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[Dovecot] Problems with thunderbird 3 ( messages mark unread after being read )
by Frank Bonnet 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hello Since we upgrade all our users's PC with Thunderbird 3(.0.1) many of them have a problem with email that move back to unread status even after they have read them. The problem does not occured with Thunderbird 2 Is this problem Dovecot related ? Do you have the same trouble ? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file
by Justin Piszcz 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi, I am seeing this on one of my servers: Jan 8 10:08:58 l1 dovecot: IMuser(user): Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /home/user/Mailbox at 10558 I have never seen this before, and google yields no results except when this warning was added to the source code here: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2009-December/015177.html The user has deleted all of the mail in the Mailbox but the problem persists. Any ideas? Justin.

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[Dovecot] managesieve does call a wrong chown
by Wolfgang.Friebel＠desy.de 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

After upgrading from dovecot 1.2.3, managesieve 0.11.8, sieve 0.1.11 to dovecot 1.2.9, managesieve 0.11.10 and sieve 0.1.14 users who do not have sieve rules yet and use managesieve for the first time do trigger error messages in the log file (for the authenticated user ggg in group syspr): Jan 4 17:35:26 apollo dovecot: MANAGESIEVE(ggg): chown(/var/spool/sieve/ggg, -1, 0(root)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=203(syspr)) Jan 4 17:35:26 apollo dovecot: MANAGESIEVE(ggg): sieve-storage: sieve_storage_verify_dir(/var/spool/sieve/ggg/tmp) failed: Operation not permitted Jan 4 17:35:26 apollo dovecot: MANAGESIEVE(ggg): Fatal: Failed to create sieve storage with data: /var/spool/sieve/ggg Anyway the filter rules get created (used avelsieve) and the filter does get compiled when the first mail hits the rule. Subsequent invocations of managesieve do not try to change the group ownership of the directory. Looks like an annoyance only, but I would feel more comfortable w.o. the error messages. the dovecot -n output: # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 x86_64 Scientific Linux SL release 5.4 (Boron) protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2009 shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_processes_count: 5 login_max_processes_count: 512 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mmap_disable: yes fsync_disable: yes lock_method: dotlock maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: no mbox_read_locks: dotlock flock mbox_write_locks: dotlock flock mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota zlib acl imap_acl listescape mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota zlib acl imap_acl listescape mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: #mbox/ location: mbox:~/mail:CONTROL=~/mboxctrl hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)ifh.de mail_plugins: sieve quota acl sieve_global_path: /var/spool/sieve/default.sieve quota_full_tempfail: yes auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master fsync_disable: no auth default: mechanisms: gssapi gss-spnego login plain realms: IFH.DE DESY.DE cache_size: 32 passdb: driver: pam args: max_requests=1 cache_key=%u userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/userdb socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 plugin: quota: maildir:User Quota quota_rule: *:storage=1000MB quota_rule2: INBOX:storage=1000MB quota_rule3: Trash:ignore acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict: file:/var/spool/shared/shared-mailboxes.db sieve_storage: /var/spool/sieve/%u sieve: /var/spool/sieve/%u.sieve quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/mailquota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/mailquota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning3: storage=60%% /usr/local/bin/mailquota-warning.sh 60 -- Wolfgang Friebel Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Phone/Fax: +49 33762 77372/216 Platanenallee 6 Mail: Wolfgang.Friebel AT desy.de D-15738 Zeuthen Germany

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[Dovecot] LMTP in 2.0: concurrency, inet sockets
by Stefan Foerster 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

I didn't really have much time to look at the beta versions of dovecot 2.0 (apart from installing it once and migrating most of my current configuration, purely for testing purposes). An exciting new feature is the LMTP support. In the default configuration I have seen, that one only listened on a Unix socket - will it support network (inet) sockets, too? What about concurrent deliviers? As of now, when using the deliver LDA together with Postfix, you have to make sure that only one recipient is passed to deliver at a time, so for multi-recipient mail, the system might spawn a large number of processes (two per recipient, therefore two forks/execve calls). Is that limit still imposed with the new LMTP server? Stefan

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Re: [Dovecot] LMTP in 2.0: concurrency, inet sockets
by Timo Sirainen 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 13:40 +0100, Stefan Foerster wrote: > For 100k messages, delivery to a Maildir store using Postifx's pipe(8) > and Dovecot's deliver took 4319s, which equals 23.15 delivieries per > second - and that's with the pipe(8) delivery agent haning around for > up to 100 seconds, being reused for multiple transactions. > > Dovecot 2.0, with LMTP, was finished after 4007s, which equals 24.96 > deliveries per second. You could also try if maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes affects it.

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[Dovecot] blocked for xx secs
by Andrew Hearn 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hello, Occasionally (a few times a day) we get batches of Warnings in the log such as: dovecot: Warning: chdir(/maildir/x.co.uk/users/y) blocked for 18 secs This tends to last a minute or so for different users. /maildir is a NFS mount, and I'm suspecting it's the NFS server being busy and dovecot having to wait. Other than replacing the NFS server with faster hardware is there anything else we can do? Indexes are local, and Maildir is on the NFS. Dovecot 1.2.5 using: mail_nfs_storage = yes mmap_disable = no NFS mounted as; /maildir on /.automount/a.diskless/root/mail type nfs (nosuid,nodev,noatime,vers=3,proto=tcp) TIA -- Andrew

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[Dovecot] Compressing Maildir mails on delivery
by Timo Sirainen 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Now supported by v2.0. Also as a patch to v1.2: http://dovecot.org/patches/1.2/zlib-compress.diff I'm not really sure if I should commit it to v1.2 code tree. The code contains ugly copy&pasted io_stream_copy() and v1.2 is supposed to be feature complete..

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[Dovecot] Also - is there a reliable way for TB to know it is connecting to a dovecot server?
by Charles Marcus 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

This would be so it could auto-disable GLODA - its new 'Global Search and Indexing' scheme - for that account - assuming they accept (and implement) my bug request to be able to do that: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544100

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[Dovecot] upgrade 1.0.x -> 1.2.x
by maximatt 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

its posible upgrade from dovecot 1.0.x to 1.2.x? i only see upgrades over micro versions.. thanks! -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] v2.0: tcp-wrappers support
by Timo Sirainen 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Some people have been requesting this forever. So finally this works: service tcpwrap { unix_listener login/tcpwrap { mode = 0666 } } login_access_sockets = tcpwrap There can also be more sockets listed, in case someone wants to build their own access checking service.

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[Dovecot] pop3 quick question
by Nikita Koshikov 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hello list, I have found imap_allowed option in dovecot which do exactly what I need, for imap. Is there something similar for pop3 protocol? The main goal for it - is to enable pop3 access to specific users. Or maybe dovecot have some 'pop3=yes' or 'imap=no' args to userdb/passdb sections ? I know future dovecot 2.* versions will support rewriting for protocols, but this is required for 1.2 branch.

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Re: [Dovecot] mdbox compression
by Damon Atkins 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

ZFS has support for compression on the file system ( lzjb | gzip | gzip-N | zle ). gzip eats CPU even at levels as low as 3. From the zfs man page The lzjb compression algorithm is optimized for performance while providing decent data compression. You can specify the gzip level by using the value gzip-N where N is an integer from 1 (fastest) to 9 (best compression ratio). The cost of CPU to support compression (gzip) vs the Cost of Disk if mboxes are not compressed? The other interesting feature ZFS (OpenSolaris) has is de-duplication, it detects if the block which is about to be written, is the same as another block and instead of writing the block it puts a pointer to the already existing block, saving disk space. Only problem with this is you would need to filter out headers which are different even when the to/body is the same. Cheers

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[Dovecot] mdbox compression
by Timo Sirainen 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

I was wondering if I should add compression support to mdbox one mail at a time or one file (~2MB) at a time. The tradeoffs are: * one mail at a time allows quickly seeking to wanted mail inside the file, but it can't compress mails as well * one file at a time compresses better, but seeking is slow because it can only be done by uncompressing all the data until the wanted offset is reached I did a quick test for this with 27 MB of my old INBOX mails: (note the -b option, so it doesn't count wasted fs space) mdbox/storage% du -sb . 15120350 . Maildir/cur% du -sb . 16517320 . % echo 1-15120350/16517320|bc -l .08457606924125705623 So, compressed mdboxes take 8.5% less space. This was with regular gzip compression with default level. With bzip2 -9 compression the difference was 10%. Any thoughts on if 8-10% is significant enough improvement to make seeking performance worse? Or perhaps I should just implement both ways.. :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecote does'nt start - no log ?
by Jean-Francois 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hi All, Actually, I installed Dovecot on an OpenBSD server, however, after properly setting (assumed) the confs, Dovecot does'nt start. I don't know the reason but don't know how to debug. Where is the log about reason for not starting ? Thank you for helping. Regards

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[Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox
by Răzvan Sandu 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hello, I've recently saw a discussion on this list, about a standardised way of emptying POP3 mailboxes on the server - but no solution came up. Please provide a suggestion for the following situation: - I am running a stock POP3 dovecot server, on Fedora 12 (dovecot version 1.2.9) - passwd-file authentication via /etc/imap.passwd - users are virtual, sharing the same UID/GID; - storage is in MailDir system; - for remote users, server is POP3-only, since the administrative policy says that every user should download his messages on the local workstation, then delete them from server immediately after succesful download. - IMAP is allowed only locally, in order to be used together via stock squirrelmail Web interface (for emergencies only) However, there are users that check the infamous „Leave a copy on the server” checkbox (or equivalent) in their mail clients, eventually adding „Delete messages after X days”. Since I have no direct administrative control on the clients, I absolutely need a way to forbid the above behaviour at server level, in order to enforce the policy. The server's HDD is meant to store received messages from reception to the first access only. Filesystem quotas are not an option in this scenario, since the UID/GID is the same for all virtual users. What I need is way to make sure that "cur" and "tmp" subdirectories are perfectly empty after the user downloads his mail. (I will also need a way to make sure that users using squirrelmail leave no populated "Sent" and "Trash" folders on server's HDD, but that's offtopic here). Could you please suggest a way to solve this ? Thanks a lot, Răzvan

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Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox
by Răzvan Sandu 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hello, Thanks a lot, but the problem here are not the IMAP users accessing the server via squirrelmail. Few people use this. What I mainly want to avoid are *POP3* users checking the „Leave a copy on the server” checkmark. I need a way of automatically performing the DELE command at server level, just after a POP3 user *succesfully* downloaded his messages via POP3... Thanks again, Răzvan

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[Dovecot] postfix and dovecot on different systems - sasl request
by thomas polnik 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hello, until now I have use postfix and dovecot on the same server. Now I want/must split this both systems (server1 - postfix, server2 - dovecot). I used dovecot auth system for postfix ## snip ## smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth ## snap ## but this does not work, if dovecot is not running on the same server. I did not find any information in postfix/dovecot documentation, how I could solve this problem smart. My only idea, but it looks like quick and dirty solution: On the postfix system a small dovecot systems runs only for postfix sasl via /var/spool/postfix/private/auth. (Or I use saslauthd with sql or imap) The postfix system (on server 1) delivers mails via transport map to the dovecot system. On the dovecot system postfix delivers this mails i.e. via ## snip ## dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} ## snip ## to the mail boxes. Are there other ways, how I could solve this problem? My wish configuration: postfix sends the auth request via tcp/ip to the dovecot auth system and not via a socket. I use postfix 2.6 and dovecot 1.2.6. Best regards, thomas polnik.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth stops responding
by Jonathan Siegle 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Running dovecot 1.2.4(imap only) on AIX out of inetd. I accept passwords(PAM for auth) and kerberos tickets. Occasionally we see dovecot-auth stop responding. I just kill it off and another process is spawned which works fine. It doesn't look like it is hitting any ulimits(11MB for memory). I issued a kill -11 and ran it through the debugger. Here is what it says: dbx dovecot-auth core Type 'help' for help. [using memory image in core] reading symbolic information ... Segmentation fault in __fd_poll at 0x900000000117634 ($t1) 0x900000000117634 (__fd_poll+0x98) e8410028 ld r2,0x28(r1) (dbx) where __fd_poll(??, ??, ??) at 0x900000000117634 ioloop-poll.poll(__listptr = 0x00000001104dd330, __nfds = 145, __timeout = 1051), line 121 in "poll.h" io_loop_handler_run(ioloop = 0x000000011001bfb0), line 157 in "ioloop- poll.c" io_loop_run(ioloop = 0x000000011001bfb0), line 335 in "ioloop.c" main(argc = 1, argv = 0x0ffffffffffffad8), line 347 in "main.c" Here are my ulimits: ulimit -a time(seconds) unlimited file(blocks) 2097151 data(kbytes) 1048576 stack(kbytes) 65536 memory(kbytes) 65536 coredump(blocks) 2097151 nofiles(descriptors) 32768 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Fatal: chdir( ) failed: Permission denied
by Vallo Kallaste 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi Dovecot fails to chdir() into users home directory giving the following error: Oct 9 16:43:49 jura dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/a/home/mina) failed: Permission denied (euid=1118 0(mina) egid=11332(devel) missing +x perm: /a/home) Oct 9 16:43:49 jura dovecot: dovecot: child 14441 (imap) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) The reason seems to be that user primary group is "devel" and directory /a/home has ACL which gives execute permission only to the users in "domain users" group. Now the catch is that the user _is_ member of "domain users" group and is happily accessing his home directory over CIFS(Samba) for long time. Also, the user has no problem entering his home directory when using shell access. It just seems like the user lost membership of a bunch of supplementary groups. The group membership info is coming from M$ PDC via winbind and NSS. We have few users and can change the users primary group and/or relax the /a/home directory ACL, but overall this is not right. Shall I shut up or can we hope for a fix or at least explanation? Thanks jura:/a # ls -la drwxrws--T+ 3 root domain admins 18 Oct 8 15:10 home jura:/a # getfacl home/ # file: home # owner: root # group: domain\040admins user::rwx group::rwx group:domain\040users:--x mask::rwx other::--- -- Vallo

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[Dovecot] Question re: storing non mail files via IMAP
by Charles Marcus 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hey Timo, I have a question regarding how dovecot might behave if a mail client (like, for example, Thunderbird) decided to store some of its config files on the IMAP server itself. Would there be a decent way of doing this with dovecot that wouldn't cause problems for other clients that didn't know about these files? Maybe there's a way to define a special folder that dovecot knows about at the top level of each users mail location that can be used for this kind of thing? All I'm thinking of are certain config related files, so they would be small, and would only be downloaded when they didn't already exist - ie, when someone adds their existing account to a new PC, the first time they logged in, TB could simply download all of the config files, restart itself, and voila, your pre-configured TB is ready to go...

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[Dovecot] mailutil question re: translating mbox folders to maildir
by Stewart Dean 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

I need mailutil in order to use the mbox to maildir translation routines that are posted in the Dovecot wiki, but there is no mailutil with the AIX image... mailutil is apparently built as part of Pine, and indeed I can see it in the build tree from my V4.6.1 Pine build, which I still have....OTOH, my version of Pine is not patched for maildir. Will the native pine mailutil work with mb2md or does it have be a mailutil built in a patched Pine :) tree? Oh Tannebaum, oh Tannebaum........ -- ==== 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] dovecot and AFS
by Per-Erik Persson 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? If someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale environment I would be happy to know about it. /Per-Erik Persson

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[Dovecot] LMTP-Server: missing headers
by Andreas Schulze 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hello, I just installed dovecot2-beta2 and configured the lmtp-server + postfix (no virtual users) postfix: mail_version = 2.7-20100117 mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:lmtp-server lmtp_assume_final = yes dovecot: service lmtp { executable = lmtp protocol = lmtp unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/lmtp-server { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } Mail gets delivered to ~user/Maildir/ Feb 1 06:57:39 testhost dovecot: lmtp(8238): Connect from local Feb 1 06:57:39 testhost postfix/lmtp[8237]: 07108A3608: to=<sca(a)testhost.example.org>, orig_to=<root>, relay=testhost.example.org[lmtp-server], delay=0.67, delays=0.22/0.03/0.22/0.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 <sca(a)testhost.example.org> lwjfEVNtZksuIAAA4eG3hw Saved) Feb 1 06:57:39 testhost dovecot: lmtp(8238, sca(a)testhost.example.org) lwjfEVNtZksuIAAA4eG3hw: msgid=<20100201055739.07108A3608(a)testhost.example.org>: saved mail to INBOX Second try: postfix using deliver postfix: mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver log: Feb 1 07:21:08 testhost dovecot: lda(sca): msgid=<20100201062108.0D6D6A3608(a)testhost.example.org>: saved mail to INBOX Feb 1 07:21:08 testhost postfix/local[10039]: 0D6D6A3608: to=<sca(a)testhost.example.org>, orig_to=<sca>, relay=local, delay=0.13, delays=0.04/0.01/0/0.08, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver) In the first case there are *no* Return-Path and Delivered-To Headers. In the (most common) second case the *are* present. Why these Headers are not included while using the LMTP-Server? -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P532 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen

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Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox
by Răzvan Sandu 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Steffen Kaiser wrote: > Well, I know that the client knows it has *successfully* downloaded > messages, but how does the server know? Just to sent down some > packets through the wire does not mean success. Thanks, I see... so the server knows nothing about the success or insuccess of retrieving messages. Only client knows, so only client may act. In that case, the only possibility is to have some automatic script that periodically "cleans" the "cur" subdirectories, as you suggested. However, not being a programmer at all, I'm far from being able to write an industrial-grade solution for this. ;-) Best regards, Răzvan

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[Dovecot] Create New Plugin
by Alex Baule 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

i have a Little question.... I dont know to much the autoconf/automake...there is a command or something to do, to include my plugin in the Makefile for dovecot compile them when i compile the hole package ?? or i shoud go to the configure and makefile.am and put by hand ? I put my plugin in the plugins directory source tree.

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Re: [Dovecot] [RFE] A way to encode passwords in the /etc/imap.passwd file
by Răzvan Sandu 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

@Pascal Volk Thanks for the algorithm you've provided ! Unfortuantely, I'm not a programmer myself and I don't feel confident to code such an utility (even if I perfectly understand your pseudocode). ;-) What I'm looking for is not even a hand-made script, but a production solution included in the stock dovecot RPM package itself - i.e a new, better form of the dovecotpw utility. Best regards, Răzvan

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[Dovecot] Execute mailfilter after message move
by Kārlis Repsons 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi, came here to ask, if there are any ideas about a possible Dovecot feature, which would allow execution of a specific mailfilter or other program after new message is *moved* in specified mail location? The practical benefit on my side would be, that there wouldn't be any need to do getmail cronjobs, which unnecessarily fill up logfiles... (primarily for easy spam learning and reporting)

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[Dovecot] [dovecot] Problem with namespaces and dovecot -n
by Jonathan Siegle 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

I'm running dovecot 2.0 revision 10622:de9d6dae7fe5 on AIX. I'm trying to see both namespaces that I have listed in mail.conf. namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = no hidden = no location = maildir:%h/Maildir list = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "#mbox/" location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes # for v1.1+ } Whichever namespace is last, I can see when running dovecot -n. Am I supposed to only see the last one printed? # 2.0.beta2: /usr/local/dovecot2.0beta2/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 3 0001112AD300 auth_debug = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/krb5/dovecot.keytab auth_mechanisms = plain gssapi disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * login_greeting = Dovecot version 2 on tr27n12 ready. mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%Ju/%u mbox_lazy_writes = no mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u prefix = #mbox/ separator = / name = private } passdb { deny = no driver = pam master = no pass = no } With this config I have no folders. If I flip the namespaces in the config, I have no INBOX and can't login. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] [RFE] A way to encode passwords in the /etc/imap.passwd file
by Răzvan Sandu 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hello, Is this the proper place to suggest an enhancement for the stock dovecot package ? The enhancement would be the following: For the time being, the dovecotpw utility offers a standardised way to interactively encode a user password in a certain scheme, say: dovecotpw -s CRYPT Enter new passord: Re-enter new password: etc. Given a *valid* /etc/imap.passwd file (passwd-file authentication), dovecotpw should be able to process it non-interactively and output another text file with all {PLAIN} passwords converted in the specified <scheme>, i.e.: dovecotpwd -s CRYPT if=/etc/imap.passwd of=/etc/imap.passwd.converted where /etc/imap.passwd.converted have the previously {PLAIN} passwords converted in scheme CRYPT. Passwords that were previously encrypted in other schemes than {PLAIN} shoud remain untouched. That will allow quick securing of old legacy /etc/imap.passwd files. Thanks a lot, Răzvan

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[Dovecot] [BUG] problem with zlib plugin
by spam＠abma.de 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hi, i think i've the same problem as described here: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-June/040687.html when opening a folder without an index (?) and bzip-compressed files i get following error message: 2010-02-03T14:12:10.026452+01:00 server dovecot: IMAP(user): gzread() failed: PARAM_ERROR 2010-02-03T14:12:10.026477+01:00 server dovecot: IMAP(user): FETCH for mailbox folder UID 105 failed to read message input: Invalid argument Matthias -- dovecot -n # 1.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 x86_64 Ubuntu 9.04 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/ssl.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/ssl.key shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /usr/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_uid: 97 mail_gid: 97 mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota zlib lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: mail group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail group: mail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=100M

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[Dovecot] deny=yes in userdb
by Edgar Fuß 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

I would like deliver to reject certain users. Since supposedly deliver only uses userdb, not passwd, I can't use deny=yes for that. Or does userdb support deny=yes? Yes, I should rather reject them right in the MTA, but that currently takes too long to implement. Or how to reject gast* in postfix using nss authentication?

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[Dovecot] Restore of individual mail files
by CoolAtt NNA 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hi. In order for restoration to work fine, I have to create a folder using the interface (e.g RounCube) which also creates the required structures. Then I copied the emailfile e.g xyz:s to /myrestoredemail/cur/ How do i properly create a folder with its structures(index,etc) without using the RoundCube web inteface ? Thanks CoolAtt _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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[Dovecot] disabling mail delivery for a user
by Frank Cusack 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

How can I disable mail delivery for a user yet still allow access to their mailbox from another account which their mail is shared to? If I put them in a userdb which has "deny = yes" that just disables their ability to login, yes? And they would still have mail delivered. I want to disable their ability to login AND bounce all mail delivered to them, preferably solely through dovecot configuration. I am using lda, obviously, for mail delivery. (I could configure the MTA to reject mail for them if there is no other option.)

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[Dovecot] v2.0.beta2 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta2.tar.gz.sig I tried to keep the configuration and APIs compatible with v2.0.beta1, but unfortunately there were a few things that really had to be changed: 1. passdbs and userdbs have now a separate "driver" setting inside them. So for example if you had: userdb passwd { } You'll now need to use instead: userdb { driver = passwd } 2. Services now have default inet_listeners. You need to either remove your existing ones, or override the defaults by giving the listeners's name like shown in the new example master.conf. For example if you had: service imap-login { inet_listener { port = 1234 .. change it to: service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 1234 If you want to disable a default listener, you can set its port to 0. Some new features: - Added auth_verbose_passwords = no|plain|sha1. If authentication fails, this setting logs the used password. If you don't really need to know what the password itself was, but are more interested in knowing if the user is simply trying to use the wrong password every single time or if it's a brute force attack, you can set this to "sha1" and only the SHA1 of the password is logged. That's enough to know if the password is same or different between login attempts. - lazy-expunge: Support a single-namespace configuration. In this setup if mailbox has some expunged messages and then the whole mailbox gets deleted, they get merged into the same deleted mailbox. - protocol !imap { .. } adds configuration to all protocols except imap. - imap/pop3 proxying supports now async DNS lookups for hosts. There's a separate dns-client service doing the lookups using OS's own blocking resolver. - dovecot-config file changed in a way that it'll be easier to create external software linking against dovecot libraries. This made Pigeonhole's configure script a lot simpler. And of course there have been lots of fixes.

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[Dovecot] proxy_maybe regex
by David Halik 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Does anyone know if dovecot support regex lookups for proxy/proxy_maybe, rather than mysql/ldap etc? I've been comparing it with perdition to see which one might be better for us to do layer7 username switching. Perdition supports the ability to not have any auth/db looks, but rather just a regex file that parses the usernames as they come in and forwards to the particular machine on the same port. For example: username:host ^[a-d]: 192.168.xxx.1 ^[e-k]: 192.168.xxx.2 and so on... I didn't think this was supported in dovecot, but I wanted to check first. I think this is going to end up being what we use to avoid NFS problems. It's lightweight, drops into our current setup, and doesn't require a mysql database which adds another point of failure. -- ================================ David Halik System Administrator OIT-CSS Rutgers University dhalik(a)jla.rutgers.edu ================================

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[Dovecot] Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox
by Stewart Dean 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Want to have some users with Maildir, some with mbox, as I migrate from mbox format to maildir over the space of a month. After everyone is converted to maildir, I'll change the mail_location in dovecot.conf. During the interim, can I use the Custom mailbox location script (at the bottom of the Mail Location DC Wiki page)? > if [ -d $HOME/.maildir ]; then > export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/.maildir > else > export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/$USER > fi > Questions: 1) What does explicitly specifying MAIL this way override? The dovecot.conf mail_location variable? 2) My mail_location var is defined as: mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u and my prospective maildir INBOX and mail folder root is to be ~/Maildir. So would I change the above to: > if [ -d $HOME/Maildir ]; then > export MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER > else > export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER: > INDEX=/var/dcindx/$USER > fi Question 3: When converting existing users from mbox to maildir, should I delete the index contents? Thanks in advance! dovecot -n output # 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 774 max_mail_processes: 1280 mail_max_userip_connections: 12 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -- ==== 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] index location
by Dave Brenner 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Greetings. We are testing with 1.2.9 and have found that with mail_full_filesystem_access set to 'yes', we cannot force indexes for folders under ~/mail to be stored in /var/dovecot/indexes/%u. /var/dovecot/indexes/%u/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index* is created just fine, but everything else ends up in ~mail/.imap. If I change mail_full_filesystem_access to 'no', then all indexes are created in the expected location: $ ls -la /var/dovecot/indexes/blitz/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 blitz popuser 512 Jan 25 11:46 . drwxrwxr-x 5 root popuser 512 Jan 22 16:16 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 blitz popuser 512 Jan 22 16:16 .imap drwxr-xr-x 3 blitz popuser 512 Jan 25 11:46 mail (I probably need to set the sticky bit for this, but for testing this is OK) We are setting the index location from /etc/passwd-dove: blitz:x:14267:500::/usr/users/dialups/blitz::userdb_mail=mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/%u Is there a way to get this to function the way we'd like, with all indexes stored in /var/dovecot/indexes/u% ? My apologies if I missed an explanation about this in the list archive. Dave

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[Dovecot] Extraneous information
by Michael M. Slusarz 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Not technically a bug, but a small waste of bandwidth: it seems (at least as of 1.2.10) that if neither CONDSTORE/QRESYNC are enabled dovecot still sends HIGHESTMODSEQ info: a examine Testing.AAA * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded impflag0 impflag1 impflag2) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox. * 309 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 5] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1225053009] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 387] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 136] Highest a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. I'm guessing this would only happen if using a client that supports QRESYNC (like IMP) and then switching later to a client that doesn't support.

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[Dovecot] [dovecot] Problems installing managesieve and then managesieve-login
by Jonathan Siegle 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, Software: AIX 5.3 dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole revision 1234:7b3db97399de with dovecot revision 10621:a978089d090b I'm having problems installing managesieve. I modified the Makefile because DESTDIR was not being found. Here is what I changed to make it work: echo " $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) '$$p' '/usr/local/dovecot2.0beta2/bin$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f'"; \ $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) "$$p" "/usr/local/dovecot2.0beta2/bin$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f" || exit 1; \ --- Here is ORIGINAL: echo " $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) '$$p' '$(DESTDIR)$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f'"; \ $(INSTALL_PROGRAM_ENV) $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS_INSTALL) "$$p" "$(DESTDIR)$(dovecot_pkglibexecdir)/$$f" || exit 1; \ Here is the error: test -z "" || /usr/local/src/imapservers/dovecothg/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole/install-sh -d "" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/ladmin/bin/install -c 'managesieve' '/managesieve' libtool: install: `' must be an absolute directory name Try `libtool --help --mode=install' for more information. gmake[3]: *** [install-dovecot_pkglibexecPROGRAMS] Error 1 managesieve-login is having the same problem. sieve-tools installed just fine. On my configure line I have: $ ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-2.0 --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot2.0beta2 --with-managesieve=yes Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Not understanding namespaces
by Stewart Dean 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

I have been diligently reading about namespace in the DC doc and what I can find in Google. Like the blind men and the elephant, I see the nature of some individual bits of namespace, some syntax and the overall purpose (overriding defaults and providing extensions), but I don't see the whole thing and how it is used. I am looking to do some maildir testing in what is a mbox default system, so I thought to employ namespace to do so. I see that namespace(s) can be defined in dovecot.conf and I see that it can be defined in TBird (under ServerSettings, Advanced Account Settings), but it isn't clear to me how they are made to work together. Some questions: - Is it that you can define multiple namespaces in dovecot.conf and then specify which of these you use in the TBird server settings? - What is the syntax of the TBird namespace specification? -- ==== 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] lda sieve bug ?
by Lampa 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello, weird lines in dovecot lda log appers: 2010-02-01T13:48:10.108065+01:00 hermes dovecot: deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: !!BUG!!: binary compiled from /home/mail/domain.tl/user/.dovecot.sieve is still corrupt; bailing out and reverting to default delivery drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 74 Feb 1 13:13 . drwx------ 1715 vmail vmail 49152 Feb 1 12:32 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 1 13:13 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/redir.sieve -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 496 Feb 1 13:48 .dovecot.svbin drwx------ 13 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 1 12:58 Maildir drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 34 Feb 1 13:13 sieve ls -la sieve/ drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 34 Feb 1 13:13 . drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 74 Feb 1 13:13 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 563 Feb 1 11:37 redir.sieve drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 6 Dec 13 14:30 tmp -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] sieve script
by Lampa 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello, after qmail migration need convert some .procmailrc scripts. Found converter procmail -> sieve, but i'm not sure of quality of conversion. My script: --------------- if header :contains "from" ["user(a)domain1.tld", "user2(a)domain2.tld", "user3(a)domain3.tld"] { redirect "foo1(a)bar.tld"; redirect "foo2(a)bar.tld"; .... redirect "foo20(a)bar.tld"; } else { keep; } --------------- Converter script: --------------- require ["fileinto","regex","envelope","vacation"]; if envelope :comparator "i;octet" :contains "From.*(user@domain1.tld|user2@domain2.tld|user3@domain3.tld)" "" { redirect "foo1(a)bar.tld foo2(a)bar.tld .... foo20(a)bar.tld"; } if true { fileinto "$DEFAULT"; } --------------- Converter script is cannot be compiled. But it used other style envelope. So what is difference between envelope and header ? And there are some limits for redirect ? Thank you. -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] sieve or another vacation/autoreply
by Lampa 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello, i'm trying to do some delivery notification for each incoming address. Problem is that sieve vacation has :days but minimum value is 1 eg period in which addresses are kept and are not responded to - but that is not that i want. Is there other extension (in devel ???) or some other way (lda using procmail or maildrop) how to implement my request ? (Before migration we used qmail + procmail). Thank you for your advices -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] sha-512 ... shadow blended with database
by WJCarpenter 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

The cryptic subject is the outcome of my looking into how to do a particular thing. I wonder if anyone else has solved this problem in a way that hasn't occurred to me. I'm using dovecot 1.1.11 on Ubuntu Server 9.10. I could consider upgrading to my own install of a newer dovecot if it made a difference to this problem. I have two populations of dovecot users. Some users have Unix accounts (with logins disabled), and so their password hashes are stored in /etc/shadow. These days, the default configuration for that is salted SHA-512. It's easy for me to change that scheme to something else if I want to, but the important fact is that I already have some users with passwords in salted SHA-512. The other population of users is purely virtual, and their password hashes are stored in a MySQL database in SHA-1 format (unsalted, but moving to salted wouldn't be a big deal). The database also has a column identifying the hash scheme, so SHA-1 isn't some assumption. I know that I have have multiple passdb in my dovecot config, but I'm looking to unify my two user populations and put them all in the MySQL database. As far as I can tell from the wiki, there is no SHA-512 in any version of dovecot. MySQL also doesn't have SHA-512. So, I don't see a way of reworking my password checking to accomodate the salted SHA-512 values currently in /etc/shadow. I'd prefer to not ask the SHA-512 users to update their passwords for this administrative reason if I can avoid it (but so far, that looks like the only answer). Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] LSUB output format != LIST output format
by Martin 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hi, I have a problem with my hanging claws-mail. I first subscribed to their bug tracker, described the problem and before I pressed on submit in their bugtracker, I realized it might be a problem with dovecot. I'm using dovecot for internal purposes only (catching all my external boxes and storing locally): # 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 i386 listen: *, [::] ssl: required disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/.mails imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes dovecot userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 The mailboxes are on simple UFS2 file system. Here is what I get when listing subscribed folders, like claws-mail does: . LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "." "Trash" * LSUB () "." "Queue" * LSUB () "." "Sent" * LSUB () "." "Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.FreeBSD." * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnHam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnSpam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Steno" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gentoo" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Notifications" . OK Lsub completed. Please notice the "INBOX.FreeBSD." with the dot at the end of the folder name. Here the output of LIST: . LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Queue" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.current" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.Foren" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.announce" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.FreeBSD.stable" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnHam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam.LearnSpam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Gentoo" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Steno" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Notifications" . OK List completed. The folder name here does not have the dot at the end? Why is this happening? The RFC says the output should not differ, as far as I understood it. I think it might be the dot in LSUB causing claws-mail loop indefinitely when refreshing the folder structure. Annoying!! I hope, you can help me. Thanks in advance. -- Martin Sugioarto

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[Dovecot] Recommended method?
by Brandon Lamb 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hopefully this isnt TOO general of a question. I have a raid server that runs dovecot and exports via nfs the maildir format store. I have 4 mail servers running exim that use dovecot to deliver over nfs I have been examing our entire setup and had the thought, would it be recommended to instead have another exim process running directly on the raid server and have my mail servers deliver mail to that rather than over nfs, if that makes sense? So mail would go from our postini frontend => mail cluster => final delivery via exim on raid server. Seems like this way I could make all the nfs config options go away and such. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot version 2 and multiple SSL certificates
by Δημήτριος Καραπιπέ ρης 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hi there! Is it possible on Dovecot version 2 (single instance) to include 2 different SSL certificates and use the appropriate one based on the client request? Thanks in advance Dimitrios

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[Dovecot] failed: Cannot allocate memory
by Philipp Snizek 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hi when I try to index messages using squat on a 26'000 emails mailbox I get the below errors at the point dovecot says "* OK Mailbox indexing finished". 2010-01-30 08:12:50 sleipnir local7.err dovecot IMAP(spam(a)dom.com): read(/var/tmp/dovecot/spam/indexes/.INBOX_score20/dovecot.index.search.uids) failed: Cannot allocate memory 2010-01-30 08:12:50 sleipnir local7.err dovecot IMAP(spam(a)dom.com): mremap_anon(44609536) failed: Invalid argument 2010-01-30 08:12:50 sleipnir local7.err dovecot IMAP(spam(a)dom.com): read(/var/tmp/dovecot/spam/indexes/.INBOX_score20/dovecot.index.search.uids) failed: Invalid argument 2010-01-30 08:17:32 sleipnir local7.err dovecot IMAP(spam(a)dom.com): munmap_anon() failed: Invalid argument This is the configuration I use for squat: fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 Dovecot version is 1.2.10, patched with sieve. Thanks for any answers, best, Philippp

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[Dovecot] Pigeon hole sieve binaries and dovecot header install
by Mark Washenberger 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Stephan, I've recently been playing around with packaging dovecot 2.0 and dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole, as well as the --enable-header-install configure options of both. This lead me to the following question. Should pigeonhole's sieve binaries rely on static libstorage / other dovecot libraries? It seems like they should instead use shared libraries, but I couldn't find a configure option to make this happen. That way, I could break my packages up like so: dovecot dovecot-devel libdovecot dovecot-pigeonhole dovecot-pigeonhole-devel And while pigeonhole/sieve might require libdovecot to run, it shouldn't require it to compile. Thoughts? I can provide a lot more detail about my compilation errors if you think its necessary.

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[Dovecot] Does anyone know a good Dovecot hoster in europe?
by Johannes 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hi, though I am not sure this is the right place to ask, but I just try. I am looking for a better e-mail hoster providing me with a dovecot server (I don't want to do all the admin stuff and backup myself, if possible). I already googled a bit, searched the archives and had a look at dovecot.org but could not find an answer to this question. Since dovecot seems to get a fair amount of funding from finnish companies I thought there should be a good hoster among them. Any hints? Thanks Johannes

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