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[Dovecot] Dovecot Deliver CPU usage
by Aravind Divakaran 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

Hi All, We have upgraded the dovecot from 1.0 to 1.2.8. After upgradation we have noticed that dovecot deliver process is utilizing a lot of CPU. As a result the mailsystem will stop working. When we limit the no of procs in postfix for dovecot deliver the CPU usage will come down. But we are not facing this problem with the previous version. Below is the log files for dovecot when the error occurs write_full(/home/vmail/dhanbank.co.in/vinukumarvm/temp.server.be3e5a849a909847) failed: No space left on device dovecot: deliver(user(a)example.com): stat(/tmp/Dovecot Delivery Mail) failed: No space left on device But my system has 54gb of free space for root filesystem where tmp residing. Can anyone help me to solve this issue. Rgds, Aravind

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[Dovecot] Panic: file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1242 (maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges): assertion failed
by Anton Dollmaier 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

Hi all, after inserting another sieve-rule, I get the following backtrace on deliver. The mail gets delivered into the Mailbox, but as deliver does not exit with 0, postfix bounces the mail. The additional rule is the same as all others in my .dovecot-sieve: > require ["fileinto", "include"]; > > if header :contains ["From"] ["@terra.a1a-server.de"] { > fileinto "Server.ADITSystems.terra"; > (...) > } elsif header :contains ["From"] ["@neon.a1a-server.de"] { > fileinto "Server.ADITSystems.neon"; > } else { > include :global "shared.sieve"; > fileinto "Server.Serveradmin"; > } > Dec 23 11:23:37 deliver(serveradmin(a)aditsystems.de): Panic: file > maildir-uidlist.c: line 1242 (maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges): > assertion failed: (recs[i]->uid < rec->uid) > Dec 23 11:23:37 deliver(serveradmin(a)aditsystems.de): Error: Raw backtrace: > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x80e52a1] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(default_fatal_handler+0x3a) [0x80e53ca] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x80e4c79] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver > [0x807e097] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(maildir_uidlist_sync_finish+0x29f) > [0x807f10f] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(maildir_uidlist_sync_deinit+0xa8) > [0x807f458] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(maildir_transaction_save_commit_pre+0x399) > [0x80820c9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x807bbb2] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(index_transaction_commit+0x4e) [0x80a472e] > -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(mailbox_transaction_commit+0x26) > [0x80a9716] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so > [0xb7d30b84] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so(sieve_result_execute+0x244) > [0xb7d2a024] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute+0x87) > [0xb7d37fa7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so > [0xb7d1bcde] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(main+0x1108) [0x8061618] -> > /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7d8a455] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x805f3c1] Following output of "dovecot -n": > # 1.2.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem i686 Debian 5.0.3 > protocols: imap imaps managesieve pop3 pop3s > listen: [::], * > ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem > ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.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 > login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login > login_process_per_connection: no > login_processes_count: 5 > mail_privileged_group: vmail > mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir > 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): autocreate expire quota imap_quota > mail_plugins(imap): autocreate expire quota imap_quota > mail_plugins(pop3): > 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 > imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep > imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep > imap_client_workarounds(pop3): > imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): > pop3_save_uidl(default): no > pop3_save_uidl(imap): no > pop3_save_uidl(pop3): yes > pop3_save_uidl(managesieve): no > pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv > pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv > pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v > pop3_uidl_format(managesieve): %08Xu%08Xv > pop3_client_workarounds(default): > pop3_client_workarounds(imap): > pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh > pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): > managesieve_implementation_string(default): dovecot > managesieve_implementation_string(imap): dovecot > managesieve_implementation_string(pop3): dovecot > managesieve_implementation_string(managesieve): Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 > namespace: > type: private > separator: . > prefix: INBOX. > inbox: yes > list: yes > subscriptions: yes > namespace: > type: public > separator: . > prefix: Server. > location: maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/shared/Server:INDEX=~/indexes/Server > list: yes > subscriptions: yes > lda: > postmaster_address: postmaster(a)terra.a1a-server.de > mail_plugins: quota sieve autocreate > deliver_log_format: %m:%$:%f:%s > log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log > info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log > auth default: > mechanisms: plain login > passdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > passdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf > userdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > socket: > type: listen > client: > path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth > mode: 432 > user: postfix > group: postfix > master: > path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > mode: 438 > plugin: > sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve > sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve/ > sieve_dir: %h/sieve > autocreate: INBOX.Trash > autocreate2: INBOX.Spam > autocreate3: INBOX.Sent > autosubscribe: INBOX.Trash > autosubscribe2: INBOX.Spam > autosubscribe3: INBOX.Sent Best regards & merry christmas! Anton Dollmaier

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[Dovecot] Openbsd Postfix-Dovecot-SASL
by thekat 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Greetings all, I have a OpenBSD /Dovecot server at home running and sending / receiving email "internally" without issue.. Recently, I set up the same at our Parish, but one of our users wants to get their email externally. The user can read their email but has to "send" via the local ISP server.. The problem After much searching I have not found an answer to my question. I would like the user to authenticate to be able to "send" email "through" the server.. OpenBSD uses bsdauth by default in Dovecot. After reading the Postfix http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html and the Dovecot Wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL I have tried multiple configurations but I can't seem to get this to work.. It may be something very simple that I am missing.. All users on the Server have accounts in /etc/passwd (just no shell) Postfix - main.cf mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination dovecot --version 1.1.16 dovecot -n # OS: OpenBSD 4.6 i386 base_dir: /var/dovecot/ protocols: imaps listen: *, [::] ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: _dovecot login_max_processes_count: 256 max_mail_processes: 32 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: cache_size: 1024 passdb: driver: bsdauth args: cache_key=%u userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/auth-client mode: 432 user: _postfix master: path: /var/run/auth-master mode: 384 user: _postfix Error using bsdauth Dec 21 15:07:09 aml000t3 dovecot: dovecot v1.1.16 starting up Dec 21 15:07:09 aml000t3 dovecot: Panic: auth(default): file passdb.c: line 190 (passdb_init): assertion failed: (passdb->passdb->default_pass_scheme != NULL || passdb->passdb->cache_key == NULL) Dec 21 15:07:09 aml000t3 dovecot: child 18954 (auth) killed with signal 6 (core not dumped) Dec 21 15:07:09 aml000t3 dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down It looks like bsdauth has a bug and even though this thread "lists" a patch, I haven't been able to find it.. http://old.nabble.com/bsdauth-with-cache_key-failed-ts25800484.html#a258004… so I guess I am looking for an alternative to be able to allow users to "send through the server" Thx for any pointers tk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Openbsd-Postfix-Dovecot-SASL-tp26890148p26890148.html Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Remove From Server When Deleted From Deleted Items
by Matt 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

In Windows Live Mail I have this setting enabled: "Remove From Server When Deleted From Deleted Items". It does not seem to remove them even when the trash is emptied though. Am using POP3 access. Anyone else see this? Matt

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v2.0 wiki
by Timo Sirainen 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

I forked the wiki to http://wiki1.dovecot.org/ is the old docs for v1.x http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ is the new docs for v2.0 For now wiki.dovecot.org points to wiki1, but once v2.0 is released I'll change it to point to wiki2. I symlinked the user directory, so users should stay synced between the wikis. The main reason for wiki2 is to be able to describe Dovecot v2.0's actual behavior everywhere and get rid of all the old v1.x specific settings. The wiki1 is already annoyingly bloated and confusing with information about v1.0 and then v1.1 and maybe even how it's still different in v1.2.. Now would be a good time to do any other larger changes, if anyone has suggestions. :) (Oh, and I haven't yet done any actual changes to wiki2..)

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Re: [Dovecot] [exim] Exim + Dovecot deliver overquota problems
by Nikita Koshikov 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:44:42 +0100 Joan <aseques(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You need to check user's quota on routing stage, not transport. > > > It'd be much better, because I would allow me to mix overquota and > no-overquota recipients. > But the problem in my case is that I am using some hashing to > distribute the users' mailboxes, dovecot can handle this easily > because it supports some interesting stuff > (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables) Exim have much more variables and functions http://exim.org/exim-html-4.69/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECTexpvar, so if you don't use any special dovecot variable data, than it shouldn't be a problem. > With a perl script I could also do that, I would like only if it's the > last resort (too much overhead I would think) > > Parsing file and counting quota value - is trivial stuff. The main disadvantage of this way is executing external aplication on every RCPT TO command. If you'll decide to use perl consider using option perl_at_start to minimize aplication starting time.

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.9
by Stephan Bosch 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Hello Dovecot users, Due to personal matters I haven't had time to do anything in the last few weeks. Before that I provided some pre-releases and since nobody indicated problems with those, I release them definitively now. I hope the shit storm has blown over, so that I can dedicate more of my time towards Pigeonhole development. The Sieve release involves a large architectural change, but also fixes quite a few small problems. The ManageSieve release is necessary to match Sieve API changes. Changelog Sieve v0.1.14: * Made the imposed limits on the number of redirects and the number of actions configurable. The settings are called sieve_max_actions and sieve_max_redirects. * Did a major rework of extension handling, making sure that no global state is maintained. This change was triggered by problems that global state info would cause for Dovecot v2.0, but it is also important for v1.2 as it significantly cleans up the library implementation. + Made LDA Sieve plugin recognize the deliver_log_format setting. + Message headers produced from user-supplied data are now RFC2047-encoded if necessary for outgoing messages. This is for example important for the :subject argument of the vacation action. + Added support for the $text$ substitution in the deprecated notify extension. + The subaddress extension now also accepts recipient_delimiter setting as an alias for sieve_subaddress_sep setting. This anticipates the recipient_delimiter setting in v2.0. - Fixed logging of mailbox names. It logged the converted mUTF7 version in stead of the original UTF8 version supplied by the user. - Fixed a minor memory leak in the multiscript support. - Fixed a bug in the recompilation of Sieve scripts. Made sure that scripts are only recompiled when the script file - or the symlink pointing to it - is strictly newer. Changelog ManageSieve v0.11.10: * This release contains adjustments to match changes in the Sieve API. This means that this release will only compile against Pigeonhole Sieve v0.1.14. - Fixed compilation of ManageSieve against CMUSieve. The releases are available as follows: Sieve: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.14.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.14.tar.gz.sig ManageSieve (package + patch): http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.10.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.10.tar.gz.… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.9-managesieve-0.11.10.diff.… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.9-managesieve-0.11.10.diff.… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org for more information. Have fun testing the new releases and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Releases for Dovecot v2.0 are still under development... Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] Dovecot vs Exim file locking
by Daniel Campos 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Hi all: We're planning to deploy a large e-mail system storing maildirs in a NAS system through NFS. One of the options we're thinking on is using Dovecot+EXIM. As far as I've read in both project's documentation, both services implement locking allowing multiple servers to access the same maildirs in order to distribute the service load. However, I can't find any information explaining whether both locking mechanisms are compatible, whether any additional configuration is needed both in Dovecot and/or EXIM, or even whether any locking synchronization between both services is needed/recommendable at all. The only remote clue I've found is that, according to Dovecot docs: "Because Dovecot uses its own non-standard locking (dovecot-uidlist.lock dotlock file), other MUAs accessing the maildir don't support it." (but EXIM is not a MUA, anyway) Anyhow theoretically MailDir could even be considered free of locking problems, but I'm not sure of the real implications of putting together several Exim and Dovecot installations pointing to the same NFS filesystem. Any knowledge/experience/link/clue on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Daniel Campos

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[Dovecot] deliver panics when handling mails bigger than some kByte
by Leon Meßner 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

Hi, i've just upgraded to dovecot-1.2.8 (from 1.2.4) and do now get the following errors when deliver gets hands on mails with some attachments. # tail -n 1 /var/log/messages Dec 14 19:00:36 mail3 dovecot: deliver(user): Panic: file istream.c: line 96 (i_stream_read): assertion failed: (stream->eof) The MTA is postfix running inside a FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE jail. The homes where deliver should put mails are mounted via NFS. As it works with small attachments perhaps this is related to the message size. However i don't get the "stale NFS file handle" error any more which i did under 1.2.4 (See thread that begins with: Message-ID: <20091016122519.GC6309(a)emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> ) Greetings, Leon

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[Dovecot] "Filename keeps changing" issue
by Paul Ezvan 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

Hello, I have been experiencing a issue for a while with dovecot 1.2.8 : Dec 4 12:54:00 gen1 dovecot: IMAP(paul): maildir_file_do(/home/paul/Maildir/.Travail.Linux.Arch Linux/cur/1224250603.M73770P8724.gen0:2,): Filename keeps changing Dec 4 12:54:01 gen1 dovecot: IMAP(paul): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-12-04 12:53:59] bytes=4445/26986 So I can't get the messages in this directory neither with Evolution neither with Horde neither with Squirrelmail, but it works with roundcubemail. How can I debug this ? dovecot -n # 1.2.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31-ARCH i686 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ezvan.fr.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ezvan.fr.key 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_process_per_connection: no mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir 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_process_size: 0 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/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)ezvan.fr mail_plugins: sieve sieve_global_path: /var/sieve/global auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: ~/sieve Thanks for help ! Paul Ezvan

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[Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
by JW 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

In the past few months we've been having increasing problems with dovecot timing out pop3 logins. As best I can tell it gets to the point where it won't accept any new pop3 logins. The error in the mail log is: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files I've researched this problem a number of times, usually I see suggestions to increase ulimit. I've done this a number of times, all the way up to: ulimit -n 8192 I've put that in the init script right above the daemon start line. So far it hasn't helped. In addition, when looking at lsof, it doesn't seem like we're anywhere near the actual limit. for example, last time dovecot only had 1032 files open. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the error? Or what else I can try to figure this out? Thank you, JW -- ---------------------- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

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[Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8
by Stephan Bosch 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

Hello Dovecot users, I am getting closer to new releases for Sieve and ManageSieve for Dovecot v1.2.8. However, the release for Sieve includes a large restructuring of the sources to improve extension handling and to remove global state. That is why I first provide a few pre-releases for you to check first: Sieve http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.14pre.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.14pre.tar.gz.sig ManageSieve http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.10pre.tar.… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.10pre.tar.… Check the NEWS files in the respective repositories for other changes included in these releases: http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve/file/216f58aae5c1/NEWS http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-managesieve/file/a44ca0d89875/NEWS Feel free to test these release candidates and please notify me when you incur any problems. The real releases will follow this weekend. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] Maildir on NFS - attribute caching question
by Brandon Davidson 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hi Timo, We've been running Dovecot with Maildir on NFS for quite a while - since back in the 1.0 days I believe. I'm somewhat new here. Anyway... The Wiki article on NFS states that 1.1 and newer will flush attribute caches if necessary with mail_nfs_storage=yes. We're running 1.2.8 with that set, as well as mail_nfs_index=yes, mmap_disable=yes and fsync_disable=no. We have a pool of POP/IMAP and SMTP machines that are accessing the maildirs, and can't guarantee any sort of user session affinity to a particular host. We also mount our NFS shares with 'noac', which is what I'm writing to ask about. I'd like to stop doing that for performance reasons. Do you see any issues with taking that out of the mount options, given our environment? Thanks, -Brad

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[Dovecot] lot's of timeouts
by Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hi, since some time ago we do have a lot of "timeouts" connecting to our imap/po3 server. This week I switched the whole system to a new dual quadcore xeon, 24GB RAM, SAS2 RAID-10. (SUN Fire 4170) But the mailclients (mostly thunderbird and apple mail) still reporte the timeouts by accessing the mailboxes. The server is doing smtp, imap/pop3, webmailsystem and spam/antivirus-checking all together. (RH EL 5, sendmail, horde, mysql, mailscanner, spamassassin) We use the original RH dovecot-1.0.7, mbox-format and mailboxes up to 4 GB ... (historicaly grown ...) So where to start debugging the imap/pop3 timeouts? What information may I provide, which doc may I read? Thanks for helping me to find and fix the problem. Best regards Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. Claudia Hübner Staatsrätin für Demographischen Wandel und für Senioren im Staatsministerium Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt

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[Dovecot] v2.0.beta1 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta1.tar.gz.sig Now that v2.0 is in beta stage I don't expect anything big to change anymore. The configuration and the APIs shouldn't change in non-backwards compatible ways. There are still bugs left to be fixed and some small features to be implemented, but I'd like to have people start testing it more. The biggest unimplemented "feature" is how to convert v1.x configuration easily/automatically to v2.0. Either the old config file should be translated to new one, or Dovecot should be able to read the old config file as-is. I think I like the translation better, so that people won't still be using v1.x configuration when v2.1 arrives and drops v1.x support. Largest changes since alpha3: - if some IP address is failing authentications, all auth attempts from the IP are delayed increasingly. a successful auth drops the delay. max delay is 15 seconds. this is enforced by auth process, so it works across different connections/processes/protocols. - lib-storage plugin API changed. processes handling multiple users now support different plugins for different users. - expire plugin's settings work a bit differently now: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/46691becc45e - post-login scripting works again, see http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-December/045139.html - Tons of fixes

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[Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2 dbox mysql
by Bradley Giesbrecht 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Seems to work but it's weird that I lost my subscribed folders. Also the perl script imapsync is only seeing an inbox and no other folders. I seem to be creating a lot of name mailboxes where my INBOX and other folders are located. /opt/local/var/mail/domain.com/username/dbox/mailboxes This dir is getting populated with new INBOX and default folders. (domain.com and username are substitutes for the real users domain and username) dovecot.log: Dec 17 12:29:17 IMAP(username(a)domain.com): Info: Effective uid=5000, gid=5000, home=/opt/local/var/mail/domain.com/username Dec 17 12:29:17 IMAP(username(a)domain.com): Info: dbox: data=/opt/local/ var/mail/domain.com/username/dbox Dec 17 12:29:17 IMAP(username(a)domain.com): Info: fs: root=/opt/local/ var/mail/username.com/username/dbox, index=, control=, inbox= dovecot-deliver.log: Dec 17 12:35:08 deliver(username(a)domain.com): Info: auth input: home=/ opt/local/var/mail/domain.com/username Dec 17 12:35:08 deliver(username(a)domain.com): Info: auth input: uid=5000 Dec 17 12:35:08 deliver(username(a)domain.com): Info: auth input: gid=5000 Dec 17 12:35:08 deliver(username(a)domain.com): Info: dbox: data=/opt/ local/var/mail/domain.com/username/dbox Dec 17 12:35:08 deliver(username(a)domain.com): Info: fs: root=/opt/ local/var/mail/domain.com/username/dbox, index=, control=, inbox= Dec 17 12:35:08 deliver(username(a)domain.com): Info: msgid=<E5136D91-256C-4FD8-87AE-065C95DEAA58(a)gmail.com >: saved mail to INBOX Could someone confirm that this looks right? Thank you, Bradley Giesbrecht

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[Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2 dbox mysql
by Bradley Giesbrecht 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi, I just upgraded to from dovecot v1.1.15 to v1.2.9 so I can use dovecot- sieve. Most everything seems to work but my webmail (roundcube) clients are not seeing their subscribed folders. Reading over the upgrade docs at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2 I'm wondering if I have the two settings below configured correctly. dovecot.conf: mail_location = dbox:/opt/local/var/mail/%d/%n/dbox dovecot_mysql.conf user_query homedir result: /opt/local/var/mail/example.com/foo bash-3.2# dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 9.8.0 Power Macintosh hfs log_path: /opt/local/var/serveza/log/mail/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: now what? mail_location: dbox:/opt/local/var/serveza/mail/%d/%n/dbox mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/local/etc/dovecot/bin/log_imap_login.sh mail_executable(imap): /opt/local/etc/dovecot/bin/log_imap_login.sh mail_executable(pop3): /opt/local/etc/dovecot/bin/log_pop3_login.sh mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: log_path: /opt/local/var/serveza/log/mail/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address: postmaster(a)pixilla.com auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 ntlm apop verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot_mysql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot_mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /opt/local/var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: _postfix group: _postfix master: path: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: _vmail Thanks for any clues, Bradley Giesbrecht

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve Plugin Help
by Oli Schacher 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Asai wrote: > Thanks, Oli. So, what about the ATrpms Dovecot-Sieve plugin? > http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot-sieve/ > > Is this different? AFAIK this is the CMU Sieve (Cyrus) plugin for dovecot 1.1. I don't think there are atrpm packages for the dovecot sieve version.

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[Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2 dbox mysql
by Bradley Giesbrecht 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi, I just upgraded to from dovecot v1.1.15 to v1.2.9 so I can use dovecot- sieve. Most everything seems to work but my webmail (roundcube) clients are not seeing their subscribed folders. Reading over the upgrade docs at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2 I'm wondering if I have the two settings below configured correctly. dovecot.conf: mail_location = dbox:/opt/local/var/mail/%d/%n/dbox dovecot_mysql.conf user_query homedir result: /opt/local/var/mail/example.com/foo bash-3.2# dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 9.8.0 Power Macintosh hfs log_path: /opt/local/var/serveza/log/mail/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: now what? mail_location: dbox:/opt/local/var/serveza/mail/%d/%n/dbox mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/local/etc/dovecot/bin/log_imap_login.sh mail_executable(imap): /opt/local/etc/dovecot/bin/log_imap_login.sh mail_executable(pop3): /opt/local/etc/dovecot/bin/log_pop3_login.sh mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: log_path: /opt/local/var/serveza/log/mail/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address: postmaster(a)pixilla.com auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 ntlm apop verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot_mysql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot_mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /opt/local/var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: _postfix group: _postfix master: path: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: _vmail Thanks for any clues, Bradley Giesbrecht

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[Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2
by Ivica Glavocic 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi all We are planning to upgrade Dovecot from production version 1.0.10 to latest version 1.2.9 Users are using maildir style mailboxes with ~20 GB of messages on SLES10 server. Upgrade will be done by installing new server and then migrating mailboxes from old on new server. Since dovecot-uidlist file have new format and index files have changed in v1.1, what must be done to have new Dovecot v1.2 working properly with old v1.0 maildirs? Thanks, regards Ivica Glavocic

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[Dovecot] force PLAIN auth mech?
by Frank Cusack 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

I have auth_default { mechanisms = plain } yet clients are able to login using cram-md5. how can i force use of plain?

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[Dovecot] How to let people change their password ?
by Edi Stojicevic 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi, I would like to know what do you use to let people change their email password ? I have a dedicated server with postfix and dovecot on it for a couple of web sites and I need to be able to let them change their mail password ... but I havent found any documentation on that :( If you have any feedbacks, tutorials, website, ... let me know ;) ++ -- .''`. Edi Stojicevic : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin & developer - http://www.debian.org `. `~' French speaking Debian website founder - http://www.debianworld.org `- GPG Key Id : 0x1237B032

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Re: [Dovecot] CRAM-MD5 in Python
by Andrea Mistrali 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

On 16/dic/2009, at 20.01, Nick Douma wrote: > On 16-12-2009 17:11, Andre wrote: >> Hi to all! >> I’m writing a python module (python+sqlalchemy) to manage user and domain configuration on my system (I hope to get a CLI tool, a Web app and even a native Mac app, via PyObjc, from my lib). >> I’m implementing password crypto, but I have some problem in generating CRAM-MD5 password, dovecot style. >> I’ve found an old discussion on this mailing list and a piece of Perl that works, but I need to implement it in Python; I’ve even read code (hmac-md5.c), but before start hard coding (hard from my POV at least, since I’ve never worked with crypto algorithms in a deep way), is there anyone that have had solved the problem or has any idea on how to approach it? >> >> TIA >> Andre > > If the module is always going to run on a machine with dovecot > installed, you could call from your script: > > $ dovecotpw -s CRAM-MD5 -p <password> > I know, I thought to do in this way, but it introduces an unnecessary and strong dependency. Imagine of a web server running the administration interface, that is not even the IMAP server (I know I can install only common dovecot components) or imagine to write a OSX/Windows Administration tool (I would like to write a Xcode/PyOBjc tool). Anyway, I’ll give a try to module hmac. Andre

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[Dovecot] Why dovecot does not want to read my acl file?
by Lukas Haase 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi, Simple Scenario: Shared namespace and a specific UNIX group should have access to it. System is Debian lenny (stable). # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf [...] namespace public { separator = . prefix = Shared. location = maildir:/var/mail/shared } mail_executable = /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-imap-fix.sh mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no #just to make sure [...] # dpkg -l | grep dovecot ii dovecot-common 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 secure mail server that ii dovecot-imapd 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 secure IMAP server that # cat /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-imap-fix.sh #!/bin/sh cat /var/mail/shared/.Office/dovecot-acl > /tmp/dovecot-$USER env >> /tmp/dovecot-$USER ACL_GROUPS=`groups $USER | tr ' ' ','` export ACL_GROUPS exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap $* # ls -la -R /var/mail/shared/ # (cut the .,.. in output) /var/mail/shared/: total 28 drwxrwx--- 5 root office 4096 Dec 15 15:53 .Office drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 16:55 cur -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Dec 15 07:46 dovecot-acl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 15 07:42 dovecot-shared drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 16:55 new drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 16:55 tmp /var/mail/shared/.Office: total 24 drwxrwx--- 2 root office 4096 Dec 15 09:53 cur -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Dec 15 15:53 dovecot-acl -rw-rw---- 1 root office 0 Dec 15 07:42 dovecot-shared drwxrwx--- 2 root office 4096 Dec 15 09:53 new drwxrwx--- 2 root office 4096 Dec 15 09:53 tmp # id peter uid=1000(peter) gid=100(users) groups=51683(office),25783(ssh_users),100(users) # Now I log in as peter but I my client (latest TB 2) does not display the office folder. In the log it claimes that it is not able to open the acl file what really can NOT be true: Dec 15 15:56:05 mail dovecot: IMAP(peter): acl vfile: no access to file /var/mail/shared/.Office/dovecot-acl I tried: * su peter: Access no problem! * ps aux: The process is running as peter * As you can see I have debugging code in my dovecot-imap-fix.sh which successfully prints out the content of the ACL file to /tmp/user-peter I can't image that, it seems as if it is not true. By the way: As soon as I change the mail_executable to /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-imap-fix.sh I get this message and have absolutely no clue why: # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotid: dump-capability: No such user . # Which dump-capability? Which user? Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong here? Thank you very much, Luke

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[Dovecot] lib-storage API docs
by Timo Sirainen 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

I wrote lots of more stuff about lib-storage to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Design Still few FIXMEs to fix. Comments welcome. :) Anything else that you're interested in reading about?

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[Dovecot] Filing to public folders
by Cajus Pollmeier 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi all, I'm currently playing with a setup which might replace my current cyrus imapd one with dovecot. Currently I'm stuck with trying to file messages that got to the user "lists" to the public namespace' System folder (public/System) with sieve. Dovecot claims "Permission denied", and I tried several debugging techniques to get the cause - without a result right now :-( Thanks, Cajus 8<-------- /var/log/mail.info Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): sieve: using sieve path for user's script: /home/lists/.dovecot.sieve Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): sieve: opening script /home/lists/.dovecot.sieve Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): sieve: executing compiled script /home/lists/.dovecot.sieve Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): acl vfile: reading file /var/dovecot/public/.System/dovecot-acl Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): sieve: msgid=<3044.1260989392(a)ferdi.test.net>: failed to store into mailbox 'public/System': Permission denied Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): Namespace : Using permissions from /var/dovecot/mails/lists: mode=0700 gid=-1 Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): sieve: msgid=<3044.1260989392(a)ferdi.test.net>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Dec 16 21:40:51 ferdi dovecot: deliver(lists): sieve: execution of script /home/lists/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful 8<-------- /home/lists/.dovecot.sieve require ["fileinto"]; if header :contains "From" [ "root(a)test.net", "logcheck(a)test.net", "root(a)ferdi.test.net", "logcheck(a)ferdi.test.net" ] { fileinto "public/System"; stop; } 8<------- /var/dovecot/public/.System/dovecot-acl user=lists lrwstiekxa authenticated lr 8<-------- dovecot information Dovecot version 1.2.8 (Backport on debian lenny 1:1.2.8-1~bpo50+1) system> dovecot -n # 1.2.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.3 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/cert/ferdi.cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/cert/ferdi.key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_access_groups: publicmail mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/dovecot/mails/%u mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: acl namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: public/ location: maildir:/var/dovecot/public:INDEX=/var/dovecot/mails/%u/public list: children lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)test.net mail_plugins: acl sieve auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master debug: yes auth default: passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: root group: mail plugin: acl: vfile sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve antispam_signature: X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing: error antispam_spam: SPAM antispam_dspam_binary: /usr/bin/dspam antispam_dspam_args: --deliver=;--user;%u antispam_mail_tmpdir: /tmp antispam_mail_sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail antispam_crm_binary: /bin/false antispam_signature: X-CRM114-CacheID

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.+
by Tom Mihalicek 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

The Dovecot version is 1.2.8 and i am using an LDAP for a user database. The problem is following... i would like to use a quota dictionary backend from file rather than sql proxy for some reasons. Is it possible to get the full path for dovecot-quota file location from LDAP like from mail variable (/mailboxes/storage_01/domain.org/u/us/use/user/dbox/dovecot-quota)? /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf user_attrs = storageBase=home,mailMessageStore=mail=dbox:~/%$/dbox/,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,mailQuotaMessageLimit=quota_rule2=*:messages=%$ Also is it also possible the same for sieve location? I can solve the problem by adding in dovecot.conf sieve = /var/sieve/%Ld/%Ln/dovecot.sieve but i would like to have it all in one place ... t -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-1.2.%2B-tp26803721p26803721.html Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] v1.2.9 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.9.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.9.tar.gz.sig Hopefully this release will be enough bug-free that I don't need to make v1.2 releases for next few months. * maildir: When saving, filenames now always contain ,S=<size>. Previously this was done only when quota plugin was loaded. It's required for zlib plugin and may be useful for other things too. + lazy-expunge: Support a single-namespace configuration. If a mailbox is deleted, its messages are merged with its old expunged messages (if there were any). + expire: Settings now support spaces in mailbox names by using quoted strings. - maildir: v1.2.7 and v1.2.8 caused assert-crashes in maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges() - maildir_copy_preserve_filename=yes could have caused crashes. - Maildir++ quota: % limits weren't updated when limits were read from maildirsize. - virtual: v1.2.8 didn't fully fix the "lots of mailboxes" bug - virtual: Fixed updating virtual mailbox based on flag changes. - fts-squat: Fixed searching multi-byte characters.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Quota Configuration
by Pattabi Prasanna 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi, I setting up a Mail server for my company. I have installed Postfix, it is working fine. I have installed Dovecot IMAP Server, i want to know how to implement quotas for users mailbox. I have created Users using /etc/passwd, No Mysql or LDAP at present. can you provide me the links to do this. Regards, P. Prasanna

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[Dovecot] v2.0.beta1
by Pascal Volk 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi Timo, the imap_client_workarounds are not always parsed. There was on situation, in which cmd->client->set->parsed_workarounds was set to WORKAROUND_TB_EXTRA_MAILBOX_SEP. Sorry, I can't remember what I have done. But when I try to delete a mailbox with Thunderbird imap_client_workarounds are not parsed: (gdb) print cmd->client->set->imap_client_workarounds $7 = 0x1422de0 "tb-extra-mailbox-sep" (gdb) print cmd->client->set->parsed_workarounds $8 = 0 And therefor the command 'x delete box_with_trailing_slash/' fails. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcafe.0935015(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Build fix on HURD
by Marco Nenciarini 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

I've made two little patches to allow dovecot to be compiled on GNU/Hurd. Could you review them? Kind regards, Marco Nenciarini -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | mnencia(a)prato.linux.it | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4

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[Dovecot] CRAM-MD5 in Python
by Andre 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi to all! I’m writing a python module (python+sqlalchemy) to manage user and domain configuration on my system (I hope to get a CLI tool, a Web app and even a native Mac app, via PyObjc, from my lib). I’m implementing password crypto, but I have some problem in generating CRAM-MD5 password, dovecot style. I’ve found an old discussion on this mailing list and a piece of Perl that works, but I need to implement it in Python; I’ve even read code (hmac-md5.c), but before start hard coding (hard from my POV at least, since I’ve never worked with crypto algorithms in a deep way), is there anyone that have had solved the problem or has any idea on how to approach it? TIA Andre

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[Dovecot] MySQL Access
by Asai 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

This may be a stupid question, but here goes. Does the current RPM offered by ATrpms version 1.2.8 come with MySQL enabled? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] Sieve Plugin Help
by Asai 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

When I run # dovecot --build-options I get: Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl Mail storages: cydir dbox maildir mbox raw shared SQL driver plugins: mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: nss ldap(plugin) passwd passwd-file prefetch sql static I don't see anything here mentioning Sieve. Does this mean that Sieve is not enabled in this build? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] vpopmail/mysql/quota
by Marty Diesburg 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi All, I'm new to the list and have a quota question. I am building a new server with dovecot/qmail/vpopmail/mysql and emails are sending and recieving fine when the quota is set to NOQUOTA, but when the quota is changed qmail doesn't deliver any messages. I have read the docs and still need some help understanding the process for dovecot quotas relating to the vpopmail mysql database they are stored in. Thanks for your help. Marty # 1.2.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) protocols: imap pop3 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/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 first_valid_uid: 508 last_valid_uid: 508 first_valid_gid: 503 last_valid_gid: 503 mail_uid: 508 mail_gid: 503 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_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 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)teknickel.net auth default: default_realm: teknickel.net verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /home/vpopmail/dovecotsql.conf passdb: driver: vpopmail args: webmail=127.0.0.1 userdb: driver: sql args: /home/vpopmail/dovecotsql.conf userdb: driver: vpopmaildriver = mysql # connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=vpopuser password=xxxxxxxx dbname=vpopmail # default_pass_scheme = PLAIN # NOTE: '\' line splitting works only with v1.1+ password_query = SELECT pw_clear_passwd AS password, CONCAT(pw_name, '@', pw_domain) AS user FROM vpopmail WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d' user_query = SELECT CONCAT(pw_name, '@', pw_domain) AS user, pw_dir as home, 508 AS uid, 503 AS gid, concat('maildir:backend=%q', pw_shell) AS quota_rule FROM vpopmail WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d' args: quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q plugin: quota: maildir ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dovecotsql.conf

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[Dovecot] v2.0.beta1: Unable to delete mailboxes
by Pascal Volk 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

I'm not sure if it is Dovecot (with mdbox) or me. What I have done: /path/2/dovecot/imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 … QUOTA] Logged in as user 0 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" 0 OK List completed. 1 CREATE foo 1 OK Create completed. 2 CREATE bar/ 2 OK Create completed. 3 LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "foo" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\Noselect \HasNoChildren) "/" "bar" 3 OK List completed. 4 DELETE foo 4 OK Delete completed. 5 DELETE bar 5 NO [NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: bar 6 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 6 OK Logout completed. The directory /home/user/mdbox/mailboxes/bar is empty, there is no subdiretory dbox-Mails with the dovecot.index.log file. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcafe.0935015(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] S=xxx missing in new messages
by Andre 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi to all! I’m setting up dovecot 1.2.8 on my system to substitute an older IMAP server and I’m testing all features of Dovecot. Yesterday I was testing support for zlib, for compressed messages, to set up a new namespace for old mails and I read that it is safe to compress only mails that have the field “S=XXX” in their name (XXX being the original size of message) and to leave uncompressed the ones that don’t have S=XXX in their name. Testing and searching I discovered that only new mail, mail that used to arrive in mailbox via SMTP have S=XXX, mail copied from another mailbox loose S=XXX. Later I’ve found that this not work anymore, even directly delivered mail messages do not have S=XXX anymore. I use dovecot-lda as delivery program and postfix as SMTP server, but I’ve not touched postfix configuration since one month ago. What can it be? How can I have S=XXX again in my messages file name? TIA Andrea

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[Dovecot] Kerberos Cross-Real username
by Nikolay Shopik 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi List, Is anyone is running Dovecot with Kerberos and tried to authenticate user from different REALM and have same user principal with default domain. Currently Dovecot only logs user principal w/o REALM. So before I go in production maybe somebody already run into this using Dovecot? If not I just create virtual machines and see how it behaves.

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[Dovecot] Auth Fails, But Can Still Get Mail
by Asai 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Greetings, I've recently upgraded from version .97 to v. 1.2. Everything seems to be working OK, but I'm wondering why I'm getting authentication failure messages in /var/log/maillog. Like this: Dec 15 11:02:41 triata dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<mycenay>, method=PLAIN, rip=140.9.5.1, lip=140.9.5.1, secured Although that user can log in to the server and get email no problem. Config file follows: # 1.2.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plusxen x86_64 CentOS release 5 (Final) ext3 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/triata.globalchangemultimedia.net/mailserver/smtpd.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/triata.globalchangemultimedia.net/mailserver/smtpd.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_location: maildir:/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/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 namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: public/ location: maildir:/vmail/public list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)globalchangemultimedia.net hostname: triata.globalchangemultimedia.net mail_plugins: sieved mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail -- --asai

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[Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections
by Richard Stockton 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

What is the appropriate setting for mail_max_userip_connections ? My POP3 connections seem to be mostly 1 at a time, but my IMAP connections are often 3 per user per IP. Is this appropriate? If I change the IMAP setting to mail_max_userip_connections=1 will it break things for the user? I am trying to improve this situation: > ps auxwww | grep "imap " | wc 237 3080 22400 TIA, - Richard

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-sieve multiple redirect question
by Алексей Крикун 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi, I have a question about redirecting message to a multiple addresses. I have an user script like following: require ["copy"]; redirect :copy "addr1(a)dom.ain"; redirect :copy "addr2(a)dom.ain"; All works fine, but if addr1@... has exceeded quota, this script seems stop working and addr2@... doesn't receive this message too. Is this correct behaviour? How to avoid this? Thanks, Kryol

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Re: [Dovecot] Different PROXY for IMAP and POP3 using LDAP-auth
by Ralf Becker 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

-------------------------------------------------- For all non german speaking people: Oliver asked: In an old posting I've read something about different proxy hosts for IMAP and POP3. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-July/031885.html I've got the same problem and want to ask you, if there is a patch for replacing [variable names in] pass_attrs. --------------------------------------------------- Hello Oliver, I've attached the patch I'm using. It works in all 1.1.x versions. Regards, Ralf Oliver Eales schrieb am 13.12.2009 01:40: > Hallo, > > ich hatte ein etwas älteres Posting von Ihnen auf der Dovecot > Mailingliste gefunden bei dem es um unterschiedliche Proxy hosts für > IMAP und POP3 ging. > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-July/031885.html > > Ich habe das gleiche Problem und wollte fragen ob sie evtl. einen Patch > zu Ersetzung der pass_attrs umgesetzt haben. > > Danke und viele Grüße, > Oliver Eales > > > -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Ralf Becker Rechenzentrum (r/ft) der FH Trier (Network|Mail|Web|Firewall) University of applied sciences Administrator Schneidershof, D-54293 Trier Mail: beckerr(a)fh-trier.de Fon: +49 651 8103 499 Web: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Fax: +49 651 8103 214 PubKey: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Crypto: GnuPG, S/MIME ______________________________________________________________________ Wenn Gott gewollt haette, dass E-Mail in HTML geschrieben wuerden, endeten Gebete traditionell mit </amen>. (Tom Listen)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot truncating Inboxes?
by Harald Strack 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi, Environment: >10000 Users (LDAP) Solaris 10 / sparc imap: dovecot-1.1.10 (pam-unix, no direct LDAP access) pop: dovecot-1.0.14 on another server (pam-unix, no direct LDAP access) mta: postfix (pam-unix, no direct LDAP access) procmail (pam-unix, no direct LDAP access) Filesystems: Inboxes and IMAP-home are on two different SAM-FS volumes. Problem description: Inboxes of users are disappearing / are truncated. we are using dovecot-1.1.0 since two month as main IMAP server. It replaced our long running but old version of UW-IMAP. Till the last week we had no problems and it worked quite well and the whole mail system worked in this configuration since several years. But since a week we receive more and more complaints regarding truncated/deleted mailboxes. First, we assumed user/client errors, but as such messages arrive more frequently, we did a deep analysis of the issue. The only common component of our mail system (postfix (local), procmail, pop, imap) that all concerned users have accessed, was dovecot-imap v. 1.1.10. We have no locking problems, we use fcntl(), dotlock for all mail components. We tested this with a small perl script and locking works fine (no delivery to a locked mailbox and so on...) Finally, all indications point to a bug in dovecot. Google and searches in this mailing list did not come up with any valuable results. Are there any known bugs / configuration problems concerned to the described problem? I greatly appreciate any help! Thx in advance Harald Strack

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[Dovecot] Configure deliver to add ', S=<size>' to maildir message name
by alhashash-lists＠cilantrocafe.net 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi, I want to use the zlib plugin to compress my mail storage. According to the wiki, only messages with size attribute in the message id should by compressed. If I added the size part, dovecot assumes it is a new message. While dovecot undertands the ',S=<size>' attribute (IMAP shows that size), I could not configure deliver to add the size to message name. I'm using dovecot v1.0.13 Regards, M. Alhashash

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[Dovecot] Sieve mails with decoded subject
by Johannes Bauer 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Dear all, I accidently posted this message to dovecot-news and want to apologize for any trouble I may have caused. Here it is again to the correct mailing list: Recently I'm getting a ton of porn/viagra/diet/casino spam mails which I tried to filter with sieve: if header :contains "Subject" [ "[SPAM]", "Bett", "Schlafzimmer", "Spielen", "Luder", "abhenmen", "poppen", "Casino", "Bonus", "abnehmen", "Gewinn", "Potenz" ] { addflag "\\seen"; fileinto "Spam"; stop; } Sadly, this didn't work - taking a closer look upon one of the spam mails, it seems the spamming rats have encoded the subject: Subject: =?US-ASCII?B?RW5kbGljaCBtZWhyIGVuZ2FnZW1lbnQgaW0gQmV0dGNoZW4=?= (reads: "Endlich mehr engagement im Bettchen") I'm thinking about filtering all such encoded subjects (as there's no reason to encode them US-ASCII), but suppose it were UTF-8 or something: how can I filter on the actual content, not the encoded subject? Surely someone has solved that problem already? Kind regards, Johannes

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[Dovecot] Mail root to root and permissions problem
by Antonello Onida 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi all! I got a Debian with postfix-dovecot-spamassassin. I got a non perfect installation: when an internal mail has been sent i got this error: <error> ex: from root@* to root@*. Command output: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: Permission denied </error> Operations like "dovecot: 2009-12-15 11:17:24 Warning: Killed with signal 15" are writen. It's a permission problem: dovecot.log is owned by "root" and grupped by "adm" (chmodded 640). Where is the problem? I'm really blind now! Tx 4 suggestions! Bye, Antonello

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[Dovecot] Is it possible to change service name of managesieve service?
by Zhang Huangbin 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi, list. In dovecot-1.2, managesieve is identified as 'sieve' service while use '%s'[1] in dovecot. Is it possible to change it? Because we store it in SQL/LDAP as 'managesieve' service name, we don't want to change this. Thanks [1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu: http://www.iredmail.org/

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[Dovecot] commercial help
by Jim Pazarena 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Contact info * Author: Timo Sirainen, tss(a)iki.fi <mailto:tss@iki.fi>. * Please use the Dovecot mailing list <http://www.dovecot.org/mailinglists.html> for questions about Dovecot. You don't have to subscribe to it. * Depending on your needs, commercial support may be available. Send a mail if you're interested. according to the above (from the dovecot.org webpage), "commercial support may be available". After spending the better part of today trying unsuccessfully, I am ready to "Send a mail if you're interested". But I do not know WHO to send it to. Likely Timo, but I do not want to be presumptuous. I am on FreeBSD with Dovecot 1.2.4 I need to have both POP3 & IMAP working to replace vm-pop3d (which was POP3 only). Local users are: mbox:/home/%u/mail/:INBOX=/mail/%u with password in /etc/passwd Virtual users (which vm-pop3d handled readily) are mbox:/home/VIRTUAL/%d/%u:INBOX/mail/VIRTUAL/%d/%u with password in /exim/etc/VIRTUAL/%d/passwd It is worth it to me to pay a knowledgeable person to create the correct conf file to make this happen. Who should I contact? Thanks, Jim Pazarena

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[Dovecot] User friendly vacation service
by Raymond Lillard 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Dear Dovecot list, I maintain a few small sendmail/dovecot/procmail based mail servers with system users only (no virtual domains or virtual users) on OpenBSD. I have been able to get a vacation system working with both with the native vacation program from OpenBSD and with procmail. I've been looking into dovecot sieve, but it doesn't appear to solve the bigger user complaint which is, they want to be able to control the vacation feature w/o my involvement. What is wanted is a system where the users can send a control mail message to themselves with the reply body in the message or failing that perhaps a secure web page to control the vacation function. Mail administration is NOT a full time job for me. I'm looking for simple, low overhead solutions. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Ray

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot-sieve and russian
by Andrew A. Polyakov 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hello I have a problem with dovecot-sieve. When I create a folder in russian, the filter is not working properly. It creates a new folder with the same name and delivers the letter there. For example, I created a folder called &BD8EQAQ4BDIENQRC-/, but the letter got in &-BD8EQAQ4BDIENQRC-/. In all cases, the difference in the sign -. The folders in the english language is no problem. # uname -mrs FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 # pkg_info | grep dovecot dovecot-1.2.8 dovecot-managesieve-0.11.9 dovecot-sieve-1.2+0.1.13 sieve rule: # rule:[test] elsif anyof (header :contains "Subject" "test") { fileinto "&BD8EQAQ4BDIENQRC-"; } -- С уважением, Андрей А. Поляков ФГОУ ВПО ОмГАУ http://www.omgau.ru Тел.: +7 (3812) 65-00-09 644008, г. Омск, Институтская площадь, 2

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