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[Dovecot] Problem with imap running at 100%
by nuitari-dovecot＠nuitari.net 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at 100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it. hammer ~ # lsof -p 1918 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME imap 1918 vpopmail cwd DIR 8,2 96 539699 /var/vpopmail/domains/maxpersuasion.com/kec imap 1918 vpopmail rtd DIR 8,2 856 2 / imap 1918 vpopmail txt REG 8,2 851832 3646578 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap imap 1918 vpopmail mem REG 8,2 1330888 2752698 /lib64/libc-2.8.so imap 1918 vpopmail mem REG 8,2 14520 2753738 /lib64/libdl-2.8.so imap 1918 vpopmail mem REG 8,2 114960 2753800 /lib64/ld-2.8.so imap 1918 vpopmail 2w FIFO 0,5 0t0 574015 pipe imap 1918 vpopmail 6u 0000 0,6 0 10 anon_inode strace & gdb can't seem to attach to the process. The process was started 2 days ago. It is dovecot 1.1.6

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[Dovecot] imap quota makes the Alarm clock expire
by Magnus Appelquist 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello list, I have a strange problem with dovecot and quota. The error message is not obvious... After a couple of seconds when I try to start dovceot, I get this: root@taleira:~# /etc/init.d/dovecot start Alarm clock If I uncomment the "imap_quota and quota" in dovecot.conf everything seem to work fine: protocol imap { listen = *:143 ssl_listen = *:993 # problem pa taleira01: konstigt... #mail_plugins = quota imap_quota mail_plugins = } I can't really figure out what's wrong. There's nothing in the log and dovecots error message is not so talkative. It took a while to figure out that it was the quota that caused the problem. I guess there is something with the underlying FS, but all kernel modules are loaded as far as I know. The maildir is on a nfs-mounted disk. The whole system is on a XEN machine and I have multipe copies of this image running on other machines with no problem. Strace gives me: root@taleira:~# strace dovecot .... lstat64("/var/run/dovecot//login", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=60, ...}) = 0 open("/var/run/dovecot//login", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE| O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=60, ...}) = 0 getdents64(4, /* 3 entries */, 4096) = 88 lstat64("/var/run/dovecot//login/ssl-parameters.dat", {st_mode=S_IFREG| 0644, st_size=230, ...}) = 0 getdents64(4, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 pipe([4, 5]) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 dup(2) = 6 fcntl64(6, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID| SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xf7e666f8) = 3343 close(6) = 0 close(5) = 0 alarm(5) = 0 wait4(-1, 0xffbd7e9c, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGALRM +++ Process 3342 detached Finally, my system is: root@taleira:~# dovecot --version 1.1.4 root@taleira:~# uname -a Linux taleira 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 8 21:20:04 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux Any ideas? /Magnus

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[Dovecot] freebsd 7, panics - kqueue?
by mike-maillist＠nux.co.uk 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi, We have a issue with a server pretty much just running dovecot, there's about 250gb of maildirs which has about 200 simultaneous connections to it running on freebsd 7. The machine has stayed up for about 8 days before it panics but sometimes panics after about 24 hours. We are running a PAE kernel (with ULE scheduler) as the machine has 2 (4 core processors) and 8gb of ram, dovecot is compiled with kqueue support which i suspect is causing the panics. We are currently trying with a GENERIC kernel to see if this addresses the issue but looking back through the dovecot lists there seems to be some issue with kqueue, freebsd and dovecot, i am tempted to simply disable kqueue in dovecot but am not sure on the performance penalties. Please see the freebsd pr for the kgdb dumps - for both dumps the current process was imap, and the second one seemed to hint towards a problem with kqueue but im not a c or kernel hacker: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129550 --- snip of what i think is relevent from the dump --- (kgdb) list *0xc04c4c4d 0xc04c4c4d is in knlist_remove_kq (/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_event.c:1615). 1610 if (!kqislocked) 1611 KASSERT((kn->kn_status & (KN_INFLUX|KN_DETACHED)) == KN_INFLUX, 1612 ("knlist_remove called w/o knote being KN_INFLUX or already removed")); 1613 if (!knlislocked) 1614 knl->kl_lock(knl->kl_lockarg); 1615 SLIST_REMOVE(&knl->kl_list, kn, knote, kn_selnext); 1616 kn->kn_knlist = NULL; 1617 if (!knlislocked) 1618 knl->kl_unlock(knl->kl_lockarg); 1619 if (!kqislocked) (kgdb) mail# dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p6 i386 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 256 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_privileged_group: mail imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail

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[Dovecot] How to setting shared Maildir
by mlus 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello I'm dovecot bigginer from courier-imap. I used shared maildir in courier like this. 1) create maildir # maildirmake -S /home/shared 2) create maildirshared file # echo 'SHARE /home/shared ' > /etc/courier/maildirshared (use tabcode) 3) edit imapd config file IMAP_UMASK=022 IMAP_SHAREDINDEXFILE=/etc/courier/shared/index in courier, only 3 step work . I read http://wiki.dovecot.org

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[Dovecot] How to setting shared Maildir
by mlus 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello I'm dovecot bigginer from courier-imap. I used shared maildir in courier like this. 1) create maildir # maildirmake -S /home/shared 2) create maildirshared file # echo 'SHARE /home/shared ' > /etc/courier/maildirshared (use tabcode) 3) edit imapd config file IMAP_UMASK=022 IMAP_SHAREDINDEXFILE=/etc/courier/shared/index in courier, only 3 step. I read wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org) about shared maildir, for example Shared mailboxes Access Control Lists Namespaces ..... but I can't understand at all . Please explain by using the concrete illustration ? thank you.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot authentication not supported in Entourage
by jan gestre 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi Guys, I recently configured an mail server running postfix + dovecot + mysql + postfixadmin, everything is running ok except for Mac Entourage clients which is a PITA IMO, I always get a authentication not supported error while thunderbird and outlook on windows don't. Any ideas or workaround? my dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5. here's the output of dovecot.conf and dovecot-sql.conf respectively: # dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/mail-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/mail-key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%u 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 pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 user: nobody passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: virtualmail group: mail # cat /etc/dovecot-sql.conf [root@mail ~]# cat /etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=dovecot password=dovecot69 default_pass_scheme = MD5 user_query = SELECT '/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' # Get the password password_query = SELECT username as user, password, '/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home, 'maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 12 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' TIA. Jan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot authenticating---> Active Directory Win2003
by Michel Vega Fuenzalida 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello list, I have installed 4 Etch, with dovecot 1.0.rc15-2, and I wanted that when the users make IMAP/POP3, the dovecot verifies the user/passwd in a Active Directory of Windows 2003. Greetings -- Usemos el Software Libre "Con todos y para el bien de todos" Michel Vega Fuenzalida Usuario Linux: 353763 Coordinador del Grupo Linux Pinero Técnico de Laboratorio Centro Universitario "Jesús Montané Oropesa" Isla de la Juventud Cuba La jornada de homenaje a los trabajadores de nuestro sector se desarrollará del 15 al 22 de diciembre. Cuyo lema central es " La Revolución tiene una fe infinita en los presentes y futuros educadores".

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[Dovecot] Duplicate suppression from remote lists?
by Adam Seering 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi, I have a setup where users on my server who are subscribed to several lists on a (remote) weirdly-configured listserver are getting many duplicate e-mails. I know why this is happening; but I don't have control over that listserver so I can't fix it. Is there a way for me to suppress duplicates from within Dovecot? The duplicates do all have the same (otherwise-unique) message ID. "dovecot --version" gives 1.0.rc15. I'm using exim for SMTP. I'm also using dovecot-lda, with the Sieve plugin. There's a rather old thread on this list that mentions that dovecot-lda+Sieve should be able to suppress duplicates; it's not doing so automagically, though... Thanks, Adam

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[Dovecot] W= fixup feature
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi, When there are maildir mail files without W= tag in name then dovecot opens them, read data inside to calculate W= size, cache that information etc. Would be it sensible to have option where dovecot would fix names of such files? Like if no W= then after calculating size rename file to actually contain W= ? -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] Do not update status on imap connections
by Adrian Reber 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Does an option like "pop3_no_flag_updates = yes" also exist for imap? Is it maybe planned? Or should I just provide a patch? Adrian

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[Dovecot] dovecot howto?
by Olaf Zaplinski 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, is there a *simple* HOWTO that explains a simple postfix+dovecot setup? Up to now, I used postfix+cyrus, worked fine. But I do not get postfix+dovecot to work. Currently, all emails go to /dev/null. What really would help me is a dovecot lmtp server. Is there any? Regards Olaf postfix main.cf: # -- delivery options # local_recipient_maps = virtual_alias_maps = btree:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_maps = btree:/etc/postfix/aliases alias_database = btree:/etc/postfix/aliases # mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver mailbox_transport = dovecot postfix master.cf: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} dovecot.conf: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u namespace private { separator = '/' inbox = yes } auth default { mechanisms = cram-md5 plain verbose = yes passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb static { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u } socket listen { client { # Assuming the default Postfix $queue_directory setting path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 # Assuming the default Postfix user and group user = postfix group = postfix } } }

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[Dovecot] removal of all keyword.
by Matthias Rieber 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, how can I remove all keywords from an existing Maildir/? After reading the docs I assume this might work: 1. Stopping dovecot 2. Removing all lowercase [a-z] from the filename flags 3. Removing the dovecot-keywords file 4. Removing the dovecot.index / dovecot.index.* files Is that correct? matthias

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Re: [Dovecot] Segfault on antispam plugin
by Steffen Kaiser 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Allan Cassaro wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Allan Cassaro wrote: > I don´t have SELinux, or any type or hardening... The ulimit (when > logged with dovecot user) is "unlimited"... Yes, but when Dovecot is spawned as service, the user dovecot does not log in (through PAM anyway to have pam_limits invoked), therefore I assume that limits.conf does not take effect. > Dovecot ran with a lot of proccess here, something about 800~900 imap > proccess and 5~10 login-proccess to 300~400 simultaneous users... Hmm, I do remember something similiar when the new students arrived and the number of simultaneous logins increased above some limit. I added the ulimit command to init.d. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJQNqWVJMDrex4hCIRArcYAJ9RtA6w89oc7H8AKOIJYOEKFGE+owCfYoaO sLQIEHrdSUDIaAYW7YmpQoM= =d5Sh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Segfault on antispam plugin
by Allan Cassaro 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi Johanners Berg, I put the antispam plugin to work (some days ago) and now my imap daemon dies with segfault. I don't have nothing (wrong) in logs, just a lot of segfaults... Dec 10 15:37:21 curie kernel: printk: 22 messages suppressed. Dec 10 15:37:21 curie kernel: imap[4774]: segfault at 8 rip 2afe7fe7d7ff rsp 7fff2b9bdab0 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:21 curie kernel: imap[4779]: segfault at 8 rip 2ab0a1d777ff rsp 7fff09ac3bb0 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:22 curie kernel: imap[4784]: segfault at 8 rip 2ae348d837ff rsp 7fff62ab5bb0 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:22 curie kernel: imap[4790]: segfault at 8 rip 2b8744ede7ff rsp 7fff6695aa50 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:22 curie kernel: imap[4795]: segfault at 8 rip 2b400f6f67ff rsp 7fff9c142240 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:22 curie kernel: imap[4800]: segfault at 8 rip 2b00a4e7b7ff rsp 7fff069bd700 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:22 curie kernel: imap[4831]: segfault at 8 rip 2b95b8d9a7ff rsp 7ffff2a9eb90 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:23 curie kernel: imap[4841]: segfault at 8 rip 2ae6189f47ff rsp 7fff92e44f40 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:23 curie kernel: imap[4846]: segfault at 8 rip 2ab739e6f7ff rsp 7fff719cbac0 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:23 curie kernel: imap[4851]: segfault at 8 rip 2b08611a07ff rsp 7fff4a698790 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:26 curie kernel: printk: 11 messages suppressed. Dec 10 15:37:26 curie kernel: imap[4932]: segfault at 8 rip 2b228ab857ff rsp 7fff20cb3db0 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:31 curie kernel: printk: 17 messages suppressed. Dec 10 15:37:31 curie kernel: imap[5043]: segfault at 8 rip 2ac4c3bea7ff rsp 7fffe7c50d40 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:36 curie kernel: printk: 16 messages suppressed. Dec 10 15:37:36 curie kernel: imap[5196]: segfault at 8 rip 2b66601167ff rsp 7fff4b724820 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:41 curie kernel: printk: 15 messages suppressed. Dec 10 15:37:41 curie kernel: imap[5319]: segfault at 8 rip 2ad13a7b47ff rsp 7fff71086180 error 6 Dec 10 15:37:46 curie kernel: printk: 15 messages suppressed. Dec 10 15:37:46 curie kernel: imap[5427]: segfault at 8 rip 2b99f6b5b7ff rsp 7fffb4cdddd0 error 6 When I disable the antispam plugin, everithing works as normal... My config: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 285 (x86_64) gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 20080512 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.3-6) Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 18 23:08:22 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux 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 1456). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian lenny/sid base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 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(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 512 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_connections: 120 max_mail_processes: 1200 first_valid_uid: 1010 last_valid_uid: 1010 mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_cache_fields: flags, date.sent, date.received, size.virtual, size.physical mail_cache_min_mail_count: 30 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 10 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/postlogin mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/postlogin mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-fix.sh mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota acl antispam mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota acl antispam mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve managesieve_implementation_string(default): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(imap): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(managesieve): Dovecot ManageSieve 1.1 sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): ~/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): ~/.dovecot.sieve namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default_with_listener: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 512 cache_ttl: 30 cache_negative_ttl: 0 passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.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: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acls quota: maildir quota_exceeded_message: Quota excedida (caixa de entrada cheia) quota_rule: *:storage=100MB quota_rule2: Trash:storage=20%% quota_rule3: Spam:ignore quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota_warning.sh %u 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota_warning.sh %u 80 antispam_spam: Bloqueados antispam_mail_sendmail: /usr/libexec/dovecot/blockthis.py antispam_mail_sendmail_args: -u;%u antispam_mail_spam: -a antispam_mail_notspam: -d mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_group_events: mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size I can't increase these number! I already alter the limits.conf, the ulimit.. and nothing seens to work... Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1456). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings Regards.

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[Dovecot] Return-Patch new Sieve plugin
by Diederick van Dijk 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hi, I switched today to the 1.2 alpha4 release and the new Sieve plugin. This plugin doesn't recognize the Return-Path header. Is this correct ? The cmusieve do recognizes it. Thanks, Diederick

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[Dovecot] Panic 1.1.x
by Andre Hübner 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, its me again. I still cant use any 1.1 edition because of recurrent panics... At the moment i try 1.1.7, i have again panics and problems with Next message unexpectedly lost dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24.4 i686 SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_ca_file: /path/path/*.servername.com.bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /path/path/*.servername.com.crt ssl_key_file: /path/path/*.servername.com.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 login_greeting: servername.com mailserver ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 1 max_mail_processes: 100 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_cache_min_mail_count: 30 mail_debug: yes lock_method: flock mbox_read_locks: dotlock mbox_very_dirty_syncs: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log mail_plugins(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 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): oe-ns-eoh outlook-no-nuls auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd i got some coredumps. first is pop3-panic 2nd imap-panic: gdb /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 /home/popuser/username/core GNU gdb 6.4 Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `pop3 [username 217.229.109.202]'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7edb7d0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0xb7edcea3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #3 0x080b71cd in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:150 backtrace = 0x80e3520 "pop3 [0x80b71c0] -> pop3 [0x80b721a] -> pop3 [0x80b6b1c] -> pop3(i_stream_read+0xda) [0x80bb69a] -> pop3 [0x80bd57b] -> pop3(i_stream_read+0x2d) [0x80bb5ed] -> pop3 [0x80ad32e] -> pop3(i_stream_read+0"... #4 0x080b721a in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x80cac30 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfab4104 "\"\204\r\bQ") at failures.c:430 No locals. #5 0x080b6b1c in i_panic (format=0x80cac30 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:197 args = 0xbfab4104 "\"\204\r\bQ" #6 0x080bb69a in i_stream_read (stream=0x80f4590) at istream.c:81 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x80f4568 ret = 6 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #7 0x080bd57b in i_stream_limit_read (stream=0x80f1c50) at istream-limit.c:59 left = <value optimized out> ret = 0 pos = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_limit_read" #8 0x080bb5ed in i_stream_read (stream=0x80f1c78) at istream.c:78 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x80f1c50 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #9 0x080ad32e in i_stream_header_filter_read (stream=0x80f1d30) at istream-header-filter.c:313 mstream = <value optimized out> ret = 135208240 pos = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_header_filter_read" #10 0x080bb5ed in i_stream_read (stream=0x80f1d58) at istream.c:78 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x80f1d30 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #11 0x080bb6fd in i_stream_read_data (stream=0x80f1d58, data_r=0xbfab4268, size_r=0xbfab4264, threshold=0) at istream.c:322 ret = 135205628 read_more = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read_data" #12 0x080b20fc in message_get_body_size (input=0x80f1d58, body=0x80f1380, has_nuls=0x0) at message-size.c:76 msg = (const unsigned char *) 0x0 i = <value optimized out> size = <value optimized out> missing_cr_count = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "message_get_body_size" #13 0x0807cc81 in index_mail_init_stream (mail=0x80f1280, hdr_size=0xbfab4340, body_size=0xbfab432c, stream_r=0xbfab4354) at index-mail.c:818 data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x80f12fc #14 0x08064c82 in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x80f1280, hdr_size=0xbfab4340, body_size=0xbfab432c, stream_r=0xbfab4354) at mbox-mail.c:312 mail = <value optimized out> #15 0x0807b9c6 in index_mail_get_virtual_size (_mail=0x80f1280, size_r=0xbfab43f0) at index-mail.c:365 data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x80f12fc hdr_size = {physical_size = 0, virtual_size = 0, lines = 0} body_size = {physical_size = 580703221134869339, virtual_size = 13811206796352623048, lines = 134770482} input = (struct istream *) 0xbfab43f0 old_offset = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "index_mail_get_virtual_size" #16 0x08058cf2 in client_create (fd_in=0, fd_out=1, namespaces=0x80ec478) at client.c:85 storage = <value optimized out> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- inbox = 0x80cab79 "INBOX" client = (struct client *) 0x80ecf68 flags = <value optimized out> errmsg = <value optimized out> error = MAIL_ERROR_NONE __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_create" #17 0x0805aaf3 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x69fc ) at main.c:235 No locals. imap-core: gdb /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap /home/popuser/username1/core GNU gdb 6.4 Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `imap [username1 80.243.53.138]'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7e807d0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0xb7e81ea3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #3 0x080c451d in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:150 backtrace = 0x80f28b0 "imap [0x80c4510] -> imap [0x80c456a] -> imap [0x80c3e6c] -> imap [0x80ca8a4] -> imap(i_stream_read+0x2d) [0x80c893d] -> imap(i_stream_read_data+0x1d) [0x80c8a4d] -> imap(message_parse_header_next+0x7c"... #4 0x080c456a in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x80d7dcc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfa4e634 "Cw\016\bT") at failures.c:430 No locals. #5 0x080c3e6c in i_panic (format=0x80d7dcc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:197 args = 0xbfa4e634 "Cw\016\bT" #6 0x080ca8a4 in i_stream_limit_read (stream=0x810c4f0) at istream-limit.c:83 left = <value optimized out> ret = -1 pos = 30 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_limit_read" #7 0x080c893d in i_stream_read (stream=0x810c518) at istream.c:78 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x810c4f0 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #8 0x080c8a4d in i_stream_read_data (stream=0x810c518, data_r=0xbfa4e708, size_r=0xbfa4e704, threshold=30) at istream.c:322 ret = -1079711992 read_more = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read_data" #9 0x080bc75c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x811cc58, hdr_r=0xbfa4e760) at message-header-parser.c:89 msg = ( const unsigned char *) 0x8111564 "\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGefahrenquelle vermeiden/beseitigen/reduzieren\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tD D \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSicherheitstechnische Maßnahmen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tB B \n\t\t\t\t\t"... i = 6 size = 30 startpos = 29 colon_pos = 0 parse_size = 29 value_pos = <value optimized out> ret = 6 continued = true continues = <value optimized out> crlf_newline = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "message_parse_header_next" #10 0x080b9de5 in read_header (mstream=0x8112318) at istream-header-filter.c:163 hdr = (struct message_header_line *) 0x0 highwater_offset = <value optimized out> pos = <value optimized out> ret = <value optimized out> matched = false hdr_ret = 1 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "read_header" #11 0x080ba4e7 in i_stream_header_filter_read (stream=0x8112318) at istream-header-filter.c:293 mstream = (struct header_filter_istream *) 0x0 ret = <value optimized out> pos = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_header_filter_read" #12 0x080ba634 in parse_header (mstream=0x8112318) at istream-header-filter.c:335 pos = 159 #13 0x080ba715 in i_stream_header_filter_seek (stream=0x8112318, v_offset=554, mark=false) at istream-header-filter.c:349 mstream = (struct header_filter_istream *) 0x0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #14 0x080c88c9 in i_stream_seek (stream=0x8112340, v_offset=554) at istream.c:155 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x8112318 #15 0x080718e3 in mbox_mail_get_physical_size (_mail=0x810cb28, size_r=0xbfa4e908) at mbox-mail.c:255 mail = <value optimized out> data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x810cba4 input = (struct istream *) 0x8112340 hdr_size = {physical_size = 552, virtual_size = 566, lines = 14} old_offset = 554 body_offset = 162775 body_size = <value optimized out> next_offset = 10982 #16 0xb7f83aec in mail_log_action (dest_trans=<value optimized out>, mail=0x810cb28, event=<value optimized out>, data=0x8108930 "Gel&APY-schte Elemente") at mail-log-plugin.c:305 lt = (struct mail_log_transaction_context *) 0x8115e50 msgid = 0x810d510 "<20081202003003.E428C68341EB4(a)servername.com>" size = <value optimized out> str = (string_t *) 0x80f2620 pool = <value optimized out> #17 0xb7f83d56 in mail_log_copy (t=0x810b0f8, mail=0x810cb28, flags=0, keywords=0x0, dest_mail=0x0) at mail-log-plugin.c:400 _data_stack_cur_id = 4 name = <value optimized out> #18 0x0805a202 in cmd_copy (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at cmd-copy.c:66 client = (struct client *) 0x80fb548 storage = (struct mail_storage *) 0x80fc108 destbox = (struct mailbox *) 0x8108780 t = (struct mailbox_transaction_context *) 0x810b0f8 search_arg = <value optimized out> messageset = 0x8100ad0 "10359" mailbox = 0x8100ad8 "Gel&APY-schte Elemente" src_uidset = <value optimized out> msg = <value optimized out> sync_flags = <value optimized out> imap_flags = <value optimized out> copy_count = 1 uid_validity = <value optimized out> uid1 = <value optimized out> uid2 = <value optimized out> ret = 1 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "cmd_copy" #19 0x0805e529 in cmd_uid (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at cmd-uid.c:26 command = (struct command *) 0x6 cmd_name = 0x8100ac8 "COPY" #20 0x0805eecc in client_command_input (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at client.c:580 client = (struct client *) 0x80fb548 command = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #21 0x0805ef75 in client_command_input (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at client.c:629 client = (struct client *) 0x80fb548 command = (struct command *) 0x4c54 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #22 0x0805f735 in client_handle_input (client=0x80fb548) at client.c:670 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ret = <value optimized out> remove_io = <value optimized out> handled_commands = false #23 0x0805f94e in client_input (client=0x80fb548) at client.c:725 cmd = <value optimized out> output = (struct ostream *) 0x80fc90c bytes = 46 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #24 0x080cc130 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80fa9b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:203 ctx = <value optimized out> event = (const struct epoll_event *) 0x80faae8 list = (struct io_list *) 0x80fb5b8 io = (struct io_file *) 0x810caa0 tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999911} t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 j = 0 call = <value optimized out> #25 0x080cb248 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80fa9b0) at ioloop.c:320 No locals. #26 0x0806748c in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x4c54 ) at main.c:293 No locals. I did some bugreports in last time and also compiled dovecot with some changes in guidance from timo to let the bug be more understandable but so far nothing helped. i like dovecot but if these bugs not get solved i cannot upgrade my maschines to > 1.0.15 :( Thanks, Andre

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[Dovecot] Mixing MBOX and MAILDIR
by Romer Ventura 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello, I have about 100 mboxes, a few with a lot of mails and others with a few mails. I have configured dovecot to use maildir as mail format, but I would like to give users the ability to access their old email located in their old mbox. So all the new mail would be in the ~/Maildir/ and their old or archived email in /home/vmail/mboxmail/%Ln How can I add a namespace to achieve my goal...? namespace private { separator = / hidden = yes prefix = "#mbox/" location = mbox:/home/vmail/mboxmail/%Ln/ } Like that...? Thanks for any inputs...

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[Dovecot] LDA questions
by Romer Ventura 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hello, I am looking at the docs and I see this: Problems with deliver Namespaces are supported with v1.1 and later. With v1.0 and older versions mails can be delivered only to mailboxes specified by the mail_location setting. But in the dovecot.conf I see: # NOTE: Namespaces currently work ONLY with IMAP! POP3 and LDA currently ignore # namespaces completely, they use only the mail_location setting. I am running 1.1.7 so is that a typo in the dovecot.conf or the wiki page..? Also, I got postfix+dovecot configure to authenticate to Active Directory using pam_krb5 and I am able to login and send emails with pop3 or imap, but unable to receive emails since postfix complaints about the user not being found in the local recipient table. Now I have made a few changes, but I cant get to see deliver complaint, all I see is: postfix/smtpd[19924]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ............: 550 5.1.1 <test1(a)domain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; So I think that it is not being passed to deliver... Master.cf has: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DR user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} Main.cf has: virtual_mailbox_domains = your.domain.here virtual_transport = dovecot Any ideas..? Thanks Dovecot n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.16.60-0.21-xenpae i686 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): acl mail_plugins(imap): acl mail_plugins(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 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: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Ln@%Ud passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=1001 gid=1000 home=/home/vmail/%Ud/%Ln socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] Just some user input
by Brandon Lamb 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi Timo, You may remember some of my mails, I was having unusual high load issues using pop3 with dovecot over nfs, and unusual being the load on anywhere from 1 to 4 servers would run at 2 to 4 for a week then all of a sudden would spike to 60 and higher (saw 150 once). I have been banging my head on the wall for the last 1.5 to 2 months since switching from courier to dovecot, the imap has worked great but the pop3 was a problem out the door. Anyway, I finally tried loading dovecot directly on our raid, all loads across the board dropped to the floor. The single P4 3ghz purrs along at an easy 0.30 load where the 1 to 4 quad core boxes with brand new hardware were loading up to 60 when using nfs. So, my experience has been that maildir, nfs and dovecot as the pop3 server was unusable. I wasnt really sure this whole time, it seemed odd that a single P4 box using nfs and courier pop3 could handle the entire system load but dovecot with the same and more quad cores fell over was weird. Anyway, this is totally not meant as a bashing or anything, just information. Im not a C programmer so I really cant offer anything but my input/observations. Maybe the pop3 part of dovecot isnt really given much love or people are mostly just interested in the imap server? Or maybe most people dont use nfs? Totally just assumptions here. A definite positive here though, after moving dovecot directly to the raid server, wow, our mail TOTALLY hauls ass now. Two of our managers both noticed the huge speed increase. One of them uses pop3 and leave messages on server and has almost 4,000 messages in the inbox on the server, his webmail now loads literally instantly, i click login and count 1 second. That is amazingly fast. I dont have any hard numbers, but before our upgrades his "feeling" was that he seems to remember it taking up to 30 seconds for webmail to load his mailbox. that is an incredible difference. Our webmail uses imap by the way, so this is probably a combination of moving from nfs and switching from courier to dovecot. Ok thanks for your great hard work and sorry for the novel size post.

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[Dovecot] catching authentication failures with LDAP backend
by Udo Rader 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi, we have recently been hit by a couple of brute force password attacks against dovecot. So what I want to do now is to add dovecot to fail2ban in order to block further attacks. However, I don't seem to be able to find out password verifification failures for our LDAP based user data. The only thing I see are loads of lines like these in the logfiles: -------CUT------- dovecot: Nov 30 09:09:51 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<ludovic>, method=PLAIN, rip=217.147.235.52, lip=81.16.98.99 dovecot: Nov 30 09:09:51 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<luna>, method=PLAIN, rip=217.147.235.52, lip=81.16.98.99 dovecot: Nov 30 09:09:51 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<luke>, method=PLAIN, rip=217.147.235.52, lip=81.16.98.99 -------CUT------- Googling the web I found that PAM based authentication obviously gives a matchable error message, but for some reasons the ldap backend does not - or does it? Any pointers highly appreciated :-) dovecot -n says this: -------CUT------- # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps imap pop3 listen: 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(default): 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(imap): 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(pop3): ssl_cert_file: /etc/bestsolution/ssl/mail.bestsolution.at-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/bestsolution/ssl/mail.bestsolution.at-key.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 24 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 first_valid_uid: 9 mail_access_groups: mail mail_privileged_group: mail default_mail_env: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mmap_disable: yes lock_method: dotlock maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes 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): %v.%u auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 cram-md5 login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix -------CUT------- -- Udo Rader, CTO http://www.bestsolution.at

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Re: [Dovecot] Max OS X 10.5 Mail + Dovecot
by Peter Giessel 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

On Friday, December 05, 2008, at 10:45AM, "Chris Cappuccio" <chris(a)nmedia.net> wrote: >People using the new OS X mail client are unable to connect to the unsigned dovecot-mkcert.sh certificate on my Dovecot installations. Turning off SSL fixes the problem. Is there any way to make it work automatically, or do I just have to get the certificates signed? Has anyone figured this one out before? I have an unsigned SSL certificate with Dovecot and connect fine using OSX.5's Mail.app. What do you mean, "unable to connect"? Do you really mean "unable to connect", or do you mean, "an error message comes up every time they try to connect"? If its the latter complaint, please see this document: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22383 I know it says 10.3 Mail, but the steps to follow are essentially unchanged between 10.3 and 10.5.

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[Dovecot] Max OS X 10.5 Mail + Dovecot
by Chris Cappuccio 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hi, People using the new OS X mail client are unable to connect to the unsigned dovecot-mkcert.sh certificate on my Dovecot installations. Turning off SSL fixes the problem. Is there any way to make it work automatically, or do I just have to get the certificates signed? Has anyone figured this one out before? Thanks, Chris

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[Dovecot] quota warning for fs quota
by Florian Effenberger 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hello, I configured my Dovecot to use filesystem (fs) quota. It works fine, the correct free/used space and percentage is being shown to the client. However, the warning feature doesn't seem to work, no mail is being sent, although executing the script standalone works fine. Is quota warning for fs quota supported? I use Dovecot 1.0.10 (Ubuntu package). Thanks, Florian

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[Dovecot] Username changed by dovecot..?
by Romer Ventura 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hello, I have postfix+dovecot authenticating via LDAP to Active directory and everything is working fine except that some user names get changed by dovecot. # cat dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = 192.168.50.30 192.168.50.31 base = ou=HST-Users,dc=h-st,dc=com ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = yes dn = cn=<account>,cn=Users,dc=h-st,dc=com dnpass = <password> user_attrs = sAMAccountName=mail=maildir:/home/vmail/%Ud/%Ln,=gid=1000,=uid=1001 user_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(mail=%u)) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(mail=%u)) I am using the value of ³mail² field from active directory as user name. So here are test users: test1: mail=test1(a)h-st.com test3: mail=test3(a)housigma20.h-st.com test5: mail=test5(a)yomama.com USER TEST1: # telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user test1(a)h-st.com +OK pass houston +OK Logged in. Logs show: dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=110 rport=43073 resp=<hidden> dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test1(a)h-st.com,127.0.0.1): bind search: base=ou=HST-Users,dc=h-st,dc=com filter=(&(objectClass=person)(mail=test1(a)h-st.com)) dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test1(a)h-st.com,127.0.0.1): no fields returned by the server dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=test1(a)h-st.com dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 7 3526 1 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test1(a)h-st.com,127.0.0.1): user search: base=ou=HST-Users,dc=h-st,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=person)(mail=test1(a)h-st.com)) fields=sAMAccountName dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test1(a)h-st.com,127.0.0.1): result: sAMAccountName(mail=maildir:/home/vmail/%Ud/%Ln)=maildir:/home/vmail/H-ST.CO M/test1 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 7 test1(a)h-st.com mail=maildir:/home/vmail/H-ST.COM/test1 gid=1000 uid=1001 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<test1(a)h-st.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The directory was created and everything is fine. USER TEST3: # telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user test3(a)housigma20.h-st.com +OK pass houston -ERR [IN-USE] Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. Logs show: dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=110 rport=34057 resp=<hidden> dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test3(a)housigma20.h-st.com,127.0.0.1): bind search: base=ou=HST-Users,dc=h-st,dc=com filter=(&(objectClass=person)(mail=test3(a)housigma20.h-st.com)) dovecot: auth(default): auth(test3(a)housigma20.h-st.com,127.0.0.1): username changed test3(a)housigma20.h-st.com -> test3 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test3,127.0.0.1): result: uid(user)=test3 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=test3 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 8 3859 1 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test3,127.0.0.1): user search: base=ou=HST-Users,dc=h-st,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=person)(mail=test3)) fields=sAMAccountName dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test3,127.0.0.1): Unknown user dovecot: auth(default): userdb(test3,127.0.0.1): user not found from userdb ldap dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 8 dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<test3>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured It obvously fails because the username was changed to only %u. Why does it get changed...? Any ideas...? Thanks.. # dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.16.60-0.21-xenpae i686 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): acl mail_plugins(imap): acl mail_plugins(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 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: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.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

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[Dovecot] UID/GID changed
by Albert E. Whale 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

I have a problem with Dovecot 1.1.6 after having reset the UID/GID information for a few email accounts. I get the following error: Dec 5 12:26:03 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): stat(/home/popuser_mike/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1366 egid=1366 missing +x perm: /home/popuser_mike/Maildir) Dec 5 12:26:03 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2008-12-05 12:26:03] Dec 5 12:27:40 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): stat(/home/popuser_mike/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1366 egid=1366 missing +x perm: /home/popuser_mike/Maildir) Dec 5 12:27:40 ns6 dovecot: POP3(mike): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2008-12-05 12:27:40] Permissions are: [/home/popuser_mike/Maildir] ls -la total 40 drwxrws--- 5 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 12:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 mike mike 4096 Nov 5 14:34 ../ drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 3 21:20 cur/ -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 7560 Dec 4 08:02 dovecot.index.log.save -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 184 Dec 4 08:02 dovecot.index.save -rw-rw---- 1 660 mail 18 Dec 4 08:02 dovecot-uidlist.save -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 8 Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw-rw---- 1 mike mail 0 Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity.4912338c drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 new/ drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 tmp/ What am I missing? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network and Systems Consultant ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABS Computer Technology, Inc. <http://www.ABS-CompTech.com> - Email, Internet and Security Consultants

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[Dovecot] Backtrace:/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
by Ralf Hildebrandt 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

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 "i486-linux-gnu"... Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libdl-2.7.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.7.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libbz2.so.1.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Core was generated by `/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. [New process 11111] #0 0xb7ff2424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #0 0xb7ff2424 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7eb3640 in raise () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0xb7eb5018 in abort () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #3 0x080d7235 in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:150 backtrace = 0x9611888 "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80d7221] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80d72a2] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap [0x80d6c39] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so [0xb7"... #4 0x080d72a2 in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0xb7e3cf50 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfa0dcf4 "N��\231") at failures.c:430 No locals. #5 0x080d6c39 in i_panic ( format=0xb7e3cf50 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:197 No locals. #6 0xb7e39a82 in uidlist_write_array (output=0x965c9bc, uid_list=0xb79cae0c, uid_count=31, packed_flags=<value optimized out>, offset=0, write_size=true, size_r=0xbfa0ddd8) at squat-uidlist.c:153 uidbuf = (uint8_t *) 0x96117b8 "�\030=" bufp = (uint8_t *) 0x96117ba "=" sizebuf = "�hݠ�" sizebufp = <value optimized out> listbuf = "��" listbufp = (uint8_t *) 0xbfa0dd52 "��hݠ��" uid = 6 uid2 = 5 prev = <value optimized out> base_uid = 3112 size_value = <value optimized out> i = 4 bitmask_len = 7 uid_list_len = 1008 idx = 1008 max_idx = <value optimized out> mask = <value optimized out> datastack = true num = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "uidlist_write_array" #7 0xb7e39d78 in uidlist_write (output=0x965c9bc, list=<value optimized out>, write_size=<value optimized out>, size_r=0xbfa0ddd8) at squat-uidlist.c:270 _data_stack_cur_id = 6 uid_list = (const uint32_t *) 0xb79cae0c buf = "��" bufp = <value optimized out> uid_count = 31 packed_flags = <value optimized out> offset = 0 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "uidlist_write" #8 0xb7e39eaf in uidlist_flush (ctx=0x965c948, list=0xb79cae08, uid=3149) at squat-uidlist.c:1104 size = 128 #9 0xb7e3a236 in squat_uidlist_build_add_uid (ctx=0x965c948, uid_list_idx=<value optimized out>, uid=3149) at squat-uidlist.c:1219 list = <value optimized out> idx = <value optimized out> mask = <value optimized out> p = (uint32_t *) 0xb79cae84 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "squat_uidlist_build_add_uid" #10 0xb7e3721d in squat_build_add (ctx=0x965cc80, uid=3149, data=0x961126d "\001\a\t'\003\002\020\004\b", size=4) at squat-trie.c:643 trie = (struct squat_trie *) 0x965bc50 node = (struct squat_node *) 0x9648284 end = (const unsigned char *) 0x961126f "\t'\003\002\020\004\b" idx = <value optimized out> level = 2 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "squat_build_add" #11 0xb7e37527 in squat_build_word (ctx=0x965cc80, uid=12733, data=0x961126a "\003\021\005\001\a\t'\003\002\020\004\b", char_lengths=0x0, size=12) at squat-trie.c:839 trie = (struct squat_trie *) 0x965bc50 i = <value optimized out> j = <value optimized out> bytelen = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "squat_build_word" #12 0xb7e376b1 in squat_trie_build_more (ctx=0x965cc80, uid=6366, type=SQUAT_INDEX_TYPE_HEADER, input=0x9631c98 "RETURN-PATH: <RUNDMAIL-CCBMDC-BOUNCES+HEDA.KVAKAN=CHARITE.DE(a)CHARITE.DE>\nX-ORIGINAL-TO: HKVAKAN(a)POSTAMT.CHARITE.DE\nDELIVERED-TO: HKVAKAN(a)POSTAMT.CHARITE.DE\nRECEIVED: FROM WEBMAIL.CHARITE.DE (WEBMAIL.C"..., size=4790) at squat-trie.c:935 _data_stack_cur_id = 5 ret = <value optimized out> #13 0xb7e34984 in fts_backend_squat_build_more (_ctx=0x965cca0, uid=6366, data=0x9631c98 "RETURN-PATH: <RUNDMAIL-CCBMDC-BOUNCES+HEDA.KVAKAN=CHARITE.DE(a)CHARITE.DE>\nX-ORIGINAL-TO: HKVAKAN(a)POSTAMT.CHARITE.DE\nDELIVERED-TO: HKVAKAN(a)POSTAMT.CHARITE.DE\nRECEIVED: FROM WEBMAIL.CHARITE.DE (WEBMAIL.C"..., size=4790, headers=true) at fts-backend-squat.c:139 squat_type = 6 #14 0xb7e76ace in fts_backend_build_more (ctx=0x965cca0, uid=6366, data=0x9631c98 "RETURN-PATH: <RUNDMAIL-CCBMDC-BOUNCES+HEDA.KVAKAN=CHARITE.DE(a)CHARITE.DE>\nX-ORIGINAL-TO: HKVAKAN(a)POSTAMT.CHARITE.DE\nDELIVERED-TO: HKVAKAN(a)POSTAMT.CHARITE.DE\nRECEIVED: FROM WEBMAIL.CHARITE.DE (WEBMAIL.C"..., size=4790, headers=<value optimized out>) at fts-api.c:99 No locals. #15 0xb7e78fba in fts_mailbox_search_next_nonblock (ctx=0x965c378, mail=0x9664f90, tryagain_r=0xbfa0e05b) at fts-storage.c:81 fctx = (struct fts_search_context *) 0x965c400 ret = <value optimized out> #16 0x08060896 in cmd_search_more (cmd=0x961c090) at cmd-search.c:83 ctx = (struct imap_search_context *) 0x961c158 end_time = {tv_sec = 3, tv_usec = 157864728} tryagain = <value optimized out> ret = 3 #17 0x08060ce6 in cmd_search_more_callback (cmd=0x961c090) at cmd-search.c:132 client = (struct client *) 0x961be40 finished = <value optimized out> #18 0x080de769 in io_loop_handle_timeouts (ioloop=0x96179b0) at ioloop.c:298 _data_stack_cur_id = 2 #19 0x080df042 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x96179b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:175 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x9617aa8 event = <value optimized out> list = <value optimized out> io = <value optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 0} t_id = <value optimized out> msecs = 0 ret = 0 i = <value optimized out> j = <value optimized out> call = <value optimized out> #20 0x080de510 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x96179b0) at ioloop.c:320 No locals. #21 0x0806b4da in main (argc=) at main.c:293 No locals. $1 = {prev = 0x0, next = 0x0, client = 0x961be40, pool = 0x961c078, tag = 0x961c0c8 "82", name = 0x961c0d0 "uid", cmd_flags = COMMAND_FLAG_BREAKS_SEQS, func = 0x8060840 <cmd_search_more>, context = 0x961c158, parser = 0x9620078, state = CLIENT_COMMAND_STATE_WAIT_INPUT, sync = 0x0, uid = 1, cancel = 0, param_error = 0, temp_executed = 0} (gdb) quit -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) snickebo(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de I'm looking for a job Windows has poisoned your finger muscle memory, don't confuse "\" with "/".

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[Dovecot] Auth_username_format question
by Romer Ventura 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hello again, I have change authentication to LDAP from Kerberos due to recent changes to my plans and I am having a little problem getting the malbox created in desired path. At the moment the home folders are being created in: /home/vmail/DOMAIN.COM/%Ln and it worked great with kerberos, but with LDAP the domain part is missing so I did the following: Auth_username_format = %Ln Then I did: # telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user test4(a)domain.com +OK pass password +OK Logged in. But I saw in the logs the following: dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 test4 uid=1001 gid=1000 home=/home/vmail//test4 The domain was missing.. So does it mean that auth_username_format dictates what dovecot will use, not only for the authentication part, but for everything else as well..? To me it seems that once the username has been formatted it forgets everything that doesn¹t constitute part of the specified format. Or am I misunderstanding the entire concept..? How cant I preserve the domain part so that the homes can be placed in the desired location: /home/vmail/%d/%u...? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Proxy with MySQL auth
by Justin Krejci 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

We are looking at deploying several pop/imap servers to house the mail for 15,000 or more mailbox accounts. We are contemplating on the design and are looking at using MySQL auth (we already have a MySQL environment in place for our user auth to live) and proxy_maybe so each server can proxy for all the others and we just have a network load balancer distribute the incoming connections to all of the Dovecot servers. Each server would have its own local maildir storage for the users local to that server and all of the authentication and target backend pop/imap server data would be stored in the same MySQL database. The problem we are running into is the documentation is not very clear on this type of scenario. http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy At the bottom of this page it gives a query example of "SELECT NULL AS password, ." but that does not seem to allow for us to use the proxy_maybe if the destination server is localhost (and therefore do not proxy) it does not seem that the above query will actually send the real password for authentication. Is this a misunderstanding on our part or is the use of mysql auth + proxy_maybe not feasible? Assuming the latter we surmised using a separate instance of Dovecot on each machine to act solely as a proxy front end (use proxy instead of proxy_maybe) then on the second instance there is no proxy config and it listens on a separate TCP port like 80143 or whatever. Any input or suggestions would be appreciated. Justin Krejci

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[Dovecot] Roadmap
by Jonathan Siegle 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

I've been running 1.2alpha3 for weeks now without issue. However, some people in my testing department object to even testing "alpha" code. Are there specific features/bugs that need resolved before alpha reaches beta? Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot authenticating to multiple kerberos realms
by Romer Ventura 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hello, I got Postfix, Dovecot 1.1.7 configure to use pam and the pam.d/dovecot file is configure to use pam_krb5 module. Everything is working with no problems, but I am finding that the user must type the domain part in uppercase in order to successfully authenticate. So I am wondering if there is any way for the user to login as user1(a)domain.com instead of user1@DOMAIN.COM...? Any ideas..? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Antispam plugin + scriptsieve
by Allan Cassaro 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, I wrote a little python program that works with antispam plugin, to create or remove sieve rules based on "From:" of any e-mail that is moved to some folder configured in dovecot.conf. He works fine with "Felamimail" the email program of "eGroupware". After setup, is very simple: If an user move a message to "blocked" folder, is appended a rule in the script sieve of this user. If the message is deleted or moved out that folder, the rule is removed too. The setup is very simple: (after setup antispam plugin) Change this in dovecot.conf: protocol imap { mail_plugins = antispam } plugin { antispam_spam = Blocked antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/libexec/dovecot/blockthis.py antispam_mail_sendmail_args = -u;%u antispam_mail_spam = -a antispam_mail_notspam = -d } Hooo... this script create a "include global script" statament in script sieve... If you don't want this feature, just comment this 2 lines: sievelist.append('require ["fileinto", "include"];\n') sievelist.append('include :global "global.sieve";\n') Here this is very useful! :D This script was created to suit my needs, so, have some paths in the code... It's not very "user friendly" yet... but if have intereting I will implement others features (like a config file). Download here: http://allan.cassaro.googlepages.com/blockthis.py Regards.

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[Dovecot] Antispam plugin + scriptsieve
by Allan Cassaro 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, I wrote a little python program that works with antispam plugin, to create or remove sieve rules based on "From:" of any e-mail that is moved to some folder configured in dovecot.conf. He works fine with "Felamimail" the email program of "eGroupware". After setup, is very simple: If an user move a message to "blocked" folder, is appended a rule in the script sieve of this user. If the message is deleted or moved out that folder, the rule is removed too. The setup is very simple: (after setup antispam plugin) Change this in dovecot.conf: protocol imap { mail_plugins = antispam } plugin { antispam_spam = Blocked antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/libexec/dovecot/blockthis.py antispam_mail_sendmail_args = -u;%u antispam_mail_spam = -a antispam_mail_notspam = -d } Hooo... this script create a "include global script" statament in script sieve... If you don't want this feature, just comment this 2 lines: sievelist.append('require ["fileinto", "include"];\n') sievelist.append('include :global "global.sieve";\n') Here this is very useful! :D Regards.

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[Dovecot] my_vsnprintf crash on HP-UX
by Marc Beyer 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, sorry for the double post, I stupidly composed this as a reply to an earlier mail, which causes it to appear in an older thread. Posting again so it doesn't get lost in the archives: dovecot 1.1.7 reliably crashes every time I try to open a mailbox using IMAP. Error in the logs: dovecot: Dec 02 23:14:15 Error: setmntent(/etc/mtab) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Dec 02 23:14:16 Panic: IMAP(arandomuser(a)example.com): my_vsnprintf(): Output string too big dovecot: Dec 02 23:14:16 Error: child 4815 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Dec 02 23:14:19 Panic: IMAP(arandomuser(a)example.com): my_vsnprintf(): Output string too big dovecot: Dec 02 23:14:19 Error: child 4816 (imap) killed with signal 6 ... (it goes on until the daemon is killed) # dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /opt/dovecot-1.1.7/etc/dovecot.conf Error: setmntent(/etc/mtab) failed: No such file or directory # OS: HP-UX B.11.31 ia64 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: /var/adm/syslog/dovecot/err.log info_log_path: /var/adm/syslog/dovecot/info.log protocols: imap imaps pop pops ssl_cert_file: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 113 last_valid_uid: 113 first_valid_gid: 109 last_valid_gid: 109 mail_uid: exim mail_gid: exim mail_location: maildir:/maildir/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir: /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/ namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: exim verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=113 gid=109 home=/maildir/%d/%n gdb backtrace (this is the HP-UX gdb, not the GNU debugger, dovecot was compiled with the HP-UX cc): (gdb) bt #0 0x60000000c03ef990:0 in kill+0x30 () from /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1 #1 0x60000000c02a0e60:0 in raise+0x120 () from /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1 #2 0x60000000c03b0f70:0 in abort+0x170 () from /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1 #3 0x42ab6a0:0 in default_fatal_finish (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0) at failures.c:150 #4 0x42acd40:0 in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x409f750 "my_vsnprintf(): Output string too big", args=0x7ffff418) at failures.c:430 #5 0x42abb50:0 in i_panic ( format=0x409f750 "my_vsnprintf(): Output string too big") at failures.c:197 #6 0x4306fb0:0 in my_vsnprintf (str=0x7ffff4a0 "4935b742", size=9, format=0x4094998 "%08x", ap=0x7ffff478) at compat.c:276 #7 0x42f9a20:0 in i_snprintf (dest=0x7ffff4a0 "4935b742", max_chars=9, format=0x4094998 "%08x") at strfuncs.c:23 #8 0x41e6cd0:0 in mailbox_uidvalidity_write ( path=0x4001d400 "/maildir/example.com/arandomuser/dovecot-uidvalidity", uid_validity=1228257090) at mailbox-uidvalidity.c:42 #9 0x41e7ac0:0 in mailbox_uidvalidity_next_rescan ( path=0x4001d400 "/maildir/example.com/arandomuser/dovecot-uidvalidity") at mailbox-uidvalidity.c:154 #10 0x41e7de0:0 in mailbox_uidvalidity_next ( path=0x4001d400 "/maildir/example.com/arandomuser/dovecot-uidvalidity") at mailbox-uidvalidity.c:181 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #11 0x4110540:0 in maildir_get_uidvalidity_next (storage=0x40046698) at maildir-storage.c:1054 #12 0x4121c60:0 in maildir_uidlist_sync_update (ctx=0x40044e60) at maildir-uidlist.c:1219 #13 0x4124a70:0 in maildir_uidlist_sync_finish (ctx=0x40044e60) at maildir-uidlist.c:1609 #14 0x4114120:0 in maildir_sync_context (ctx=0x4001c220, forced=false, find_uid=0x0, lost_files_r=0x7ffff590) at maildir-sync.c:781 #15 0x41147b0:0 in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x4005ca28, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FIX_INCONSISTENT|MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at maildir-sync.c:859 #16 0x41de2e0:0 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x4005ca28, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FIX_INCONSISTENT|MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mail-storage.c:516 #17 0x41de4a0:0 in mailbox_sync (box=0x4005ca28, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FIX_INCONSISTENT|MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ, status_items=STATUS_KEYWORDS|STATUS_FIRST_UNSEEN_SEQ|STATUS_UIDVALIDITY|STATUS_UIDNEXT|STATUS_RECENT|STATUS_MESSAGES, status_r=0x7ffff5c0) at mail-storage.c:545 #18 0x40bc200:0 in cmd_select_full (cmd=0x40054298, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:39 #19 0x40bc640:0 in cmd_select (cmd=0x40054298) at cmd-select.c:88 #20 0x40c9c00:0 in client_command_input (cmd=0x40054298) at client.c:580 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #21 0x40ca340:0 in client_command_input (cmd=0x40054298) at client.c:629 #22 0x40ca6a0:0 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x40046da0, remove_io_r=0x7ffff610) at client.c:670 #23 0x40c9470:0 in client_handle_input (client=0x40046da0) at client.c:680 #24 0x40c6ec0:0 in client_input (client=0x40046da0) at client.c:725 #25 0x42cdb60:0 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x4002e9f0) at ioloop-poll.c:204 #26 0x42cb780:0 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x4002e9f0) at ioloop.c:320 #27 0x40efa90:0 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7ffffa44, envp=0x7ffffa54) at main.c:293 (gdb) Doing a system call trace via tusc -p -v -o dovetrace -k -f dovecot I get the following for a crashed process (different pid since I didn't want to do the tusc on the same run). Lines start with the [5301]: [5301] open("/maildir/example.com/arandomuser", O_RDONLY|0x200000, 0152000) ................................................................................ = 8 [5301] fstat(8, 0x7ffff440) ................................................................................................................................ = 0 [5301] fcntl(8, F_SETFD, 0) ................................................................................................................................ = 0 [5301] getdents(8, 0x4007b3d0, 8192) ....................................................................................................................... = 312 [5301] getdents(8, 0x4007b3d0, 8192) ....................................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] close(8) ............................................................................................................................................ = 0 [5301] rename("/maildir/example.com/arandomuser/dovecot-uidvalidity.4935b740", "/maildir/example.com/arandomuser/dovecot-uidvalidity.4935b741") ............ = 0 [5301] open("/maildir/example.com/arandomuser/dovecot-uidvalidity", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|0x800, 0666) ............................................................ = 8 [5301] brk(0x400b1000) ..................................................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] brk(0x400c1000) ..................................................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] brk(0x400e1000) ..................................................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] brk(0x40121000) ..................................................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] brk(0x401a1000) ..................................................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] write(2, "01P m y _ v s n p r i n t f ( ) ".., 40) .................................................................................................. = 40 [5301] sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, NULL, 0x7ffff3a0) .......................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] sigaction(SIGABRT, NULL, 0x7ffff3c0) ................................................................................................................ = 0 [5301] close(1) ............................................................................................................................................ = 0 [5301] sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, 0x7ffff3a0, NULL) ............................................................................................................ = 0 [5301] sigaction(SIGABRT, 0x7ffff3c0, NULL) ................................................................................................................ = 0 [5301] sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, 0x7ffff3a0, NULL) .......................................................................................................... = 0 [5301] getpid() ............................................................................................................................................ = 5301 (5295) [5301] Received signal 6, SIGABRT, in kill(), [SIG_DFL], no siginfo [5301] kill(6, SIGABRT) .................................................................................................................................... [entry] [5301] exit(6) [implicit (kill failure)] ................................................................................................................... WIFSIGNALED(SIGABRT)|WCOREDUMP [5295] waitpid(-1, WIFSIGNALED(SIGABRT)|WCOREDUMP, WNOHANG) ................................................................................................ = 5301 [5302] kill(5301, SIG#0) ................................................................................................................................... ERR#3 ESRCH Anything you can think of that would help? Cheers, Marc

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[Dovecot] Loginname - mapping
by Roald Amundsen 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi! I have a server with a few thousand mailboxes (for a few hundred domains) on it. The usernames are following several naming conventions: username_domain domain_username username_domain.tld username-domain domain.username The reason for this chaos is that the accounts were set up on different mailservers, some imail, some linux, some with virtualmin and some manually and through aquisitons etc it has all ended up in one server. Now we are setting up atmail to replace imp. The loginprocess of atmail is a bit different in that you just type in your mail address and atmail tries a few combinations of loginnames to login. However, some of the combinations over atmail cant login to. Some of them works fine when using this line in dovecot.conf auth_username_translation = @_ Is there any facility to let dovecot do username mapping? If I eg have a file: usermapping that looks like this: user(a)domain1.com domain1_user user(a)domain2.com user_domain2 user(a)domain3.com domain3.user And yes, I know that the best way is to start again and use virtual domains and get all into one naming standard, but unfortunately, that is not going to happen. The other alternative is of course to hack into the source code of atmail, but I am not that confident in PHP. Any ideas? -- Regards Roald Amundsen

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[Dovecot] Problem with sieve: Keep: Generic Error
by Thomas Siebert 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, i came across a strange error message in Ubuntu 8.10s package (Dovecot 1.1.4) regarding sieve: sieve runtime error: Keep: Generic Error sieve_execute_bytecode(/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sievec) failed Note that the Sieve Scripts are basically executed fine and working fine. After a lot of testing I suppose the following: "keep" doesn't detect the private namespace I have to use (courier-compatibility...), thus sieve fails to do "keep", the message is handed back to dovecot-deliver which does a "keep"-similar action itself. If I have a script with "keep;" as the only command, I get this error message. If my script is totally blank (i.e. implicit keep only), I get the same error. But if there's no implicit or explicit "keep", e.g. "fileinto INBOX;" as only command, there's no error. Also IMAP-Folders, e.g. "fileinto INBOX.Test", work. Unfortunately, "fileinto INBOX" as default is no option for me, as I use a delimiter and want to let deliver put the mails into the according IMAP-Folders. Is this a known bug? Any Ideas? Thanks, Thomas Here's my dovecot -n output: log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/mail_cip.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/mail_cip.key 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 first_valid_uid: 501 last_valid_uid: 501 first_valid_gid: 501 last_valid_gid: 501 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: 501 mail_gid: 501 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): acl quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): acl quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota 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 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %f pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=100M quota_rule2: *:messages=5000 quota_warning: storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warn_size.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=90%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warn_size.sh 90 quota_warning3: storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warn_size.sh 80 quota_warning4: messages=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warn_count.sh 95 quota_warning5: messages=90%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warn_count.sh 90 quota_warning6: messages=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota_warn_count.sh 80 acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth-worker permission denied.
by Romer Ventura 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hello, I am trying to get dovecot to use virtual users and authenticate using PAM+kerberos against Active Directory and I am running into some problems. I followed the tutorials from the wiki page from: http://www.linuxmail.info/active-directory-dovecot-pam-authentication/ And here is what I get from the /var/log/mail log: Nov 26 15:12:27 housigma20 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=110 rport=36327 resp=AGxpbnV4dABob3VzdG9u Nov 26 15:12:27 housigma20 dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(linuxt,127.0.0.1): lookup service=dovecot Nov 26 15:12:27 housigma20 dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(linuxt,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Permission denied Nov 26 15:12:29 housigma20 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=linuxt Nov 26 15:12:31 housigma20 dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<linuxt>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Any ideas..? Other than this: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-July/032455.html Thanks...! /etc/pam.d/dovecot: auth sufficient pam_krb5.so no_user_check validate account sufficient pam_permit.so Here is my dovecot n and version: # 1.1.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.16.60-0.21-xenpae i686 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps 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_location: maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_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 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: mechanisms: plain login debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=1004 gid=1002 home=/home/vmail/%d/%Lu socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] Compilation of 1.1.6 fails on HP-UX 11.31
by Marc Beyer 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, $ uname -srv HP-UX B.11.31 U $ cc --version cc: HP C/aC++ B3910B A.06.20 [May 13 2008] Compilation fails, output of configure and make are given below. The cause of this is almost certainly that this version of HP-UX does define the QCMD macro in sys/quota.h (checked in the ifdef line 26 dovecot-1.1.6/src/plugins/quota/quota-fs.h) as well as the dqblk struct, but the latter with different fields than the Linux version. Older versions of HP-UX seem not to have contained this macro(? can't check this at the moment), which is probably why it was used to distinguish between HP-UX and Linux in quota-fs.h. Deleting lines 26-28 and 30 from dovecot-1.1.6/src/plugins/quota/quota-fs.h fixes the problem for HP-UX, but of course a real fix would need to add a more current method of distinguishing between Linux and HP-UX. If there's any more helfpul information you'd like let me know, cheers, Marc configure: ... Install prefix ...................... : /opt/dovecot-1.1.16 File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file pam checkpassword Building with SQL drivers ............: make: ... source='quota-fs.c' object='quota-fs.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=hp2 /bin/sh ../../../depcomp \ /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -I/opt/openssl/include -g -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -c -o quota-fs.lo quota-fs.c cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -I/opt/openssl/include -g -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -c +Maked quota-fs.c -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o "quota-fs.c", line 469: error #2136: struct "dqblk" has no field "dqb_curinodes" *value_r = dqblk.dqb_curinodes; ^ "quota-fs.c", line 470: error #2136: struct "dqblk" has no field "dqb_isoftlimit" *limit_r = dqblk.dqb_isoftlimit; ^ 2 errors detected in the compilation of "quota-fs.c". *** Error exit code 1

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[Dovecot] Using namespaces to duplicate mailboxes (Doable?)
by Julio C. Ortega 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Greetings. As part of a new installation of dovecot, we are exploring backup options, and wondered if it's at all possible to define a couple of namespaces where messages get duplicated to be saved in another disk for fast recovery. (we do not intent to load balance between the two, all we would like is to see if it's possible to have duplicate mailboxes so to keep a fast working backup _besides_ normal methods: tape, external disk, etc.) The whole idea behind this would be that in case of a major failure of the array holding the mailboxes, a fast working backup can be put in place. Other thing we would like to know (and i reckon it's a long shot) if it's possible to "hide" this mailbox copy from the IMAP clients, so as to prevent any user from subscribing _again_ to the same folders. Naturally this last thing is to be considered only if the former (mailbox copy trough namespaces or other dovecot _internal_ method) it's at all possible. Any feedback or better ideas are totally welcome. -- --------------------------------- Julio C. Ortega Grupo de Infraestructura ONUVA | Integración de Sistemas http://www.onuva.com

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[Dovecot] data retention and e-discovery rules
by Trever L. Adams 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hello All, I am in the United States where we have e-discovery rules. Some organizations have to retain data for a certain amount of time, others are required to have a data retention policy. This means that while it should probably be possible for a user to "delete" an email so they do not see it. The server needs to store it, possibly in a tree that mirrors the folder setup of the user (so if it is in "Sales" folder, it should move to namespace "hidden", or similar, in folder "Sales"). Is there anything like this in dovecot? Is it possible to use cron jobs to see when the message was deleted (Maildir) and erase it based on policy? (Python scripts are fine if the users password isn't needed.) Thank you, Trever Adams

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[Dovecot] symlink() failure in 1.2 managesieve
by Bruce A. Mallett 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

I've been simultaneously learning about dovecot and experimenting with the 1.2.alpha4. To start I built an rpm under CentOS 5.2 from: dovecot-1.2.alpha4.tar.gz dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.2.tar.gz dovecot-1.2.alpha4-managesieve-0.11.2.diff.gz dovecot-1.2.alpha4.tar.gz dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.2.tar.gz and then setup with mysql to use virtual users. Mail-wise, it all works. :) Where I'm having trouble is with the managesieve part. I find that when I activate a sieve script I get a symlink() failure message in /var/log/maillog similar to this: Dec 2 05:12:47 hostname dovecot: MANAGESIEVE(account(a)hostname.com): sieve-storage: Creating symlink() hostname.com/account//.dovecot.sieve to /usr/local/virtual/hostname.com/account/sieve/Test.sieve failed: No such file or directory I began to chase this first by inserting i_info() calls into various points of the managesieve build and later by attaching to the process with gdb. I can see that in sieve_storage_script_activate() the storage->active_path member is incomplete (i.e., is not a full, absolute path name) and the cwd is "/tmp", thus the symlink() call fails. Based on what I've been reading in the documentation, shouldn't the system have resolved the "home" area for the mail to be the same as what is determined for the virtual user mail area? Using the README in the alpha4 package I've found that I can get it to work by adding the following after the "protocol manageseive {}" section: plugin { sieve=/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage=/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/sieve } While that helps, I'm a little confused as to why I need to do this. I believe that the documentation states that the sieve defaults to .dovecot.sieve under the MAIL_LOCATION directory. So it is not clear to me if I am doing something wrong, if there is an oversight in the software and/or documentation (or perhaps my reading of it), or is it really necessary to specify the same information multiple times? - Bruce Here is some output that may be of use: -bash-3.2# dovecot -n # 1.2.alpha4: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) ext3 info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve 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 login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login max_mail_processes: 100 first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_location: maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/managesieve auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf plugin: sieve: /usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: /usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/sieve ----- -bash-3.2# grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=postfix default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT user_query = \ SELECT maildir as home, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' password_query = select password from mailbox where username='%u'

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[Dovecot] Panic 1.1.x
by Andre Hübner 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hi, its me again. I still cant use any 1.1 edition because of recurrent panics... At the moment i try 1.1.7, i have again panics and problems with Next message unexpectedly lost dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24.4 i686 SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_ca_file: /path/path/*.servername.com.bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /path/path/*.servername.com.crt ssl_key_file: /path/path/*.servername.com.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 login_greeting: servername.com mailserver ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 1 max_mail_processes: 100 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_cache_min_mail_count: 30 mail_debug: yes lock_method: flock mbox_read_locks: dotlock mbox_very_dirty_syncs: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log mail_plugins(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 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): oe-ns-eoh outlook-no-nuls auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd i got some coredumps. first is pop3-panic 2nd imap-panic: gdb /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 /home/popuser/username/core GNU gdb 6.4 Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `pop3 [username 217.229.109.202]'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7edb7d0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0xb7edcea3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #3 0x080b71cd in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:150 backtrace = 0x80e3520 "pop3 [0x80b71c0] -> pop3 [0x80b721a] -> pop3 [0x80b6b1c] -> pop3(i_stream_read+0xda) [0x80bb69a] -> pop3 [0x80bd57b] -> pop3(i_stream_read+0x2d) [0x80bb5ed] -> pop3 [0x80ad32e] -> pop3(i_stream_read+0"... #4 0x080b721a in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x80cac30 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfab4104 "\"\204\r\bQ") at failures.c:430 No locals. #5 0x080b6b1c in i_panic (format=0x80cac30 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:197 args = 0xbfab4104 "\"\204\r\bQ" #6 0x080bb69a in i_stream_read (stream=0x80f4590) at istream.c:81 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x80f4568 ret = 6 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #7 0x080bd57b in i_stream_limit_read (stream=0x80f1c50) at istream-limit.c:59 left = <value optimized out> ret = 0 pos = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_limit_read" #8 0x080bb5ed in i_stream_read (stream=0x80f1c78) at istream.c:78 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x80f1c50 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #9 0x080ad32e in i_stream_header_filter_read (stream=0x80f1d30) at istream-header-filter.c:313 mstream = <value optimized out> ret = 135208240 pos = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_header_filter_read" #10 0x080bb5ed in i_stream_read (stream=0x80f1d58) at istream.c:78 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x80f1d30 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #11 0x080bb6fd in i_stream_read_data (stream=0x80f1d58, data_r=0xbfab4268, size_r=0xbfab4264, threshold=0) at istream.c:322 ret = 135205628 read_more = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read_data" #12 0x080b20fc in message_get_body_size (input=0x80f1d58, body=0x80f1380, has_nuls=0x0) at message-size.c:76 msg = (const unsigned char *) 0x0 i = <value optimized out> size = <value optimized out> missing_cr_count = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "message_get_body_size" #13 0x0807cc81 in index_mail_init_stream (mail=0x80f1280, hdr_size=0xbfab4340, body_size=0xbfab432c, stream_r=0xbfab4354) at index-mail.c:818 data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x80f12fc #14 0x08064c82 in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x80f1280, hdr_size=0xbfab4340, body_size=0xbfab432c, stream_r=0xbfab4354) at mbox-mail.c:312 mail = <value optimized out> #15 0x0807b9c6 in index_mail_get_virtual_size (_mail=0x80f1280, size_r=0xbfab43f0) at index-mail.c:365 data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x80f12fc hdr_size = {physical_size = 0, virtual_size = 0, lines = 0} body_size = {physical_size = 580703221134869339, virtual_size = 13811206796352623048, lines = 134770482} input = (struct istream *) 0xbfab43f0 old_offset = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "index_mail_get_virtual_size" #16 0x08058cf2 in client_create (fd_in=0, fd_out=1, namespaces=0x80ec478) at client.c:85 storage = <value optimized out> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- inbox = 0x80cab79 "INBOX" client = (struct client *) 0x80ecf68 flags = <value optimized out> errmsg = <value optimized out> error = MAIL_ERROR_NONE __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_create" #17 0x0805aaf3 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x69fc ) at main.c:235 No locals. imap-core: gdb /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap /home/popuser/username1/core GNU gdb 6.4 Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `imap [username1 80.243.53.138]'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7e807d0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0xb7e81ea3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #3 0x080c451d in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:150 backtrace = 0x80f28b0 "imap [0x80c4510] -> imap [0x80c456a] -> imap [0x80c3e6c] -> imap [0x80ca8a4] -> imap(i_stream_read+0x2d) [0x80c893d] -> imap(i_stream_read_data+0x1d) [0x80c8a4d] -> imap(message_parse_header_next+0x7c"... #4 0x080c456a in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x80d7dcc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfa4e634 "Cw\016\bT") at failures.c:430 No locals. #5 0x080c3e6c in i_panic (format=0x80d7dcc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:197 args = 0xbfa4e634 "Cw\016\bT" #6 0x080ca8a4 in i_stream_limit_read (stream=0x810c4f0) at istream-limit.c:83 left = <value optimized out> ret = -1 pos = 30 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_limit_read" #7 0x080c893d in i_stream_read (stream=0x810c518) at istream.c:78 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x810c4f0 ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read" #8 0x080c8a4d in i_stream_read_data (stream=0x810c518, data_r=0xbfa4e708, size_r=0xbfa4e704, threshold=30) at istream.c:322 ret = -1079711992 read_more = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_read_data" #9 0x080bc75c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x811cc58, hdr_r=0xbfa4e760) at message-header-parser.c:89 msg = ( const unsigned char *) 0x8111564 "\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGefahrenquelle vermeiden/beseitigen/reduzieren\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tD D \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSicherheitstechnische Maßnahmen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tB B \n\t\t\t\t\t"... i = 6 size = 30 startpos = 29 colon_pos = 0 parse_size = 29 value_pos = <value optimized out> ret = 6 continued = true continues = <value optimized out> crlf_newline = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "message_parse_header_next" #10 0x080b9de5 in read_header (mstream=0x8112318) at istream-header-filter.c:163 hdr = (struct message_header_line *) 0x0 highwater_offset = <value optimized out> pos = <value optimized out> ret = <value optimized out> matched = false hdr_ret = 1 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "read_header" #11 0x080ba4e7 in i_stream_header_filter_read (stream=0x8112318) at istream-header-filter.c:293 mstream = (struct header_filter_istream *) 0x0 ret = <value optimized out> pos = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "i_stream_header_filter_read" #12 0x080ba634 in parse_header (mstream=0x8112318) at istream-header-filter.c:335 pos = 159 #13 0x080ba715 in i_stream_header_filter_seek (stream=0x8112318, v_offset=554, mark=false) at istream-header-filter.c:349 mstream = (struct header_filter_istream *) 0x0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #14 0x080c88c9 in i_stream_seek (stream=0x8112340, v_offset=554) at istream.c:155 _stream = (struct istream_private *) 0x8112318 #15 0x080718e3 in mbox_mail_get_physical_size (_mail=0x810cb28, size_r=0xbfa4e908) at mbox-mail.c:255 mail = <value optimized out> data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x810cba4 input = (struct istream *) 0x8112340 hdr_size = {physical_size = 552, virtual_size = 566, lines = 14} old_offset = 554 body_offset = 162775 body_size = <value optimized out> next_offset = 10982 #16 0xb7f83aec in mail_log_action (dest_trans=<value optimized out>, mail=0x810cb28, event=<value optimized out>, data=0x8108930 "Gel&APY-schte Elemente") at mail-log-plugin.c:305 lt = (struct mail_log_transaction_context *) 0x8115e50 msgid = 0x810d510 "<20081202003003.E428C68341EB4(a)servername.com>" size = <value optimized out> str = (string_t *) 0x80f2620 pool = <value optimized out> #17 0xb7f83d56 in mail_log_copy (t=0x810b0f8, mail=0x810cb28, flags=0, keywords=0x0, dest_mail=0x0) at mail-log-plugin.c:400 _data_stack_cur_id = 4 name = <value optimized out> #18 0x0805a202 in cmd_copy (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at cmd-copy.c:66 client = (struct client *) 0x80fb548 storage = (struct mail_storage *) 0x80fc108 destbox = (struct mailbox *) 0x8108780 t = (struct mailbox_transaction_context *) 0x810b0f8 search_arg = <value optimized out> messageset = 0x8100ad0 "10359" mailbox = 0x8100ad8 "Gel&APY-schte Elemente" src_uidset = <value optimized out> msg = <value optimized out> sync_flags = <value optimized out> imap_flags = <value optimized out> copy_count = 1 uid_validity = <value optimized out> uid1 = <value optimized out> uid2 = <value optimized out> ret = 1 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "cmd_copy" #19 0x0805e529 in cmd_uid (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at cmd-uid.c:26 command = (struct command *) 0x6 cmd_name = 0x8100ac8 "COPY" #20 0x0805eecc in client_command_input (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at client.c:580 client = (struct client *) 0x80fb548 command = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #21 0x0805ef75 in client_command_input (cmd=0x80fc9d0) at client.c:629 client = (struct client *) 0x80fb548 command = (struct command *) 0x4c54 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #22 0x0805f735 in client_handle_input (client=0x80fb548) at client.c:670 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ret = <value optimized out> remove_io = <value optimized out> handled_commands = false #23 0x0805f94e in client_input (client=0x80fb548) at client.c:725 cmd = <value optimized out> output = (struct ostream *) 0x80fc90c bytes = 46 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #24 0x080cc130 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80fa9b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:203 ctx = <value optimized out> event = (const struct epoll_event *) 0x80faae8 list = (struct io_list *) 0x80fb5b8 io = (struct io_file *) 0x810caa0 tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999911} t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 j = 0 call = <value optimized out> #25 0x080cb248 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80fa9b0) at ioloop.c:320 No locals. #26 0x0806748c in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x4c54 ) at main.c:293 No locals. I did some bugreports in last time and also compiled dovecot with some changes in guidance from timo to let the bug be more understandable but so far nothing helped. i like dovecot but if these bugs not get solved i cannot upgrade my maschines to > 1.0.15 :( Thanks, Andre

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[Dovecot] Quota & expire problem
by Kari Suomela (DC) 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

I have managed to get the master quota working, but cannot get individual user quota to do anything. Here is a line from /etc/dovecot/passwd: _kari@karico.ca:XXXXXXXXX:502:502::/var/mail/vhosts/karico.ca/kari::userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=600M_ Also, based on this, the expire cron job says: Unknown dict module: db # 1.1.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.centos.plusxen i686 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s listen: 209.222.57.19 ssl_listen: 209.222.57.19 verbose_ssl: yes 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 login_greeting: mail.karico.ca ready. login_greeting_capability: yes verbose_proctitle: yes mail_access_groups: virtual mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota 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 external: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes socket: type: connect master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=virtual gid=virtual home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=1G quota_rule2: Trash:storage=20%% quota_rule3: Spam:storage=30%% quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=70%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 70 expire: Trash 7 Spam 30 expire_dict: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db

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[Dovecot] Autocreate plugin for 1.1 - trying to patch under FreeBSD
by Proskurin Kirill 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hello all. I try to add Autocreate plugin patch to my FreeBSD host. I think I make all wrong. Could you tell me how to patch it? What I do: cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot make extract cd cd work/dovecot-1.1.6/src/ fetch http://www.dovecot.org/patches/1.1/autocreate-plugin.c sh -x /tmp/patch.sh + export DOVECOT=~/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.6/src + gcc -fPIC -shared -g -Wall -I~/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.6/src -I~/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.6/src/src/lib -I~/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.6/src/src/lib-storage -I~/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.6/src/src/lib-mail -I~/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.6/src/src/lib-imap -DHAVE_CONFIG_H autocreate-plugin.c -o autocreate_plugin.so autocreate-plugin.c:22:17: error: lib.h: No such file or directory autocreate-plugin.c:23:26: error: mail-storage.h: No such file or directory autocreate-plugin.c:24:28: error: mail-namespace.h: No such file or directory autocreate-plugin.c:28: error: 'PACKAGE_VERSION' undeclared here (not in a function) autocreate-plugin.c:31: warning: 'struct mail_namespace' declared inside parameter list autocreate-plugin.c:31: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want autocreate-plugin.c:33: warning: 'struct mail_namespace' declared inside parameter list autocreate-plugin.c: In function 'autocreate_mailboxes': autocreate-plugin.c:43: warning: implicit declaration of function 'mail_namespace_find' autocreate-plugin.c:43: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast autocreate-plugin.c:45: warning: implicit declaration of function 'mail_storage_mailbox_create' autocreate-plugin.c:45: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type autocreate-plugin.c:46: error: 'FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function) autocreate-plugin.c:46: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once autocreate-plugin.c:46: error: for each function it appears in.) autocreate-plugin.c:49: warning: implicit declaration of function 'i_snprintf' autocreate-plugin.c: At top level: autocreate-plugin.c:54: warning: 'struct mail_namespace' declared inside parameter list autocreate-plugin.c: In function 'autosubscribe_mailboxes': autocreate-plugin.c:64: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast autocreate-plugin.c:66: warning: implicit declaration of function 'mailbox_list_set_subscribed' autocreate-plugin.c:66: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type autocreate-plugin.c:66: error: 'TRUE' undeclared (first use in this function) autocreate-plugin.c: At top level: autocreate-plugin.c:74: warning: 'struct mail_namespace' declared inside parameter list autocreate-plugin.c: In function 'autocreate_mail_namespaces_created': autocreate-plugin.c:77: warning: passing argument 1 of 'autocreate_next_hook_mail_namespaces_created' from incompatible pointer type autocreate-plugin.c:79: warning: passing argument 1 of 'autocreate_mailboxes' from incompatible pointer type autocreate-plugin.c:80: warning: passing argument 1 of 'autosubscribe_mailboxes' from incompatible pointer type autocreate-plugin.c: In function 'autocreate_plugin_init': autocreate-plugin.c:89: error: 'hook_mail_namespaces_created' undeclared (first use in this function) autocreate-plugin.c: In function 'autocreate_plugin_deinit': autocreate-plugin.c:95: error: 'hook_mail_namespaces_created' undeclared (first use in this function) + cp autocreate_plugin.so /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/autocreate_plugin.so cp: autocreate_plugin.so: No such file or directory P.S. cat /tmp/patch.sh # replace * with the correct version: export DOVECOT=~/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.6/src gcc -fPIC -shared -g -Wall -I$DOVECOT -I$DOVECOT/src/lib \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-storage -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-mail \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-imap -DHAVE_CONFIG_H \ autocreate-plugin.c -o autocreate_plugin.so # $PREFIX is the installation directory, e.g. /usr/local or /usr: cp autocreate_plugin.so /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/autocreate_plugin.so -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill

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[Dovecot] Feature request: Force leave copy on server
by Bárður Háskor 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

It would be very nice, if I could force users to leave a copy on the server when using POP3. This is because users primarily use a web interface to access mail (the web interface uses IMAP), but users can also download messages using POP3. Users who forget to set the "Leave copy on server" get all their messages deleted in the web interface, and mostly they don't want (expect) this behavior. Isn't it possible to create another way to tag POP3 messages as deleted without these being deleted in IMAP? Sincerely, Bardur Haskor

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[Dovecot] Panic in version 1.1.6
by Rob Mangiafico 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hello, We have seen a few of these panics in 1.1.6. It seems to happen when pine is being used and a POP3 check occurs at the same time (but not always), but I'm not positive this is always the case: --- Nov 22 11:10:32 lexiconn2 dovecot: Panic: POP3(techjm): file istream.c: line 76 (i_stream_read): assertion failed: (_stream-> skip != _stream->pos) Nov 22 11:10:32 lexiconn2 dovecot: POP3(techjm): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x80c38f0] -> pop3 [0x80c394a] -> pop3 [0x80c324c] -> p op3(i_stream_read+0xda) [0x80c7dda] -> pop3 [0x80c9c6b] -> pop3(i_stream_read+0x2d) [0x80c7d2d] -> pop3 [0x80b9abe] -> pop3(i _stream_read+0x2d) [0x80c7d2d] -> pop3(i_stream_read_data+0x1d) [0x80c7e3d] -> pop3(message_get_body_size+0x5c) [0x80be85c] - > pop3(index_mail_init_stream+0x151) [0x8089571] -> pop3 [0x80717a2] -> pop3(index_mail_get_virtual_size+0x76) [0x80882b6] -> pop3(client_create+0x282) [0x8059c72] -> pop3(main+0x403) [0x805ba83] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x492dec] - > pop3 [0x8059351] dovecot -n # 1.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/lexiconn.com.cert ssl_key_file: /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/lexiconn.com.key ssl_cipher_list: HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 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_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mmap_disable: yes fsync_disable: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl 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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu verbose: yes passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd --- We've enabled core dumps to try and get a gdb backtrace the next time this happens. Rob

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[Dovecot] help on MailLocation please!
by Li Wei Nan 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi Everyone, I'm now using dovecot with a POP3&SMTP server called JAMES. I want dovecot and james to share the email location. Both dovecot and james can store email in mbox format. However, the james will only store mbox mail repo in a fixed dir, such as: /var/mail/ And it will naming each user's mbox repo by its name, such as /var/ mail/tom or /var/mail/peter, etc. So I have to config dovecot for it to fit the situation. So I config dovecot as: mail_location = mbox:/var/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u The inbox get worked now, dovecot can read the mbox file created by james correctly. However, dovecot make each user's Trash, Sent in same directory: /var/mail. So it means all the user just have one Trash, Sent. I've read the Wiki carefully and tried some different config and still cannot get it work. Can anyone gives me some advice on it? Thanks a lot! What I hope to achieve is: - Let dovecot read everyone's inbox at: /var/mail/%u (it's a mbox file, not dir) - Let dovecot store everyone's Trash, Sent in /var/mail/%u/mail Thanks in advance. - Li Wei Nan

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[Dovecot] lda logging directive does'nt work...
by Jean-Claude Barbet 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi all, I'm using Postfix + Dovecot with system users (/etc/passwd and NIS) + deliver + cmusieve; Here are some relevant lines in conf files : /etc/postfix/main.cf ... mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver ... /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ... protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)lri.fr mail_plugins = cmusieve deliver_log_format = msig=%m : Subject=%s : From=%f :%$ } ... I just want deliver to log more than default format...like procmail... but nothing happens...the line 'deliver_log_format' seems to be ignored. Any idea ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot POP3 problem: Authentication suddenly fails until dovecot gets restarted
by Carsten Buchenau 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi, I am running dovecot with postfix and OTRS2 on a fresh Ubuntu 8.10 Server system. OTRS2 is configured to poll new email to otrs-incoming@localhost via POP3 every 5 minutes. It works, but after approximately 20 hours it suddenly stops working and only a restart of dovecot helps. The outage starts at different times during night (00:15 on Thursday, 1:15 on Friday, 3:20 on Saturday). I checked all cron-jobs, but couldn't find anything matching. Anyone any idea? Thanks, carsten Mail.log: Nov 29 07:10:13 wombat dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(otrs-incoming,127.0.0.1): pam_start() failed: Critical error - immediate abort Nov 29 07:10:14 wombat dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<otrs-incoming>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Dovecot.conf: protocols = pop3 pop3s log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol managesieve { sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage=~/sieve } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { } /etc/pam.d/dovecot: #%PAM-1.0 @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session Manual test of POP3 Authentication: root@localhost:/etc/pam.d# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user otrs-incoming +OK pass XXXXXX -ERR Temporary authentication failure.

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[Dovecot] Relay-Ctrl, error message
by Wouter van der Schagt 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hi all, I'm trying to get Relay-Ctrl to work (as explained on http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PopBSMTPAndDovecot) however when i add: mail_executable: /usr/local/bin/envdir /etc/relay-ctrl /usr/local/bin/relay-ctrl-chdir /usr/local/bin/dovecot-settcpremoteip /usr/local/bin/relay-ctrl-allow /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap to /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf I get the following error message when doing dovecot -n Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 126: Expecting '=' Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf So I'm guessing i misplaced the line somewhere in the config file. Where should it be placed? Does it work for both pop3 and imap? Sincerely, - Wouter van der Schagt

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[Dovecot] Cache details
by Warren Baker 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hi All, Is there any specific details we can extract from dovecots authentication cache (besides Authentication cache hits)? Reason i am asking is because we had a mysql user account which was returning a unknown user account. Fixing the one value in the sql result didnt have any affect and Dovecot was still returning an auth failure for the user after 24 hours had elapsed, even though auth_cache_negative_ttl was set to 120. Restarting Dovecot or a SIGHUP on dovecot-auth sorted out the problem. It would be useful if we could interrogate the cache somehow to see what cache entry is been hit. Auth cache settings are as follows: auth_cache_size = 51200 auth_cache_ttl = 2100 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 120 Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Warren

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