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Re: [Dovecot] Concurrent POP3 Sessions Issues
by Brandon Lamb 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Mauricio López Riffo <mauricio.lopez(a)netline.net> wrote: > Timo, > > What messages should be see? I execute the commands and shows a lot > of messages, i dont know what it means, i m not a programmer :) > > > Thanks > > ---- > > Mauricio López Riffo > Red Hat Certified Engineer > 804006455319519 > Netline Telecomunicaciones Chile > Los Conquistadores 2430, Providencia, Santiago. > Codigo Postal: 7530041 > Fono: +562 6560600 > Móvil: +569 90992366 > >> -----Mensaje original----- >> De: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] >> Enviado el: jueves, 29 de enero de 2009 20:46 >> Para: mauricio.lopez(a)netline.net; Dovecot Mailing List >> Asunto: Re: [Dovecot] Concurrent POP3 Sessions Issues >> >> On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: >> >> > I have problems with dovecot + ldap + nfs, we could't have more than >> > 20 concurrent sessions of pop3, when user 21 comes, the auth process >> > takes more than 1 sec and is incresing (while most users arrives, more >> > delay in >> > autenticacion exists) and my customers complaint about the service. >> > We need >> > support about 200 concurrents pop3 users, here is my details >> >> Someone else was recently complaining about the same thing. Or was it you? > Anyway, >> dovecot-auth doesn't know how many users are logged in so if the problem > really is 21 >> *concurrent users* instead of n logins/ second, I find it highly unlikely > that the problem is >> with authentication. >> >> My guess is that this has something to do with NFS. Perhaps start Dovecot > with strace -tt -f >> dovecot and then when it's slowing down see what syscall it says is > blocking. I had the same kind of issues. Moving dovecot to the nfs server directly solved all my weird problems.

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[Dovecot] problem with some mailboxes (failed: Is a directory)
by mikie＠x.org.pl 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

I have this problem with some mailboxes (actually Maildirs) on my system. After some user's activity there is following information in dovecot logs: Jan 29 16:24:28 mailserv dovecot: IMAP(username): unlink(/var/spool/mail/imap/user/username/Maildir/cur/Sent:2,ST) failed: Is a directory User can not connect to his account neither via POP3 nor IMAP. There is one workaround I know which is: rm /var/spool/mail/imap/user/username/Maildir/dovecot.index* But after some time (some activity of user) the problem comes back. Mikie

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.2-managesieve "make install" ignores Dovecot's prefix
by Steffen Kaiser 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm trying to compile dovecot-1.2-managesieve from hg repo with Dovecot v1.2 and I found that managesieve uses another "install" target/prefix than I've configured in Dovecot. Is this intentional? Because you must specify the compiled Dovecot sources, is managesieve just "loosly" connected to Dovecot so it would survive a Dovecot (minor) update, or do I need to compile managesieve each time as well? If I need to compile each time, managesive should default to install into the same directory than Dovecot, shouldn't it? Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSYMXdHWSIuGy1ktrAQJLMAf/aAwnEoyNyieWBPjy/h2V6YFrJ4KVdtwZ i+di1ft1w11P/abvZTf5dRI9dakw6aWX+ufs0gvLeWVYFwVRL4ZiIQsTUA8Z4X+3 1vuyemm70aGgX6pMX+O4oyAUoHIf1SzJFP+sGI+g40dZZbiScTugliOtdWnW7sO+ vI4rpRLUVs/xANByqKHUyj2LZrMJJbTFSfJyOHJQLc17WG9gM1RPyi+uzEIPWMg1 iqSv32ID9bWUWepIC65DG/+9TRoUP+CzMixzQBsz+pIpQk/zC11v94Lu7U6InbSg j430JFIDv/hjd+6/lonvgABLlsQtG0VLv3tAa2Mi2uk8SIW7xIsOQQ== =EUJ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] managesieve/README sieve_storage doc confusion
by Steffen Kaiser 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-managesieve/file/tip/README contains the paragraphs (line 47): " mail_location = If, for some inobvious reason, the sieve_storage remains unset, the managesieve daemon uses the specification of the mail_location to find out where to store the sieve files. However, this is provided only for backwards compatibility and you should always use the sieve_storage setting in stead. Additionally, the ManageSieve service uses the following settings from the plugin section of the config file. These settings are the ones used by the Sieve plugin. sieve_dir = This specifies the path to the directory where the uploaded scripts are stored. Scripts are stored as separate files with extension .sieve, all other files are ignored when scripts are listed by a ManageSieve client. If this setting remains unspecified, the mail_location setting is used as explained above. " Because sieve_storage is not mentioned anywhere else in the document and because of this discussion: http://dovecot.markmail.org/message/kzjpwdhyqhdn53zd , I suspect that sieve_dir is the older naming of it. However, the source code uses getenv("SIEVE_DIR") in lib-cmusieve, so this assumption is probably wrong. What's the correct meaning and placement of sieve_storage and sieve_dir ? Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSYMey3WSIuGy1ktrAQIfSwf/bF7ATn3MLDHL/rMZgqj5+cbHT5t60+UJ Zq3ktiUePwbk1bP04Xtm0zrhY9g/E7pk3Q5WUAR2+laVUAYz1FIg5wp+ukS/lTpi cbM3cXC4ZqcOPVqcb2Ntxjujx0FRjJzH/KVVp8JBTkHUQ3HWV8dXuyWxkpfAgnpw O7t2uPW9fgzF7ACqQndjN/Qo/Xj6WUzICgI+SndNMscxipU20DY6CfMtOWDXJxl9 UPoLhHtB9GuylaKDNChY6bmYkO023veHuQMsOsziit0Ks25BO7J/bbiOieRaTesh +O33abIQv8mzj186YZ34Z5zRtn1xa7gFNntkbk31zi2xYkCmo2atUw== =DyFs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Concurrent POP3 Sessions Issues
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: > I have problems with dovecot + ldap + nfs, we could't have more than > 20 concurrent sessions of pop3, when user 21 comes, the auth process > takes > more than 1 sec and is incresing (while most users arrives, more > delay in > autenticacion exists) and my customers complaint about the service. > We need > support about 200 concurrents pop3 users, here is my details Someone else was recently complaining about the same thing. Or was it you? Anyway, dovecot-auth doesn't know how many users are logged in so if the problem really is 21 *concurrent users* instead of n logins/ second, I find it highly unlikely that the problem is with authentication. My guess is that this has something to do with NFS. Perhaps start Dovecot with strace -tt -f dovecot and then when it's slowing down see what syscall it says is blocking.

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Re: [Dovecot] cram-md5 problem
by Richard Stockton 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi Timo, (just realized your reply was CCed to the list) At 04:28 PM 1/29/2009, you wrote: >On Jan 29, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Richard Stockton wrote: > >>I just updated to dovecot 1.1.10 from 1.1.2 and now anyone using >>cram-md5 can't get authenticated. I am using mysql for passwords >>(in plain text) and home directories. > >Set auth_debug_passwords=yes. What does it log when logging in with >CRAM-MD5? (And try with a temporary password that you can change >afterwards.) Here's an example I just pulled from the logs. dovecot: Jan 29 16:35:03 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(jennshinjo,xx.xx.xx.xx): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = 'jennshinjo' AND domain = '' dovecot: Jan 29 16:35:03 Info: auth(default): prefetch(jennshinjo,xx.xx.xx.xx): success dovecot: Jan 29 16:35:03 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1490 jennshinjo home=j/e/jennshinjo/Maildir/ uid=5000 gid=5000 home=j/e/jennshinjo/Maildir/ uid=5000 gid=5000 dovecot: Jan 29 16:35:03 Info: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<jennshinjo>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=xx.xx.xx.xx, lip=10.255.0.11 >Also show your dovecot-sql.conf and dovecot -n output. :> more /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=10.211.1.3 dbname=mail user=postfix password=p0stf1x9 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password, home as userdb_home, 5000 as userdb_uid, 5000 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox where userid = '%n' :> dovecot -n # 1.1.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/pop.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/server.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes 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 login_greeting: Dovecot on mail-pop01.xxxxx.com ready. verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:/mail/%h:INDEX=MEMORY mmap_disable: yes 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_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log 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 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 auth default: mechanisms: plain cram-md5 debug_passwords: yes process_size: 1024 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch I appreciate your help. Thanks. - Richard

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[Dovecot] cram-md5 problem
by Richard Stockton 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

I just updated to dovecot 1.1.10 from 1.1.2 and now anyone using cram-md5 can't get authenticated. I am using mysql for passwords (in plain text) and home directories. Per some googling I tried to set (in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf): # SQL database userdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql.conf for example args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } but that didn't help. And in any case people NOT using cram-md5 can authenticate just fine, both before and after I made that change. This worked "out of the box" under 1.1.2, but is broken now. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks. - Richard

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot config
by Thomas M Goerger 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi, Doing a first install of dovecot, trying to copy over some of the config settings from 1.1.6. I'm getting an error, I think from the ACL plugin module. This is the error I'm getting on the console: Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/opt/dovecot1.8/dovecot.conf And this is what is appearing in syslog: Jan 23 12:46:57 mars.tc.umn.edu imap(dump-capability): : [ID 315030 mail.info] Loading modules from directory: /opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/imap Jan 23 12:46:57 mars.tc.umn.edu imap(dump-capability): : [ID 817342 mail.error] dlopen(/opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so) failed: ld.so.1: imap: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so: symbol i_strcmp_p: referenced symbol not found Other pertinent info: # /opt/dovecot1.8/sbin/dovecot --version 1.1.8 # /opt/dovecot1.8/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.8: /etc/opt/dovecot1.8/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 8448). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u syslog_facility: local6 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/opt/openssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/opt/openssl/private/dovecot.pem shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/opt/dovecot1.8/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot1.8/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot1.8/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot1.8/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> pid=<%p> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c max_mail_processes: 8192 first_valid_uid: 99 mail_location: mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ mail_debug: yes mbox_lazy_writes: no mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-helper mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-helper mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot1.8/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): acl mail_plugins(imap): acl mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_prefix: [%p] %Us(%u): imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): namespace: type: private separator: / location: mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: mbox:~/mail/:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: ~/mail/ location: mbox:~/mail/:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: ~%u/mail/ location: mbox:~/mail/:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Shared/ location: maildir:~/Maildir/Shared:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared-control hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/Shared/ location: maildir:~/Maildir/Shared:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared-control hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: ~/mail/Shared/ location: maildir:~/Maildir/Shared:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/shared-control hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: AutoFiled/ location: mbox:/archive/home/%1u/%u/mail/AutoFiled:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/AutoFiled/ location: mbox:/archive/home/%1u/%u/mail/AutoFiled:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: ~/mail/AutoFiled/ location: mbox:/archive/home/%1u/%u/mail/AutoFiled:INDEX=/var/mail/.dovecot-index/%1u/%u/ hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Prefs/ location: mbox:~:INDEX=MEMORY hidden: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes * userdb: driver: passwd plugin: acl: vfile: Any help would be great. Thanks! ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * *************************************************************************

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[Dovecot] Killing Dovect, an unpleasant surprise
by Stewart Dean 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

When it came time to upgrade DC or replace the certificate, I would find the root instance of dovecot and do a kill -7 of it. Within 20-30 seconds, all the hundreds of DC related processes would go away, I would swap the executable or certificate/key and restart DC. Very clean and quick. Surprise. After switching from 1.0.15 to 1.1.8 and doing the kill, I found that all the imap-login instances had been inherited by the root (1) process and did not go away. Yikes! An Unpleasant Surprise. So instead of being down for a minute, I was out for a much more noticeable 5-7 minutes, while I QUICK did an awk of the ps list to give me the pids and then xarg killed them. My boss asked me if this was a pink slip notice. :( Is this The Way Things Will Be? Is there a new way to kill everything DC related quickly and cleanly? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035 "Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us." === From the introduction to the original Pogo Papers

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[Dovecot] Trash for lda
by Alaa Ibrahim 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi, I was wondering if there is a solution to the case when the user can't recieve emails because of being over quota, something like http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Trash, but for the lda, not the imap? Thanks, ------------------------- You can never find the chance to be the first to know about the newest movies showing in Arab theatres until you visit Maktoob Movies! http://www.maktoob.com/movies

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[Dovecot] discrete passdb lookups for dovecot-auth
by benjamin thielsen 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

hi- i'm using ldap for user authentication, and would like to use different ldap lookups for authentication happening via postfix (smtp auth) vs. authentication happening through dovecot (imap logins). how can this be done, without running multiple instances? thanks! -bt

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[Dovecot] Concurrent POP3 Sessions Issues
by Mauricio López Riffo 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi, I have problems with dovecot + ldap + nfs, we could't have more than 20 concurrent sessions of pop3, when user 21 comes, the auth process takes more than 1 sec and is incresing (while most users arrives, more delay in autenticacion exists) and my customers complaint about the service. We need support about 200 concurrents pop3 users, here is my details Front Internet 1 Load Balancer configured with 2 servers reals App Servers 2 Servers Xeon 3.0Ghz, 4G Ram, rhel4 update 7 Dovecot 1.1.8 (i386 rpm complied by source rpm from fedora core 10) Ldap Server 2 Server Xeon QuadCore 2.5Ghz, 8G Ram, rhel5 update 2 Openldap 2.0.X (x86_64 rpms compiled by source rpm from rhel3) Nfs Server 1 Server Xeon 3.0Ghz, 4G Ram, rhel3 update 4 My conf: # 1.1.8: dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 7) protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): app-server:143 listen(imap): app-server:143 listen(pop3): app-server:110 ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login-mail 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_greeting: Welcome POP3/IMAP Server New on app1. login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 256 login_processes_count: 50 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 50 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 8 mail_uid: 8 mail_gid: 12 mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/indexes/%2d/%1u/%2u/%u mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_log mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls auth default: realms: domain.cl default_realm: domain.cl verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes count: 32 worker_max_count: 16 passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-new.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-new.conf plugin: quota: maildir mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size # dovecot-ldap-new.conf hosts = 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.4 dn = cn=Usr,o=USERS,c=CL dnpass = pass sasl_bind = no tls = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=%d,o=MAIL,o=USERS,c=CL scope = subtree user_attrs = mailMessageStore=mail:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/indexes/%2d/%1u/%2u/%u,homeDi rectory=home,,,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,mailQuota=quota:storage user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT Regards ---- Mauricio López Riffo Red Hat Certified Engineer 804006455319519 Netline Telecomunicaciones Chile Los Conquistadores 2430, Providencia, Santiago. Codigo Postal: 7530041 Fono: +562 6560600 Móvil: +569 90992366

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with dovecot config
by Thomas M Goerger 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi, I'd like to do option A, but I'm not certain as to what steps to take to do so. Could you let me know where the code for this function is located, and what might need to be done to link it? I'm not terribly familiar with the linker, so I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what exactly needs to be done for the rebuild. Thanks, ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * ************************************************************************* On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:48 -0600, Thomas M Goerger wrote: > > Jan 23 12:46:57 mars.tc.umn.edu imap(dump-capability): : [ID 817342 > > mail.error] dlopen(/opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so) > > failed: ld.so.1: imap: fatal: relocation error: file > > /opt/dovecot1.8/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so: symbol i_strcmp_p: > > referenced symbol not found > > Your linker was trying to be smart and didn't include i_strcmp_p() > function in imap binary, because it wasn't used anywhere in the imap > binary itself. ACL plugin needs it, but since linker dropped it it's no > longer there. The possibilities for how to fix this would be: > > a) Modify linker flags so that it doesn't drop all these unused > functions. > > b) Move the i_strcmp_p() code to ACL plugin. > > c) Use i_strcmp_p() somewhere in IMAP code. > > d) Make liblib.a a shared library instead so that the linker won't try > to drop useful stuff. > > I think for now you should go with a), b) or c). The long term solution > will be d), but I wasn't really planning on doing it soon.. Hmm. Maybe > for v1.3. >

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and smartsieve
by Claudio Prono 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi all, I am testing smartsieve with the patch found into the dovecot wiki (http://nopaste.biz/63514) but, i have some problems. All works fine, but incredibly slow..and i don't know why. The only error i get is into the error log of apache: [Fri Jan 30 17:18:57 2009] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: line in /srv/www/htdocs/smartsieve/lib/Managesieve.php on line 237, referer: http://192.168.87.243/smartsieve/rule.php My configuration is: # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.25.20-0.1-pae i686 openSUSE 11.0 (i586) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot-err.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-inf.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve listen: 127.0.0.1 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: 51 last_valid_uid: 51 first_valid_gid: 51 last_valid_gid: 51 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u mail_debug: yes 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): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota 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 imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %Mf pop3_uidl_format(managesieve): %08Xu%08Xv sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(pop3): sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(pop3): sieve(managesieve): /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/.dovecot.sieve auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: maildir quota: maildir:user quota quota_warning: storage=80%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 80 quota_warning2: storage=90%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90 quota_warning3: storage=99%% /usr/bin/quota_warning.sh 90 sieve: /var/mail/virtual/%d/%u/.dovecot.sieve I use smartsieve 1.0-RC2, with the patch for dovecot. Any idea of what is wrong? Thank you, Claudio Prono. -- ------------ Claudio Prono Systems Development @ PSS Srl, Divisione Implementazione Sistemi Via San Bernardino, 17 - 10137 Torino (TO) - IT Tel +39-011.32.72.100 Fax +39-011.32.46.497 PGP Fingerprint: 75C2 4049 E23D 2FBF A65F 40DB EA5C 11AC C2B0 3647 Disclaimer: http://atpss.net/disclaimer ------------

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[Dovecot] Push Mail?
by toneeedavis＠googlemail.com 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi Guys, I am just about to get my hands on a new blackberry mobile phone and I have done quite a bit of reading about different bits about getting the blackberry to work with Dovecot. Can anyone make any suggestions about the best way to either implement a solution like push mail for dovecot? or is there a plugin etc? Hope someone can help me, thanks in advance. Kind Regards Tony

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[Dovecot] deliver and qmail
by Tim Traver 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi all, ok, after looking at all of the posts that I've found, and trying numerous settings, I am a little stumped as to how to set up the deliver program with qmail to get everything correct. Ultimately, I really don't want to do a lookup of the home dir if I don't have to. I'd rather specify the stuff in the .qmail-user file for that particular user to avoid the extra step. In looking in the wiki, it says for users without a lookup to use HOME=/path/to/user/homedir deliver -f $FROM_ENVELOPE but I can't do that in the .qmail file, which would normally look something like this : |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${SENDER:-<>} I would rather not do the master authentication socket as described for obvious reasons. is there a format in the .qmail file that I can use with deliver to achieve what I want??? Thanks, Tim.

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[Dovecot] Confused about permissions needed for shared mailbox
by Thomas Hummel 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hello, let me re-state, hopefully in clearer terms, what I tried to described in a previous thread : With dovecot-1.1.8/Maildir/LDAP pass/userdb (prefetch), I'm trying to set up a Maildir ".box" shared in rw between 2 users in a "Public" namespace. I can't get it to work unless I chmod 777 everything, which obiously is not what I want. 1) am I correct thinking that the system_user userdb extra_field and unix permissions should be enough to achieve that and that ACLs is only if I want to fine tunes mailbox permissions ? 2) let's say that my public namespace prefix is Public/, that the .box/ maildir is in /path/to/public/.box and my 2 users belong to the doveshared unix group. I thought it would be enough to have drwxrws--- 3 root doveshared 4096 Jan 28 14:55 public drwxrws--- 3 root doveshared 4096 Jan 28 14:55 public/.box -rwxrws--- 1 root doveshared 0 Jan 26 18:25 public/.box/dovecot-shared provided that my prefetch userdb returns system_user, as I think the following says in dovecot-ldap.conf : pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,,,uidNumber=userdb_uid,gidNumber=userdb_gid,shadowMax=userdb_system_user and providedt that in LDAP shadowMax: 80 (whatever value). But this doesn't seem to work. By the way : Am I supposed to have a dovecot-shared file in public as well (that is not only in public/.box) ? 3) let's say I try ACLs with the same setup (anyone <all permissions> for starters) would pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,,,uidNumber=userdb_uid,gidNumber=userdb_gid,shadowMax=userdb_system_user.title=userdb_acl_groups and title: group1,doveshared be a correct setup ? Do I need an dovecot-acl file only in .box or in public too ? My understanding is that my setup doesn't work because for some reason, dovecot doesn't see my users secondary groups or doesnt take them into account... Any thoughts which might help ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Symlink shared mailboxes and system_user extra field
by Thomas Hummel 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hello, I'm trying to set up, as explained in the wiki, shared mailboxes with symlink. I'm running dovecot-1.1.8 with LDAP pass/userdb. The Maildir layout goes like this : /courriel/boites/foobar : Maildir of user foobar (nfs) /courriel/meta/foobar : control files of user foobar (nfs) /var/dovecot/indexes : indexes (locally stored) I created : /courriel/boites/doveshared/.box/ : the Maildir I want to share /courriel/boites/foobar/.box -> /courriel/boites/doveshared/.box (symlink) /courriel/boites/foobaz/.box -> /courriel/boites/doveshared/.box (symlink) the unix and LDAP group doveshared, so /etc/group holds : doveshared:*:<gid>:foobar,foobaz the permissions on the real Maildir are ok for that group : drwxrwx--- 3 root doveshared 4096 Jan 26 18:58 /courriel/boites/doveshared drwxrwx--- 5 root doveshared 4096 Jan 26 18:58 .box (in /courriel/boites) I made the userdb (prefetch) return the system_user extra_field (for now, I'm using an used LDAP attribute - I will create a new attribute in my schema later) : pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,,,uidNumber=userdb_uid,gidNumber=userdb_gid,shadowMax=userdb_system_user and it seems to be actually returned : Jan 27 09:34:10 munster3 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(foobar,157.99.64.42): result: uid(user)=foobar uidNumber(userdb_uid)=xxx gidNumber(userdb_gid)=xxx homeDirectory(userdb_home)=/home1/xxx/foobar userPassword(password)=<hidden> shadowMax(userdb_system_user)=380 But I can't subscribe to the mailbox : stat(/courriel/boites/doveshared/.box/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=xxx egid=<primary gid>) as a matter of fact, the egid seems to be the primary gid. What am I missing ? Thanks. -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] (imap) killed with signal 9 on Linux/OpenVZ VPS
by Adam Flott 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

I'm trying to get dovecot running on my VPS and the main imap process is receiving a SIGKILL from what I presume to be the Linux Kernel and/or OpenVZ. This happens after I login and my client(s) just sit their idling. The mailbox is empty. I'm not running out of memory. stracing the process doesn't show anything interesting... ... gettimeofday({1233024777, 844804}, {420, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1233024777, 844912}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=2, events=POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 3, 10000) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ This is on a CentOS 5.2 VPS. I haven't changed much other than installing a few packages. I've also had this exact same problem on Debian 4.0 VPS (OpenVZ) under the same machine. Turning off SSL and logging in plain old IMAP didn't change anything. Under the Debian installation I tried the latest version of dovecot (1.1.8 or so), different I/O loop methods, turning them off, on, etc. The only other reference via Google I can find to this sort of problem is: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-December/027440.html But that was with the login process, whereas mine is with the imap daemon. Any help is greatly appreciated. Adam # uname -a Linux npjh.com 2.6.18-ovz028stab039.1-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 24 12:12:48 MSD 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/mail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/mail.key disable_plaintext_auth: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 2 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: digest-md5 cram-md5 login plain passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256000 75100 180900 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 75100 180900 Swap: 0 0 0

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[Dovecot] Unknown dict module: db with expire plugin
by Nicolas Letellier 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hello. I use dovecot 1.1.8 in a FreeBSD 6.3 Today, I want to active expire plugin. But it does not work. I made instructions described in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire for a bdb database. See my dovecot -n: # 1.1.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 i386 ufs syslog_facility: local6 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/***********.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/********************.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: dovecot-auth login_greeting: ************************** login_processes_count: 2 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 143 last_valid_uid: 143 first_valid_gid: 143 last_valid_gid: 143 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%u/ mail_plugins: quota imap_quota mail_log expire imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: dovecot group: mail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=1000M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=50M quota_warning: storage=80%% /usr/home/scripts/mail_quota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning2: storage=90%% /usr/home/scripts/mail_quota-warning.sh 90 quota_warning3: storage=95%% /usr/home/scripts/mail_quota-warning.sh 95 sieve: /var/mail/vmail/%u/sieve expire: Trash 7 Trash/* 7 Junk 2 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db The /var/lib/dovecot/expire.db file is not automatically created. So I created it, with root rights. After, the file is always to 0 bytes. When I want to dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test I have this: Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected And in my logs: Jan 28 09:24:36 ******** dovecot: dict: Unknown dict module: db Jan 28 09:24:36 ******** dovecot: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'expire' I do not understand the problem. I made instructions on the wiki page. Is anybody could help me to resolve this? Thanks. Regards, (ps : another question : what's the advantage of expire plugin with a manual cron job?) -- -Nicolas.

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[Dovecot] Old Thunderbird problem - need a fix
by Marc Perkel 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

I've been having a Dovecot/Thunderbird problem for about a year now and I need a fix. When I restart dovecot everything is fine but as the day progresses thing start deteriorating. When I empty my trash folder it doesn't empty. I get an indication that email has arrived in my inbox by the unread message count but can't access it. Messages arrive by appear to be empty. Folders that should be empty still have message counts showing. With all of the above problems - restarting dovecot make them all go away. I am doing something unusual in that I use Exim to directly deliver (maildir) to the inbox and other folders. And I have processes that take email out of certain folders (spam learning). Whatever the problem is I think that when I restart Dovecot I'm forcing Thunderbird to reconnect. Perhaps the solution is to somehow force Thunderbird to have to reconnect every time rather than have a persistent connection? Looking for suggestions. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Store sent email
by pierre.casenove＠almerys.com 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hello all, I've set up a webmail solution based on RedHat EL 5, sendmail, spamassassin, clamAV and dovecot by following this tutorial: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/email/index.html I have configured everything without any problem, I can send and receive emails, using Maildir store format. Now, what I don't know how to set up: I would like to store the emails sent by the users in a dedicated store (Like Sent Emails in many webmails).... and I've got no idea on how to do this! By googling a little, I found this thread ( http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-April/021447.html) where a plugin is mentionned. Has it been developped or is there another solution? I'm using dovecot 1.0.7, shipped with RHEL 5 distribution. I am really discovering all the products around the email so I'm a bit confused. Thanks a lot for your answer, Pierre

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[Dovecot] imap flags - \* - dovecot 1.1.{8,9}
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Isn't \* supposed to be (almost always) in flags after "SELECT" command in dovecot imap? Isn't \* meaning is "you can store any new flag" ? 20 select INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)] Flags permitted. so no \* ... [..] 50 store 1 +flags $MDNSent * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent)] Flags permitted. * 1 FETCH (FLAGS ($MDNSent)) 50 OK Store completed. 60 logout * BYE Logging out 60 OK Logout completed. [ new session ...] 20 select INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent)] Flags permitted. * 4 EXISTS * 2 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1181546666] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 864597] Predicted next UID 20 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. ... but it saved $MDNSent flag, huh -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] dotlock timestamp trouble
by Giorgenes Gelatti 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi there, I'm getting a lot of this message in production log: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (1232468644 vs 1232468524): /path/to/dovecot.index.log The IT guy swears the clocks are sincronized. Whe even have made a test in the machine running dovecot, inside the user's mailbox: # > foo; ls -l --time-style=full-iso foo; date -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-19 17:40:55.000850000 +0000 foo Mon Jan 19 17:40:55 UTC 2009 The timestamps seems to match. I'm using dovecot 1.1.6 over NFS. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, gpg

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[Dovecot] No Spaces in Directory names
by Matt Rude 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

How can I make it so my users can not create folders with spaces in them? Or allow them to create such folders but rewrite them on the hardrive with a "_" or some other symbol. I have looked threw the wiki but couldn't find anything about folder name restrictions or folder name rewriting (rewrite the space to a "_"). Im having problems with some of the expire and compress scripts when it hits these types of folders. Is dovecot able to restrict or rewrite the names of imap folders? dovecot -n # 1.1.9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 i686 Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) ext3 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/SSL/mail.mattrude.com.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/SSL/mail.mattrude.com.key login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: postfix mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/imap/:INBOX=/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/ mail_plugins: quota imap_quota zlib auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 cache_size: 128 cache_ttl: 600 master_user_separator: * passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql-master.conf pass: yes master: yes userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.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: virtualmail group: virtualmail plugin: sieve: /var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: = /var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/ quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=10M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=20% Thanks -Matt

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