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[Dovecot] virtual user directories?
by Mike 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

I'm installing dovecot and hope to migrate my users from a POP3 system soon. I have the users in LDAP and LDAP is working, dovecot is using LDAP to authenticate my tests. What I'm trying to find is a setting when a user is authenticated by LDAP and dovecot, and that user directory does not exist in the location I have given for the private name space, I want dovecot to create the directory. Mentioning in a log that it created a directory is ok, but I want it to create the directory. I do not want to have to create the directories by hand (easy to do, I know, but that's not the point). Is there a way to tell dovecot to create any missing directories for authenticated users? Mike

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[Dovecot] bug? order dependencies in branch_1_0 conf file
by Richard 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 bldg dovecot cvs branch_1_0 on osx, i'm seeing a sensitivity to order in protocol statements. e.g., on launch: THIS WORKS FINE: protocol lda { sendmail_path = /usr/local/exim/bin/exim ... plugin { quota = maildir:storage=10240 # 10 MB quota limit } } but, THIS DOES NOT protocol lda { ... plugin { quota = maildir:storage=10240 # 10 MB quota limit 65: } 66: sendmail_path = /usr/local/exim/bin/exim 67: } reporting: /dovecot.conf line 66: Unknown setting: is this, in fact, a bug? feature? 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) iEYEAREDAAYFAkTsnD0ACgkQlffdvTZxCMbu1QCfbyq1bddAz8H5RdDJJYx8iTMw SNkAoIaK6xwJ05zM2aJ0/XJH+UucdPoV =9ajq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Maildir folder separator
by Mikko Kortelainen 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi, There's been some demand from users to make it possible to use the period character (.) in folder names, but that is impossible when the folder separator is already period. Is there any possibility of replacing that which another separator, say a / ? -Mikko

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[Dovecot] Problems with VersaMail on PalmOS
by Paul Tansom 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

I'm at the early stages of debugging this problem, but in case I can save some time because somebody else has already come across these issues I thought I'd try a quick post. I have an installation of Dovecot 0.99.14-1sarge0 from the Debian stable tree (so nothing cutting edge, but it's proving stable and reliable) that I am connecting to from a Palm TX with VersaMail 3.1C over IMAP. Sadly it doesn't display all the mail folders I have available and I'm not entirely sure why. So far I've not found a common link between which are displayed, and if I try renaming them then the ones displayed change - so I suspect there is a certain randomness to this. I am aware that it doesn't cope with subfolders, and all these are root folders. Some of the root folders are empty because they are simply acting as a container for other folders in case that is relevant. As I say I'm at the early stages, and I'm also looking at other Palm mail apps (but this came with it so it seemed a good starting point). I'll post more diagnostic details if I need help further down the line, but in the mean time if anyone has also seen this I'd be interested to hear any details. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com

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[Dovecot] Unable to get LDA working
by Gerard Seibert 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE Postfix version 2.4-20060806 Dovecot v1.0.rc2 I have the following in the postfix main.cf file: mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver This is from the dovecot.conf file: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u However, mail is never delivered with this configuration. This is an excerpt from the 'dovecot.log' file: deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1928.e70d4dd9d14583ce) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1932.e70d4dd9d14583ce) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1950.dd8b6a29139b74ac) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1951.847c445495634caa) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1952.847c445495634caa) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied I have several different users, and they all receive the same type of error message. I have reverted to having postfix deliver the mail and having dovecot as the POPs server. That works fine. I would like to know what I am doing wrong though in getting Dovecot to work as an LDA. -- Gerard Seibert gerard(a)seibercom.net GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY (#17): On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence.

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[Dovecot] Exempt mailboxes from indexing?
by B H 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

I looked through the wiki and the archives, but couldn't find an answer to this question. We use a webmail product that uses three dummy mbox dotfiles for storing configuration and temporary info. I'm trying to find a way to have dovecot's indexing ignore all dotfiles, and so far have had no luck (other than, of course, coding it in myself). Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks. -Brian Hayden

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[Dovecot] Performance problem with outlook & outlook express
by Luc Rocheleau 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi, I've set up a dovecot server under redhat enterprise 4.3 with the basic configuration(mbox). Everything runs fine under webmail(squirrelmail) and thunderbird. When I try it under outlook/outlook express tough, it takes a couple of minutes after the authentication to get all headers where it takes a couple of seconds under thunderbird(both windows and linux version). I tried with these two versions with same results: dovecot-1.0.beta9 and dovecot-1.0.rc7 Any idea? Thanks for help and regards --

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[Dovecot] 0.99.14-1.1.el3 vs 1.0-0_20.rc7.el3
by Esquivel, Vicente 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello all, I am new to the list so bear with me. I am testing dovecot out on a test server running RHEL ES 3, I have installed 0.99.14-1.1.el3 and 1.0-0_20.rc7.el3. This server is using the mbox mailbox format, running sendmail, procmail, and using PAM to do authentication to an LDAP server. I get varying results between the two version. 0.99.14-1.1.el3 : Upon installing this I leave the defaults and login just fine, I can view mail just fine via outlook express and thunderbird. 1.0-0_20.rc7.el3: Upon installing this I leave the defaults and login just fine but I cannot view my email via outlook express or thunderbird. The logs indicate that it reads my inbox with no errors but I still cannot see anything. Can anyone please help me with this. Thanks Vicente

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC7 released
by Timo Sirainen 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc7.tar.gz.sig Can everyone now agree that there are no more hangs? :) * Require that Dovecot master process's version number matches the child process's, unless version_ignore=yes. Usually it's an accidental installation problem if the version numbers don't match. * Maildir: Create maildirfolder file when creating new maildirs. + ldap+prefetch: Use global uid/gid settings if LDAP query doesn't return them + %variables: Negative offsets count from the end of the string. Patch by Johannes Berg. - kqueue ioloop code rewrite - notify=kqueue might have caused connection hangs sometimes - deliver: If message body contained a valid mbox From_ line, it and the rest of the message was skipped. - mbox: We got into infinite loops if trying to open a 2 byte sized file as mbox. - Don't crash with ssl_disable=yes - quota plugin caused compiling problems with some OSes - mbox: After saving a mail to a synced mbox, we lost the sync which caused worse performance I think my v1.0 TODO list is: - avoid duplicate flag change notifications, or in case the message is also expunged don't bother notifying its flag changes at all (shouldn't be hard) - HFS+ avoid-hardlinks patch? - 32bit -> 64bit upgrade still doesn't work without assert-crashing: mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size) - Courier-compatible INBOX. namespace gives "invalid namespace" errors I'm still not sure about the last one though. Could someone give me specific commands that clients send that causes it? As for the 32bit -> 64bit upgrade fix, could someone give me access to a x86-64 machine for a while to test it out?

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[Dovecot] HMAC-MD5 / HMAC-MD5-context
by Chris Laif 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

$ dovecotpw -p testpass {HMAC-MD5}fe8522268d91e485ccac8f36800e4fa6b10363e2a371cfa61731109b450906cd I wonder if the prefix 'HMAC-MD5' is the correct notation here. According to RFC2104 an HMAC is calculated as follows: H(K XOR opad, H(K XOR ipad, text)) where H is the cryptographic hash function (MD5 in this case). Therefore the result has to be a 128 bit string, which is obviously not the case in the above shown example. In addition, the input value 'text' is missing if you only have a password K. Maybe it would be better to use {HMAC-MD5-CONTEXT} or {HMAC-MD5-CTX} ? Chris

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[Dovecot] Can't Start dovecot from inetd
by Joseph D. Wagner 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

This one has me stumped. After upgrading from dovecot-1.0-beta8 to dovecot-1.0-rc6, I can't start dovecot from /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot. I can start dovecot directly from the command line (/usr/sbin/dovecot). I can still use /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot to query the status of dovecot and shutdown dovecot, but I can't use it to start dovecot. It just says "FAILED". diff scan of the two different versions of the /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot file says they're identical. Ideas? Joseph D. Wagner

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Re: [Dovecot] auth failure with digest-md5
by LeVA 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

> .. > > 00:49:28 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 DIGEST-MD5 > > service=POP3 > > secured lip=192.168.0.202 rip=192.168.0.3 > > > >[...] > > rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.202, TLS > > <newline> > >00:49:28 Info: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/dovecot.passwd: Read 1 > > users > Does this contain only the "info" lines and no error lines? 1.0beta9 > fixed this problem: > > - DIGEST-MD5: Trying to use subsequent authentication crashed > dovecot-auth. > > I think that's your problem. The logs should have said that dovecot- > auth crashed though. The problem solved due to the upgrade, thanks! Daniel -- LeVA

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc7: Login process died too early - shutting down
by Vince Valenti 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hello: Not sure if this is 1.0rc7 specific or not, but everything was working great until Dovecot died completely with this information in the log: Aug 21 14:44:16 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.11 Aug 21 14:44:16 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.4 Aug 21 14:44:16 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.17 Aug 21 14:44:17 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.32 Aug 21 14:44:17 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.24 Aug 21 14:44:17 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.37 Aug 21 14:44:17 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.50 Aug 21 14:44:17 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.44 Aug 21 14:44:17 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.57 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.6 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.31 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.5 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.23 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.3 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.26 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.41 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.59 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.64 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.55 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.39 Aug 21 14:44:19 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.47 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.33 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.51 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.36 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.63 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.60 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.62 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.38 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.43 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.40 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.48 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.34 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.45 Aug 21 14:44:20 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.46 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.69 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.66 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.67 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.65 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.72 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.73 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.68 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.71 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.70 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.95 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.97 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.102 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.116 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.110 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.117 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.109 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.133 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.92 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.87 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.104 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.78 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.122 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.135 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.88 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.93 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.86 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.74 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.131 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.129 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.103 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.123 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.85 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.79 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.114 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.170 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.171 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.172 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.173 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.174 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.175 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.178 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.177 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.176 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.179 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.180 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.181 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.182 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.183 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.184 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.185 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.186 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.187 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.188 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.189 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.190 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.191 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.192 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.193 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.194 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.195 Aug 21 14:44:23 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.196 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.197 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.200 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.204 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.198 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.205 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.208 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.206 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.199 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.201 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.202 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.203 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.207 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=213.13.124.18, lip=67.59.79.209 Aug 21 14:44:24 sh01 dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down This is a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE box with Dovecot built from ports (with kqueue). This box has 253 IP addresses bound to it and Dovecot is listening on everything. It looks like 213.13.124.18 was connecting to every IP, but I'm not sure why this would cause Dovecot to crash. Any ideas? Thanks, -Vince

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[Dovecot] Please help, cant compile with mysql support
by Greg Deputy 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

I've been going round and round with this, and its driving me nuts. Previously, dovecot was erroring out during make due to some MySQL library issues. I thought I had that fixed, but now the compiled version I'm getting says it doesn't have MySQL support. I just started over, and noticed that ./configure is saying: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword sql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword sql (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: I've tried running with: CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/MySQL LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure --with-MySQL But same result. No MySQL support noted by ./configure. Any tips? Please help. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] sieve don't build
by Richard 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 cref: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-August/015641.html if it's me, might someone lend a hand? if it's dovecot, might someone let me know? thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iEYEAREDAAYFAkTrHbIACgkQlffdvTZxCMbJmgCgxS3BSGwvoFxMWvttGr7bEzRJ bz0An3pFs7CgrpIEAE0/1iJ4Ck/7ANmp =bjw9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0rc7 quits without notice
by Chris Laif 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Today I switched one of our servers from Courier (deployed 3-4y ago) to DCrc7. Everything seemed very nice (system load dropped significantly). Unfortunately after some time and ~8000 pop3-logins the main DC loop just quit without _any_ notice. Some pop3-login childs still showed up in the processlist, but the main listener on port 110 was gone. The above described scenario has been observed 2 times. Any suggestions are welcome. System: Debian 3.0 woody, Linux kernel 2.4.x File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : no Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : no Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static passwd-file (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd-file (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............:

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Re: [Dovecot] problem with sieve implementation
by Amadou Toure 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hello, Any new suggestion ? regards Amadou TOURE Sonatel Multimedia, 136 Sacre Coeur, Pyrotechnique, BP 21100 Dakar Tel +221-8699810. Fax +221-8641094 http://www.sentoo.sn DAKAR - SENEGAL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amadou Toure" <atoure(a)sentoo.sn> To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] problem with sieve implementation > thank you for the quick response. > the timsieve forward message using sendmail. I see in a previous message > of the mailing that someone recommend to use the libsieve > (http://libsieve.sourceforge.net/ ) instead of timesieve which is supposed > to cause some problem with dovecot lda. > what is the sieve recommended libraries for dovecot ? > Amadou TOURE > Sonatel Multimedia, 136 Sacre Coeur, > Pyrotechnique, BP 21100 Dakar > Tel +221-8699810. Fax +221-8641094 > http://www.sentoo.sn > DAKAR - SENEGAL > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> > To: "Amadou Toure" <atoure(a)sentoo.sn> > Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] problem with sieve implementation > >

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[Dovecot] Filesystem Quota Enhancement Patch
by Scott Alter 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

I have just updated my patch that provides enhanced support for filesystem-based quotas in Dovecot. I provides 2 main features: * Support for group quotas * Number of messages quota for users of maildir If both user and group quotas are enabled on the filesystem, the plugin will report the quota that is closer to the maximum independently for both storage space and message count. The message count quota comes from the filesystem inode quota. This patch has been tested on Fedora Core only, but it should work on all other OSes. The only exception is there is no group support on Solaris (I believe this is a limitation of Sun's implementation of filesystem-based quotas). I believe this patch make Dovecot's filesystem-based quota support complete. So, after a little bit of testing, it would be nice to have this merged with the main distribution. Scott Alter

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[Dovecot] POP3 authentication using virtual user table instead of unix userids
by Nicolas Chenier 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

POP3 authentication using virtual user table instead of unix userids - you use the alias email to login with the userid password it is associated to... is it possible? Thank you for any input on the matter, it's much appreciated! Nic This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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[Dovecot] messages_count too large errors (1.0RC5)
by Jeff Turner 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hi, Just today, Thunderbird started throwing errors when accessing a particular mail folder. Looking in the logs showed this: dovecot: Aug 09 15:36:31 Error: IMAP(nmenere): Corrupted index file /imap/mailboxes/nmenere/shared-settings/jira-support/index/.INBOX.Triaged/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (51 > 39) This is a new user's first attempt to access a shared jira-support/ folder, so there is no chance of their index files being corrupt. Deleting the dovecot* files didn't help. Neither did 'cp -rp .INBOX.Triaged .INBOX._Triaged' and then subscribing to the new folder. In fact, the problem seems to be with the files in cur/. There are 51 in total, and 39 of them have an 'i' flag: 1155084961.P27685Q5.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbrk 1155084979.P27685Q6.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbtk 1155085103.P27685Q10.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbwk 1155085175.P28321Q1.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbcki 1155085221.P27685Q12.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbwk 1155085228.P28321Q4.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbki 1155085231.P28321Q5.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbki 1155085246.P28321Q6.redback.sydney.atlassian.com:2,Sbki Loading the maildir in mutt and re-saving them all to a clean maildir fixes the problem, by resetting the flags. Going through the logs, I see other users hitting this problem with other mailboxes. Anyone know what 'i' means? I guess it's a dovecot extension? I should mention that this happened a few months ago too, with 1.0b8 (I think). This is all running on a linux box, mail delivered with procmail, no special settings. Anyone seen this before? Cheers, Jeff

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Re: [Dovecot] 1.0 RC7 released
by Rick Romero 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:05 +0300, Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote: > * On 18/08/06 01:28 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > | http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc7.tar.gz > | http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc7.tar.gz.sig > | > | Can everyone now agree that there are no more hangs? :) > > It's been running for over 20 hours on FreeBSD 6.1, with > KQUEUE support. No glitches so far.... > > Great work, Timo! I concur! FreeBSD 5.2.1 - plain old ./configure came up with: io-loop=poll, file change =none. Been up for 3 days, about 17k logins. Rick

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot on OSF/1 4.0
by "Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino)" 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

Hi, The struct looks like this: struct statfs { short f_type; /* type of filesystem (see below) */ short f_flags; /* copy of mount flags */ int f_fsize; /* fundamental filesystem block size */ int f_bsize; /* optimal transfer block size */ int f_blocks; /* total data blocks in file system, */ /* note: may not represent fs size. */ int f_bfree; /* free blocks in fs */ int f_bavail; /* free blocks avail to non- su */ int f_files; /* total file nodes in file system */ int f_ffree; /* free file nodes in fs */ fsid_t f_fsid; /* file system id */ int f_spare[9]; /* spare for later */ char f_mntonname[MNAMELEN]; /* directory on which mounted */ char f_mntfromname[MNAMELEN];/* mounted filesystem */ union mount_info mount_info; /* mount options */ }; MAP_FAILED is: /usr/include/sys/mman.h: #define MAP_FAILED (-1L) /* unsuccessful return from mmap() */ > Well, I'd say that's a bug in OSF's header files. MAP_FAILED should be > defined to (void *)-1, not -1. Maybe if you put this to lib/compat.h: > > #undef MAP_FAILED > #define MAP_FAILED (void *)-1 This didn't help. source='file-cache.c' object='file-cache.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /usr/bin/posix/sh ../../depcomp cc -std -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/pkg/include -ieee -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include - I/usr/pkg/include -c file-cache.c cc: Warning: /usr/include/sys/mman.h, line 172: The redefinition of the macro "MAP_FAILED" conflicts with a current definition because the replacement lists differ. The redefinition is now in effect. #define MAP_FAILED (-1L) /* unsuccessful return from mmap() */ -------------------------^ cc: Error: file-cache.c, line 70: In this statement, "cache- >mmap_base" and "(-1)" may not be compared for equality or inequality. if (cache->mmap_base == MAP_FAILED) { --------------------^ cc: Error: file-cache.c, line 79: In this statement, "cache- >mmap_base" and "(-1)" may not be compared for equality or inequality. if (cache->mmap_base == MAP_FAILED) { --------------------^ *** Exit 1 Stop.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot authorisation problem
by Phil Clare 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

Hi List, I am trying to set up dovecot on my mail server and am having some difficulties… I want to use virtual mailboxes and so have set up a passwd-file for userdb and passdb and created entries for a user but they don’t seem to be working… I have included the relevant lines from all three files below… Dovecot.conf… auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/users auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd users file… HYPERLINK "mailto:phil@topazaccommodation.co.uk::503:503::/var/mail/vhosts/topazaccomm odation.co.uk:/bin/false"phil@topazaccommodation.co.uk::503:503::/var/mail/v hosts/topazaccommodation.co.uk:/bin/false:: passwd file… phil@topazaccommocation.co.uk:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 As far as I know the password is the word ‘test’ encrypted with MD5 (is there anyway to have these as plain text?) Finally the entry from the log file… Aug 18 16:51:58 95304-web1 dovecot-auth: passwd-file(phil(a)topazaccommodation.co.uk): unknown user Any ideas? Thanks Phil Clare -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.2/422 - Release Date: 17/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 18/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 18/08/2006

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[Dovecot] dovecot vs qpopper performance testing results
by asko 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

Hi, I did some performance testing with dovecot and qpopper, if anyone is interested.. Hardware: Dual Xeon 2.8 with HT enabled (dmesg sees 4 cpu-s), 1 GB RAM, SCSI RAID 1 with 2x Maxtor Atlas 10K V disks. Software: CentOS 4.3, Qpopper 4.08 in standalone mode vs Dovecot 1.0-0_19.rc6, ext3 filesystem Mailbox format Mbox, tested Pop3 with PAM authentication My setup had 15 test users with 15 identical 40 MB mbox files. Each mbox had 370 messages, 35 % of them had attachments. So average message size is about 110 KB, average attachment size 220 KB. "rabid" utility is part of postal package (http://www.coker.com.au/postal/) Command line, which fetches and deletes all the messages from users in the textfile: rabid -p 1 192.168.x.x ./users - Resulting fields are: time,messages,data(K),errors,connections,SSL connections,IMAP connections Results (only the best one shown): Qpopper: 1 parallel processes: 12:36,1020,111470,0,6,0,0 5 parallel clients: 12:44,3246,366207,0,13,0,0 15 parallel clients: 13:06,4099,481347,0,48,0,0 Dovecot: p1: 12:19,3316,367859,0,13,0,0 p5: 12:50,4653,524456,0,34,0,0 p15: 12:56,5063,578889,0,84,0,0 As you can see, Dovecot is faster.. With 15 parallel processes it seems to have saturated my 100Mbit/s LAN (578889 kB data in one minute). Dovecot had noticeably smaller disk IO and system load was smaller too, probably thanks to smaller IO. Qpopper performed better than I hoped.. It is probably due fast disks of the test system, I wouldn't expect such numbers using single IDE disk. Conclusion: The hardware was too fast for testing, LAN became a bottleneck atleast once. The results could be different with different mbox structure.. Anyway, I was convinced, Dovecot wins. -- asko

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[Dovecot] maildir autodetect failing. what's wrong with this setup?
by Richard 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

i'm setting up for virtual_users w/ maildir. i have in my dovecot.conf: auth default { passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/imapd.passwd } userdb static { args = static uid=300 gid=300 home=/var/dovecot/mail mail=maildir:/var/dovecot/mail/%d/%n/Maildir nice=10 } } default_mail_env = maildir:/var/dovecot/mail/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/%d/%n in /etc/dovecot/imapd.passwd, i have: omn@server.com:{PLAIN}pass:300:300::/var/dovecot/mail::: i've created: /var/dovecot/mail/server.com/omn/Maildir/cur but, on login @ telnet with: x login omn(a)server.com pass i see: dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=x.x.x.x rip=x.x.x.x resp=<hidden> dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=omn(a)server.com dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 28584 1 dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 omn(a)server.com static uid=300 gid=300 home= mail=maildir:/server.com/omn/Maildir nice=10 dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<omn(a)server.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, secured dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Error: statfs(/server.com/omn/Maildir) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): Effective uid=300, gid=300 dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Private/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): mbox autodetect: data=$default_mail_env dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat($default_mail_env) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat($default_mail_env/.imap) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat($default_mail_env/inbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Info: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat($default_mail_env/mbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Error: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: $default_mail_env (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Error: IMAP(omn(a)server.com): Failed to create storage for 'Private/' with data: $default_mail_env dovecot: Aug 20 08:07:33 Error: child 28587 (imap) returned error 89 thanks.

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