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[Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage with single-dbox
by Timo Sirainen 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Just a note to myself and whoever else cares, should be added to wiki once it has its own page about this: With single-dbox messages can be copied with hard linking. This means that there can be multiple files that point to the same attachment file. The attachment is now deleted only once the mail file's link count drops to zero, so this works fine.. ..until someone goes and starts manually copying files or maybe restoring from backups or whatever, causing the hard links to be replaced with separate files having link count=1, even when there are other files pointing to the same attachment file. Now deleting this one mail will delete the attachment too early. I can't think of any other reasonable way to handle this though, so unless someon has some great ideas, I think the solution is to simply add enough warnings that message store shouldn't be accessed directly. Maybe add some import/export commands to doveadm which can be used to add a bunch of mails to storage without doing it directly on filesystem.

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[Dovecot] gssapi problems (postfix sasl through dovecot, dovecot imap working fine)
by Trever L. Adams 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Thanks to Timo, I have solved all but one of my problems. For back ground, I am using Samba4 as an AD. I have the userdb working from LDAP just fine and kerberos authenetication for dovecot's IMAP server working fine. The problem is using dovecot's SASL with postfix. I also have plain/login working in imap and smtp. Both use pam_krb5 through pam to authenticate clients that don't have kerberos, and for now smtp. When trying to do smtp kerberos, I get the following: postfix/smtpd[6197]: warning: CLIENT_FQDN[CLIENT_IP]: request longer than 2048: AUTH GSSAPI ... dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011GSSAPI#011service=smtp#011nologin#011lip=SERVER_IP#011rip=CLIENT_IP#011secured#011resp=<hidden> dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(?,CLIENT_IP): Obtaining credentials for smtp@MAILSERVER_FQDN dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,CLIENT_IP): While processing incoming data: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,CLIENT_IP): While processing incoming data: Invalid message type postfix/smtpd[6197]: warning: CLIENT_FQDN[CLIENT_IP]: SASL GSSAPI authentication failed: dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111 # klist -k /etc/dovecot/krb5.keytab Keytab name: WRFILE:/etc/dovecot/krb5.keytab KVNO Principal ---- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 imap/MAILSERVER_FQDN@DOMAIN_REALM 2 smtp/MAILSERVER_FQDN@DOMAIN_REALM The client is Thunderbird. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have made sure that the file has proper permissions. I have regenerated the smtp cert making suer the password is accurate. I have done everything I know to try. The only thing that I am guess remains is something is broken with Thunderbird's kerberos setup for smtp. Thank you very much, Trever

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Dead Gardens 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello dovecot-list. I have the next problem with include option and managesieve .dovecot.sieve.log: info: started log at Oct 18 21:46:18. main_script: line 2: error: include: global location for included script 'roundcube.sieve' is unavailable (contact system administrator for more information). main_script: error: validation failed. .dovecot.sieve file content: require ["include"]; include :global "roundcube.sieve"; sieve/roundcube.sieve file content: require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[subject] if anyof (header :contains "subject" "test") { fileinto "Servers"; stop; } dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.16-linode28 i686 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1 rootfs protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_uid: 8 mail_gid: 12 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/:INDEX=/var/vmail/%d/%n/indexes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.com mail_plugins: quota sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: nobody passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail group: mail plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve Any idea? Regards.

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[Dovecot] Imap Logout format
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

He all, I'm migrating a big system from Courier to Dovecot and we have a custom analyzer logger system to Courier logs. We have got the very similar specs on IMAP LOGIN log, but I can't get the Logout format. Courier write like that: ... imapd: LOGOUT, user=luism.martinez, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=131, sent=632, time=0 ¿Is there any Variables on imap_logout_format to get headers, body and time vars?

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Re: [Dovecot] Segfault in dovecot-lda 2.0.5
by Stephan Bosch 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

On 10/19/2010 12:25 AM, Aaron wrote: > On 10/10/2010 8:48 AM, Stephan Bosch wrote: >> Op 10-10-2010 17:30, Sean Cardus schreef: >>> Any ideas? >>> >> >> Yes, this was reported several times already. First thread: >> >> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-October/053475.html >> >> Apply this change: >> >> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/e2f9baa436f2 >> >> That should fix it. > > I'm seeing a similar crash when piping in excessively large (7-10mb) > emails. I have already applied the listed change, which fixed this > issue with normal sized email. Could you provide some more info, i.e. a gdb backtrace? Regards, Stephan

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[Dovecot] disable zlib via config to allow per mailbox compression level
by Kui Zhang 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello Dovecot v2.0.5 zlib_save_level = 6 # 1..9 zlib_save = gz # or bz2 Is there a config option to disable zlib, even if above config are in place? If so please provide an example. If no, would it be possible to add one? Like if zlib_save_level = 0 disable zlib. So one can configure per mailbox compression level via sql database. KuiZ Thanks

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[Dovecot] sharing of virtual folders?
by Lutz Preßler 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello, Debian 2.0.5-0~auto+23 (b8803a1e2dc2): Is sharing of virtual folders supposed to work? namespace virtual { location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ prefix = INBOX.virtual. type = private } with (as user) 0 getacl INBOX.virtual.week * ACL "INBOX.virtual.week" "testuser" lrs "user" lrwstipekxacd virtual.week is neither LISTed or SELECTable under shared of testuser. Also tried with full rights and right to INBOX.virtual for testuser. No errors logged. Greetings, Lutz -- Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler(a)SerNet.DE> http://www.SerNet.DE/ SerNet Service Network GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, D-37081 Göttingen Tel.: +49-551-370000-2, FAX: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen

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[Dovecot] changed separator/sharing of subfolders (Re: problem with subscriptions=no and changed separator ?)
by Lutz Preßler 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello, another problem with changed separator (2.0.5-0~auto+23 (b8803a1e2dc2)). I tried sharing virtual folders (see next mail), and noticed that sharing of subfolders does not seem to work if the "receiving" user has a changed separator (different separator/prefix settings through userdb_namespace attributes). As "user": 0 getacl "INBOX.test" * ACL "INBOX.test" "testuser" lrs "user" lrwstipekxacd 0 getacl "INBOX.test.test2" * ACL "INBOX.test.test2" "testuser" lrs "user" lrwstipekxacd (but also tested with more rights for testuser) As testuser with unchanged separator: 0 list "" "*" [includes:] * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "INBOX.shared.user" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.shared.user.test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.shared.user.test.test2" and 0 select INBOX.shared.lpmail.test.test2 works. As testuser with separator=^: 0 list "" "*" [includes:] * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "^" "INBOX^shared^lpmail" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "^" "INBOX^shared^lpmail^test" INBOX^shared^lpmail^test^test2 is missing. 0 select INBOX^shared^lpmail^test2 0 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX^shared^lpmail^test2 (also tested without having everything under INBOX). No error messages in log. Regards, Lutz -- Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler(a)SerNet.DE> http://www.SerNet.DE/ SerNet Service Network GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, D-37081 Göttingen Tel.: +49-551-370000-2, FAX: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen

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[Dovecot] cmusieve and logging
by cool.chris65＠web.de 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hello, is there a way to write a logfile during sieve-actions? At least, I have trouble in reading sieve-scripts with tools from kmail ("connection refused) or thunderbird (timed out: server does not answer). There is no problem with the mailbox itself in reading or writing in it. The config for Sieve: dovecot.conf: ## ## LDA specific settings ## protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. postmaster_address = christoph@localhost # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id. # Default is the system's real hostname. #hostname = # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. # Binary to use for sending mails. #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. #auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master debug = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver-errors.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log # Enabling Sieve plugin for server-side mail filtering mail_plugins = cmusieve } plugin { # Here you can give some extra environment variables to mail processes. # This is mostly meant for passing parameters to plugins. %variable # expansion is done for all values. #sieve = /var/sieve-scripts/%u/sieve sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve # Quota plugin. Multiple backends are supported: # dirsize: Find and sum all the files found from mail directory. # Extremely SLOW with Maildir. It'll eat your CPU and disk I/O. # dict: Keep quota stored in dictionary (eg. SQL) # maildir: Maildir++ quota # fs: Read-only support for filesystem quota #quota = maildir # ACL plugin. vfile backend reads ACLs from "dovecot-acl" file from maildir # directory. You can also optionally give a global ACL directory path where # ACLs are applied to all users' mailboxes. The global ACL directory contains # one file for each mailbox, eg. INBOX or sub.mailbox. #acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls # Convert plugin. If set, specifies the source storage path which is # converted to destination storage (mail_location) when the user logs in. # The existing mail directory is renamed to <dir>-converted. #convert_mail = mbox:%h/mail # Skip mailboxes which we can't open successfully instead of aborting. #convert_skip_broken_mailboxes = no # Trash plugin. When saving a message would make user go over quota, this # plugin automatically deletes the oldest mails from configured mailboxes # until the message can be saved within quota limits. The configuration file # is a text file where each line is in format: <priority> <mailbox name> # Mails are first deleted in lowest -> highest priority number order #trash = /etc/dovecot-trash.conf # Lazy expunge plugin. Currently works only with maildirs. When a user # expunges mails, the mails are moved to a mailbox in another namespace # (1st). When a mailbox is deleted, the mailbox is moved to another namespace # (2nd) as well. Also if the deleted mailbox had any expunged messages, # they're moved to a 3rd namespace. The mails won't be counted in quota, # and they're not deleted automatically (use a cronjob or something). #lazy_expunge = .EXPUNGED/ .DELETED/ .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/ } and postfix as LDA: ... mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver ... There are much logentrys about dovecot, devivering and mail, but no sieve- entrys in any log. Hope you can help me, Greets, Christoph PS the system: fritz!box (mipsel-cpu) debian etch (and backports; lenny + dovecot does not run with this environment) dovecot and postfix from etch-backports -- GPG-Fingerprint: 171A 6F66 52E5 A6CE D664 2427 832F E711 7442 8261

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[Dovecot] CLient issues
by The Doctor 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

BSDI and Dovecot 2 solved. However some POP3 issues have popped up. 1) Outlook reate e-mail but not on Thunderbird. 2) AVG Proxy interferes with POP3. Any solutions? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee Are you a real human: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1334.cfm

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[Dovecot] After Upgrade to Dovecot 2.0.5 SSL problems
by derunfehlbare＠freenet.de 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, I've upgraded my Dovecot from 1.2 to 2.0.5. Everything is working fine on my Gentoo, also login with imaps and pop3s. But: I have in my config autocreate folders for new users. After creating a new user (with PostfixAdmin) I see in my logfile with SSL enabled this: imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4004, ret=560: fatal unknown CA [127.0.0.1] With SSL-disable, autocreation folders for new users is no problem. I've searched a fiew days for a solution, but I did not find anything. Also dovecot-page what describes running SSL does not help me. Here are the relevant config-sniplets: plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Junk autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Sent autosubscribe3 = Junk autosubscribe4 = Drafts } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } } ssl = yes ssl = yes ssl_cert =

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[Dovecot] Backup recovery with mdbox
by Andre Nathan 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hello I'm using mdbox for mail storage. I'd like to give users an option to recover backups into a new folder, say, Backup-$date. Is there a simple way to do this? I was looking at tools like dsync and doveadm-altmove but apparently they're not intended for this kind of stuff. Thanks in advance, Andre

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot genesis v2.0.X
by Dennis Clarke 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:47 -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote: > >> So, my question is, respectfully, is dovecot V2.0.5 stable enough >> for prime-time on a busy ISP mail server? I'll install it myself >> independent of the FreeBSD ports tree if so. > > It's getting better :) I'll make 2.0.6 release this week again with more > fixes, but I still have a few bug reports that I haven't managed to > reproduce. I'm concerned with the very same question. I currently have 1.2.12 running very well and I see risk in an upgrade to ver 2.x. Unless of course the benefits outweigh the risks. I have been carefully watching the ver 2.x tree rev from week to week and I await the defacto signal from people that it is in fact at least as solid at 1.2.12, that signal being adoption by people in busy mail servers. So therefore I await ver 2.0.6 with a mix of conflicting anticipation and trepidation. :-) -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot genesis v2.0.X
by Dennis Clarke 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 13:46 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> > I am running 2.0.5 (svn repository) in production for about a >> > thousand users without major issues. >> >> Please Sir, on what OS and architecture ? > > I think the stability has less to do with that, and more to do with what > parts of Dovecot you want to use. If your test setup works fine with the > most common clients you use, and it survives a bit of stress testing, it > should work fine. > > The things I still mostly worry about are some rare errors/crashes. There is still a rather large number of Solaris 8 Sparc servers out there running in production and based on the conversations I have had with some sysadmins they will upgrade them when the smoke comes out. That could be another five years. So, before you say "stability has less to do with that" you should see the horrendous work it takes to port an app from the open source world ( usually Linux people with tons of Linux-isms/GCC-isms in it ) over to an old POSIX/XPG4 ( POSIX.1-1990, POSIX.2-1992, POSIX.1b-1993, POSIX.1c-1996 etc ) compliant UNIX. My coffee cup needs whiskey some days ;-) -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot genesis v2.0.X
by Dennis Clarke 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

> > > I am running 2.0.5 (svn repository) in production for about a > thousand users without major issues. Please Sir, on what OS and architecture ? -- Dennis

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[Dovecot] Split plugin config in diferents files
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi all, Is possible to split dovecot.conf with a very very big plugin {} section? Maybe, some like apache with sites-enabled.d Then, we could have a file per plugin.

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[Dovecot] Filtering IP address connections ?
by Frank Bonnet 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hello Is it possible to refuse connections from some IP address in Dovecot configuration ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Version checks and API/ABI/sonames
by Axel Thimm 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, pigeonhole/sieve check against dovecot's version comparing to what they have been built against. This means that whenever there is a minor version of dovecot released pigeonhole/sieve need to be rebuilt and then redistributed to users even if there is no need for it (I'm thinking of packaged versions of dovecot and dovecot-pigeonhole). Could the checks become ABI-version aware, so that rebuilds and redistribution are kept to a minimum? Maybe Timo is already keeping API/ABI stability between minor updates, so the version checks should be against the first two version components only. Thanks! -- http://thimm.gr/ - http://ATrpms.net/

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[Dovecot] Retrieving unread message count
by Brandon Davidson 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Timo, I'm working with a webmail client that periodically polls unread message counts for a list of folders. It currently does this by doing a LIST or LSUB and then iterating across all of the folders, running a SEARCH ALL UNSEEN, and counting the resulting UID list. Eventually I'd like to see it using RFC5819 LIST-EXTENDED, but that requires a fair bit of work. In the mean time I'm trying to speed up the existing iteration. I've got it working using 'STATUS "mailbox" (UNSEEN)', but the language in RFC3501 suggest that this may be slow. There is a counterproposal to use RFC4731 ESEARCH and do 'SELECT "MAILBOX"'; 'SEARCH RETURN (COUNT) UNSEEN'. >From an IMAP server perspective, which do you anticipate would be faster? >From a client perspective it seems like STATUS would be better since it involves less round-trips to the server and less output parsing, but given the warnings in the RFCs there is concern that it is in fact be more expensive. -Brad

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Re: [Dovecot] Limit access to dovecot by domains?
by Alan Brown 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:09:57 +1100 > From: Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst(a)barrett.com.au> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Limit access to dovecot by domains? > To: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <20101015040957.GA3232(a)senna.barrett.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:31:23PM +0100, Timo Sirainen (tss(a)iki.fi) wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 18:08 +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > > > >> > > Maybe I could include a script that would check the reverse DNS record > >> > > of a connected IP and then I could filter????? > > > > > > Wonder if tcpwrappers would work? You could use that with Dovecot v2.0. > > I have read a few things about this, it looks like its not so good to do it this way, > besides having proper written daemons running from (x)inted is a system overhead. Huh? What are you talking about? If dovecot has tcpwrapper support and is compiled -DTCPWRAP then it can run as a standalone daemon and will consult the hosts.allow/deny files, no need for inetd of any type. man 3 hosts_access man 5 hosts_access for details on tuning. Tcpwrapper tuning is far more powerful than people realise.

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[Dovecot] strange behavior with virtual accounts and imap
by vladi 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

hi, I've recently setup new mailserver with dovecot and postfix. They use mysql and virtual accounts. All works perfectly except.. There is one group account named info, all the mail is forwarded to every other account. Users download their mail via Outlook (2003, 2007) with imap. If someone downloads email send to info and delete it after that. Outlook stoke the message and doesn't delete it immediately, thats normal. But if later someone else downloads his mail and it have received the same letter to info. The message appear as if it's already deleted by that user. But is supposed to be unreaded. I cant find any info why is this happening. Please help

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda crash
by Luca Palazzo 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi Timo and All, we had to revert back to LDA delivery instead of lmtp proxy (too buggy). We nare now experiencing process segfaults: [503564.305998] dovecot-lda[2415]: segfault at 48 ip b779e5b9 sp bfaf0ba8 error 6 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[b774b000+b9000] [503615.786468] dovecot-lda[2405]: segfault at 48 ip b77815b9 sp bfc7fa58 error 6 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[b772e000+b9000] [503615.928514] dovecot-lda[2244]: segfault at 48 ip b772c5b9 sp bff73e08 error 6 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[b76d9000+b9000] [503617.161419] dovecot-lda[2953]: segfault at 48 ip b774f5b9 sp bfa48ec8 error 6 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[b76fc000+b9000] [503618.649389] dovecot-lda[2857]: segfault at 48 ip b769a5b9 sp bff10838 error 6 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[b7647000+b9000] [503624.711122] dovecot-lda[3178]: segfault at 48 ip b76cd5b9 sp bf9f0928 error 6 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[b767a000+b9000] [503629.479673] dovecot-lda[3159]: segfault at 48 ip b76c05b9 sp bf910708 error 6 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[b766d000+b9000] .... What information do you need to look at it? Thanks Luca

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[Dovecot] quota sql dict permissions dilemma
by LEVAI Daniel 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi! I'm trying to set up SQL based dict quota. The quota is working, gets updated but I had to configure really loose file permission to make it work: dovecot.conf: dict { quota = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot_dict-sql.conf } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0660 group = vmail # sidenote: I noticed that writing the number equivalent # of 'vmail' here does not work. Why? } } # ~ls -la /etc/dovecot/dovecot_dict-sql.conf -rw-r----- root vmail dovecot_dict-sql.conf # ~ls -la /var/dovecot/dict srw-rw---- root vmail /var/dovecot/dict= Every virtual user lookup returns a 'gid' field, and it is always 'vmail' (actually it is the number equivalent of 'vmail'). Despite that the imap process should run as the 'uid' and 'gid' values returned from the userdb, it can not read the dict config file: dovecot.log: dict: Error: Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot_dict-sql.conf: Permission denied dict: Error: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quota' lda(<username>): Error: read(/var/dovecot//dict) failed: Remote disconnected Now I must set o+r to the config file, which I really don't want to, given that it contains the db username and password. Strange thing is that the group r/w permission is enough for the dict= socket, and it doesn't need world-wide permissions at all. Daniel -- LÉVAI Dániel PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F

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[Dovecot] Wrong box.
by Henrique Fernandes 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

Oct 16 22:52:42 mta0 dovecot: lda(luciano.moreira(a)metal.eeimvr.uff.br): sieve: msgid=<a04f508ac9d299a0733a09ce714ae56f(a)localhost.localdomain>: stored mail into mailbox 'luciano/moreira@metal/eeimvr/uff/br' Oct 16 22:52:48 mta0 dovecot: lda(fabiana(a)vm.uff.br): sieve: msgid=< 4CB3CFE3.4060206(a)wspc.com.sg>: stored mail into mailbox 'fabiana@vm/uff/br' Oct 16 22:52:49 mta0 dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=12190 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 16 22:52:57 mta0 dovecot: imap(testador(a)uff.br): Server shutting down. bytes=63/1673 Oct 16 22:52:59 mta0 dovecot: lda(mtahsp(a)vm.uff.br): sieve: msgid=< MAILSENDER2003BHUdm00087164(a)mailer.umail.com.br>: stored mail into mailbox 'Spam' Oct 16 22:52:59 mta0 dovecot: lda(valeriavet(a)vm.uff.br): msgid=<FD.E7.04337.F8F18BC4@mta01>: saved mail to INBOX Oct 16 22:52:59 mta0 dovecot: lda(santelli(a)geoq.uff.br): sieve: msgid=<3627207d2597dcb14860bb050c442be3(a)localhost.localdomain>: stored mail into mailbox 'santelli@geoq/uff/br' sieve: msgid=<3627207d2597dcb14860bb050c442be3(a)localhost.localdomain>: > stored mail into mailbox 'santelli@geoq/uff/br' > > Can anyone tel me why dovecot is delivering msg liks this, it is creating an folder and saving msg in it. ??? help please! Does anyone know if it is sieve ? []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] kmail-error: can't upload folder (imap-account on dovecot-server)
by cool.chris65＠web.de 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

Hello, I've some trouble with my kmail (Version 1.13.5 / KDE 4.5.1, Kubuntu 10.04 and a dovecot-imap-server on debian etch (dovecot 1.0.rc15-2etch5). Everytime I try to create a folder under my imap-inbox, I get an error like "can't upload folder...", but after this message I can see a new folder under my inbox-folder, but I can't use it ... With a thundermail-client I can create a subfolder without any erro and I can use it r (but only first level). My conf: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: Herzlich Willkommen, %u. mail_location: mbox:~/mail imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd The reason for using debian etch and dovecot 1.0 is the hardware: it's running on a Fritzbox-Router, and there is actual a littlebit trouble with lenny (often crashing, reboots of the whole box etc.) I hope, someone can help me ... Thanx and greetz, Christoph -- GPG-Fingerprint: 171A 6F66 52E5 A6CE D664 2427 832F E711 7442 8261

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