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[Dovecot] v1.2.3 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.3.tar.gz.sig A few days later than I wanted, but here it is. * Mailbox names with control characters can't be created anymore. Existing mailboxes can still be accessed though. + Allow namespace prefix to be opened as mailbox, if a mailbox already exists in the root dir. - Maildir: dovecot-uidlist was being recreated every time a mailbox was accessed, even if nothing changed. - listescape plugin was somewhat broken - Compiling fixes for non-Linux/BSDs - imap: tb-extra-mailbox-sep workaround was broken. - ldap: Fixed hang when >128 requests were sent at once. - fts_squat: Fixed crashing when searching virtual mailbox. - imap: Fixed THREAD .. INTHREAD crashing.

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[Dovecot] All mail in mbox disappears when using Outlook
by Frank Leonhardt 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

I thought I was imaging it but... I have a friend (honestly) that likes to clear his inbox every month by copying older into a folder (e.g. June-2009). Every month he complains that all the mail in the new folder has disappeared. This has happened three times now, and he's sort-of-right. I now believe it's a bug rather than him. The setup is Dovecot 1.1.3 on FreeBSD 7.0 and the client is Outlook 2003 SP3 (using IMAP). What you end up with is a folder called June-2009 with no messages visible. Outlook reckons it's completely empty - size 0. I don't know how he gets to this point, but it can't be anything that bizarre - just copying messages. It's happened three months in a row. However, he can't see the contents and I can't see the contents using Outlook. Strangely, Eudora and Squirrel have no problem. Corrupt mbox file? Probably not. If you copy the problem one, the copy works fine. The really weird thing is that if you rename the problem file (using mv) it STILL DOESN'T work. I've considered the possibility that it's got a bad lock on it, but if so, how come Squirrel and Eudora have no problem? I've searched as far as I can for any known problems using Outlook. What next? Thanks, Frank. ====================================================== # 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/mail/certs/dovecot-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/mail/certs/dovecot-private.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes 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_process_size: 512 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 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_enable_last(default): no pop3_enable_last(imap): no pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Ln process_size: 512 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

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[Dovecot] v1.2.2 / rev 0ec0b1f1ac6a+: imap crash
by Pascal Volk 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi Timo, the preconditions was: a dbox converted (convert-tool) from Maildir contents of dbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails was: - dovecot.index.log [64876 bytes] - dovecot-uidlist [167280 bytes] - 3237 mails I've started mutt to see the mails. Mutt lost the connection immediately. The log shows nothing strange except for: dovecot: Error: child 12136 (imap) killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Each time i try to connect to dovecot imap crashes. The first backtrace is attached. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: face1e55.0921116(a)localdomain.org GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"... warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libdl-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/librt-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgc.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgc.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libc-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libpthread-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/dovecot12/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/dovecot12/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/dovecot12/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/dovecot12/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Core was generated by `imap [j.roe(a)example.com 2a01:198:37a:1::1]'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 12136] #0 0x000000000047ac5f in index_storage_lock_notify_reset (ibox=0x0) at index-storage.c:379 379 ibox->next_lock_notify = time(NULL) + LOCK_NOTIFY_INTERVAL; (gdb) bt full #0 0x000000000047ac5f in index_storage_lock_notify_reset (ibox=0x0) at index-storage.c:379 No locals. #1 0x000000000044f6b1 in maildir_uidlist_lock_timeout (uidlist=0x22ee9a0, nonblock=false, refresh=true, refresh_when_locked=false) at maildir-uidlist.c:149 box = (struct mailbox *) 0x22ea890 control_dir = 0x70 <Address 0x70 out of bounds> path = 0x2301b20 "" old_mask = 3656138848 dotlock_flags = 0 i = 5133251 ret = 0 #2 0x000000000044f882 in maildir_uidlist_lock (uidlist=0x22ee9a0) at maildir-uidlist.c:203 No locals. #3 0x0000000000452527 in maildir_uidlist_update (uidlist=0x22ee9a0) at maildir-uidlist.c:1308 ret = 0 #4 0x000000000044fda0 in maildir_uidlist_deinit (_uidlist=0x7fffd9ec4128) at maildir-uidlist.c:325 uidlist = (struct maildir_uidlist *) 0x22ee9a0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_uidlist_deinit" #5 0x000000000044792a in dbox_sync_index_rebuild (mbox=0x22ea890) at dbox-sync-rebuild.c:446 ctx = {mbox = 0x22ea890, append_ctx = 0x0, view = 0x0, trans = 0x0, cache_ext_id = 6, cache_reset_id = 0, maildir_uidlist = 0x0, mk = 0x0, maildir_new_files = {arr = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 8}, v = 0x0, v_modifiable = 0x0}, maildir_new_uid = 0, cache_used = 0} seq = 3 offset = 64876 fnames = (char **) 0x22d3cf0 i = 0 count = 0 ret = 0 #6 0x00000000004457b6 in dbox_sync_begin (mbox=0x22ea890, ctx_r=0x7fffd9ec41d8, close_flush_dirty_flags=false, force=false) at dbox-sync.c:357 storage = (struct mail_storage *) 0x2292a20 ctx = (struct dbox_sync_context *) 0x22d4e00 sync_flags = 6 i = 0 ret = 0 rebuild = false #7 0x0000000000445900 in dbox_sync (mbox=0x22ea890, close_flush_dirty_flags=false) at dbox-sync.c:396 sync_ctx = (struct dbox_sync_context *) 0x22ea890 #8 0x000000000044598c in dbox_storage_sync_init (box=0x22ea890, flags=65) at dbox-sync.c:415 mbox = (struct dbox_mailbox *) 0x22ea890 ret = 0 #9 0x0000000000488778 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x22ea890, flags=65) at mail-storage.c:562 No locals. #10 0x000000000048881e in mailbox_sync (box=0x22ea890, flags=65, status_items=239, status_r=0x7fffd9ec42a0) at mail-storage.c:593 ctx = (struct mailbox_sync_context *) 0x22ea890 #11 0x0000000000422be3 in select_open (ctx=0x22dc1e8, mailbox=0x50498b "INBOX", readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:273 client = (struct client *) 0x22daf00 status = {messages = 3656139488, recent = 32767, unseen = 4354815, uidvalidity = 0, uidnext = 36552744, first_unseen_seq = 0, highest_modseq = 36252192, keywords = 0x7fffd9ec4318, sync_delayed_expunges = 0, nonpermanent_modseqs = 0} open_flags = 0 #12 0x0000000000422ff6 in cmd_select_full (cmd=0x22dc090, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:381 client = (struct client *) 0x22daf00 box = (struct mailbox *) 0x22cf228 ctx = (struct imap_select_context *) 0x22dc1e8 args = (const struct imap_arg *) 0x22e50d8 mailbox = 0x50498b "INBOX" ret = 32767 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "cmd_select_full" #13 0x0000000000423029 in cmd_select (cmd=0x22dc090) at cmd-select.c:388 No locals. #14 0x00000000004262b6 in client_command_input (cmd=0x22dc090) at client.c:611 client = (struct client *) 0x22daf00 command = (struct command *) 0x7022dc1b8 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #15 0x00000000004264e1 in client_command_input (cmd=0x22dc090) at client.c:660 client = (struct client *) 0x22daf00 command = (struct command *) 0x22cf228 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #16 0x0000000000426603 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x22daf00, remove_io_r=0x7fffd9ec445d) at client.c:701 size = 22 #17 0x0000000000426684 in client_handle_input (client=0x22daf00) at client.c:713 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ret = true remove_io = false handled_commands = true __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #18 0x00000000004267e0 in client_input (client=0x22daf00) at client.c:752 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0xd9ec44cc output = (struct ostream *) 0x22dae68 bytes = 56 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #19 0x00000000004e2843 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x2295f80) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x229cfc0 events = (struct epoll_event *) 0x22cf800 event = (const struct epoll_event *) 0x22cf800 list = (struct io_list *) 0x229af80 io = (struct io_file *) 0x2295c00 tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999469} events_count = 3 t_id = 2 msecs = 1800000 ret = 1 i = 0 j = 0 call = true #20 0x00000000004e1a3c in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x2295f80) at ioloop.c:338 No locals. #21 0x000000000043192c in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffd9ec4648, envp=0x7fffd9ec4668) at main.c:327 No locals. (gdb)

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[Dovecot] hoping someone has a suggestion
by P.A 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi using dovecot 1.0.10 with pop/imap, using maildir, with 2000+ users mostly using pop but many using imap. Once in a great while I have problems with dovecot pop timing out. If I telnet to port 110 it just takes forever to come up or it doesn't at all, the samething happens on the imap port although 110 is always worst. At 1st when troubleshooting I was not sure what was causing the situation and when I ran out of options I stopped postfix. When I did this dovecot immediately started working again, that is port 110/143 came up fast and all the user logins were fast again. When I restarted postfix after a minute or so dovecot became slow again. While observing this situation I notice that postfix had most of the connections about 300+ in established state, while dovecot was using around 150 connections. After adjusting some of the parameters on postfix and shutting it down multiple times, suddenly everything worked but this time postfix was reporting over 3000 connections mostly in TIME_WAIT state which is normal for us. My question is what do you guys think is happening here, what is the relationship between dovecot/postfix that would cause this to happen. I'm just looking for some suggestions in case this happens again. # 1.0.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes 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 login_greeting: D-V1 NP09 ready. login_process_size: 384 login_processes_count: 55 login_max_processes_count: 450 mail_location: maildir:/home/%1u/%u/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes 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 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: count: 4 passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] virtual plugin - segfault body search
by Manuel Oetiker 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hello list, During full text search in a virtal folder ( virtual plugin ) the imap crashes with segfault Version: 1.2.2 OS: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS x86_64 Coredump: GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"... warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/pack/dovecot-1.2.2-mo/amd64-linux-ubuntu8.04/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 10317] #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007faa60c55bc8 in fts_backend_get_all_last_uids (backend=0x12a0be0, pool=0x1925800, last_uids=0x18c5628) at fts-api.c:86 No locals. #2 0x00007faa60c57b73 in fts_build_init_virtual (fctx=0x18c5580) at fts-storage.c:416 vctx = (struct fts_search_virtual_context *) 0x18c5608 last_uids = (struct fts_backend_uid_map *) 0x7fff69c06db0 mailboxes = {arr = {buffer = 0x74e350, element_size = 8}, v = 0x74e350, v_modifiable = 0x74e350} boxes = (struct mailbox * const *) 0x74e388 orig_boxes = (struct fts_orig_mailboxes *) 0x1925860 orig_box = {name = 0x13d0678 "INBOX", ns = 0x75b320, box = 0x13d0388} i = 7 box_count = 7 last_uid_count = 5 ret = 8 #3 0x00007faa60c57d76 in fts_build_init (fctx=0x18c5580) at fts-storage.c:445 status = {messages = 182, recent = 0, unseen = 106, uidvalidity = 1248796777, uidnext = 190, first_unseen_seq = 0, highest_modseq = 0, keywords = 0x0, sync_delayed_expunges = 0, nonpermanent_modseqs = 0} ret = 0 #4 0x00007faa60c584fa in fts_try_build_init (ctx=0x1a5bad0, fctx=0x18c5580) at fts-storage.c:580 No locals. #5 0x00007faa60c58683 in fts_mailbox_search_init (t=0xea2830, args=0x1dbc518, sort_program=0x0) at fts-storage.c:620 ft = (struct fts_transaction_context *) 0x1d96ef0 fbox = (struct fts_mailbox *) 0x13e38b0 ctx = (struct mail_search_context *) 0x1a5bad0 fctx = (struct fts_search_context *) 0x18c5580 #6 0x00000000004892ff in mailbox_search_init (t=0xea2830, args=0x1dbc518, sort_program=0x0) at mail-storage.c:735 No locals. #7 0x000000000042e8f5 in imap_search_start (ctx=0x75c7e0, sargs=0x1dbc518, sort_program=0x0) at imap-search.c:546 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0x75c6d8 wanted_fields = 0 wanted_headers = (struct mailbox_header_lookup_ctx *) 0x0 #8 0x000000000042207f in cmd_search (cmd=0x75c6d8) at cmd-search.c:50 ctx = (struct imap_search_context *) 0x75c7e0 sargs = (struct mail_search_args *) 0x1dbc518 args = (const struct imap_arg *) 0x7617d0 charset = 0x4f7bbc "UTF-8" ret = 1 #9 0x0000000000426519 in client_command_input (cmd=0x75c6d8) at client.c:611 client = (struct client *) 0x75c280 command = (struct command *) 0x75c6d8 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #10 0x0000000000426756 in client_command_input (cmd=0x75c6d8) at client.c:660 client = (struct client *) 0x75c280 command = (struct command *) 0x75aa20 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #11 0x0000000000426889 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x75c280, remove_io_r=0x7fff69c0702e) at client.c:701 size = 29 #12 0x000000000042690c in client_handle_input (client=0x75c280) at client.c:713 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ret = false remove_io = false handled_commands = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #13 0x0000000000426a6d in client_input (client=0x75c280) at client.c:752 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0x757248 output = (struct ostream *) 0x75c558 bytes = 29 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #14 0x00000000004e2f52 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x756580) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 #15 0x00000000004e206e in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x756580) at ioloop.c:338 No locals. #16 0x0000000000431c63 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff69c07228, envp=0x7fff69c07238) at main.c:327 -- Manuel

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[Dovecot] Bug - dovecot-auth hangs in ldap query. 1.1.16 (also in 1.2.2)
by Marek Miska 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

dovecot-auth hangs when many (>128) LDAP queries are submited simultaneously. (for example via pop3 benchmarking tool). Bug is in src/auth/db-ldap.c:db_ldap_request_queue_next if (queue_size > DB_LDAP_MAX_PENDING_REQUESTS) { /* wait until server has replied to some requests */ return FALSE; } (queue_size is total queue size, not only queries sent to LDAP server.) I think this condition should be: if (conn->pending_count >= DB_LDAP_MAX_PENDING_REQUESTS) {

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[Dovecot] Trying to get dovecot and squirrelmail talking
by Neil Bird 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

I have been using dovecot+squirrelmail with no problems on my Fedora box (currently at F10). I've been using a simple mail location string along the lines of 'mbox:~/usr/mail/%u:INBOX=mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u' (sorry, that's off the top of my head, I can't get into my box from here at the moment). Essentially: standard mbox inbox in /var/spool/mail/[user], plus mbox files under ~/usr/mail. These latter are for remote access to archived Thunderbird files, which are [currently] mbox format. This works fine. However, I've had some slight issues elsewhere which I feel would be eased or solved by making my INBOX use maildir format, and keeping mails I want to remote-access more often in the top level maildir there (instead of always having to dip into the TB mboxes). To that end, I tried setting up: # want to be able to add sibling and child folders here namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = /var/spool/mail/%u inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes } # And the legacy mbox files go here under 'local' namespace private { separator = / prefix = local/ location = mbox:~/usr/mail hidden = no list = yes } (with appropriate an procmail change for maildir delivery) Now, this pretty much worked the way I wanted. However, afterwards, trying to connect from squirrelmail I had it say that there were no [IMAP] folders to subscribe to, including the INBOX. I couldn't se any errors, either in /var/log/maillog or http's logs. Have I got something wrong? Am I trying to do something that's doomed to failure? -- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit

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[Dovecot] ACL plugin, public namespace, erroneous \HasNoChildren
by Stefan Förster 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi, dovecot 1.2.2 with a second namespace called "Public", mapped to "/export/vmailboxes/public", LIST returning \HasNoChildren: root@testvm06:~# cat /export/vmailboxes/public/dovecot-acl user=cite lrwstiekxa authenticated lrs anyone lrs root@testvm06:~# ls -l /export/vmailboxes/public/.announcements/dovecot-acl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Aug 6 03:50 /export/vmailboxes/public/.announcements/dovecot-acl -> ../dovecot-acl With ACL plugin enabled (notice the \HasNoChildren): root@testvm06:~# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. . login cite secret . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH ACL RIGHTS=texk QUOTA] Logged in . list "" Public * LIST (\Noselect \HasNoChildren) "." "Public" . OK List completed. . select Public.announcements * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1249522417] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] . OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. I included the select to show that filesystem permissions are OK. Without ACL plugin (notice the \HasChildren here): root@testvm06:~# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. . login cite secret . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH QUOTA] Logged in . list "" Public * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "Public" . OK List completed. Is this intended behaviour, am I just too stupid for ACLs or something completely different? I wonder how clients are supposed to get a listing of a public namespace... dovecot -n: # 1.2.2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(managesieve): * ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(managesieve): ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/owncerts/snakeoil.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/snakeoil.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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login verbose_proctitle: yes mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_size: 1024 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat acl mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat acl mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve namespace: type: private separator: . inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: Public. location: maildir:/export/vmailboxes/public list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)test.cite.lan hostname: testvm06.test.cite.lan mail_plugins: quota sieve auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.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: sasl master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_warning: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: ~/sieve sieve_extensions: +imapflags fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=10 acl: vfile Cheers Stefan

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[Dovecot] AutoCreate per Domain
by Darvin Denmian 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hello, is there a way to configure plugin "autocreate" per domain? Like: For domain xwz.com i want to autocreate folders: Models and Clients For domain yxw.com i want to autocreate folders: Adm and Tech Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver uidlist issues
by Mark Zealey 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi all, Lets say I have a maildir which doesn't contain any dovecot files but has some emails lying around in it. If I add a message to this mailbox using deliver, dovecot creates the uidlist file with a single entry (the message that was just delivered). When I then log in to the mailbox, all the other messages are added into the uidlist file in the normal order (directory list order I believe). Then, the mailbox is in a situation where anything that was delivered into the mailbox before the user logs in is at the very top of a uidlist. Unfortunately many webmail clients seem to order the mailbox by reverse uidl, so we get the situation where people log into webmail (we use @mail) after their mailboxes have been migrated to dovecot and any messages delivered between the time of migration and the time of login are put to the very end of the list. This could presumably be fixed by ordering the mailbox according to date but certainly @mail doesn't really do this very well. I've only tested this on v1.1 (1.1.17 from atrpms), but I didn't see anything in the changelog to indicate that this deliver behaviour has changed in v1.2. Perhaps there should be a deliver option to recreate the uidlist file by doing a full scan if it doesn't exist (as a login via pop/imap would do), although I'm not sure why this shouldn't be the default? (apart from deliever potentially causing a high amount of io). My current work-around is to use postlogin to remove the uidlist file when someone logs in to the mailbox for the first time which then forces it to be created in the correct order; but this is a very messy solution. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Zealey -- Platform Architect Product Development * Webfusion 123-reg.co.uk, webfusion.co.uk, donhost.co.uk, supanames.co.uk This mail is subject to http://www.gxn.net/disclaimer

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[Dovecot] cross compile dovecot for armv5t fails
by Stephen Feyrer 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi anyone. When I run make trying to compile Dovecot for a network attached storage box and it fails. I have used two variants of configuration: The first ./configure i_cv_epoll_works=no i_cv_inotify_works=no i_cv_posix_fallocate_works=no i_cv_signed_size_t=no i_cv_gmtime_max_time_t=32 i_cv_signed_time_t=yes i_cv_mmap_plays_with_write=yes i_cv_fd_passing=yes i_cv_c99_vsnprintf=yes lib_cv_va_copy=yes lib_cv___va_copy=yes lib_cv_va_val_copy=yes SSL_LIBS='/usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/aes.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/asn1.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/asn1_mac.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/asn1t.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/bio.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/blowfish.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/bn.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/buffer.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/camellia.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/cast.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/comp.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/conf_api.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/conf.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/crypto.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/des.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/dh.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/dsa.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/dso.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/dtls1.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ebcdic.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/engine.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/e_os2.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/err.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/evp.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/hmac.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/kssl.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/lhash.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/md2.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/md4.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/md5.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/mdc2.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/objects.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/obj_mac.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ocsp.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/opensslconf.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/opensslv.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ossl_typ.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/pem2.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/pem.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/pkcs12.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/pkcs7.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/pq_compat.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/rand.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/rsa.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/safestack.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/sha.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ssl23.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ssl2.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ssl3.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ssl.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/stack.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/store.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/symhacks.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/tls1.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/tmdiff.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/txt_db.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ui_compat.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ui.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/x509.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/x509v3.h /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/x509_vfy.h' SSL_CFLAGS=' ' ./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/opt/etc --sysconfdir=/opt/etc/dovecot --with-linux-quota=no --target=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi --host=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Make then fails... /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/dtls1.h:203: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'SSL3_BUFFER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:84: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:98: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:114: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:137: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:158: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:172: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:186: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:208: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:234: warning: return type defaults to 'int' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:233: warning: no previous prototype for 'DECLARE_ASN1_FUNCTIONS' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h: In function 'DECLARE_ASN1_FUNCTIONS': /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:234: error: expected declaration specifiers before 'DECLARE_ASN1_FUNCTIONS' /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:233: error: parameter name omitted In file included from /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:1051, from /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ssl3.h:125: /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/dtls1.h:203: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'SSL3_BUFFER' make[3]: *** [ssl-build-param] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot/dovecot-1-2-6c0fb914e03e/src/master' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot/dovecot-1-2-6c0fb914e03e/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot/dovecot-1-2-6c0fb914e03e' make: *** [all] Error 2 Otherwise I ./configure against my native OpenSSL install. i_cv_epoll_works=no i_cv_inotify_works=no i_cv_posix_fallocate_works=no i_cv_signed_size_t=no i_cv_gmtime_max_time_t=32 i_cv_signed_time_t=yes i_cv_mmap_plays_with_write=yes i_cv_fd_passing=yes i_cv_c99_vsnprintf=yes lib_cv_va_copy=yes lib_cv___va_copy=yes lib_cv_va_val_copy=yes SSL_LIBS='/usr/include/openssl/aes.h /usr/include/openssl/asn1.h /usr/include/openssl/asn1_mac.h /usr/include/openssl/asn1t.h /usr/include/openssl/bio.h /usr/include/openssl/blowfish.h /usr/include/openssl/bn.h /usr/include/openssl/buffer.h /usr/include/openssl/camellia.h /usr/include/openssl/cast.h /usr/include/openssl/comp.h /usr/include/openssl/conf_api.h /usr/include/openssl/conf.h /usr/include/openssl/crypto.h /usr/include/openssl/des.h /usr/include/openssl/dh.h /usr/include/openssl/dsa.h /usr/include/openssl/dso.h /usr/include/openssl/dtls1.h /usr/include/openssl/ebcdic.h /usr/include/openssl/engine.h /usr/include/openssl/e_os2.h /usr/include/openssl/err.h /usr/include/openssl/evp.h /usr/include/openssl/hmac.h /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h /usr/include/openssl/lhash.h /usr/include/openssl/md2.h /usr/include/openssl/md4.h /usr/include/openssl/md5.h /usr/include/openssl/mdc2.h /usr/include/openssl/objects.h /usr/include/openssl/obj_mac.h /usr/include/openssl/ocsp.h /usr/include/openssl/opensslconf.h /usr/include/openssl/opensslv.h /usr/include/openssl/ossl_typ.h /usr/include/openssl/pem2.h /usr/include/openssl/pem.h /usr/include/openssl/pkcs12.h /usr/include/openssl/pkcs7.h /usr/include/openssl/pq_compat.h /usr/include/openssl/rand.h /usr/include/openssl/rsa.h /usr/include/openssl/safestack.h /usr/include/openssl/sha.h /usr/include/openssl/ssl23.h /usr/include/openssl/ssl2.h /usr/include/openssl/ssl3.h /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h /usr/include/openssl/stack.h /usr/include/openssl/store.h /usr/include/openssl/symhacks.h /usr/include/openssl/tls1.h /usr/include/openssl/tmdiff.h /usr/include/openssl/txt_db.h /usr/include/openssl/ui_compat.h /usr/include/openssl/ui.h /usr/include/openssl/x509.h /usr/include/openssl/x509v3.h /usr/include/openssl/x509_vfy.h' SSL_CFLAGS=' ' ./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/opt/etc --sysconfdir=/opt/etc/dovecot --with-linux-quota=no --target=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi --host=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu /usr/include/openssl/dtls1.h:203: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'SSL3_BUFFER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:84: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:98: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:114: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:137: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:158: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:172: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:186: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:208: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ASN1_INTEGER' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:234: warning: return type defaults to 'int' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:233: warning: no previous prototype for 'DECLARE_ASN1_FUNCTIONS' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h: In function 'DECLARE_ASN1_FUNCTIONS': /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:234: error: expected declaration specifiers before 'DECLARE_ASN1_FUNCTIONS' /usr/include/openssl/krb5_asn.h:233: error: parameter name omitted In file included from /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:1051, from /usr/include/openssl/ssl3.h:125: /usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/usr/include/openssl/dtls1.h:203: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'SSL3_BUFFER' make[3]: *** [ssl-build-param] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot/dovecot-1-2-6c0fb914e03e/src/master' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot/dovecot-1-2-6c0fb914e03e/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot/dovecot-1-2-6c0fb914e03e' make: *** [all] Error 2 As you can see though separate sets of libraries are used (native Dovecot compiles without any problems) both attempts to build Arm Dovecot fail in the same way. Please help! All guidance is welcome. -- In gratitude, thanks. Stephen Feyrer

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[Dovecot] connect to IMAP
by jolan D 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

hi, I am trying to get a webbased IMAP mail module to work. http://nocc.sourceforge.net/ But it seems it doesn't connect to it. When i try to login it says: "login is not allowed for connection" i guess it has to do with the settings of the conf file. I have dovecot installed on Centos and installed it with yum. All (basic)settings are usually set correctly during install. After trying hard still no login. So i am hoping you guys can help me out. Cheerz jolan _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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[Dovecot] HA/Master-Slave Functionality
by savagephp 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

What would it take to move the HA/Cluster/Master-Slave functionality to a higher priority level? How far off is it right now in time? Tom

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[Dovecot] sieve rules processing
by Nikita Koshikov 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hello list, My question: is sieve support some kind of "continue" action, to explicit tell server processing rules below current one(if current has triged)? Situation: I have few rules, which fileinto's to different directories. All is working fine, but if I want redirect all my mail for some period of time to another mailbox, I'm adding rule like this, to be processing first. if anyof (true) { redirect "koshikov(a)gmail.com"; keep; } Mail redirecting, but keep state store messages to INBOX. All I want - to process other rules, which will move message to the right imap directory. This situation also happens with vacation sieve-action. In sieve rfc I didn't find any workaround to that actions. Maybe someone know how to make sieve working in described way?

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[Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages
by Rob Mangiafico 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hello, I installed 1.2.3 and we are seeing a few messages in the log files such as: --- Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file /home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock: Operation not permitted Aug 4 16:40:24 xyz dovecot: IMAP(john): fchown() failed with file /home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted --- dovecot -n: # 1.2.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.20.1 i686 CentOS release 4.7 (Final) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/gd_intermediate_bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/xyz.com.cert ssl_key_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/xyz.com.key ssl_cipher_list: HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3:!ADH:!LOW 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 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mmap_disable: yes fsync_disable: yes mbox_read_locks: fcntl flock mbox_write_locks: fcntl flock mbox_very_dirty_syncs: yes 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_process_size: 512 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 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu verbose: yes passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd --- Permissions look fine in the home directory john, including all sub-directories. Thanks for letting me know of anything to check/change. Rob

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[Dovecot] deliver is curious
by Sven Strickroth 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, Im' using deliver with postfix (mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -n -m "$EXTENSION"). In dovecot.conf I've set mail_location to maildir:/var/spool/imap/users/%u/Maildir It works, but not for ONE "special" email. If I send mail to e.g. th(a)trg-oha.de it gets correctly delivered (see noerror.txt), but I have one mail with an attachment (i cannot provide it because of privacy reasons) where i get the attached error. How comes that deliver doesn't use the mail_location but the real home-directory (from ldap, it doesn't exist on the mailserver) of that user in this case? -- Best regards, Sven mailto:sven@clamav.net ClamAV, a GPL anti-virus toolkit http://www.clamav.net Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv postfix/qmgr[15624]: 4C8582024C: from=<kt(a)gmx.de>, size=1436493, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Home dir not found: /home/daten/user/lehrer/th Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir: data=/var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir++: root=/var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace: type=shared, prefix=users.%n., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=(null), subscriptions=no Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): shared: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace: type=public, prefix=shared., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=(null), subscriptions=no Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir: data=/var/spool/imap/shared Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir++: root=/var/spool/imap/shared, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): mkdir_parents_chown(/home/daten/user/lehrer/th) failed: Permission denied (euid=2684(th) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /home) Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): copy: i_stream_read() failed: Permission denied Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): msgid=<F915DEB780CD459A93FA6A3E9B4564BA@EeeTh>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-08-03 00:57:40] Aug 3 00:57:40 mailsrv postfix/local[16289]: 4C8582024C: to=<th(a)trg-oha.de>, relay=local, delay=45169, delays=45169/0.05/0/0.13, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Home dir not found: /home/daten/user/lehrer/th Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir: data=/var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir++: root=/var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace: type=shared, prefix=users.%n., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=(null), subscriptions=no Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): shared: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace: type=public, prefix=shared., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=(null), subscriptions=no Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir: data=/var/spool/imap/shared Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): maildir++: root=/var/spool/imap/shared, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/imap/users/th/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv dovecot: deliver(th): msgid=<4A761B5F.1450503(a)tu-clausthal.de>: saved mail to INBOX Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv postfix/local[16374]: 78E2D20250: to=<th(a)trg-oha.de>, relay=local, delay=0.07, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -n -m "$EXTENSION") Aug 3 00:59:44 mailsrv postfix/qmgr[15624]: 78E2D20250: removed

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[Dovecot] Deliver LDA versus vdelivermail
by Wouter van der Schagt 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Good morning all, I have a question. Due to my interest in the Sieve plug-in. I'm considering to change the LDA on my production servers from 'vdelivermail' from vpopmail to 'deliver' from Dovecot. However I'm not sure how to go about doing this or whether there are any conversion issues that I should be aware of. Currently my /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery is set to "./Maildir/". I am assuming I have to set that to: "|/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $EXT@$USER" Does it also mean I have to recreate all .qmail and .qmail-default files? Am I missing anything else? Does anybody have any experience in changing LDA on production servers? Sincerely, - Wouter van der Schagt

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[Dovecot] %u variable to expand kerberos realm
by Nikolay Shopik 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi Timo, Does this intended %u isn't expanding REALM name, so I've only see user names.

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[Dovecot] Sending log messages too fast
by Luigi Rosa 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What does this error message means? IMAP(xxxxx(a)yyyyy.com): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. It appeared twiche on the same user during a period when the server was very high on CPU load I don't know if it is related, but the user later told me that Thunderbird forced a reload of all the messages. Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. --Charles Darwin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkp4HOwACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZSIeACgrzXidrLIh783fr7DVFblfwc5 s/kAnAy5rztbmeqFt11uPGF0LVp6UBga =ZgWV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] sieve not working with Postfix and maildir
by Florin Andrei 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

I am moving away from Cyrus, I'm trying to migrate to Dovecot. I am trying to get Sieve working with Dovecot and Postfix and it just won't work. Postfix is able to delived new messages to the "new" subfolder of the inbox structure. After I run Thunderbird, the new message gets moved to "cur" and it shows up in my inbox. So far so good. But now I'm trying to add Sieve. I turned on managesieve, installed Avelsieve in Squirrelmail, and did some tests. No matter what, the message stays in the inbox, it does not move to the designated folder: Postfix throws it in "new", it gets moved to "cur" after accessing my email with Thunderbird, and that's it. Detailed report: ########################### $ dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28-11-server x86_64 Ubuntu 9.04 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl_disable: yes 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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): ~/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): ~/.dovecot.sieve auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd ########################### Postfix is configured to deliver to Maildir: home_mailbox = Maildir/ I am testing the delivery: ######################## $ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 andrei.myip.org ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) helo joblo 250 andrei.myip.org mail from: joe(a)blow.com 250 2.1.0 Ok rcpt to: florin(a)andrei.myip.org 250 2.1.5 Ok data 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> testing . 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 512FE480C8 ######################## And the message is delivered: $ ls ~/Maildir/new/ 1249331187.V801Ia16012M874274.weiqi I fire up Thunderbird, look in the inbox, and the message is there - and it gets moved from "new" to "cur" after Thunderbird connects to the server: $ ls ~/Maildir/cur/1249331187.V801Ia16012M874274.weiqi* /home/XXXX/Maildir/cur/1249331187.V801Ia16012M874274.weiqi:2,S Okay, now I go to Squirrelmail / Avelsieve and make a rule for this >From address: ################################# $ ls -l sieve/ total 8 -rw------- 1 XXXX XXXX 1050 2009-08-03 13:30 phpscript.sieve drwx------ 2 XXXX XXXX 4096 2009-08-03 13:30 tmp florin@weiqi:~$ ls -l .dovecot.sieve lrwxrwxrwx 1 XXXX XXXX 21 2009-08-03 13:30 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/phpscript.sieve $ cat .dovecot.sieve # I removed some commented out lines, they were too many require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imapflags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","notify","body"]; if address :contains "From" "joe(a)blow.com" { fileinto "personal.joeblow"; stop; } ################################# I do the telnet thing again, fire up Thunderbird, but this new message is still in the Inbox (it's in the "new" subfolder before running Thunderbird, then it gets moved to "cur") instead of the designated folder. Am I missing something? What is the magic I need to do to get it to move? I googled, but nothing came up. With Cyrus and Postfix, the filters worked like a charm, no problems at all, but it had its own issues (too complicated to manage for a small site). Dovecot seems more reasonable, but I can't get Sieve to work. :-( -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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[Dovecot] Linefeeds in mailbox names
by Timo Sirainen 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Wonder if I should just disallow creating mailboxes whose name contains CR or LF characters? Wonder how many peoples' scripts/tools already would break if a user created such mailbox names.. :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot with SSL Client Certification
by Evaggelos Balaskas 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, i am trying to setup dovecot over ssl in the last couple days unsuccessfully My notes are from here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/SSL My OpenSSL commands are: mkdir -pv /opt/certificates/dovecot/ cd !$ (just to prevent questions about Common Name) [ebal@myhome:~]€ hostname myhome openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out dovecot.crt -keyout dovecot.key -days 1825 # Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:GR # State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Athens # Locality Name (eg, city) []:Aigaleo # Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Ebalaskas.Gr # Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Mail Apps # Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:myhome # Email Address []:ebalaskas@ebalaskas.gr openssl pkcs12 -export -in dovecot.crt -inkey dovecot.key \ -name "dovecot Certificate Client" -out dovecot.p12 openssl ca -gencrl -keyfile dovecot.key -cert dovecot.crt -out dovecot.crl -selfsign I've imported the dovecot.p12 to thunderbird certificates and dovecot.crt to thunderbird authorities (i've tried claws mail too - same errors) My dovecot.conf is this: [root@myhome dovecot]# dovecot -n # 1.2.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-ARCH i686 ext4 info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps ssl: required ssl_ca_file: /opt/certificates/dovecot/dovecot.crl ssl_cert_file: /opt/certificates/dovecot/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /opt/certificates/dovecot/dovecot.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 ssl_verify_client_cert: yes verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 300 mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u/.INBOX mail_debug: yes lda: postmaster_address: ebalaskas(a)ebalaskas.gr auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes ssl_require_client_cert: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd My /var/log/dovecot.log: Jul 30 20:14:52 Info: Dovecot v1.2.2 starting up (core dumps disabled) Jul 30 20:14:52 Info: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters for the first time. This may take a while.. Jul 30 20:14:53 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=5872 Jul 30 20:14:53 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=5873 Jul 30 20:14:53 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=5874 Jul 30 20:15:16 ssl-build-param: Info: SSL parameters regeneration completed Jul 30 20:15:17 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=5898 Jul 30 20:15:18 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (client didn't send a cert): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094419:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert access denied Any ideas? Evaggelos Balaskas Unix System Engineer - http://ebalaskas.gr/wiki Informatics Engineer Technological Education

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Re: [Dovecot] Stuck with dovecot-sieve and horde-ingo ...
by Robert Schetterer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > Robert Schetterer schrieb: >> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: >>> Robert Schetterer schrieb: >>> >>>> if you get problems with sieve dovecot >>>> try http://www.woozle.org/~neale/src/pysieved/ >>> exactly the same behavior: ingo complains "driver not in transaction >>> state" ... >>> >>> Seems as if ingo fails to even contact port 2000 ... any idea on how to >>> debug ingo itself? >>> >>> Stefan >> there is somewhere in the horde doku >> how to setup verbose php debug logging >> sorry i couldnt remember where , but i used it allready >> during testing >> > > done already, see my last mail to horde-ml ... > > danke ;-) i will retest tonight horde ingo sieve with latest dovecot perhaps i will see equal problems so i will report to you -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] v1.2.3 release candidate
by Timo Sirainen 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.2.3.rc.tar.gz I thought about doing v1.2.3 release immediately, but I think I'll wait about 10-24h first. So until then, testing this RC is appreciated and hopefully we'll have a good release this time. :) + Allow namespace prefix to be opened as mailbox, if a mailbox already exists in the root dir. - Maildir: dovecot-uidlist was being recreated every time a mailbox was accessed, even if nothing changed. - listescape plugin was somewhat broken - Compiling fixes for non-Linux/BSDs

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[Dovecot] Performance problem with STATUS after upgrade (1.0.15 -> 1.2.2)
by Stefan Förster 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hello list, after upgrading dovecot from 1.0.15 to 1.2.2 (and carefully reading through the upgrading notes in the wiki), I got sieve, quota and fts up and running, but I'm now suffering some kind of performance problem with the STATUS command. Symptoms: Reading mail on the IMAP server itself with "mutt", no TLS/SSL, connected through loopback interface. Whenever I idle a bit and then hit any key thereafter, for example to change into another mailbox, mutt will send a number of "STATUS" commands: # T 127.0.0.1:53604 -> 127.0.0.1:143 [AP] DONE..a0070 STATUS "postfix-buch" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0071 STATUS "postfix-users" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0072 STATUS "Trash" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0073 STATUS "Sent" (UIDNEXT UIDVALID ITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0074 STATUS "mailman-users" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0075 STATUS "mailman-developers" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0076 STATUS "de-postfix-users" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0077 STATUS "amavis-users" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0078 STATUS "spam" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0079 STATUS "localreports" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT)..a0080 STATUS "Drafts" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN R ECENT)..a0081 STATUS "exim-users" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN RECENT).. # (The whole conversation is available as: http://www.incertum.net/~cite/dovecot-snoop.log) Those commands take almost one(!) second to complete. I've used strace to capture what happens and made the results available at http://www.incertum.net/~cite/imap.log. With 1.0.15, I never noticed this kind of delay, and reading mail feels really sluggish at the moment. Is there any way to improve performance? Configuration data: Filesystem mounted to /export/vmailboxes is an ext3: # tune2fs -l /dev/rootvg/mailhome_lv | grep "^Filesystem features" Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file (needs_recovery is set because the filesystem is mounted, I umounted it, did fsck -Dfy and it didn't display that "feature" when unmounted). dovecot -n (also available as: http://www.incertum.net/~cite/dovecot-n.log) # 1.2.2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(managesieve): * ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(managesieve): ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/owncerts/mail_incertum_net.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/mail_incertum_net.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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login verbose_proctitle: yes mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_size: 1024 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)incertum.net hostname: mail.incertum.net mail_plugins: quota sieve auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.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: sasl master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_warning: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: ~/sieve sieve_extensions: +imapflags fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=10 SQL-Configuration: # grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-sql.conf driver = pgsql connect = hostaddr=333.33.33.3 port=5432 dbname=secret user=secret password=secret sslmode=require default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT login AS user, password FROM virtual_user_maps WHERE login IN ('%u', '%n') user_query = SELECT vum.uid, vum.gid, ('*:storage=' || vum.quota_kbytes || 'k') AS quota_rule, ('/export/vmailboxes/' || SUBSTR(vum.login, 1, 1) || '/' || vum.login) AS home FROM virtual_mailbox_domains AS vmd LEFT JOIN virtual_mailbox_maps AS vmm ON (vmd.id = vmm.domain) LEFT JOIN virtual_user_maps AS vum ON (vmm.login = vum.id) WHERE ((vmm.localpart = '%n' AND vmd.name='%d') OR (vum.login = '%u')) AND vum.active Memory: # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3952 3003 949 0 226 1036 -/+ buffers/cache: 1740 2211 Swap: 7812 5 7807 The version is Debian/unstable's 1.2.2, available at http://packages.debian.org/sid/dovecot-common, I've made a backport to Debian/stable. Any help/insights are really appreciated. Cheers Stefan

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[Dovecot] Spaces in user or group-names
by Sven Strickroth 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, how it is possible to use group names with spaces (like "Domain Admins") in dovecot-acl files? -- Best regards, Sven mailto:sven@clamav.net ClamAV, a GPL anti-virus toolkit http://www.clamav.net

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[Dovecot] Panic: file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 590
by Kostik 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hello! We start migrate to dovecot (v1.2.2). # 1.2.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30 i686 Slackware 11.0.0 We have FS user quota and NFS mailboxs(mbox only). While user not overquota, all works fine. But if is, we get error at log: --- Aug 3 16:45:17 chest004 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<boggart(a)xxxx.xx>, method=PLAIN Aug 3 16:45:17 chest004 dovecot: POP3(boggart(a)xxxx.xx): close(/var/virtual/mail/boggart.lock) failed: Disk quota exceeded Aug 3 16:46:28 chest004 dovecot: POP3(boggart(a)xxxx.xx): close(/var/virtual/mail/boggart.lock) failed: Disk quota exceeded Aug 3 16:46:28 chest004 dovecot: POP3(boggart(a)xxxx.xx): Panic: file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 590 (mbox_sync_rewrite): assertion failed: (mails[idx].from_offset == start_offset) Aug 3 16:46:28 chest004 dovecot: POP3(boggart(a)xxxx.xx): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x80c949c] -> pop3 [0x80c9c3e] -> pop3 [0x80c9638] -> pop3(mbox_sync_rewrite+0x6ff) [0x807c9af] -> pop3 [0x8078038] -> pop3 [0x807a30a] -> pop3(mbox_sync+0x399) [0x807b279] -> pop3(mbox_storage_sync_init+0x53) [0x807b773] -> pop3(mailbox_sync+0x2d) [0x809331d] -> pop3(client_command_execute+0x2e6) [0x805d066] -> pop3(client_handle_input+0x75) [0x805be35] -> pop3(io_loop_handler_run+0x101) [0x80d2221] -> pop3(io_loop_run+0x29) [0x80d15a9] -> pop3(main+0x779) [0x805dd49] -> /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd4) [0xb7e46e14] -> pop3 [0x805b161] --- What does that mean? /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n --- # 1.2.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30 i686 Slackware 11.0.0 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mbox_write_locks: dotlock_try fcntl mbox_lock_timeout: 150 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 60 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_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_log mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_log mail_plugins(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 pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql userdb: driver: prefetch plugin: quota: fs:Quota:user =koc

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[Dovecot] Subfolders not listed in Dovecot-1.2.2 with listescape
by Petter Urkedal 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

After upgrading to Dovecot-1.2.2 from 1.1* subfolders disappeared, though it was possible to access them directly, e.g. with "mutt -f =lists/dovecot". The problem only occurs if the listescape plugin is enabled. Some relevant bits from the configuration: namespace private { # The only namespace. separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } protocol imap { mail_plugins = fts fts_squat listescape }

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[Dovecot] Best way to get login protocol (pop3/imap) in post-login script
by Zhang Huangbin 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, all. I found doc here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting and use ${USER}, ${IP} to track last-login username and remote ip address, but how can i track the mail protocol it used? like pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps? Currently, i wrote shell script as post-login script, and use below command to get protocol: ---- $(basename ${MAIL_PLUGIN_DIR}) ---- But is it the best way to get it? Thanks very much. :) -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu: + http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ + http://www.iredmail.org/forum/

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Re: [Dovecot] expire plugin no delete 1.2.1 / 1.2.2
by Robert Schetterer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Robert Schetterer schrieb: > Timo Sirainen schrieb: >> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:21 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: >>> Hi Timo, >>> so now its clear, the mail >>> did not got deleted if i now do >>> >>> Info: robert(a)schetterer.com/Trash: no messages left >> So, it worked? "no messages left" means if you didn't give --test it >> would have deleted all messages from the mailbox. >> > Hi Timo, no it didnt work > i repeated the test since then twice > the mail was not deleted > Hi Timo, no it didnt work i repeated the test since then twice the mail was not deleted -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] How to delete retrieved mail
by Don Muller 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi All, I use Dovecot and XMail on a QNAP TS-509 NAS. QNAP has combined the two into a package they call XDove. Everything seems to be working great except for one thing. When Dovecot retrieves the mail from XMail it is not removing it from XMail. It is leaving a copy on XMail. Is there an option I can set in Dovecot so it will delete the mail message from XMail when it retrieves it. Thanks Don

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[Dovecot] Client Cert Auth Problem
by Christian Felsing 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hello, is there a config possible which supports both of following authentication schemes ? 1st: If user presents a client certificate, he can log in w/o username/password, where user id comes from CN. Accepting any password is not the right solution. 2nd: If user does not present a client certificate, he have to authenticate by username/password. In both cases user data is read from userdb LDAP, which is already working. I was not able to get both auth schemes working at same time. With Postfix such a config is fully operable. regards Christian

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[Dovecot] Public folders, individual SEEN flags
by Keith Edmunds 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi list I'm trying to set up shared public folders with individual SEEN flags. I've set up three test users, but as soon as one of them marks a mail in the public folder as seen or unseen, that change is propagated to all three users. If I watch the dovecot.index.log file in each user's directory for the public folder, I see all three change their last access time as soon as one user changes the SEEN status of a mail. Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong gratefully received, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot --version 1.2.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: shared/ location: maildir:/home/publicfolders:INDEX=~/Maildir/public list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ls -l /home/publicfolders/dovecot-shared -rw-rw-r-- 1 publicfolders publicfolders 0 2009-07-27 15:01 /home/publicfolders/dovecot-shared --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] parameter "mail_location" and variables
by maximatt 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

hi.... i have virtual users stored in ldap server and i must to do some modifications that requiere to chage mail_location value... the solution comes to use the "uid" value stored in ldap server for users on mail_location parameter... i can see in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables that i can't do them (i uses sasl authentication) so.. ¿exist any way to get a value from ldap server and use them in mail_location parameter? thanks in advance!!! -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] expire plugin no delete 1.2.1
by Robert Schetterer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi Timo, all of my tests fail with expire plugin, mail simply not get deleted i cant find any stuff in the logs why it does not or should not work. My guess that there is a problem with virtual plugin and/or shared namespace. It shouldnt be a problem with acl starting the script over cron as root am i right ? do you have any idea why it fails, is there a way to ignore all unneeded shared or virtual namespaces ? should there be a entry in the log when expire time is reached and deletion is unsuccessfull ? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes and INBOX
by Keith Edmunds 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

I'm trying to implement a shared mailbox: in other words, we have a generic email address ("security@") which we want a number of users to be able to monitor. The problem I have is that users can see folders under that shared mailbox but can't see the INBOX. All the users in question have their own INBOX in their private namespace, so does this raise a conflict with monitoring another mailbox's INBOX? Configuration: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: shared/ location: maildir:/home/publicfolders:INDEX=~/Maildir/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: security/ location: maildir:/home/securitymailbox/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/securitymailbox list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] sieve filtering setup
by Jonathan Siegle 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

I'm looking at implementing sieve in my environment. Software is: dovecot-1.2-sieve revision 1022:3c9a22c28156 dovecot-1.2 revision 9269:a303bb82c1c9 AIX 5.3 with sendmail mta using prescribed deliver lda. I have a few questions. I'll have 110k sieve files(1 for each user). Does sieve read the file each time a new message is accepted by sendmail? Are there any measurements on cpu load for sieve filters? Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Managesieve configuration problem
by listacc＠gmx.de 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hello! I'm trying for a lot of time to make managesieve working with dovecot 1.1.17 and virtual users on openSuSE 11.1. I think I'm doing some misconfiguration, but I can't figure it out. Perhaps it's something with the paths to the sieve scripts? In dovecot.conf I find in the comments: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ protocol managesieve { #(...) # Specifies the location of the symlink pointing to the active script in # the sieve storage directory. This must match the SIEVE setting used by # deliver (refer to http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve#location for more # info). Variable substitution with % is recognized. # Take care: if a file in a maildir: begins with a '.', it is recognized # as a folder; so, avoid this. #sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve = /drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve } ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "This must match the SIEVE setting used by deliver", so I have to take a look to LDA section, no? But there I don't find any hint for sieve settings: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mydomain.tld # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id. # Default is the system's real hostname. #hostname = # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. mail_plugins = cmusieve quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/lda # If user is over quota, return with temporary failure instead of # bouncing the mail. #quota_full_tempfail = no # Format to use for logging mail deliveries. You can use variables: # %$ - Delivery status message (e.g. "saved to INBOX") # %m - Message-ID # %s - Subject # %f - From address #deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ # Binary to use for sending mails. sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail # Human readable error message for rejection mails. Use can use variables: # %n = CRLF, %r = reason, %s = subject, %t = recipient rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. # auth_socket_path = /drbd/mail/var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I tried to log in to managesieve manually with gnutls-cli, and that was successfull. I was able to authenticate. But when I try to put the example script from dovecot wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/Troubleshooting) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PUTSCRIPT "hutsefluts" {6+} keep; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I get no ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OK "Putscript completed." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ there happens nothing, managesieve seems to wait for something else. When I look now into the directory where the script should be stored (the folder has been created automatically) I don't find any script file but a folder "tmp" that contains a plaintext file with the script commands inside, eg. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hutsefluts-12345678.M033562P2271.imap.sieve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After disconnecting, this file disappears. In the dovecot.info log it looks like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 16 test(a)mydomain.tld home=/drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test mail=maildir:/drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test uid=5001 gid=5001 quota_rule=*:storage=512000000B dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: managesieve-login: Login: user=<test(a)mydomain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.200.39, lip=192.168.200.40, TLS dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): Effective uid=5001, gid=5001, home=/drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: using active sieve script path: /drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test/dovecot.sieve dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: using active sieve script path: /drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test/dovecot.sieve dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: using sieve script storage directory: /drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test/sieve dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: relative path to sieve storage in active link: sieve/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../vmail/mydomain.tld/test/dovecot.sieve is missing completely. Perhaps you can give me a small hint? And here is my "dovecot -n": ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 2256). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.27.25-0.1-default x86_64 openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) ext3 base_dir: /drbd/mail/var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): 192.168.200.40:2000 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(managesieve): ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/imap.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/imap.key verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /drbd/mail/var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login max_mail_processes: 2000 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 30 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 30 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 first_valid_uid: 5001 last_valid_uid: 5001 mail_location: maildir:/drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve managesieve_implementation_string(default): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(imap): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(managesieve): Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): /drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): /drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 user: nobody verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd 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: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By the way, I'm quite amazed how fast dovecot is developed at the moment, and it makes lots of fun to see it growing!! kind regards, Andreas -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01

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[Dovecot] imap error
by Jack Raats 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail. I cann't connect. I'll get the following error: Aug 2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jack>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Aug 2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: IMAP(jack): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=44/298 The pop3 is not affected. Can anyone give me a clue where to look for?? Thanks Jack

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[Dovecot] Best way to get login protocol (pop3/imap) in post-login script
by Zhang Huangbin 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi, all. I found doc here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting and use ${USER}, ${IP} to track last-login username and remote ip address, but how can i track the mail protocol it used? like pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps? Currently, i wrote shell script as post-login script, and use below command to get protocol: ---- $(basename ${MAIL_PLUGIN_DIR}) ---- But is it the best way to get it? Thanks very much. :) -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu: + http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ + http://www.iredmail.org/forum/

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[Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
by Christian Felsing 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hello, I am new to Dovecot but installation was quite easy, so there is one more LDAP authenticated, Dovecot / Postfix mailbox online, but there is one question left: I would like to set up a configuration, which encrypts every user mail with a unique key. If user logs in, private key should be decrypted with user password and every mail user requests should be decrypted with users private key. If a mail comes in, it should be encrypted with users public key. That key pair should be used for that purpose only. Obviously a GnuPG plugin between deliver and rest of Dovecot is needed. best reagrds Christian

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[Dovecot] Fw: Shared mailboxes and INBOX
by Keith Edmunds 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Should users of a shared mailbox be able to see both their personal inbox and that of the shared mailbox? Thanks, Keith Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:50:08 +0100 From: Keith Edmunds <kae(a)midnighthax.com> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Shared mailboxes and INBOX I'm trying to implement a shared mailbox: in other words, we have a generic email address ("security@") which we want a number of users to be able to monitor. The problem I have is that users can see folders under that shared mailbox but can't see the INBOX. All the users in question have their own INBOX in their private namespace, so does this raise a conflict with monitoring another mailbox's INBOX? Configuration: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: shared/ location: maildir:/home/publicfolders:INDEX=~/Maildir/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: security/ location: maildir:/home/securitymailbox/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/securitymailbox list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] Solaris 10 dovecot-latest configure error
by Tomi Vainio 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi, I've got latest source code from http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-20090731.tar.gz It's a minor bug that mysql.h test fails because CFLAGS are missing from this test. Tomppa > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... yes > checking mysql.h usability... yes > checking mysql.h presence... no > configure: WARNING: mysql.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor! > configure: WARNING: mysql.h: proceeding with the compiler's result > checking for mysql.h... yes > checking for mysql_ssl_set in -lmysqlclient... yes > configure:33185: checking mysql.h usability > configure:33197: cc -c -xO4 -I/usr/sfw/include/mysql -R/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/lib/sasl -L/usr/sfw/lib -L/usr/lib/sasl -I/usr/sfw/include conftest.c >&5 > configure:33203: $? = 0 > configure:33207: test -z > || test ! -s conftest.err > configure:33210: $? = 0 > configure:33213: test -s conftest.o > configure:33216: $? = 0 > configure:33226: result: yes > configure:33230: checking mysql.h presence > configure:33240: cc -E conftest.c > "conftest.c", line 127: cannot find include file: <mysql.h> > cc: acomp failed for conftest.c

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[Dovecot] Clients and dovecot-uidlist
by Thomas Hummel 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello, I'm trying to figure out what exactly (and why) are the consequences of a lost or removal of the dovecot-uidlist file on an IMAP client (Thunderbird for instance). I took for granted that it was that the client would download all messages again since it might be confused by some UID changes. But I don't really see why (on the IMAP protocol level) and I don't know how to reproduce it. My understanding is that . dovecot-uidlist is not recreated until some client selects the mailbox . the client does something like : x UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) to begin with anyway. So I guess the problem does not occur when no new messages arrive on the mailbox since the same UIDs would be assigned to the same messages ? But why would that change ? In which situation ? But can you show me some IMAP protocol command exchange that would illustrate . when such a problem can occur . how the client would detect that there has been some UID corruption . how it would fix it Thanks -- Thomas Hummel

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[Dovecot] sieve delivery to utf folders
by Nikita Koshikov 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello list, Today, my users have noticed, that delivery to folders with non-english names is broken. For example, if I create russian directory, it correct encoded and display into mail-client program and my webmail: Encoded: Normal view .INBOX.&BEIENQRBBEI- русс This is part of sieve script, which routing delivery to russian folder. .... elsif allof (header :contains "Subject" "qwe") { fileinto "INBOX/&BEIENQRBBEI-"; } But, when actualy delivery take place, in logs I have Jul 30 17:13:49 deliver(koshikov.n(a)domain.com): Info: sieve: msgid=<4A71A9E6.5040301(a)domain.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX/&-BEIENQRBBEI- And folder .INBOX.&-BEIENQRBBEI- appears in users maildir. This folder can't be unencoded by mail-client program and user see exactly "&-BEIENQRBBEI-" under INBOX directory(also normaly encoded directory "&BEIENQRBBEI-" --> "русс" displays correct). Something breaks encoding and adds sing "-" to all words in utf encoded directory names. I can't tell exactly when this problem appear, but I remember that I have tested delivery to russian directories by sieve scripts and all worked fine. My current dovecot installation is 1.2.2, dovecot-sieve-0.1.9 and managesieve-0.11.7

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Re: [Dovecot] whining
by A. van Harten 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Be a man, Jim, and write this in public. [QUOTE] Jim Reid[/QUOTE] > On 31 Jul 2009, at 09:36, A. van Harten wrote: > >> Sorry, but the answers on this mail group are written with as few >> words as >> possible - if it was written in Finnish, I'd understand just as much >> as I >> do now. >> Googling on a Dovecot problems results always in www.dovecot.org or >> one of >> its child sites. Always. >> Googling on a Linux question results always in experts-exchange. >> Always. > > Clearly, dovecot is not for you. Now please go back to the linux world > you came from. You appear to be comfortable there. > > I am also disgusted and very annoyed with the tone of your recent > email: negative, childish, destructive and counter-productive. You did > not identify any particular problem, suggest other approaches or point > at areas where specific improvements could be made. You just whined > about the results of google searches. > -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten,

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Re: [Dovecot] Several errors
by A. van Harten 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Tried that, same result. dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:41 Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Info: Created login processes successfully, unstalling dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: child 3850 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: child 3851 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: child 3852 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Info: Created login processes successfully, unstalling [root@nestorix etc]# dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Havecom Mailserver ready. valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail/vhosts mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/ mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth username_translation: "/$ verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/userdb socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix [root@nestorix etc]# service dovecot stop Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@nestorix etc]# gedit /var/log/dovecot [root@nestorix etc]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@nestorix etc]# gedit /var/log/dovecot ^C [root@nestorix etc]# dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Havecom Mailserver ready. valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail/vhosts mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/ mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth username_translation: "/$ verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/userdb socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix [root@nestorix etc]# Albert [QUOTE] Timo Sirainen[/QUOTE] > On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 00:07 +0200, FraNL wrote: >> Running OS: CentOS 5.3 (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) >> >> 1. >> My Linux distribution comes with Dovecot 1.0.7. After trying to make it running, I encoutnered many problems. So I decided to upgrade to 1.2.1. When running dovecot -r from CLI, it returns with version 1.2.1. But at the top of the log file it says: Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up >> >> So I am not sure which version I am running. > > It means you're using some weird mix of both. Get rid of all of Dovecot v1.0 binaries (rpm -e dovecot or something) and your problems should go away. > > -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten, -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten,

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Re: [Dovecot] Several errors
by A. van Harten 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

[QUOTE] Charles Marcus[/QUOTE] > > Who says you have to install it? Almost all the fora which are speaking of setting up a mail server tell me to install Dovecot > And who is it that you think owes you 'descent support' for free? When and where did I spoke about FREE? I never said I didn't want to pay for it!!! Please don't think for me... > That said, the support on the dovecot list is the best I've seen, even > when people get attitudes (like yours)... Attitudes? Since when is a normal business inquiry not appropriate? > If you want to learn linux, and learn how to admin a mail server, you're > expected to do some leg work yourself... no one expects you to be a > guru, but a little googling on how to change ownership of files in linux > would most likely answer this particular question. Sorry, but the answers on this mail group are written with as few words as possible - if it was written in Finnish, I'd understand just as much as I do now. Googling on a Dovecot problems results always in www.dovecot.org or one of its child sites. Always. Googling on a Linux question results always in experts-exchange. Always. > > Also, the attititude will most likely get surprising little response. If > you want to get help from someone for free, it helps to ask nicely. I don't agree. I know the way of asking isn't the most nice way - and I also apologise to them, who assisted me! But who cares if I agree with someone, who didn't assist me at all, but who only is capable of writing negatively about me? > Thats said, I wouldn't be surprised if Timo responds nicely anyway... > I've seen him respond to much worse emails than yours, and yours was > pretty bad... Pretty bad? You misunderstood me, my friend. Try to read reasonable next time. That helps! > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten,

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[Dovecot] Limiting user access
by Darvin Denmian 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hello, Is there a way to restrict clients access, for example: user1(a)domain.com -> only access pop3 user2(a)domain.com -> can access pop3 and imap in Dovecot? Thanks !!!

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Re: [Dovecot] POSIX stupidity
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 20:21 +0200, Remi Gacogne wrote: > Le jeudi 30 juillet 2009, Timo Sirainen a écrit : > > > > What the hell were POSIX people thinking?? This is the first syscall > > > I've seen that behaves like this, and apparently without any good > > > reason! Wonder how many other new system calls there are like this, that > > > I haven't noticed yet.. > > > > Looks like all posix_*() syscalls do that. Wonder if there are more. > > Looks like too many people were incorrectly using errno, especially in multi- > threaded context. > > From http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/reentrant.html : > > "In addition, all POSIX.1c functions avoid using errno and, instead, return > the error number directly as the function return value, with a return value of > zero indicating that no error was detected. This strategy is, in fact, being > followed on a POSIX-wide basis for all new functions. " But that doesn't solve anything, because old functions' API can't be changed. The only thing this change did was to make it more difficult for programmers to remember how functions' error handling should be done. In both APIs the success is indicated by returning 0, which makes it especially difficult to notice when it's being used wrong. If they really had to change this, it would have been much better to both set errno and return -error, that way it would have allowed also 2/3 of the old style error checks: if (posix_fallocate(..) < 0) perror() // works if (posix_fallocate(..) != 0) perror() // works if (posix_fallocate(..) == -1) perror() // doesn't work Now none of them work. I did also a quick google code search for posix_fallocate and found several other programs that handle the error wrong. And I'm sure it's only going to grow. Oh well, maybe some day gcc and libc add some features to catch at least the < 0 and == -1 usage (which would already work if posix_fallocate() had been specified to return unsigned int, not int).

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