes=+5138022400 messages=+3900 These are wildly stupid quotas but they're just there to test. With INBOX already at capacity (byte-wise; only set to a meg), copying large messages inside INBOX.Archives fails (only copying a 800k message but the quota should be 5gig now). Again, before I post configs, I'm just curious if what I'm trying to do isn't remotely possible, or that I'm approaching this entirely wrongly. Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] Seg fault in dovecot/auth 2.0.15
by Timo Sirainen 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Your message was discarded by mailman, probably because it was html-only. Anyway: On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 13:15 -0500, Mark Goldey wrote: > (gdb) p *auth_request->userdb->userdb->iface > $2 = {name = 0x807023e "vpopmail", preinit = 0x8065d60 > <vpopmail_preinit>, init = 0, deinit = 0, > lookup = 0x8066010 <vpopmail_lookup>, iterate_init = 0, iterate_next > = 0, iterate_deinit = 0} OK, so "auth_request->userdb->userdb->iface->lookup" should call vpopmail_lookup(), it's not NULL as this says: > > (gdb) bt full > > #0 0x00000000 in ?? () So something's going strangely wrong. Maybe gcc optimizations cause this and the real problem happens later. Try compiling auth process with optimizations: - Remove -O2 from src/auth/Makefile - cd src/auth ; make clean ; make ; make install Is the backtrace different?

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[Dovecot] Missing public folder
by komodo 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi i am using dovecot 2.0.13 and i can't see public folder in my mail client. But what is strange, it was working after instalation, and i don't know when it dissapeared. Maybe after some upgrade ? When i enable debug, then i can see in my log that folder exists and no errors. Please where should i find the problem ? Thanks Martin Here is log Nov 7 11:00:27 OVZ dovecot: imap(komodo): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir Nov 7 11:00:27 OVZ dovecot: imap(komodo): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/komodo/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/komodo/Maildir Nov 7 11:00:27 OVZ dovecot: imap(komodo): Debug: Namespace : type=public, prefix=spam_learner., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no location=maildir:/home/shared/Maildir Nov 7 11:00:27 OVZ dovecot: imap(komodo): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/shared/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox= Here is my conf # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab037.1 x86_64 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) default_client_limit = 1300 disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = somehost.com mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/shared/Maildir prefix = spam_learner. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/before.d/ sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.exim service imap-login { process_limit = 1000 process_min_avail = 30 } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/host.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/host.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 }

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Re: [Dovecot] Please advise on very fast search
by Stan Hoeppner 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

On 11/16/2011 12:15 AM, Alexander Chekalin wrote: > Hello, Stan, > >> This is why I recommended mbox in the first place. If your only writes >> to these mailbox files are appends of new messages, mbox is the best >> format by far. It's faster at appending than any other format, and it's >> faster for searching than any other. > > I now seriously consider to use mdbox due to its nice self-regulation. > After all it I believe mdbox should do file compression on its own, no > cron scripts required. mbox and mdbox each has strengths and weaknesses. mbox will compress with a higher ratio than mdbox. You already have a nightly script that moves all mail from the day into a new file. Piping that through gzip or bzip2 is a no brainer. It'll add one line to your existing script, if that. Dovecot will decompress the file transparently when you access it via IMAP. And again since it's a single file searching it is much faster. With mbox you will have a single file for each day of emails. This seems ideal for archive purposes, one file per day. mdbox does fully transparent de/compression which is nice. The downside is that Dovecot does dbox compression on a per email basis, not a per file basis. So your compression ratio will be much less than with mbox, especially with bzip2 which works best on files over 900KB in size. Most emails are less than 8KB. Using mdbox will yield multiple files per day of emails instead of just one. Either format is much better than maildir for archiving. >> It's an archive. You're not going to use maildir so you don't need >> random IOPS performance. Thus RAID5/6 are a much better fit for an >> archive as you get better read performance, with more than adequate >> write performance, and you use less disks. And as this is an archive, >> you don't need real time automatic/transparent compression. Thus I >> recommend something like: >> >> 1. Debian 6 w/linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 or a custom rolled >> 2.6.39 or later kernel >> 2. hardware RAID5 w/large (2TB) SATA disks, 512B native sectors >> e.g. MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i, 4 Seagate Constellation ES ST2000NM0011 >> Specify a strip size of 256KB for the array >> Perma set /sys/block/sdX/read_ahead_kb to 512 so you're reading >> ahead 1024 sectors at a time instead of the default of 256. This >> will speed up your searches quite a bit. >> 3. XFS filesystem on the RAID device, created with mkfs.xfs defaults >> 4. mbox w/zlib plugin. Compress daily files each night with a script >> 5. You don't need LVM with a good RAID card (or with mdraid). This >> controller can expand the RAID5 up to 8 drives (up to 32 drives max >> using SAS expanders) > > We are considering to get HP DL180G6 server for 8 or 14 drives bays The P410 tops out at 8 drives, so get the 8 drive model. Start with 4 x 2TB drives in RAID5. Add 4 more drives when you need the capacity, and when drive prices are back down to normal (see below). http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13248_na/13248_na.html > (base model price is somewhat equal, but additional drives adds up cost) Especially right now in 2011. Flooding in Thailand, where 25% of the world's drives are produced, has doubled the cost of all hard drives worldwide. Now is a horrible time to buy spinning drives. I've read it may be 12 months before prices start coming back down... > with HP Smart Array P410 RAID controller (some servers are equipped with > this controller by default) with 256 Mb battery-backed cache, but I'll > check your suggestions! The P410 should be fine for a dedicated archive server. > What memory size should I plan in the server? You're talking about AMD64 > OS image, and 64-bit software are like to consume more memory that > 32-bit, so looks like your talking about pretty huge RAM, and I don't > believe it's necessary, or maybe I'm wrong? The memory footprint of 64bit binaries is nothing to worry about. The additional amount consumed is more than offset by the performance gained with direct access to RAM above 4GB compared to the performance of PAE. Keep in mind that 90% of your memory will be eaten by Linux buffer cache. Your binaries will account for less than 5% of your RAM consumption. If I understand correctly how you will use this archive server, then 8GB should be plenty. 8GB is standard on the 8 drive DL180 G6. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13248_na/13248_na.html > Problem is I have no experience with XFS and not sure I can tune it in > the best way, so I'll go with mkfs.xfs defaults, I think. With only 4 drives and using a P410 w/cache and RAID5, doing manual XFS tuning isn't necessary for good performance, especially for an archive application which is data heavy, not metadata heavy. Setting sunit/swidth to match the RAID5 layout may increase performance slightly due to stripe aligned writes, but not enough that I'd worry about it. Just use the mkfs.xfs defaults. If you get the BBWC for the P410, enable the controller write cache, and mount XFS with 'nobarrier'. This will increase write performance quite a bit as fsyncs will complete instantly. > Hope we'll see Dovecot 2.1.x stable soon, as I'd like to use fts plugins > and 2.1 handle that much better, but I don't like the idea of use > unstable in production. Me neither. Speaking of archive/search, did you take look at Enkive yet? http://www.enkive.org/ > Thank you for taking your time on my case, You're welcome Alexander. -- Stan P.S. You may wish to implement dnswl.org ;)

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[Dovecot] Chroot
by Bambero 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hello, I have successfully setup dovecot with chroot but there are two things yet 1. submission_host problem (I posted message 2 days ago) 2. Problem with acl's and sharing: all maildirs are located in: /var/mail/jdoe(a)example.com/Maildir so: mail_chroot=/var/mail I setup acls with: 10-mail.conf ... namespace { type = private separator = / prefix =. inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes subscriptions = yes } namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%u/ location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u subscriptions = yes list = yes } ... 90-acl.conf ... plugin { acl = vfile:cache_secs=5 } plugin { acl_shared_dict = file:/%i.db } ... Setting acl is no problem there are dovecot-acl dovecot-acl-list in Maildir. and dictionary /var/mail/xxx.db contains list od shares I can also see shared folder in my IMAP client but when trying to subscribe i got error: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: No such file or directory Error: Namespace 'shared/': Could not lookup home for user jdoe(a)example.com /var/dovecot/auth-userdb is not accessible because chroot. But why userdb is necessary in this case ? I hope there is a solution without disabling chroot. Below my basic configuration. Regards, Bambero # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 5.0 i386 auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull first_valid_gid = 1000 first_valid_uid = 1000 last_valid_gid = 10000 last_valid_uid = 10000 mail_chroot = /var/mail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir 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 mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Spam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts quota = maildir:User quota sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_global_path = /etc/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 user = _exim } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = /etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mycert.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mycert.key submission_host = 127.0.0.1 userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota autocreate } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh }

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[Dovecot] How to do SEARCH with doveadm
by Alexander Chekalin 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hello, I'm still playing with search messages from/to specified email address. In fact I need to do that to take such messages and copy it to another mailbox (so that box will contain 'Search results' and will be available to examine by any IMAP client). I've put my mailings in mdbox storage format, and use latest 2.1 beta version of Dovecot to be sure I use the freshest approach in search (and plan to use Solr FTS as well). The setup is each, I use passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot/auth/%Lu } and userdb { driver = static args = uid=dovecot gid=dovecot home=/MAIL/mail_storage/%Lu } and put user:password pair in file named after my mailbox in /etc/dovecot/auth/ (let's name it test(a)domain.com) and the messages are at /MAIL/mail_storage/test(a)domain.com/... While I use it from IMAP client it works nicely. Ok, I put somewhat 5800 messages in INBOX, and IMAP pretty fast in working with it. But as I try to use doveadm to search for messages I need I simple lost my way (doing it under root): # doveadm search ALL doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: Permission denied (euid=104(dovecot) egid=106(dovecot) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: Permission denied Whatever cli command I try doveadv try to find messages in /root dispute it is at /MAIL/mail_storage/%Lu. How can I make doveadv use right mail path? In fact, I don't want to use system users to work with mail, it'll be simple virtual mail user, so it is pointless to set up special system user to do that search. I think I lost myself in general concept of how Dovecot handles users and credentials, so please please please push me in right direction! Thank you, Alexander

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[Dovecot] Creating a password_scheme
by Jordi Llonch 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hello, I am trying to develop a password_scheme for the Django passwords. After building and installing the module in $module_dir/auth/password/djangopass.so, also tried libdjangopass.so and libdjangopass_plugin.so, Dovecot does not recognize the scheme: doveadm pw -l CRYPT MD5 MD5-CRYPT SHA SHA1 SHA256 SHA512 SMD5 SSHA SSHA256 SSHA512 PLAIN CLEARTEXT CRAM-MD5 HMAC-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN-MD4 PLAIN-MD5 LDAP-MD5 LANMAN NTLM OTP SKEY RPA SHA256-CRYPT SHA512-CRYPT Please can you help me? Thanks -- Jordi Llonch # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) ext4 ----------password-scheme-django.c-------------------------- #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <dovecot/lib.h> #include <dovecot/hex-binary.h> #include <dovecot/password-scheme.h> #define uchar unsigned char static bool djangopass_verify(const char *plaintext, const char *user, const unsigned char *raw_password, size_t size) { return TRUE; } void djangopass_generate(const char *plaintext, const char *user, const unsigned char **raw_password_r, size_t *size_r) { } struct password_scheme djangopass_scheme = { "DJANGO", PW_ENCODING_BASE64, 0, djangopass_verify, djangopass_generate }; struct module; void djangopass_init(struct module *module) { password_scheme_register(&djangopass_scheme); } void djangopass_deinit(void) { password_scheme_unregister(&djangopass_scheme); } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] setting namespaces using script-login environment in 2.0
by Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi! With dovecot 1.x, I was using a post-login script to dynamically add shared mailboxes using NAMESPACE_X.. environment variables, based on filesystem permissions: After login, the post-login script was executed with user permissions (mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes). It added all subdirectories of "/var/spool/mail/Shared" as namespaces for which the user had write permissions. E.g.: NAMESPACE_2='maildir:/var/mail/Shared/spamrep:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/Shared/spamrep' NAMESPACE_2_PREFIX=Shared/spamrep/ NAMESPACE_2_SEP=/ NAMESPACE_2_TYPE=public NAMESPACE_2_LIST=yes See the attached post-pogin-script for details. After switching to 2.0.14 (using executable script-login -d...), the script actually gets executed but the namespace settings do not seem to be honored. Besides, I don't see any pre-set NAMESPACE_ environment variables anymore. Have environment based namespace settings been abandoned in 2.0? Does Dovecot 2.0 maybe provide a better way to only display those folders, for which the user has at least read permissions? (Unix-permission based) Thanks in advance, --leo -- e-mail ::: Leo.Bergolth (at) wu.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: IT-Services | Vienna University of Economics | Austria

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[Dovecot] Usage of director without LMTP
by Oliver Eales 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hello, we want to migrate our dovecot 1.2 installation to verison 2.0 and want to use the director feature of version 2. Currently we have a two tier archtiecture, with dovecot proxys and a mailstore togehter with indexes on NFS. (With the common problems of this setup...) For the final setup we want to utilize the director for all protocols (IMAP,POP,LMTP,SIEVE). During the transition phase we will not be able to use LMTP for mail delivery, but we are still stuck with deliver as LDA. So for mail delivery we will not have the fixed user/server assignment, but rather a random assignment. What NFS- and locking settings should be used on the backend servers in this case. And should i use different settings for the host the deliver is executed than the IMAP/POP3 hosts which are accessed through a director proxy. Thanks in advance, Oliver Eales

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[Dovecot] Invalid "doveadm search" queries not rejected
by Peter Williams 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hello, I think I've encountered a bug in Dovecot 2.0.9 (as provided on CentOS 6). According to the doveadm-search-query(7) manual page, a "mailbox" specification can only come at the beginning of a search query. However, if I put a mailbox specification in the middle of a query, not only do I not get an error message, I get surprising results: $ doveadm search mailbox A |wc -l 6979 $ doveadm search mailbox B |wc -l 206 $ doveadm search mailbox A OR mailbox B |wc -l 42492 If it became possible to do boolean logic on mailbox queries, that'd be cool. But barring that, these invalid queries should be rejected. Relatedly, if I can only do simple mailbox filtering, does anyone know of a clever way to efficiently emulate more complex boolean logic? Please CC me on any replies as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Williams / peter(a)newton.cx

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[Dovecot] Deleting a mailbox and all its children
by Micah Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

I'm looking at scripting a mechanism to delete a mailbox, which is easy with 'doveadm mailbox delete' -- however it gets complicated when there are children of arbitrary depth, for example, I may have this: restored.daily1.INBOX restored.daily1.Sent restored.daily1.Mystuff restored.daily1.Mystuff.foo I would like to delete the 'restored' mailbox and all its children (and unsubscribe the folders), but the 'doveadm mailbox delete' command wont delete any children. I'm surprised that there isn't a -r (recursive) option to 'doveadm mailbox delete', but perhaps I am missing the easier way to handle this? thanks for any ideas or suggestions! micah --

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[Dovecot] Excessive imap-logins, never die
by Nick Edwards 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hiya, Today I note there are 38 imap-logins that seem to be stale on our staff imap server, they do not seem to die off, new imap-logins are created with new logins and exit accordingly. Now, these are from our monitoring software that runs on another server on our LAN. Our corporate link was taken down for 2 hours for urgent relocation of fibre (demolishing old adjoining building, and just in case, they needed to move it which we were glad about), so, this begs the question, why would imap-logins be there I guess in some sort of wait state, even with a still working internal DNS (internal view as well) the only difference is no actual internet connection in this time. A week ago when they first started to working and we lost internet for 45 minutes I also saw a few extra stale imap-logins, but after todays events, I decided this is a bigger issue that needs to be looked into, as dovecot required a restart to clear it all (I wasnt going to sit there killing individual PIDs all evening). Dovecot version 1.2.17, built from source

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Re: [Dovecot] default Dovecot-LDA CHGRP/CHMOD
by Chris Young 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

I am familiar with this article http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#multipleuids I want to disable setuid-root, but I don't know the default group and permissions. sudo chgrp root /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda sudo chmod 00750 /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda but my delivery is still failing Nov 9 18:22:39 vl42 postfix/pipe[23039]: DEC54700B1: to=<user(a)domain.com>, orig_to=<user(a)domain.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.05, delays=0.04/0/0/0.01, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: pipe: fatal: pipe_command: execvp /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda: Permission denied ) Thoughts? Thanks Chris

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[Dovecot] Seg fault in dovecot/auth 2.0.15
by Mark Goldey 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Folks: I've been running Dovecot 2.0.7 on a Qmail / Vpopmail installation built on Debian Squeeze, with no problems for about a year. Dovecot is used for IMAP/S auth only. Dovecot is built from source. I just upgraded to 2.0.15 but it segfaults whenever an IMAP auth is attempted, regardless of the user who tries to login, whether by webmail (Roundmail) Android phone (K-9 Mail) or iPad (Roundmail) I downgraded to 2.0.13 but the segfault persisted. Re-installed 2.0.7 and that cleared it right up. Here's the pertinent details from 2.0.15. Anything else I can provide? root@XXX:/# uname -a Linux XXX 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux root@XXX:/# dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.3 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = XXXX last_valid_uid = XXXX log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } protocols = imap service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } process_limit = 128 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_ssl = yes Here's a failed login transaction from /var/log/dovecot [snip -- 10 lines or so. The SSL handshake completes OK] Nov 15 14:08:43 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=192.xxx.xxx.xxx rip=174.79.xxx.xxxlport=143 rport=55437 resp=XYXYXYXYXYXXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYX== Nov 15 14:08:43 auth-worker: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Nov 15 14:08:43 auth-worker: Debug: vpopmail(user(a)mydomain.net,174.79.xxx.xxx): lookup user=user domain=domain.net Nov 15 14:08:43 auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=user(a)mydomain.net Nov 15 14:08:43 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 2710831105 686 1 XYXYXYXYXYXXYYXYXYX Nov 15 14:08:43 auth-worker: Debug: vpopmail(user(a)domain.net,174.79.xxx.xxx): lookup user=user domain=domain.net Nov 15 14:08:43 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker process died unexpectedly Nov 15 14:08:43 master: Error: service(auth-worker): child 690 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Nov 15 14:08:43 auth: Debug: master out: FAIL 2710831105 Nov 15 14:08:43 imap: Error: Internal auth failure (client-pid=686 client-id=1) Nov 15 14:08:43 imap-login: Info: Internal login failure (pid=686 id=1) (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user(a)domain.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=174.79.xxx.xxx, lip=192.xxx.xxx.xxx, mpid=691, TLS Nov 15 14:08:43 imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4008, ret=256: warning close notify [174.79.xxx.xxx] Nov 15 14:08:43 auth-worker: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth I ought to mention that /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth is empty. Here's the backtrace: root@XXX:/# gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/auth /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian [snip] Reading symbols from /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/auth...done. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt-2.11.2.so...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 Reading symbols from /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.so Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.2.so...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/librt-2.11.2.so...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.2.so...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.11.2.so...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.2.so...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.authmodule...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.authmodule Core was generated by `dovecot/auth -w'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) bt full #0 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x08059890 in auth_worker_handle_user (client=0x82b34d0) at auth-worker-client.c:405 auth_request = 0x82b56e8 userdb_id = 1 #2 auth_worker_handle_line (client=0x82b34d0) at auth-worker-client.c:534 id = 2 #3 auth_worker_input (client=0x82b34d0) at auth-worker-client.c:614 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 line = <value optimized out> ret = 232 #4 0xb785f021 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x82b3688) at ioloop.c:384 ioloop = 0x82a6398 t_id = 2 #5 0xb78600d3 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x82a6398) at ioloop-epoll.c:213 ctx = 0x82b1f38 event = 0x82b1f78 list = 0x82b36b0 io = 0x829e2b0 tv = {tv_sec = 2147483, tv_usec = 0} msecs = 1 ret = 1 i = 0 j = 0 call = 192 #6 0xb785efa0 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x82a6398) at ioloop.c:405 No locals. #7 0xb784abaa in master_service_run (service=0x82a62e8, callback=0x805c470 <worker_connected>) at master-service.c:481 No locals. #8 0x0805c828 in main (argc=2, argv=0x82a61c0) at main.c:298 c = <value optimized out> (gdb) --mhg

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SASL on another machine
by Tobias Hachmer 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello list, is there a way to use Dovecot SASL Authentication for submission on a different machine dovecot runs? e.g.: Dovecot machine <-> postfix machine(for submission) How can I authenticate my senders on a different physical machine against Dovecot SASL? Thanks, Tobias

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[Dovecot] indexes permissions problem
by Mark Hanford 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hey all, I did a search but didn't find the answer to my problem, so here goes. I've got a centos 6 server running Dovecot 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef). For legacy reasons (I'm moving mail from a Dovecot 1.1.1 and FreeBSD box with user home directories NFS mounted), my index files are setup to be in /u/indexes/ On the Dovecot 1.1.1 installation, the perms on the indexes directory is 777 with root:mail ownership. The same thing on the Dovecot 2 / Centos server results in a 'permission denied' error when Dovecot tries to create files. So, I guess my main question is, what perms and ownership should /u/indexes be set to? I've tried several different things before this cry for help... Thanks. Mark

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[Dovecot] Limit the number of pop/imap requests
by wwl 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello Group, is it possible to Limit the number of pop/imap requests to Dovecot? I read the Wiki and found max_mail_processes = 512 is this the way to limit this ? dovecot --version 1.2.15 Thanx for help Christian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.15 quota configuration with mbox
by David Ocana 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello, I've been trying to set up dovecot 2.0.15, everything seems to work pretty well except for the quota feature. I would like to set a quota limit only for the Inbox folder. I configured two namespaces, according to some posts from Timo Sirainen (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-July/014530.html) & (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-January/056131.html) but I can't configure the quota plugin to act the way I pretend. Here's my namespace configuration: namespace { separator = / prefix = INBOX/ location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%d/%n inbox = yes hidden = yes } namespace { separator = / prefix = inbox = no location = mbox:/mail/%d/MAILBOXES/%n:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%d/%n } Quota config: plugin { quota = dirsize:User quota # I've tried with: quota_rule = INBOX:storage=819200K quota_rule = INBOX/*:storage=819200K quota_rule = INBOX/Inbox:storage=819200K # Works with: quota_rule = *:storage=819200K quota_rule = ?:storage=819200K (Same behavior as '*') } Using '*' and '?', is the only way I get it to work, but obviously, quota is calculated summing up all the mailbox folders. I don't know what else to change, any ideas? Is the two namespace configuration correct? Thanks in advance. David

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[Dovecot] Migration From Courier Imap.
by Rajeev Sharma 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Sir, I am using vpopmail,qmail along with courier-imap 4.0 i want to migrate from courier to dovecot but i have 100 shared folder under /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/Malidir and user shared them on the basis of rights assign. I am very much clear how to migrate from courier to dovecot but i am unable how to migrate shared folder and assign rights. Rajeev Sharma. -- Rajeev Sharma

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[Dovecot] getenv() in plugin not working
by Trutwin, Joshua 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi - new to the list, can't find much on this using google. I'm trying to setup the dovecot DRAC plugin as described here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PopBSMTPAndDovecot#DRAC DRAC is installed and running using this startup command: /usr/local/sbin/rpc.dracd -i -e 5 /etc/postfix/dracd.db I downloaded the drac.c file linked on the above URL: http://www.dovecot.org/patches/1.1/drac.c and built it using this command: gcc -Wall -W -shared -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H drac.c -I/usr/include/dovecot -L/usr/lib64/dovecot -o drac.so -ldrac Then I copied drac.so to /usr/lib64/dovecot (this is an x86_64 SL 6.1 system - dovecot 2.0.9) and modified my /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf file: mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot mail_plugins = drac Restart dovecot and try to login and getting these messages for ANY login attempts: dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<snip>, method=PLAIN, rip=<snip>, lip=<snip>, mpid=4018, TLS server dovecot: imap(<snip>: Error: DRAC: IP environment not given I traced the "IP environment not given" to the drac.c plugin file, and the code is pretty simple: void drac_init(void) { const char *ip_str; struct ip_addr ip; ip_str = getenv("IP"); if (ip_str == NULL) i_error("DRAC: IP environment not given"); Is there anything special that needs to be done for getenv("IP") to report the login IP? I tried to put getenv("RIP") for remote ip and even getenv("USER") as well but always get NULL. Is this API only for dovecot 1.x? If so is there a 2.0 equivalent? The rest of the plugin is very basic... I think this is the last step in getting this setup running. I'd have to have this one last piece force me to run that icky perl program instead. Thank you, Let me know if anything else is needed. Josh

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[Dovecot] Question about pop3_reuse_xuidl
by Urban Loesch 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi, we are in migration progress from Communigate Pro 5.0.x to Dovecot 2.0.15 with mdbox. We still migrated about 25.000 IMAP accounts from CGP to Dovecot. Also there were still added about 2000 new POP3 Accounts on Dovecot. Now we must migrate about 10.000 POP3 accounts from CGP to Dovecot. At the beginning of our migration we didn't set the "pop3_reuse_xuidl" configuration option to yes. Do you know what happens when we activate the "pop3_reuse_xuidl" option on our running dovecot? Will Dovecot change the uidl value for all existing mails which have set "X-UIDL" in its mailheader, or does Dovecot only change the uidl value for new received and still not downloaded mails? Many thanks and regards Urban Loesch

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[Dovecot] XUIDL Migration problems
by Steve H 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello All, I am new to Dovecot and the Dovecot mailing list. I am trying to migrate an existing Exim + qpopper - mbox (pop3 only) installation over to Exim + Dovecot using mdir (pop3 and imap) And am running into problems with preserving the XUIDL headers. I am running Dovecot 2.0.14 I have used the mb2md.pl script : http://dovecot.org/tools/mb2md.pl from this page http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat to migrate and import the mboxes And have the following pop3 uidl settings in my configuration . pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes pop3_save_uidl = yes protocols = imap pop3 service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } protocol pop3 { pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes pop3_save_uidl = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } The problem specifically is that when I test the migration and import a mailbox, I am able to connect via IMAP using Thunderbird and Outlook 2007 and the Read / Unread status is preserved. However when I connect via POP3 the Read/Unread status is not preserved. I am probably missing something simple, but have been unable to find anything that seems relevant on the Dovecot wiki or searching the mailing lists. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Steven Holloway IT Technical Consultant I.T. Basecamp P/L [http://www.itbasecamp.com.au/signature.gif]<http://www.itbasecamp.com.au/> Address: Office 1 Level 1/50 Owen St Huskisson NSW 2540 Phone: +61 2 44418555 ext 308 Fax: +61 2 44418551 Web: http://www.itbasecamp.com.au<http://www.itbasecamp.com.au/> Subscribe to our newsletter! Visit: IT Basecamp <http://www.itbasecamp.com.au/component/option,com_acajoom/Itemid,99999999/a…> to manage your subscription.

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[Dovecot] patch for UID 0 problem
by Kai Arif 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi all, attached you'll find a patch for cmd-thread.c which addresses a problem with certain clients in conjunction with the use of the UID THREAD REFS command: TAG5 UID THREAD REFS us-ascii SINCE 14-May-2011 * THREAD (0)(246)(247)(248)(249)(250)(252)(253)(254)(255)(256)(257)(258)(259)(260)(261)(262)(263)(264)(265)(266)(267)(268) TAG5 OK Thread completed. The first UID delivered (0) is invalid, some clients - @mail for instance - then try to fetch the invalid UID 0 subsequently and run into problems. The patch actually disables the return of (0) and seems to work for us. Please review and - if OK - incorporate it in the next version. Best Regards Kai -- Kai Arif - System Administrator Inter.net Germany GmbH Knesebeckstraße 59-61 10719 Berlin Germany Fon +49 30 25430 0 Fax +49 30 25430 499 arif(a)team.de.inter.net www.de.inter.net Legal-Information: Inter.net Germany GmbH, HRB #79136, Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg, UST-IdNr:: DE 813 165 159 FA für Körperschaften I Berlin, Geschäftsführer: Jörn Lubkoll Zuständige Regulierungsbehörde: Bundesnetzagentur Chemnitz, Liselotte-Herrmann-Str. 20a, 09127 Chemnitz, Registriernummer: 06/164

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