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[Dovecot] Dovecot still failing with RC10...
by Timothy Meader 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hello, I mentioned back with version RC8 that dovecot was having an issue with the first login working, but all subsequent attempts failing with the error message: "Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded" in the dovecot log file. This is with an unchanged working conf file from RC7 (which, aside from comments, nothing has changed config-wise in the conf from version RC7). Now, the max mail processes were already set at 1024 (and I'm the only person using this server while testing), but just for the heck of it, I tried bumping the number up to 4096 and giving it another shot. No such luck. You can login once, but any subsequent attempts come back with the error I mentioned. This is making all versions above RC7 unusable for me unfortunately. I was hoping to get buy-off on switching from QPopper/UWImap to an all Dovecot solution with the pending 1.0 final, but I doubt they'll go for allow and RC being run on the production side. Two notes that might help(?): -I'm running this on Solaris 9, not a Linux box -Dovecot is not running in daemon mode, it's running through xinetd Here are the xinetd.conf sections that are relevant: defaults { #The maximum number of requests a particular service may handle # at once. instances = UNLIMITED # The type of logging. This logs to a file that is specified. # Another option is: SYSLOG syslog_facility [syslog_level] log_type = FILE /var/log/servicelog # What to log when the connection succeeds. # PID logs the pid of the server processing the request. # HOST logs the remote host's ip address. # USERID logs the remote user (using RFC 1413) # EXIT logs the exit status of the server. # DURATION logs the duration of the session. log_on_success = HOST PID DURATION EXIT # What to log when the connection fails. Same options as above log_on_failure = HOST # The maximum number of connections a specific IP address can # have to a specific service. per_source = 50 } service pop3 { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login port = 110 flags = REUSE IPv4 rlimit_cpu = 150 instances = 80 cps = 110 10 no_access = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx log_type = FILE /var/log/POPlog disable = no } service imap { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login port = 143 flags = REUSE IPv4 rlimit_cpu = 120 only_from = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx log_type = FILE /var/log/IMAPlog disable = no } Thanks in advance for any help with this. --- Tim Meader CNE ISG Security NetCommerce Corporation Tim.Meader(a)gsfc.nasa.gov (301) 286-8013

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[Dovecot] Stuck on RC7
by Brent Spencer 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

I am not able to upgrade to anything above RC7. I am receiving the following errors when trying to connect to the IMAP server if I upgrade. Oct 15 18:40:36 servername imap-login: chdir((null)) failed: No such file or directory Oct 15 18:40:36 servername dovecot: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded My mail directory variable in dovecot.conf is "default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u". Is "%h" still supported? Thank you, Brent Spencer XsiteDesigns _________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for viruses by ClamAV

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[Dovecot] indexes?
by David Lee 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Picture: A set of very similar UN*X IMAP servers all NFS-mounting their INBOX area (traditional Unix format) from a common "/var/spool/mail" area; activity for any given user ought to be within one box although this cannot be 100% guaranteed. There is the risk of multiple simultaneous access (e.g. simultaneous LDA/delivers; simultaneous LDA/deliver and user-driven IMAP update; etc.). So locking is an important consideration. Decent "noac,actimeo=0" seems to address this succcessfully. But indexes... What is the best place for the index files? Logically alongside the INBOX area on the shared-NFS area? Or within each UN*X machine? (Or something else?) And why? Is there documentation of what functionality the index files provide, and how, if at all, this interacts with the locking of INBOXes (and folders). Thanks. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. :

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Re: [Dovecot] Received dates problem in Outlook after migration
by James Wyper 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

>From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> >Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Fwd: Received dates problem in Outlook after > migration > >On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 07:49 +0100, James Wyper wrote: >> Having looked at this again, I think I have a hypothesis: >> >> 1. Outlook is ignoring the date/timestamps on the files in my Maildirs > >Outlook should use IMAP's INTERNALDATE, which are taken from >maildir >files' mtime timestamps. If these timestamps are correct but they're not >showing correctly in Outlook, I'd guess Outlook is caching them >internally. One way to fix this would be to change UIDVALIDITY to force >a coplete resync. You can do this by modifying the second number in >dovecot-uidlist file. tried this without any luck (& it made Outlook crash the first time it ran after the change). However, deleting the 192.168.xx.xxxxxx.pst file in c:\windows\application manager\microsoft\outlook did work, so my problem is now resolved. Thanks, James. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot rc9 error
by Daniel 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi Am getting this error with Dovecot rc9 on a imap account. Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: child 27632 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: child 27636 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: child 27638 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: child 27641 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: child 27645 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: child 27649 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:32 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:32 bajor dovecot: child 27653 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Regards Daniel ----------------------------- Registered Linux user #234279

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[Dovecot] quota dict (mysql)
by Peter Veerman 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi, I have dovecot configured to make use of the dict (mysql) plugin in order to keep track of the used quota. First, as you can see in the mysql table output below it seems that values aren't stored correctly. Secondly I get all kinds of database related errors in my mail logs. The (relevant) sections of the configuration files are also included below. My question is, what am I doing wrong? Peter mysql> select * from quota; +------------------+-------+---------+ | username | path | current | +------------------+-------+---------+ | userc@domain1 | 0 | 0 | | usera@domain1 | 0 | 0 | | userb@domain1 | 0 | 0 | | userb@domain1 | 5417 | 0 | | userb@domain1 | 937 | 0 | | userb@domain1 | 3724 | 0 | | userb@domain1 | -9141 | 0 | | userb@domain1 | 4887 | 0 | | userb@domain1 | -4887 | 0 | | usera@domain2 | 0 | 0 | | usera@domain1 | 3134 | 0 | | usera@domain1 | 2177 | 0 | | usera@domain1 | 5137 | 0 | | usera@domain1 | 4953 | 0 | +------------------+-------+---------+ 14 rows in set (0.03 sec) dovecot.conf: dict { quotadict = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } plugin { quota = dict:storage=10240 proxy::quotadict } dovecot-dict-quota.conf: connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=******* table = quota select_field = current where_field = path username_field = username dovecot.log gives: Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<user(a)domain.net>, method=plain, rip=88.211.149.123, lip=10.0.0.4, TLS Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): Effective uid=125, gid=125 Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_quota_plugin.so Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): Namespace: type=private, prefix=INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): maildir: data=/data/postfix/virtual/domain.net/user Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): maildir: root=/data/postfix/virtual/domain.net/user, index=/data/postfix/virtual/domain.net/user, control=, inbox= Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict quota: uri = proxy::quotadict Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict quota: byte limit = 524288000 Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict quota: count limit = 0 Oct 02 23:25:49 Info: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) Oct 02 23:25:55 Info: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) Oct 02 23:25:56 Info: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) Oct 02 23:26:37 Info: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) Oct 02 23:27:07 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.25, lip=10.0.0.22, TLS Oct 02 23:27:11 Info: dict: mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) mail.debug gives: Oct 2 23:26:39 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:39 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:39 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:39 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:40 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:40 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:40 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:40 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:40 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:40 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:40 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:41 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:42 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:42 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:42 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:48 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:48 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota Oct 2 23:26:48 bubbles dovecot: IMAP(user(a)domain.net): dict_quota: Couldn't update quota

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[Dovecot] Conf parsing error
by Adnae Mac Uthidir 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Dear Timo, I have found a conf-parse bug in rc10. If the last line in the configuration-file a }, the parser ignore this. Example: ----------------------------- brugh ~ # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf [...] plugin { trash = /etc/dovecot/trash.conf } brugh ~ # dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Error: Missing '}' ----------------------------- Add a empty line at the end of file and you can start without errors ;) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Adnae Mac Uthidir mailto:adnaeuthidir@gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Segfault in in rc7 when index does not exists
by Marco Nenciarini 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

This is the trace (gdb) run Starting program: /root/tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc7/src/imap/imap x select inbox Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. mail_index_write_base_header (index=0x80e2a28, hdr=0xaff66028) at mail-index.c:1313 1313 memcpy(index->map->mmap_base, hdr, hdr_size); (gdb) bt #0 mail_index_write_base_header (index=0x80e2a28, hdr=0xaff66028) at mail-index.c:1313 #1 0x080902eb in mail_index_mark_corrupted (index=0x80e2a28) at mail-index.c:1839 #2 0x0809ca30 in mail_transaction_log_file_create (log=0x80e3928, path=0x80d2130 "/dovecot.index.log", dev=0, ino=0, file_size=0) at mail-transaction-log.c:575 #3 0x0809e138 in mail_transaction_log_file_open_or_create (log=0x80e3928, path=0x80d2130 "/dovecot.index.log") at mail-transaction-log.c:803 #4 0x0809e65c in mail_transaction_log_open_or_create (index=0x80e2a28) at mail-transaction-log.c:240 #5 0x08092f21 in mail_index_open (index=0x80e2a28, flags=MAIL_INDEX_OPEN_FLAG_CREATE, lock_method=MAIL_INDEX_LOCK_FCNTL) at mail-index.c:1489 #6 0x0808aa52 in index_storage_mailbox_init (ibox=0x80e3548, index=0x80e2a28, name=0x80c32e4 "INBOX", flags=0, move_to_memory=false) at index-storage.c:362 #7 0x08064d68 in maildir_open (storage=0x80dd420, name=0x80c32e4 "INBOX", flags=<value optimized out>) at maildir-storage.c:487 #8 0x08065628 in maildir_mailbox_open (_storage=0x80dd420, name=0x80c32e4 "INBOX", input=0x0, flags=0) at maildir-storage.c:560 #9 0x08059917 in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80dd62c, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:32 #10 0x08059af7 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80dd62c) at cmd-select.c:92 #11 0x0805b3d4 in _client_input (context=0x80dd5e8) at client.c:377 #12 0x080b7f96 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80db9c0) at ioloop-poll.c:199 #13 0x080b7348 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80db9c0) at ioloop.c:281 #14 0x0806316e in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x0 ) at main.c:280 (gdb) p index->map $1 = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x0 (gdb) the envisonment is: DBOX_ROTATE_DAYS="1" DBOX_ROTATE_MIN_SIZE="16" DBOX_ROTATE_SIZE="2048" DOVECOT_VERSION="1.0.rc7" HOME="/srv/vmbox/spool/test/" IMAP_CLIENT_WORKAROUNDS="outlook-idle" IMAP_MAX_LINE_LENGTH="65536" IP="::ffff:127.0.0.1" LOCK_METHOD="fcntl" LOGGED_IN="1" LOG_TO_MASTER="1" MAIL="maildir:/" MAILBOX_IDLE_CHECK_INTERVAL="30" MAIL_CACHE_FIELDS="flags" MAIL_CACHE_MIN_MAIL_COUNT="0" MAIL_MAX_KEYWORD_LENGTH="50" MAIL_NEVER_CACHE_FIELDS="imap.envelope" MBOX_DIRTY_SYNCS="1" MBOX_DOTLOCK_CHANGE_TIMEOUT="120" MBOX_LAZY_WRITES="1" MBOX_LOCK_TIMEOUT="300" MBOX_MIN_INDEX_SIZE="0" MBOX_READ_LOCKS="fcntl" MBOX_WRITE_LOCKS="dotlock fcntl" POP3_CLIENT_WORKAROUNDS="" POP3_LOGOUT_FORMAT="top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s" POP3_UIDL_FORMAT="" RESTRICT_CHROOT="/srv/vmbox/spool/test" RESTRICT_GID_FIRST="1" RESTRICT_SETEXTRAGROUPS="mail" RESTRICT_SETGID="200" RESTRICT_SETUID="200" STDERR_CLOSE_SHUTDOWN="1" SYSLOG_FACILITY="16" USER="test(a)prato.linux.it" The directory /srv/vmbox/spool/test contains: # find /srv/vmbox/spool/test /srv/vmbox/spool/test /srv/vmbox/spool/test/cur /srv/vmbox/spool/test/new /srv/vmbox/spool/test/tmp I hope this is enougth Please keep me on CC because i'm not subscribed. Ciao P.S: the rc8 do exactly the same. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | mnencia(a)prato.linux.it | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4

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[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /home/foo/mail/Trash
by James Lupolt 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hello, I'm seeing the following error on a server: File isn't in mbox format: /home/foo/mail/Trash The Trash file is full of the following at the beginning: ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ I've repaired the file several times, but this keeps happening. Would any of you mind offering me some insight into what could be causing this and how to fix it? Below is some information about the system: [root@server1 mail]# uname -a Linux server1.example.com 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL #1 Thu Aug 17 17:36:53 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [root@server1 mail]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4) [root@server1 mail]# rpm -qa|grep -i dovecot dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4 [root@sever1 mail]# rpm -qa|grep -i sendmail sendmail-cf-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5 sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5 Here's everything that isn't a comment or blank line in dovecot.conf: [root@server1 mail]# grep -v ^# /etc/dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 mbox_locks = flock auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root Any advice would be appreciated. Best Regards, James Lupolt

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[Dovecot] System-wide sieve script?
by Ty! Boyack 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

In the dovecot LDA documentation, it mentions having sieve scripts located in ~/.dovecot.sieve, which works great for per-user sieve code. I was trying to find out if there was a system-wide sieve script (maybe /etc/dovecot.sieve?) that would hopefully be run first, followed by any per-user sieve code. Anyone know if this is already possible, or if not, if there are any plans to implement this? I'm assuming one could make a kludgey fix by having every .dovecot.sieve include a system-wide file, but that would allow a user to remove that "include" if they choose. I'd like to have a centrally controlled, immutable set of rules that all mail goes through. If I missed something in the wiki or archives, I offer my apologies in advance. Thanks! -Ty!

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[Dovecot] LDAP Memory Leak
by Daniel 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi Timo I use LDAP auth on a system with around 2000 email account. I use dual OpenLDAP servers. I haven't noticed a leak of memory. Is there any more information and I will have a look to see if I can see anything that might help. Is it only affecting certain machines or all? Regards Daniel Rowe Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:39:26 +0300 From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Subject: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc10 released To: dovecot-news(a)dovecot.org, dovecot(a)dovecot.org Message-ID: <1160955566.5448.126.camel@hurina> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc10.tar.gz.sig I've finally read all the mails in the mailing list and in my INBOX. If I haven't replied to some of your mail, please resend it. Remember that since 1.0.rc9 release dovecot.index.cache files will get rebuilt in 64bit systems, and it's probably better to delete them manually so you don't get errors in log files. There are only a couple of issues left in my v1.0-TODO list: - Master process appears to be leaking log fds with kqueue. Could someone again give me access to a system where this happens? - Login process problems. How well does it work now? Hopefully well enough that v1.0 could be released. - LDAP authentication is leaking memory? Can anyone confirm this? Even better, can someone figure out what exactly is leaking? :) Not a v1.0 blocker though. I think v1.0 will be released once no-one has reported any major problems for a Dovecot release in 2-4 weeks. I think login process handling is the only potentially major problem left. There are a few patches from people that I haven't forgotten, but I've decided not to put them into v1.0 anymore: - Filesystem quota group. I don't think it's that important feature, and it might break something. - HFS+ hardlink avoiding - Managesieve - vmailmgr support And finally the changes in this release: * When matching allowed_nets IPs, convert IPv6-mapped-IPv4 addresses to actual IPv4 addresses first. + IMAP: Try to avoid sending duplicate/useless message flag updates + Added support for non-plaintext authentication for vpopmail if it returns plaintext passwords. Based on patch by Remi Gacogne. + Added %D modified to return "sub.domain.org" as "sub,dc=domain,dc=org" (for LDAP queries). Patch by Andrey Panin. - rc9 broke cache files in 64bit systems - deliver works now with mail_chroot - auth cache didn't work properly with multiple passdbs - Fixes to handling CRLF linefeeds in mboxes.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and CRAM-MD5 authentication (brief) HOWTO
by James Turnbull 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi all, I just finished configuring CRAM-MD5 for Dovecot and noted there were not a lot of resources out there that described the process. I've written up a rough and brief HOWTO at: http://www.kartar.net/weblog/cram-md5-authentication-with-dovecot/ Comments welcome and hope it helps someone. Regards James Turnbull -- James Turnbull <james(a)lovedthanlost.net> --- Author of Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) Hardening Linux (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) --- PGP Key (http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0C42DF40)

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[Dovecot] LDAP Memory Leak
by Daniel 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi Timo I use LDAP auth on a system with around 2000 email account. I use dual OpenLDAP servers. I haven't noticed a leak of memory. Is there any more information and I will have a look to see if I can see anything that might help. Is it only affecting certain machines or all? Regards Daniel Rowe Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:39:26 +0300 From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Subject: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc10 released To: dovecot-news(a)dovecot.org, dovecot(a)dovecot.org Message-ID: <1160955566.5448.126.camel@hurina> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc10.tar.gz.sig I've finally read all the mails in the mailing list and in my INBOX. If I haven't replied to some of your mail, please resend it. Remember that since 1.0.rc9 release dovecot.index.cache files will get rebuilt in 64bit systems, and it's probably better to delete them manually so you don't get errors in log files. There are only a couple of issues left in my v1.0-TODO list: - Master process appears to be leaking log fds with kqueue. Could someone again give me access to a system where this happens? - Login process problems. How well does it work now? Hopefully well enough that v1.0 could be released. - LDAP authentication is leaking memory? Can anyone confirm this? Even better, can someone figure out what exactly is leaking? :) Not a v1.0 blocker though. I think v1.0 will be released once no-one has reported any major problems for a Dovecot release in 2-4 weeks. I think login process handling is the only potentially major problem left. There are a few patches from people that I haven't forgotten, but I've decided not to put them into v1.0 anymore: - Filesystem quota group. I don't think it's that important feature, and it might break something. - HFS+ hardlink avoiding - Managesieve - vmailmgr support And finally the changes in this release: * When matching allowed_nets IPs, convert IPv6-mapped-IPv4 addresses to actual IPv4 addresses first. + IMAP: Try to avoid sending duplicate/useless message flag updates + Added support for non-plaintext authentication for vpopmail if it returns plaintext passwords. Based on patch by Remi Gacogne. + Added %D modified to return "sub.domain.org" as "sub,dc=domain,dc=org" (for LDAP queries). Patch by Andrey Panin. - rc9 broke cache files in 64bit systems - deliver works now with mail_chroot - auth cache didn't work properly with multiple passdbs - Fixes to handling CRLF linefeeds in mboxes.

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[Dovecot] Apple Mail quota display
by Timothy Martin 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

I know this isn't necessarily a dovecot issue, but I was wondering if anyone has the quota displaying correctly in Apple Mail? I have it set up and working and displaying properly in thunderbird, roundcube (webmail), and squirrelmail. But for some reason Apple's Mail doesn't show the values or its nice thermometer bar. Are there additional configuration options for quota not documented on the wiki? .tim

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[Dovecot] Duplicate mails
by Vegar Nilsen 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi, one of our customers reported a problem after we moved her maildir to another disk. (Jail in FreeBSD 6, moved to another disk with rsync.) For some reason she's seeing duplicates of almost every message from November, 2005 until June, 2006 (the move happened in September, 2006.) It seems like these mails have been respooled somehow and been inserted into the maildir with the same date and time as the original: root#loc [</var/gopostal/maildirs/wow/lina/cur>] diff 1158863410.P19488Q34M511758.locusts.copyleft.no:2,STbf 1132869216.H332479P92237.mail9.copyleft.no,S=7755:2,STac root#loc [</var/gopostal/maildirs/wow/lina/cur>] ls -l 1158863410.P19488Q34M511758.locusts.copyleft.no:2,STbf -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 7755 Nov 24 2005 1158863410.P19488Q34M511758.locusts.copyleft.no:2,STbf root#loc [</var/gopostal/maildirs/wow/lina/cur>] ls -l 1132869216.H332479P92237.mail9.copyleft.no,S=7755:2,STac -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 7755 Nov 24 2005 1132869216.H332479P92237.mail9.copyleft.no,S=7755:2,STac As the diff command shows these mails are identical, except that one was created about 10 months after the other. 1132869216.H332479P92237.mail9.copyleft.no,S=7755:2,STac was written by Exim in November (we've configured Exim to add the size (",S=7755") to the file name), but I have no idea where the other file comes from. Could this be Dovecot that has recreated these mails for some reason? (Since the file names are different I doubt that this happened during the rsync, instead it must come from some program that conforms to the maildir standard of naming files. The mailserver had a different name back in November, mail9 was the old name, locusts is the new one.) Originally this file 1158863410.P19488Q34M511758.locusts.copyleft.no:2,STbf was named 1158863410.P19488Q34M511758.locusts.copyleft.no:2,bf which, if I understand it correctly, means it's unread. (The customer has deleted it since reporting this problem.) root#loc [</var/gopostal/maildirs/wow/lina/cur>] uname -r ; dovecot --version ; exim -bV 6.1-RELEASE 1.0.beta3 Exim version 4.60 #0 (FreeBSD 6.0) built 22-Feb-2006 13:01:52 If anybody has an idea as to what caused this I would really appreciate any pointers or info. Thanks in advance, Vegar Nilsen -- Copyleft Software AS < http://www.copyleft.no/ >

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[Dovecot] Authenticating dovecot against Active Directory using bsdauth and login_ldap
by Martin Croker 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

All, I'm working in a multi-platform environment where user accounts are already held in Active Directory. I'm been trying to setup dovecot to perform user authentication against Active Directory using ldap. My Environment is: Platform OpenBSD 3.9 Dovecot Version 1.0.rc7 Active Directory Windows 2003 The approach I've taken (being the only one I was able to make work) is to use login_ldap to perform bind authentication against Active Directory/LDAP and authenticate dovecot using bsdauth. As far as I can tell the dovecot ldap authentication module requires access to the encrypted password field to which Active Directory does not permit access. Simulated LDAP login fails and when debug is enabled writes the following to /var/log/maillog ==== /var/log/maillog ================ Oct 15 20:12:27 server dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=***********************== Oct 15 20:12:27 server dovecot: auth(default): bsdauth(mcrokerx,127.0.0.1): invalid password field Oct 15 20:12:28 server dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=mcrokerx Oct 15 20:12:38 server dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<mcrokerx>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured ======================================= It appears that the cause of these log messages are the following lines of code in src/auth/passdb-bsdauth.c ==== src/auth/passdb-bsdauth.c ======== 29 if (!IS_VALID_PASSWD(pw->pw_passwd)) { 30 auth_request_log_info(request, "bsdauth", 31 "invalid password field"); 32 callback(PASSDB_RESULT_USER_DISABLED, request); 33 return; 34 } ======================================= These lines seem to require that the pw structure contains the encrypted password in pw->pw_passwd. Where login_ldap is used against Active Directory the encrypted password is not available to bsdauth and instead pw->pw_passwd contains '*'. If auth_userokay is called independently it is however able to authenticate the user correctly, as such I wonder if the IS_VALID_PASSWD check is actually necessary. It could be that my entire approach is wrong in which case I'm happy to be put right; however it seems that lines 29-34 need modification to correctly support this behaviour of bsdauth. This is beyond my limited ability in c but temporarily removing these lines of code from passdb-bsdauth.c has enabled me to authenticate dovecot against login_ldap (and thereby against Active Directory). My config files are: ==== /etc/dovecot.conf ================ base_dir = /var/dovecot/ ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.key disable_plaintext_auth = no login_dir = /var/dovecot/login login_user = _dovecot mmap_no_write = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb bsdauth { } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/passwd } user = root } plugin { } ======================================= ==== /etc/login.conf (exert) ========== staff:\ :auth=-ldap:\ :x-ldap-server=10.0.0.23:\ :x-ldap-port=389:\ :x-ldap-noreferrals:\ :x-ldap-uscope=subtree:\ :x-ldap-basedn=dc=my,dc=domain,dc=co,dc=uk:\ :x-ldap-binddn=cn=UnixUser,cn=Users,dc=my,dc=domain,dc=co,dc=uk:\ :x-ldap-bindpw=mypassword:\ :x-ldap-filter=(&(objectClass=user)(mail=%u)):\ :datasize-cur=512M:\ :datasize-max=infinity:\ :maxproc-max=256:\ :maxproc-cur=128:\ :requirehome@:\ :tc=default: ======================================= Note: for login_ldap to work it is necessary that the user information (minus password) is replicated on the localhost. I've done this using a relatively inelegant script which for completeness is below. I guess adding some error checking would be a good idea. ==== ldapsync.ksh ===================== #!/bin/ksh ldapsearch -h 10.0.0.23 \ -D cn=UnixUser,cn=Users,dc=my,dc=domain,dc=co,dc=uk \ -b cn=Users,dc=my,dc=domain,dc=co,dc=uk \ -w mypassword \ -v \ -x "(objectClass=user)" | while read key value ; do if [ "$key" == name: ]; then ldap_name="$value" fi # User Mail field as Unix name - remove @my.domain.co.uk if necessary if [ "$key" == mail: ]; then ldap_mail=$( echo "$value" | sed 's/@.*//g' ) if ( id 2>/dev/null >/dev/null $ldap_mail ); then usermod -c "$ldap_name" -s osbin/nologin -g staff -L staff $ldap_mail else useradd -d /home/$ldap_mail -c "$ldap_name" -s /sbin/nologin -m -g staff -L staff $ldap_mail fi ldap_name="" ldap_mail="" fi done ======================================= Martin

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[Dovecot] unknown dovecot error. imap or logging rate?
by OpenMacNews 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

hi, i've dovecot cvs 10branch installed on OSX 10.4.7. when i login from my MUA (in this example, Mulberry), functionally all looks OK. BUT, i *do* see one error in the log output, dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Error: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. Is this an imap error? or is it 'just' the error of logging too fast? if the latter, what to do about it? or, is the throttling normal behavior? the complete context follows: dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=10.0.0.6 rip=10.0.0.6 dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=testuser(a)mydomain.com quota=maildir:storage=4096 dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 27335 1 dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 2 testuser(a)mydomain.com static uid=301 gid=301 home=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Accounts/testuser nice=10 dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<testuser(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.6, lip=10.0.0.6, TLS dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Effective uid=301, gid=301 dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-plugins/imap dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Module loaded: /usr/local/dovecot-plugins/imap/lib01_quota_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Module loaded: /usr/local/dovecot-plugins/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Private/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir: data=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Accounts/testuser/Maildir:INDEX… dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir: root=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Accounts/testuser/Maildir, index=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Indexes/mydomain.com/testuser, control=, inbox= dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Public/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir: data=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Public dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir: root=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Public, index=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Public, control=, inbox= dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Namespace: type=shared, prefix=Shared/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Error: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:25 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir: data=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Shared dovecot: Aug 27 20:43:26 Info: IMAP(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir: root=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Shared, index=/var/Mail/Dovecot/Domains/mydomain.com/Shared, control=, inbox= thanks, richard -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email, vCards / \ & micro$oft attachments [GPG] OpenMacNews at gmail dot com fingerprint: 50C9 1C46 2F8F DE42 2EDB D460 95F7 DDBD 3671 08C6

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[Dovecot] Messages not expunged
by Jackie Hunt 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi all, I'm doing some testing between U of Washington IMAP server (which we currently run) and Dovecot on a IBM AIX system. I created a 50M mailbox, made up of 262 msgs. I'm using a Perl Script with the imap::client module to fetch each message and then flag it for deletion. At the end of the test, I run an expunge to delete all the messages. UofW imap server ran fine, messages gone. With dovecot I found the messages were not being expunged. The log indicated they were, but then said 262 messages existed at the end. After more checking, I found the file system I was using was low on disk space (<50M). As soon as I added more disk space, and reran the test with dovecot the messages were indeed expunged. Is this normal imap protocol behavior? I thought I would see an error message or something in the dovecot log. Does dovecot duplicate the mailbox before expunge? There wasn't room on our system to do that. Thanks much for any insights/info. Jackie --- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu

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[Dovecot] Make user name CaSe Insensitive
by FlashWebHost.com 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Hi, I have mail box info(a)mydomain.com stored in MySQL db. But dovecot is allowing me to login as both INFO(a)MYDOMAIN.COM info(a)mydomain.com Shows two mail boxes. The small letter account is the one mail server really deliver all mails. Is there any way i can specify all login names are small letters, so that user always access real mail box ? Regards, Yujin ------------------------------------ http://www.flashwebhost.com

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[Dovecot] Restricting Services (POP or IMAP)
by Odhiambo WASHINGTON 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

It would be great to have a HOWTO in the wiki, on how to restrict services by username in dovecot, so some users are allowed IMAP and others not allowed. As concerns restricting users by IP, I believe that is a bad idea. It's almost a useless idea, imnsho, because they can connect from another IP. It's easy to restrict services by IP using a firewall or by using inetd. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Don't take life too seriously -- you'll never get out of it alive.

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Re: [Dovecot] Out of memory errors
by Bill Boebel 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

On Tue, October 10, 2006 1:03 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > I think I remember someone else also talking about memory leaks with > LDAP.. Unless it was also you. :) I guess I'll have to try find it, or > at least create some debugging/statistics patch which could be used to > figure out where the problem is.. > Wasn't me, but I would definitely run such a patch to help track down the source. Bill

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[Dovecot] failed authentication with digest-md5 (rc9)
by LeVA 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Hi! I'm using rc9 and DIGEST-MD5 passwords. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's not... When failed, I get this in the logs: 12:45:11 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 DIGEST-MD5 \ service=POP3 secured lip=<lip> rip=<rip> resp=<something_long> 12:45:11 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 <something_long> 12:45:11 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 <something_long> 12:45:11 Info: auth(default): digest-md5(?,<rip>): Unknown QoP value 12:45:12 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 12:45:12 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=<rip>, lip=<lip>, TLS Using KMail 1.9.4. Daniel -- LeVA

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[Dovecot] Dovecot rc9 error (More information)
by Daniel 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Hi This happens when email is copied/moved from the inbox to another folder on the same imap account. The mail client goes into a loop with the below errors logged. This is on a 64bit Linux machine using the Maildir storage format. After doing a 'rm dovecot*' from the Maildir folder of the account having the problem the client can log in again but if the client tries to copy again it gets the same error. RC9 appears to be broken on this box. I have tested connecting form a windows machine and I get the same with thunderbird. I have tried with different accounts and they get the same problem. I have down graded to RC8 and all is working OK so seems to be a problem introduced with RC9. I have a 32bit Linux server with RC9 installed which has around 2000 accounts on it and this has no problems so maybe not affecting 32bit machines. If I can give any more information please let me know. Am getting this error with Dovecot rc9 on a imap account. Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: child 27632 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:28 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: child 27636 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:29 bajor dovecot: child 27638 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: child 27641 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:30 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: child 27645 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: child 27649 (imap) killed with signal 6 Oct 15 10:55:31 bajor dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rachele>, method=plain, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.254 Oct 15 10:55:32 bajor dovecot: IMAP(rachele): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) Oct 15 10:55:32 bajor dovecot: child 27653 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Regards Daniel ----------------------------- Registered Linux user #234279

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[Dovecot] request to have dovecot authenticator driver 'officially' included/supported
by OpenMacNews 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi all, per the exim docs @: http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch36.html a cyrus_sasl authenticator driveer is 'included' in exim core. given that Dovecot has become a very attractive alternative for an increasing number of folks, and there's a patch against exim 4.43 here: http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingDovecot that allows use of Dovecot's native sasl implementation as an authenticator, and that is _seems_ to apply against 4.63 ok, might it be possible to get this integrated into exim core, and have it become 'official'? thanks, richard - -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email, vCards / \ & micro$oft attachments [GPG] OpenMacNews at gmail dot com fingerprint: 50C9 1C46 2F8F DE42 2EDB D460 95F7 DDBD 3671 08C6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkUC+eIACgkQlffdvTZxCMbG4wCgnczsi9zX6Xkg5MLi6JTez5d+ a+YAn0MIYI7gHW//8N5bxani1CoEAcJm =ZN2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] MySQL stored proc authorization
by Chaos Engine 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

On my Gentoo box until today I had dovecot-1.0_rc7 and used following entry in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf password_query = call Authorize('%u', '%n', '%d') Simply put dovecot is calling my mysql stored routine which handles authorization. Until today, when I updated dovecot to dovecot-1.0_rc8 it worked flawlessly. With this version executing stored proc dies with: Password query failed: PROCEDURE mailsql.Authorize can't return a result set in the given context Replacing stored proc call with select .... statement does the thing, but it's stored procedures are ... generally better to do things on DB imvho :-) Downgrading to dovetot-1.0_rc7 fixes the problem immediately. Of course /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf remains the same in either case. Is this a bug or change made on purpose? -- Chaos greets U

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