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[Dovecot] Output to logfile
by Egbert Jan 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hello, Has everybody those irritating '^I' (tabs?) in his syslog for dovecot messages? Why not replace them by ordinary singe spaces? Maby something for a future release? Egbert Jan

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[Dovecot] Writing to mail directory
by Gerard Seibert 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

FreeBSD 6.1 Dovecot 1.0.rc12 Using Dovecot as an LDA produces this error message: // START ERROR MESSAGE // deliver(gerard): Error:open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.812.03034e3c3c1ab1c8) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied // END ERROR MESSAGE// Actually, there are dozens of similar messages for all of my accounts. One example is enough to see what I am referring to. I am using Postfix for my mail-server. If I change the permissions on the directory to '1777' the error goes away and everything seems normal. The problem is that I should not have to do that and I do not understand what the problem is. Has anyone else experienced this phenomena and come up with a solution? Thanks! -- Gerard "Off list mail from *.gmail.com is rejected/deleted unseen. Don't waste your time."

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[Dovecot] Using Substring Width with Mailhome Variables
by Matthew Fisch 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hello All, I am currently running Dovecot v1.0.rc13 from dovecot-1.0-0_31.rc13.fc5.at.i386.rpm on Linux HOST 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:55:46 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux. I am trying to install Dovecot in a large mail hosting environment and running into troubles. I have specified my mail home in dovecot.conf as follows: default_mail_env = maildir:/mnt/fileserver/maildir/%0.1d/%1.1d/%d/%n I've also tried among other variations: default_mail_env = maildir:/mnt/fileserver/maildir/%0d/%1.1d/%d/%n The expected behavior here, is to resolve this to: /mnt/fileserver/maildir/a/b/abc.com/user However, Dovecot seems to resolve this to: /mnt/raidzone01/maildir/abc.com/bc.com/abc.com/user/ It appears to me using 'width' with a substring does not work as is advertised on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables. This page does describe I need to be using 1.0-tests, what is 1.0-tests? I've also tried the default FC5 package: 1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5. Did I misunderstand the syntax? Am I using the wrong version? I won't be able to use dovecot without support for this feature as I am hosting many thousands of domains and know not how else to resolve them all. Thanks for all your time in advance, Matt Matthew Fisch Your-Site.com

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Re: [Dovecot] Too many open files
by Timo Sirainen 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 11:45 -0500, bofh list wrote: > imap 12009 user 16u REG 0,19 135348 > 9876198 /chroot/mailstore/user/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log.2 > (netapp-storage:/vol/mailstore) > imap 12009 user 17u REG 0,19 135348 > 9876198 /chroot/mailstore/user/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log.2 > (netapp-storage:/vol/mailstore) .. Oh, I see. Could you test if this patch fixes it: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-November/006767.html

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[Dovecot] RFC 2822 - message-id
by Tom Allison 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

I was porting some email from one imap server location to another and ran into a feature of something. One of them writes message-id as 'Message-Id' and the other writes it as 'Message-ID'. Because of this, all the messages are forever different. All mail is delivered from postfix and will be in the future. But I'm asking which of these syntaxes is correct or if there is a right/wrong way of writing the headers? RFC2822 doesn't come right out and say it, but all the examples therein are "Message-ID". RFC 822 says they are all the same. Both?

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc12 released
by Timo Sirainen 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc12.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc12.tar.gz.sig Since rc11 has problems compiling with BSDs, here's a new release. Just two changes: - rc11 didn't compile with some compilers - default_mail_env fallbacking was broken with --exec-mail Here's also again the rc11 changes: * Renamed default_mail_env to mail_location. default_mail_env still works for backwards compatibility. * deliver: When sending rejects, don't include Content-Type in the rejected mail's headers. * LDAP changes: * If auth binds are used, bind back to the default dn before doing a search. Otherwise it could fail if a user gave an invalid password. * Initial binding at connect is now done asynchronously. * Use pass_attrs even with auth_bind=yes since it may contain useful non-password fields. + passdb checkpassword: Give TCPLOCALIP and TCPREMOTEIP and PROTO=TCP environments to the checkpassword binary so we're UCSPI (and vchkpw) compatible. - mbox handling was a bit broken in rc10 - Using Dovecot via inetd kept crashing dovecot master - deliver: Don't crash with -f "". Changed the default from envelope to be "MAILER-DAEMON". - INBOX wasn't shown with LSUB command if only prefixed namespaces were used. - passdb ldap: Reconnecting to LDAP server wasn't working with auth binds. - passdb sql: Non-plaintext authentication didn't work - MySQL passdb ignored all non-password checks, such as allow_nets - trash plugin was broken

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[Dovecot] LDAP authentication windows 2003
by Matheus Antonio Oliveira 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

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[Dovecot] Qpopper migration?
by Steve Goodman (lists) 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hello, As this is my first post to the list, first and foremost I'd like to thank Timo for writing great software; we've successfully moved to Dovecot for over 10,000 users from UW-IMAP and get great performance. On our overloaded staff POP3/IMAP server, we are looking at replacing qpopper+uw-imapd with dovecot, as an interim before moving them to the main Unix mailstore. The system is primarily POP3, with a small number of heavy IMAP users causing the system grief. There are a large number of POP3 users who leave messages on the server. What I want to ensure doesn't happen is that they are forced to download them again. Do I need to add anything specific in the pop3_uidl_format or am I barking up the wrong tree? Kind Regards, Steve

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[Dovecot] SSL-read error in logfile
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Now most things seem to work (rc12 on Mandriva 2007.0), I've been looking more thoroughly at the syslog file. I see a 'syscall failed' at the end of a normal timed poll from the client. I wonder what it means. Sorry for the layout, it is messed up by the cut and paste. I have created the selfsigned cert and key in the /etc/ssl/dovecot/[certs,private] directories. Egbert Jan Nov 8 21:31:39 dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Isecured^Ilip=192.168.1.10^Irip=192.168.1.13^Iresp=<hidden> Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the underlying authentication module Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'user(a)domain.tld' AND active='1' Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=user(a)domain.tld Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I14^I4012^I1 Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth(default): passwd(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): unknown user Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid, 'Maildir:/home/virtual/domain.tld/user' as mail FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'user(a)domain.tld' AND active = '1' Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I14^Iuser@domain.tld^Imaildir=domain.tld/user/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001^Imail=Maildir:/home/virtual/domain.tld/user Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user(a)domain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.1.10, TLS Nov 8 21:31:41 dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Isecured^Ilip=192.168.1.10^Irip=192.168.1.13^Iresp=<hidden> Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the underlying authentication module Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'user(a)domain.tld' AND active='1' Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=user(a)domain.tld Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I15^I3990^I1 Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: auth(default): passwd(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): unknown user Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)domain.tld,192.168.1.13): SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid, 'Maildir:/home/virtual/domain.tld/user' as mail FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'user(a)domain.tld' AND active = '1' Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I15^Iuser@domain.tld^Imaildir=domain.tld/user/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001^Imail=Maildir:/home/virtual/domain.tld/user Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user(a)domain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.1.10, TLS Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [192.168.1.13] Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.tld): Disconnected Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [192.168.1.13] Nov 8 21:31:44 dev dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.tld): Disconnected: Logged out EOF

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[Dovecot] Quota without dovecot LDA
by Riccardo Bini 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi all, I use dovecot with maildir quota plugin + qmail + vpopmail but not dovecot LDA. My dovecot configuration: default_mail_env=maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/indexes/%h/%u:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/control/%h If CONTROL env is set the maildirsize file is stored in /var/cache/dovecot/control/ but I use vpopmail as LDA. It's possible to add a setting in dovecot.conf to specify if dovecot LDA is active?? This is my pseudo-patch: src/plugins/quota/quota-maildir.c static const char *maildirsize_get_path(struct mail_storage *storage) { if (lda_enable) { return t_strconcat(mail_storage_get_mailbox_control_dir(storage, ""), } else { bool is_file; return t_strconcat(mail_storage_get_mailbox_path(storage, "", &is_file), "/"MAILDIRSIZE_FILENAME, NULL); } } dovecot.conf: lda_enable = no Ciao Rick

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[Dovecot] How to give system and virtual users their own mail_location?
by Egbert Jan 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi all. Now hopefully as a new thread because I still have this question. Apologies to Geert and Timo for my misbehaviour...(repling to the list and changing the subject). I hace Dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 now for system accounts and virtual accounts both imap and imaps can be used. Th problem now is that I cannot use both types of user at the same time. The 'mail_location = ' strings are very different: Real system users have their Maildir in /home/%u/Maildir/ but virtual users have their maildir in /home/virtual/%d/%n/. How can tell dovecot to use the first for /etc/passwd clients and second for mysql authenticated clients? Just adding two private namespaces does not work. That is for ONE user having more mailbox locations, isn't it? Thanks for any hints! Egbert Jan (NL)

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[Dovecot] Wiki documentation
by Timo Sirainen 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

I spent most of today adding new content to the Wiki and cleaning up the existing content. The front page is now also reorganized, but there are several links in it to pages which are still missing. Please write them. :)

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[Dovecot] L4 probes..
by Jorgen Lundman 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Probably a special case here, but everytime the L4 probes the port, a line as added to the log. This gets a bit noisy. If a random IP connects, I'd want to see it, but maybe it would be nice to have the option to silence the log entry from certain hosts. For now I patch it locally, but without any .conf finesse. For example: Nov 8 10:55:24 corppop01 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=172.16.253.5, lip=172.16.253.128, TLS handshake Nov 8 10:58:00 corppop01 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] pop3-login: Aborted login: rip=172.16.253.5, lip=172.16.253.128 -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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[Dovecot] dovecot lda works with maildir++ but does not enforce the quota?
by Antonio Casado Rodríguez 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi all, I use Dovecot lda. Is there the possibility that dovecot lda works with maildir++ but does not enforce the quota? I have dovecot 1.0rc12, postfix, RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4.0 Update 4. IMAP client Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 Only namespace: namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = location = maildir:~/Maildir/ } Thanks a lot.

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[Dovecot] deliver feature request (filter)
by Neal Becker 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

I'm using maildrop for delivery, because I want to filter through spamassassin before delivery. Maildrop makes that trivial. It seems deliver can pipe (one way) to a command, but what is needed is to pipe: deliver -> spamd -> deliver which is what the maildrop xfilter does.

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[Dovecot] Duplicate header extension keywords
by Rainer Ophoven 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

I'm running dovecot supporting imaps and pop3s in a small home-office environment on a Linux-box, kernel 2.4.33, with postfix-2.3.4, amavisd-new and spamassassin. I use Thunderbird as mail-client on Windows XP. ever since upgrading to RC10 I every now and then find these error messages in doveocot.log: Error: IMAP(rainer): Corrupted index file /home/rainer/Maildir/.software.Dovecot/dovecot.index: Duplicate header extension keywords and close by: Error: IMAP(rainer): Fixed index file /home/rainer/Maildir/.software.Dovecot/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 1952 -> 1951 Misconfiguration or where is the problem? -- in diesem Sinne, Rainer

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
by bofh list 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, Our dovecot setup consists of two hosts running dovecot-1.0.beta9 with Maildir/indices stored on NFS(noac,actimeo=0 used). I am seeing these messages at times - but no real problems on the client side. Is this something to worry about? dovecot: Oct 17 10:33:31 Error: IMAP(user): Corrupted index cache file mailstore/user/Maildir/.mail.incoming/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Thanks!

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[Dovecot] RC10 errors
by Eric Rostetter 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

I just installed a limited test of RC10 last night. So far, all is great except for errors being logged for one user (out of about 150 users total). This one user has not yet complained or anything, but the log file has repeated entries of the following format for him (host and username changed to protect the guilty/innocent): Oct 24 06:13:02 mail dovecot: IMAP(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 405 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) Oct 24 06:13:02 mail1 dovecot: child 18235 (imap) killed with signal 6 I find it most interesting that only 1 out of 150+ users is getting this error... And again, no complaints from the user. Setup is: wu-imap mbox files in /var/spool/mail (exported via NFS, but local to the dovecot server). Mail in ~/mail/ (NFS mount, foreign to devecot server). Indexes in /var/dovecot/indexes (local to dovecot server with no NFS at all). -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

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[Dovecot] rc13 soon
by Timo Sirainen 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

I think I'll just start making new releases whenever I've fixed something important. You'll have a while to report more bugs and then I'll make rc13 release, maybe in about 5 hours or maybe tomorrow. I updated already the nightly snapshot if you want to test the upcoming rc13. Changes so far: + deliver: If we're executing as a normal system user, get the HOME environment from passwd if it's not set. This makes it possible to run deliver from .forward. - Older compilers caused LDAP authentication to crash - Dying LDAP connections weren't handled exactly correctly in rc11, although it seemed to work usually - Fixed crashes and memory leaks with AUTHENTICATE command - Fixed crashes and leaks with IMAP/POP3 proxying

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc10 proxy memory usage problem
by Laurent Papier 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, I have a rather large dovecot setup (4 proxy only servers and 21 IMAP/POP3 servers) in production for 3 days now. The memory usage on my proxy servers only grows over time. It looks like a memory leak somewhere in dovecot. I have a RRD graph available on demand. Any advise on the configuration ? Timo, I have strace a process before the manual restart. If it can help just ask for. My configuration : Linux kernel 2.6. I use MySQL as authentication back-end. # dovecot --version 1.0.rc10 # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=dnotify ipv6 openssl SQL drivers: mysql Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword passwd prefetch passwd-file sql static ----- config ----- protocols = pop3 imap disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes login_process_size = 128 login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 16 login_max_connections = 512 login_greeting = ready auth_cache_size = 32768 auth_cache_ttl = 1800 auth_worker_max_count = 30 auth default { mechanisms = plain # Userdb settings are not used with proxy but there need to be something. userdb static { args = static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/dev/null } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } user = root count = 1 } -- Laurent Papier

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-ldap doesnt reconnect if openldap restarts
by Peter Nixon 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi Guys I have recently migrated an existing courier install to dovecot + openldap and think dovecot is wonderfull. Great work! However, I am seeing that dovecot-ldap doesnt reconnect if openldap restarts. Is there an options I am missing or is this a know problem?As I am using dovecot for sasl with postfix and pop/imap this basically completely stops my mail sytem... Thanks in Advance -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc

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[Dovecot] move the message between folder problem with quota.
by Antonio Casado Rodríguez 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, i have dovecot 1.0rc12, postfix, RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4.0 Update 4. IMAP client Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 Only namespace: namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = location = maildir:~/Maildir/ } When the quota limit is near... more maildirsize 5242880S 0 0 2688058 1 1993336 1 ... if i move the message betweeen foders, dovecot say: quota exceeded. Is this a error? If i delete the message (trash folder), it not work too. would not have to work as Maildir++ specification says? http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html (Reading from a Maildir++) Thanks a lot.

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[Dovecot] rc12 dovecot-auth core dump with ldap
by Chris Wakelin 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, I've got a core dump during initialisation when I use 1.0.rc12 and LDAP with authenticated binds in Solaris. It worked OK in 1.0.rc10. Here's the non-commented entries in dovecot-ldap.conf - some of which are probably redundant :) :- hosts = xxx.yyy.rdg.ac.uk auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = "cn=%n,cn=users,dc=xxx,dc=yyy,dc=rdg,dc=ac,dc=uk" ldap_version = 3 base = "dc=xxx,dc=yyy,dc=rdg,dc=ac,dc=uk" deref = never scope = subtree user_filter = (&(objectClass=User)(sAMAccountName=%n)) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=User)(sAMAccountName=%n)) Strangely, it crashes in a different place when I don't define the scope, so I'm guessing it's something to do with reading parameters. backtrace with "scope = subtree" : #0 0x1ec94 in db_ldap_init ( config_path=0x5bc08 "/opt/RDGdovect/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf") at db-ldap.c:661 661 if (*conn->set.user_global_gid == '\0') (gdb) bt #0 0x1ec94 in db_ldap_init ( config_path=0x5bc08 "/opt/RDGdovect/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf") at db-ldap.c:661 #1 0x246e8 in passdb_ldap_preinit (auth_passdb=0x5bbe8, args=0x5bc08 "/opt/RDGdovect/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf") at passdb-ldap.c:486 #2 0x2328c in passdb_preinit (auth=0x5b838, driver=0xffbefec0 "ldap", args=0x0, id=332176) at passdb.c:169 #3 0x17648 in auth_preinit () at auth.c:45 #4 0x1ff0c in drop_privileges () at main.c:195 #5 0x2024c in main (argc=0, argv=0xffbefb54) at main.c:319 and with scope left commented out: #0 0xff0cf600 in strcasecmp () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xff0cf600 in strcasecmp () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1 #1 0x1df58 in scope2str (str=0x0) at db-ldap.c:116 #2 0x1ec4c in db_ldap_init ( config_path=0x5bc08 "/opt/RDGdovect/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf") at db-ldap.c:648 #3 0x246e8 in passdb_ldap_preinit (auth_passdb=0x5bbe8, args=0x5bc08 "/opt/RDGdovect/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf") at passdb-ldap.c:486 #4 0x2328c in passdb_preinit (auth=0x5b838, driver=0xffbefec0 "ldap", args=0x0, id=332176) at passdb.c:169 #5 0x17648 in auth_preinit () at auth.c:45 #6 0x1ff0c in drop_privileges () at main.c:195 #7 0x2024c in main (argc=0, argv=0xffbefb54) at main.c:319 If I don't define "deref" then I get an error in the dovecot log (but no crash) :- dovecot: Nov 07 12:36:45 Error: auth(default): LDAP: Unknown deref option 'subtree' I'll keep digging and see if I can find the cause, but has anybody else seen this? Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] suspected bug in dovecot-ldap setup?
by Pedro Venda 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi everyone, [first post: long and boring. beware!] I've been working on a virtual multidomain MX server with pop3 access. Accounting for users/domains is done via OpenLDAP with the Jamm[1] schema and dovecot is 1.0rc10 (dovecot-1.0-0_27.rc10.el4.at fetched as RPM from atrpms.net for CentOS 4.4). I intended to have authenticated binds but there was a problem with the user_filter directive being ignored: user_filter = (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=%n@%d)(accountActive=TRUE) (delete=FALSE)) dovecot: Oct 26 16:20:58 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=::ffff:192.168.0.5 rip=::ffff:192.168.0.69 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Oct 26 16:20:58 Info: auth(default): ldap(dave@info.test,::ffff:192.168.0.69): bind search: base=o=hosting,dc=example,dc=com scope=subtree filter= **(&(objectClass=posixAccount(uid=dave(a)info.test))** dovecot: Oct 26 16:20:58 Info: auth(default): ldap(dave@info.test,::ffff:192.168.0.69): unknown user dovecot: Oct 26 16:20:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=dave(a)info.test dovecot: Oct 26 16:20:59 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<dave(a)info.test>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.0.69, lip=::ffff:192.168.0.5, TLS (nevermind the data, it's test only) As you can see from the info file, the search filter used was being (&(objectClass=posixAccount(uid=dave(a)info.test)) and not (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=dave(a)info.test)(accountActive=TRUE) (delete=FALSE)). I sorted this out by trying to enable auth_bind_userdn: auth_bind_userdn = mail=%n@%d,jvd=%d,o=hosting,dc=example,dc=com Now, the login worked well and the debug info is as follows: dovecot: Oct 27 12:01:48 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=::ffff:192.168.0.5 rip=::ffff:192.168.0.69 resp=AGRhdmVAaW5mb y50ZXN0AFRlbXAuMTIz dovecot: Oct 27 12:01:48 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=dave(a)info.test dovecot: Oct 27 12:01:48 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 10634 1 dovecot: Oct 27 12:01:48 Info: auth(default): ldap(dave@info.test,::ffff:192.168.0.69): base=o=hosting,dc=example,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=dave(a)info.test) (accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) fields=mailbox dovecot: Oct 27 12:01:48 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 dave(a)info.test mail=info.test/dave/ uid=5000 gid=5000 (nevermind the debug data, passwords, etc. it's test only) In this case, the search filter is ok: (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=dave(a)info.test)(accountActive=TRUE) (delete=FALSE)) So aparently, the auth_bind_userdn directive that supposedly adds a performance gain by sparing one bind request, seems to interfere with the user_filter directive. I suspect this might be a bug, so here's my report. Is this a new issue? Thanks for surviving this far through this post, Best regards, Pedro Venda. [1]: [Java Mail Manager]: web applications to manage virtual email account information stored in an LDAP directory. (http://jamm.sourceforge.net) -- Pedro João Lopes Venda email: pjvenda at pjvenda org http://www.pjvenda.org

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[Dovecot] Store outgoing mail in users mailbox
by Mark Ruys 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

This might be a MTA question, but because I use Dovecot as an LDA, maybe some can help me here. Our users would like that outgoing mail is automatically saved in some folder, say Sent. We use Postfix with virtual domains, Maildir and Dovecot+Sieve as LDA. Outgoing mail is relayed by our imap-server (with authentification of course, no open relay). Most people seem to advice Postfix sender_bcc_maps and Dovecot's deliver with the -m argument. But I can't get it work. I tried: In master.cf: dovecot-archive unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mailowner:mailowner argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} -m Sent In main.cf: sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_bcc_map In sender_bcc_map: tester(a)ruijs.cc dovecot-archive: But that doesn't work. It looks like "dovecot-archive:" should be a real email address, not a transport (this give an idea of my Postfix knowledge ;). Then I tried: In sender_bcc_map: tester(a)ruijs.cc tester+archive(a)ruijs.cc But I don't think Dovecot's LDA supports plus addressing. So my question is, has anyone here done a similar thing in a similar setting. If so, how did you configure it. Thans, Mark Oudenhof 14b, 4191 NW Geldermalsen, The Netherlands Web site and travel directions: www.in2sports.net Phone +31.345.473699 :: Mobile +31.6.51298623

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