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[Dovecot] alpha5: (message_body_search_ctx) assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, My second case of this assert, gdb analysis of the core dump attached. My setup: Solaris 9, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2, mbox format, imap usage only. INBOX is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 system, index files are local. Syslog complaint is: imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 414 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset == part->physical_pos + part->header_size.physical_size) Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha5: fcntl() locking problem
by Jeff A. Earickson 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, My setup: Solaris 9, /var/mail is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 box, home directories and dovecot index stuff is on local ufs filesystems. I upgraded from alpha4 to a5 about 36 hours ago. Dovecot is configured like so during the build: VERSION=1.0.alpha5 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl > configure.out This afternoon dovecot basically locked up where a lot of people (including me) were getting: imap(user): fcntl() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: No record locks available for syslog messages, and their mailbox operations would fail. In my case pine just closed the mailbox with an internal error. I did a quick fix by stopping dovecot, killing all dovecot processes, killing /usr/lib/nfs/lockd on the dovecot server, and restarting lockd. Ideas? Suggestions? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Bug with userdb prefetch
by Stian Jordet 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, when I'm (trying) to use userdb prefetch with ldap, it works fine for system users, but for virtual users without their own uid and gid, it won't work. I get in the log: Dec 31 01:34:47 buick dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(oddrun,127.0.0.1): userdb_uid not returned Dec 31 01:34:47 buick dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(oddrun,127.0.0.1): userdb_gid not returned Which means that the problem is that user_global_uid and user_global_gid is not used when using prefetch. That must be a bug? Best regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] can't switch off login debuggin
by Sebastian Bauer 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I tried the change from cyrus to dovecot. This was just some days ago and I'm really happy. Just a little problem. For testing I switched on some login debugging. Now I can't switch it off. Dovecot seems to ignore the "no" in the config file. <snip> auth_verbose = no auth_debug = no </snip> That is what I get in maillog: <snip> dovecot-auth: pam_sm_authenticate called. dovecot-auth: dbuser changed. dovecot-auth: dbpasswd changed. dovecot-auth: host changed. dovecot-auth: database changed. dovecot-auth: table changed. dovecot-auth: usercolumn changed. dovecot-auth: passwdcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: crypt changed. dovecot-auth: logtable changed. dovecot-auth: logmsgcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logusercolumn changed. dovecot-auth: loghostcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logpidcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logtimecolumn changed. dovecot-auth: db_connect called. dovecot-auth: returning 0 . dovecot-auth: db_checkpasswd called. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: where clause = dovecot-auth: SELECT password FROM accountuser WHERE username='XXXX' dovecot-auth: sqlLog called. dovecot-auth: insert into log (msg, user, host, pid, time) values('AUTH SUCCESSFUL', 'XXXX', '', '14813' , NOW()) dovecot-auth: Returning 0 dovecot-auth: returning 0 . dovecot-auth: returning 0. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: setcred called but not implemented. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: acct_mgmt called but not implemented. Dont panic though :) </snip> I use dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS. Hope someone can help me to stop these messages. Regards, Sebstian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtcI90IZnttJ61yYRAhqYAKDC5DUvlNHR2o70gMWayBbJFr6oewCg8r5u hWlfTfsff1k67RLKq/P/xEM= =rlmj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] a problem in building dovecot @ opensolaris
by Sergey Ivanov 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, I'm trying to build dovecot from snapshot dovecot-20051215.tar.gz on OpenSolaris Nevada build 28. I have added to the PATH directories for make, gcc and automake/autoconf (in BASH): $ export PATH=/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:$PATH then executed --- $ aclocal $ libtoolize --force $ automake --add-missing $ autoheader $ autoconf --- And then make finished with --- Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) --- But make fails, the first error is: --- Making all in quota if /bin/bash ../../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT quota.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/quota.Tpo" -c -o quota.lo quota.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/quota.Tpo" ".deps/quota.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/quota.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT quota.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota.Tpo -c quota.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota.o In file included from quota-fs.h:22, from quota.c:6: /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:81: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:82: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:83: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:84: error: parse error before '*' token *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `quota.lo' Current working directory /home/seriv/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/plugins/quota *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='quota imap-quota trash'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' --- Please, help. -- Sergey Ivanov

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[Dovecot] dovecot and ldaps://
by David Coppa 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi all, I've managed to get dovecot running with ldaps (ssl over port 636, not starttls). Btw, it's working right only if i specify "TLSVerifyClient never" in my slapd.conf. With any other parameter (like "TLSVerifyClient demand"), the bind fails with: connection_get(12) connection_get(12): got connid=0 connection_read(12): checking for input on id=0 TLS trace: SSL_accept:before/accept initialization TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 read client hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write server hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate request A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A connection_get(12) connection_get(12): got connid=0 connection_read(12): checking for input on id=0 TLS trace: SSL3 alert write:fatal:handshake failure TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate B TLS: can't accept. TLS: error:140890C7:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate +/usr/src/lib/libssl/src/ssl/s3_srvr.c:2004 connection_read(12): TLS accept error error=-1 id=0, closing connection_closing: readying conn=0 sd=12 for close connection_close: conn=0 sd=12 Is there a way to specify, in the dovecot-ldap.conf file, where to look for the client certificate and key files? Or maybe make dovecot parse the ldaprc file under /etc? Best Regards, David

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[Dovecot] How to disable keywords?
by Sebastjan Trepca 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, is there a quick way to disable keyword feature in dovecot? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Compile problem on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE
by Kim Culhan 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Trying to update to dovecot-1.0.alpha5 and seeing this at compile time: mech-gssapi.o mech-gssapi.c; then mv -f ".deps/mech-gssapi.Tpo" ".deps/mech-gssapi.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mech-gssapi.Tpo"; exit 1; fi mech-gssapi.c:30:27: gssapi/gssapi.h: No such file or directory mech-gssapi.c:42: error: syntax error before "gss_ctx_id_t" mech-gssapi.c:51: error: syntax error before "gss_name_t" mech-gssapi.c:58: error: syntax error before "OM_uint32" [snipped] mech-gssapi.c:387: error: structure has no member named `authz_name' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/auth. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src. *** Error code 1 Any help is greatly appreciated -kim -- w8hdkim(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] dovecot+mysql login problem
by Mircea Stefan 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi, This is my MySQL table: <snip> mysql> select username, password from mailbox; +----------+----------+ | username | password | +----------+----------+ | mircea | stefan | +----------+----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) </snip> When I try to login (pop3) I recive "-ERR Authentication failed." <snip> +OK Dovecot ready. user mircea +OK pass stefan -ERR Authentication failed. </snip> maillog: <snip> Dec 27 20:54:38 pluto dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(mircea,10.13.15.2): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'mircea' Dec 27 20:54:38 pluto dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Ilip=10.13.15.1^Irip=10.13.15.2^Iresp=AG1pcmNlYQBzdGVmYW4= Dec 27 20:54:39 pluto dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=mircea </snip> I started a mysql client and ran: <snip> mysql> SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'mircea'; +----------+ | password | +----------+ | stefan | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) </snip> What's the problem? Thank you and Happy Holidays!

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[Dovecot] new user setup trouble
by Will Ling 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi again, I am still trying to run Dovecot but persistently get the errors Corrupted transaction log file and Lost transaction log file. I cannot find any reference to this problem that will help, I have checked the file permissions and locks and cannot see any obvious cause. Could somebody please advise what I might be doing wrong or direct me to somewhere else that I can ask for or find help. Below is some information about the problem. The log file show the following when I attempt to log in: Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up Info: imap(will): Effective uid=501, gid=501 Info: imap(will): mbox: data=/home/will/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap(will): mbox: root=/home/will/mail, index=/home/will/mail, inbox=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x40, offset=24, size=0) Error: imap(will): /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 My config file contains the following un commented lines: protocols = imap ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } } My file permissions are: /var/spool/mail/ -rwxrwx--- will mail 2797 Dec 29 20:37 will /home/will/mail drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 20:47 .imap/ -rw------- will will 19 Dec 29 20:47 .subscriptions /home/will/mail/.imap drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 21:07 INBOX/ /home/will/mail/.imap/INBOX -rwxrwxrwx will will 120 Dec 28 20:47 dovecot.index -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:07 dovecot.index.log -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:04 dovecot.index.log.2 The .imap and everything in it is created when I try to login, the three dovecot.index are all completely empty. If any more information is required, please let me know. Regards, Will -- Will Ling

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[Dovecot] Dovecot index cache regeneration
by John Newman 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi, We've been using dovecot in the lab now for quite a while and really like the results we're seeing. Underlying dovecot we're using maildir mailboxes. We have the need to manually remove maildir files from time to time. That is, by hand (we'll, actually by script) but not via imap or pop. Dues to dovecot's index caching (which I might add, we love most of the time) imap clients still continue to display the message once they're gone (as we'd expect). However, in this instance it's not what we're after. So my question is, what is the "dovecot recommended" way to force the index cache to regenerate. We really don't want to delete the entire index cache for a particular mailbox as larger mailboxes will then need to unnecessarily regenerate indices on unaffected messages. Many thanks for any tips you can provide. John.

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[Dovecot] dovecot INSTALL
by Tom Lee 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello, I just tried dovecot-stable-20051206.tar.gz. It takes me one additional day to get it work. >From INSTALL file, it failed to miss the following installation steps: 1) needs to create the file /etc/pam.d/dovecot 2) needs to create the directory /etc/ssl/certs/ and /etc/ssl/private/, configure doc/dovecot-openssl.cnf, chmod +x doc/mkcerts.sh doc/mkcerts.sh Not sure why it is not in the the file INSTALL. For pop3 client configuration, I wonder if it is OK for me to use: #outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls, oe-ns-eoh or dovecot can only allow one such as: pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls Thanks. Tom

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks
by Bob Gustafson 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

On, Fedora4 This is against the latest cvs update This was encountered during make, after doing ./autogen.sh ./configure --without-lda make gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I/usr/local/ssl/include -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o quota-fs.c: In function 'fs_quota_get_resource': quota-fs.c:208: error: 'struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks' make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/cvs/dovecot/src/plugins/quota'

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[Dovecot] out of memory on dovecot alpha5
by Pavel Volkovitskiy 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello Once a day i have these errors in doveecot.log: =========================================== dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:04 Error: auth-worker(default): .Out of memory (Needed 52 bytes) dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:04 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(login,<ip>): Password query failed: MySQL client ran out of memory dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<login>, method=PLAIN, rip=<ip>, lip=<ip2> dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Error: auth-worker(default): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Error: child 23022 (auth-worker) returned error 83 (Out of memory) ============================================ And after that nobody can login I do /etc/init.d/dovecot restart and then it's working for a day Before upgrade to alpha5 i was used 0.99.x series without eny errros on this server What can i do to debug this? -- Pavel

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[Dovecot] LDAP authenticated bind support
by J.M. Maurer 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Recently at Better.be we implemented LDAP authenticated bind support for dovecot. A patch against CVS HEAD is attached. I have not tested it against all possible configurations one can use, but the basic operation seems to be right. As documented in the patch, it adds one new option to the dovecot-ldap.conf configuration file: # Set "auth_bind" to "yes" if you want to use "authenticated binds" # as a login validation mechanism. NOTE: the pass_attrs option # will (naturally) be ignored if you enable this auth_bind = yes Authenticated bind support is implemented asynchronously. This involves 2 asynchronous calls: the first being 'ldap_search' to find the dn to bind against and the second being the actual 'ldap_bind' call. I'd love to hear some feedback on this. Regards, Marc Maurer Better.be B.V.

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..
by Adrian Vasile 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

wrote it and tested it. now it reconnects to mysql as it should. <snip> loki ~ # cat /usr/local/portage/net-mail/dovecot/files/db-mysql.diff diff -ur dovecot-0.99.14-orig/src/auth/db-mysql.c dovecot-0.99.14/src/auth/db-mysql.c --- dovecot-0.99.14-orig/src/auth/db-mysql.c 2004-12-19 07:25:15.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-0.99.14/src/auth/db-mysql.c 2005-12-27 15:43:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ case CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR: case CR_SERVER_LOST: /* connection lost - try immediate reconnect */ + /* but first close the connection :) */ + if (conn->connected) + mysql_conn_close(conn); if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) break; if (mysql_query(conn->mysql, query) == 0) { </snip> i suppose that v1alpha5 has the same bug.. addapt to needs Adrian Vasile wrote: > re,re > > I think I found the issue: > in this switch : > if (failed) { > /* query failed */ > switch (mysql_errno(conn->mysql)) { > case CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR: > case CR_SERVER_LOST: > /* connection lost - try immediate reconnect */ > if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) > break; > if (mysql_query(conn->mysql, query) == 0) { > failed = FALSE; > break; > } > /* query failed, fallback to error handler */ > default: > i_error("MySQL: Error executing query \"%s\": %s", > query, mysql_error(conn->mysql)); > break; > } > } > if this error occurs then reconnect.. this is true, but > static int mysql_conn_open(struct mysql_connection *conn) > { > if (conn->connected) > return TRUE; > .... > in the conn structure the connected bit is always true I belive. > > May I write the patch ? > > Adrian Vasile wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It doesn't matter who's fault it is. I run Dovecot with mysql auth and >> it does the same.. >> the idea is that mysql has a timeout for connections so, after a period >> of inactivity it closes the connection. >> I don't know if Dovecot uses what the developers from mysql propose: >> if mysql_ping != ok then reconnect >> I didn't have time to browse the sources. >> >> The lazy work-around I made is modifying the pop3/imap monitor of mon >> and every 15 min, mon logs into dovecot >> with a test account :) >> >> It's the same problem with amavis but that's not necesarly amavis's >> fault but the DBI people. >> >> PS: I run : >> * net-mail/dovecot >> Installed: 0.99.14-r1 >> Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ >> Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security >> primarily in mind >> >> * dev-db/mysql >> Installed: 5.0.17 >> Homepage: http://www.mysql.com/ >> Description: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL >> database server >> >> maybe using pam_mysql would solve this issue.. >> >> daniel petre wrote: >> >>> >>> i dont think its vpopmail's fault, since THIS running version is OKAY: >>> >>> delfix ~ # emerge -s dovecot >>> Searching... >>> [ Results for search key : dovecot ] >>> [ Applications found : 1 ] >>> >>> * net-mail/dovecot >>> Latest version available: 1.0_alpha5 >>> Latest version installed: 0.99.14-r1 >>> Size of downloaded files: 1,236 kB >>> Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ >>> Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security >>> primarily in mind >>> License: LGPL-2.1 >>> >>> >>> >>> Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 02:52 +0200, daniel petre wrote: >>>> >>>>> dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql >>>>> error[3]: MySQL server has gone away >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> .. >>>> >>>>> anyone encountered this? >>>>> mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully. >>>>> what am i missing? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That error message is coming from vpopmail libraries, and it looks >>>> like >>>> it at least thinks it can't connect to MySQL. Looks to me like the >>>> problem is in vpopmail's side. There isn't really anything that can be >>>> configured for vpopmail from Dovecot's side. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >

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[Dovecot] postfix, dovecot, sasl deliver error
by Tracy Phillips 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Hi, I am receiving an error when trying to send mail. I am using FreeBSD 6 and dovecot 1.0.alpha5 and postfix 2.3-20051223 which includes the dovecot sasl patch. I am getting: Dec 26 17:26:45 example postfix/pipe[612]: DC90D5C30: to=<tep(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=14, delays=14/0.05/0/0.08, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied ) This is from dovecot.conf: auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! mode = 0666 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = virtual group = virtual } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0666 } } } and from dovecot-deliver.conf: # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master From postfix master.cf: # Dovecot LDA dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=virtual:virtual argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} from postfix main.cf: virtual_mailbox_domains = /usr/local/etc/postfix/vhosts.txt virtual_mailbox_base = /usr/local/var/spool/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/vmaps.txt virtual_uid_maps = static:1003 virtual_gid_maps = static:1003 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/valias.txt dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

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[Dovecot] Another Assertion Failure in Current CVS Version
by Todd Burroughs 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

This is in the CVS version as of Dec. 12. A user got a few of these: dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:29 Error: 23648 imap(username): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /mailhome/new/s/h/username/DONE (1591 > 19, seq=19, idx_msgs=1593) dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:33 Error: 23648 imap(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < data_size) dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:40 Error: child 23648 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff348 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00005c60 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x080a17ba in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x5c60 <Address 0x5c60 out of bounds>) at failures.c:375 No locals. #7 0x080a1be4 in i_panic ( format=0x80af28c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x08074225 in mbox_sync_headers_add_space (ctx=0xbffff6e0, size=4106) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:99 data_size = Variable "data_size" is not available. (gdb) frame 8 #8 0x08074225 in mbox_sync_headers_add_space (ctx=0xbffff6e0, size=4106) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:99 99 start_pos = ctx->hdr_pos[MBOX_HDR_X_KEYWORDS] != (size_t)-1 ? (gdb) p start_pos Variable "start_pos" is not available. (gdb) p data_size Variable "data_size" is not available. (gdb) p ctx->hdr_pos[MBOX_HDR_X_KEYWORDS] $1 = 1344 (gdb) p *ctx->header $2 = {data = 0x810d2a0, used = 1395}

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[Dovecot] Wiki Documentation: missing item
by Luigi Rosa 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

In the "MainConfig" section of the online documentation (http://wiki.dovecot.org/) one item in the "logging" section is missing. The missing item is "syslog_facility" described in the dovecot-example.conf file. Ciao, luigi -- +--[Luigi Rosa]--

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[Dovecot] Migrating from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot
by Andreas Mimz 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Hi! I'm currently trying to migrate from courier-imapd to dovecot... Unfortunately I'm experiences some difficulties here... Since I don't want any user to notice the change of the server backend I've tried changing the namespace in dovecot.conf to namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no } With this setting almost everything works fine! Almost... ;-) Squirrelmail won't show 'INBOX' on the left side of the folder tree... If I configure dovecot without the 'INBOX.' prefix it works fine in Squirrelmail, except that all other eMail clients show all sub-folders as a sub-folder of root and not the inbox... root \- inbox \- sent \- trash \- drafts \- private \- spam instead of root \- inbox | \- sent | \- trash | \- drafts | \- private | \- spam any Idea what could be wrong? I've read the wiki about the courier-migration and also tried the conversion script ... but something is wrong I'm afraid... thanks in advance, Andreas

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[Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..
by daniel petre 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

i upgraded dovecot from 0.99 to the last version and it doesnt seem to work anymore.. im using vpopmail userdb and i get this in the logs : dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.x.x.x rip=81.x.x.x resp= dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMucm8AcG9jcG9j dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(dani(a)domain,81.x.x.x): unknown user dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:09 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=dani@domain dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:09 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.x.x.x rip=81.x.x.x resp=AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMucm8AcG9jcG9j anyone encountered this? mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully. what am i missing? thanks -- Daniel Petre System Administrator Tech Support Coordinator ............................................................................. RCS & RDS Pitesti Tel.: +40348.400.401 Fax: +40348.400.441 http://www.rcs-rds.ro ............................................................................. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not in the addresses indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail.

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[Dovecot] inbox problems when moving from server to server
by Eric S. Johansson 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

this is probably an FAQ but I moved all the mailboxes from a gentoo server to an ubuntu one and all old inbox messages "disappeared" for. New messages appear and can be read, deleted etc. the old messages can still be found in the Maildir/cur directory like they were on the old mail server. Ownership was changed to user:user and is 600 permissions. Dovecot version: 0.99.14-1ubuntu1 all other mailboxes are fine, all messages visible as far as we can tell. ideas?

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[Dovecot] dovecot and virtual mailbox - suggestions please
by David Bain 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

I've setup postfix to delivered my mail to a maildir located at /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/mydomain.com/myuser My postgresql database called 'mails' has a user table setup as follows: CREATE TABLE users ( userid VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(128), realname VARCHAR(128), uid INTEGER NOT NULL, gid INTEGER NOT NULL, home VARCHAR(128), mail VARCHAR(255), PRIMARY KEY (userid) ); What would the query look like in my dovecot-pgsql.conf file to retrieve the appropriate INBOX information? mine currently looks like this. user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' The user authenticates fine via pop, yet I keeping getting the following error. -*ERR No INBOX for user*

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0alpha imap uid store command response
by Tomas Kuliavas 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hi, Dovecot 1.0alpha (tested 0.99.14, 1.0alpha1, 1.0alpha4 and 1.0alpha5) does not return UID number in 'UID STORE uid-number +FLAGS (\Seen)' command response. Issue is not present in 0.99.14. >From IMAP RFC http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3501.txt 6.4.8. UID Command ... However, server implementations MUST implicitly include the UID message data item as part of any FETCH response caused by a UID command, regardless of whether a UID was specified as a message data item to the FETCH. ... Could you fix your IMAP server? -- Tomas

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[Dovecot] dovecot - postgresql ERR No INBOX for user.
by David Bain 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

I've setup dovecot to authenticate against postgresql. But I consistently get a "No INBOX for user" error when I try to do pop requests. Any pointers would be helpful. Postfix deposits mails in maildirs in the format /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/{domain}/{username}/ below is the result of a telnet test (altered slightly of course, but gives the idea) telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. USER personx(a)myxdomxain.net +OK PASS herexxxx +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. here is my dovecot.conf file /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf =================== ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file protocols = imap imaps pop3 # "host:port". imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 # to make sure that users ca here is my dovecot-pgsql.conf file default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/%lu/%u/Maildir # Authentication process name. auth = default auth_user = root auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf ==================== connect = host=localhost dbname=mails user=xxxxxxname password=xxxxxxx default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' #user_query = SELECT '/%n' as home,uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u'

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