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[Dovecot] 1.2 , mail_location & mbox_snarf
by Laurent Moineau 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello, I'm currently running 1.1.20 and I'm planning to upgrade to 1.2.10 I've read carefully the wiki page "Upgrading Dovecot v1.1 to v1.2" and a few messages concerning mail_location parameter but I still don't know what to change in my configuration in order to keep it working after the upgrade. I'm using mbox format and mbox_snarf plugin. dovecot -n : protocols: imaps pop3 pop3s listen: * ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ipop3d.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ipop3d.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_gid: 12 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_lazy_writes: no mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): mbox_snarf mail_plugins(imap): mbox_snarf mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: debug: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: mbox_snarf: %h/mail/INBOX Any help would be appreciated. Thanx. Laurent Moineau

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[Dovecot] Problem in sharing mailboxes across users
by Rampage 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello everyone, I'm trying to configure dovecot to allow users to share their imap folders. I've followed the wiki and i'm near to accomplish my tasks, when i set ACL properly on folders using imap commands the other user can see the folder as shared, but i can't subscribe to it or even access its content using any email client (like thunderbird) couse it looks like the path to the shared folder is not complete. i mean when i go to "manage subscriptions" i can see the shared folder from the other users as "shared/user@domain/sharedfoldername" but since only "sharedfoldername" is present i cant subscribe to it. am i missing somethimg? like do i need to setup a particular directory tree on the filesystem? thnx in advice for your help. Best regards. Francesco.

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[Dovecot] Problem with allow_nets passdb parameter and Postfix
by Неворотин Вадим 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

I use Dovecot for SASL authentication from Postfix. In Postfix main.cf I have: smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot It works good, but now I need to allow users to connect by IMAP only from given IP adresses. I've added extra field allow_nets to passdb in Dovecot, and IMAP authentication works fine. But now I can't connect to my SMTP server because when smtpd ask dovecot about user authentification, dovecot always denied it. Even if I try to connect to SMTP from correct IP, listed in allow_nets for user. In dovecot log I have messages about incorrect ip like this: dovecot: 2010-02-15 13:28:51 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(malamut): lookup: user=malamut file=/etc/dovecot/temp.users dovecot: 2010-02-15 13:28:51 Info: auth(default): passdb(malamut): allow_nets check failed: Remote IP not known dovecot: 2010-02-15 13:28:53 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 7 user=malamut Problem is clear: smtpd don't send client IP to dovecot authentication socket. But I need to limit the ability of connection to users only from specific IP. Both for SMTP and IMAP. How can I do that? I use dovecot 1.0.15 and Postfix 2.5.5 on Debian Lenny.

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[Dovecot] deliver problem ( Error: file_dotlock_create )
by Frank Bonnet 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello all ( Postfix and Dovecot ) Trying to use deliver as mailbox_command with Postfix I get this error each time an email is arriving deliver(xxxxxxxx): Error: file_dotlock_create(/var/mail/xxxxxxxx) failed: Permission denied (euid=3003(xxxxxxxx) egid=3010(smig) missing +w perm: /var/mail) (set mail_privileged_group=mail) Doea this means I have to chmod 777 the /var/mail directory ? Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] dovecot v1.2.10 + unknown mail_uid parameter
by maximatt 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

hi... i upgrading dovecot from v1.0.7 to v1.2.10, so i perform some modifications (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.1 and http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2) but i have the following problem when i want to test installation: in dovecot.conf, i set the user mail: mail_uid= 72940 mail_gid= 72941 but when i try to start dovecot i have the following error: # sbin/dovecot Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf line 962: Unknown setting: mail_uid Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # sbin/dovecot --version 1.2.10 i try, but i dont know how to fix them :( thanks in advance! :) -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] quick question
by David Halik 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Timo (and anyone else who feels like chiming in), I was just wondering if you'd be able to tell me if the amount of corruption I see on a daily basis is what you consider "average" for our current setup and traffic. Now that we are no longer experiencing any core dumps with the latest patches since our migration from courier two months ago, I'd like to know what is expected as operational norms. Prior to this we had never used Dovecot, so I have nothing to go on. Our physical setup is 10 Centos 5.4 x86_64 IMAP/POP servers, all with the same NFS backend where the index, control, and Maildir's for the users reside. Accessing this are direct connections from clients, plus multiple squirrelmail webservers, and pine users, all at the same time with layer4 switch connection load balancing. Each server has an average of about 400 connections, for a total of around concurrent 4000 during a normal business day. This is out of a possible user population of about 15,000. All our dovecot servers syslog to one machine, and on average I see about 50-75 instances of file corruption per day. I'm not counting each line, since some instances of corruption generate a log message for each uid that's wrong. This is just me counting "user A was corrupted once at 10:00, user B was corrupted at 10:25" for example. Examples of the corruption are as follows: ########### Corrupted transaction log file ..../dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 28: Invalid transaction log size (32692 vs 32800): ...../dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log (sync_offset=32692) Corrupted index cache file ...../dovecot/.Sent Messages/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted physical size for uid=624: 0 != 53490263 Corrupted transaction log file ..../dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 66: Unexpected garbage at EOF (sync_offset=21608) Corrupted transaction log file ...../dovecot/.Trash.RFA/dovecot.index.log seq 2: indexid changed 1264098644 -> 1264098664 (sync_offset=0) Corrupted index cache file ...../dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Corrupted index cache file ...../dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: field index too large (33 >= 19) Corrupted transaction log file ..../dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 40: record size too small (type=0x0, offset=5788, size=0) (sync_offset=5812) ########## These are most of the unique messages I could find, although the majority are the same as the first two I posted. So, my question, is this normal for a setup such as ours? I've been arguing with my boss over this since the switch. My opinion is that with a setup such as ours where a user can be logged in using Thunderbird, Squirrelmail, and their Blackberry all concurrently at the same time, there will always be the occasional index/log corruption. Unfortunately, he is of the opinion that there should rarely be any and there is a design flaw in how Dovecot is designed to work with multiple services with an NFS backend. What has been your experience so far? Thanks, -Dave -- ================================ David Halik System Administrator OIT-CSS Rutgers University dhalik(a)jla.rutgers.edu ================================

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[Dovecot] Anyone successfully setup Continous Backup of mailboxes using rsync ?
by CoolAtt NNA 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi All.. Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running rsync every 2 min) Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT , etc.. If anyone among you did that plz guide & advise. Thanks CoolAtt _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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[Dovecot] dovecot-sieve vacation vs qmail-ldap
by Lazy 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Helloo, We are using dovectot lda with qmail-ldap, dovecot 1.2.10, sieve 0.1.15 lda is executed as exec /var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver -s preline adds Delivered-To: header, everything works fine except vacation Feb 9 16:07:16 thebe dovecot: deliver(lazy): sieve: msgid=unspecified: discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to <lazy(a)thebe.org> Feb 9 16:07:16 thebe dovecot: deliver(lazy): sieve: msgid=unspecified: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' thebe.org is the hostname of the machine, oryginal recipient address has other domain .dovecot.sieve file looks like this require ["vacation"]; #autoresponder vacation :days 1 :subject "Auto Reply / Odpowiedz automatyczna" "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"; I did experiments with :addresses ["*"] without any luck. deliver only gets user and HOME directory form env variables provided by qmail, so it's unaware of the target email address. How to fix it ? I was thinking about deliver extracting target address from Delivered-To: header added by qmail's preline, or use DTLINE env variable, whitch qmail populates with Delivered-To header.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.8 problem on AIX
by Jonathan Siegle 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Running revision 9492:3efdbaab2960(Mon Nov 23) on AIX 5.3. I run dovecot out of inetd. Every once in a while I get the following error: Dovecot is already running with PID 2592842 (read from /usr/ladmin/dovecot-1.2.8/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) when I try to connect to the imap port. -Jonathan

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[Dovecot] using signed certificates for TLS/SSL
by Leonardo Rodrigues 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, I have, in one customer, a web server running on a Verisign-signed certificate SSL certificate. Everything works fine, IE and Firefox connects on https without asking anything, which usually happens on self-signed certificates. I'm trying to use that certificate on dovecot, but clients (Thunderbird basically) keeps saying the certificate is not valid. yes i'm using, when configuring Thunderbird, the same CN that was signed by Verisign for the web usage i've enabled verbose_ssl and got when thunderbird tries to connect: Feb 18 12:32:02 correio dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=201.86.xxx.xxx, lip=192.168.1.2, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca unknown CA ??? is that Thunderbird that is not recognizing the Verisign-signed certificate ? Do i need to, somehow, install some Verisign CA certificate in dovecot.conf ? when using a self-signed certificate, i also get an SSL_accept failed, but with different message: Feb 18 12:41:45 correio dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=201.86.191.114, lip=192.168.1.2, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate despite the fact my certificates were generated for use with Apache, i can 'print' them, both of them, with the same commands i use to print dovecot generated certificates, with mkcert.sh. So, it seems they are compatible. if i click OK on Thunderbird, when using my Verisign-signed certificates, everything works and i do got TLS logs: Feb 18 12:23:36 correio dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user(a)domain.com.br>, method=PLAIN, rip=201.86.xx.xx, lip=192.168.1.2, TLS, TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Feb 18 12:31:43 correio dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user(a)domain.com.br>, method=PLAIN, rip=201.86.xx.xx, lip=192.168.1.2, TLS, TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) what am i doing wrong ?? or using a signed-certificate for WEB usage is not possible on dovecot ? -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes(a)solutti.com.br My SPAMTRAP, do not email it

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[Dovecot] revision control on maildir possible?
by Markus Beyer 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to put a dovecot managed maildir under a vcs like system, for example git or bzr. I'd like to have a seamless history of all mail going in and out of my mailboxes, so a vcs like system seams a good choice for me. I'm not quite sure however if that would cause any problems to dovecot and what the best way of handling commits would be. If anyone on the list got any pointers regarding this, it would be much apprechiated. Best regards, Markus -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser

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[Dovecot] tls not working on ubuntu
by zhong ming wu 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello List, I'm new to dovecot. I have sucessfully configured dovecot with just virtual users on a centos linux box to my satisfaction; I can connect with TLS with disable_plaintext_auth = yes. This dovecot is also version > 1. Can't post exact version right now but it's what comes with Centos 5.4. On a Ubuntu 9.10 box here, I cannot connect with TLS (port 110) but I can connect with plain SSL (port 995). The config files between centos and ubuntu boxes are the same except for minor details. The following is the log entry Feb 17 21:38:18 ubuntu dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=192.168.0.101, lip=192.168.0.108 The output below is from a binary compiled from source. I have also tested with 1.1.11 (that I get from apt-get install) with the same config file. I have tested ubuntu with both Thunderbird 3 and thunderbird 2. I have also searched google as well as dovecot website. Thanks mr.wu # 1.2.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31-14-server x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10 ext4 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: pop3 pop3s listen: 192.168.0.108 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/pop.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/pop.key ssl_parameters_regenerate: 29 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: user: authdove debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/%d/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=2000 gid=2000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n

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[Dovecot] Sieve libexec /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
by Filip Dvořák 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi, I have installed dovecot(1.2.10) with --libexecdir=/usr/lib . Dovecot sieve(0.1.15) is compiled with --with-dovecot but still uses /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver instead of /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver. How should be dovecot sieve configured to use /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver thanks in advance Filip # dovecot configuration: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules \ --with-db --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-sqlite \ --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/dovecot/ssl \ --with-gssapi --with-ldap=plugin --enable-header-install --with-docs # dovecot sieve configuration: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot # /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-config: CFLAGS="-std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 " LIBS=" -lrt" SSL_LIBS="-lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz " STORAGE_LIBS="$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/list/libstorage_list.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/cydir/libstorage_cydir.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/dbox/libstorage_dbox.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/libstorage_maildir.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/libstorage_mbox.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/raw/libstorage_raw.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/shared/libstorage_shared.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/libstorage.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-index/libindex.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-imap/libimap.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-mail/libmail.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-auth/libauth.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-charset/libcharset.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib/liblib.a" LIBICONV="" MODULE_LIBS="-export-dynamic -ldl" dovecot_incdir=/usr/include/dovecot moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules CFLAGS="-std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscri LIBS=" -lrt" SSL_LIBS="-lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz " STORAGE_LIBS="$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/list/libstorage_list.a $(top_ LIBICONV="" MODULE_LIBS="-export-dynamic -ldl" dovecot_incdir=/usr/include/dovecot moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules # end of dovecot-config dovecot -n output: # 1.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27-lts i686 ext3 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail.pruda.com/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail.pruda.com/key.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)pruda.com mail_plugins: sieve sieve_global_path: /home/vmail/dovecot-global.sieve sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: user: nobody passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: /home/vmail/%u/dovecot.sieve home: /home/vmail/%u

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[Dovecot] Special user
by Daniel L. Miller 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Not sure what to call this - I'm actually working out the details as I type this. I want to have a valid username/password for an account for sending purposes - but when receiving this is an alias that broadcasts to several users. Example: accountspayable(a)mydomain.com - is an alias for jane(a)mydomain.com, june(a)mydomain.com, and john(a)mydomain.com. However - any mails sent (from a particular client software) should all only show "accountspayable" as the sender. How would I implement this? I'm asking here because Dovecot serves as the authentication mechanism for my SMTP server (Postfix) via LDAP lookups. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] salted passwords
by Leonardo Rodrigues 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

The idea of salted hash algorithms is to generate a different hash even if the same text is entered. That can be easily seen with dovecotpw: using NON-salted SHA256, same hash is generated for a given password [root@correio ~]# dovecotpw -s SHA256 -p 123 {SHA256}pmWkWSBCL51Bfkhn79xPuKBKHz//H6B+mY6G9/eieuM= [root@correio ~]# dovecotpw -s SHA256 -p 123 {SHA256}pmWkWSBCL51Bfkhn79xPuKBKHz//H6B+mY6G9/eieuM= [root@correio ~]# dovecotpw -s SHA256 -p 123 {SHA256}pmWkWSBCL51Bfkhn79xPuKBKHz//H6B+mY6G9/eieuM= [root@correio ~]# using SALTED SHA256, a different hash is generated for the same given password [root@correio ~]# dovecotpw -s SSHA256 -p 123 {SSHA256}FpJZqafpEVKp2heepp9Z7+OeHaX+DBVpLzd6GKg3BW1XqDS0 [root@correio ~]# dovecotpw -s SSHA256 -p 123 {SSHA256}6lWmvtO3SKG5RMET5n89WMIp0xeCg3U14xH1xnAXbvkr8Yjk [root@correio ~]# dovecotpw -s SSHA256 -p 123 {SSHA256}7fXVjC7Iiu0Ko9SgyBpbDvbwMSkoxMILRjDUE0nNpCHBFaIa [root@correio ~]# This ideia is OK to me ... but i'm having a hard time trying to figure out how my dovecot-sql.conf would be in the case i store salted SHA256 passwords on the database. The idea is to use a RANDOM salt, not a fixed one, just like dovecotpw does. would it be as simple as changing the 'password', which today is plaintext, by something like concat('{SHA256}',password) ??? dont i have to give the salt, somehow ?? Or should i store the salt used in the password, for example first or last N characters .... is there anyone using dovecot with MySQL and SSHA256 passwords that can share me the dovecot-sql.conf file ? -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes(a)solutti.com.br My SPAMTRAP, do not email it

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[Dovecot] zlib plugin trouble
by Stéphane Cottin 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hi, I have error with dovecot 1.2.10 + compress on deliver patch and zlib plugin. logfile sample: [...] mail.err: Feb 16 14:22:25 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): zlib_istream.seek() failed: Invalid argument mail.err: Feb 16 14:22:25 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): FETCH for mailbox Meursault UID 101 failed to read message input: Invalid argument mail.err: Feb 16 14:22:26 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): gzread() failed: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC mail.err: Feb 16 14:22:26 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): zlib_istream.seek() failed: Invalid argument mail.err: Feb 16 14:22:26 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): FETCH for mailbox Meursault UID 101 failed to read message input: Invalid argument mail.err: Feb 16 14:22:26 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): gzread() failed: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC [...] mail.err: Feb 16 14:36:24 dovecot: IMAP(hidden2(a)domain.com): gzread() failed: UNEXPECTED_EOF mail.err: Feb 16 14:36:24 dovecot: IMAP(hidden2(a)domain.com): FETCH for mailbox Sent.MARKETING.DAG ALLEMAAL UID 1 failed to read message input: Invalid argument mail.err: Feb 16 14:59:18 dovecot: IMAP(hidden2(a)domain.com): gzread() failed: UNEXPECTED_EOF [...] mail.info: Feb 16 14:08:35 dovecot: IMAP(hidden2(a)domain.com): Disconnected: BUG: Unknown internal error bytes=1099335/4103 mail.info: Feb 16 14:16:40 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): Disconnected: BUG: Unknown internal error bytes=15193/2552616 mail.info: Feb 16 14:16:41 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): Disconnected: BUG: Unknown internal error bytes=295/6715 mail.info: Feb 16 14:16:41 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): Disconnected: BUG: Unknown internal error bytes=295/6715 mail.info: Feb 16 14:16:42 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): Disconnected: BUG: Unknown internal error bytes=295/6715 mail.info: Feb 16 14:16:42 dovecot: IMAP(hidden(a)domain.com): Disconnected: BUG: Unknown internal error bytes=295/6715 [...] dovecot -n : # 1.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_process_per_connection: no mail_max_userip_connections(default): 30 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 30 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 mail_privileged_group: mail maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): zlib antispam quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): zlib antispam quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(pop3): zlib quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve lda: postmaster_address: hidden(a)noc.com mail_plugins: autocreate quota sieve fts fts_squat zlib quota_full_tempfail: yes sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve/ auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 cache_size: 1024 passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 group: vchkpw plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: Trash:ignore quota_rule2: Junk:ignore quota_rule3: &AMk-l&AOk-ments supprim&AOk-s:ignore quota_rule4: Deleted Items:ignore quota_rule5: Deleted Messages:ignore quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 antispam_signature: X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing: error antispam_trash: trash;Trash;Deleted Items;Deleted Messages;&AMk-l&AOk-ments supprim&AOk-s antispam_spam: Junk antispam_dspam_args: --mode=teft;;--user;%u fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=10 sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: ~/sieve zlib_save_level: 9 zlib_save: gz

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot+Postfix+Maildir with ActiveDirectory userbase
by Wayne Thursby 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

> Wayne Thursby put forth on 2/15/2010 10:24 AM: > > > My Setup: > > Postfix and Dovecot running on the same virtual machine on a Dell 2950 > > with 1x Xeon E5440 on ESXi 4. Maildirs served up by 10x146GB SCSI drives > > on RAID-10 via direct attached Dell MD-1000. > > Interesting setup Wayne. > The same ESXi/RAID combo are also running several other VMs using 7 of its 8GB of RAM. > > Serving 600+ users, mailbox sizes up to 14GiB with constant heavy > > searching (no fts yet) and filtering (sieve and IMAP clients). 80,000 > > messages delivered per week, 95,000 messages rejected, 17,000 spam. 15 > > minute Load average stays under .50 all day with 4 CPU cores. > > How many CPUs are listed in /proc/cpuinfo under that Ubuntu VM? ESX by > default only exposes one CPU(core) to a VM guest OS. Any chance you didn't > tweak the VM config and that your Ubuntu guest is only running on time slices > of a single core? Your results are even more impressive if that's the case. Sorry if it's less impressive, but I've certainly configured the VM for 4 cores. The cores are shared equally between all VMs, I've done no prioritization because I've not had any performance issues related to resource contention. Having 10x15k RPM spindles to seek across, and 512MB of cache on the controller, means I can give Postfix/Amavis/Dovecot 3GB of RAM to use, and 1GB of it is always used for cache, without ever dipping into swap. I get occasional spikes to 30ms of disk latency, but it stays below 5ms for most of the workday. > Also, are you seeing the classic system clock drift of ESX guests, > and if so, is it causing problems with smtp and imap? Not at all, that's what the VMware tools are for. The ESXi host is configured to use our NTP server inside the VPN, and the VMware tools package synchronizes the guest clock with the host. I ran into this on our webmail client as well, then I discovered how easy it really is to install the VMware tools on Ubuntu, so it's no longer a problem. Don't want to stray off topic, so I'll start a new thread, but I'm now attempting to bring High Availability to the mix, and could use some suggestions. -- Wayne Thursby System Administrator Physicians Group, LLC

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[Dovecot] sieve addflag has stopped working
by Andrew Schulman 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Dovecot 1.2.10 in Debian, using Dovecot sieve. I have a sieve script, generated by Ingo, that's supposed to mark spam messages as "Seen" and file them into the Junk folder. In part it reads: require ["regex", "body", "imapflags", "fileinto"]; if exists "X-Spam-Flag" { addflag "\\Seen"; fileinto "Junk"; removeflag "\\Seen"; stop; } This has been working correctly for a long time, but since about 2 weeks ago now, the "Seen" flag isn't being set, although the messages are still being filed into the Junk folder. In two different mail clients, new messages in the Junk folder show up as being unread. Looking at the mail files that hold those messages, the file names don't have an "S" flag appended, while older messages all have the "S" and show up as already seen in the mail clients. I don't believe that I've updated dovecot recently, so I'm not sure why the behavior has changed. Note that I do have plugin { sieve_extensions = +imapflags } in dovecot.conf. I know that imapflags is deprecated, but it is still supposed to be supported. Unfortunately ingo1 doesn't support imap4flags yet (http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8784) I'm trying to find log information that might indicate an error, but I'm not finding much. /var/log/exim4/mainlog just says: 2010-02-15 14:22:14 1Nh6WK-000200-8z <xxx(a)xxx.xxx>: deliver_pipe transport output: deliver(andrex): Info: sieve: msgid=<ad58db2a42700ec0e5c924c8882d48c2(a)yourmailnews.net>: stored mail into mailbox 'Junk' The wiki says that there should be a log file ~/.dovecot.sieve.log, but there isn't one, which I guess means there are no error messages. Output of dovecot -a is below. Any ideas why the Seen flag isn't being set any more? Thanks, Andrew. # dovecot -a # 1.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: info_log_path: log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: mail protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): localhost listen(imap): localhost listen(managesieve): localhost:2000 ssl_listen: imap ssl: yes ssl_ca_file: ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/helium-imaps.cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/helium-imaps.key.pem ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_cert_username_field: commonName ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_trusted_networks: login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 512 mail_max_userip_connections: 10 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: 500 last_valid_uid: 0 first_valid_gid: 1 last_valid_gid: 0 mail_access_groups: mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail_gid: mail_location: maildir:~/.mail mail_cache_fields: mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: no mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: no mail_nfs_storage: no mail_nfs_index: no mailbox_list_index_disable: yes lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: no maildir_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins: mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 10 imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds: imap_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o imap_id_send: imap_id_log: imap_idle_notify_interval: 120 pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl: no pop3_save_uidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s dict_db_config: dict_process_count: 1 managesieve_max_line_length: 65536 managesieve_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o managesieve_implementation_string: dovecot lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)xxx.xxx mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda mail_plugins: sieve log_path: /dev/stderr log_timestamp: auth default: mechanisms: plain realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 cache_negative_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: root chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ username_translation: username_format: master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: gssapi_hostname: winbind_helper_path: /usr/bin/ntlm_auth failure_delay: 2 verbose: no debug: no debug_passwords: no ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no use_winbind: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: pam args: deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: passwd args: plugin: sieve_extensions: +imapflags sieve_dir: ~/.mail/sieve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot+Postfix+Maildir with ActiveDirectory userbase
by Wayne Thursby 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

> Luigi Rosa <lists(a)luigirosa.com> uttered: > Hi, > has anyone implemented a mail server with maildir, Postfix and Dovecot > using > Active Directory ad userbase and password authentication? > > Do I need Samba to authenticate users? > > Can I use credential caching just like mysql? > > > Ciao, > luigi > > -- > / > +--[Luigi Rosa]-- > \ Hi Luigi, I am running a Postfix/Dovecot setup that is authenticating against a Windows 2000 domain. It is possible to authenticate several different ways, including Kerberos/Winbind and NTLM via Samba. I used the following article as a guide. It is for FreeBSD, but the configuration instructions apply equally to any Postfix/Dovecot setup. I am running mine on Ubuntu 8.10. http://blog.al-shami.net/index.php/freebsd-postfix-dovecot-and-active-direc… The above article covers most of the setup, however I have changed a few things for my purposes. In short, I am using LDAP to communicate with the Active Directory server. I am looking up email addresses and aliases from AD in Postfix and using Dovecot as LDA. Postfix uses Dovecot's SASL for authentication, and Dovecot in turn authenticates against AD. My Setup: Postfix and Dovecot running on the same virtual machine on a Dell 2950 with 1x Xeon E5440 on ESXi 4. Maildirs served up by 10x146GB SCSI drives on RAID-10 via direct attached Dell MD-1000. Serving 600+ users, mailbox sizes up to 14GiB with constant heavy searching (no fts yet) and filtering (sieve and IMAP clients). 80,000 messages delivered per week, 95,000 messages rejected, 17,000 spam. 15 minute Load average stays under .50 all day with 4 CPU cores. IMAP clients include Outlook 2007, Thunderbird 2 and 3, in addition to webmail via Group Office (yuck). dovecot-ldap.conf: # Include multiple domain controllers for redundancy, first one is # at the same facility as the Dovecot server. hosts = 10.0.1.12:389 10.0.2.12:389 10.0.3.12:389 # Specify the full DN of a user to authenticate against dn = cn=Internal, ou=People, dc=example, dc=com dnpass = some_secure_password auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = ou=People, dc=example, dc=com # Specify the base storage for email here user_attrs = sAMAccountName=home=/var/vmail/example.com/%$ # The following user_filter should all be on a single line. # The ugly userAccountControl param means "Exclude disabled users" user_filter = (&(sAMAccountName=%Ln)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) pass_filter = (&(sAMAccountName=%Ln)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) For the Postfix side of things, the article explains how to set Postfix to use Dovecot's SASL for authentication. It also specifies separate confs for Postfix to lookup users and aliases from. For my purposes, I decided not to modify the AD schema, and to instead utilize an unused field to store aliases in. This field had to be able to store multiple values in a way that I could query easily via LDAP. I chose the "IP Phone" field for this purpose. In the AD GUI it is easily accessible, and allows for multiple values to be stored. Note its usage in the queries that follow. /etc/postfix/ldap-users.cf: # Same list of DCs as in dovecot-ldap.conf server_host = ldap://10.0.1.12:389 ldap://10.0.2.12:389 ldap://10.0.3.12:389 search_base = dc=example, dc=com bind = yes bind_dn = EXAMPLE\internal bind_pw = a_secure_password # Use this lookup for email addresses matching the following domains # corresponds with virtal_mailbox_domains in main.cf domain = example.com, examplelegacy.com, exmple.com # The following query has been modified a bit from the above article. # First, the userAccountControl param specifies the exclusion of # disabled users. # The other change is from objectClass to objectCategory. query_filter = (&(&(objectCategory=person)(sAMAccountName=%u))(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) result_attribute = sAMAccountName version = 3 # I was having trouble with referrals not resolving properly due to a # misconfigured domain controller. I turned this option off and have # not had a problem since. chase_referrals = no result_format=example.com/%s/ debuglevel = 0 timeout = 30 /etc/postfix/ldap-aliases.cf: # Same list of DCs as in dovecot-ldap.conf server_host = ldap://10.0.1.12:389 ldap://10.0.2.12:389 ldap://10.0.3.12:389 search_base = dc=example, dc=com bind = yes bind_dn = EXAMPLE\internal bind_pw = a_secure_password domain = example.com, examplelegacy.com, exmple.com # This query looks up aliases from the otherIPPhone field. query_filter = (&(&(objectCategory=person)(|(otherIPPhone=%u)(sAMAccountName=%u)))(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) result_attribute = sAMAccountName version = 3 chase_referrals = no result_format=%s(a)example.com debuglevel = 0 timeout = 30 The objectCategory replacement for objectClass is a *huge* performance increase. objectClass is not indexed in Active Directory, forcing a lot of CPU cycles to be wasted for every lookup. The way I have implemented things, this means two of these expensive lookups per incoming email (even if it was undeliverable!). At first this was using around 50% CPU on a dual Xeon domain controller. This was acceptable at the time, but after my optimizations we were able to move authentication to a virtual machine with 640MB of RAM and a single CPU core where it now stays below 20% all day. Changing the lookup to an indexed field probably cut the initial load by 90%. Adding auth_cache settings to dovecot.conf then further reduced load by more than 50%. Well, I suppose that screed should suffice for my first post. I've gained much from just lurking in this list, just trying to contribute where I can. -- Wayne Thursby System Administrator Physicians Group, LLC

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Re: [Dovecot] [RCU] Dovecot managesieve
by Frank Bonnet 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Well I've looked forward into the wiki and did not found my server have only system users ( no virtual domain ) and the wiki says : System users If you wish you use deliver for all system users on a single domain mail host you can do it by editing mailbox_command parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf (postconf(5)): That's what I did but then I have this problem with DOTLOCK If I chmod 777 /var/mail directory it works but I do not feel comfortable with that kind of access rights ... On 02/12/10 20:39, Joseph Kolb wrote: > Hi Frank, > > the question is, do you use the LDA of dovecot (LocalDeliveryAgent)? > If so, then yes, you must add/modify some stuff in master.cf. This is good > described in dovecot wiki :-). > > Regards, > Joseph > > Am Freitag 12 Februar 2010 15:42:12 schrieben Sie: >> Hi Joseph >> >> Thanks for your answer >> >> did you modify something in Postfix main.cf file ? >> >> >> Frank >> >> On 02/12/10 11:57, Joseph Kolb wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:13:53 +0100, "A.L.E.C"<alec(a)alec.pl> wrote: >>>> Frank Bonnet wrote: >>>>>> protocol lda { >>>>>> >>>>>> # Address to use when sending rejection mails. >>>>>> postmaster_address = postmaster(a)esiee.fr >>>> >>>> In dovecot-1.1 I've got in "protocol lda" section: >>>> >>>> mail_plugins = cmusieve >>> >>> Hi Frank, >>> >>> i use also dovecot 1.2.10 >>> >>> and here is my part of dovecot.conf >>> >>> -->snip<--- >>> protocol imap { >>> >>> ssl_listen = *:993 >>> mail_plugins = quota imap_quota >>> >>> } >>> >>> protocol lda { >>> >>> postmaster_address = postmaster(a)xxxx.xx >>> log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log >>> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info-lda.log >>> mail_plugins = sieve >>> >>> } >>> -->snip<--- >>> >>> Regards, >>> Joseph >>> _______________________________________________ >>> List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/users/ >

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[Dovecot] Capability COMPRESS implemented?
by Ed W 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Hi, I just read that http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4978 ..is being implemented in Thunderbird 3. This is great news! It's been a long time since we last discussed this and I don't think it's currently implemented in Dovecot, but since Cyrus just added it, any chance of getting support in Dovecot please? (Fastmail seems to be supporting this effort) On a similar note we had a previous thread about supporting TLS deflate - any chance you could investigate this again and add support on the Dovecot side so at least it would be feasible to submit a bug fix on the Thunderbird side? (It looked like a one liner change back when we last discussed it?) Thanks Ed W (Obviously for those looking for an external high performance compressor you can use our compressing email proxy from http://www.mailasail.com ...)

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[Dovecot] So, what about clustering and load balancing?
by Stefan Foerster 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Hello world, so, with beta2 of Dovecot 2.0 being available, what is the preferred way to achieve load balancing and fault tolerance? As far as I can see it, there are basically two options: 1) Use a HA shared storage, export either a cluster filesystem or NFS, and have your dovecot servers mount that file system. Load balance these servers (Cisco ACE, ldirectord, ...) and there you go. Overall performance is limited by the speed of the shared storage and may further decrease due to locking issues, imperformant cluster filesystems and so on. 2) Set up every dovecot server with local storage and trigger a dsync after each change (pyinotfiy, incron, parse LMTP delivery logs, ...). Load balance these servers as before. Depending on the number of syncs that have to be done, mailbox replication may lag behind. The need to constantly spawn dsync processes may further decrease performance if you don't do it right (stickiness of established connections, replicating at most every xyz seconds). What are your opinions on that matter? Stefan P.S: I've set up option two in a test setup, though the incron/inotify part is still giving me a headache.

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[Dovecot] POP3 with dovecot LDA and sieve
by Arthur Titeica 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Hello. I'm using Postfix with Dovecot as IMAP, POP3 and LDA. With sieve rules I successfully move mails to specific mailboxes and this is great if accessing the account thru IMAP. However, when accessing thru POP3 I only get mails from Inbox. I wonder if it's possible to get real new mails, regardless of the folder they're in. Thanks for any thoughts. Arthur

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[Dovecot] comprehensive info on search capabilities?
by Kārlis Repsons 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

People, where to read about how to make the most of the current Dovecot search capabilities, including squat and possibly also the related future plans? There are many aspects like IMAP protocol itself, extensions, current support into Dovecot, support among MUAs... Could you post some good links, please?

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[Dovecot] Virtual plugin and user_query
by Arthur Titeica 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Hello, As per a previous reply regarding POP3 I'm now trying to configure the virtual plugin. However I don't really understand how to modify the sql user_query to properly indicate inbox=yes. I created 3 namespaces as per wiki instructions and I've modified the password and user queries as bellow: password_query = \ SELECT email, password, login , concat('*:bytes=', quota) \ AS userdb_quota_rule, \ CASE '%s' WHEN 'pop3' THEN NULL ELSE 'yes' \ END AS namespace_1_inbox, \ CASE '%s' WHEN 'pop3' THEN 'yes' ELSE NULL \ END AS namespace_2_inbox \ FROM users \ WHERE email = '%u' AND login = 'active' user_query = SELECT \ concat('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule, \ CASE '%s' WHEN 'pop3' THEN NULL ELSE 'yes' \ END AS namespace_1_inbox, \ CASE '%s' WHEN 'pop3' THEN 'yes' ELSE NULL \ END AS namespace_2_inbox \ FROM users \ WHERE email = '%u' After that all I get in the logs is: IMAP(arthur(a)psw.ro): Error: namespace configuration error: inbox=yes namespace missing IMAP(arthur(a)psw.ro): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed As I don't really understand those case sql queries is there something I should add in the mysql tables? Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] deliver and cloning file permissions
by Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Hi! I'd like to use deliver (dovecot-1.2.10) as LDA to deliver mails to my local users on my postfix-system. However, deliver tries to copy the filesystem permissions of the mail-spool-files to the user's index files, which doesn't work, since the files in /var/mail/ belong to the group 'mail'. Feb 13 00:21:19 leo-x61 dovecot: deliver(leo): fchown(/home/leo/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=100(users), group based on /var/mail/leo) I know that dovecot tries to clone the mailbox permissions in order to support shared folders but it would be nice if there was an option to disable this (or to just try it and ignore the fchown error). I could manually change group ownership of all mailboxes from mail to each user's primary group or set the mailbox-modes to 0600 but I'd also have to do that for every new user. (Tools to create users like useradd from shadow-utils use hardcoded file modes and group ownership.) Is there any workaround? Thanks, --leo -- e-mail ::: Leo.Bergolth (at) wu.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: IT-Services | Vienna University of Economics | Austria

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[Dovecot] Plugin question
by Valery Gorbunov 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Hi All I needs to write plugin which converting messages by replacing entier message by one of parts of this message. In another words I need show part of multipart message instead entire message. Stream substitution in *mail->v.get_stream()* function gives incorrect results because mail indexed and cached before. Therefore I should wrap email during indexing too. something like: ----- struct index_transaction_context * it; it->ibox->mail_vfuncs->get_stream = convert_get_stream; ----- Is it enough or idea to replace mail stream by another will don't work anyway? Could you suggest how to show one mail instead another in Dovecot environment? Thank you Valery Gorbunov

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[Dovecot] Dovecot+Postfix+Maildir with ActiveDirectory userbase
by Luigi Rosa 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, has anyone implemented a mail server with maildir, Postfix and Dovecot using Active Directory ad userbase and password authentication? Do I need Samba to authenticate users? Can I use credential caching just like mysql? Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ This morning at breakfast, I noticed that Kellogg's have put a helpline number on their cornflake packets. When you need a helpline for breakfast cereals, it's time to start thinking about tearing down civilisation and giving the ants a go. --Chris King -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkt2wGAACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZR3qQCgv7+smY1v1YY3OAK+A2lH/adr JtIAoIU+yd9zecP+iKoSxOAyaZJLnRfR =KnFa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] scalability
by Jonathan Tripathy 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hi Folks, How scalable is dovecot. Do you think a machine with a dual core 2.8Ghz processor and 2GB of RAM would do a business with 600 users? This server will have a 100Mbps link to the net, however it will be access by the business using a couple of ADSL lines (Roughly 7Mbps each). This machine will also be running Postfix Your help is appreciated Cheers Jonny

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[Dovecot] problem with deliver segfaulting
by Leonardo Rodrigues 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

i'm facing a pretty hard to debug problem when trying to use dovecot LDA (deliver) from postfix. After having all configured, mail deliver fails. This is from my maillog: Feb 12 21:27:54 correio postfix/pipe[12484]: 930F9F6105: to=<solutti(a)domain.com.br>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.21, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0.18, dsn=4.3.0, status=SOFTBOUNCE (Command died with signal 11: "/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver") at the same time, i have from my /var/log/messages: Feb 12 21:27:54 correio kernel: deliver[12485]: segfault at 0 ip 4c1be763 sp bff64c28 error 4 in libc-2.5.so[4c193000+13f000] so, seems deliver segfaults. so i tried enabling mail_debug=yes on dovecot.conf for getting some debug ..... and, with mail_debug enabled, deliver WORKS !!!! Feb 12 21:28:41 correio postfix/pipe[12748]: 1A969F6105: to=<solutti(a)domain.com.br>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.28, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0.24, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) disabling mail_debug makes the segfault happens again .... and reenabling mail_debug make it works again ! how can i debug this !?!?!? -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes(a)solutti.com.br My SPAMTRAP, do not email it

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[Dovecot] REPOST: mbox vs maildir
by Ashley M. Kirchner 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Ignoring my previous message just for a second, I realized that my config wasn't correct. First the layout: ~mail/ ~mail/Drafts ~mail/Ashley-Feb09 ~mail/Others-Feb09 ~mail-Archives/ ~mail-Archives/2009/ ~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/ ~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Dec09 ~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Nov09 ~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Oct09 So I (now) have this for namespaces: namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail/" location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes # for v1.1+ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail-Archives/" location = maildir:~/mail-Archives:LAYOUT=fs inbox = no hidden = no list = yes subscriptions = yes } But when I'm in Thunderbird and I try to subscribe to anything that falls inside of ~/mail-Archives/ it won't work. I can browser all the way down to the folder, but I can't see anything within that folder. For example, consider the full path to the following 'Ashley-Dec09' mailbox: ~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Dec09 In Thunderbird, when I hit 'Subscribe' I can browse down to '2009' and I can see 'Ashley', but I can't drill down into it and subscribe to 'Ashley-Jan09'. What am I missing here?

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[Dovecot] dovecot v1.2.10 + unknown mail_uid parameter [RESOLVED]
by maximatt 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

hi.. i can resolve them setting de following parameters: in dovecot.conf: - coment mail_uid and mail_gid parameters: #mail_uid= 72940 #mail_gid= 72941 in dovecot-ldap.conf: - add the foollowing parameters in "user_attrs": user_attrs= .....,=uid=72940,gid=72941 thanks! -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] sieve vacation
by Lampa 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hello, scenario: OK 1. created vacation script (see below) OK 2. send message from user(a)anotherdomain.tld to user(a)domain.tld => got auto vacation response (2010-02-11T19:42:13) OK 3. send message from user(a)anotherdomain.tld to user(a)domain.tld => no response (is ok because ":days 1" settings) (2010-02-11T19:47:46) BAD 4. send message from anotheruser(a)anotherdomain.tld to user(a)domain.tld => no response (2010-02-11T19:48:04) Why is discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to <user(a)domain.tld> ? log: 2010-02-11T19:42:13.669321+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: msgid=<052a01caab49$ec4752e0$c4d5f8a0$@tld>: sent vacation response to <user(a)anotherdomain.tld> 2010-02-11T19:42:13.732541+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: msgid=<052a01caab49$ec4752e0$c4d5f8a0$@tld>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' 2010-02-11T19:47:46.271534+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: msgid=<053201caab4a$b295ece0$17c1c6a0$@tld>: discarded duplicate vacation response to <user(a)anotherdomain.tld> 2010-02-11T19:47:46.275891+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: msgid=<053201caab4a$b295ece0$17c1c6a0$@tld>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' 2010-02-11T19:48:04.958622+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: msgid=<053701caab4a$bda90220$38fb0660$@tld>: discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to <user(a)domain.tld> 2010-02-11T19:48:04.965875+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: msgid=<053701caab4a$bda90220$38fb0660$@tld>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' vacation script: ----------- require "vacation"; vacation :days 1 :subject "Auto reply" "auto reply message"; -------------- Thank you -- Lampa

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and duplicates
by Veikko "Wexi" Skurnik 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

On 10.2.2010 1:54, Gabriel Millerd wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Veikko "Wexi" Skurnik <wexi(a)wexin.net > <mailto:wexi@wexin.net>> wrote: > > > I'm having a problem setting up duplicate filtering on my mail > server. I've set up the mail server with Postfix and Dovecot with > virtual LDAP users, ClamAV virus scanning. The problem is that > some of the virtual users use multiple e-mail addresses and > postfix delivers emails sent to a user as many times as the user > has email address entries in LDAP. I was wondering what would be > the smartest way to get rid of these duplicates, they have > identical message ID:s and a simple procmail recipe does the > trick, however as I'm using dovecots deliver, procmail isn't the > answer. Is it possible to use Sieve to do this, I've been > googling around *a lot* and haven't found anything that would > solve the problem... > > > i would assume that there is a postfix mechanism for consolidating > these once it has normalized / expanded the rcpts for the message. > > > -- > Gabriel Millerd I've been trying to figure this out and no luck... I still think that one possibility could be a Sieve script that would discard messages based on a message-ID cache like the procmail recipe does. Does dovecot's deliver have some sort of message-ID cache that could be used to removed the duplicates? Or if anyone has any ideas how to do this, I'm open to suggestions =) Wexi -- * Veikko "Wexi" Skurnik: +358(44)5288338 * * wexi(a)wexin.net Wexi@IRCNet * * Näyttämönkatu 4 B 12 33720 Tampere * * "Kosminen balanssi ei saa järkkyä" *

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + managesieve + Roundcube
by Frank Bonnet 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hello I've installed managesieve on my mailhub FreeBSD from dovecot-managesieve ports to let roundcube users build email filters. The filter are well created in the right directory but the filter seems inefficient ( it does not filter ;-) ) see below the result of the dovecot -n command Thanks for any info > mail# dovecot -n > # 1.2.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf > # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE amd64 > log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log > info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log > protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve > listen(default): * > listen(imap): * > listen(pop3): * > listen(managesieve): localhost:2000 > disable_plaintext_auth: no > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login > login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login > login_processes_count: 10 > login_max_processes_count: 256 > login_max_connections: 1024 > max_mail_processes: 4096 > verbose_proctitle: yes > mail_privileged_group: mail > mail_location: mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 > mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve > mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap > mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap > mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 > mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve > imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep > imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep > imap_client_workarounds(pop3): > imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): > pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv > pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv > pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu > pop3_uidl_format(managesieve): %08Xu%08Xv > managesieve_logout_format(default): bytes=%i/%o > managesieve_logout_format(imap): bytes=%i/%o > managesieve_logout_format(pop3): bytes=%i/%o > managesieve_logout_format(managesieve): bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) > lda: > postmaster_address: postmaster(a)esiee.fr > auth default: > verbose: yes > worker_max_count: 50 > passdb: > driver: passwd > userdb: > driver: passwd > plugin: > sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve > sieve_dir: ~/sieve

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[Dovecot] apache2 mod_authn_dovecot
by Boris Manojlovic 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Dear All, I have created apache2 module that allows web users to authenticate against dovecot auth daemon. It connect to dovecot authentication client socket. Currently implemented mechanism is plaintext PLAIN. Currently there are no plans to support any other as only thing that i have created in apache module is "Basic" auth. Source code can be downloaded from; http://github.com/bmanojlovic/mod_authn_dovecot or tagged version v0.1 from: http://github.com/bmanojlovic/mod_authn_dovecot/tarball/v0.1 Currently built RPMS can be downloaded from OpenSUSE build service URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bmanojlovic/<Distribution of choice> Please comment or raise issues if you think it is useful or full of bugs :). Boris Manojlovic P.S. Very basic README - HOW TO is on this URL http://github.com/bmanojlovic/mod_authn_dovecot/blob/master/README

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[Dovecot] upgrade 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 to 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1
by Stan Hoeppner 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

System: Debian 5.0.4 Lenny Kernel: custom 2.6.31.1 built from kernel.org source Dovecot: 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 Available: 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1 Mailbox format: mbox Storage location: /home/$user/mail/ on ext2 fs Delivery: Postfix 2.5.5 local to /var/mail/$user As you can see Debian has a backport package of Dovecot 1.2.9 available to Lenny users, and it appears it is a big jump forward in terms of elapsed time and codebase. Debian ships Dovecot in a collection of 6 packages. I currently only use two, dovecot-common and dovecot-imapd. I'm guessing it would probably be wise to shutdown all my current Dovecot processes before starting the upgrade. Before I do this upgrade I figured I'd ask first to see if there are any gotchas or explosions awaiting me. Any warnings, hints, pointers anyone? Timo? Thanks. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] fts squat -> webmail, fastcgi timeout: SOLR the answer?
by mailinglists＠belfin.ch 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi I turned on fts squat to speed up full text searches over webmail. This works absolutely fantastic once the mailboxes are indexed. But when they are indexed for the first time I'm getting a fastcgi timeout after 30 seconds resulting into a internal server error on the webserver. In the background the indexing job is getting finished after 80 seconds for a 25k emails, ~300MB mailbox. Does solr allow user-offline indexing (no user interaction needed to kick on indexing) ? And the other question is, is there any mail user agent that would support server-side full text indexing and not create own indexes? Thanks, Philipp

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[Dovecot] Purging a large folder... anything I need to be careful of?
by Dave 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

I've got a large message folder (about 40G in 'cur') that I need to empty to a more reasonable size. Oddly, my Thunderbird e-mail client only sees about 2.4G of that, and has "looped" a few times. What I mean is, I thought someone was cleaning the folder out, but Thunderbird apparently was actually just looping back to 0 every 4 gigs and starting to count up again Ha. But that's a sidenote. So, since Thunderbird apparently is not seeing all of the messages, what is the safest way to delete the files straight from the 'cur' folder? IS that safe? Will I mess up any of the dovecot indexes in any way?? Dave

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[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir
by Ashley M. Kirchner 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Ignoring my previous message just for a second, I realized that my config wasn't correct. So I have this for namespaces: namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail/" location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes # for v1.1+ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail-Archives/" location = maildir:~/mail-Archives:LAYOUT=fs inbox = no hidden = no list = yes subscriptions = yes } But when I'm in Thunderbird and I try to subscribe to anything that falls inside of ~/mail-Archives/ it won't work. I can browser all the way down to the folder, but I can't see anything within that folder. For example, consider the full path to the following 'Ashley-09' mailbox: ~/mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Jan09 In Thunderbird, when I hit 'Subscribe' I can browse down to '2009' and I can see 'Ashley', but I can't drill down into it and subscribe to 'Ashley-Jan09'. What am I missing here?

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[Dovecot] Folders within folders ...
by Ashley M. Kirchner 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Our mail setup is as follows: ~/mail/ - This contains single mailboxes (Drafts, Trash, and others) ~/mail-Archives/ - This contains a hierarchy of folders containing mailboxes For example, a tree of ~/mail/ would look like this: ~/mail/ ~/mail/Trash ~/mail/Drafts ~/mail/sent-mail ~/mail/My Stuff ~/mail/Important ~/mail/test/SomeFolder <-- this would never happen, but I have to account for it during our transition A tree of ~/mail-Archives/ would look like this: ~mail-Archives/2009/MyStuff/MyStuff-Dec09 ~mail-Archives/2009/MyStuff/MyStuff-Nov09 ~mail-Archives/2009/MyStuff/MyStuff-Oct09 ~mail-Archives/2010/MyStuff/MyStuff-Jan10 ~mail-Archives/2010/Important/Important-Jan10 All of that works, I can open up Thunderbird and browser/read/delete messages no problem. However, when I try to move that 'test' folder from ~/mail/ into ~/mail-Archives I get an error message: 'Can't rename mailbox to another storage type.' The same thing happens if I try to move any of the mailboxes in ~/mail/ to ~/mail-Archives/ . Is there a way to fix that? Our namespaces look like this: namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail/" location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes # for v1.1+ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail-Archives/" location = mbox:~/mail-Archives inbox = no hidden = no list = yes subscriptions = yes }

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED
by Per-Erik Persson 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Sorry for the fuzz on the thread earlier. I now have dovecots deliver (1.1.?)up and running and delivering mails to maildirs located on the AFS So if anyone is wondering, I would say that AFS works as a backend for storing emails without any ugly patches.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and duplicates
by Veikko "Wexi" Skurnik 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hi I'm having a problem setting up duplicate filtering on my mail server. I've set up the mail server with Postfix and Dovecot with virtual LDAP users, ClamAV virus scanning. The problem is that some of the virtual users use multiple e-mail addresses and postfix delivers emails sent to a user as many times as the user has email address entries in LDAP. I was wondering what would be the smartest way to get rid of these duplicates, they have identical message ID:s and a simple procmail recipe does the trick, however as I'm using dovecots deliver, procmail isn't the answer. Is it possible to use Sieve to do this, I've been googling around *a lot* and haven't found anything that would solve the problem... This is the procmail recipe that succesfully eliminates the duplicates: MAILDIR=/var/vmail :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache Or could another solution be to configure postfix to first receive the email, then let procmail do the duplicate filtering, then ClamAV does the virus scan and finally dovecots deliver delivers the message to the virtual user's mailbox? Any help will be greatly appreciated =) Wexi -- * Veikko "Wexi" Skurnik: +358(44)5288338 * * wexi(a)wexin.net Wexi@IRCNet * * Näyttämönkatu 4 B 12 33720 Tampere * * "Kosminen balanssi ei saa järkkyä" *

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[Dovecot] Understanding migrateuser.sh
by Stewart Dean 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

I'm sure it comes from my being a gormless idiot, but whatever is the -UKWS argument immediately after the mb2md.pl invocation? > $MB2MD -UKWS -s "$INBOX" -d "$WORKING" As always, reading the idiom of someone else's scripting is an education. And some of it wouldn't work with native AIX sh/ksh, so changed the functions: > folders_hash() { > local HASH=`find $FOLDERS -type f |sort|(IFS=\ > ;while read file; do ls -l "\$file"; done)` > eval "$1=\"$HASH\"" > } > to: > folders_hash() { > local IFS=\ > local HASH=`find $FOLDERS -type f | sort | \ > while read file > do > ls -l "\$file" > done` > # the escapes are so that $1 gets "$HASH" NOT $HASH > # So the resolution is deferred... > eval "$1=\"$HASH\"" > } I would have wished for a few more comments within the script. -- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] check password on behalf of user
by Nikolay Shopik 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

I'm running KDC with all users and passwords, but have to manage clients who doesn't support GSSAPI like mobile phones. Is it possible to dovecot SASL check password in KDC when user sends plain text login? I know this is possible to do with saslauthd from Cyrus but prefer to stick with dovecot SASL.

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[Dovecot] Converting layouts
by Luciano Mannucci 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hello, I'm using dovecot 1.2.10 with mbox format (which implies layout=fs) and I would like to switch to maildir++ layout without changing format in order to implement subfolders for IMAP users. I understand that I should move the INDEX location to avoid some namespace conflict (it would be a good idea anyway: I'll move them on another disc :). Now I have mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mailboxes/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u in my /etc/dovecot.conf. I think it should become somethink like mail_location=mbox:/var/spool/mailboxes/%u:LAYOUT=Maildir++:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes I'll have to rename folders for IMAP users, right? Is there some script that does just that? Some other needed black magic for .subscriptions? Thanks to all in advance, Luciano. -- /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster(a)sublink.sublink.ORG / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.mannucci.ORG/

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[Dovecot] Get plugins configuration
by Alex Baule 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hello everyone.... There is a way to get configurations in dovecot.conf inside a plugin ?

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[Dovecot] Messages marked as unread - Dovecot 1.2.10 - Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
by Thorsten Habich 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi! I upgraded some of our systems to dovecot 1.2.10 now I noticed that some of my messages are marked as unread. This disappears after reopening the folder again. Greetings, Thorsten

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[Dovecot] Problem with created ~/mail directory
by Chris Adams 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

If a user doesn't have a ~/mail directory and logs in, the directory is created for them. However, it is created with insecure permissions, 0770 (full group access). The problem is this bit in src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c: #define CREATE_MODE 0770 /* umask() should limit it more */ The code then uses CREATE_MODE as an argument to mkdir_parents(), but mkdir_parents() overrides the umask setting and forces the requested permissions. There's no way to override this except to change the source code. It looks like the same thing is in dbox-storage.c and cydir-storage.c. This is with Dovecot 1.2.10. -- Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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[Dovecot] Plugin question
by Valery Gorbunov 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi All. I am developing plugin for Dovecot. And I needs for read some configuration file at startup and store configuration in application wide variable. As I see the plugin_init() method calls multiple times and allocates plugin's variables each time. Could you suggest better way to store variable in application context. Thank you Valery Gorbunov

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