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Problem: mail moved by thunderbird script is invisible to mail clients, but in cur directory
by David Gessel 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

Over the last year I've had a script moving old mail (120 days) into my annual archive folder. This is the first year I've done this with Dovecot, previously it was running against Cyrus. There's nothing particularly clever: a few conditions to match, then "move message to" the appropriate archive folder. There's one for every year from 2000 to 2015. 2015 is just barely ahead of need. 2014 has about a year's mail in the cur directory. The 2000-2013 folders were filled by Cyrus and were migrated over using IMAP Migrate. They're fine, and read normally. The 2014 layout looks normal to me # ls cur dovecot-uidlist dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log.2 new dovecot-keywords dovecot.index dovecot.index.log maildirfolder tmp Permissions are the same as every other folder, as is owner: drw-r----- 2 vmail vmail 9.6K Apr 12 21:13 cur and # ls | wc -l 9822 I've checked with Thunderbird, Mulberry, Claws, and Sylpheed - none can read the directory. The files look normal: 2014/cur 1426411329.M123928P26360.host.domain.com,S=3523,W=3591:2,R More or less the same as a working directory: 2013/cur 1405500734.M958596P27867.host.domain.com,S=794,W=819:2,RS I've run # doveadm force-resync -u user .archives.2014 and nothing changed. I'm at a bit of a loss since no client can read them, something like moving them to another folder and back is a little complicated. Any hints?

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ManageSieve Dovecot v2 listen on localhost only
by trash＠skrilnetz.net 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Hi, How can I only listen on localhost for ManageSieve? I tried: port = localhost:4190 still listening *: tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4190 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 515675 20540/dovecot Would did I not get here? Thanks,

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Replace autocreate after upgrading
by trash＠skrilnetz.net 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Hi, I just upgraded to 2.2.9 and found out that autocreate should not be used any more. I had a look at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings and I tried to replace my old config but I had no success. Would somebody be so and help me to change my config? Here is my old config: http://pastebin.com/zFUAQmV3 Thanks,

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Potentially breaking dict-proxy (dict-sql) backwards compatibility
by Timo Sirainen 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Looks like the dict-proxy code doesn't currently do escaping newlines properly, but it still accidentally happens to work, because the data is stored in the escaped form. I'm thinking about fixing this, but this might break somebody's existing dict usage. But then again maybe nobody is actually using it now, especially because it hasn't been working exactly as expected. So, can anybody tell me if they're currently using a combination of: - dict proxy (especially to dict sql) - containing values which can contain LFs (or TABs) I guess this mainly means storing Sieve scripts or IMAP METADATA to SQL. Or maybe somebody is using dict (via proxy) for their own purposes?..

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Calendar and address book with Dovecot
by mimicafe＠gmail.com 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi guys Thanks for all your input. I'll feedback later... Mimi

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Thunderbird sync time? (reverse quota warning)
by E.B. 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

For reverse quota warning, it looks like webmail works nice. quota_warning3 = -storage=100%% quota-warning below %u # user is no longer over quota But using thunderbird I deleted enough messages to go below quota and I deleted them from trash folder too. But mail log does not show thunderbird connecting to imap to actually delete mails and get the trigger below quota warning msg. It's i thinks a thundrbrd behavior but i wonder if anyone on this list knows how it works? Do i just keep waiting for it to sync eventually? or??????? TIA!

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Dovecot and recipient_delimiter
by J. Echter 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi, we're using thunderbird as our client, it has the functionality to sort spamassassin tagged mails in a folder called 'Junk'. I have this folder on my dovecot server and i'd like to use the recipient_delimiter feature to get my spam/junk mails directly to this folder. what i have done yet: dovecot.conf: plugin { recipient_delimiter = + } postfix: master.cf dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail null_sender= argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} -e -m ${extension} postfix: main.cf recipient_delimiter = + what i get: Apr 14 13:46:50 mule postfix/pickup[22664]: 71ED53C05EE: uid=0 from=<testuser(a)testdomain.test> Apr 14 13:46:50 mule postfix/cleanup[1408]: 71ED53C05EE: message-id=<552cfe2a.tR3wZK7y16RgA548%testuser(a)testdomain.test> Apr 14 13:46:50 mule postfix/qmgr[12559]: 71ED53C05EE: from=<testuser(a)testdomain.test>, size=465, nrcpt=2 (queue active) Apr 14 13:46:50 mule dovecot: lda(testuser(a)testdomain.test): msgid=<552cfe2a.tR3wZK7y16RgA548%testuser(a)testdomain.test>: save failed to junk: Mailbox doesn't exist: junk Apr 14 13:46:50 mule dovecot: lda(testuser(a)testdomain.test): msgid=<552cfe2a.tR3wZK7y16RgA548%testuser(a)testdomain.test>: saved mail to INBOX Apr 14 13:46:50 mule postfix/pipe[10898]: 71ED53C05EE: to=<testuser+Junk(a)testdomain.test>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.04, delays=0.02/0/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Apr 14 13:46:50 mule postfix/qmgr[12559]: 71ED53C05EE: removed here is my complete dovecot -n output: dovecot -n # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.6 (Final) ext4 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 50 M auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ imap_id_log = * imap_id_send = * log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k mail_gid = 5000 mail_home = /DATEN/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/DATEN/vmail/%d/%n/mail/ mail_plugins = " zlib" mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Junk autosubscribe = Junk recipient_delimiter = + sieve = /DATEN/vmail/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /DATEN/vmail/%d/%n/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = sieve imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { chroot = login executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login inet_listener imap { port = 0 } process_min_avail = 4 user = dovecot } service imap { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap } service managesieve-login { chroot = login user = dovecot } service pop3-login { chroot = login user = dovecot } ssl = required ssl_cert = </shared/config/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL:!EXPORT ssl_key = </shared/config/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/vmail protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = postmaster } any hints on what i do wrong here? thanks juergen

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Disk space usage with mdbox
by Alexandros Soumplis 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Hello, I am using dovecot with mdbox+sis and I notice an ever increasing disk space usage since I converted mailboxes from Maildir to mdboxes. I have checked with a user and while it actually uses only 65K, his mdbox files on disk are more than 6G. The backup of his mailbox is just 64K. Any suggestions ? Below are some relevant commands: [root@mail ~]# doveadm quota get -u test Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 10135 31457280 0 User quota MESSAGE 186 - 0 [root@mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /mdboxes/test/ 220 /mdboxes/test/mailboxes 6029348 /mdboxes/test/storage 6029592 /mdboxes/test/ [root@mail ~]# doveadm purge -u test [root@mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /mdboxes/test/ 220 /mdboxes/test/mailboxes 6029348 /mdboxes/test/storage 6029592 /mdboxes/test/ [root@mail ~]# doveadm backup -u test mdbox:/tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/ [root@mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/ 16 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/mailboxes 65540 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/storage 65568 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/

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setting service_count results in Permission denied
by Micah Anderson 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

The load on our machines has gotten too high, so I started to see log messages that directed me to look at this page for config changes: https://pad.riseup.net/redirect#http%3A//wiki2.dovecot.org/SocketUnavailable One of the things I wanted to do on that page was to set the: service imap { service_count = 100 } but when I added that to the service imap block, and restarted dovecot, I see this in the logs: Error: net_connect_unix(/run/dovecot/imap-postlogin) failed: Permission denied I dont understand how this impacts permissions. Its clearly this setting, because when I remove it, things work again. I found nothing else in the logs indicating a configuration problem. This is what the config block looked like: service imap { # Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing files. You may need to increase this # limit if you have huge mailboxes. #vsz_limit = 256M # Max. number of IMAP processes (connections) process_limit = 4096 service_count = 100 executable = imap imap-postlogin } service imap-postlogin { # the script process runs as the user specified here (v2.0.14+): #user = $default_internal_user executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/postlogin_imap # this UNIX socket listener must use the same name as given to imap executable unix_listener imap-postlogin { } } This is with dovecot 2.2.13, thanks for any help you can provide! micah

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concurrent IMAP connections (plus 2 easy questions)
by Ron Cleven 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

I posted a few days back asking about configuration issues with a modestly large number of IMAP connections. Several people were kind enough to respond with various ideas. Armed with those ideas and Google, I was able to determine the underlying configuration issues with CentOS 7 and Dovecot 2.2.10. I did some further benchmarking to ensure that we could properly plan our server configuration requirements as we continue to roll this out, so I thought I would share this, partly to see if anyone has experiences that conflict with my findings. I found that each incremental dovecot IMAP process required about 750k of RAM. Simulations confirmed that 8 gig of RAM was sufficient to support approximately 10,000 concurrent IMAP connections (no POP3). CentOS settings: Added: fs/inotify/max_user_instances = 28000 to: /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf Added: * hard nproc 28000 * soft nproc 28000 * hard nofile 28000 * soft nofile 28000 to: /etc/security/limits.d/20-nproc.conf To verify the settings after reboot: cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances ulimit -Hn ulimit -Sn Dovecot: Added: process_limit = 28000 to service imap{} /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf Added (using proxies, would like to just turn off this check): mail_max_userip_connections = 40 to protocol imap {}: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf Added: process_limit = 28000 to service managesieve {}: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-managesieve.conf Hope this helps someone. Feedback would be welcome. It would be great if there was a blessed cookbook for Dovecot scaling. At this point it seems a bit like an art form. Now to my two "easy" questions. 1) TCP replication between our two CentOS boxes has been working great, no complaints. However, I realized I did not know how to check the status of replications, as one might want to do if one of the two boxes was taken offline for maintenance or repair. On the surface, it would appear that the command: doveadm replicator status '*' would likely show me what I want to know. However, when I tried it, I got: doveadm(): Fatal: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/replicator-doveadm) failed: No such file or directory The documentation says that doveadm assumes the socket /var/run/dovecot/replicator-doveadm and the command format provides a "-a" override. In that directory, there is no "replicator-doveadm" socket, but I do see a "replicator" socket. So, should I be using the command: doveadm replicator status -a /var/run/dovecot/replicator '*' or is the non-existence of the replicator-doveadm socket indicative of something I might have done wrong with the config? I hate experimenting more than I have to with a production box. The 2.2.10 Dovecot I am running was installed via yum, so there are no potential compilation issues. 2) It seems logical to me that: dovecot stop would first lock out any new user connections, then do the equivalent of a: doveadm kick "*" before actually cycling everything else down to ensure the shutdown is as graceful as possible. I suppose I could experiment and find out for certain, but I have the sense that the "stop" command is not quite that elegant, so we have implemented procedures to work around it. Just a point of curiosity. An alternative would be if there was a doveadm command to lock out any new user connections, which could then be followed by kick and stop. I have found that many clients are VERY quick to reconnect after a kick.

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Authcache and user changing
by Lazy 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hi, I have noticed that during auth cache hits usernames are not updated. (We use ldap backend and change username with user_attrs = uid=user, mailMessageStore=home, mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ cold cache lmtp(14414): Debug: auth input: testmon_testmon home=/vmail/te/testmon_testmon quota_rule=*:bytes=104857600 lmtp(14414): Debug: changed username to testmon_testmon lmtp(14414): Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota_rule=*:bytes=104857600 hot cache lmtp(14715): Debug: auth input: iqmon(a)mon.test.pl home=/vmail/iq/testmon_testmon quota_rule=*:bytes=104857600 lmtp(14715): Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/quota_rule=*:bytes=104857600 this kills our dictionary based quota (users have multiple quota instances depending on timing and alias the email was delivered to. Is there a way to force addition of user to the auth cache ? -- Michal Grzedzicki

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special_use folders
by Roman Gelfand 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

My setup is postfix mail gateway/spamassassin on one machine and dovecot mail box server on another machine. Will the following configuration work? 1. On the mail gateway, I install dovecot-lmtp and use it to deliver locally spam. 2. On the mailbox server, I configure special use junk folder to point mail gateway's spam folder via nfs. If this is correct, how can I configure special use folder to point to a path (variable based on email) which is different from default path? If there is a different way to handle this, I would interested. Thanks in advance

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dovecot debug message help required
by Rajesh M 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

hi i was carrying out some testing using qmailtoaster with dovecot on a centos 64 server i am connecting to the mailbox using a windows machine with outlook across the lan. the mailbox is around 7gb in size with around 12000 emails spread across multiple folders and i am trying to sync the mailbox folders to by creating an account imap account in outlook. the mails are getting downloaded in the imap folder but the sync does not complete and outlook throws an error. Task 'Synchronizing subscribed folders for user(a)mydomain.com.' reported error (0x800CCC0F) : 'Outlook cannot synchronize subscribed folders for user(a)mydomain.com.. Error: The TCP/IP connection was unexpectedly terminated by the server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).' in the dovecot log i see the following. Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Effective uid=89, gid=89, home=/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Quota root: name=ignore=Trash backend=maildir args= Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=ignore=Trash mailbox=? bytes=0 messages=0 Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Quota grace: root=ignore=Trash bytes=0 (10%) Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location= Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: mdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/mdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: mdbox: couldn't find root dir Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: sdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/sdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: sdbox: couldn't find root dir Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: maildir: root exists (/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/Maildir) Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/Maildir, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/Maildir, alt= Apr 10 17:12:40 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=28 out=460 i would like to know what the following means -- specifically mdbox and sdbox #################### Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: mdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/mdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: mdbox: couldn't find root dir Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: sdbox: access(/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user/sdbox, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Apr 10 17:12:10 imap(user(a)mydomain.com): Debug: sdbox: couldn't find root dir #################### my dovecot config file # dovecot -n # 2.2.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.5 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 default_login_user = vpopmail disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. mail_debug = yes mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = " quota" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin { quota = maildir:ignore=Trash quota_rule = ?:storage=0 } protocols = imap pop3 service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 400 process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } service pop3-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 400 process_min_avail = 12 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048 ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_lock_session = no pop3_no_flag_updates = yes } thank you, rajesh

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Disabling of userdb/passdb modules using config statements
by Jeroen Massar 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hola, Debian (and possibly other distros) use the /etc/dovecot/conf.d/* setup where default config files are stuffed and then one can just add a 99-myconfig.conf et voila, variables are overruled. This allows the distro to supply updates to the files at package upgrade time without any/much user intervention. The problem (for me ;) is that the system comes provided with: auth-system.conf.ext containing: passdb { driver = pam } userdb { driver = passwd } Hence pam & /etc/passwd based are always enabled. This while I don't have any local users. Replication seems to then always pick up the local users, which are vmail + nobody (65536). doveadm user '*' thus reports vmail, nobody + virtual users Setting: first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 only keeps vmail in there, but apparently some module (guess replication) is still able to figure out that 'nobody' exists: Apr 10 09:48:25 mail dovecot: doveadm(IPADDR,nobody): Error: Mail access for users with UID 65534 not permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file, uid from userdb lookup). Apr 10 09:48:25 mail dovecot: doveadm(IPADDR,nobody): Error: dsync-server: User init failed Apr 10 09:49:38 mail dovecot: doveadm(nobody): Error: sync: Failed to start remote dsync-server command: Remote exit_code=75 and on the other side: Apr 10 09:54:38 mail dovecot: doveadm(nobody): Error: sync: Unknown user in remote This can be resolved by commenting out the entries in auth-system.conf.ext but then I'll have to do that again at package upgrade time. Hence, would it be a cool option to be able (in the 99-myconfig.conf) file to put: passdb { driver = pam enabled = false } userdb { driver = passwd enabled = false } And thereby disabling those modules completely? Thus avoiding upgrade conflicts etc. Greets, Jeroen

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doveadm save ...
by Hardy Flor 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hello, when I have with "doveadm save ..." store a message, how do I get the guid or uid of this message for the setthe flags? Hardy

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dovecot-2.2.16 compilation problems under Solaris Studio 11
by Jürgen Obermann 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hello here are two problems I get when I compile dovecot 2.2.16 under Solaris 10 with Studio 11 Compiler: gmake[4]: Entering directory `/net/fileserv/export/sunsrc/src/dovecot-2.2.16/src/lib' source='test-array.c' object='test_lib-test-array.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../../depcomp \ cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib-test -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/opt/local/include -c -o test_lib-test-array.o `test -f 'test-array.c' || echo './'`test-array.c "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -32768 "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -16384 "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -512 "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -256 "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -128 "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -64 "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -2 "test-array.c", line 129: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -1 "test-array.c", line 154: operand cannot have void type: op "=" "test-array.c", line 154: assignment type mismatch: unsigned short "=" const void "test-array.c", line 206: operand cannot have void type: op "=" "test-array.c", line 206: assignment type mismatch: pointer to const char "=" const void cc: acomp failed for test-array.c gmake[4]: [test_lib-test-array.o] Fehler 2 (ignoriert) gmake[3]: Entering directory `/net/fileserv/export/sunsrc/src/dovecot-2.2.16/src/lib-imap' source='imap-match.c' object='imap-match.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../../depcomp \ /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-charset -I../../src/lib-mail -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/opt/local/include -c -o imap-match.lo imap-match.c libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-charset -I../../src/lib-mail -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/opt/local/include -c imap-match.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/imap-match.o "imap-match.c", line 199: identifier redeclared: imap_match_dup current : function(pointer to struct pool {pointer to const struct pool_vfuncs {..} v, unsigned int alloconly_pool :1, unsigned int datastack_pool :1}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning pointer to struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data} previous: function(pointer to struct pool {pointer to const struct pool_vfuncs {..} v, unsigned int alloconly_pool :1, unsigned int datastack_pool :1}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning pointer to struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data} : "imap-match.h", line 33 "imap-match.c", line 214: identifier redeclared: imap_match_globs_equal current : function(pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning _Bool previous: function(pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}, pointer to const struct imap_match_glob {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct imap_match_pattern {..} patterns, char sep, array[-1] of char patterns_data}) returning _Bool : "imap-match.h", line 36 cc: acomp failed for imap-match.c gmake[3]: [imap-match.lo] Fehler 1 (ignoriert) Greetings Jürgen -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann/ Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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sieve plugin editheader not found
by Patrick Lion 11 Apr '15

11 Apr '15

Hey folks, ive already made a bug report in the gentoo bugtracker last year. In the meantime after some releases the error persists with the current dovecot and pigeonhole versions. Please see my bug report at gentoo mailinglist: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522148 Okay, here are some informations: Steps to Reproduce: add "editheader" to sieve options or "sievec" a file that need the extension if header :matches "Something" "*" { addheader "Anything" "${1}"; deleteheader "Something"; } sievec mod_header.sieve sievec(root): Fatal: Plugin 'editheader' not found from directory /usr/lib64/dovecot/sieve dovecot --version 2.2.16 pigeonhole-0.4.7 sources got downloaded and used in the build process dovecot -n # 2.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.7 # OS: Linux 2.6.32-openvz-042stab102.9-amd64 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.2 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no imap_capability = CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE XLIST QUOTA info_log_path = syslog login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m ip=%r mpid=%e mail_location = maildir:%h/.maildir mail_plugins = quota managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate imapflags notify namespace compat { alias_for = hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext quota = maildir quota_rule2 = trash:storage=+150M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_global_extensions = variables } postmaster_address = mailer-daemon(a)dev.someserver service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = mail mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/postfix/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = hosting mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = postfix } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = mailer-daemon(a)dev.someserver } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota } protocol lmtp { hostname = dev.someserver mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)dev.someserver } Please let me know if you need any additional informations, build logs ( log from 2.213 attached at bugs.gentoo.org ) or whatever may be helpful to track this down.

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Calendar and address book with Dovecot
by mimicafe＠gmail.com 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hi all I recently install Postfix and Dovecot, and so far so good. My assumption was that calendar and address book (similar to Gmail calendar or address book) are part of Dovecot. However I do not see anything concerning them in any of the docs I have read so far. What other software (ideally open source, free) do I need in other to have Calendar and address book so my users can manage their contact on their phones or computer? I have looked at Roundcube already, but my requirement is not necessarily to provide web mail. Thanks Mimi

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pop3 retr responses too large lines - Fails with current python's poplib
by Guillermo M. Narvaja 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Since December 2014, clients using the Python poplib library (getmail in my case) started to limit the line length of RETR and other command responses sent from the server to 2048 bytes: See https://bugs.python.org/issue16041 (Included at least in Python-2.7.9) Dovecot doesn't have line split in the POP3 module, so Python fails to retrieve messages with long lines. RFC 1939 says: " Responses in the POP3 consist of a status indicator and a keyword possibly followed by additional information. All responses are terminated by a CRLF pair. Responses may be up to 512 characters long, including the terminating CRLF. " I think dovecot-pop3 should split it's output in lines of at least 512 characters. Or at least it should have a "pop3_max_line_length" setting (like "imap_max_line_length"). Server side: # dovecot --version 2.2.13 Client side: # python --version Python 2.7.9 # getmail --version getmail 4.47.0 Temporary workaround (on client-side): --- poplib.py.orig 2015-04-08 18:46:48.280879211 -0300 +++ poplib.py 2015-04-08 18:26:01.288556028 -0300 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ # reading arbitrary length lines. RFC 1939 limits POP3 line length to # 512 characters, including CRLF. We have selected 2048 just to be on # the safe side. -_MAXLINE = 2048 +_MAXLINE = 2048*100 class POP3: Thanks in advance. -- Guillermo M. Narvaja Lambda Sistemas S.R.L. www.fierro-soft.com.ar - radiocut.fm Tel: (5411) 3220-1520 (rotativas) y 4857-6662 Cel: (5411) 15-6783-4435 Email: guillermo.narvaja(a)fierro-soft.com.ar MSN: guillermo_narvaja(a)hotmail.com Skype: guillermonarvaja Lavalleja 519 1er Piso - Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Argentina

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FYI: Some 'fun' unlinks with random memory space references
by Jeroen Massar 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hola, Dovecot: 2.2.16 (6bde7868cffd) That is the rename-it 2:2.2.16-1~auto+43 edition. In the beginning of syncing it caused scary things like: Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(OX/dbox-Mails/u.10672) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(ox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/u.10927) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(OX/dbox-Mails/u.10839) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(OX/dbox-Mails/u.10656) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(11147) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(OX/dbox-Mails/u.10637) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(OX/dbox-Mails/u.10807) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(<80><A5><C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(<B0><A6><C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(<E0><A7><C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(#020<A9><C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(@<AA><C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(p<AB><C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(<A0><AC><C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink(Э<C8>) failed: No such file or directory Apr 9 16:24:08 mail dovecot: dsync-server(username): Error: unlink() failed: No such file or directory Might want to put a check before that unlink that nothing dirty is in the buffer... I would not be surprised if this was related to a broken index, as the other side effect I saw during this sync was an ever-expanding maildir (read: sdbox), multiplying itself during sync, keeping large amounts of the the .temp.<xxxx> in the dir, never moving them to a final directory. That was resolved by stopping dovecot, then deleting the broken sdbox (backups++) and performing a 'dovecot force-resync -u user Folder' on the source. Maybe there was a race somewhere while syncing the large amount of data over; seems that everything is okay now though. Greets, Jeroen

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sa-learn with remote Dovecot folders
by Andreas Kasenides 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hi all! The set-up I have is a classic one: 1. one or more Dovecot relay/directors Postfix SMTP servers in DMZ 2. one or more backend IMAP/SMTP servers on the inside network 3. There may or may not be separate incoming or outgoing designated SMTP servers. Now the desired functionality is (of course): 1. relay machines receive messages from outside AND inside 2. relays check for all the bad things (spam, viruses etc). 3. for incoming messages relays check for valid local users and reject messages for invalid users 4. after all checks are done incoming messages are transferred to the backend systems where they are accessed via the Dovecot directors While all the above works nicely, the problem I have is how to train my spamassassin (used by amavisd) on the front ends when all messages are on the back ends. Of course transferring the spam detection procedures internally is not such a great option.Am I missing something? I tried googling for info but nothing substantial turned up. Thanks. -- Andreas Kasenides Senior IT Officer Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus Tel: 22892714, Fax: 22892701 (5B4ANK)

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gmail-migration: archived mails in \ALL
by Peer Heinlein 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hi, I don't completly understand http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Gmail I can't find the documentation for the -a and the -F Flag. I'd like to migrate ONLY archived mails from an existing gmail-Account. So I'd have to import all Mails from the \ALL-Folder that does NOT have any virtual folder flags set. I tried to use this command: doveadm -D -o imapc_user=user(a)example.com -o pop3c_user=user(a)exampe.com -o imapc_password=secret -o pop3c_password=secret -o imapc_host=imap.googlemail.com -v backup -m '[Gmail]/Tutti i messaggi' -F '-$GmailHaveLabels' -x \Flagged -x \Junk -x \Trash -x \Important -R -u user(a)example.com imapc: But it looks like it's importing too many mails and not only the archived mails without Flags. How do I have do understand -F '-$GmailHaveLabels ?? Is it "that NOT have $GmailHaveLabels"? And: Is there any better way to address the \ALL-Folder? I can use "-x \All" to exclude that folder, but it looks like I can't use "-m \All" to select that folder. We're a little bit in hurry since Google will stop its service this weekend. Any fast help would be appreciated. Peer -- Heinlein Support GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 405051-42 Fax: 030 / 405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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dovecot debug LDAP expansion
by Thomas Baumann 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

Hello all, how can LDAP Expansion being debugged? I need to see which LDAP Query is sent to the LDAP server and which Result is sent by the Server. Best regards, Thomas.

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Sieve, multiple addresses, and variables
by Andrew Sullivan 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi, I have another sieve question, this time about setting variables. I join a lot of mailing lists at ietf.org. I thought it'd be handy to filter these all into a common folder and then into individual folders, without having to configure each mailing list independently. So wrote this (this is just a part, obviously): require ["envelope", "variables", "date", "fileinto", "mailbox" ]; if address :is :domain "to" "ietf.org" { if address :matches :localpart "to" "*" {set "lopart" "${1}";} } elsif address :is :domain "cc" "ietf.org" { if address :matches :localpart "cc" "*" {set "lopart" "${1}";} } else {set "lopart" "generic-list-box";} fileinto :create "ietf.${lopart}-in"; stop; } Now, this works, unless someone sends a To: line like this: To: ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca, listname(a)ietf.org The problem in that case is that you _do_ get a match, but the bit "if address :matches :localpart "to" "*" {set "lopart" "${1}";}" ends up putting this in a mailbox ietf.ajs-in, when what is the mailbox ietf.listname-in. I thought that allof(if address :matches :localpart "to" "*", address :matches :localpart "to" "*") {set "lopart" "${1}";}, would solve this, but it doesn't seem to. The localpart matching catches the ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca address anyway, which surprised me. Am I dim, am I not understanding something about how to do this, or is this really impossible? Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca

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Need a bit of help with the antispam plugin
by Anthony Papillion 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hello Everyone, I'm running the antispam plugin on Dovecot 2.0.19 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 and I can't seem to get it to work. In the IMAP section of dovecot.conf I have the following lines: protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota imap_acl antispam # mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota imap_acl imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep # Maximum number of IMAP connections allowed for a user from each IP address. # NOTE: The username is compared case-sensitively. # Default is 10. # Increase it to avoid issue like below: # "Maximum number of concurrent IMAP connections exceeded" mail_max_userip_connections = 20 plugin { antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_backend = pipe antispam_trash = Trash antispam_spam = Junk antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/sa-learn antispam_pipe_program_args = --username=%Lu } } For some reason, when I try to move something to Junk, I get the following in my syslog: Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: plugin initialising (2.0-notgit) Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: verbose debug enabled Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: "Junk" is exact match spam folder Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: no unsure folders Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: "Trash" is exact match trash folder Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend spam argument = --spam Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend not-spam argument = --ham Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend program = /usr/bin/sa-learn Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend program arg[0] = --username=anthony(a)cajuntechie.org Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend tmpdir /tmp Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_unsure(Junk): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_trash(INBOX): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_trash(Junk): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mail copy: from trash: 0, to trash: 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_spam(INBOX): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_spam(Junk): 1 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_unsure(INBOX): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mail copy: src spam: 0, dst spam: 1, src unsure: 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program /usr/bin/sa-learn Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program /usr/bin/sa-learn Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program parameter 1 --username=anthony(a)cajuntechie.org Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program parameter 2 --spam Mar 31 18:27:21 anonymail imap: antispam: run program failed with exit code -1 This is probably a permissions issue but I'm not able to debug it. Can anyone offer me any clues as to what I might be doing wrong or how I might fix it? Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Papillion Phone: 1.918.631.7331 VoIP (SIP): 1259010(a)localphone.com XMPP Chat: cypher(a)chat.cpunk.us Fingerprint: 65EF73EC 8B57F6B1 8C475BD4 426088AC FE21B251 PGP Key: http://www.cajuntechie.org/p/my-pgp-key.html

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can't create folders under shared mailbox's INBOX
by luke.bigum＠lmax.com 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hello, I have a namespace / ACL problem with shared mailboxes that I can't figure out. I have a local user tam(a)crm.yb.lmax that shares it's INBOX and all other folders with on LDAP group. Members of that group can't create a folder under the shared local user's INBOX: [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] S: * MYRIGHTS tam(a)crm.yb.lmax lrwstipekxcd [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] S: A0004 OK Myrights completed. [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] C: A0005 CREATE tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Templates [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] S: A0005 NO [NOPERM] Permission denied I *can* create a folder underneath another folder of the same shared user that already exists: [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] S: * MYRIGHTS tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Drafts lrwstipekxcd [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] S: A0004 OK Myrights completed. [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] C: A0005 CREATE tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Drafts/Test [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] S: A0005 OK Create completed. Creating the subfolder as the local user itself works fine: [08-Apr-2015 11:35:35 +0000]: [4E9C] C: A0005 CREATE INBOX/Templates [08-Apr-2015 11:35:35 +0000]: [4E9C] S: A0005 OK Create completed. However the local user creates INBOX/Templates, whereas the ldap user is creating under tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Templates. Is this an artifact of how we've set up namespaces below? Thanks, -Luke [root@localhost dovecot]# doveconf -n # 2.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.6 (3e924b1b6c5c+) # OS: Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.4 (Final) auth_master_user_separator = * default_login_user = vmail disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_password = secret doveadm_port = 12345 first_valid_gid = 490 first_valid_uid = 490 imapc_ssl_verify = no listen = * mail_access_groups = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox/ mail_plugins = " zlib acl" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mbox_write_locks = fcntl mdbox_preallocate_space = yes mdbox_rotate_size = 10 M namespace { hidden = no ignore_on_failure = no inbox = no list = yes location = mdbox:/srv/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox prefix = %%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } namespace personal { hidden = yes inbox = yes location = mailbox LMAX-Sent { auto = subscribe } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } prefix = INBOX/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = scheme=SSHA512 /etc/dovecot/local-users.passdb driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = scheme=SSHA512 /etc/dovecot/master-users.passdb driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap skip = authenticated } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db sieve = ~/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/%d/%n/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +vacation-seconds sieve_vacation_min_period = 10s zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = imap lmtp sieve replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail user = vmail } } service config { unix_listener config { user = vmail } } service imap-login { process_limit = 500 process_min_avail = 2 user = vmail } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /etc/dovecot/ldap_groups.sh user = vmail } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt ssl_client_ca_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/local-users.userdb driver = passwd-file } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " zlib acl imap_acl" } --- LMAX Exchange, Yellow Building, 1A Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN http://www.LMAX.com/ --- #1 Fastest Growing Tech Company in UK - Sunday Times Tech Track 100 (2014) Awards 2015 Best FX Trading Venue - ECN/MTF - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2014 Best Margin Sector Platform - Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards 2014 Best FX Trading Venue - ECN/MTF - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2014 Best Infrastructure/Technology Initiative - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2013 #15 Fastest Growing Tech Company in UK - Sunday Times Tech Track 100 2013 Best Overall Testing Project - The European Software Testing Awards 2013 Best Margin Sector Platform - Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards 2013 Best FX Trading Platform - ECN/MTF - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2013 Best Executing Venue - Forex Magnates Awards 2011 Best Trading System - Financial Sector Technology Awards 2011 Innovative Programming Framework - Oracle Duke's Choice Awards --- FX and CFDs are leveraged products that can result in losses exceeding your deposit. 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ACL syntax for setting specified folders within Maildir/ read-only for owner
by kepa 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi, I have dovecot (2.2.16, see dovecot -n at end) installed to /opt on CentOS 6 for access on a local network. I would like to create an archival mail account which will reduce the primary account file size and still make older emails easily accessible. How can I set specified folders in this Maildir read-only with ACL? For example, I included this in the dovecot-acl file to specify protected folders in the archives@ Maildir but it did not work: "Email 2013/*" user=archives lrs "Email 2014/*" user=archives lrs Also tried this on folders without spaces with no success (the folders were still delete-able by the user via the Thunderbird client). Each "Email..." folder has several child folders that should also be read-only. BTW, what is the maximum size for a Maildir that Dovecot can comfortably handle? Thanks! Kepa dovecot -n: # 2.2.16: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.6 (Final) mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = [mailbox info ...] plugin { acl = vfile:/opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acl } protocols = imap service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl

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Users can't use Dovecot IMAP
by John Lewis 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Every time a user logs into Dovcot's IMAP service PAM closes the session immediately after it opens. I would like a user to have a session open long enough to read some emails. dictator@drakeclasher:~$ sudo dovecot -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.8 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = failure_show_msg=yes %s driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp" ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = mail driver = pam } Apr 6 21:57:29 drakeclasher su[2346]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user mailtest by dictator(uid=0) Apr 6 21:59:55 drakeclasher su[2346]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user mailtest dictator@drakeclasher:~$ groups mailtest mailtest : Domain Users mail users

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Dovecot keeps creating info files in mail directory instead of home
by Jeffrey 'jf' Lim 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now, and I'm really at a loss. My userdb is set up correctly to return home, and mail, and a test with 'doveadm user' verifies this: # doveadm user user@domain field value uid 1000 gid 1000 home /var/domain/user mail maildir:/var/mail/user@domain I've reloaded, restarted, stopped and started dovecot again - and even deleted the info files in the mail directory just to be sure - but each and every time I log in with imap, dovecot recreates the files again (dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, etc.) in the mail directory instead of home. I've even made sure just in case that the home directory is accessible to all, and chmod 777, but nothing gets created there. And I dont get any errors at all in the logs. I'm on the latest version (2.2.16). -jf -- He who settles on the idea of the intelligent man as a static entity only shows himself to be a fool. Mensan / Full-Stack Technical Polymath / System Administrator 12 years over the entire web stack: Performance, Sysadmin, Ruby and Frontend

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Authentication with Samba using Kerberos fails
by Justin Clacherty 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi, I've been having some problems getting GSSAPI authentication going against a samba (4.2) server and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've searched through Google and haven't managed to find a solution yet. I followed the config instructions at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Kerberos and run through the testing. Testing from the server with telnet does as expected i.e. I get the "+" after I try "a authenticate GSSAPI". However, when I go to test from Thunderbird on while logged in on a Windows PC joined to the domain authentication fails and I see the following in mail.log (I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS). Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17667) Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011GSSAPI#011service=imap#011secured#011session=e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl#011lip=192.168.1.1#011rip=192.168.1.101#011lport=143#011rport=49986 Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(?,192.168.42.101,<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl>): Obtaining credentials for imap(a)server.corp.mydomain.com Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT#0111#011 Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(me(a)corp.mydomain.com,192.168.1.101,<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl>): security context state completed. Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT#0111#011YIGVBgkqhkiG9xIBAgICAG+BhTCBgqADAgEFoQMCAQ+idjB0oAMCAReibQRrkGiOLsky4fbzWGzpxgW4mjmpjvNsiCqH8MnsUKviP9v1oVLPXSVkqFzFUiCLAd130ldnf742o/inz9Dx6e0aETwDKnnZu9OUD2nCGg/f5zA20IXGWR1zXVJi3hEB8nmrLgaENhyX0JMiE6g= Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(me(a)corp.mydomain.com,192.168.1.101,<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl>): Negotiated security layer Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT#0111#011BQQF/wAMAAAAAAAAIvajggH////ubQhCZGfeuWGZQ7w= Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Panic: file auth-request.c: line 716 (auth_request_is_disabled_master_user): assertion failed: (request->requested_login_user != NULL) Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e271) [0x7f524a7da271] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e34e) [0x7f524a7da34e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f524a795a9e] -> dovecot/auth(+0x15162) [0x7f524ac7e162] -> dovecot/auth(auth_request_lookup_credentials+0x22) [0x7f524ac7f8d2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libmech_gssapi.so(+0x20d4) [0x7f52499450d4] -> dovecot/auth(auth_request_handler_auth_continue+0xd1) [0x7f524ac81391] -> dovecot/auth(+0x1052a) [0x7f524ac7952a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x27) [0x7f524a7ea247] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd7) [0x7f524a7eafd7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f524a7e9de8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f524a79ac93] -> dovecot/auth(main+0x38c) [0x7f524ac7750c] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f5249d8dec5] -> dovecot/auth(+0xe6d9) [0x7f524ac776d9] Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 17668 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: imap-login: Warning: Auth connection closed with 1 pending requests (max 0 secs, pid=17667, EOF) Apr 8 11:49:19 server dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth process communication failure): user=<>, method=GSSAPI, rip=192.168.1.101, lip=192.168.1.1, TLS, session=<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl> Relevant parts of my config: auth_anonymous_username = anonymous auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 hours auth_cache_size = 0 auth_cache_ttl = 1 hours auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = no auth_default_realm = CORP.MYDOMAIN.COM auth_failure_delay = 2 secs auth_gssapi_hostname = server.corp.mydomain.com auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot/krb5.keytab auth_master_user_separator = auth_mechanisms = gssapi auth_proxy_self = auth_realms = auth_socket_path = auth-userdb auth_ssl_require_client_cert = no auth_ssl_username_from_cert = no auth_use_winbind = no auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_username_format = %Lu auth_username_translation = auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = no auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth auth_worker_max_count = 30 userdb { args = uid=dovecot gid=dovecot home=/var/vmail/%u default_fields = driver = static override_fields = } Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Justin.

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Search Public Folder
by Bobber 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

I'm trying to use doveadm fetch to search a folder that is public for all users. The command runs but the output is empty. There are no error messages. Is there anything different to do in order to search public folders? -- *Bob Wooldridge*

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Search Public Folder
by Bob Wooldridge 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

I'm trying to use doveadm fetch to search a folder that is public for all users. The command runs but the output is empty. There are no error messages. Is there anything different to do in order to search public folders? -- Bob Wooldridge EDM Incorporated http://www.edm-inc.com

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Deleting empty folders
by Samuel Williams 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

So, along with the problem of lots of folders ending in 1 1 1 1, I'd like to have a strategy to delete these. I was trying to understand if it is possible to use http://linux.die.net/man/1/doveadm-expunge to delete empty folders, but without also deleting messages? Is this possible and if so what is the syntax? Kind regards, Samuel

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What to read about interactions
by Andrew Sullivan 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi, TL;DR: I am having a hard time synthesizing the information I need out of the website/wiki documentation, and google isn't turning up what I need, so I'm looking for advice on what I should read next to understand the way aliases, dovecot's lmtp, and pigeonhole work together. Details below. I've been using dovecot happily for some years, but in a recent migration of my mail server I set up something that I think will be slightly easier to maintain. I now have a single (in my case postgres) database backing all user names and so on, with postfix relying on dovecot auth for user validation and delivery. I have the usual anti-spam machinery in there, and have started using the (for me new) pigeonhole implementation of sieve. (My old mail system was built around the earlier dovecot implementation, and while I've patched it over time it's really pretty creaky.) On the whole, this all seems very nice, but I'm having a hard time understanding the details of what interacts with what other bits when. In particular, my mail system is known by several different names, and I thought it'd be much handier to have everything land in one real mailbox, since I could sort the inbound mail into different mailboxes without a lot of trouble using seive. This has turned out to be slightly trickier than I thought it ought to be (procmail is in some ways easier), and I've come to the conclusion that I don't have a strong foundation in exactly how this is supposed to work. Apart from reading the code (which would probably at this point be hard enough for me so as to make it impossible), are there things I ought to read to understand this better? I've read the seive RFCs, but while that gives me a clue about what ought to happen protocol-wise, it isn't helping me at all to understand the interaction among the different subsystems so that I can see clearly how different parts of the delivery chain are interacting. I'm sure there's some crucial bit of, "Everyone knows that," that I've overlooked, and I thought it would be better to ask for the FM than just to read randomly until I stumbled on it. Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca

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currupt folder structure --> INBOX 1 1 1 1 1
by Thorben Hemmler 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi all! I´ve got a problem with some (not all) of my mailboxes. If you see, some folders got strange names. 41943652 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:42 INBOX 1 42205306 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:46 INBOX 1 1 42336882 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:48 INBOX 1 1 1 42337295 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:49 INBOX 1 1 1 1 42598861 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:51 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 42730114 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:54 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730261 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:57 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730276 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:57 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730291 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:58 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730306 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:59 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730321 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:00 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730336 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:01 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730351 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:02 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730366 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:03 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730381 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:04 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730400 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:05 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 and so on..... Any ideas what I´m doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Thorben

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Using dovecot to serve an email archive
by Ramón Casares 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

I have a collection of old email messages, archived as follows: 1) One file per message. 2) Messages (=files) distributed in a hierarchy of dirs under mailarch. 3) Each file (=message) uses the name <seconds>.R<sha1>.mail Here <seconds> is the date of the message, expressed as the number of seconds from 1-1-1970 00:00 in 10 digits, and <sha1> is the SHA-1 hash of the message contents, expressed in hexadecimal, [0-9a-f]. The advantages of this file naming scheme are: 1) All important metadata are in the file name. 2) You can verify the integrity of each message using only its own data and metadata. 3) Each file name is unique. 4) It is compatible with maildir (qmail) unique names (uniq). 5) If a dir is sorted alphabetically, then it is ordered chronologically. 6) The extension .mail can be used to call an appropriate message reader. >From time to time I add new messages and dirs to the archive, but some dirs are closed forever, so it would be nice to tar.gz'ip them. Now I am looking for an IMAP server that can serve this collection in a read-only (ro) manner. That is, the server should not write the mailarch dir at all. I am exploring two possibilities: 1) using hard links. 2) using FUSE to set a rw layer on top of the ro archive layer. But I am new to dovecot, so perhaps there is an easier way to achieve what I want, and therefore I would appreciate very much your advice.

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Sieve/ManageSieve documentation on Wiki2
by Robert Blayzor 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Is it possible the Sieve/ManageSieve documentation on the Wiki can be cleaned up? It's incredibly confusing now. Some of the Sieve configuration information says certain options are deprecated, but then the example on how to configure it uses the deprecated options rather than what they *should* be now. More confusion is the sieve plugin configuration listing those same deprecated options, yet when you pull the document on how to configure ManageSieve, it (again) uses deprecated configuration information? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/ManageSieve/Configuration Or am I missing something? -- Robert inoc.net!rblayzor http://inoc.net/

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IMAP logging / rawlog
by G H 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

I am trying to monitor with Nagios that my phones are consistently checking into dovecot via IMAP. I used to be able to parse syslog for imap-login messages. I have since updated my phones, the phoness email client (k9-mail) and dovecot. Now the imap-login messages are few and far between. However, I can clearly see via tcpdump that some traffic is happening when I click refresh on k9. I enabled "rawlog" support in dovecot, but it doesn't seem to write to disc frequently enough. 1) Does anyone have a better suggestion for how to monitor that my phone is checking in regularly? 2) Is there a flush-to-disk capability for rawlog in dovecot? 3) Also, when you have imap_zlib plugin enabled, the rawlog logs the raw compressed data instead of the decompressed IMAP commands. Is this an oversight? (FYI: k9 is calling SELECT "INBOX" on refresh) Thanks, G H

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Question About Dovadm syntax
by Kenneth Ulrich 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Hello All, I just have a quick question about doveadm commands. 1. Is there a command that we can use to count emails for a particular end user? 2. If an end user needed to copy/move emails from one account to another, is there a command? Also, I've searched Google results, numerous Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora forums, Doveadm forums, and read the DoveCot/DoveADM man pages numerous times and either I am over looking, or I am not understanding. Thus why I am asking here.

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speaking of sieve scripts... how to selectively not send vacation autoreply
by Harondel J. Sibble 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

Don't need to block anyone like in the "Re: Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG" thread, but when I have my vacation recipie active, I'd like it to NOT reply to certain addresses. I tried the following, you can see the section with if header :contains "addressIdontwant(a)repliedtoo.tld" is commented out, once I'd added that section, no Vacation messages went out at all. Googling and reading the wiki and recipie suggestions doesn't make it clear how to exempt a list of addresses from ever receiving a vacation response. Suggestions on additional reading or solutions? require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "Subject" "**SPAM**" { fileinto "Trash"; stop; } #if header :contains "addressIdontwant(a)repliedtoo.tld" { # stop; #} vacation # Reply at most once a day to a same sender :days 1 :subject "Changes to email addresses effective Jan 01/15" # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying. # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is sent for it. :addresses ["user(a)repliedtoo.tld"] This is on a Dovecot 1.x system that is slated for an upgrade soon. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Ltd. Creating Solutions for the small and medium business computer user. harondel(a)pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3CC3CFCE not 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com Blog: http://www.pdscc.com/blog (604) 739-3709 (voice)

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Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG
by Timo Sirainen 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hi all, Today I can finally announce that Dovecot Oy company has merged with Open-Xchange AG. This helps us to get more Dovecot developers, support people and so on. Most importantly, eventually it should allow me to get back to doing what I like the most: Designing new and interesting stuff for Dovecot and perfecting the old stuff :) OX is a great match to Dovecot going forward. They also really like open source and share our plans for the future. Nothing big will change as a result of this merger: Dovecot will stay Dovecot with its own name and release schedules. We're not going to force OX and Dovecot to be the same product, other than having a somewhat deeper integration between them. Here are the press release links about it: http://www.dovecot.fi/open-xchange-and-dovecot-announce-merger-to-create-wo… http://www.open-xchange.com/dovecot http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18

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EL6 EE package dependencies
by Will Yardley 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

I've been trying to upgrade Dovecot-ee package (on EL6/x86_64) from 2.2.15.8-1 to 2.2.16.2-1. It's complaining on these two dependencies: liblz4.so.1 libtextcat.so.0 These would both seem to be related to plugins, and don't seem to be required as package dependencies by the RPM from what I can see from the SRPM. Anyone know what packages I need to satisfy these dependencies?

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Install process breaks its self by design
by Merlin at Desktop Masters 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Greetings, I just tried to install Dovecot for the first time. It was on a virgin Ubuntu/Debian server (Version: 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5) and the install failed. After a bit of struggling I worked out that the install fails BY DESIGN. Spoke about this with a few people and we decided it was best to report this issue and request that you redesign the packing so it does not fail. The reason it fails is as follows... When you install it asks you if you want to use self signed certificates. I have certificates so I said, "No". At the end of the install the script tries to start dovecot. It cannot because the service does not have certificates so it fails. This causes the script to abort and the other packages not to install and breaks the install process. I had to purge dovecot, then install it with the self signed certificates. So we have 2 issues here. 1. Why allow people to not install certificates if it is just going to break the install and confuse them. 2. Why are you starting the service right after install when dovecot clearly requires manual configuration as part of the setup. I recommend you resolve this by NOT starting the service as part of the install unless it is an upgrade and the service was already running. ~ Merlin

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Re: Install process breaks its self by design
by Merlin at Desktop Masters 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Correct Correct Correct And when I went to the page it lead me here. Whomever is making the .deb packages needs to be made aware of this. Can you please point me into a direction? ~ Merlin On 4/1/2015 4:33 PM, edgar(a)pettijohn-web.com wrote: > On 2015-03-29 13:58, Merlin at Desktop Masters wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I just tried to install Dovecot for the first time. It was on a >> virgin Ubuntu/Debian server (Version: 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5) and the >> install failed. After a bit of struggling I worked out that the >> install fails BY DESIGN. Spoke about this with a few people and we >> decided it was best to report this issue and request that you redesign >> the packing so it does not fail. The reason it fails is as follows... >> > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> When you install it asks you if you want to use self signed >> certificates. I have certificates so I said, "No". At the end of the >> install the script tries to start dovecot. It cannot because the >> service does not have certificates so it fails. This causes the >> script to abort and the other packages not to install and breaks the >> install process. I had to purge dovecot, then install it with the >> self signed certificates. >> >> So we have 2 issues here. 1. Why allow people to not install >> certificates if it is just going to break the install and confuse >> them. > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > > 2. Why are you starting the service right after install when >> dovecot clearly requires manual configuration as part of the setup. > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> >> I recommend you resolve this by NOT starting the service as part of >> the install unless it is an upgrade and the service was already >> running. >> > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> ~ Merlin >

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Mismatch search user in ldap
by Jean-François Sénéchal 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi I do not understand the right configuration I had a loop worries the users received the same message multiple times and testing other users config was not found so what is the right config to the following scheme My ldap scheme : mail: jf(a)marche.be gosaMailForwardingAddress: jf(a)citoyen.marche.be gosaMailAlternateAddress: toto(a)marche.be dovecot-ldap.conf.ext user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_recipients.cf virtual_alias_maps = proxy:ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_recipients.cf ldap_virtual_recipients.cf : server_host = localhost search_base = ou=Users,ou=Citoyens,dc=marche,dc=be scope = sub bind = no version = 3 query_filter = (&(|(mail=%s)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%s)(gosaMailForwardingAddress=%s)(uid=%s))(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)) result_attribute = uid is it correct ? thanks

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multiple imap servers for high availability
by Robert Fantini 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hello, We run imap for our domain at our lan. I'd like to set up a backup mirror that has imap storage always duplicated. Then using something like heartbeat to share the imapd IP address . Could someone point me to documents , if any , that give ideas on how to set up the mirror? best regards, Rob

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Migrating from Cyrus to Dovecot
by Miloslav Hůla 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hi, we are migrating from Cyrus 2.3.7 to Dovecot 2.2.13. We have ~7000 maildirs with ~500GB. Our goal is to do the migration without users have notice and with the shortest service downtime. The users use IMAP (with shared folders and ACL), POP3 and sieve filters. As a first choice, we tried the Dovecot's dsync tool. First tests were great, but we are not able to change the Cyrus auth backend for migration. Moreover, this migration seems too slow for us. As a second try, we tried the cyrus2dovecot migrating Perl scripts (and their derivates) from Wiki2. More or less they works but we found we need more control during the migration. So, as a third try, we wrote own migrating scripts. And thanks to the cyrus2dovecot it wasn't too much complicated. And there are my questions: A) Files and dirs timestamps The mtime of email file is important as an internal date as I found on Wiki2. But what about timestamps of cur/new/tmp directories or Dovecot's internal files line dovecot-uidlist? Do they play some role here? B) The 128 bit mailbox UID The Wiki2 speaks about 128 bit mailbox UID at first line of dovecot-uidlist. Cyrus preserves only 64 bit UID. Is this mailbox UID required by Dovecot? If so, can we use 0000000000000000501100008c4a11c1 (Cyrus UID padded by zeros)? C) Format of dovecot-uidlist records Wiki2 shows two examples: 25006 :1276528487.M364837P9451.kurkku,S=1355,W=1394:2, 25017 W2481 :1276533073.M242911P3632.kurkku:2,F Which format is preferred? Or what the benefits are? D) Converting between CRLF and LF If I understand correctly, Dovecot stores emails with LF only. We have all emails with CRLF now on Cyrus and converting them to LF only is a little more time consuming. Is there any benefit to do that? Or can we live with 'mail_save_crlf' without problems? E) POP3 backend I found many informations about IMAP internals but few on POP3 internals. What do I need to do POP3 migration transparent for user? Many thanks for any answers. Regards, Milo

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quota setup assistance (postfix+dovecot+mysql)
by rooster 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hello list, I have been struggling with establishing a working installation of dovecot with mySQL quota support. I have not been able to find a guide or tutorial that works for the current revisions of software I have at my disposal. Most notably, the error I see in the mail log is as follows : Mar 23 00:55:31 host dovecot: lmtp(328): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so Mar 23 00:55:31 host dovecot: lmtp(328): Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: command_unregister Mar 23 00:55:31 host dovecot: lmtp(328): Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins I have attached my dovecot -n output. The installed revision of dovecot is 2.2.9 on ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS. Thank you in advance. --

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sieve rule for "header don't exist"
by Reindl Harald 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

is there a way to expresse when the header "X-Spam-Status" *do not* exist move the message to a different folder? :contains, :matches and :is are not helpful here background: the spamass-milter option -B is lacking the spamassassin headers in case of milter-rejects and via sendmail generated BCC while flagged messages contain the headers - so it would be nice to move the rejected ones to a subfolder "REJECTED" instead into the inbox

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Problem connecting to an imap account with Dovecot
by Laurent Rathle 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Hello, I have several accounts on my server. I can’t connect to one of them using Apple mail on Mac or IOS to create my account or read my mail in these applications. I can send mails to this address and read them with my Horde webmail. I have these messages in the log : Mar 28 12:21:49 sd-41648 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13705, TLS, session=<vKWGdFcSXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Mar 28 12:21:50 sd-41648 dovecot: service=imap, user=laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr, ip=[::1]. Disconnected: Logged out rcvd=26, sent=435 Mar 28 12:21:50 sd-41648 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13707, TLS, session=<Sw2LdFcSXgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Mar 28 12:21:51 sd-41648 dovecot: service=imap, user=laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr, ip=[::1]. Disconnected: Logged out rcvd=89, sent=1447 Mar 28 12:21:21 sd-41648 postfix/master[31571]: message repeated 4 times: [ warning: master_wakeup_timer_event: service pickup(public/pickup): Connection refused] Mar 28 12:21:52 sd-41648 postfix/master[31571]: warning: master_wakeup_timer_event: service qmgr(public/qmgr): Connection refused Mar 28 12:21:53 sd-41648 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13709, TLS, session=<cDPCdFcScwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Mar 28 12:21:54 sd-41648 dovecot: service=imap, user=laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr, ip=[::1]. Disconnected: Logged out rcvd=44, sent=457 Mar 28 12:21:54 sd-41648 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13711, TLS, session=<9vDSdFcSnQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Mar 28 12:21:56 sd-41648 dovecot: service=imap, user=laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr, ip=[::1]. Disconnected: Logged out rcvd=860, sent=132669 Mar 28 12:21:57 sd-41648 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13713, TLS, session=<1pvxdFcSpwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Mar 28 12:21:58 sd-41648 dovecot: service=imap, user=laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr, ip=[::1]. Disconnected: Logged out rcvd=1266, sent=108893 Mar 28 12:22:12 sd-41648 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13720, TLS, session=<XCXadVcStwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Mar 28 12:22:20 sd-41648 dovecot: service=imap, user=laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr, ip=[::1]. Disconnected: Logged out rcvd=309, sent=11066 Mar 28 12:22:21 sd-41648 postfix/master[31571]: warning: master_wakeup_timer_event: service pickup(public/pickup): Connection refused Mar 28 12:22:23 sd-41648 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=13724, TLS, session=<QAiBdlcSwgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Mar 28 12:22:23 sd-41648 dovecot: service=imap, user=laurent(a)xxxxxx.fr, ip=[::1]. Disconnected: Logged out rcvd=214, sent=3159 I have : Plesk 12 Ubuntu 14.04.2 Dovecot 2.2.12 You can see my configuration file here : http://pastie.org/10059309 What should I do ? Thank you

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