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[Dovecot] user_attrs seems not to set 'mail'.
by ian＠comtek.co.uk 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, I am using Dovecot 1.1.13 (from a Debian package). I was having problems using user_attrs to set 'mail' and 'home'. Initially I tried: user_attrs = uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ This appeared to set 'home' but not 'mail'. In the debug lot I see: May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,10.4.4.113): user search: base=ou=users,dc=Y scope=subtree filter=(& (mail=X@Y) (|(accountStatus=active) (accountStatus=migrate)) ) fields=uid,uid May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,1.1.1.1): result: uid(home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/)=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 30688 X@Y home=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ Note that 'home' seems to be set on the last line, but not 'mail'. I was hoping to see 'mail=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/Maildir/'. Next I tried: user_attrs = =mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ Now I see: May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,1.1.1.1): user search: base=ou=users,dc=Y scope=subtree filter=(& (mail=X@Y) (|(accountStatus=active) (accountStatus=migrate)) ) fields=uid May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X(a)Y,1.1.1.1): result: uid(home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/)=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 30712 X@Y home=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/ mail=maildir:~/Maildir/ Now both 'home' and 'mail' are set, which is what I want. This means the following lines are not synonymous: user_attrs = uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ user_attrs = =mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ Either I misunderstand the documentation for user_attrs or there is a bug. Assuming the former, can somebody please explain what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Ian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth user lookup patch updated for maildrop 2.1.0
by mr.maX 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, an updated version of my patch for maildrop that extends it with the ability to perform user lookups against Dovecot's database made against the latest version of maildrop 2.1.0 can be downloaded from the following location: http://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.1.0-dovecotauth.patch.txt The patch has just been redone in order to apply cleanly without fuzz and to apply properly against one file that was changed in the latest version of maildrop. There have been no other changes compared to the initial version of the patch. For more information, take a look at my previous post to the Dovecot's mailing list at: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-April/039121.html -- Best Regards, Marko Njezic - mr.maX @ MAX Interactive corp. Personal: http://www.markonjezic.com/ MAX's Empire: http://www.maxempire.com/ MAX's HTML Beauty++ 2004: http://www.htmlbeauty.com/

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[Dovecot] Fail2Ban and the Dovecot log
by Lou Duchez 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, Is there any way to disable the "dovecot: " at the beginning of each line of the log? Fail2Ban responds poorly to it. I know there are a number of sites with "failregex" strings for Fail2Ban and Dovecot, but I've tried them all, and they don't work, at least with the latest Fail2ban and the latest Dovecot. The Fail2Ban wiki is pretty clear about why there will be a problem: "In order for a log line to match your failregex, it actually has to match in two parts: the beginning of the line has to match a timestamp pattern or regex, and the remainder of the line has to match your failregex.". So in other words, Fail2Ban expects that each line of the log will start with a timestamp. Thanks all! Dovecot rocks.

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[Dovecot] Sieve & Regex
by Peregrino "Pipino" Tuc 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi all I'm trying to create a new sieve rule. What I would like to do is catch "From" addresses that are equal to the rightpart (hostname) of a message-id. For example: Message-ID: <000d01c9d23a$941a7db0$6400a8c0@upwabm> From: "Leanne Crabtree" <upwabm(a)blomberg-co.com> I would like to catch this mail, because it has "upwabm" on the right part of the message-id and "upwabm" on the left part of the sender address. I've done this, but with no success. The error reported is: "Invalid preceding regular expression" on line with the second regex with ${1} More over I would like to add an header with the result of regex, an header like this: "X-MyHeader" "${1}" but it does not work. This is an extract of our sieve: --- require ["regex"]; if header :regex "Message-ID" "^.*(a)(.*)>$" { if header :regex "From" ".*<${1}@.*>$" { addheader "X-MyHeader" "${1}" } } ---

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[Dovecot] Overwriting user Quota
by Thomas Krause 11 May '09

11 May '09

Dear List, I cannot overwrite the default quota. In dovecot.conf I have plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule = *:storage=380M:messages=10000 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M } To overwrite, I put in dovecot-sql.conf user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/vmail/', maildir) AS home, \ CONCAT('maildir:/vmail/', maildir) as mail, \ CONCAT('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' Debugging dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<x(a)y.z>, method=PLAIN, rip=a.b.c.d, lip=e.f.g.h IMAP(x(a)y.z): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap IMAP(x(a)y.z): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so IMAP(x(a)y.z): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so IMAP(x(a)y.z): Effective uid=101, gid=6, home=/vmail/x.z/x/ IMAP(x(a)y.z): Quota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::quotadict IMAP(x(a)y.z): dict quota: user=x(a)y.z, uri=proxy::quotadict, noenforcing=0 IMAP(x(a)y.z): Quota rule: root=user mailbox=* bytes=398458880 messages=10000 IMAP(x(a)y.z): Quota rule: root=user mailbox=Trash bytes=104857600 messages=0 IMAP(x(a)y.z): Namespace: type=private, prefix=INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes , subscriptions=yes mysql> select CONCAT('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule FROM mailbox where username="x(a)y.z" and active=1; +-------------------+ | quota_rule | +-------------------+ | *:bytes=800000000 | +-------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) What is my mistake? I'm using dovecot 1.1.11 Best regards, Thomas.

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[Dovecot] Quota over NFS
by Flavio Costa 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hey, I've been strugling to get quota working on my enviroment. I have one storage server that exports the 'home' dir. My mail server mounts the exported 'home' server at '/home' # dovecot --version > 1.1.14 I'm also running Postfix and using Dovecot/LDA as MDA so that we can use the Dovecot's Quota plugin. The thing is that if the user has exceeded it's quota the LDA detects it and I get a response from postmaster warning me that the INBOX is full. But through IMAP, if I issue : > C: 1 GETQUOTAROOT INBOX > S: * QUOTAROOT INBOX "" > S: 1 OK Getquota complete > > There's no: > * QUOTA "" (STORAGE 10 512) > > I've tried using this plugin for Thunderbird: https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/thunderbird/addon/881 And also tested issuing commands by hand. Running 'quota' on the console works just fine, that means that rpc.rquotad is running smoothly. # quota USER > Disk quotas for user coutinho (uid 1191): > Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit > grace > home.mail:/home > 166264* 102400 153600 3013 0 > 0 > Thanks in advance for you help. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa

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[Dovecot] dovecot weird bug
by Fernando Bertasso 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, We have a weird bug happening in our dovecot installation. When I send html emails from many clients and compress them, there are no problem. They are opened and correctly formated. When I send an email from Squirrelmail and compress it, dovecot exits with no errors (there are no coredumps or seg fault - dovecot just exits). But the weird is, it just happens when squirrelmail opens an email (compressed) that was sent by squirrelmail (all other clients can open it and squirrel can open all other emails sent by other clients). (Try with this message - compressing too - it occurs with me). Best Regards, Fernando Dovecot version: 1.2.rc3 Dovecot Details: # 1.2.rc3: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) base_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap pop3 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Server ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 1 mail_max_userip_connections: 1024 first_valid_gid: 500 mail_uid: 505 mail_gid: 506 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_max_keyword_length: 128 fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota zlib mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota zlib mail_plugins(pop3): quota zlib mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: login plain cache_size: 1024 cache_negative_ttl: 0 worker_max_count: 100 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch plugin: quota: maildir Imap commands: 127.000.000.001.54022-127.000.000.001.00143: A009 UID FETCH 1 (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type X-UOLHost-Filter)]) 127.000.000.001.00143-127.000.000.001.54022: * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Seen) RFC822.SIZE 1241 INTERNALDATE "10-May-2009 16:37:39 -0300" BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DAT E TO CC FROM SUBJECT X-PRIORITY IMPORTANCE PRIORITY CONTENT-TYPE X-UOLHOST-FILTER)] {264} Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 16:37:38 -0300 (BRT) Subject: a From: namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com To: "Namba 234" <namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="----=_20090510163738_24160" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal ) A009 OK Fetch completed. 127.000.000.001.54026-127.000.000.001.00143: A002 SELECT "INBOX" 127.000.000.001.00143-127.000.000.001.54026: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1241984317] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] A002 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 127.000.000.001.54026-127.000.000.001.00143: A003 EXPUNGE 127.000.000.001.00143-127.000.000.001.54026: A003 OK Expunge completed. 127.000.000.001.54026-127.000.000.001.00143: A004 UID FETCH 1 BODY[2] 127.000.000.001.00143-127.000.000.001.54026: * 1 FETCH (UID 1 BODY[2] {7} 127.000.000.001.54026-127.000.000.001.00143: A005 UID FETCH 1 BODY[] (dovecot finish the process). Here is a copy of the message (uncompressed - opens / compressed - hangs). Return-Path: <namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com> X-Original-To: namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com Delivered-To: namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com Received: from webmail.emailnovocluster.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by maildev.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45ACFE146 for <namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com>; Sun, 10 May 2009 16:37:38 -0300 (BRT) Received: from 189.62.202.143 (SquirrelMail authenticated user namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com) by webmail.emailnovocluster.com with HTTP; Sun, 10 May 2009 16:37:38 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: < c0b80d709ef3dc829fc06395baca944d.squirrel(a)webmail.emailnovocluster.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 16:37:38 -0300 (BRT) Subject: a From: namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com To: "Namba 234" <namba234(a)emailnovocluster.com> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="----=_20090510163738_24160" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal ------=_20090510163738_24160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit a ------=_20090510163738_24160 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit a<br /> ------=_20090510163738_24160--

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[Dovecot] NTLM configuration
by Cédric Laruelle 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi again everybody ! Im still stuck with the dovecot ntlm authentication I configured dovecot to use winbind, and I would like winbind to authenticate against samba (samba, winbind and dovecot are running on the same box). Here is the log I have (192.168.0.1 is the server box, 192.168.0.254 the client box) dovecot: May 06 14:52:37 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=25828 dovecot: May 06 14:52:38 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 NTLM service=imap secured lip=192.168.0.1 rip=192.168.0.254 lport=143 rport=1084 dovecot: May 06 14:52:38 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: May 06 14:52:38 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAB4IIogAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFASgKAAAADw== dovecot: May 06 14:52:38 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 TlRMTVNTUAACAAAADgAOADAAAAAFgomizPYc4ALWKQgAAAAAAAAAAIAAgAA+AAAAQQBMAFYA TlRMTVNTUAACAAAADgAOADAAAAAFgomizPYc4ALWKQgAAAAAAAAAAIAAgAA+QQBS AFUATQACAA4AQQBMAFYAQQBSAFUATQABABAASQBOAFQARQBSAE4AQQBMAAQAHgBhAGkAZABlAHIA ZABvAG4AbgBlAHIALgBjAG8AbQADADAAaQBuAHQAZQByAG4AYQBsAC4AYQBpAGQAZQByAGQAbwBu AG4AZQByAC4AYwBvAG0AAAAAAA== dovecot: May 06 14:52:38 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 TlRMTVNTUAADAAAAGAAYAF4AAAAYABgAdgAAAAAAAABIAAAABgAGAEgAAAAQABAATgAAAAAAAACO AAAABYKIogUBKAoAAAAPZgBmAHMAQQBMAFYAQQBSAFUATQAzABXRN5WNNwAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAALm1ePVxjdOF1UPe8A/e1D6H0+jlJYQPUA== dovecot: May 06 14:52:38 Info: auth(default): winbind(?,192.168.0.254): user not authenticated: NT_STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS dovecot: May 06 14:52:40 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 Please help, I really need to set this up and it begins to drive me really crazy Cédric Laruelle

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[Dovecot] dovecot weird bug
by Fernando Bertasso 11 May '09

11 May '09

I found the bug, there are two errors: 1) Squirrelmail is wrongly formating multipart/alternative messages. Look here: ------=_20090510163738_24160 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit a<br /> *<------ HERE* ------=_20090510163738_24160-- All other clients insert an '\n' here, but squirrelmail. 2) When this king of message (above) is compressed (in order to use zlib plugin), dovecot dies. Best Regards, Fernando

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not accepting connections
by Jim 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, new user here, trying to track down an issue. Sometimes, after starting dovecot, I'll attempt to check mail and will not be able to get a connection to my server. I'll kill dovecot, restart it, and usually it will begin working. When I first ran into this, I first tried auth_debug=yes, restarted dovecot, and had no problems. I'd turn set auth_debug=no, restart dovecot, and would be unable to check mail. After a time I determined that setting the debug wasn't really effecting anything, it was just hit or miss if I'd be able to get a connection. Once I was able to get a connection, things were fine until dovecot started again. Nothing unusual in the logs, if it works or not, I'll just see this at startup: Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: dovecot v1.1.13 starting up (core dumps disabled) Mar 25 21:34:48 mail-web-server dovecot[664]: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) If debug is on and connections aren't being accepted, I never see anything in the logs. Below is my config. Running on OS X 10.5.6. Any info on troubleshooting would be appreciated. mail-web-server:~ wright$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n Password: # 1.1.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 9.6.0 i386 hfs protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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_user: _dovecot login_max_processes_count: 64 max_mail_processes: 128 first_valid_uid: 27 last_valid_uid: 27 first_valid_gid: 27 last_valid_gid: 27 mail_privileged_group: postfix mail_uid: 27 mail_gid: 27 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/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 namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] Degeneration of CPU Performance
by Thiago Monaco Papageorgiou 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hello everybody! We have a interesting issue about dovecot behavior here. First, the scenario: We have 2 server running with the same load, one with our old pop3 solution (out of date) and other with Dovecot. We realized that dovecot are comsuming more CPU, and this consumption is growing day by day. When we starts dovecot, it runs between 40%-45% of CPU consumption and our old solution runs on 30-35%. This is quite acceptable, so no problem here. The problem is one day after it jumps to 45%-55% of cpu comsunption while the old pop3 solution runs on the same CPU consumption of one day before (30%-35). I attached a graph with this information. In this graph the green line is dovecot CPU consumption and the blue line is the old solution. In this graph we restart dovecot at monday morning. This restart is noticed as a big fall of CPU consumption(green line) in the graph. After that, it stay between 40%-45%, one day after it runs on 45%-55% and next day, it reaches 50%-60%! You can notice that the blue line (old pop3 solution) runs with the same behavior, so we have the same load. We have other monitoring informations that confirm it. I looked for some bugs about this, but I didn't find anything. The question is: Is there any dovecot problem or wrong configuration that could cause this degeneration of CPU performance? Any sugestion about what can be the cause of this? I attached dovecot -n output. Two important information: we store the mailboxes in NFS and we are only using pop3 protocol. Thanks in advance! -- Thiago Monaco Papageorgiou <thiago.monaco(a)corp.terra.com.br> ________________________ Terra Networks Brasil S/A Tel: +55 (51) 3284-4274 # 1.1.6: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-78.0.1.ELsmp i686 CentOS release 4.7 (Final) syslog_facility: local2 protocols: pop3 listen: *:1110 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: nobody login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> idperm=<%i> command=%t method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 32 login_processes_count: 100 login_max_processes_count: 500 login_max_connections: 100 mail_uid: popmgr mail_gid: popmgr mail_cache_min_mail_count: 100 mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes lock_method: dotlock maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: hashdir mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_prefix: %Us: user %u (%e): pop3_uidl_format: %f pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain trrproxy_v1 worker_max_count: 64 passdb: driver: trrpam args: extra_fields=short_name,quota_caixa,mail_folders_limit,id_perm,mail_imap %s_dovecot userdb: driver: prefetch plugin: quota: trrquota uidlist_create_form: 1

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[Dovecot] Unit testing
by Timo Sirainen 10 May '09

10 May '09

Unit testing is slowly going forward in Dovecot. In v2.0 tree all the unit tests are now run when you do "make check". They're also run on "make distcheck", which is what I use when building releases or nightly snapshots. So as soon as I start building nightly v2.0 snapshots I should start getting mails every night if the unit tests fail. And I can no longer make a release if a unit test fails. (Unit tests never get run manually - I once fixed a unit test that had been failing for months.) Besides that, I started trying to add unit tests to lib-index. After some hours of refactoring the code I finally managed to get mail-transaction-log-view and mail-index-transaction to a condition where unit tests could be added to them without too much pain. I didn't really add that many unit tests there yet though. I'll probably slowly continue adding more tests and refactoring the code more to allow more unit tests, but if anyone else finds they have nothing better to do, now's a good time to add more tests :) Especially lib/, lib-mail/ and lib-imap/ should already be easily testable and they're missing a lot of tests.

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[Dovecot] dovecot slowing down
by P.A 08 May '09

08 May '09

Hi, not really a dovecot issue but, im running dovecot 1.0.10 with no issues for awhile now J. However I ran into an issue today where postfix didn't have enough processes to handle incoming smtp connections. This for whatever reason was causing pop/imap (dovecot) to take a long time to respond on the appropriate port. After looking at server and finding nothing wrong I stopped postfix which got rid of the delay on port 110/143. I then turned on postfix again and saw the delay for port 25/110/143. What I then did was adjust/increase the default_process_limit in postfix which took care of the problem. Question is why would not enough processes in postfix slow other services down like dovecot 110/143? There was plenty of bandwith/mem/cpu left.

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[Dovecot] Problem with IMAP (rename and delete non existent folder).
by Lenthir 08 May '09

08 May '09

I don't know if this problem exists only in my version of dovecot, or in all... To reproduce BUG do this (use gdb): telnet localhost 143 o login addr(a)email.sth verystrong_pass o delete "kj-test-folder" o rename "kj-test-folder" o rename "kj-test-folder" "other-folder" SIGABRT Of course kj-test-folder is not exist. BT: #31 0xb7da0022 in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #32 0x0813313a in pool_system_free (pool=0x8169060, mem=0x8146161) at mempool-system.c:92 #33 0x080de02f in mailbox_list_clear_error (list=0x81885e8) at mailbox-list.c:762 #34 0x080dd5ae in mailbox_list_get_mailbox_name_status (list=0x81885e8, name=0x81a4258 "other-folder", status=0xbfe9cae0) at mailbox-list.c:394 My version of Dovecot is 1.2beta1. Do you know anything about this bug? Please help. -- Konrad

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[Dovecot] Problem with IMAP (rename and delete non existent folder).
by Lenthir 08 May '09

08 May '09

I don't know if this problem exists only in my version of dovecot, or in all... To reproduce BUG do this (use gdb): telnet localhost 143 o login addr(a)email.sth verystrong_pass o delete "kj-test-folder" o rename "kj-test-folder" o rename "kj-test-folder" "other-folder" SIGABRT Of course kj-test-folder is not exist. BT: #31 0xb7da0022 in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #32 0x0813313a in pool_system_free (pool=0x8169060, mem=0x8146161) at mempool-system.c:92 #33 0x080de02f in mailbox_list_clear_error (list=0x81885e8) at mailbox-list.c:762 #34 0x080dd5ae in mailbox_list_get_mailbox_name_status (list=0x81885e8, name=0x81a4258 "other-folder", status=0xbfe9cae0) at mailbox-list.c:394 My version of Dovecot is 1.2beta1. Do you know anything about this bug? Please help. -- Konrad

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[Dovecot] mailutil?
by Timo Sirainen 08 May '09

08 May '09

dbox format needs at least two tools: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. 2. Ability to force index resync/rebuild in case it doesn't figure out itself that there's something wrong. I'm starting to think about building a more generic mailutil tool, maybe something similar to what UW-IMAP has. So two questions: - What should the tool be called? Probably not mailutil to avoid confusion. doveutil? dovemail? dovetool? mailtool? - Is there any functionality you'd like it to do?

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[Dovecot] Imap notifications in IDLE
by Jarosław Przybyłowicz 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi, could you please tell me if there is a way, to make dovecot notify my mail client of new messages in inbox subfolders? I'm using fdm to fetch mails into maildir and proper subfolders. So far, when idleing mozilla gets a notification when new message arrives in INBOX, but if mail is fetched into other folder I have to click on it to see if there is a new message. I've checked thunderbird imap log to check if this is dovecot or TB issue. Is there any way to force dovecot to monitor other folders? Regards, V

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Re: [Dovecot] authentication to IMAP
by punit_j 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi Daniel, What version of dovecot supports this feature ? I am using dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4 and gives error : - Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 495: Unknown setting: master_user_separator Here is what i added : auth_master_user_separator = * auth default { passdb passwd-file { args = /root/passwd.masterusers master = yes } passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } } Regards, Punit

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[Dovecot] Exim And Dovecot SASL
by Andrew Holway 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi all, I have been trying to get this to work a couple of ways, please take a look at the links below.http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASLhttp://rafb.net/p/ipH… rejects every time but if I uncomment;auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth then thunderbird will ask me for a password but does not agree with me on it.I have dovecot set up to use the unix usernames and passwordsThanks,Andrew  

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[Dovecot] authentication to IMAP
by punit_j 07 May '09

07 May '09

HI All, Is there a way to do admin authentication for a normal user in dovecot IMAP ? I have a user using PAM to store password in /etc/shadow file. I need to authenticate the user in IMAP using that password. I tried using : - I tried all combinations as below [root@mail ~]# cat /etc/shadow| grep -i ajay ajay.lal:CM730q8foSA9A:13545:0:99999:7::: [root@mail ~]# telnet 0 143 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0 (0.0.0.0). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. a1 login ajay.lal CM730q8foSA9A a1 NO Authentication failed. a1 login ajay.lal "{crypt}CM730q8foSA9A" a1 NO Authentication failed. Also i tried [root@mail ~]# perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\0ajay.lal\0{crypt}CM730q8foSA9A");' AGFqYXkubGFsAHtjcnlwdH1DTTczMHE4Zm9TQTlB [root@mail ~]# telnet 0 143 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0 (0.0.0.0). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. a1 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN + AGFqYXkubGFsAHtjcnlwdH1DTTczMHE4Zm9TQTlB a1 NO Authentication failed. My dovecot server does PLAIN authentication as can auth_mechanisms = plain Is there a way to do PLAIN auth with crypt password or any means of doing admin authentication on behalf of normal user ? Regards, Punit

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[Dovecot] Solr FTS issues (Was fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid))
by Dror Matalon 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi, Sorry for the change of thread, I just signed up to the list so I couldn't reply to the earlier message. Let me clarify the issue that Nikolai was describing. We're running dovecot 1.1.11 and solr 1.4. The issue is quite simple. 1. I run a search. 2. Dovecot sends a list of emails to solr 3. Solr starts indexing them 4. Solr runs into a "bad" email and we get: SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Mark invalid org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Mark invalid at java.io.BufferedReader.reset(BufferedReader.java:485) at org.apache.solr.analysis.HTMLStripReader.restoreState(HTMLStripReader.java:171) at org.apache.solr.analysis.HTMLStripReader.read(HTMLStripReader.java:728) at org.apache.solr.analysis.HTMLStripReader.read(HTMLStripReader.java:742) at java.io.Reader.read(Reader.java:123) at org.apache.lucene.analysis.CharTokenizer.next(CharTokenizer.java:109) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocInverterPerField.processFields(DocInverterPerField.java:159) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocFieldConsumersPerField.processFields(DocFieldConsumersPerField.java:36) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocFieldProcessorPerThread.processDocument(DocFieldProcessorPerThread.java:234) at org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriter.updateDocument(DocumentsWriter.java:765) ... 5. All the above email messages that were indexed are rolled back, and we're stuck. I think that the solution should be simple too :-). When solr runs into a bad email, it should just ignore it and keep indexing. This seems much more robust since the emails are coming from a variety of sources, and we can assume that some of them are going to generate badly formated emails. Seems like having a few bad emails not indexed is much better than the current situation of a bad email stopping all searching. I don't understand the architecture enough between fts, fts_solr and solr to know where this should be solved. Ideally, it would be a simple directive to solr. Regards, Dror ----- Dror Matalon President Zapatec Inc 866 522-7941 X 704 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.6zap.com http://twitter.com/drormata http://www.zapatec.com

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[Dovecot] [OT] two-way IMAP synchronization
by Wolfram Schlich 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi, I am looking for a tool that does a true two-way synchronization (synchronization of expunges/deletes) of IMAP mailboxes, kind of a mixture of unison and imapsync. Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish that? TIA. -- Regards, Wolfram Schlich <wschlich(a)gentoo.org> Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/

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Re: [Dovecot] Some POP3 questions
by Nikolai Derzhak 06 May '09

06 May '09

By the way, you can download ready to use open-source mail, calendar, contacts, etc: http://www.6zap.com. I'am sysadm in this project and we use dovecot to. On Wed, 05/06/2009 at 5:28pm, "Brandon Lamb" <brandonlamb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kenneth Kalmer <kenneth.kalmer(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 23:32 +0200, Kenneth Kalmer wrote: >>>>>>> * NFS server which is the same server that houses single Courier-IMAP >>>>>>> installation (Gentoo, 3GB memory) >>>>>>> * 2x Postfix instances delivering to NFS >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> NFS may be problematic. Dovecot expects a perfectly working NFS setup, >>>>>> which seems to be a bit rare to find. http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just for the record, dovecot will be access the mail directly on the >>>> disks, >>>>> it will be the LDA's on the postfix instances coming in over NFS. I'm >>>>> reading the NFS again to make sure I understand the risks >>>> >>>> If the LDA is Dovecot deliver, it's the same problem since it also >>>> updates index/control files that cause the problems. But if you're using >>>> something else that does nothing but write the maildir files, then it's >>>> fine. >>>> >>> >>> I'm looking to use the Dovecot LDA so the caches are updated and the >>> filenames are correct, to get good POP3 performance. >>> >>> I'm looking forward to giving Dovecot a go, but I'll rig up a staging >>> environment first. >>> >>> Thanks for the encouraging responses everyone. >>> >>> Best >>> >>> -- >>> Kenneth Kalmer >>> kenneth.kalmer(a)gmail.com >>> http://opensourcery.co.za >>> @kennethkalmer >> >> I moved from a 4 gig nfs server with eight mailheads running exim as >> lda, courier imap/pop3 (over nfs) to an 8 gig nfs server and moved to >> dovecot imap/pop3 running directly on the nfs server and dropped to >> four mailheads running exim with dovecot lda. >> >> At first I tried to keep my imap/pop3 services running on the 4 >> mailheads but over nfs had major weird 500 load spikes randomly, >> moving these to the nfs server solved all of that. The 4 mailheads >> still deliver to maildir over nfs using dovecot as lda. I have been >> pleasantly pleased. Our webmail app in our old setup used to take >> 10-30 seconds to load and now it is instantaneous. Some of it might be >> from upgrading hardware, but I definitely had a HUGE noticeable >> difference and you couldnt convince me to go back. >> >> We did have about a week of sucktastic traffic and my support >> department hating me because all our pop3 leave-messages-on-server >> users had to redownload all their mail, but it was worth the headache. >> Dovecot is just too sweet, with its performance and plugins to ever >> have to even think about a choice between it or software X. >> >> Just my $0.02 > > Oh yea, and I just recently discovered the virtual mailbox plugin and > fell even more in love. I am developing a Gmail clone inhouse for our > new webmail (we're an ISP). It is cool plugins like this that make me > glad I switched to Dovecot. Being able to consolidate various Deleted, > Trash, Deleted Items, Deleted Mails folders all into a single > virtual/Trash folder is GREAT. Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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[Dovecot] Some POP3 questions
by Kenneth Kalmer 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi everyone Been spending the whole day on the wiki and in the list archives on using dovecot for POP3 mail. I'd like to present my findings and ask for some feedback. Our current software setup: * Courier-IMAP running POP3/IMAP * Postfix MTA * MySQL backend for user and login info As for the system layout, it looks like this: * NFS server which is the same server that houses single Courier-IMAP installation (Gentoo, 3GB memory) * 2x Postfix instances delivering to NFS * Mail directory structure: /mail/e/ex/example.com/user Usage: * Currently reaching in excess of 1,200 concurrent connections, traffic roughly 36GB per day * 90% POP3 (mostly pop+delete), 10% IMAP * ~170GB of mail on disk Current problems experienced: * Massive load averages (>500) * Memory exhaustion (3GB) * Server looses network connectivity (related to massive loads) I've got a new server ready for action, well after mail directories have been rsync'd over. Will have 8GB of memory and much fast discs. I'm looking at giving Dovecot + Postfix/LDA a go. From my research today it seems that running a POP server without LDA (or without the W=(\d+) filename field) is a futile business. I'm running Gentoo, and the stable release in portage is currently dovecot 1.1.7, with 1.1.14 being available but masked. Long stories short, will Dovecot with the Postfix/LDA give performance equal than Courier-IMAP or improved (because of the cached message sizes)? Kind regards -- Kenneth Kalmer kenneth.kalmer(a)gmail.com http://opensourcery.co.za @kennethkalmer

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[Dovecot] fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid)
by Nikolai Derzhak 06 May '09

06 May '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Nikolai Derzhak" <nikolai(a)6zap.com> To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> CC: "Dovecot Mailing" <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Date: 05/05/2009 3:01pm Subject: Re: [Dovecot] fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid) On Mon, 05/04/2009 at 6:23pm, "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On May 4, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Nikolai Derzhak wrote: > >> OK. Concentrating problem in one question. >> How to ignore "bad" message and index next one in indexing procedure >> (fts plugin) ?. >> Now, one "error 500" from solr and dovecot (# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/ >> dovecot.conf >> # OS: Linux 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen i686 Ubuntu 8.04.2 ext3 >> ) stop and each next search query repeat the story. > > Maybe simply using 1.1.14 would help? I already fixed one Solr issue: http:// > hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/678c3252a454 > I've merge back this commit to 1.1.11 code, cause this is my request about special chars ;). > If that's not the problem, it would help to have one of those mails > that breaks it. Yes. Now i have two new issue: 1. "Content-Type:" header in mail wrong - so it's TEXT/mspowerpoint for example, but it's binary *.ppt file. 2. many html from repository change-set(many commit's to html) in text/plain mail In both cases we have "Error 500" from solr (HTMLStripReader class) (in solr log: "Marked inlalid"). And in both cases we can not detect this in dovecot code (or it's hard to do). So for now i need some method to ignore "bad" messages. Because we can not catch all variants, but indexing die on first error like this. Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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[Dovecot] NTLM configuration
by Cédric Laruelle 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi all, Im actually running samba 3 as a primary domain controller. The workstations of my network are all running windows (some xp, some vista) and use Outlook 2007 as a web client. Samba is set up with the following parameters : security = user passdb backend = tdbsam unix password sync = Yes domain master = yes domain logons = yes Everything works fine on samba side, meaning that the machines are part of the domain, and users do authenticate correctly. For the moment, the users are getting their mail (pop3 or imap) through dovecot (running on the same box as samba). Dovecot is configured with mechanisms = plain. I would like to secure it by using mechanisms = ntlm, but still using the system users. I found much information on how to authenticate against an active directory, but nothing that allows me to keep my actual authentication against system users. Indeed, if I just change the mechanisms to ntlm, dovecot does not start anymore complaining that NTLM mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs Any help would be much appreciated as I already tried the whole day yesterday to get it working Best regards, Cédric Laruelle

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[Dovecot] Testing POP3 with telnet - password always wrong
by Timothy Legg 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hello, I just installed the postfix and dovecot packages according to the document, http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-mail-server-setup-with-postfix-dovecot-sa… And it has been quite helpful. It looks like Dovecot works because I can communicate with it on port 110. I can't help but feel I am doing something stupid though... The web page listed above told me to test the POP3 server using Outlook Express, and well, I am just not going to do that. Not when I can do it by hand... legg@debian:~$ telnet 192.168.10.171 110 Trying 192.168.10.171... Connected to 192.168.10.171. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. USER test(a)192.168.10.171 +OK PASS password1 -ERR Authentication failed. But why do I always get the password wrong? I twice set the password for the test user and also restarted Dovecot, but the password is always wrong. Note that disable_plaintext_auth=no. I'm sure there must be something stupid I have overlooked. Any suggestions? Thank you very much!!!! Tim Legg Here is some additional data that I am volunteering... # dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd # dovecot --version 1.0.15

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[Dovecot] Unable To Send Mail
by Carlos Williams 05 May '09

05 May '09

I just installed CentOS 5 + Postfix + Dovecot. Now When I send mail via telnet from one user to another via Postfix (MTA), I have no problem. The recipient gets the message perfectly. Now this tells me that Postfix is working fine (I assume) but then I configured Dovecot to use IMAP4 and then configured my Thunderbird client. Now all the messages I previously sent using Telnet showed up in Thunderbird Inbox but then when I attempt to send a message via Thunderbird, the message appears to send fine however the recipient never gets it and I get no delivery failrures back of any kind. I check the Postfix (MTA) mail queue and it shows empty. What is causing this anyone? Does anyone know why this is not working? Here is my postconf -n for Postfix (MTA) [root@nat home]# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 home_mailbox = mail/ html_directory = no inet_interfaces = all mail_owner = postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix manpage_directory = /usr/share/man mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain mydomain = wtf.com myhostname = nat.wtf.com myorigin = $mydomain newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/README_FILES sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/samples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix setgid_group = postdrop smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 ================================================================ Here is what is 'UNCOMMENTED' in my /etc/dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps mail_location = maildir:~/mail protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh } login_process_size = 64 protocol pop3 { protocol lda { protocol lda { postmaster_address = carlos(a)wtf.com } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { } Anyone know what is causing this problem above? Sending internal email works fine via Telnet however when I try using my mail client / imap4, nothing happens.

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[Dovecot] index_mailbox_set_recent_uid error on 1.1.14
by Mike Abbott 05 May '09

05 May '09

Seen this error a few times from dovecot-1.1.14, Mac OS X, 64-bit Intel. Pretty sure NFS was not used. Panic: IMAP(user): file index-sync.c: line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid) The backtrace is: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff85025166 __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff850a80e0 abort + 83 2 imap 0x0000000100069f3e default_fatal_finish + 70 3 imap 0x0000000100069f8c i_syslog_fatal_handler + 0 4 imap 0x00000001000696eb i_info + 0 5 imap 0x000000010003b86b index_mailbox_set_recent_uid + 74 6 imap 0x000000010003b8cb index_mailbox_set_recent_seq + 58 7 imap 0x0000000100018f5d maildir_sync_index + 2163 8 imap 0x0000000100017ba5 maildir_sync_context + 662 9 imap 0x0000000100017d8e maildir_storage_sync_init + 104 10 imap 0x000000010000c037 imap_sync_init + 132 11 imap 0x000000010000c289 cmd_sync_delayed + 477 12 imap 0x0000000100006ae8 client_handle_input + 409 13 imap 0x0000000100006bc2 client_input + 148 14 imap 0x0000000100070f83 io_loop_handler_run + 272 15 imap 0x0000000100070348 io_loop_run + 55 16 imap 0x000000010000db95 main + 1635 17 imap 0x0000000100001010 start + 52

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[Dovecot] mail_index_sync_map error on 1.1.14
by Mike Abbott 05 May '09

05 May '09

Seen this error a few times from dovecot-1.1.14, Mac OS X, 64-bit Intel. NFS may have been used. Panic: IMAP(user): file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 843 (mail_index_sync_map): assertion failed: (map->hdr.indexid == index- >indexid || map->hdr.indexid == 0) Two different backtraces to this error are: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87b775ea __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87bf9fc8 abort + 83 2 imap 0x0000000100069f3e default_fatal_finish + 70 3 imap 0x0000000100069f8c i_syslog_fatal_handler + 0 4 imap 0x00000001000696eb i_info + 0 5 imap 0x0000000100051d3a mail_index_sync_map + 144 6 imap 0x000000010004a22c mail_index_map + 212 7 imap 0x0000000100046a0f mail_index_refresh + 14 8 imap 0x0000000100016e4b maildir_sync_header_refresh + 24 9 imap 0x0000000100016ee6 maildir_sync_quick_check + 61 10 imap 0x000000010001796a maildir_sync_context + 91 11 imap 0x0000000100017d8e maildir_storage_sync_init + 104 12 imap 0x000000010003eb1b mailbox_sync + 31 13 imap 0x00000001000048a8 cmd_select_full + 224 14 imap 0x00000001000049f3 cmd_select + 11 15 imap 0x000000010000677e client_command_input + 33 16 imap 0x000000010000693f client_command_input + 482 17 imap 0x0000000100006a3e client_handle_input + 239 18 imap 0x0000000100006bc2 client_input + 148 19 imap 0x0000000100070f83 io_loop_handler_run + 272 20 imap 0x0000000100070348 io_loop_run + 55 21 imap 0x000000010000db95 main + 1635 22 imap 0x0000000100001010 start + 52 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff863125ea __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff86394fc8 abort + 83 2 deliver 0x000000010005f82d default_fatal_finish + 70 3 deliver 0x000000010005f8fb i_set_failure_syslog + 0 4 deliver 0x000000010005efda i_info + 0 5 deliver 0x000000010004867e mail_index_sync_map + 144 6 deliver 0x0000000100040b70 mail_index_map + 212 7 deliver 0x000000010003d353 mail_index_refresh + 14 8 deliver 0x0000000100044219 mail_index_transaction_commit_v + 988 9 deliver 0x0000000100032e1c index_transaction_finish_commit + 90 10 deliver 0x000000010000fc4d maildir_transaction_commit + 130 11 deliver 0x0000000100032cb9 index_transaction_commit + 63 12 lib10_quota_plugin.so 0x000000010021efd9 quota_get_mail_user_quota + 1907 13 deliver 0x00000001000354ac mailbox_transaction_commit + 48 14 deliver 0x0000000100001844 deliver_save + 572 15 deliver 0x0000000100003244 main + 6266 16 deliver 0x0000000100000948 start + 52

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[Dovecot] Disabling users whilst still allowing logins with a 'master password'
by Dominic Hargreaves 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi, I'm having trouble coming up with an authentication configuration that does what we want with dovecot, and thought it would be worth passing it by the list in case anyone can spot an easy fix, or confirm my suspicions that code changes are required. You should probably be aware that this is to support a migration away from Dovecot to a certain Microsoft-provided mail platform, so if this makes you feel uncomfortable, you may choose not to respond ;) We have the following configuration: - the passdb in use is pam (for pam_krb5) - the userdb in use is passwd (for nss_ldap) - GSSAPI is also supported - We support both IMAP and POP - Dovecot 1.0.9 - users have their own uid/gid and the following requirement, in order to support the migration process: - Access to mailstore should be allowed by means of a master password or user (ideally configurable, so we have a fine degree of control over which users are exposed to the migration process at a given time) - Migration process accesses mailstore via IMAP - During migration, users should not be allowed to log in with their Kerberos password, nor with GSSAPI We've achieved the first requirement with master passwords roughly as described at the bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers by configuring another passdb with the master password hash in place for the users we want to be enabled to migrate. Our standard auth config looks like: auth default { gssapi_hostname = imap210.herald.ox.ac.uk mechanisms = plain login gssapi passdb pam { } userdb passwd { args = blocking=yes } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } } } and my first try at satisfying my requirements was: auth default { gssapi_hostname = imap-dev.herald.ox.ac.uk mechanisms = plain login gssapi passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-deny.conf deny = yes } passdb pam { } userdb passwd { args = blocking=yes } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } } } where /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf describes a query representing those users accessible by the master password (and a hash of the master password) and /etc/dovecot/dovecot-deny.conf describes a query representing those users who should not be allowed to log in with their normal password (or GSSAPI). This almost works, but unfortunately (as documented) the GSSAPI mechanism does not check any passdbs, so does not get checked against the deny passdb. Normally to disable logins for a user we chmod their mail store to 0 so they can't access it, which has the same effect, but this obviously also prevents the master password from being able to access it. It would seem to be generally useful to be able to check GSSAPI logins against a deny passdb, but is this a valid code change? Alternatively, could the *userdbs* could be extended to cope with the idea of a deny form, since the GSSAPI login process already uses them (although it would have to return USERDB_RESULT_USER_UNKNOWN). Alternatively, does anyone have any other ideas about how I could achieve the same effect? Thanks for listening. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves, Systems Development and Support Team Computing Services, University of Oxford

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Re: [Dovecot] Unexplainable problem with POP3 quotas
by Marco Marongiu 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hello Rick, and thanks for replying First of all, the attached script had an error (I attached the wrong one :-\, the "export" line reads: export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin" 2009/4/30 <dovecot(a)dovecot.org>: > > It's a dumb question, but you are running the script via cron or manually > right? (dovecot doesn't execute it in it's own). >From the documentation, I'd expect it does. In http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/1.1 I read: >>>You can configure Dovecot to run an external command when user's quota exceeds a specified limit. so I expect that it will run the script. Am I wrong? Ciao --bronto

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with BODYSTRUCTURE (wrong charset)
by Craig Craig 05 May '09

05 May '09

From: Timo Sirainen<tss(a)iki.fi> > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 16:18 +0200, Craig Craig wrote: > > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > > Message-ID:=<d2788bc14788ff16e67e63941937c1e1(a)foo.de>; > > boundary="000XMAIL000" > > The problem is the Message-ID parameter. It's not legal to have ':' > before '='. I added a workaround to v1.2+, but v1.1's code is different > and I'd rather not change it much anymore. > > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/05a98aaf0aaf > Thanks, I had already figured out that it somehow depended on the headers and that helped a lot! :) For the archive: another problem was, that the Message-ID was not unique...and putting it between "Content-Type" and "boundary" does not seem to be a good idea at all... Thanks, Craig

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Re: [Dovecot] fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid)
by Nikolai Derzhak 05 May '09

05 May '09

Send mail body with wrong Content-Type. If put this in maildir indexing raise 500 error. If fix Content-Type to "application/octet-stream" all OK. Because TEXT/*; content dovecot try to index and solr raise 500, on each search. On Tue, 05/05/2009 at 3:01pm, "Nikolai Derzhak" <nikolai(a)6zap.com> wrote: > On Mon, 05/04/2009 at 6:23pm, "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: >> On May 4, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Nikolai Derzhak wrote: >> >>> OK. Concentrating problem in one question. >>> How to ignore "bad" message and index next one in indexing procedure >>> (fts plugin) ?. >>> Now, one "error 500" from solr and dovecot (# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/ >>> dovecot.conf >>> # OS: Linux 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen i686 Ubuntu 8.04.2 ext3 >>> ) stop and each next search query repeat the story. >> >> Maybe simply using 1.1.14 would help? I already fixed one Solr issue: http:/ >> / >> hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/678c3252a454 >> > I've merge back this commit to 1.1.11 code, cause this is my request about > special chars ;). > >> If that's not the problem, it would help to have one of those mails >> that breaks it. > Yes. Now i have two new issue: > 1. "Content-Type:" header in mail wrong - so it's TEXT/mspowerpoint for > example, but it's binary *.ppt file. > 2. many html from repository change-set(many commit's to html) in text/plain > mail > > In both cases we have "Error 500" from solr (HTMLStripReader class) (in solr > log: "Marked inlalid"). > And in both cases we can not detect this in dovecot code (or it's hard to do) > . > So for now i need some method to ignore "bad" messages. > Because we can not catch all variants, but indexing die on first error like > this. > > > > Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that > provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities. Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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Re: [Dovecot] fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid)
by Nikolai Derzhak 05 May '09

05 May '09

On Mon, 05/04/2009 at 6:23pm, "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On May 4, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Nikolai Derzhak wrote: > >> OK. Concentrating problem in one question. >> How to ignore "bad" message and index next one in indexing procedure >> (fts plugin) ?. >> Now, one "error 500" from solr and dovecot (# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/ >> dovecot.conf >> # OS: Linux 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen i686 Ubuntu 8.04.2 ext3 >> ) stop and each next search query repeat the story. > > Maybe simply using 1.1.14 would help? I already fixed one Solr issue: http:// > hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/678c3252a454 > I've merge back this commit to 1.1.11 code, cause this is my request about special chars ;). > If that's not the problem, it would help to have one of those mails > that breaks it. Yes. Now i have two new issue: 1. "Content-Type:" header in mail wrong - so it's TEXT/mspowerpoint for example, but it's binary *.ppt file. 2. many html from repository change-set(many commit's to html) in text/plain mail In both cases we have "Error 500" from solr (HTMLStripReader class) (in solr log: "Marked inlalid"). And in both cases we can not detect this in dovecot code (or it's hard to do). So for now i need some method to ignore "bad" messages. Because we can not catch all variants, but indexing die on first error like this. Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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[Dovecot] Maildir bugs
by Timo Sirainen 05 May '09

05 May '09

I just found out that when using deliver or saving mails with IMAP APPEND command there was all kinds of race condition bugs that could cause e.g.: dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line 18: 1241457213.M690227P32531.host,W=3359:2,T (uid 170019 -> 170020) And who knows what else. If you've run into those problems, these patches should help: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/6bbe27c32cb8 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/003bebac2c76 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/96c8632775df They are pretty large though, hopefully won't break anything. But at least my stress tests can no longer break it. I'll probably release v1.1.15 RC in a few days so at least some people can try to break it before the final v1.1.15 :)

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[Dovecot] questions about compiling Sieve plugin
by MercuryShadow 04 May '09

04 May '09

I'm using the info on the wiki to try to compile the sieve plugin for dovecot on a server running Debian Etch, but I'm getting nowhere because I'm stuck trying to find the directory to use in the "--with-dovecot=" argument when running the configure script. The wiki says: Compilation is identical among the CMUSieve and the new Sieve plugin. Use --with-dovecot=<path> to point to dovecot-config file's directory. There are two possibilities where this could exist: 1. If you configured Dovecot with --enable-header-install, you'll have dovecot-config installed in $prefix/lib/dovecot/ directory. 2. Compiled Dovecot sources' root directory. The problem is that there is no such file called "dovecot-config" on the server, and dovecot was installed from the Debian repositories, not compiled. There is no /usr/lib/dovecot or /usr/local/lib/dovecot. I figured that, as is the case with many Debian packages, the libraries needed to compile would be included in a "dovecot-dev" package, but I checked and there is no such package in the Debian repos. Does anyone know what I need to do in order to get this plugin compiled? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/questions-about-compiling-Sieve-plugin-tp23285989p232… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Problem with BODYSTRUCTURE (wrong charset)
by Craig Craig 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi, I've changed a program that fetches mail via IMAP from an Exchange Server to use our Dovecot machine. But now I'm experiencing strange problems with seem to be caused by a wrong BODYSTRUCTURE answer that causes wrong charset handling. When fetchting the BODYSTRUCTURE I see this: Dovecot: 88 UID fetch 32 (BODYSTRUCTURE) * 1 FETCH (UID 32 BODYSTRUCTURE ("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 725664 9385 NIL NIL NIL NIL)) 88 OK Fetch completed. Exchange: 90 UID fetch 10 (BODYSTRUCTURE) * 2 FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE (("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("charset" "iso-8859-1") NIL NIL "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" 2784 47 NIL NIL NIL)("IMAGE" "JPEG" ("name" "197254.jpg") NIL NIL "BASE64" 498806 NIL ("attachment" ("filename" "197254.jpg")) NIL)("IMAGE" "JPEG" ("name" "197254_1.jpg") NIL NIL "BASE64" 188424 NIL ("attachment" ("filename" "197254_1.jpg")) NIL)("IMAGE" "JPEG" ("name" "197254_2.jpg") NIL NIL "BASE64" 31878 NIL ("attachment" ("filename" "197254_2.jpg")) NIL)("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("name" "pix.xml") NIL NIL "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" 2934 49 NIL ("attachment" ("filename" "pix.xml")) NIL)("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("CHARSET" "US-ASCII") NIL NIL "7BIT" 0 1 NIL ("attachment" NIL) NIL) "mixed" ("Message-ID:" "<d2788bc14788ff16e67e63941937c1e1(a)foo.de>" "boundary" "000XMAIL000") NIL NIL) UID 10) 90 OK FETCH completed. Mail contents were: [...] To: blah(a)foo.de Subject: Pictures From: blah2(a)foo.de CC: Errors-To: blah2(a)foo.de Sender: foobar(a)foo.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; Message-ID:=<d2788bc14788ff16e67e63941937c1e1(a)foo.de>; boundary="000XMAIL000" Message-Id: <20090504120233.58AFC346FC(a)foo.de> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:02:33 +0200 (CEST) --000XMAIL000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"ISO-8859-1" ?> <foo> [...] --000XMAIL000 Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="197254.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="197254.jpg" [...] --000XMAIL000 Content-Type: text/plain; name="pix.xml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pix.xml" <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"ISO-8859-1" ?>=0D <blah>=0D [...] Here is my dovecot -n output: # 1.1.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.21-gentoo-r1 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen: [::] ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 rpa apop username_translation: AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot 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: root group: vmail So is this a parsing error in dovecot or was the Exchange Server just parsing incorrect MIME-Headers?! Any hint would be appreciated... Thanks in advance, Craig

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Re: [Dovecot] fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid)
by Nikolai Derzhak 04 May '09

04 May '09

OK. Concentrating problem in one question. How to ignore "bad" message and index next one in indexing procedure (fts plugin) ?. Now, one "error 500" from solr and dovecot (# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen i686 Ubuntu 8.04.2 ext3 ) stop and each next search query repeat the story. I've explored fts, and ftp-solr directories in src, without success for now. Timo, you understand code much bettter, can you help me and point to place in code, or probably create some patch, if possible ?. On Fri, 05/01/2009 at 5:56pm, "Nikolai Derzhak" <nikolai(a)6zap.com> wrote: > Hi. > > We user ftp-solr plugin and have problem with solr-1.3+ > with HTMLStripWhitespaceTokenizerFactory (Solr schema in attachments). > In some maildir's present messages with wrong "Content-Type: " fields in > attachments. > For example: > " > Content-Type: TEXT/mspowerpoint; name="Zapatec_6zap_netvibes_1.ppt" > " > Indexing for this messages is stop with "fts_solr: Indexing failed: 500 > Internal Server Error". > In solr log is: > " > SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Mark invalid > at java.io.BufferedReader.reset(BufferedReader.java:485) > " > (mail list with discussion: http://markmail.org/message/2fnfiwygvehjngyr# > query:SEVERE%3A%20java.io.IOException%3A%20Mark%20invalid%20lucene+page:1+ > mid:2fnfiwygvehjngyr+state:results) > > Look's like dovecot try to index attachments like this. > Also for some messages we have same error. > Dovecot stop indexing of box and each search we have lag and CPU load on > server. > > So we need to make dovecot more "stable" to this error. > For first time , will be good, just ignore problematic messages with error > from solr. > > Let's discuss this issue, because this is general problem. > We ready to explore code where needed , etc. > > Regards, > Nikolai > > Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that > provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities. Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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Re: [Dovecot] fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid)
by Nikolai Derzhak 04 May '09

04 May '09

On Mon, 05/04/2009 at 5:36pm, "Rui Carneiro" <rui.carneiro(a)portugalmail.net> wrote: > I do not have sure if I understood your problem correctly. > > Are you trying to index attachments from messages? Or Dovecot is indexing > some "bad" parts and you just do not know why? > Read first post, please, with description. But in sum: when dovecot try to index some mail's, that solr tokenizer not eat (error 500, Marked invalid), dovecot stop indexing of box and retry attempts in each next search with same result. > Regards, > Rui Carneiro > -- > Portugalmail, Comunicações S.A. > www.portugalmail.net > > Citando Nikolai Derzhak <nikolai(a)6zap.com>: > >> OK. Concentrating problem in one question. >> How to ignore "bad" message and index next one in indexing procedure (fts >> plugin) ?. >> Now, one "error 500" from solr and dovecot (# 1.1.11: >> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >> # OS: Linux 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen i686 Ubuntu 8.04.2 ext3 >> ) stop and each next search query repeat the story. >> I've explored fts, and ftp-solr directories in src, without success for now. >> >> Timo, you understand code much bettter, can you help me and point to place >> in >> code, >> or probably create some patch, if possible ?. Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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[Dovecot] login_max_processes_count and logs
by Dominique Fournier 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hello, Our server reach today the login_max_processes_count. Dovecot works well and don't accept any new connection. But it doesn't log anything about this problem : we are blind why the connection is refused for the clients. Could you add a log when the connection limit is reached or (maybe better) a log with the occupation for the beginning of each connection ? Thanks Dom Dovecot version 1.0.15 on Debian AMD64

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[Dovecot] Strange virtual users issues
by Ovi C 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hi i'm using dovecot with virtual users from a postgresql database backend on a Debian Lenny system. I'm using qmail as MTA. Mostly everything seems to work ok , except the fact that the mail delivered never reaches virtual user's INBOX. Here's the dovecot config: dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: Server ready to process requests. login_process_per_connection: no max_mail_processes: 512 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 61 last_valid_gid: 2003 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: quota autocreate imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: root group: mail plugin: quota: maildir acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf lazy_expunge: .EXPUNGED/ .DELETED/ .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/ autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Spam The setup is as follows: I've created a system user named vmail in /home with a group also called vmail. The virtual users are created in /home/vmail/username when i configure an account from thunderbird. If I send an message from a virtual user to an system user everythings is ok. The system user get's the mail in his Maildir. But if I send a message from the system user to the virtual user the MTA's log says that the message has been delivered but it never reaches virtual user's INBOX. Here's a snip from logs both qmail's and dovecot's: cat /var/log/qmail.log status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 new msg 155041 info msg 155041: bytes 263 from <caretaker@localhost.> qp 4560 uid 1000 starting delivery 1: msg 155041 to remote akkersson@localhost. status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 new msg 155147 info msg 155147: bytes 438 from <caretaker@localhost.> qp 4563 uid 64011 starting delivery 2: msg 155147 to local akkersson@localhost status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 delivery 1: success: 127.0.0.1_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_1241272738_qp_4563/ status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 end msg 155041 delivery 2: deferral: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 cat /var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:30:46 Info: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:30:46 Info: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to maildb dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:32:00 Info: IMAP(akkersson): Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:32:00 Info: IMAP(akkersson): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:32:00 Info: IMAP(akkersson): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_autocreate_plugin.so dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:32:00 Info: IMAP(akkersson): Effective uid=2003, gid=61, home=/home/vmail/akkersson dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:32:00 Info: IMAP(akkersson): maildir: data=/home/vmail/akkersson/Maildir dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:32:00 Info: IMAP(akkersson): maildir: root=/home/vmail/akkersson/Maildir, index=/home/vmail/akkersson/Maildir, control=, inbox= dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:32:00 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<akkersson>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: 2009-05-02 16:58:11 Info: IMAP(akkersson): Disconnected: Logged out but akkersson's INBOX is empty.. Any hints ??

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[Dovecot] deliver_log_format not working with 1.2.rc3?
by Anton Dollmaier 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi list, just a small issue with deliver_log_format. Although, the parameter is altered in the config and is correctly shown with "dovecot -n", deliver uses only its default log_format. > root@terra:~# dovecot -n | grep -e deliver -e "^#" > # 1.2.rc3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686 Debian 5.0.1 > deliver_log_format: %m:%$:%f:%s this is from a recent mail: > deliver(antondollmaier(a)aditsystems.de): 2009-04-30 16:13:45 Info: sieve: msgid=<20090430141309.GN16305(a)katherina.student.utwente.nl>: stored mail into mailbox 'Dovecot-List' Subject and From are obviously not logged. Any hints? thanks in advance. best regards, Anton

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[Dovecot] mbox-snarf plugin and istream-mail-stats.c revision 9000:b02c642b4e51
by Jonathan Siegle 01 May '09

01 May '09

I'm getting this error: May 1 09:09:30 tr27n12.aset.psu.edu syslog: PSU mbox-snarf name is INBOX May 1 09:09:30 tr27n12.aset.psu.edu dovecot: Panic: IMAP(tstem38): file istream-mail-stats.c: line 75: assertion failed: (ret != -1 || stream->istream.eof || stream->istream.stream_errno != 0) Will this error go away before the general 1.2 release? Thanks, Jonathan

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Re: [Dovecot] Slow connections with POP3 service
by V S Rao 01 May '09

01 May '09

Great. Thank you so much for responding. It hangs at Tying 127.0.0.1 The funny part is that one day it works fine and the next day it just hangs. And its not that the service is completely unresponsive. If 200 users try to connect, 10 get through and are able to download. However which 10 get through depends on luck! Its been going on for the past one week and really driving me crazy. I have changed everthing including the server, but the problem persists. How do I get a clue where the problem is? Am badly in need of help here. Regards V S Rao. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> To: "V S Rao" <viriyala(a)yahoo.com> Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:23:37 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Slow connections with POP3 service On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 00:12 -0700, V S Rao wrote: > Even a telnet to localhost on port 110 is very very slow. Which part of it exactly is slow? For example in a typical pop3 connection you have: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user xyz +OK pass asd +OK Logged in. Like is it hanging after "Trying", "Connected", "pass", .. ?

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[Dovecot] dovecot v 1.1.11 3 part cert from godaddy problems.
by Terry Moore 01 May '09

01 May '09

Problem, Unable to identifie smtp.solutions.com as a trusted site. with thunderbird, and MS outbreak is failing too. server works great with the dialog box being clicked over and over. part of the info in the cert. Object Identifier (2 5 4 5 ) = 07969287 CN = Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority OU = http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository O = GoDaddy.com, Inc. L = Scottsdale ST = Arizona C = US dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file = /NFS/exim/new.pem ssl_key_file = /NFS/exim/smtp.solutions.com.key { created the req for cert with this key on this server } inside the new.pem smtp.solutions.com.crt ( paid $29 for this ) gd-class2-root.crt gd_intermediate.crt I have tried many tests about 5 hours worth using the ssl_ca_file and pointing it to different files I have from godaddy. and various combinations of things I found on the net. can anybody provide a cookie cutter here do this: with a godaddy $29 dollar ssl cert.. to get this dovecot server running.. { by the way I have great luck in apache with these things.. } thanks in advance Terry

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[Dovecot] Timeout leak with dovecot version dovecot1.2(8985:f43bebab3dac)
by jsiegle＠psu.edu 01 May '09

01 May '09

This is 64bit AIX 5.3. Looking through previous versions of dovecot, I see this warning. I didn't realize this was something bad until today. My environment uses mbox/mbox-snarf plugin. The message in the logs is: local0.log.20090429:Apr 29 12:41:16 hostname dovecot: IMAP(jsiegle): Timeout leak: 1100054c0 In dbx(the AIX debugger) I see: $ dbx imap Type 'help' for help. reading symbolic information ... (dbx) gotoi 0x1100054c0 Goto address is not within current function or block. (set $unsafegoto to override) (dbx) set $unsafegoto (dbx) gotoi 0x1100054c0 stopped in cmd-append. at 0x1100054c0 0x1100054c0 (???) 00000001 Invalid opcode. (dbx) where cmd-append.() at 0x1100054c0 If you need more info, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] fts-solr plugin issue (Marked invalid)
by Nikolai Derzhak 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi. We user ftp-solr plugin and have problem with solr-1.3+ with HTMLStripWhitespaceTokenizerFactory (Solr schema in attachments). In some maildir's present messages with wrong "Content-Type: " fields in attachments. For example: " Content-Type: TEXT/mspowerpoint; name="Zapatec_6zap_netvibes_1.ppt" " Indexing for this messages is stop with "fts_solr: Indexing failed: 500 Internal Server Error". In solr log is: " SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Mark invalid at java.io.BufferedReader.reset(BufferedReader.java:485) " (mail list with discussion: http://markmail.org/message/2fnfiwygvehjngyr#query:SEVERE%3A%20java.io.IOEx…) Look's like dovecot try to index attachments like this. Also for some messages we have same error. Dovecot stop indexing of box and each search we have lag and CPU load on server. So we need to make dovecot more "stable" to this error. For first time , will be good, just ignore problematic messages with error from solr. Let's discuss this issue, because this is general problem. We ready to explore code where needed , etc. Regards, Nikolai Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Nikolai Derzhak 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi. We user ftp-solr plugin and have problem with solr-1.3+ with HTMLStripWhitespaceTokenizerFactory (Solr schema in attachments). In some maildir's present messages with wrong "Content-Type: " fields in attachments. For example: " Content-Type: TEXT/mspowerpoint; name="Zapatec_6zap_netvibes_1.ppt" " Indexing for this messages is stop with "fts_solr: Indexing failed: 500 Internal Server Error". In solr log is: " SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Mark invalid at java.io.BufferedReader.reset(BufferedReader.java:485) " (mail list with discussion: http://markmail.org/message/2fnfiwygvehjngyr#query:SEVERE%3A%20java.io.IOEx…) Look's like dovecot try to index attachments like this. Also for some messages we have same error. Dovecot stop indexing of box and each search we have lag and CPU load on server. So we need to make dovecot more "stable" to this error. For first time , will be good, just ignore problematic messages with error from solr. Let's discuss this issue, because this is general problem. We ready to explore code where needed , etc. Regards, Nikolai Powered by the 6zap. Sign up at http://www.6zap.com for an account that provides advanced e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities.

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Re: [Dovecot] How do I get my mail from fetchmail into dovecot?
by Michael Steinbeck-Reeves 01 May '09

01 May '09

> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:27:46 +0200 > From: Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)dword.org> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How do I get my mail from fetchmail into > dovecot? > > I have dovecot (with squirrel mail etc.) running without any problems > > but cannot understand how to get e-mail from a pop server into > > dovecot. I have fetchmail configured to pick up the mail from the > > pop3 server but don't understand how to get it from there into my > > dovecot mbox structure. > > My advice: forget Fetchmail and use Getmail [1] instead. Getmail does > everything Fetchmail does, only better. The documentation is excellent, > the author (and mailinglist) very responsive should you run into > problems you can't seem to solve on your own and I believe there exist > a number of HOWTOs on how to setup Getmail with Dovecot. Not that it's > very difficult, though. Thanks, I have changed over and your diagrams made it much more obvious what is actually going on. > I myself have such a "mail hamster" setup running just fine, which I > mentioned a few weeks ago on this list [2]. You might find that post > helpful. > > The general idea is to use Getmail to poll the remote mail servers (I > poll two POP servers and three IMAP-SSL servers), retrieve messages, > optionally scan them for viruses and spam and then hand them over to > your local Dovecot server using Dovecot's LDA "deliver". See [3] for a > nice picture :) If you skip virus and spam scanning the configuration > for a single remote IMAP server boils down to: > > ~/.getmail/remote_imap_server.rc: > > [options] > verbose = 0 > read_all = false > > [retriever] > type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever > server = address_of_remote_imap_server > username = username_on_remote_server > password = password_on_remote_server > > [destination] > type = MDA_external > path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > The destination part tells getmail to call the "deliver" program > (without any commandline options) with the retrieved message. Dovecot > then does the rest. That seems simple - thanks. Do I just put a list of retrievers, one after the other with a single destination following that and let dovecot sort out the destinations? The only thing I don't understand and can't find/understand in the documentation is how to tell the LDA where to put my e-mails. I have mails to several addresses mixed up in several POP3 boxes and need to sort them out and deliver them based on the target address. e.g. michael@domain1 and michael@domain2 go to my box etc. I can't see where I identify the addresses and allocate the appropriate storage area. Thanks, Michael

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