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[Dovecot] Problem using LDAP generating Userhome
by Thorsten Habich 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hi there, I'm trying to let dovecot generate the userhome directory dynamicly via user_attr. If "uid" is returned from LDAP before "mail" everything is fine, but if "mail" is delivered before "uid" the localpart of the mailaddress is used in home path. e.g.: Mail: testuser(a)domain.de UID : test123 sometimes home is /mail/store/testuser and sometimes /mail/store/test123 depending on the order the ldap server replies. I'm currently using version 1.2.7 of dovecot in testing and 1.1.6 in production. Both have the same "bug". Mails are stored on nfs, indexes are stored local. This is my dovecot-ldap.conf configuration: pass_filter = (|(&(objectClass=mailRecipient)(mail=%u))(&(objectClass=mailRecipient)(mailalternateAddress=%u))(&(objectClass=mailRecipient)(uid=%n))) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,mailMessageStore=home=%$/telefonica.de/%Ln,mailFilterStore=sieve_dir=%$/telefonica.de/%Ln user_filter = (|(&(objectClass=mailRecipient)(mail=%u))(&(objectClass=mailRecipient)(mailalternateAddress=%u))(&(objectClass=mailRecipient)(uid=%n))) user_attrs = uid=user,mailMessageStore=home=%$/telefonica.de/%Ln,mailFilterStore=sieve_dir=%$/telefonica.de/%Ln The filter needs to be that way, because you need to be able to authenticate by uid or mailaddress. And the dovecot -n output: # 1.2.7: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: local1 protocols: imap managesieve listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(managesieve): *, [::] ssl: 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 login_greeting: IMAP mail server ready. max_mail_processes: 200 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1 mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_uid: 500 mail_gid: 500 mail_location: maildir:~/:INDEX=/mail/index/%Ln/ mailbox_idle_check_interval: 10 mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes lock_method: flock mbox_write_locks: dotlock fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): expire autocreate mail_plugins(imap): expire autocreate mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): managesieve_implementation_string(default): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(imap): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(managesieve): Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: Public. location: maildir:/mail/store/a.backend/shared list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: hostname: xxx mail_plugins: sieve expire mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address: xxx(a)telefonica.de sieve_global_dir: /mail/store/backend/sieve/ auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes process_size: 512 passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: vmail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: ~/%Ln.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_storage: ~/ expire: Trash 7 Trash/* 7 Junk 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire autocreate: INBOX.Trash autocreate2: INBOX.Drafts autocreate3: INBOX.Sent autosubscribe: INBOX.Trash autosubscribe2: INBOX.Drafts autosubscribe3: INBOX.Sent dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db Thanks in advanced. Thorsten Habich

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Sieve some rules not working
by tobi 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hope this list is the right place for a question about dovecot sieve. I have some rules of which some are working and some are not. I cannot understand why two rules wont work. }elsif header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "from" "EMAILADDRESS" { fileinto "Computer &- Security.Foren &- Maillists.Synology.Forum"; stop; } elsif header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "from" "EMAILADDRESS" { fileinto "Computer &- Security.Foren &- Maillists.PHP-Resource"; stop; } elsif header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "subject" "*****SPAM*****" { fileinto "Junk E-mail"; stop; } else { keep; } The first one works as expected. But the second and third one don't work and emails matching those rules remain in INBOX. There are not errors in the errorfile in users home directory. The only thing I changed was to move the Folder "Computer &- Security" and changed the fileinto destinations accordingly. The folder "Junk E-mail" was not moved but the rule that worked before is not working anymore. I have no clue why only part of the rules work and where I could check what the problem coud be. Thanks for any help/hints Cheers tobi

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[Dovecot] Problems with listescape and mutt
by Daniel Spannbauer 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hello, we are using Dovecot 1.2.6 with activated listescape-Plugin. Mutt mutt seems to have a problem with listescape (or my configuration [1] is screwed). When I log in with mutt over imap an press "c", I see al the folders, .Trash, .Drafts etc. But when I try to change to .Drafts (for example), mutt gives me the error the he can't find the folder "\2eDrafts". Is this a Problem with the listescape-Plugin or a Problem mith the mutt-Configuration? Any hints are welcome. Regards Daniel [1] Output from dovecot -n: # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default i686 openSUSE 10.2 (i586) protocols: pop3 imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): *:110 listen(managesieve): * ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login first_valid_uid: 100 mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): deleted_to_trash listescape mail_plugins(imap): deleted_to_trash listescape mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugins(managesieve): 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 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/.maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com mail_plugins: sieve mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -- Daniel Spannbauer Software Entwicklung marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4 - 6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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[Dovecot] Account Migration Tool
by dmiller＠amfes.com 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

I don't know if this tool already exists, or if not how difficult it would be to implement, but the following is an excerpt from the man page the developer needs to write ;) - "imapcopy", a command-line utility that connects to a given IMAP account and copies the mails to a second IMAP account. This is accomplished using only IMAP commands and may be used with any IMAP compliant server - and may be used to copy mails between servers. Command line options include the ability to delete the messages after the copy (resulting in a move operation), selectively filter mail folders, and auto-folder creation. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] irregular problem on outlook + imap
by Michele Petrazzo - Unipex 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi list, my customer say me that "sometime" he has a problem with imap server when he try to move a mail from a folder to another. The error are: """ NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers""" Like now I had connected to the server for create a "tcpdump | strings" session and the results are: vj8q OK Idle completed. can9 LIST "" "INBOX" dtZ@ * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" can9 OK List completed. zp2p LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "." "a_folder" <-cut folder list-> * LSUB () "." " folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" <-cut about 600 folders-> and at the end: zp2p OK Lsub completed. 3j1@ znem IDLE 2tw@ + idling (jI@ DONE Atx@ znem OK Idle completed. lylu APPEND "folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers" (\Seen) "30-Nov-2009 10:34:00 +0100" {280844} lylu NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers xbci IDLE On the maildir home (maildir:~/mail/), it's present the folder.with.dots and spaces and numbers and the same into the "subscriptions" file My env: debian lenny with last dovecot (1.0.15-2.3) On the log, there is nothing special. What can be? Thanks, Michele

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[Dovecot] dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3909 seconds.
by Udo Rader 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi, after setting up a KVM based virtual guest on one of our virtualization servers, we see dovecot die on that virtual guest regularly because of an alleged time shift. The virtual guest is Centos 5.4 based with dovecot 1.2.8 (at first we also tried with the original 1.0.7 (?) dovecot shipped with Centos). I wrote "alleged time shift" because there is no timeshift whatsoever, or at least I don't notice it anywhere else. ntp is - of course ;-) - up and running and no other applications have time troubles and I've even disabled the local clock as a time reference. As a proof that the time did not shift see this log excerpt: ------CUT------- Nov 29 14:02:22 athesia dovecot: IMAP(atester): Connection closed Nov 29 14:04:11 athesia dovecot: imap-login: Time just moved backwards by 4397 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards ------CUT------- So as you see, dovecot successfully logged a message on 14:02 and then complained about the time having shifted 4397 seconds on 14:04 ... Thanks in advance -- Udo Rader, CTO http://www.bestsolution.at http://riaschissl.blogspot.com

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[Dovecot] Overriding Default Subscription Behavior
by Tony Rutherford 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

The subscription files we're migrating from have a "." for folder separation. We will be using Dovecot's maildir with LAYOUT=fs. It's looking for "/" as the separator in the subscription file. So, obviously we could simply write a script to swap the two characters. However, just curious if there are any options for doing this within a plugin (since we're already doing some things in a plugin) by overriding some of the subscription code.something like the "next_line()" in subscriptions.c. I don't see any vfuncs in this area, aside from set_subscribed() I believe.but maybe there's a better spot I'm not thinking of? One thing I've learned with Dovecot is that it somehow supports things I didn't believe it could/would, so I thought I'd ask. Tony

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[Dovecot] PostgreSQL connection bug
by Daniel Howard 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hello, There seems to be a bug which can affect systems using PostgreSQL as a user or password database. Usually there is just one postgres connection, but if the query fails for any reason, the failed connection is left open and dovecot will keep opening new connections for each auth attempt. I discovered this with a setup using PAM, AND a database to authenticate. Most users login with an account number (integer) which is looked up in the postgres database. Some users have a unix system account, and use their system username to log in (string). Dovecot was set up to check the database first, then try PAM. When a system user logged in, the SQL query failed because it couldn't coerce the system user's username into an integer. In these cases, Dovecot would still fall back to PAM authentication, and the user would log in, but the postgres connection would remain stuck. Gradually the number of connections would increase until postgres failed. I worked around this by converting the account numbers in the database from integers to strings. Now the query never fails and there's only ever 1 dovecot connection. Hopefully this will help someone. dovecot --version 1.0.15 dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: prefetch cat dovecot-sql.conf | egrep -v "^#" driver = pgsql connect = host=localhost dbname=rapidgroup user=dovecot password=********* default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT userid as user, password, userdb_mail, userdb_uid, userdb_gid FROM dovecotview WHERE userid='%u' Cheers, Dan

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[Dovecot] dovecot.index
by Ermurachi Ion 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hello, I can't locate the dovecot.index in my ~/Maildir [root@fedora-p24 Maildir]# ls cur dovecot-uidlist new dovecot.index.cache dovecot-uidvalidity subscriptions dovecot.index.log dovecot-uidvalidity.4b1e77ef tmp Where is the dovecot.index ? This tutorial http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles tells that I should find it where the other indexes are by default under ~/Maildir I don't understand the IMAP UID mapping [root@fedora-p24 cur]# ls cur 1260490526.M622249P1489.fedora-p24.local,W=582:2,S 1260491930.M172649P1524.fedora-p24.local,W=675:2,S 1260492827.M414655P1561.fedora-p24.local,W=3390476:2,S 1260539343.M690611P1736.fedora-p24.local,W=665:2,S 1260539406.M725730P1746.fedora-p24.local,W=655:2,S 1260539465.M446296P1750.fedora-p24.local,W=689:2,S The IMAP UIDVALIDITY is 4b1e77ef (in HEX) [root@fedora-p24 Maildir]# cat dovecot-uidvalidity 4b1e77ef 4b1e77ef(HEX) = 1260287983 (DEC), I don't see in the filenames the IMAP UIDVALIDITY in HEX or DEC This tutorial tells me that I should http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir Please explain me why ? Here is my dovecot configuration: [root@fedora-p24 Maildir]# dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 12 (Constantine) protocols: imap imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)eurobluelife.ro hostname: ns1.eurobluelife.ro deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Not receiving Local Mails
by Alexander 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi, I have already set up DOVECOT + POSTFIX mail server and I can send and receive mails outside my Domain. The problem however is that LOCAL Mail is not working. When I send LOCAL mails, it leaves my system without error messages but it is not received by the recipient. How do I make LOCAL mails work? Regards Alexander

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[Dovecot] SASL plain authentication failed; unable to lookup user record
by JP 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

i'll guess the solution to my problem will be something simple and obvious, because i know i ain't the first person to do this and it ain't all that complicated, but i've been staring at it for days and can't see what's wrong. new installation; os x snow leopard server; postfix 2.5.5; dovecot 1.1.17apple0.5 i'm trying to get SMTP auth working via SASL. using a plain password scheme and plain auth scheme over SSL. client is apple mail. deliveries are working, and dovecot's pop3s and imaps are working just fine. my configuration is the same simple config that is well documented on both the postfix and dovecot sites. when i attempt to use smtp auth from a mail client, postfix says SASL plain authentication failed unable to lookup user record smtp authentication also fails if i use the usual command line method: # telnet localhost 25 Escape character is '^]'. 220 osx-106.example.com ESMTP Postfix EHLO foobie.example.com 250-osx-106.example.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10485760 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN AUTH PLAIN blah blah blah 535 Error: authentication failed i've scoured months worth of postfix and dovecot list archives and although there are many sasl related issues i didn't see anything specific to this. as expected, the socket is srw-rw---- 1 _postfix _postfix 0 Dec 4 08:51 /var/spool/postfix/private/auth lsof shows the socket is open by dovecot-auth (which is running as root): dovecot-a 63614 root 5u unix 0x0888b990 0t0 /var/spool/postfix/private/auth i have not seen the socket opened by postfix, but i'm assuming that is a transient event and would be difficult to capture (at least with lsof). so both postfix and dovecot have read/write access to the socket. the credentials sent are the same whether they're sent via a true pop3 client or via the command line. when sent via the command line, they're generated via perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\0username\0password");'and i've verified they're correct via decode_base64 config stuff: # postconf -n biff = no command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 enable_server_options = yes header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/custom_header_checks html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html inet_interfaces = all mail_owner = _postfix mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailbox_transport = dovecot mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/share/man message_size_limit = 10485760 mydomain = example.com mydomain_fallback = localhost mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8,192.168.61.0/24 newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix recipient_delimiter = + relayhost = sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = _postdrop smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject smtpd_enforce_tls = no smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_invalid_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname smtpd_pw_server_security_options = plain, login cram-md5 smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination check_policy_service unix:private/policy reject smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/certificates/osx-106.example.com.E2FA6EFB8203E2E09C605D30A179669E4B4F69EB.chain.pem smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/certificates/osx-106.example.com.E2FA6EFB8203E2E09C605D30A179669E4B4F69EB.cert.pem smtpd_tls_exclude_ciphers = SSLv2, aNULL, ADH, eNULL smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/certificates/osx-106.example.com.E2FA6EFB8203E2E09C605D30A179669E4B4F69EB.key.pem smtpd_use_pw_server = yes smtpd_use_tls = yes unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 virtual_alias_maps = virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_base = /etc/postfix/datastore virtual_mailbox_domains = osx.example.com virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/datausers virtual_minimum_uid = 100 virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 # dovecotd -n # 1.1.17apple0.5: /private/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 456). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Darwin 10.2.0 i386 hfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local6 protocols: pop3s imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/certificates/osx-106.example.com.E2FA6EFB8203E2E09C605D30A179669E4B4F69EB.cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/certificates/osx-106.example.com.E2FA6EFB8203E2E09C605D30A179669E4B4F69EB.key.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL 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(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: _dovecot login_process_per_connection: no max_mail_processes: 200 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 6 first_valid_gid: 6 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/etc/postfix/datastore/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_sharing: full mail_max_connections: 5 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%n /etc/postfix/datastore/%d-passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%n /etc/postfix/datastore/%d-passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: quota_warning: storage=100%% /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh quota: maildir:User quota sieve: /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve it would seem that something's not right between postfix and dovecot. dovecot debug:yes and dovecot debug_passwords:yes and i do see debug info in the logs when i authenticate via pop3. but i don't see any debug info in the logs when doing smtp auth. i don't know if that's another symptom, or if dovecot just does not debug smtp auth connections to begin with. so any other insight would be appreciated. thanks. jeff

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[Dovecot] Cannot read mdir inbox.
by Marc Dufour 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Problem: Dovecot is totally and merrily oblivious to maildir INBOX installed in the usual /var/spool/mail/%u Software/system: Dovecot 1.2.8 running under Fedora 12 with 1.9 gig RAM + AMD Athlon LE-1640 CPU on a ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard (uname -a = Linux 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:06:26 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) Dovecot has been installed from the Fedora repositories, not recompiled from scratch. System has only one hard disk and is on one ext4 LVM partition. My configurations are http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confA.txt for "dovecot -a" http://emdx.org/Dovecot/dovecot.confN.txt for "dovecot -n" The mail is properly delivered by Exim in the proper place. Using a client (Thunderbird 3), if I copy some messages in the INBOX, they stay there, but they are nowhere to be found in the /var/spool/mail/%u directory. User mail is in ~/Maildir. I tried to make a symlink pointing to /var/spool/mail/%u and, of course, it does not work. I also tried giving chmod 666 to all files in /var/spool/mail/%u (and chmod 777 for the directories), this makes no difference. Otherwise, Dovecot works flawlessly and without no problems whatsoever in ~/Maildir. I can transfer huge volumes of email from the future old server and everything is rock solid. I just can’t get the INBOX. I would rather not fiddle with Exim and have it deliver the mail into ~/Maildir Google has been stellarly inefficient in helping me find solutions.

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[Dovecot] Virtual mailboxes not always up to date?
by Patrick Nagel 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi, I have been experimenting with the Virtual mailboxes plugin [1] recently. This is my setup: the following dovecot-virtual file exists in a virtual mailbox called "todo": ------ dovecot-virtual ------ * -Trash -Trash/* -Spam -Spam/* OR KEYWORD $TODO KEYWORD todo ----------------------------- so if any mail in any mailbox except Trash+Spam has the keyword "$TODO" (that's what KMail sets when you mark a message as "action item") or "todo" (that's what Thunderbird sets when you put the Todo tag on a message), it should be shown in that 'todo' virtual mailbox. This works for the first time after I edit the dovecot-virtual file and then access the virtual mailbox (all mails I expect to be shown in the todo mailbox are there) - but further accesses always show the same content, even though I removed the keyword from one of the mails (and I can confirm that the keyword has actually been removed by dovecot, since the filename doesn't contain the letter corresponding to the keyword anymore). It seems that changing the dovecot-virtual file triggers the execution of the "search program" - but shouldn't simply accessing the virtual mailbox also trigger it? Or is there a (undocumented?) timeout between search program executions? Patrick. [1]: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual # dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.22-vs2.2.0.7-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1 protocols: imaps managesieve listen: x.x.x.x ssl: required ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/sub.class1.server.ca.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/ssl.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/ssl.key 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 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_size: 2048 mail_plugins(default): virtual fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): virtual fts fts_squat mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: . inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: virtual. location: virtual:~/.maildir/virtual list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@x mail_plugins: sieve virtual auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=10 -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: E883A005 https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3: imap-login segfault in hex_to_binary
by Mike Abbott 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Dovecot-2.0.alpha3's imap-login segfaulted with this backtrace: 0 hex_to_binary 1 master_send_request 2 anvil_input 3 io_loop_handler_run 4 io_loop_run 5 master_service_run 6 main 7 start Looks to me like auth_client_get_cookie() returned NULL in master_send_request().

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[Dovecot] Bug report
by Bryan Seitz 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

One of my users is causing dovecot to exit with signal 6 and generate a core file. Seems to be in the mbox code. Dovecot configuration: # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE amd64 protocols: imap imaps pop3s listen(default): localhost:143 listen(imap): localhost:143 listen(pop3): * ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/mail.bsd-unix.net.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/certs/mail.bsd-unix.net.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 100 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 1024 mail_plugins(default): fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): fts fts_squat mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: fts: squat FreeBSD triton.bsd-unix.net 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #17: Sat Oct 3 15:47:44 EDT 2009 root@triton.bsd-unix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRITON amd64 dovecot-1.2.4_1 Secure and compact IMAP and POP3 servers CPU Arch: x86_64 Filesystem: UFS (gdb) bt full #0 0x0000000040b2989c in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 No symbol table info available. #1 0x0000000040b286bb in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000004d9165 in default_fatal_finish (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0) at failures.c:160 backtrace = 0x40d4d048 "" #3 0x00000000004d9f7e in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=Could not find the frame base for "i_internal_fatal_handler". ) at failures.c:440 No locals. #4 0x00000000004d944a in i_panic (format=Could not find the frame base for "i_panic". ) at failures.c:207 args = Could not find the frame base for "i_panic". (gdb) bt #0 0x0000000040b2989c in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 #1 0x0000000040b286bb in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7 #2 0x00000000004d9165 in default_fatal_finish (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0) at failures.c:160 #3 0x00000000004d9f7e in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=Could not find the frame base for "i_internal_fatal_handler". ) at failures.c:440 #4 0x00000000004d944a in i_panic (format=Could not find the frame base for "i_panic". ) at failures.c:207 #5 0x000000000045aea8 in istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size (stream=0x40d76070, expected_body_size=18446744073709551615) at istream-raw-mbox.c:578 #6 0x00000000004622f3 in mbox_sync_read_next_mail (sync_ctx=0x7fffffffe290, mail_ctx=0x7fffffffe0b0) at mbox-sync.c:151 #7 0x00000000004649f6 in mbox_sync_loop (sync_ctx=0x7fffffffe290, mail_ctx=0x7fffffffe0b0, partial=false) at mbox-sync.c:1004 #8 0x0000000000465c00 in mbox_sync_do (sync_ctx=0x7fffffffe290, flags=MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) at mbox-sync.c:1535 #9 0x00000000004667b8 in mbox_sync_int (mbox=0x40d23848, flags=MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY, lock_id=0x7fffffffe4b8) at mbox-sync.c:1842 #10 0x0000000000466a26 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x40d23848, flags=MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) at mbox-sync.c:1894 #11 0x0000000000466b8a in mbox_storage_sync_init (box=0x40d23848, flags=65) at mbox-sync.c:1936 #12 0x0000000000488d34 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x40d23848, flags=65) at mail-storage.c:562 #13 0x0000000000488dfa in mailbox_sync (box=0x40d23848, flags=65, status_items=239, status_r=0x7fffffffe580) at mail-storage.c:593 #14 0x000000000041f77a in select_open (ctx=0x40d4d148, mailbox=0x40d52170 "Drafts", readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:273 #15 0x000000000041fba0 in cmd_select_full (cmd=0x40d4d048, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:381 #16 0x000000000041fbda in cmd_select (cmd=0x40d4d048) at cmd-select.c:388 #17 0x0000000000423164 in client_command_input (cmd=0x40d4d048) at client.c:611 #18 0x00000000004233a1 in client_command_input (cmd=0x40d4d048) at client.c:660 #19 0x00000000004234e3 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x40d45030, remove_io_r=0x7fffffffe73d) at client.c:701 #20 0x0000000000423568 in client_handle_input (client=0x40d45030) at client.c:713 #21 0x00000000004236d4 in client_input (client=0x40d45030) at client.c:752 #22 0x00000000004e5da9 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x40d1f0c0) at ioloop-kqueue.c:149 #23 0x00000000004e4dfb in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x40d1f0c0) at ioloop.c:335 #24 0x000000000042f016 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffe8a0, envp=0x7fffffffe8c0) at main.c:327 Log messages: Nov 11 23:11:20 triton dovecot: IMAP(sam): Panic: file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 578 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) Nov 11 23:11:20 triton kernel: pid 35530 (imap), uid 3033: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Any help would be appreciated! -- Bryan G. Seitz

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[Dovecot] expire_dict - Folder names with spaces
by michael＠euroinfissi.eu 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi! How to deal with IMAP foldernames that include spaces when setting up the expire tool for them? I have the folder Elementy usuni&ARk-te but expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy?usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 does not work... and expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 produces the following: Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] Starting Dovecot Imap: ☺ILoading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so ☺IEffective uid=99, gid=99, home=/tmp ☺IQuota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::quota ☺IQuota rule: root=user mailbox=* bytes=1073741824 messages=0 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=1020054732 (95%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=858993459 (80%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci type=expunge secs=604800 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Elementy type=expunge secs=0 ☺Iexpire: pattern=7 type=expunge secs=0 ☺Fexpire: Missing expire days for mailbox '365' Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf [FAILED] My conf: # OS: Linux 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) info_log_path: /var/log/maillog protocols: imaps ssl_listen: * ssl: required ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/certs/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/certs/dovecot/dovecot_key.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: dovecot_mail mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: autocreate quota imap_quota expire lda: postmaster_address: root@localhost auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf plugin: quota: dict:user::proxy::quota quota_rule: *:storage=1048576 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy?usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: quota: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf Thanks! Michael Lattari

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[Dovecot] Patch: event port-based ioloop and notify
by Emanuele Pucciarelli 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Greetings, thanks to all of you who work on Dovecot! I have prepared a small patch to support Solaris 10 and Opensolaris' event port mechanism for both the ioloop and the notify subsystems. It seems to work fine for me, but I haven't conducted any extensive testing. It would be great if someone could review and/or test it (and if it could eventually enter the code base). I have uploaded a copy at http://cr.opensolaris.org/~e.p/dovecot/dovecot-01-fen.diff . Thanks! -- Emanuele

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[Dovecot] Mail.app + dovecot 1.2 + POP3
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hello all, I have an user with MacOS X 10.5 Mail.app 3.5, which is connecting using POP3 to a dovecot 1.2 server. He has a 512 kbps link, which he saturates downloading large files. While the bandwidth is saturated, Mail.app shows the POP3 account as "offline" (I haven't used that client, but it seems that it doesn't retry the connection if it fails at some moment). He argues that he has some other POP3 and IMAP4 accounts configured in the same app, and those accounts never go "offline" even if the bw usage is at 100% (those other accounts are not on my servers and I don't know which sw are they using). My question is, could dovecot be somehow involved in this "offline" issue? (something like the past IDLE issues with Outlook 2007?) Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [Dovecot] After upgrading to 1.2 - absolute path questions
by Richard Stockton 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi Timo, Okay, I'm confused now... Here is what we are using with 1.1.19: password_query = SELECT password, home as userdb_home, 5000 as userdb_uid, 5000 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox where userid = '%n' mail_location = maildir:/mail/%h:INDEX=MEMORY The "/mail/" dir contains 26 NFS mounted partitions. Will this still work in 1.2? I have been holding off upgrading because it sounded like I would have to add the "/mail/" prefix to all the "home" directories in my user DB, and with 5 instances of Dovecot running off the same DB, I would have to shut down the pop/imap servers for the upgrade, something that would NOT make my boss happy. However, if I can leave the configs and the database as they are, the update will not be a big problem. Please let me know if I can use the old configs with Dovecot 1.2.x, I would love to be using the latest and greatest. And BTW, thanks again for all your hard work, Dovecot is a wonderful piece of software, and we really appreciate it! - Richard

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[Dovecot] v2.0.alpha3 released
by Timo Sirainen 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/alpha/dovecot-2.0.alpha3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/alpha/dovecot-2.0.alpha3.tar.gz.sig Nothing horribly exciting since alpha2, but since I did other releases I thought I might as well release this one too. - Most of the stuff in master.conf is now built into binaries so the file itself is small. dovecot -n also doesn't show the defaults anymore. - Settings now have size and time types. So instead of always wondering if the units are bytes or kilobytes or megabytes, you can just use e.g. 100k, 100M values. And the same for 100 secs, 100 mins, 100 hours, etc. - verbose_proctitle=yes was pretty useless in alpha2 after the pre/post-login changes. I've now enabled Linux proctitle hack that allows changing process title (in ps). It now shows e.g. the current command being executed by imap process. There is also some hope of getting a proper setproctitle() function to Linux, the patch just got to -mm code tree today! - anvil process now stays alive across SIGHUPs. So "doveadm who" no longer forgets users after SIGHUP. - remote_ip IP {} and local_ip IP {} changed to remote host|IP {} and local host|IP {}, i.e. if it's not an IP Dovecot does host name lookup. - Using host names is also important to get TLS SNI working. With TLS SNI support if client supports it, you can serve multiple certificates with a single IP address. - LMTP server adds now Received: header - Fixes to LMTP server - Fixes to dsync Some of the larger changes left: - plugin API probably needs to be changed, so that it's possible to handle multiple users by same process but with different plugins - config process is too slow - rawlog no longer works because of how pre/post-login works now. it probably needs to be changed into a service and configured something like: service imap-rawlog { executable = rawlog imap-real /home/%u unix_listener imap { } } service imap { unix_listener imap-real { } } The point would be that when imap-login connects to imap, it actually connects to rawlog which then connects to imap-real and starts proxying the connection. A few problems: 1) userdb lookup is done by imap process, so rawlog doesn't know user's home directory. Perhaps more code could be added so that rawlog requests imap process to send it back, but maybe that's too much trouble. That's why I thought just adding a 3rd /home/%u parameter, where rawlog expands %u to username since that's at least known. 2) Currently it's not possible to remove default internal unix_listeners, so the above config wouldn't actually work anyway. I guess there needs to be some new syntax like "!unix_listener imap" or something that removes it.. Then again, a nice thing about this is that the rawlog will work with all types of services, even imap-logins, although that's going to be almost useless for SSL connections.

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[Dovecot] How do i translate the old default_mail_env setting?
by Gary Kline 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi, First, I am new to dovecot. Before my Jan '08 meltdown, sendmail was sufficient. A friend set up dovecot and since things just-worked, I was happy with that. Now I have a new mailserver and what was installed nearly two years ago fails. My pal installed things in dovecot.conf this way: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir but the new mail environment is too different to be readily understood. --At least for me!-- The "%u" variable is confusing; so in the "%h" ($HOME [?]) variable... Would the following edit work on my old conf file: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir ? tia, gary kline -- Gary Kline kline(a)thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

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Re: [Dovecot] fts squat non-english search for 2 words
by vuser1＠test123.ru 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi>: > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 20:35 +0700, vuser1(a)test123.ru wrote: >> Timo, thank you for answer. Meanwhile I was trying to setup >> horde+dovecot+search. Next step was dovecot 1.2.4 + solr 1.4. It >> works! Now it can find 2 non-latin words. >> 1) I cannot search by substrings - neither "plane" nor "plane*" does >> find "planet" > > Try if attached patch helps? > Quick answer is "no" 8)). Now the story. I debugged and realized that patched plugin generates - for search "xxx yyy": q=body:"XXX YYY*" It should be: q=body:XXX* +body:YYY* (not q=body:"XXX*" +body:"YYY*" - quotation does matter) But this does not work as expected. Prefix searches (with asterisk) are case-sensitive. I googled around and found this post - http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/solr-case-sensitivty/comment-page-1/#comment-… . It is old - 2007, but it looks SOLR is still case-sensitive for *. Because of dovecot capitalizes query (and this is right, I think), the search will never find a thing. I played with Solr admin for 3 evenings and I have to say - its behaviour is strange. For example, if I send several emails with body of 2 words: "xxx yyy", "yyy xxx", "xxX yYY" etc. - different case and different word order - it does not find "xxx" in all emails. Maybe Solr 1.4 is not production-ready yet and 1.3 is better. But it is enough for me, maybe I will return to it in next year. Now I will try to apply your changeset (fts-squat: Fixed searching multi-byte characters) to dovecot 1.2.4 (debian stable). If you think 1.2.8 is better, I will follow your recommendation.

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[Dovecot] postfix+sasl+dovecot script help!
by Tudod Ki 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

postfix+sasl+dovecot script help! Hi everybody! I am trying to get the solution for days now, and I don't know what to do really :S I just want to write a script, what does automatically install postfix, dovecot, and it configures sasl authentication for the clients. I'm here right now [the script!!]: #################### http://pastebin.ca/1687824 [I have written the reference howto in the script.] #################### I run it after a fresh Lenny netinstall, on VirtualBox. If someone knows, what am I missing, please help me :\ I can see with "netstat -tulpn", that the server is listeing on port 993,955,25. #################### 1.) But: when I want to get the e-mails through imap, with Thunderbird, on another machine, it just waits, and waits, and waits...[and finally it gives this: "Connection to server debian.lan timed out."] :\ logs: mail.info log: http://pastebin.com/f6c486374 mail.log: http://pastebin.com/f6e60f9b other logs are empty #################### 2.) When I want to send a message from a testuser to a testuser, with Thunderbird, on the client, it just keeps asking for the password, when I want click send. :S logs: mail.info: http://pastebin.com/f1bca774f mail.log: http://pastebin.com/f5c0be27c mail.warn: http://pastebin.com/f46806d2f other logs are empty #################### Info about the os & softwares [e.g.: "dpkg -l | grep postfix"]: http://pastebin.com/f1d0cefd2 192.168.56.4 is the client 192.168.56.5 is the server [VirtualBox, Host-Only networking, they can ping each other] #################### Later I want to use it with Squirrel Mail [plus spam filtering + antivirus], but first, I just want to get it work :( Thank you for any help :S [_good_ docs, howtos, solution, or anything please! :S :( ]

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[Dovecot] LDA: handling non-existent mail dirs
by Edgar Fuß 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

We have users existing in LDAP but not supposed to receive mail. We used to handle that (somewhat ungracefully) by simply not creating the top mail directory for those accounts. Since switching to Dovecots LDA, these non-existing dirs are considered temporary failures and so the junk mails pile up in postfix' queue Would it be possible for deliver to optionally treat this as a permanent error? I know the clean solution woud be checking for an LDAP attribute in postfix before even accepting the mail.

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[Dovecot] FTBFS with binutils-gold
by Marco Nenciarini 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

As reported in debian bug #554306 [1] dovecot fails to build with GNU binutils-gold or setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--no-add-needed http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554306 The problem is that liblber isn't explicitly declared as a dependence when dovecot is compiled with ldap support. The attached patch fixes this little error. Regards, Marco -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | mnencia(a)prato.linux.it | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4

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