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[Dovecot] Urgent - Setup DoveCot with Plesk
by iSquareOne LLC 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hey, all, I am trying to setup DoveCot with Plesk. But I could not go through the last step. Setup: MySQL 5.0.22 Qmail Plesk 7.5 DoveCot v1.0 RC15 The problem: I setup sql.conf for user query and password query. I tried different ways, DoveCot always says "Authentication failed". Here are my two SQLs. user_query = SELECT concat('/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as home, concat('/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as mail, 101 AS uid, 12 AS gid, 'dirsize:storage=1000000' AS quota FROM accounts a, mail m, domains d WHERE a.id = m.account_id AND d.id=m.dom_id AND m.mail_name='%n' AND d.name='%d' I manully fill in %n=admin and %d=test.com to test it and it worked fine The result is: home,mail,uid,gid,quota "/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","101","12","dirsize:storage=1000000" password_query = SELECT concat(m.mail_name, '@',d.name) as user, a.password as password, concat('/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as userdb_home, concat('maildir:/var/qmail/mailnames/', d.name, '/', m.mail_name) as userdb_mail, 101 as userdb_uid, 12 as userdb_gid FROM accounts a, mail m, domains d WHERE a.id = m.account_id AND d.id=m.dom_id AND m.mail_name='%n' AND d.name='%d' The result is: user,password,userdb_home,userdb_mail,userdb_uid,userdb_gid "admin(a)test.com","password","/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","maildir:/var/qmail/mailnames/test.com/admin","101","12" I don't know what DoveCot is expecting to get from the SQL result. Please let me know if I missed anything. Thank you very much! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Error reading configuration file
by Justin Pearce 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Good day, I seem to be having an issue using dovecot 1.0 rc15. I compiled the source with the following configure command: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/mysql" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib/mysql" -lmysqlclient" ./configure -with-mysql -with-sql-drivers=mysql Did make and make install and set the dovecot-example.conf to dovecot.conf and tried running the program and got the following error: Error: Error in configuration file on line 50: expecting '=' Line 50 of the default config is a comment, which struck me as odd. So, I uninstalled and tried building with no options. I did a make uninstall, removed the /usr/local/lib/dovecot directory did make and make install and tried the program. This time it didn't crash about the config file, but the mail.err log notes that the child processes died on an error 89, apparently unable to figure our what pam was. I'm wondering why the thing seems to work if I do not build for mysql but if I want mysql, it breaks in the manner it does? Is it a bug, or am I doing it wrong (which is a real possibility). Any help soon would be appreciated, as my boss keeps asking 'So, when is that mail server going to be done?'. :) Justin Pearce Information Technology/Programming Price Video Productions JustinP(a)PriceVideo.com 361-572-3810 800-733-3810 Fax: 361-572-3894 www.PriceVideo.com

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[Dovecot] DvCot/PstFix Virtual Domains Virtual Users PAM Authentication - How pls
by Kyle 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi Folks, I'm hoping some one can set me straight here please. Postfix 2.1.5 Dovecot 0.99.11-2 I have Postfix set up on a new box with Virtual Domains and Virtual Users using MailDir format with their mail homes in /var/spool/mail/<domain>/<user> I want Dovecot to login using PAM Authentication. The idea is to host multiple domains which each have multiple aliases which resolve to one email account for their respective domain but using a user name which actually _is_ a system user. So I might have; jo(a)abc.com joe(a)abc.com joey(a)abc.com pete(a)abc.com peter(a)abc.com jo(a)xyz.com joe(a)xyz.com joey(a)xyz.com pete(a)xyz.com peter(a)xyz.com where 'joe' and 'peter' are both system users each with mail homes of; /var/spool/mail/abc.com/joe /var/spool/mail/abc.com/peter /var/spool/mail/xyz.com/joe /var/spool/mail/xyz.com/peter In my dovecot.conf, I have; auth_userdb = static uid=89 gid=89 home=/var/spool/mail/%d/%u auth_passdb = pam If I login with just 'joe', I get; Fatal: chdir(/var/spool/mail//joe) failed with uid 89: Not a directory Fair enough, that sounds logical to me. But if I then login with 'joe(a)abc.com', I get; PAM: pam_authenticate(joe(a)abc.com) failed: Authentication failure So it appears Dovecot is checking PAM for 'joe(a)abc.com' rather than just 'joe'. How can I make it check for just 'joe' please? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kind Regards Kyle

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[Dovecot] configured mechanisms don't work
by Eggert Ehmke 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I am new to this list and to dovecot. Forgive me if I ask long discussed items. I managed to install postfix and dovecot 1.0.rc15 on a Debian Sarge server out of the backports. It works so far, I can send emails via smtp to postfix, they are stored in the virtual mailboxes of some users, and I can get them via IMAP from dovecot. However, in dovecot.conf I configured mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 when I connect to the server via telnet 143, I get this: 2 CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED 2 OK Capability completed. So I can't authenticate using cram-md5. What may I be missing? Regards & happy new year! Eggert

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[Dovecot] determining connection type/port in logs
by Glenn Leavell 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Is there a way to configure logging to indicate what connection type was used to authenticate? I'd like to be able to tell from the logs whether the user used STARTTLS on port 143 or an SSL-wrapped connection on port 993. Using RC15 with auth_verbose=yes gives us the following log entries during login and logout (lines wrapped for convenience): # login port 143 with STARTTLS: Jan 3 14:17:24 tony dovecot: [ID 107833 local5.info] imap-login: Login: user=<glenn>, method=plain, rip=10.0.0.2, lip=192.168.1.2, TLS Jan 3 14:17:41 tony dovecot: [ID 107833 local5.info] IMAP(glenn): Disconnected: Logged out # login port 993/SSL Jan 3 14:19:11 tony dovecot: [ID 107833 local5.info] imap-login: Login: user=<glenn>, method=plain, rip=10.0.0.2, lip=192.168.1.2, TLS Jan 3 14:19:20 tony dovecot: [ID 107833 local5.info] IMAP(glenn): Disconnected: Logged out Turning on auth_debug=yes added some additional info, but I still wasn't able to tell what port or connection type was used. Thanks very much, Glenn -- Glenn Leavell <glenn(a)usg.edu> Office of Information and Instructional Technology Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

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[Dovecot] Ampersand in Folder names causing folders to disappear?
by Mark Adams 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi All, Dovecot 1.0.rc7 Not sure if this is a problem with Outlook, or with Dovecot, or to do with encoding in Linux. Whenever a user enters an ampersand into an IMAP folder name, it dissapears from outlook. These folders appear on the ext3 filesystem as &- for example drwx------ 5 mailusers mailusers 4096 2006-10-10 17:54 .INBOX.Networks.London Networks.NDCs.WH&-P joint working Any pointers or previous experience anyone has of this would be very gratefully received. Regards, Mark

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[Dovecot] "Not connected to database" MySQL errors
by Cassidy B. Larson 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

I've been in the process of moving my pop3 proxy over to the dovecot proxy. I have a ton of users using pop3 still, and am seeing these errors popup within a minute or so of the connection to the database: Password query failed: Not connected to database Eventually the auth-worker will reconnect to the database and things will go on normal for another minute or two, then the same issue occurs. I'm runing MySQL 5.0.22 on FreeBSD 6.1. I upgraded to 5.0.27, however I started getting the: "Password query failed: Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now" error instead. So I downgraded until I could figure out this issue first. I've tried connecting to localhost, /tmp/mysql.sock, and a remote server and all exhibit the same problem. The MySQL idle timeouts shouldnt come into play because I'm constantly having users check their accounts. Any insights will be useful, Thanks! Cassidy ### Part of my dovecot.conf that might be useful: login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 512 auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords =yes auth_worker_max_count = 400 auth mail.infowest.com { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/dev/null } user = root # Number of authentication processes to create count = 10 ## dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=/tmp/mysql.sock dbname=iwmailsystem user=imap_proxy password=***** client_flags=65536 default_pass_scheme = MD5 password_query = CALL pop_auth('%u','%l','%r')

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Mail.app
by Barry Warsaw 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to convert a courier-imap installation over to using Dovecot, but I'm having some problems with Mail.app on OS X. FTR, we use both Mail.app and Thunderbird. Note that in the Mail.app preferences, I have a blank IMAP Path Prefix. I'm using Dovecot 1.0_rc15 on Gentoo, and Mail.app from OS X 10.4.8, Thunderbird 1.5.0.9. With the old courier setup, in Mail.app I would see a top level Inbox folder, with an inbox icon'd folder underneath that representing the IMAP account. That IMAP account subfolder would be the inbox of that account. Under that, I'd see all the subfolders for that account. Something like: Inbox Account1 Folder1 Folder2 ... Account2 FolderA Outbox Drafts Sent Junk SmartFolder1 SmartFolder2 Note that a straight copy from the courier Maildir leaves me with directories like ~/Maildir/.Folder1 and ~/Maildir/.Folder2 -- IOW, they do not have .INBOX. prefix. I tried adding a "namespace private" section, with separator, prefix, and inbox values as specified in the docs. This gives me the same layout in the Mail.app u/i as with Courier, but there's a big problem: none of the folders under Account1 have any contents. The folders are there, and in the right location, but they have zero messages (even though they certainly have messages in the filesystem). Nothing in the Dovecot log file indicates any problem. But if I hover over say Folder1 in the Mail.app u/i, I see a popup message like: Mail was unable to open this mailbox on the server "imap.example.com". The server error encountered was: Unknown namespace Moving over to Thunderbird though, I see exactly what I want to see. Top level expandable is the account, with Inbox under that, which expands to all my folders. Of course Thunderbird supports subscriptions, which Mail.app does not, so I only see the folders I've subscribed to. Clearly, there's some weird interaction between Mail.app and Dovecot. Next, I tried removing the 'prefix' value from the "namespace private" section, and restarted Dovecot. Now the Mail.app u/i is different, but all the folders have their contents back! The u/i now shows: Inbox Account1 Account2 FolderA Outbox Drafts Sent Junk SmartFolder1 SmartFolder2 Account1 Folder1 Folder2 IOW, all of account1's folders live under a separate expandable section below the top level Inbox expandable (that section has a little world icon instead of the little inbox icon). Account1's inbox lives in a different section from its folders, but it has no subfolders. Looking back at Thunderbird, I notice that all the subscribed folders are now at the same level as the Inbox, just under the account name. I.e. Account1 Inbox Trash Folder1 Folder2 ... I suppose I can live with the Mail.app behavior sans the prefix setting in the namespace section, but it's not ideal. I'd really like to know why Mail.app has a problem with this! Why are the folders there but the contents empty? Is there any way to increase the logging that Dovecot does to understand what the Mail.app client is sending and why Dovecot is sending back that error? Any help would be greatly appreciated! - -Barry P.S. I wasn't able to use courier2dovecot.sh from the wiki (I think others had problems with running it on Linux as well, probably due to the different rename(1) syntax). The courier2dovecot.py file was no longer available, so I wrote my own. I can make that available to folks if there's any interest. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRZC8sXEjvBPtnXfVAQK90gQAjFhEH+vIPh7pnY4MuOTU8ChWfJ57ppIQ g0HvHidiD5nOfd8pfpsfacdD1nC40cRlpnJkR6vcahvqQsLzSUzUMwVlUqP2IDSE jGvZGpGSBpjTHV/ktWbyJhPo9+ehVxiq+qEfbDgfw9iqBtulOXe4M25iUKO8tsuA n2bCHHoUXuk= =hxad -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/vpopmail lastauth
by Max A 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

> Hi All, > > I have dovecot working wonderfully on a qmail/vpopmail, but I've noticed > my 'lastauth' is never filled in.. If I use vpopmail's pop, and auth to > that, then 'lastauth' is updated. It just seems weird that if dovecot > is using the vpopmail lib, that lastauth wouldn't be updated. > > Has anyone else run into this? If to use the checkpassword interface all works correctly: passdb checkpassword { args = /var/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw } userdb prefetch { }

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[Dovecot] I can't use sql auth
by Toni Panadès 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

I need some help. I have compiled dovecot (1.0-rc15) with --with-mysql option, when I execute the binary with --build-options I get this: Build options: ioloop=poll notify=dnotify ipv6 openssl SQL drivers: Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file static In this case, when I execute dovecot I get this error: dovecot: Jan 03 03:48:47 Error: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver 'sql' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) Well, now I compile with "--with-mysql --with-sql-drivers" and I get this: Build options: ioloop=poll notify=dnotify ipv6 openssl SQL drivers: Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file sql static And now, the error is: dovecot: Jan 03 03:53:21 Error: auth(default): Unknown database driver 'mysql' My dovecont.conf auth section: --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8< auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb static { args = uid=8 gid=12 home=/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%u/Maildir } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } } --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8< My dovecot-sql.conf have: --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8< driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=mail user=postfix password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT email as user, crypt as password, maildir as userdb_home, uid as userdb_uid, gid as userdb_gid FROM postfix_users WHERE email = '%u' --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8< what's wrong? thanks!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0-rc15 on Solaris 10
by Steven F Siirila 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

We are running Dovecot 1.0-rc15 on Solaris 10 and are starting to ramp up our user count and ran into a file descriptor limit: Jan 1 19:38:54 <hostname> dovecot: IMAP(username): Newly created index file is corrupted: /home/username/.imap/foldername/dovecot.index.tmp Jan 1 19:38:54 <hostname> dovecot: IMAP(username): file mail-index.c: line 1806 (mail_index_move_to_memory): assertion failed: (index->fd == -1) Jan 1 19:38:54 <hostname> dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Jan 1 19:38:54 <hostname> dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now We got around this by calling "ulimit -n 512" and restarting Dovecot. This got us further (upwards of 300 concurrent users), but we are now running into what appears to be a full listen queue (connections are not rejected, but rather slow in being established). What I would like to know is if anyone else out there runs with large numbers of concurrent IMAP sessions via Dovecot and has run into problems. If so, did you have to up your fd limit w/ulimit? Any other issues? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs(a)umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

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[Dovecot] dovecot/vpopmail lastauth
by Rick Romero 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi All, I have dovecot working wonderfully on a qmail/vpopmail, but I've noticed my 'lastauth' is never filled in.. If I use vpopmail's pop, and auth to that, then 'lastauth' is updated. It just seems weird that if dovecot is using the vpopmail lib, that lastauth wouldn't be updated. Has anyone else run into this? Thanks Rick

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SASL vs. Micro$oft Outlook and Outlook Express
by Tom Kovar 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, I have just started using Dovecot (1.0.10) SASL behind my Postfix (2.3.3). Everything works fine, as long as I send the SMTP AUTH command manually. When using M$ Outlook (2000 and 2003) and Outlook Express 6, authentification always fails. Turning on the Dovecot auth debug on reveals the reason: Dovecot SASL expects, in accordance with the standards, the following format of the SMTP AUTH command (using the PLAIN auth mechanism): AUTH PLAIN base64_encode("username\0username\0password") whereas the M$ clients send as the second argument only base64_encode("username\0password"), which naturally leads to authentification failure. Postfix apparently does not play any role in this game, as it simply passes the received command arguments to dovecot. Before I start hacking the source myself, I just wanted to ask if somebody has a patch for this M$ shortcoming - as the damned M$ clients are very much spread, I would assume this should be the case... Thanx, --- Tom

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[Dovecot] almost there with procmail and dovecot
by M. Fioretti 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello, I am running dovecot-1.0-0_34 on Centos 4.4 In dovecot.conf I have: default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/vhosts/%n/%d the content of that folder is: drwxrwxr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 30 05:23 .. drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 12 13:55 .Drafts drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 29 18:26 .Sent drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 30 03:37 .Trash drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 30 05:23 INBOX drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 30 05:10 INBOX.work drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 30 05:10 INBOX.family drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 8192 Dec 30 03:32 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 681 Dec 30 02:38 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 144 Dec 30 03:32 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 21504 Dec 30 03:32 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 110300 Dec 30 03:32 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 30 03:25 new -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Dec 30 05:21 subscriptions drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 30 02:34 tmp and the subscription file contains: Sent Trash Drafts For reasons not really relevant here I need to use procmail as MDA: all the INBOX* Maildir folders are created by procmail with recipes like this: MAILDIR=same as in dovecot default_mail_env :0: * ^From: dad(a)his.isp.com INBOX.family #everything else goes to: :0 * w INBOX/ The problem right now is that procmail delivers all messages correctly but the folders are invisible to squirrelmail. From its interface I can only see Sent, Trash and Drafts. Is this a folder naming problem, a configuration issue or what? How must I name those inboxes and/or reconfigure dovecot to have those folders accessible in squirrelmail? TIA, Marco

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[Dovecot] cross compiling dovecot
by Martin Höfling 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

I have the problem that configure can't run the binaries, due to crosscompiling. How can you solve these issues with ./configure? checking whether size_t is signed... configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling See `config.log' for more details. I configure with a mipsel cross compiler. Cheers Martin

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[Dovecot] Correct naming scheme for dovecot / squirrelmail subfolders?
by M. Fioretti 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hello, I am running dovecot 1.0-0_34.rc15 and squirrelmail 1.4.8-2 on a Centos 4 server. Right now all messages are delivered to maildir /var/mail/vhosts/virtual_mail_root/, which has its cur, tmp, new subdirectories. I need to (re) configure postfix, dovecot and squirrelmail so that email is filtered and dovecot serves different boxes to squirrelmail, that is when I log in in squirrelmail I see: Inbox work (5) friends (6) lists (35) Sent Trash Spam that is every subfolder listed under Inbox with the number of unread messages. Now, I do know how to filter incoming email in different folders with postfix. The part still missing, in spite of several online searches, is the correct _naming_ and nesting of all the new mailboxes. In other words, if now everything goes into /var/mail/vhosts/virtual_mail_root/ : 1) what is the currect _name_ to give to the future "work" inbox ?? /var/mail/vhosts/virtual_mail_root/work/ /var/mail/vhosts/virtual_mail_root/INBOX.work/ what else? 2) which parameters must be changed and how in dovecot and/or squirrelmail (or any IMAP client in my home PC) so that folders are recognized and displayed as I wish? Thanks in advance for any feedback, Marco -- The right way to make everybody love Free Standards and Free Software: http://digifreedom.net/node/73

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + Outlook express + permission denied
by Nagy László 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hello, I have an account (called awesome) that does not have access to some public shared folders. I can use this account from Mozilla Thunderbird, but I cannot use it from Outlook. I opened /var/log/maillog. When I try to list all folders, I get this in the log: Dec 28 09:57:38 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): opendir(/var/mail/public) failed: Permission denied However, outlook displays three folders: Inbox, Public and Trash. It says "One or more problems occured downloading your list of folder from your account." That is fine, except that not all folders are listed. (There are others: "Contact", "Calendar" and "ShopzeusArchive".) Then I subscribe to "Inbox" and "Trash". I DO NOT subscribe to "Public", because the account has no access to "Public". Then I click on "Inbox" (inside outlook) and I get this very long text: Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<awesome>, method=PLAIN, rip=62.112.202.90, lip=195.228.74.135, TLS Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Effective uid=1029, gid=1003 Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=private, prefix=#mbox/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=yes, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): mbox: data=/home/awesome/:INBOX=/var/mail/awesome Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): mbox: root=/home/awesome, index=/home/awesome, inbox=/var/mail/awesome Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/home/awesome/Maildir Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/home/awesome/Maildir, index=/home/awesome/Maildir, control=, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Public/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/public:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/public/control Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/public, index=/var/mail/public, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/public/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/public/cur) failed: Permission denied Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Calendars/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/calendars:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/calendars/control Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/calendars, index=/var/mail/calendars, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/calendars/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/calendars/cur) failed: Permission denied Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Contacts/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/contacts:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/contacts/control Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/contacts, index=/var/mail/contacts, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/contacts/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/contacts/cur) failed: Permission denied Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=ShopzeusArchive/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/shopzeusarchive:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/shopzeusarchive/control Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/shopzeusarchive, index=/var/mail/shopzeusarchive, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/shopzeusarchive/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/shopzeusarchive/cur) failed: Permission denied It is very strange. Why outlook wants to open these folders? I only clicked on "Inbox", it should only open "Inbox", am I right? Outlook says "Could not select 'Inbox' on the IMAP server. You might try refreshing your folders list to synchronize with the IMAP server." But this is a lie. It tried to open many other folders, not just "INBOX". I think that my dovecot configuration is okay. I have different public and private folders. Some users can access all of them, others cannot. Using different groups of users, I can distribute permissions without problems. But I cannot make dovecot "hide" shared folders. Nor can I force all of my users to use Thunderbird. So how can I make outlook working? Thanks, Laszlo

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[Dovecot] Hebrew folder names
by Dotan Cohen 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

I'm considering Dovecot for an IMAP server. Can I name the IMAP folders in Hebrew (utf-8) with Dovecot? Any known gotchas? Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/

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[Dovecot] imap failed asssert in imap-bodystructure.c
by Matt Ronge 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

I'm running Dovecot on a Debian system which recently has been failing on an assert(). I have a spam mailbox that if I try and open (from any client), the imap process dies and this is written to the error logs: Dec 21 18:57:11 theronge imap(mronge): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 278 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Dec 21 18:57:11 theronge dovecot: child 28911 (imap) killed with signal 6 I had this same issue with my Inbox a few weeks ago, so I moved all the e-mail out and moved each piece back in one by one, in order to determine if a piece of mail was causing the issue. As soon as all my mail was moved back in, the issue went away and I was able to load my Inbox as usual. I still have the same issue with my spam mailbox, is there anything particular I can do to help debug this issue? In the past I've rm'ed all the mail in my spam mailbox and that fixes it. One thing that may be related is that I only noticed this issue after I had setup Spambayes, which does it's work via procmail. The mailboxes that I've had the issue with, all had headers that contain a Spambayes header, usually like so: X-Spam-Score: 26 X-Spam-Score: 0.6 (/) Sender: mailman-bounces(a)acm.uiuc.edu Errors-To: mailman-bounces(a)acm.uiuc.edu X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Authenticated-Sender: X-Spam-Details: rule=cautious-plus_notspam policy=cautious-plus score=26 mlx=26 adultscore=0 adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0611300000 definitions=main-0612060023 X-Spam-OrigSender: mailman-bounces(a)acm.uiuc.edu X-Spam-Bar: *** X-Spambayes-Classification: spam; 1.00 X-Spambayes-Trained: spam I'm not sure if it's related, but it's a shock in the dark on my part. Any suggested steps that might help isolate this bug? -- Matt Ronge

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[Dovecot] Intermittent "cannot update mailbox" problems w/ postfix & dovecot
by John Reddy 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

I hate asking questions on mailing lists, but I've exhausted my googling and FAQ trawling skills. If I've missed the pertinent doc, please tell me where to RTFM. Environment: I'm running postfix 2.3.2 on a Solaris 10 server. Mail goes into standard mbox format in /var/mail. Users can access their mail via shell (pine, mutt), POP3 or IMAP, and the pop3/imap server is dovecot-1.0.rc15. Problem: For a few users, mail occasionally fails to deliver. The mail is accepted by smtpd, passes cleanup and qmgr without incident. When it gets to local delivery, though, local complains that "cannot open file: Permission denied". A sample log entry (slightly sanitized): Dec 7 09:42:05 solaris-host local[18332]: [ID 197553 mail.info] D35C3445C: to=<bubba(a)solaris-host.sample.com>, relay=local, delay=0.17, delays=0.09/0/0/0.08, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (cannot update mailbox /var/mail/bubba for user bubba. cannot open file: Permission denied) Dec 7 10:52:26 solaris-host local[20775]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 670C9445D: to=<jack(a)solaris-host.sample.com>, relay=local, delay=15, delays=8.9/0/0/6.5, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (cannot update mailbox /var/mail/jack for user jack. cannot open file: Permission denied) Does anyone have any advice on how I might get better details about why postfix is having trouble accessing the file? Has anyone run into this before? My initial suspicion is a lock file from the users' POP3 connections... Thanks in advance for any help. -John

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: mbox somewhere else?]
by Kartagis 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

In case it's missed :) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Dovecot] mbox somewhere else? Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:26:30 +0200 From: Tolga <kartagis(a)kunduz.org> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Hi, I want to store my folders somewhere else, it used be in ~/mail. Is this as easy as moving everything in ~/mail to /var/mail/ and editing /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf to read mail_location=mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u ? Also, is the syntax mail_location=mbox:/var/mail/%u-folders:INBOX=/var/mail/%u correct? Regards, -- Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)

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[Dovecot] vpopmail problem
by Toni Panadès 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi! Sorry for my english... I recently know about dovecot and I try to use it on my server. Previously I used qmail+vpopmail+courier and now I want to use postfix+dovecot and, to mantain all my mailboxes structure, I try to use dovecot with vpopmail. During configuration the script detects my vpopmail installation and configuration and after I get this status: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword vpopmail (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword vpopmail (modules) And after some testing I start the daemon with this config: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb vpopmail {} userdb vpopmail {} user = vpopmail } I connect to localhost via pop3 and when I try to auth some user I get this: Dec 26 01:27:45 anet dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHNyb2RvbkBncmFjaWFuZXQub3JnAHR3aXN0 Dec 26 01:27:45 anet dovecot: auth(default): vpopmail(srodon(a)anet.org,127.0.0.1): unknown user Dec 26 01:27:46 anet dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=srodon(a)anet.org Dec 26 01:27:46 anet dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<srodon(a)anet.org>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured I tried other auth methods but I get an "Unsupported authentication mechanism" error. A try with encrypted password files and with a plan one. thanks in advance!

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[Dovecot] Sizing login_process_size and login_processes_count?
by Francisco Reyes 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Any suggestions on sizing login_process_size and login_processes_count for a server expected to be doing 100 to 200 simultaneous connections? Is there a way to separate login_processes_count between imap and pop? I would like to have at least 50 imap processes ready, but we rarely have any more than 5 to 10 pop connections. Would be a shame to have 40+ pop login processes doing nothing most of the time. For now did login_process_size = 96, but with an average of 100 to 200 and some rare ocassion of 300+ connections I am wondering what is a reasonable number for login_process_size.

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[Dovecot] LDA + sieve +Maildir?
by Francisco Reyes 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

I have a working Dovecot + LDA + Maildir setup and am looking to implement sieve with it. The examples that I have seen seem to be for mbox. Does sieve work with maildir? Looking to move mails marked as spam to a spam folder. Also we have a feature we offer to send spam to a different account in the domain. Could this also be done with sieve?

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 44, Issue 53
by Lars Skovgaard 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Den 25/12/2006 kl. 13.00 skrev Adrian Gill: > Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:43:40 -0000 > From: "Adrian Gill" <adrian(a)ssinternet.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] NTLM authentication woes > To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <023001c7277a$ae1bcf60$4107a8c0@AdeLaptop> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=response > > Lars wrote: > [Re Outlook handling of SPA/NTLM] >> Turning on auth_debug and auth_verbose has led me to discover that MS >> Outlook uses the users full name as login, instead of whatever is >> entered >> in the account-information - if the user "John Doe" has the login >> "jd(a)domain.com", Outlook sends "John Doe" instead. This of course >> fails. >> Strangely enough, if I turn off "Use Secure Authentication" from >> within >> Outlook, the login-name from the account- information is used as >> it should >> be. > > Not a solution I'm afraid, but just to let you know that I've been > experimenting with NTLM (actually with Exim for authenticated SMTP) > for a > while with a few users and had the same problems - different > versions of > Outlook behave slightly differently, but none (that I've found) > seem to work > properly. Usually Outlook sends the users Windows Logon username and > password (which is often their name, but often something else too like > 'Administrator') initially, and sometimes then retries > automatically with > the correct details. > > Things never seem to be that consistent though, except that they're > consistently bad. Frustratingly, the only option I have is to tell > users > that have problems to use Thunderbird or something else and use > cram-md5 > instead. > > As far as Outlook goes I think Microsoft seem to only bother > testing NTLM > running with MS Exchange on a local network... v.annoying! > > (Sorry not that helpful a post) > > Adrian Hi Adrian Thanks for your reply. I suspected as much, though I had hoped that there was an easy applicable solution. Sadly my MS-using clients are reluctant at best to change their applications, flawed as they may be, so I guess they'll have to live with things as they are for now. MS really should fix their apps, but that's a topic for a discussion of it's own. I use a mysql-backend, and suspect I could change the login-call to match whatever Outlook or Entourage choose to send, but that would be difficult to make consistent enough to be truly workable, I think... Thanks for your time /Lars

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