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[Dovecot] Courier-mta with Dovecot LDA again
by komodo 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hi all Sorry for repost, but i don't believe that there is noone who know where the problem can be. At least developers should know :-) I have sent this post once, but without answer. I have setup dovecot lda instead of maildrop on my courier server. Delivery is working, sieve plugin too, but i can't figure out why lda can't send emails via sendmail (vacation). I always get error Error: Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 67 And i know why, but i don't know how to setup lda to make it work . Here is .courier file where is redirect to lda. | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -a $RECIPIENT -f $SENDER But the deliver does not pass recipient address to sendmail. Here is some output of strace execve("/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver", ["/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver", "-a", "komodo@somedomain", "-f", "someuser@somedomain"], [/* 22 vars */]) = 0 So it's clear that deliver have those variables, but then i can see this execve("/usr/sbin/sendmail", ["/usr/sbin/sendmail", "-i", "-f", "<>", "--", "someuser@somedomain"], [/* 2 vars */] <unfinished ...> And there is empty -f , so here is the problem. How should i setup this to make it work correctly ? Here is my config [root(a)OVZ.mail ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = ovzmail listen = 10.0.10.34 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 = . type = public } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/server.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/server.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 40 } Many thanks Martin

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[Dovecot] Quota ignore subfolders
by Héctor Moreno Blanco 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hello, We have dovecot 2.0.8 in our servers with Scientific Linux SL release 5.2 (Boron). We want to ignore a mailbox and its child mailboxes. A few weeks ago Timo told me to do this in dovecot.conf, create a new namespace which will be the quotaless namespace and edit the quota: namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:%h/Maildir/carpeta1 prefix = carpeta1. separator = . type = private } plugin { quota = maildir:carpeta1:ns=INBOX. quota_warning = storage=75%% /usr/local/dovecot/bin/quota-warning.sh 75 quota_warning2 = storage=90%% /usr/local/dovecot/bin/quota-warning.sh 90 } We also have passdb and userdb with ldap, with dovecot-ldap.conf: pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(uid=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password, mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home, mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(|(mailAlternateAddress=%u)(mail=%u)(uid=%u))(accountActive=TRUE)) We also tried the easy solution which was to indicate a quota rule in order to ignore the mailbox but with no success. It still get every mailbox to calculate the quota. We set mail_debug=yes to see if there was any error, but everything seemed to be ok. Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advanced. Héctor Moreno Blanco. ______________________ This message including any attachments may contain confidential information, according to our Information Security Management System, and intended solely for a specific individual to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised copy, disclosure or distribution of this message is strictly forbidden. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it. ______________________ Este mensaje, y en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, puede contener informacion clasificada por su emisor como confidencial en el marco de su Sistema de Gestion de Seguridad de la Informacion siendo para uso exclusivo del destinatario, quedando prohibida su divulgacion copia o distribucion a terceros sin la autorizacion expresa del remitente. Si Vd. ha recibido este mensaje erroneamente, se ruega lo notifique al remitente y proceda a su borrado. Gracias por su colaboracion. ______________________

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[Dovecot] Renaming IMAP folders does not affect children
by Johannes Simon 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hi, we're using dovecot2.0 since August and very happy with it. Just recently Thunderbird users reported problems when renaming folders, and it seems that RFC 2060 (sec. 6.3.5) requires children of a renamed folder to be renamed, too. This however does not happen: Talking IMAP I get: * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.NNN1" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.NNN1.NNN1a" . rename "INBOX.NNN1" "INBOX.NNN2" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.NNN1.NNN1a" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.NNN2" There seems to be no problem the filesystem rights, since this works: . rename "INBOX.NNN1.NNN1a" "INBOX.NNN2.NNN1a" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.NNN2" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.NNN2.NNN1a" Am I misunderstanding RFC 2060, or is my config wrong (doveconf -n below), or could it be a bug? Cheers, Johannes # 2.0.8 (e030df616faf): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.7 default_client_limit = 2500 default_process_limit = 600 dotlock_use_excl = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Dovecot 2 ready. mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = autocreate acl 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 mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { list = yes location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = INBOX.shared.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = session=yes dovecot driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/etc/dovecot/dict/shared-mailboxes autocreate = INBOX.Trash autocreate2 = INBOX.Junk autocreate3 = INBOX.Sent autocreate4 = INBOX.Junk_old autocreate5 = INBOX.Drafts autosubscribe = INBOX.Trash autosubscribe2 = INBOX.Junk autosubscribe3 = INBOX.Sent autosubscribe4 = INBOX.Drafts sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } } service dict { user = dovecot } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login rawlog /etc/dovecot/postlogin.sh user = root } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = autocreate acl imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 }

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[Dovecot] Doveadm search in public namespaces
by Thomas Leuxner 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Say I want to create a script to perform some 'doveadm' tasks. Is there any particular reason why "mailbox-guids" would not work for public namespaces? Let's search something to play with: $ doveadm search sentbefore 01-jan-2011 mailbox "Public/Mailing-Lists/Dovecot" adeffe1c8b7ba64bb3770000a998a2df 1021 […] Trying to fetch headers using mailbox-guids *fails*: $ doveadm fetch hdr mailbox-guid adeffe1c8b7ba64bb3770000a998a2df uid 1021 …while it works using mailbox name: $ doveadm fetch hdr mailbox Public/Mailing-Lists/Dovecot uid 1021 Seems odd. Regards Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk0XSf8ACgkQ+meF/S97aXjqggCbBAL+FFTmHRXwuxLX46vYFclr 42UAn0dSEwvUzZUy8QU/Pvux+UzVdRlB =vWk6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] user xxx@mydomain.com doesn't exist
by G.Nau 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

new setup of Dovecot 2.0.8 with postfix local users are simply defined as Linux users named xxx, yyy et cetera; IMAP access is fine with that users. Postfix is delivering mails with two domains (to xxx(a)mydomain.com or xxx(a)mydomain.org) and these are rejected by dovecot with 550: user doesn't exist. I've tested the possible usernames with "doveadm user" xxx: okay xxx(a)mydoman.com: "userdb lookup: user xxx(a)mydomain.com doesn't exist" xxx(a)mydoman.org: "userdb lookup: user xxx(a)mydomain.org doesn't exist" Dovecot2 wiki says "Dovecot doesn't care much about domains in usernames" Okay, how to I get dovecot to ignore the domain part (or accept the two defined domains) when mails are delivered from postfix? Or do I have to configure Postfix to strip the domain part before delivering to dovecot? Regards Birte Nauer

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[Dovecot] Unable to solve over quota issue
by Joy 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Dear All, I am using dovecot-lda to deliver the mail but unable to restrict users to recieve mails when quota becomes full. while i am using quota_full_tempfail = no in 15-lda.conf file. following is the output of doveconf -n Note: per user quota is working from ldap and as well global quota defined in 90-quota.conf file .. # 2.0.8: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.7 base_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ hostname = mx1.example.in log_path = /var/log/imap login_greeting = IMAP and POP Server welcomes you. mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota acl 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/home/silvereye.in/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = yes type = public } passdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot-acl/acl autocreate = Sent Items autocreate2 = Drafts autocreate3 = Spam autocreate4 = Deleted Items autocreate5 = Archive autosubscribe = Sent Items autosubscribe2 = Drafts autosubscribe3 = Spam autosubscribe4 = Deleted Items autosubscribe5 = Archive quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=500M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /usr/local/dovecot/sieve/spf.sieve sieve_before = /usr/local/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /usr/local/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/dovecot/bin/postlogin.sh user = root } service imap { executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap imap-postlogin } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve-obsolete { port = 2000 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/dovecot/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol sieve { managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota acl sieve quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota acl imap_acl autocreate imap_quota } Please let me know what is wrong with the configuration .. Thanks

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[Dovecot] archiving
by PA 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi, recently I installed the newest 2.x version of dovecot working with postfixadmin/mysql and it works great, thanks Timo, however I been reading dovecot's mailing list archived messages and haven't run across a good solution for archiving mail with dovecot. There was mention of using rsync but I was looking for incoming mail to be copied to another folder, maybe called archive J, in real time where the user would have only read access to the messages in the archive folder and the expire plug-in would delete messages older then x number of days. Does anyone have an suggestions on how I can implement this, I would also like to hear how some people were implement archiving if they do it differently. Also as far as shared calendars with dovecot what are my options. Sorry if it's a little off topic. Thanks, Paul

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[Dovecot] dovecot director terminate ssl ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

I plan on putting two dovecot directors in front of our backend dovecot pop/imap servers, instead of our current haproxy loadbalancing of the connections -- but how do we handle SSL in such a setup. Will all SSL be terminated on the directors automatically, and then proxyed plain text, or is there any configuration needed to achieve this ? Does it matter that the directors are v2.0 while the backends are running v1.2 ? -jf

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[Dovecot] RV: Quota ignore subfolders
by Héctor Moreno Blanco 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Please, any help with this issue. Thanks. Héctor Moreno Blanco. -----Mensaje original----- De: dovecot-bounces+hmoreno=gmv.es(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+hmoreno=gmv.es@dovecot.org] En nombre de Héctor Moreno Blanco Enviado el: miércoles, 15 de diciembre de 2010 12:48 Para: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Asunto: [Dovecot] Quota ignore subfolders Hello, We have dovecot 2.0.8 in our servers with Scientific Linux SL release 5.2 (Boron). We want to ignore a mailbox and its child mailboxes. A few weeks ago Timo told me to do this in dovecot.conf, create a new namespace which will be the quotaless namespace and edit the quota: namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:%h/Maildir/carpeta1 prefix = carpeta1. separator = . type = private } plugin { quota = maildir:carpeta1:ns=INBOX. quota_warning = storage=75%% /usr/local/dovecot/bin/quota-warning.sh 75 quota_warning2 = storage=90%% /usr/local/dovecot/bin/quota-warning.sh 90 } We also have passdb and userdb with ldap, with dovecot-ldap.conf: pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(uid=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password, mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home, mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(|(mailAlternateAddress=%u)(mail=%u)(uid=%u))(accountActive=TRUE)) We also tried the easy solution which was to indicate a quota rule in order to ignore the mailbox but with no success. It still get every mailbox to calculate the quota. We set mail_debug=yes to see if there was any error, but everything seemed to be ok. Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advanced. Héctor Moreno Blanco. ______________________ This message including any attachments may contain confidential information, according to our Information Security Management System, and intended solely for a specific individual to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised copy, disclosure or distribution of this message is strictly forbidden. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it. ______________________ Este mensaje, y en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, puede contener informacion clasificada por su emisor como confidencial en el marco de su Sistema de Gestion de Seguridad de la Informacion siendo para uso exclusivo del destinatario, quedando prohibida su divulgacion copia o distribucion a terceros sin la autorizacion expresa del remitente. Si Vd. ha recibido este mensaje erroneamente, se ruega lo notifique al remitente y proceda a su borrado. Gracias por su colaboracion. ______________________ ______________________ This message including any attachments may contain confidential information, according to our Information Security Management System, and intended solely for a specific individual to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised copy, disclosure or distribution of this message is strictly forbidden. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it. ______________________ Este mensaje, y en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, puede contener informacion clasificada por su emisor como confidencial en el marco de su Sistema de Gestion de Seguridad de la Informacion siendo para uso exclusivo del destinatario, quedando prohibida su divulgacion copia o distribucion a terceros sin la autorizacion expresa del remitente. Si Vd. ha recibido este mensaje erroneamente, se ruega lo notifique al remitente y proceda a su borrado. Gracias por su colaboracion. ______________________

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Quota plugin as Couier quota
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

I get a similar behavior between dovecot quota plugin and courier quota with the attached patch. When the client change flags, then is forced to recalc. This is because I don't know how to get the changed flags on quota sync method. The courier quota behavior is avoid to count all deleted mails, include "mark as deleted" mails. -- Antonio Pérez-Aranda Alcaide aperezaranda(a)yaco.es Yaco Sistemas S.L. http://www.yaco.es/ C/ Rioja 5, 41001 Sevilla Teléfono +34 954 50 00 57 Fax +34 954 50 09 29

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[Dovecot] 2.0.9?
by John S 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

As many changes as the repository has had, isnt it time for 2.0.9?

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[Dovecot] lmtp (xxx@mydomain.yy): Error: user xxx@mydomain.yy: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mbox: mbox requires client_limit=1 for service
by G.Nau 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

new Dovecot 2.0.8 installation on Opensuse 11.3 I got the error "lmtp (xxx(a)mydomain.yy) Error: user xxx(a)mydomain.yy: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mbox: mbox requires client_limit=1 for service" while trying to transfer mails by lmtp from postfix to dovecot. I googled and looked on the dovecot wiki about this client_limit issue, but no success. What's the syntax of the client_limit and where to place it? Into which config file? Inside the global namespace doesn't seems to work (error on dovecot start). -What's the side effect of this setting to my IMAP clients? Are multiple imap connections to the same mailbox still possible? Regards Birte Nauer

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[Dovecot] listescape breaks acl plugin
by Jens 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Hi all Without the listescape plugin I see the following things happen: - If I share a mailbox, dovecot-acl-list in Maildir root is updated accordingly. - If I create a subfolder in an already shared mailbox the dovecot-acl file of the parent folder is copied to the new folder and dovecot-acl-list is updated as well. When I activate the "listescape" plugin, this doesn´t happen. Additionally (with listescape enabled), if I create a folder which contains a dot and then share that folder the dovecot-acl-list looses all entries except the first found shared folder without a dot in foldername. I Hope this is not a bug but only a configuration issue. Thanks for any hints in advance and best Regards Jens

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[Dovecot] Shared Folders via Symlinking
by Adrian Mardlin 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Hi folks, I'm trying to set up shared folders via symlinking and have come across a problem. I created a folder for one user, then symlinked it to another. I figured that one thing that is likely to happen at some point is that user 2 is going to decide they don't want to look at that folder any more, and will delete it, so I tried this. Much to my relief, it didn't delete the actual mails, just the symlink. However, it did alter the dovecot.index.cache file to indicate that the folder had been removed, and subsequent attempts to select this folder via the primary user resulted in an error, "NO Mailbox was deleted under us". I had to delete dovecot.index.cache to get it working again. Sorry - can't bring myself to call folders mailboxes... ;-) Adrian Mardlin in charge @ The Very Good Email Company t 01442 892641 m 07920 102401 f 01442 808081 w www.verygoodemail.com The content of this email and any attachment is private and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying or forwarding of this email and/or its attachments is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by email and delete this message and any attachments immediately from this system. The Very Good Email Company is a trading style of APM Internet Limited. APM Internet Limited is a limited company incorporated in England and Wales with registration number 04601087 and whose registered office is at Charter Court, Midland Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 5GE

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[Dovecot] Sieve rule issue with certain character sets
by Thomas Leuxner 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a global sieve rule in place to filter mailing-lists. This has worked well so far. Recently however one subscriber on a list seems to create strange character set encodings in the 'From' and 'To' headers. This leads to unprocessed/unfiltered mails (no errors thrown). Is this a configuration or Pigeonhole issue (latest HG used)? Headers from failing mail: From: "=?UTF-8?B?VG9yaW50aGllbA==?=" <user(a)domain.tld> To: "=?UTF-8?B?ImJpbmQtdXNlcnNAbGlzdHMuaXNjLm9yZyI=?=" <bind-users(a)lists.isc.org> Relevant sieve rule: if allof (address :is ["To","CC"] ["bind-users(a)lists.isc.org","bind-users(a)isc.org","comp-protocols-dns-bind(a)isc.org"], header :contains "List-Id" "bind-users.lists.isc.org") { fileinto "Public/Mailing-Lists/Bind-Users"; } Regards Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk0dvZ4ACgkQ+meF/S97aXgYTACfZC70bsYn3d4/VRY2GfK5lF0k xOIAnRsBliv9EErA919vc5KoTAHhq3rC =IE3C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.12 + Postfix + virtual domains: delivering to system users
by Ran Talbott 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

As mentioned in my previous posting, I've set up a mailserver for a domain of Winboxen, authenticated through Active Directory. After some struggles, I finally got that working. But I also need to receive emails for a few system users on the mailserver (like postmaster, and a couple of accounts set up for maintaining the system). I thought, based on the way I read the documentation, that I could just add a "userdb passwd", ahead of the "userdb ldap", and deliver would find their home directory maildirs. The virtual users would fail the passwd search, fall through to the LDAP check, and deliver would drop their mail into their maildirs in the /var/mailstore tree. I knew the system users wouldn't be able to login to the IMAP server, but this isn't a concern. Instead, the system users' mail got bounced, after an auth check via the "master" socket (from Postfix, I guess: it's a transient process) whose details don't get logged. And the virtual users' lookups (done by deliver) returned made-up UIDs and GIDs, and maildir locations (/home/<realm>/<username>) completely different from what the LDAP lookup normally returns (/var/mailstore/<username>). So what am I missing here? I managed to work around this by adding the system users to the Postfix virtual.db, but it would be nice to not need to do that. It would also be nice to neable the system users to check email by logging in to the IMAP serve, but I'm reluctant to even try that after the way delivery went completely wonky. Thanks, Ran

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[Dovecot] Can doveadm rebuild thread indexes?
by David Warden 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

I'm already using "doveadm search" to update my squat fts indexes (dovecot.index.search and dovecot.index.search.uids) but I'd like to also update dovecot's thread index file (dovecot.index.thread) using doveadm. I checked the new wiki and the archives but didn't see any option for this. (I'm running 2.0.8) The alternative (AFAIK) is to write a script that signs in to IMAP and does "thread references UTF-8 ALL" in each folder. As an aside, could the dovecot LDA do any of this work? I'd surely be willing to spend the resources at delivery time to keep those indexes updated if it meant I didn't have to run a cron job to keep them updated. -David Warden

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[Dovecot] LDAP binds
by Trever L. Adams 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

I am using 2.0.8. Anonymous binds are no longer supported in the environment I am using. I need to change my userdb ldap setup to bind. I believe the ldap server does Kerberos (or can) authentication. My users are authenticating using Kerberos or Kerberos/PAM. This needs to stay in place. Can anyone suggest how I might go about changing my setup to work? My current ldap setup is as follows (the directories, user id, etc are set statically in the configuration elsewhere): tls = yes hosts = MAILSERVER base = dc=middleearth,dc=sapphiresunday,dc=org ldap_version = 3 user_attrs = userPrincipalName=user user_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(|(mail=%u)(sAMAccountName=%u)(userPrincipalName=%u))) # For using doveadm -A: iterate_attrs = userPrincipalName=user iterate_filter = (objectClass=person) Thank you, Trever Adams -- "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

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[Dovecot] doveadm search
by dovecot 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

I would like to have soem information added to this page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Fetch Under 'Arguments'/fields is mentioned that 'hdr' could be used. But i wanted doveadm to just return the header of my message I found out, by simply trying, that next statement works: $ doveadm -f table fetch -u <username> "date.sent mailbox hdr.Subject" subject seomthing date.sent mailbox hdr.subject 2010-12-30 11:56:38 (+0100) INBOX RE: Question about seomthing 2010-12-30 13:24:29 (+0100) INBOX RE: Question about seomthing 2010-12-30 11:12:33 (+0100) Sent Question about seomthing 2010-12-30 12:11:19 (+0100) Sent Re: Question about seomthing I think it would be nice to add information to the field 'hdr' to let people know that 'hdr.Subject' is also allowed. -- Luuk

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[Dovecot] dovecot-keywords problem with MDN
by Mauro D. 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi all, I have Dovecot 1.2.13 installed. My clients ask why Disposition-Notification is requested every time the mail is moved on a new IMAP folder... I take a look into dovecot-keywords file and I see that: 1) I have only one row 0 NonJunk 2) dovecot-keywords file is not present inside every directory. How I can restore normal status? Where is probably the problem? Thanks Mauro D.

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[Dovecot] Error: User doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database
by fila＠pruda.com 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hello, I have found this message in logs. But delivering is working. Error: User peter(a)mydomain.cz doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database doveconf -n # 2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-lts i686 ext3 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u 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 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { home = /home/vmail/%u sieve = /home/vmail/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_global_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-global.sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mydomain.cz protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve } I have googled little bit. According to this article http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home I think the problem is: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u and plugin { home = /home/vmail/%u } is the same directory. Is it right? Is the solution to set mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/mail/%u ? -- Best regards Filip

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[Dovecot] IMAP messages not being marked read
by void372＠transientvoid.com 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

I recently moved from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 and consequently to dovecot 2.0.8. Since then, I have observed that messages are not being marked as read in all cases. The general behavior is: 1. Use my mail client to read all unseen messages. All mail folders show no messages unread. 2. Tell mail client to check for new mail. 3. Mail client now says that some folders have new mail (1 or more messages) 4. Clicking on a folder with new mail (say with 6 unread) shows that there are no unread messages. I have observed this behavior using both kmail and squirrelmail so do not believe it is a mail client problem. I have maildir folders to which mail is delivered using procmail recipes directly to the appropriate dovecot folder. In these folders, I notice that the "cur" directory has a matching number of messages that do not have an "S" flag on the end of the file name. For example: # ls .fedora-list/ cur/ dovecot.index.log new/ dovecot.index.cache dovecot-uidlist tmp/ # ls .fedora-list/cur 1293379204.26554_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293379206.26571_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2, 1293379207.26581_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2, 1293380106.26744_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2, 1293380106.26748_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293381904.26876_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293383704.26978_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293384604.27005_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293385504.27067_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293386404.27105_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293387305.27158_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2, 1293387305.27166_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2, 1293388204.27193_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2, 1293389105.27234_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293390005.27292_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293390006.27298_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293392706.27400_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293392706.27406_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293393611.27515_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293396304.27673_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293396305.27675_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293398104.27743_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S 1293399003.27966_1.nehalem.home.rainbowdreams.com:2,S I have so far been unable to observe a pattern as to which messages get affected. I made the assumption that perhaps the issue is a conversion issue in my existing maildir folders, but this does not appear to be the case. When I moved the existing directory out of the way and started with a fresh empty directory the issue has come back after a day or two. Unfortunately, my install of Fedora 14 overlaid the partition with Fedora 13, so I cannot confirm the version of dovecot I was using with no issues. (so very glad I use separate disk and partition for the OS!) I can say that all configuration was in one dovecot.conf file, not the multiple conf.d files I see on Fedora 14. Any assistance on what to troubleshoot next is greatly appreciated! The info about my dovecot is shown below. The maildir's are on local LVM/RAID and not remote. Thanks!! # dovecot -n # 2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-72.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext3 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/vg02/mail/%u mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change append mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size flags } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } # dovecot --version 2.0.8

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[Dovecot] Dovecot consulting companies
by Timo Sirainen 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Once in a while someone asks about companies who could help installing / running / etc. their mail server. I don't really know many, so I thought I'd add a wiki page about it. Feel free to add your company on the list if you offer some Dovecot related services. Write also a few words what type of services you offer. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Consulting I'll add a link there once at least one company is listed. :) Oh and if it's not clear above, I don't mean that the list should contain companies that only offer email accounts (Dovecot or not).

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[Dovecot] Reverting from 2.0. to 1.2
by Thomas Hummel 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hello Timo, I switched this morning from dovecot-1.2.12 to 2.0.8 with a basic setup (high performance login mode, Maildir, everyhing on NFS, one shared but unused namespace). No problem so far except that some Thunderbird users who wouldn't succeed in moving messages from some one folder to another. They'd get a message about some illegal character in the mailboxname (already existing mailbox of course). This is user input so I don't have any details nor sufficient element to consider it a real problem. A Thunderbird restart seems to solve the problem. My questions were : . is there a different handling in the hierarchy separator (internal or advertized for the namespace) ? (I use "/" for both namespaces and "." since in Maildir). . is there a different handling in the non-ASCII mailbox names ? Could it be related ? . if something goes really wrong, is it safe to revert to 1.2.12 ? Maybe some files has non-compatible format (dovecot-uidlist, indexes, ...) ? Thanks. -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Fetch without setting flags
by Behrooz Afghahi 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hello, I'm customizing squirrelmail and I want to print a line from the message in front of the subject in mailbox listing (like gmail). the problem is, when I use 'FETCH {SOME_ID} BODY[]' the message gets marked as seen. How can I fetch without setting the senn flag ? Thanks Behrooz

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