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Re: [Dovecot] Receive Mail via lmtp/tcp
by Denny Schierz 20 May '10

20 May '10

hi, Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 13:39 +0400 schrieb Andrey Melnikoff: > Drop sendmail, use exim. sendmail need over complicated configuration > for checking quotas, etc. or using thrid party milters. thanks for that hint, and I will remember next time for this solution :-) At the moment Postfix is the best solution until DoveCot 2.x releases. cu denny

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Re: [Dovecot] draft-ietf-morg-list-specialuse-01 - IMAP LIST extension for special-use mailboxes
by Nikolay Shopik 20 May '10

20 May '10

On 20.05.2010 13:55, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 20.5.2010, at 11.10, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > >> What you think about this draft is it good enough to make patch based on it for dovecot? We would like to see this functionality in 2.0 dovecot release but it's not clear when this draft become standards track. Will you accept patch based on drafts? > > Have you read the discussion about it in morg list? I don't remember what the last conclusions were :) Anyway I'd probably accept patch to Dovecot, but maybe not yet advertise supporting SPECIAL-USE in capability. > > But the main thing I'm not sure about is where should the flag information be stored? Should it even be per-user option? If yes, should it maybe be combined with autocreate plugin? > Yeah advertise SPECIAL-USE before IANA registred keyword isn't good thing. I don't think this really need per-user option. This is basically "system folders" and MUA will decide on their local names. Combining with autocreate plugin seems reasonable.

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[Dovecot] logging
by James Devine 20 May '10

20 May '10

I am looking through the logging options and wondering if there are a couple of things that we can do 1. Logouts don't seem to show the IP address of the logout, we typically see multiple sessions at a time and wondering if there is a way to tie the logouts to an IP 2. POP logouts show the number of messages retrieved/deleted but I don't see a way to do this with IMAP, is there a logout option for this with imap? Thanks

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Re: [Dovecot] looking for IMAP testing tool
by Phil Howard 19 May '10

19 May '10

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:49, Mailing List <anonmous(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I've got an hack piece of regression perl code that we might be a good > starting point. I'd love to turn it into a better piece of hack code > that we could offer up. It does SSL/TLS. > > Right now it is pretty basic and forks 1K-10K simultaneous IMAP > login/logout connections. Its goal is to find the sink point for the > IMAP server and/or test client so that tuning exceeds current usage. > > Let me know if you are interesting in looking at it and cleaning it up. > > ---Jack > The best I could do with something in Perl is rewrite it into something else. I'm still kinda weak on Python (don't know all the cool tricks, yet), and Pike isn't found universally, so things would need to be in C for me to do it and it to be widely usable. And that's for later when I get some free time.

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[Dovecot] looking for IMAP testing tool
by Phil Howard 19 May '10

19 May '10

I'm looking for an IMAP testing tool, suitable to use with Dovecot IMAP. It needs to support TLS, STARTTLS, and login/authentication. It needs to be able run from command line, shell scripts, and even do so under cron jobs (e.g. a way to supply the password to use w/o a terminal prompt). Typical interactive mail clients just don't cut it (even the text mode ones). One reason is I need to do the tests on a number of machines, under a number of user and domain names, and with a variety of parameters or destinations. This is for a suite of regression tests I am putting together intended to verify that configuration changes do not break things (or unbreak things that are supposed to not work). Anyone ever heard of such a tool? Open source would be preferred (better yet, my favorite programming languages: C, Pike, Python).

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[Dovecot] postfix+lda+ virtual users, confusion
by Harry Lachanas 19 May '10

19 May '10

I thought it would be nice to have vboxes insead of user logins ... Now I am confuesed and in trouble .. My server serves 2 domains so user1(a)domain1.com is the same as user1(a)domain2.org I've created the mail_location string with %n and static userdb with %n dovecot creates 2 mail user directories user1(a)domain1.com user1(a)domain2.org What the heck am I missing .. ?? Your help is appreciated Regards Harry Here is my config --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_cert_file = /etc/postfix/sasl/cacert.org/mail.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/postfix/sasl/cacert.org/mail.pem ssl_ca_file = /etc/postfix/sasl/cacert.org/cacert.org-root.crt login_greeting = Hi buddy, have an account ?? mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%n/Maildir/ namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:~/Maildir/ inbox = yes } namespace public { prefix = Public/ separator = / location = maildir:/home/Public-Folders-Mail/Public-RO:INDEX=~/Maildir/p1-idx:CONTROL=~/Maildir/p1-ctrl hidden=no subscriptions=no inbox = no list=no } namespace public { prefix = Public-Shared/ separator = / location = maildir:/home/Public-Folders-Mail/Public-RW:INDEX=~/Maildir/p2-idx hidden = no subscriptions = no inbox = no list = no } mail_privileged_group = mail mail_debug = yes verbose_proctitle = yes valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail:/home/Public-Folders-Mail dbox_rotate_size = 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size = 16 dbox_rotate_days = 0 protocol imap { mail_plugins = zlib autocreate expire imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_plugins = expire } protocol lda { postmaster_address = harry(a)domainxxx.com hostname = mail.domain1.com sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = expire } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = scheme=plain-md5 username_format=%n /usr/local/dovecot/etc/imap.pass3 } userdb static { args = uid=1001 gid=1001 home=/home/vmail/%n } userdb passwd { } user = root socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group= vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } dict { expire = db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db } plugin { autocreate = Spam autosubscribe = Spam autocreate1 = Public-Shared/Info autosubscribe1 = Public-Shared/Info autocreate2 = Undetected-Spam autosubscribe2 = Undetected-Spam expire = Trash 2 Trash/* 2 Spam 4 expire_dict = proxy::expire auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] mail location filesystem noatime, nodiratime?
by Stan Hoeppner 19 May '10

19 May '10

Will Dovecot be negatively impacted if I change my XFS mount options to noatime,nodiratime? Thanks. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] problem compiling pigeonhole + my fix
by Andreas Schulze 19 May '10

19 May '10

hello, yesterday I tried to package dovecot-2.0beta5 + pigeonhole from Mercurial repository. I put pigeonhole as a subdir in the dovecot sourcetree. Following http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole/raw-file/tip/INSTALL I called ./autogen.sh; ./configure --with-dovecot=..; make In the buildprocess I saw this output ( from autogen.sh ): Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `..'. libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite I dont know *why* AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR is .. but in .. there are the mentioned files (from dovecot) already present. The following make failed with less helpfull errors. -> my fix is to call "autoreconf -i -f" again after autogen.sh should -f be added to autogen.sh ? -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P532 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen

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Re: [Dovecot] A new director service in v2.0 for NFS installations
by Timo Sirainen 19 May '10

19 May '10

On 19.5.2010, at 13.09, Cor Bosman wrote: > I guess one of my first questions is, not just how to handle failure of proxies, but also failure of whatever server the proxy sends you to. We've talked about that before, that the proxy could for instance fall back to itself as the 'final server'. The people in here want to use their existing monitoring script that would do "ssh host doveadm director remove 1.2.3.4". But on top of that, yeah, maybe proxy itself could tell director that some host is down and retry the lookup. Although determining when it's down might not be fully reliable always, so I'm a bit worried that proxy could sometimes fail to connect to a mail server even if it's up (but e.g. with high load, temporary small network problem, etc).

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[Dovecot] how to configure my scripts sieves for the home root
by fakessh 19 May '10

19 May '10

hello list hello all reader of this list how to configure my scripts sieves for the home root I encounter these errors in the logs 2010-05-19 14:14:03 deliver(root): Info: sieve runtime error: Not a bytecode file 2010-05-19 14:14:03 deliver(root): Error: sieve_execute_bytecode(/root/.dovecot.sievec) failed thanks for your advice thanks

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[Dovecot] Make dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache
by Kenji Iuchi 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hi, I would like to make dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache manually. But that file is made on connecting IMAP Session. That file contribute to performance improvement, so I want to register myself with crontab. Please teach how to make dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache manyually. Note. Dovecot LDA is not use. -- /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/* Kenji Iuchi

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[Dovecot] double write-locking dovecot.index.log
by Mike Abbott 19 May '10

19 May '10

Dovecot's transactions often write-lock dovecot.index.log twice (without unlocking in between), and then unlock it twice. Is that intended, or is that a bug? If I read the man pages correctly, double write-locking is pointless but safe. But double unlocking could cause data corruption during the period between the first and second unlocks, because the locks don't nest (are not refcounted). The first unlock leaves the file totally unlocked. Could this be the source of some index corruption errors? For example: 1. Process A acquires a F_WRLCK on a file. 2. Through a different code path, process A again acquires a F_WRLCK on the same file. Since these locks don't nest this is essentially a no-op. 3. Process A modifies the file. 4. Process A unlocks the file to undo the lock in step 2. Now the file has no lock on it at all. 5a. Process B locks, modifies, and unlocks the file. 5b. Process A also modifies the file, thinking that it still has a write lock. 6. Process A unlocks the file to undo the lock in step 1, but this is another no-op. Data corruption is possible if steps 5a and 5b conflict, or if 5b uses stale data. Here is a code path in dovecot-1.2.11 which exhibits the above behavior. "Outer" write lock: maildir_transaction_save_commit_pre -> maildir_transaction_save_commit_pre_sync -> maildir_sync_index_begin -> mail_index_sync_begin -> mail_index_sync_begin_to -> mail_index_sync_begin_init -> mail_transaction_log_sync_lock -> mail_transaction_log_lock_head -> mail_transaction_log_file_lock -> mail_index_lock_fd -> file_wait_lock -> file_lock_do "Inner" write lock: maildir_transaction_save_commit_pre -> maildir_sync_index_finish -> mail_index_sync_commit -> mail_index_write -> mail_transaction_log_rotate -> mail_transaction_log_file_create -> mail_transaction_log_file_create2 -> mail_transaction_log_file_lock -> mail_index_lock_fd -> file_wait_lock -> file_lock_do The file being locked is the same, dovecot.index.log. In another case, maildir_sync_index_begin is reached this way (outer lock): mailbox_sync -> mailbox_sync_init -> maildir_storage_sync_init -> maildir_sync_context -> maildir_sync_index_begin -> mail_index_sync_begin -> etc. And maildir_sync_index_finish is reached this way (inner lock): mailbox_sync -> mailbox_sync_init -> maildir_storage_sync_init -> maildir_sync_context -> maildir_sync_index_finish -> etc. Could these lead to data corruption? Please let me know if you need any more information. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] problem trying out dovecot hg
by joakim＠verona.se 18 May '10

18 May '10

I get: May 18 14:56:16 exodia dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.beta5 (4ba05c3702be) starting up (core dumps disabled) May 18 14:56:16 exodia dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot-master) failed: Permission denied May 18 14:56:16 exodia dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot-master) failed: Permission denied "nc localhost 143" never connects listeners seem to be running at port 143 -- Joakim Verona

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 18 May '10

18 May '10

Hi.. can anyone give me a hind how to setup shared mailboxes. I've already created the shared and private namespace. But ive no idea how to share a mailbox. Thunderbird and most other Clients seem not to support the setacl command. so do i have to create a plaintext file with "user=theldapuseriwanttosharemybox rw" ? thx Hans

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[Dovecot] how authentication works?
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 18 May '10

18 May '10

Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I've read: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes I have a users database with clear plain passwords. Dovecot authenticates users without problems against it. Now, it's time to move to CRYPT scheme. Before that, I would like to know how things happen. He have: - the user, (entering his password in the MUA) - the user's MUA (Thunderbird, Outlook, Squirrelmail,...) - the POP or IMAP server - the users database (mySQL) with username and crypt()'d password How I think the process is: - the user enters his password in a clear way. - the MUA sends the password as the user entered it to the POP or IMAP server - the POP or IMAP server fetches the password from the database - the POP or IMAP server crypt()'s the user entered password - the POP or IMAP server compares crypt()'d ones and gives his response Am I close enough to reality? Too far? Misaotra, Thanks, Merci. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 3456 000 19

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[Dovecot] Configuring Dovecot SASL
by BABEDH-DHRA 18 May '10

18 May '10

Dovecot ver = 1.1.11 Dovecot -n = mail:~# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.4 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 6060 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-crammd5.conf 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: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_warning: storage=90%% /usr/sbin/quota-warning.sh 90 quota_warning2: storage=70%% /usr/sbin/quota-warning.sh 70 autocreate: Spam autosubscribe: Spam I am trying to get this to work. I am running a mailserver in Debian Lenny AMD-64 that uses Postfix driven virtual mailbox domains stored in a MySQL database, managed by PostfixAdmin and phpMyAdmin. I must send my mail through DYNDNS through port 2525 the username and password for that service does not appear at all in any of my user names. I have added / merged the data in the Configuring Dovecot SASL but when testing we see nothing about AUTH when testing it. Please let me know if I have left something out I am not a complete NUBE but I am still a bit green. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] %d is empty in mail_location
by Phil Howard 17 May '10

17 May '10

I have this in dovecot-postfix.conf: mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/dnamesum=%12MLd/dname=%Ld/unamesum=%12MLn/uname=%Ln/mail Yes, it is excessive, but that's just for testing. The pattern I really want is less clear for debugging. In postfix/main.cf I have: mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf -a "${RECIPIENT}" I verified through strace that -a "${RECIPIENT}" is in fact getting a full user@domain address. The problem is that %d and %Ld are coming up as empty, and %12MLd is giving me the first 12 hex characters of an md5 of an empty content. It's losing the domain name somewhere. It's in the mail headers and in the -a option. So what else is needed?

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[Dovecot] imap_acl for CentOS
by Andrés Gattinoni 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, I sent an email a couple of days ago asking about a problem with ACL. The bottom line was, I think, that I'm missing imap_acl plugin. I installed Dovecot 1.0.7 using yum in CentOS 5.4. Do you know where can I get the imap_acl plugin lib? Thanks A

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0beta5 Quota/Dict
by e-frog 17 May '10

17 May '10

On 14.05.2010 22:54, wrote Andrey Melnikoff: > In article <4BEDB367.8030004(a)gmx.de> you wrote: >> On 14.05.2010 22:12, wrote Henrique Fernandes: > >>>> May 14 17:03:40 dict: Panic: file driver-mysql.c: line 482 >>>> (transaction_send_query): assertion failed: (rows != (my_ulonglong)-1) > >> The patch in >> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-May/048705.html >> fixed this for me. > > For 2.0.b5 need slightly other patch: > --- dovecot-2.0.beta5/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c~ 2010-05-05 21:20:17.000000000 +0400 > +++ dovecot-2.0.beta5/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c 2010-05-05 21:20:17.000000000 +0400 > @@ -479,7 +479,9 @@ > struct mysql_db *db = (struct mysql_db *)result->db; > > rows = mysql_affected_rows(db->mysql); > - i_assert(rows != (my_ulonglong)-1); > + if (mysql_errno(db->mysql)) > + i_assert(rows != (my_ulonglong)-1); > + else rows = 0; > *ctx->ctx.head->affected_rows = rows; > } > sql_result_unref(result); > Oh, yes correct. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Setting up a 'rootless' server - user and auth_user cannot be the same
by Jason Ahrens 17 May '10

17 May '10

I am trying to follow http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless to set up a personal dovecot server that does not use 'root' and does not need to change uids/gids. I'm trying to set it up on a Cygwin personal system. The problem I'm running into though, the directions say to set "user" and "auth_user" to be the same in this setup. However when you do this, Dovecot compains and will refuse to start up. Did I miss something? $ ./dovecot --version 1.2.11 $ ./dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Error: login_user cyg_server (uid 1005) must not be same as auth_user Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Config trying to use: protocols = imap disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl = no login_chroot = no login_user = cyg_server login_process_size = 0 login_max_processes_count = 5 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir max_mail_processes = 5 mail_process_size = 0 auth_process_size = 0 auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.users } userdb passwd { } user = cyg_server }

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[Dovecot] sieve spamtest extension
by Nikita Koshikov 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hello Stephan, First of all, thanks for time you spent implementing this useful extension. I have found some ugly behavior with such config: sieve_extensions = +notify +spamtest sieve_spamtest_status_type = score sieve_spamtest_status_header = X-Spam-Scan-Score: (-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]) sieve_spamtest_max_value = 10 Sieve: require ["fileinto","envelope","imap4flags","spamtest","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric"]; # rule:[spam] if anyof (spamtest :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "6") { fileinto "Spam"; } If X-Spam-Scan-Score have 6-9 digit after dot - the first one ignored, thus X-Spam-Scan-Score: 3.6 -> "ge" skips. #right X-Spam-Scan-Score: 3.8 -> "ge" works. #wrong X-Spam-Scan-Score: 5.9 -> "ge" works. #wrong X-Spam-Scan-Score: 6.0 -> "ge" works. #right X-Spam-Scan-Score: 6.9 -> "ge" works. #right X-Spam-Scan-Score: 7.3 -> "ge" works. #right If the rule modified to (spamtest :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "6.0") everything works as expected. One more thing - sieve-test. I couldn't test my scripts with it: # sieve-test -x +spamtest -t sieve spam.txt 00000007: SPAMTEST test 00000007: spamtest: extension not configured 00000013: JMPFALSE (false) Performed actions: (none) Implicit keep: * store message in folder: INBOX Info: final result: success

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Re: [Dovecot] Multiple hosts for pgsql backend?
by Thomas Leuxner 15 May '10

15 May '10

Am 15.05.2010 um 16:14 schrieb Westenberg + Küppers GbR | Patrick Westenberg: > that´s nice. > > "PostgreSQL supports now multiple connections to backend. Also supports load-balancing / HA by specifying multiple host parameters." > > Will dovecot automatically load-balance it´s queries through the given > host parameters? > > Regards > Patrick This is best answered by Timo, but this code excerpt should help finding details: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/1c8cc349ef55 Please post to the ML rather than to individuals in order to get a broader feedback. Regards Thomas

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[Dovecot] Email jam problem
by Lam Ho Yin Bosco 15 May '10

15 May '10

Dear All: I have facing big problem at user email jam (outlook and thunderbird) how can I check the problem?(like the mail client got email very slow). email dovecot --version 1.0.7 dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: pop3 listen: [0.0.0.0] login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 512 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 512 login_max_connections: 100 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: yes mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Multiple hosts for pgsql backend?
by Westenberg + Küppers GbR | Patrick Westenb erg 15 May '10

15 May '10

Hi Guys, is it possible to use more than one host with the pgsql backend? Like this: connect = host=10.5.29.77 host=10.5.29.210 dbname=postfix [...] I read that this is possible with mysql but I want to use pgsql. Regards Patrick

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[Dovecot] dovecot from debian lenny-backports does not accept connections
by Joelly Alexander 15 May '10

15 May '10

hi, dovecot from the debian lenny backports does not successfully accept incomming imap or imaps connections; when the client connect i can see the clients ip address in an imap-process but the client cannot succesfully connect and retries this several times where an new imap-process is bound until the maximum connections per client is reached; when the client is closed the imap-processes on the server stay opened, even when dovecot will be restarted or stopped - the processes needs to killed manually; --- snip --- 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=y.y.y.y rip=x.x.x.x lport=993 rport=1411 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 1 AGFsZXhAdXZzdCrhdAB5YWxpbWVybw== 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): query: SELECT username AS user, password, '/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_mail, 150 AS userdb_uid, 8 AS userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'alex(a)domain.tld' AND active = '1' 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=alex(a)domain.tld 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 2 2177 1 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: prefetch(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): success 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 2 alex(a)domain.tld home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex mail=maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex uid=150 gid=8 2010-05-14 02:24:42 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<alex(a)domain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y, TLS 2010-05-14 02:24:42 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap 2010-05-14 02:24:42 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:42 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:42 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Effective uid=150, gid=8, home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:42 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Quota root: name=storage=102400 backend=maildir args= 2010-05-14 02:24:42 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:42 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:42 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=2186 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=y.y.y.y rip=x.x.x.x lport=993 rport=1412 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 1 AGFsZXhAdXZzdCrhdAB5YWxpbWVybw== 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): query: SELECT username AS user, password, '/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_mail, 150 AS userdb_uid, 8 AS userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'alex(a)domain.tld' AND active = '1' 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=alex(a)domain.tld 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 3 2075 1 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: prefetch(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): success 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 3 alex(a)domain.tld home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex mail=maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex uid=150 gid=8 2010-05-14 02:24:45 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<alex(a)domain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y, TLS 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Effective uid=150, gid=8, home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Quota root: name=storage=102400 backend=maildir args= 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=2189 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=2188 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=y.y.y.y rip=x.x.x.x lport=993 rport=1413 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 1 AGFsZXhAdXZzdC5hdABrYWxpbWVybw== 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): query: SELECT username AS user, password, '/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_mail, 150 AS userdb_uid, 8 AS userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'alex(a)domain.tld' AND active = '1' 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=alex(a)domain.tld 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 4 2186 1 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: prefetch(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): success 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 4 alex(a)domain.tld home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex mail=maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex uid=150 gid=8 2010-05-14 02:24:45 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<alex(a)domain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y, TLS 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Effective uid=150, gid=8, home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Quota root: name=storage=102400 backend=maildir args= 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=y.y.y.y rip=x.x.x.x lport=993 rport=1414 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 1 AGFsZXhAdXZzdC5hdABrYWxpbWVybw== 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): query: SELECT username AS user, password, '/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex' AS userdb_mail, 150 AS userdb_uid, 8 AS userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'alex(a)domain.tld' AND active = '1' 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=alex(a)domain.tld 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 5 2188 1 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: prefetch(alex(a)domain.tld,x.x.x.x): success 2010-05-14 02:24:45 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 5 alex(a)domain.tld home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex mail=maildir:/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex uid=150 gid=8 2010-05-14 02:24:45 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<alex(a)domain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y, TLS 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Effective uid=150, gid=8, home=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: Quota root: name=storage=102400 backend=maildir args= 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:45 IMAP(alex(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/domain.tld/alex 2010-05-14 02:24:46 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=2192 --- snip --- i have a working installation from the stable repository with the same settings - but i need the newer dovecot for the nfs feature; i know there was a kernel bug prior 2.6.27 which also causes such a problem, but i have now the 2.6.32 running and still having this problem - no client connection could be established.... has anyone a idea or a solution for me? thx, alex

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