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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with sasl auth with postfix...
by Douglas M. Stanley 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

----- "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:40 -0400, Douglas M. Stanley wrote: > > Yep, postfix is installed: > > > > mailserver:/etc/postfix# postconf -h mail_owner > > postfix > .. > > > Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): User doesn't > exist: postfix > > Does your Postfix installation actually work? What user do you see > running the Postfix processes? Yep, works fine. The user running the postfix processes is postfix: root 4219 1 0 19:28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master postfix 4302 4219 0 19:48 ? 00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u postfix 4319 4219 0 19:49 ? 00:00:00 tlsmgr -l -t unix -u -c postfix 4352 4219 0 21:27 ? 00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u -c Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] New to list, got a quota question
by Vlad Sedov 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Hello folks - I'm running dovecot on top of qmail/vpopmail/mysql, serving up about 2500 mailboxes. Everything is running very smooth and fast.... I recently upgraded dovecot to 1.1, so I'm trying to implement some extra features like IMAP quotas. I'm using the sql passdb, with the following config: driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=username password=password dbname=vpopmail default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT CONCAT(pw_name, '@', pw_domain) AS user, pw_clear_passwd AS password FROM vpopmail WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d' user_query = SELECT pw_dir as home, 508 AS uid, 503 AS gid FROM vpopmail WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d' My vpopmail installation keeps the quota information in the mysql database (pw_shell field) instead of maildirsize. The quota is in maildir format, e.g. 400M or 50331648S. Unlimited quota is specified as NOQUOTA. The question is... Is it possible to make dovecot understand this format and get it directly from SQL (via user_query, for example) or would it be easier to reconfigure the vpopmail installation somehow to use maildirsize? Thanks! Vlad

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[Dovecot] vpopmail support on 64 bits
by aledr 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Good day! Compiling 1.1.11 with vpopmail flag on a 64bit system drop me these warnings that breaks it portability: passdb-vpopmail.c: In function 'vpopmail_lookup_credentials': passdb-vpopmail.c:71: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'callback' differ in signedness passdb-vpopmail.c: In function 'vpopmail_preinit': passdb-vpopmail.c:141: warning: implicit declaration of function 'auth_cache_parse_key' passdb-vpopmail.c:142: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast Thanks. -- [ ]'s Aledr - Alexandre "OpenSource Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems"

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[Dovecot] how to handle CA CRL updates with client certificate verification context ?
by Raphael PRECIGOUT 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello, As far as I can read in the Dovecot SSL configuration wiki page, each CA cert must be followed by the related CA CRL in the client certificate verification context ("ssl_ca_file" setting). In my company we do have our own PKI and as soon as Client certificate is compromised we do revoke it and update the related CA's CRL. Does that mean that I have to issue a new "ssl_ca_file" file as soon as our issuing CA CRL is updated ? If yes, does someone has an idea on how to do so ? Is it then necessary to restart dovecot process (to take the "ssl_ca_file" file changes into account) ? Does Dovecot have a way to check the issuing CA CRL automatically ? (the CRL is published in DER format and is accessible though http, the URI is mentionned in the CRL Distribution points of the CA certificate) Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Raphael

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[Dovecot] Problem with sasl auth with postfix...
by Douglas M. Stanley 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello list, I'm running into some problems, and I couldn't find any info about this anywhere on the net. I recently set up a new debian lenny machine, and used my notes from the last debian etch machine I set up, which basically is for postfix + dovecot for sasl auth. On my old etch box, in the dovecot.conf, in the auth default section, I have a socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } However, if I use the same config on my lenny setup, dovecot fails to start, and I see this in my logs: Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): User doesn't exist: postfix Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: child 4623 (auth) returned error 89 Now if I comment out the user and group lines, it works fine, but the socket is owned by root, and so I have to change the mode line so that it's world readable in order for postfix to use it. The version of dovecot in etch is: 1.0.rc15-2etch4 and the version in lenny is: 1.0.15-2.3 Any ideas why this might be happening? Did the syntax to do this change between those versions? Any input? I guess I don't mind leaving it world readable, but I wasted an entire morning trying everything to get it to work, so I guess I'm hoping some one atleast has an answer as to why it doesn't work. Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] Using LDAP for Dovecot extra/regular fields
by Jack Stewart 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, We're moving to a dovecot proxy / server configuration in order to make sure that a users go to a specific server. If someone has used these LDAP for this, there are a few things that I wish to verify. Dovecot does not verify that type of the LDAP attribute, only that the returned value works. If a boolean is used for a yes/no field, then FALSE sets the field to no and TRUE sets the field to yes. If a multivalue attribute is used for a single value field, the last returned value for the LDAP lookup is used in that field (i.e. host will use the last value). If a string attribute is returned for a yes/no field and has any value, then the associated field is set to true. There is no automatic failover with the host field so if the remote host is down, the IMAP connection no longer works. I'm fairly sure of all of these except for the boolean. Now this is just due diligence. I don't know that turning on/off or switching LDAP attributes is the right way to go to handle failover but it might work for phased rollout. My feeling is the best configuration will be using a secondary IP address that has to be manually turned on for a host after a reboot or shutdown. This creates a poor mans "fencing". The secondary can either be brought up on another host or handled via a load balance with DSR/backup server. As a practical matter, it is probably worth setting sensible attributes for each field (i.e. numeric for host, boolean for proxy/proxy_maybe etc). Any interest in registering an LDAP object class for dovecot? ---Jack

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[Dovecot] Maildir dirty syncs
by Timo Sirainen 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

http://dovecot.org/patches/1.1/maildir-dirty-syncs.diff This patch adds a new maildir_very_dirty_syncs setting. If set to "yes", Dovecot assumes it's the only one changing the cur/ directory (so other MDAs can add mails to new/ without problems). This makes it possible to avoid rescanning the cur/ directory all the time looking for filenames. It also looks like (in stress testing) it still scans the cur/ directory unneededly in some situations, but it shouldn't be common. Maybe I'll look into it some day to see why. I'd be interested in hearing how large performance benefits it gives, if any. If they're big I could consider adding it to v1.1.12. If they're pretty much irrelevant I probably won't even bother adding the code to v1.2. I guess you mainly see the performance benefits with large/huge mailboxes.

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[Dovecot] General approach question - am I doing this the right way?
by Alan Bates 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Quick outline of my current working setup: I'm running dovecot 1.0.5 as an IMAP mail server on my ubuntu home server, which i connect to with my phone and several other machines to check my mail etc. i use getmail to collect mail from my various pop accounts. getmail filters the mail using spamassassin via a Filter_external, before moving it to my Maildir on the home server. Then when I connect to the home server from my various machines, IMAP manages the status of all the mail, so unread messages are common etc. All works very nicely. However I'd like to fix a minor annoyance... ...Spamassassin marks mail as SPAM but the mail client has to do the job of moving it to the Junk folder. I'd like the mail to be filtered on the home server on receipt. Am I just making things really complicated for myself? Is there a simpler setup for what I'm trying to do? Thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap logout message on Dovecot restart
by RutgerM 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:50 +0100, RutgerM wrote: >> #!/bin/sh >> unset LOG_TO_MASTER >> export USE_SYSLOG=1 >> exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap >> >> But this logs the user that runs the script into the imap server and >> when >> I terminate this terminal I get a "Disconnected" message for the local >> linux user, which I don't need of course. > > I don't really understand what you mean by this. It should log > everything the exact same way, except directly to syslog. This is not happening indeed. I get a IMAP screen where I can do LIST commands and so on. This happens when I execute imap. >> Is there a way to get to what I want ? I want to log my IMAP statics for >> every day and I need to "disconnect" my imap clients for it in some way >> to >> receive the Disconnected message and count from there. > > Actually I just realized there is a simple way: > > killall imap > This solution also works great indeed. But I still would like to know why the exec way doesn't work.

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[Dovecot] Extremely custom mailbox locations
by Steve Kemp 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

I'm in the position where I'd like to offer IMAP access to a collection of email accounts which are stored in a very odd manner. Files are stored as: /blah/$dd-$mm-$yy/$domain/1234/1234 For example: /reject/12-3-2009/cvsrepository.org/35199/35199639 There is a single file for each mail, which I guess technically probably counts as an mbox folder, but only just. I can handle the custom login requirements I have, but I see no obvious way to create a mailstore from this information unless I build up a parallel symlink farm, such as: /imap/cvsrepository.org/{new cur tmp} I suspect if I fill cur/ with symlinks to each of the individual messages things will mostly work out OK, but I wonder if that is the best solution, or if there is a slim chance that I could serve this hierarchy without the intermediate step? Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/

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[Dovecot] which architecture to use?
by GVG GVG 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Dear List, Based on the following installed environment: - OpenBSD (latest version!) - PostgreSQL - dovecot with SSL would like to have a mail server which accepts system as well as virtual users and being able to connect to their mailboxes either via an MUA (Thunderbird etc.) or a web interface (squirrel mail?). When using the web interface, non registered users should be able to creat e-mail accounts which will be dovecot virtual users! Which components should I use? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Sieve - Backtrace after deliver(brabax): Panic: file sieve-cmu.c: line 264 (part_save): assertion failed: (buf->used - 1 == part->body_size.physical_size)
by brabax2 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello, It's my first mailserver I set up. Thanks to everybody who contributes to dovecot. Dovecot works great for me! One thing I want to get rid off is this traceback error using dovecot with sieve. Somebody can help on this? System: Ubuntu server 8.10 dovecot --version 1.1.4 I filter for keywords in mail body with sieve. Mail is stored at lokal harddrive. I already deleted dovecot.index.cache - no success. Here is what logs say: sudo dovecot -n # 1.1.4: /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: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix /var/syslog Mar 10 22:19:01 aquarius /USR/SBIN/CRON[23838]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/fetchmail/check.pl --owner --errors) Mar 10 22:19:04 aquarius deliver(brabax): Panic: file sieve-cmu.c: line 264 (part_save): assertion failed: (buf->used - 1 == part- >body_size.physical_size) Mar 10 22:19:04 aquarius deliver(brabax): Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0xb8068e01] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(i_syslog_fatal_handler+0x38) [0xb8068ee8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0xb8068695] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0xb7e394b6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0xb7e3ac24] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0xb7e43b34] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0xb7e43e13] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_eval_bc+0x47e) [0xb7e4533e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute_bytecode+0x125) [0xb7e4b4d5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(cmu_sieve_run+0x325) [0xb7e3a785] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0xb7e38456] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(main+0x1229) [0xb7ff2c39] -> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7e6b685] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0xb7ff0531]

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[Dovecot] 1.1.12 release candidate
by Timo Sirainen 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.1.12.rc.tar.gz I would have already released 1.1.12, but it needed the MAILBOXDIR change described below, and I'm slightly worried that it might have broken some special setup. So please test first and I'll release in v1.1.12 then in a few days. * Added :MAILBOXDIR= to mail_location to specify the root dir for mailboxes. dbox users should migrate to ":MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes", because that's going to be the default in v1.2+. - IMAP: SELECT didn't always return first unseen message in reply - POP3: pop3_lock_session=yes didn't use mail_privileged_group while dotlocking. - mbox: Don't crash if >=8192 bytes long line begins with "From ". - Maildir: More fixes to handling over 26 keywords. - Several logging fixes and improvements - Fixed authentication caching with non-plaintext mechanisms when using a blocking passdb (e.g. MySQL) - Fixed DIGEST-MD5 authentication with user@domain style usernames.

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[Dovecot] Imap logout message on Dovecot restart
by RutgerM 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

I'm trying to receive a "Disconnected" message in my logfile for the connected imap-clients when I restart dovecot. When you disconnect a client, you receive the following message in your log: Mar 12 21:45:55 mail dovecot: IMAP(mailbox(a)domain.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=7496/22441 When a IMAP client is connected and Dovecot is restarted, this message is not shown. This should be solvable by a script like this: #!/bin/sh unset LOG_TO_MASTER export USE_SYSLOG=1 exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap But this logs the user that runs the script into the imap server and when I terminate this terminal I get a "Disconnected" message for the local linux user, which I don't need of course. Is there a way to get to what I want ? I want to log my IMAP statics for every day and I need to "disconnect" my imap clients for it in some way to receive the Disconnected message and count from there. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] High load/corrupted indexes after moving mailboxes?
by Patrick A. Treptau 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello, we're experiencing an odd issue after combining two vDisks used for mail storage into one big new LVM. We've done this in the past successfully and didn't experience a lot of problems. We stopped all services (dovecot/postfix) to ensure that mailbox contents (Maildir) will not be changed, rsynch'ed the mail to the new disks and restarted everything. When we restarted dovecot, we noticed a huge spike in load (average load in top and high cpu iowait) and isolated dovecot as the issue. At some point, the average load crept up to over 100 and crashed the server twice. However, over time the average load and cpu wait times went down slightly. I have noticed a spike in load after moving user's mail storage, but not like this. It almost looks like everyone is either re-indexing or re-caching their mail? Any help would be appreciated. We're on dovecot 0.99. -Pat

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[Dovecot] migration from dovecot to dovecot on different servers without downtime (dovecot replication?)
by Pau Oliva 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello, I have an imap server with huge Maildirs and several users running dovecot 1.0.13, I need to migrate all the imap accounts to a new box which runs dovecot 1.1.4. The requisite is that need to do it with no downtime or minimal downtime possible, and totally transparent for end users. I have tried IMAP<-->IMAP syncing using a master user in both servers and imapsync, however due to the huge Maildirs (some users have more than 10 years of mail) this tends to be quite slow and painful. Can I tar all the user's Maildir and move them from one box to the other, and then run imapsync again? which I assume that would be faster... or is there any better solution I am not aware of? (ie: I've seen some emails about dovecot replication on the list archives, but few details of how that should be configured). I'd appreciate any feedback or thoughts on this matter. Thank you. Cheers, Pau Oliva

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1 not using sieve
by Thomas Carstensen 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

hi, im using the atrpm packages dovecot-1.1.11-0_90.el5 and dovecot-sieve-1.1.6-9.el5 on a centos5.2 in combination with exim/vexim, mysql and virtual users. everything (delivery /sending) seems to work out fine, but i can't use sieve filters, unfortunately when doing a dovecot -n sieve doesn't show up anywhere: # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) ext3 listen: * 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 first_valid_uid: 90 mail_location: /usr/local/mail/%d/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf in dovecot.conf i added following: protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mail.xxxxxxxx.com # 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. # mail_plugins = cmusieve mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda mail_plugins = cmusieve # Binary to use for sending mails. sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail any hints? regards, thomas

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[Dovecot] Compilation of dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.3 under Solaris 10 for Sparc
by Andrés Yacopino 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

I am trying to compile Dovecot Sieve, when i execute the command make i get this error: /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- start-group The configure sentence was : ./configure --with-dovecot=/export/software/dovecot1.2/dovecot-1.2 And it finishes right. I have succesfully compile dovecot 1.2 beta 1 source with dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.3 patch. Thanks, -- Andrés Fernando Yacopino Infraestructura - Dpto Sistemas AcaSalud Cooperativa de Prestaciones Médico Asistenciales Limitada Tel: 0341-4208726 ayacopino(a)acasalud.com.ar

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[Dovecot] Shared Folders
by Stephen Carville 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

I am trying to get a shared folder to work. I created a directory /var/mail/CS: drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 10 16:09 /var/mail/CS Inside of that I put -rw-rw---- 1 root cs 0 Mar 10 16:49 dovecot-shared drwxrws--- 5 root cs 4096 Mar 10 16:09 .Incoming When I try to subscribe to Incoming, I get the following error: Mar 10 16:45:17 scacifs02-lnx dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<stephen>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.212.202.63, lip=10.212.166.21, TLS Mar 10 16:45:17 scacifs02-lnx dovecot: IMAP(stephen): mkdir(/var/mail/CS/cur) failed: Permission denied Mar 10 16:45:28 scacifs02-lnx dovecot: IMAP(stephen): Connection closed whats happening here? Why is dovecot even trying to create var/mail/CS/cur? Version = 1.0.7 protocols: imaps listen: * ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/scacifs02-lnx.dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/scacifs02-lnx.dovecot.key disable_plaintext_auth: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: CS/ location: maildir:/var/mail/CS:CONTROL=~/Maildir/CS:INDEX=~/Maildir/CS auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/imap.passwd -- Stephen Carville

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[Dovecot] GUI/WUI for creating (common) sieve scripts?
by Roderick A. Anderson 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Anyone aware of a Web User Interface or GUI to allow users to create simple/common-type sieve scripts? I found the sieve testing and have used it as I play; plus mangesieve (and Net:ManageSieve.pm) but want to allow users to build so some clicking and maybe a little typing and then end up with some filters. So before I go invent this wheel I'd like to know what others are doing? TIA, Rod --

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Re: [Dovecot] Compilation of dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.3 under Solaris 10 for Sparc
by Andrés Yacopino 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Andrés Yacopino escribió: > Well i managed to solve this doing: > > Delete "-Wl,--start-group" from: > - src/sieve-tools/Makefile > - src/sieve-tools/Makefile.in > - src/testsuite/Makefile > - src/testsuite/Makefile.in > > Delete Libraries (as you did) in: > libs = \ > - $(STORAGE_LIBS) \ > - $(dovecot_incdir)/src/lib-storage/libstorage.a \ > - $(dovecot_incdir)/src/lib-index/libindex.a \ > - $(dovecot_incdir)/src/lib-imap/libimap.a \ > - $(dovecot_incdir)/src/lib-mail/libmail.a \ > - $(dovecot_incdir)/src/lib-charset/libcharset.a \ > - $(dovecot_incdir)/src/lib/liblib.a > + $(STORAGE_LIBS) > in files: > > - src/sieve-tools/Makefile > - src/sieve-tools/Makefile.in > - src/testsuite/Makefile > - src/testsuite/Makefile.in > > Of course replacing Makefile.am with your versions previously. > > Thanks a lot, > > Andrés Fernando Yacopino > > Infraestructura - Dpto Sistemas > > AcaSalud > > Cooperativa de Prestaciones Médico Asistenciales Limitada > > Tel: 0341-4208726 > > ayacopino(a)acasalud.com.ar > > > > Andrés Yacopino escribió: >> I have put your two files but i got the same error: >> >> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- start-group >> >> I search in directories and i found this option in: >> >> src/sieve-tools: >> >> Makefile:sievec_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> Makefile:sieved_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> Makefile:sieve_test_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> Makefile.in:sievec_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> Makefile.in:sieved_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> Makefile.in:sieve_test_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> >> src/testsuite: >> >> Makefile:testsuite_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> Makefile.in:testsuite_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -Wl,--start-group >> >> I am doing something wrong? >> >> I compile with: >> >> make clean >> >> ./configure --with-dovecot=/export/software/dovecot1.2/dovecot-1.2 >> >> make >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Andrés Fernando Yacopino >> >> >> >> Stephan Bosch escribió: >>> Andrés Yacopino wrote: >>> >>>> I am trying to compile Dovecot Sieve, when i execute the command >>>> make i >>>> get this error: >>>> >>>> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- start-group >>>> >>> This flag is useless when libraries are offered in the correct order. I >>> thought I removed all of these, but apparently I didn't. >>> >>> This should fix it: >>> >>> http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-libsieve/rev/45c04b2fe529 >>> >>> If you confirm I can make a new release. I may not get around to doing >>> that until the 15th when I return from another time zone. All >>> depends on >>> whether I have proper internet access there. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Stephan. >>>

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[Dovecot] dbox on CIFS
by Daniel L. Miller 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Ok - at this time I am using the following non-default settings: Samba server - smb.conf [Mailstorage] ea support = Yes use sendfile = Yes fake oplocks = Yes delete readonly = Yes Dovecot - dovecot.conf mmap_disable = yes dotlock_use_excl = yes fsync_disable = yes lock_method = dotlock I'm still testing - but at this time I'm seeing no errors. Two options I can state cause severe problems are the "directio" and "setuids" mount options for the cifs client. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail now has vusage daemon support]
by Rick Romero 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Is the index modification code portable that other software could link to a Dovecot library and update indexes on delivery? <snip from vpopmail list> Rick Romero wrote: > I was considering changing vdelivermail to have a stdout option, where > you could pipe from vdelivermail to Dovecot's deliver for 'final' > delivery instead of direct to Maildir within your .qmail-default file. > That 'should' allow everything else to occur normally, but get those > indexes updated as well. I think just 'HOME' needs to be exported, > but I haven't tested it yet. Is there a way to update Dovecot's indexes without having it handle delivery? In that case, we could easily add support for this into vpopmail. - -- /* Matt Brookings <matt(a)inter7.com> GnuPG Key D9414F70 Software developer Systems technician Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. (815)776-9465 */

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[Dovecot] Error crosscompiling
by Diego Roversi 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, I was trying to crosscompile dovecot, but I got some error: --with-notify=inotify don't work, as it try to run a test program to verify if inotify is supported in the building platform. Solved with --with-notify=dnotify. Ihmo, is more a hack than a solution. | checking whether posix_fallocate() works... configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling I can't find an a suitable option for this error. Again the problem is that configure can't run an executable for a different platform. It's possible to set a safe default? Thanks in advance. -- Saluti / Regards Diego Roversi | | diegor at tiscalinet.it

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[Dovecot] Random timeouts on mailboxes
by Bastien Semene 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello, My dovecot server is currently having random issues when users want to acces their mailbox. When the issue is occuring there's a timeout. It's random because it happens more or less often and is not dependent on a user or the way their check the mailbox. The time during the problem occurs is random, sometimes it's less than a minute, sometimes it's some hours. When a user can't connect to its mailbox, he generally can receive its emails through his BlackBerry (it's just to illustrate the fact that it doesn't seem to be linked to an account). When this issue occurs they can't receive the headers from any folder (INBOX, custom, sent, ...) and can't read mails that headers are known by the mail client. When there's timeout, users can send emails (same jail and with an error when the client want to write a copy in the sentbox) and use the calendar server for example (on the same machine). Dovecot is running on a FreeBSD 7.0 32bits, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon QuadCore @ 1.86 Ghz, and 3*500Gb SATA-2 RAID-5 disks. The box is hosting jails, and the mail jails ( imap + smtp, clamav + spamassassin ). The mail jails are new (since August 2008) but worked great since the beginning of this year. The server is hosting 122 accounts currently. My first thought was that there's an I/O issue, the disks are maybe too busy or there's paging that result in a timeout. I check it through vmstat an top commands but nothing appears, there's always some memory free (between 90-300 MB) and a very little paging, generally around 1MB. The fault are under a hundred and when, few times, it has more than a hundred (generally under 200) the next snapshot is under 100. I set the screen/line to refresh every 5 seconds. I shutdowned all jails not directly related to the mail service but the problem still occured. I also separated clamav and spamassassin from imap and smtp to a different box. After that I checked the dovecot config to lighten it, and ( only ) disabled fsync. I upgraded the RAM, added memory is used, but nothing changed. The human resources are constantly changing here, we were more before the problem started than now (around 10-15%), to illustrate the fact that I don't think it is linked to the number of users. I tried to recreate some accounts having the issue, but the problem appeared again. I upgraded Dovecot Friday to 1.1.11 from 1.1.7 (The installation was before 1.1.7, I did an upgrade some times ago). I used a command script to log Thunderbird's IMAP activity, everything is fine but there's no timestamp in the logs. So I'm only sure now this is not an erroneous packet/info sent problem. I watched the TB doc ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/reference/html/prlog.html#25306 ) but there's no directive to put a timestamp for each line of log. The network is fine. I tried different configuration to be sure a device isn't doing something weird. Now, I don't know what to check to identify the issue. If anyone has any idea I didn't wrote here, or if I did erroneous interpretation(s) from the datas, I'll be glad to know. Regards, -- Bastien Semene Administrateur Réseau & Système

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