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[Dovecot] Client transaction logging in dovecot.
by Tan Shao Yi 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, Seasons greetings! :) May I know if it's possible to log the commands issued by clients in dovecot? For instance, RETR and DELE commands in POP3 and their equivalent in IMAP? I can't seem to be able to find the appropriate configuration key. Thanking in advance. Cheers. Tan Shao Yi

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[Dovecot] Problems with dovecot-sieve on Debian Etch using dovecot LDA
by Samir M. Nassar 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

I am running debian etch with dovecot 1.0 rc15 from the debian repository with postfix 2.3 I am using virtual users in a postgreSQL database as taken from the dovecot wiki while making use of the password field for authentication I am using deliver as LDA and I am attempting to use the sieve plugin but try as I might I can't seem to get it working. Am I wrong in thinking that a sieve daemon should become active when dovecot starts? Here is my .dovecot.sieve require "fileinto"; if address :is "from" "foo@example" { fileinto ".INBOX.test"; } else { # The rest goes into INBOX # default is "implicit keep", we do it explicitly here keep; } Here is my dovecot.conf: base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: mail protocols: imaps listen: *:143 ssl_listen: ssl_disable: no ssl_ca_file: ssl_cert_file: xxxx.pem ssl_key_file: xxxx.pem ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 168 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_greeting_capability: no login_process_size: 32 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: xxxx last_valid_uid: xxxx first_valid_gid: xxxx last_valid_gid: xxxx mail_extra_groups: default_mail_env: mail_location: maildir:/home/%d/mailboxes/%n mail_cache_fields: flags mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: no mail_full_filesystem_access: no mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mail_read_mmaped: no mmap_disable: no mmap_no_write: no lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: dotlock fcntl mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 umask: 63 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins: mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format: pop3_client_workarounds: pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s auth default: mechanisms: login realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: root chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ username_translation: username_format: %n@%d master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 438 user: group: master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 user: group: Thank you very much, Samir M. Nassar

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[Dovecot] file descriptor leak?
by Steven F Siirila 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

We are having problems with the latest Dovecot 1.0 (RC15) regarding file descriptors > 255 being handed off to fdopen() via crypt() via PAM(?). This is a problem on Solaris 10 due to the fact that the stdio library does not support file descriptors > 255 (in order to remain binary-compatibile with older binaries). Here are the messages we run into if we get too many (~250?) concurrent IMAP/POP sessions: Jan 3 13:03:14 hostname dovecot-auth[5799]: crypt: fdopen(265) failed: Too many open files Jan 3 13:03:14 hostname dovecot-auth[5799]: crypt: fdopen(265) failed: Too many open files Jan 3 13:03:15 hostname dovecot: auth(default): pam(username,10.1.1.1): Child process died Jan 3 13:03:15 hostname dovecot: auth(default): PAM: Child 5799 died with signal 11 Questions: 1) Is there a file descriptor leak, or are there supposed to be this many open pipes in dovecot-auth? (master dovecot has way more than 256 at this point, but apparently does not use stdio.) 2) Has anyone tried compiling Dovecot in 64-bit mode (-xarch=v9)? I have tested the fact that this removes the >255 fd limitation in Solaris 9/10. 3) Has anyone even run into this problem on Solaris? I imagine anyone with more than 250 or so simultaneous IMAP/POP sessions would have had to run into it by now. 4) Anyone have any suggested workarounds (besides compiling in 64-bit mode)? We have upwards of 4500 simultaneous IMAP connections alone on some of our servers (running UW IMAP still), so we obviously need to address this problem before we can fully deploy dovecot in our environment. -- 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] Too many open files
by Daniel Cox 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

I am running Dovecot 1.0rc15 on NetBSD 3.1 with only a few connections. It is built from pkgsrc-2006Q3, with mail/dovecot/ updated to HEAD. kqueue is a default build option - I haven't tried without yet. Mail directories/indexes are on a Linux 2.6.16.29 NFS file system, I have set these options and it performs well: mmap_disable=yes lock_method=fcntl FYI. rc7 had very high CPU use with the same options, which rc15 seems to have fixed :-) I also have this problem with dovecot-nightly-20060225 (1.0beta3) on NetBSD 2.1RC3 using a local ffs file system. This appears in /var/log/maillog: Jan 4 18:44:42 server dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files # ps ax|grep dovecot 723 ?? Ss 2:14.15 /usr/pkg/sbin/dovecot 822 ?? S 0:07.79 dovecot-auth # sysctl proc.723.rlimit proc.723.rlimit.descriptors.soft = 64 proc.723.rlimit.descriptors.hard = 1772 If I change /etc/login.conf to contain: ----- default|default class:\ :openfiles-max=2048:\ :openfiles-cur=1024: ----- Then login as root and /etc/rc.d/dovecot restart, the new soft limit is applied which helps but only delays the error. I haven't worked out how to make this happen automatically on restart. NOTE: hard never goes above kern.maxfiles which is 1772 (I think the kernel needs to be recompiled to increase further). proc.21494.rlimit.descriptors.soft = 1024 proc.21494.rlimit.descriptors.hard = 1772 # fstat -p 21494 root dovecot 21494 45* pipe 0xcc4e0138 <- 0xcc4e0648 rn Shows an increasing number of pipe files open. This NetBSD 3.1 system is a test server which I can experiment with if there is anything further I can do to help find the problem. Thank you, Daniel.

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Re: [Dovecot] POP3 account + forward to somewhere else
by Duncan Morgan 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Please ignore this question. I seem to have stepped on some toes here. -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Morgan [mailto:duncan@gen2solutions.ca] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:10 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: POP3 account + forward to somewhere else Hello, I would like to set up a POP account which also forwards email elsewhere. In qmail for example it is easy to set up by creating a dot qmail file inside the users mailbox. How can this be done with Postfix? For awareness I'm using Postfix + Dovecot for POP3 authentication. Thanks, Duncan

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log
by Paul Warren 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

I've just installed dovecot and am trying to use it to access my Maildir folders. Unfortunately: 1 SELECT INBOX 1 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2006-12-22 18:06:11] Log says: Dec 22 17:55:56 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Corrupted transaction log file /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x20, offset=24, size=0) Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index Any clues? Deleting ~/Maildir/dovecot* doesn't seem to help. I can't find any documentation relating to the transaction log, or an explanation of why a fresh install of dovecot might choose to create a corrupt one. thanks, Paul

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[Dovecot] POP3 account + forward to somewhere else
by Duncan Morgan 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, I would like to set up a POP account which also forwards email elsewhere. In qmail for example it is easy to set up by creating a dot qmail file inside the users mailbox. How can this be done with Postfix? For awareness I'm using Postfix + Dovecot for POP3 authentication. Thanks, Duncan

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[Dovecot] Allow plaintext auth from local network?
by Marc Haber 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi, I have dovecot 1.0rc15 on Debian and would like to allow plaintext auth not only from the local IP address but from the entire local network, but not from everywhere. Is that configurable? I am looking for something like "allow_plaintext_auth = 10.8.0.0/24". Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835

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[Dovecot] path field in mysql quota
by Marshal Newrock 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

What is the path field for in the quota table in mysql? Is the username not enough information for storing and updating quotas? -- Marshal Newrock, Ideal Solution LLC http://www.idealso.com

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[Dovecot] Custom login_greeting per virtual server?
by Cassidy B. Larson 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Just a quick question, nothing broke. I setup about 5 virtual servers. It's great! I can define which protocols to listen on per server. Just curious why I can specify a unique "login_dir" per server, but not a unqiue login_greeting? Appears dovecot always shows the first login_greeting from the first virtual server. Intended this way? -c

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[Dovecot] customizable idle login timeouts?
by Cassidy B. Larson 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

We're in the process of migrating from mbox over to maildir. I'm running into a problem with the proxy and timeouts. Appears the idle timeout is set to 60 seconds. This is a bit too low for some of our large mbox files :( Any plans on adding the: #define CLIENT_LOGIN_IDLE_TIMEOUT 60 #define AUTH_REQUEST_TIMEOUT to the .conf file to be tunable on the fly? I ended up just patching the couple of files in question, but it'd be nice.. Cassidy

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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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