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[Dovecot] password issue
by gishaust 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

hi everyone I am new to dovecot and I am having a little trouble I am getting this error in my mail.log I have google it and can't find a response, Aug 25 08:14:24 mta dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to 127.0.0.1 (postfix) Aug 25 08:14:24 mta dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(sal(a)prt.com,127.0.0.1): Password query failed: Table 'postfix.password' doesn't exist Aug 25 08:17:22 mta dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<sal(a)prt.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The error comes when I telnet in Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user sal(a)prt.com +OK pass ******** -ERR Temporary authentication failure. This is the current setup. dovecot -n, # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/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 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes 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 Mysql database for email, host=127.0.0.1 dbname=postfix user=postfix password= ********* Table =mailbox User is = user Column password = password vim /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf has the following connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=postfix user=postfix password=******* default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT mailbox as user, password FROM password WHERE email='%u';

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[Dovecot] 1.1.2: imap crash with SIGSEGV
by Ralf Hildebrandt 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

And the fourth and last one 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/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Core was generated by `/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 22723] #0 array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x9feabec, idx=0) at array.c:11 11 if (pos >= array->buffer->used) { #0 array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x9feabec, idx=0) at array.c:11 #1 0x080c4788 in mail_index_sync_ext_reset (ctx=0xbf94fa80, u=0xbf94f9f0) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:518 #2 0x080b65f9 in mail_index_sync_record (ctx=0xbf94fa80, hdr=0x9fead40, data=0x9fed0e0) at mail-index-sync-update.c:546 #3 0x080b6bef in mail_index_sync_map (_map=0x9fdc648, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_HEAD, force=true) at mail-index-sync-update.c:828 #4 0x080b048f in mail_index_map (index=0x9fdc610, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_HEAD) at mail-index-map.c:953 #5 0x080acec3 in mail_index_try_open (index=0x9fdc610) at mail-index.c:290 #6 0x080ad21f in mail_index_open (index=0x9fdc610, flags=49, lock_method=FILE_LOCK_METHOD_FCNTL) at mail-index.c:354 #7 0x080a11f2 in index_storage_mailbox_open (ibox=0x9fd8e50) at index-storage.c:383 #8 0x080709ab in maildir_open (storage=0x9fd1cc0, name=0x9fd66ee "Drafts", flags=0) at maildir-storage.c:448 #9 0x08070b14 in maildir_mailbox_open (_storage=0x9fd1cc0, name=0x9fd66ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at maildir-storage.c:512 #10 0xb7eb61ca in mail_log_mailbox_open (storage=0x9fd1cc0, name=0x9fd66ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-log-plugin.c:450 #11 0xb7ec766a in quota_mailbox_open (storage=0x9fd1cc0, name=0x9fd66ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at quota-storage.c:366 #12 0x080a52b9 in mailbox_open (storage=0x9fd1cc0, name=0x9fd66ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:459 #13 0x08060cbc in cmd_select_full (cmd=0x9fd25f0, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:32 #14 0x08060ea9 in cmd_select (cmd=0x9fd25f0) at cmd-select.c:88 #15 0x0806276c in client_command_input (cmd=0x9fd25f0) at client.c:580 #16 0x08062803 in client_command_input (cmd=0x9fd25f0) at client.c:629 #17 0x08062dbd in client_handle_input (client=<value optimized out>) at client.c:670 #18 0x0806323e in client_input (client=0x9fd23a8) at client.c:725 #19 0x080dd8d0 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x9fce9b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:203 #20 0x080dcd40 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x9fce9b0) at ioloop.c:320 #21 0x0806b3aa in main (argc=) at main.c:293

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[Dovecot] 1.1.2: imap crash with SIGSEGV
by Ralf Hildebrandt 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

And another one 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/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Core was generated by `/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 22686] #0 array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x92609ec, idx=0) at array.c:11 11 if (pos >= array->buffer->used) { #0 array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x92609ec, idx=0) at array.c:11 #1 0x080c4788 in mail_index_sync_ext_reset (ctx=0xbf9dab10, u=0xbf9daa80) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:518 #2 0x080b65f9 in mail_index_sync_record (ctx=0xbf9dab10, hdr=0x9260348, data=0x9260fb8) at mail-index-sync-update.c:546 #3 0x080b6bef in mail_index_sync_map (_map=0x925f468, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_HEAD, force=true) at mail-index-sync-update.c:828 #4 0x080b048f in mail_index_map (index=0x925f430, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_HEAD) at mail-index-map.c:953 #5 0x080acec3 in mail_index_try_open (index=0x925f430) at mail-index.c:290 #6 0x080ad21f in mail_index_open (index=0x925f430, flags=49, lock_method=FILE_LOCK_METHOD_FCNTL) at mail-index.c:354 #7 0x080a11f2 in index_storage_mailbox_open (ibox=0x925ee50) at index-storage.c:383 #8 0x080709ab in maildir_open (storage=0x9257cc0, name=0x925c6ee "Drafts", flags=0) at maildir-storage.c:448 #9 0x08070b14 in maildir_mailbox_open (_storage=0x9257cc0, name=0x925c6ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at maildir-storage.c:512 #10 0xb7e411ca in mail_log_mailbox_open (storage=0x9257cc0, name=0x925c6ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-log-plugin.c:450 #11 0xb7e5266a in quota_mailbox_open (storage=0x9257cc0, name=0x925c6ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at quota-storage.c:366 #12 0x080a52b9 in mailbox_open (storage=0x9257cc0, name=0x925c6ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:459 #13 0x08060cbc in cmd_select_full (cmd=0x92585f0, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:32 #14 0x08060ea9 in cmd_select (cmd=0x92585f0) at cmd-select.c:88 #15 0x0806276c in client_command_input (cmd=0x92585f0) at client.c:580 #16 0x08062803 in client_command_input (cmd=0x92585f0) at client.c:629 #17 0x08062dbd in client_handle_input (client=<value optimized out>) at client.c:670 #18 0x0806323e in client_input (client=0x92583a8) at client.c:725 #19 0x080dd8d0 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x92549b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:203 #20 0x080dcd40 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x92549b0) at ioloop.c:320 #21 0x0806b3aa in main (argc=) at main.c:293

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[Dovecot] imap crash with sig 11, backtrace, dovecot 1.1.2
by Ralf Hildebrandt 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '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/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Core was generated by `/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 22653] #0 array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x90ac9ec, idx=0) at array.c:11 11 if (pos >= array->buffer->used) { #0 array_idx_modifiable_i (array=0x90ac9ec, idx=0) at array.c:11 #1 0x080c4788 in mail_index_sync_ext_reset (ctx=0xbfeca000, u=0xbfec9f70) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:518 #2 0x080b65f9 in mail_index_sync_record (ctx=0xbfeca000, hdr=0x90ac348, data=0x90acfb8) at mail-index-sync-update.c:546 #3 0x080b6bef in mail_index_sync_map (_map=0x90ab468, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_HEAD, force=true) at mail-index-sync-update.c:828 #4 0x080b048f in mail_index_map (index=0x90ab430, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_HEAD) at mail-index-map.c:953 #5 0x080acec3 in mail_index_try_open (index=0x90ab430) at mail-index.c:290 #6 0x080ad21f in mail_index_open (index=0x90ab430, flags=49, lock_method=FILE_LOCK_METHOD_FCNTL) at mail-index.c:354 #7 0x080a11f2 in index_storage_mailbox_open (ibox=0x90aae50) at index-storage.c:383 #8 0x080709ab in maildir_open (storage=0x90a3cc0, name=0x90a86ee "Drafts", flags=0) at maildir-storage.c:448 #9 0x08070b14 in maildir_mailbox_open (_storage=0x90a3cc0, name=0x90a86ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at maildir-storage.c:512 #10 0xb7e301ca in mail_log_mailbox_open (storage=0x90a3cc0, name=0x90a86ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-log-plugin.c:450 #11 0xb7e4166a in quota_mailbox_open (storage=0x90a3cc0, name=0x90a86ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at quota-storage.c:366 #12 0x080a52b9 in mailbox_open (storage=0x90a3cc0, name=0x90a86ee "Drafts", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:459 #13 0x08060cbc in cmd_select_full (cmd=0x90a45f0, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:32 #14 0x08060ea9 in cmd_select (cmd=0x90a45f0) at cmd-select.c:88 #15 0x0806276c in client_command_input (cmd=0x90a45f0) at client.c:580 #16 0x08062803 in client_command_input (cmd=0x90a45f0) at client.c:629 #17 0x08062dbd in client_handle_input (client=<value optimized out>) at client.c:670 #18 0x0806323e in client_input (client=0x90a43a8) at client.c:725 #19 0x080dd8d0 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x90a09b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:203 #20 0x080dcd40 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x90a09b0) at ioloop.c:320 #21 0x0806b3aa in main (argc=) at main.c:293

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[Dovecot] imap crash with signal 6 (backtrace), dovecot 1.1.2
by Ralf Hildebrandt 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '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/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 20506] #0 0xb8009424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #0 0xb8009424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7eca640 in raise () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7ecc018 in abort () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0x080d5ef5 in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:149 #4 0x080d5f62 in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x80e98ac "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbf922a24 "�r\017\b\204") at failures.c:423 #5 0x080d5919 in i_panic ( format=0x80e98ac "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:190 #6 0x080c4746 in get_ext_header (map=<value optimized out>, ext=<value optimized out>) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:131 #7 0x080c47a2 in mail_index_sync_ext_reset (ctx=0xbf922b80, u=0xbf922af0) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:524 #8 0x080b65f9 in mail_index_sync_record (ctx=0xbf922b80, hdr=0x986c970, data=0x98ad860) at mail-index-sync-update.c:546 #9 0x080b6bef in mail_index_sync_map (_map=0x986cb88, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_FILE, force=false) at mail-index-sync-update.c:828 #10 0x080b04b4 in mail_index_map (index=0x986cb50, type=MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_FILE) at mail-index-map.c:932 #11 0x080b4802 in mail_index_sync_commit (_ctx=0x984d32c) at mail-index-sync.c:755 #12 0x08074169 in maildir_sync_index_finish (_ctx=0x98280ec, failed=false, cancel=false) at maildir-sync-index.c:248 #13 0x08072ea3 in maildir_sync_context (ctx=0x98280d0, forced=<value optimized out>, find_uid=0x0, lost_files_r=0xbf922e5b) at maildir-sync.c:795 #14 0x08073038 in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x984e9e8, flags=65) at maildir-sync.c:859 #15 0x080a49a9 in mailbox_sync (box=0x984e9e8, flags=0, status_items=111, status_r=0xbf922ec8) at mail-storage.c:509 #16 0x08060ce8 in cmd_select_full (cmd=0x98345f0, readonly=false) at cmd-select.c:39 #17 0x08060ea9 in cmd_select (cmd=0x98345f0) at cmd-select.c:88 #18 0x0806276c in client_command_input (cmd=0x98345f0) at client.c:580 #19 0x08062803 in client_command_input (cmd=0x98345f0) at client.c:629 #20 0x08062dbd in client_handle_input (client=<value optimized out>) at client.c:670 #21 0x0806323e in client_input (client=0x98343a8) at client.c:725 #22 0x080dd8d0 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x98309b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:203 #23 0x080dcd40 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x98309b0) at ioloop.c:320 #24 0x0806b3aa in main (argc=) at main.c:293

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[Dovecot] namespaces...
by John Doe 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi, I am new to dovecot and I am a bit confused with how namespaces/prefixes/separators are handled by the clients and dovecot... I tried to understand the desciption from the conf file but without success. With each conf I create the following path /f1/f2 on the client (thunderbird) and get the following on the dovecot server: PREFIX= and separator=/ => .INBOX.f1.f2 + .INBOXTrash PREFIX=INBOX/ and separator=/ => .f1.f2 and no Trash PREFIX=INBOX. and separator=. => .f1.f2 and no Trash Could someone point me to some IMAP for dummy web page...? ;D Or, what is the best conf able to handle most clients? Thx, JD

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[Dovecot] Distributed indexes, maildir_copy_preserve_filename, and Microsoft
by Jack Stewart 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi, I've just completed a migration from Courier to a Dovecot 1.0.7 (patched RHE 5) which is working great, except for this weirdness of an issue that is impacting a handful of users. My question is that will turning off maildir_copy_preserve_filename help or hurt in a situation where there are multiple servers with their own local INDEX files (uidlist is shared)? The problem is that a few users on a few versions of Microsoft Mail clients are not showing a few messages. They can see the messages just fine in webmail and other, more typical, E-mail clients. I know that the right solution is to upgrade to 1.1.2 and use shared indexes. The plan is to upgrade in a month or so. In my defense, this setup was not of my making, The two things issues that might have an impact are that we have shared (NFS) maildirs on multiple servers with their own local indexes and maildir_copy_preserve_file turned on. The uidlist (CONTROL) is shared and we have sticky connections turned on in our load balancer. The vast majority of clients do not have this issue. Quite frankly I have no idea these clients are ignoring the dovecot-uidlist. Would turning off maildir_copy_preserve_filename help with this setup? Another option might be easier is to delete the users INDEX and let the clients rebuild them. Since this is only a handful of users and we are migrating to 1.1.2 anyway, my preference is to make the bare minimum of changes to help address this problem. The changes need not be perfect nor anytime more than a suggestion or preference. I just want to make things better for a little while. Many thanks in advance. ---Jack P.S. The performance improvement is amazing - anywhere from 2X to 12X depending on what metrics you are looking at. It isn't an apples to apples comparison since we upgraded the servers as well but the "old" servers are pretty powerful beasts. -- Jack Stewart jstewart(a)caltech.edu / 626-395-4690 http://www.imss.caltech.edu

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[Dovecot] Option to evaluate IMAP prefixes relative to $HOME, rather than the IMAP root?
by David McBride 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Greetings, Is there a mechanism (or relatively small source-code change) which would cause Dovecot to evaluate IMAP prefixes relative to $HOME rather than the configured IMAP root? * * * Background: We're currently migrating from a WU-IMAP mailserver configuration which stores user mail in a global NFS-exported $HOME, and we've run into well-known issues handling client-specified IMAP prefixes. If a user specifies an IMAP prefix, Dovecot evaluates the path given relative to the IMAP root path specified in mail_location, rather than resolving it relative to the user's home directory as our old WU-IMAP installation would do. (For example: if a user has been keeping their mail in $HOME/foobar, and mail_location's folder path is set to %h/mail, then when that user comes to retrieve their mail with an IMAP prefix set to "~/foobar", then Dovecot will attempt to return the contents of the folder $HOME/mail/~/foobar -- which doesn't exist -- rather than $HOME/foobar.) At the moment, we have several hidden namespaces set up to support various common user-side variations -- "mail/", "Mail/", "~/Mail/", etc. -- each with a different custom mail_location string. Whilst this works for these common cases, it's fairly ugly, and results in extra empty directories appearing in users' $HOME. If there was some mechanism for telling Dovecot to evaluate IMAP prefixes relative to $HOME rather than the mail folder root specified in mail_location, that would provide us with a much neater and general-purpose solution. (I was hoping that setting full_filesystem_access=yes would do this, but it only relaxes the normal access permissions.) Cheers, David -- David McBride <dwm(a)tastycake.net>

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not compiling with pam
by Jorge Ruao 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi, I'm new here in the list so Hello to everyone! I'm compiling dovecot 1.0.10 with pam support in SLES 9 but i'm getting errors in config.log and it won't compile with pam support. Here are the results: s1:~/dovecot-1.0.10# ./configure --with-pam | grep pam checking for pam_start in -lpam... no and in config.log: configure:28830: checking for pam_start in -lpam configure:28865: gcc -o conftest -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast conftest.c -lpam >&5 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpam I have all libpam libraries in /lib and ldconfig is giving ok: s1:~/dovecot-1.0.10# ldconfig -v | grep pam libpam.so.0 -> libpam.so.0.77 libpam_misc.so.0 -> libpam_misc.so.0.77 libpamc.so.0 -> libpamc.so.0.77 Any help or directions would be great! Thanks, Jorge

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[Dovecot] assertion failed
by CJ Keist 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

I haven't heard anything on this bug. Is this a bug? I'm using dovecot 1.1.2 with the following patch applied: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/d674c05d725d Another section from my logs. I know the backtrace is just numbers, let me know how to compile to get more useful information if you need it. So far no one is beating down my door, so I don't think users are seeing any ill effects. But I would sleep better knowing why it's happening. Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.crit] Panic: IMAP(rhjohn): file index-sync.c: line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: (seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid))Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(rhjohn): Raw backtrace: 0x95f98 -> 0x959f8 -> 0x6278c -> 0x627d0 -> 0x48d14 -> 0x4981c -> 0x41db0 -> 0x72378 -> 0x637d8 -> 0x66200 -> 0x22594 -> 0x266f8 -> 0x277ec -> 0x277a8 -> 0x27b04 -> 0x27d04 -> 0x9d3f4 -> 0x9ccd4 -> 0x2ff58 -> 0x21398 Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 4805 (imap) killed with signal 6 Aug 21 16:19:17 goku postfix/smtpd[3421]: [ID 197553 mail.info] connect from unknown[190.152.60.9] Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=129.82.224.16 rip=129.82.53.12 lport=993 rport=49269 Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth-worker(default): pam(rhjohn,129.82.53.12): lookup service=dovecot Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth-worker(default): pam(rhjohn,129.82.53.12): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=rhjohn Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): master in: REQUEST 45963 6520 1 Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth-worker(default): passwd(rhjohn,129.82.53.12): lookup Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): master out: USER 45963 rhjohn system_user=rhjohn uid=19615 gid=21 home=/top/academic/Atmos/people/rhjohn/home Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<rhjohn>, method=PLAIN, rip=129.82.53.12, lip=129.82.224.16, TLS Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap lip=129.82.224.16 rip=67.223.73.37 lport=143 rport=54470 resp=<hidden> Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth-worker(default): pam(dvivanco,67.223.73.37): lookup service=dovecot Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth-worker(default): pam(dvivanco,67.223.73.37): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(rhjohn): Effective uid=19615, gid=21, home=/top/academic/Atmos/people/rhjohn/home Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(rhjohn): mbox: data=/top/academic/Atmos/people/rhjohn/home/:INBOX=/userM/mail/rhjohn Aug 21 16:19:17 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(rhjohn): fs: root=/top/academic/Atmos/people/rhjohn/home, index=, control=, inbox=/userM/mail/rhjohn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just switched over to dovecot 1.1.2 on our live system last night. I'm seeing the following errors in the logs: Aug 19 10:01:03 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.crit] Panic: IMAP(elevin): file in dex-sync.c: line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: (seq_range _exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid)) I did apply the assertion fix that Timo sent out. # 1.1.2: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 3072). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings base_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: MEDIUM:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Cyrus ready. login_max_processes_count: 1024 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/lib/postfix/private/auth mode: 438 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot//auth-master mode: 384 - -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIqvAiA29OFr7C6jcRAlbPAJsHSPO0JvyUHGOBUJ1E8NhuT9tM5wCgnOZ2 NW9OeL6tSORhGleWSX63uPI= =mw7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot from inetd, when it playing like LDA also
by mike＠mrgfd.org.ua 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hello Dovecot guys! I want to play with dovecot login processes invoked from inetd superserver, but cannot run auth worker for postfix sasl and deliver process in this case. Any ideas? WBR, mike

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[Dovecot] Few problem with pop3
by Roberto Tagliaferri - Tosnet srl 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi, i've upgraded from 1.0.5 to 1.1.2 on 2 server and work fine for user that grab email on client, but some customer (that leave the email on server) have 2 problems. Some client can't read new mail: dovecot: Aug 19 11:00:46 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<agenzia>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx, lip=91.102.48.12 dovecot: Aug 19 11:00:46 Info: POP3(agenzia): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/21, size=1200006 dovecot: Aug 19 11:01:22 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<agenzia>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx, lip=91.102.48.12 dovecot: Aug 19 11:01:23 Info: POP3(agenzia): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/22, size=1219860 dovecot: Aug 19 11:04:21 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<agenzia>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx, lip=91.102.48.12 dovecot: Aug 19 11:04:22 Info: POP3(agenzia): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/25, size=1277510 other client reread old email dovecot: Aug 18 13:09:30 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/9885, del=0/28, size=270604 dovecot: Aug 18 13:21:15 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/9885, del=0/28, size=270604 dovecot: Aug 18 16:06:10 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/1218, del=0/28, size=270604 dovecot: Aug 18 16:09:08 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/1218, del=0/28, size=270604 dovecot: Aug 18 17:09:49 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/2479, del=0/29, size=298926 dovecot: Aug 18 17:12:18 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=2/2513, del=0/29, size=298926 dovecot: Aug 18 17:32:59 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/1321, del=0/29, size=298926 dovecot: Aug 18 17:58:46 Info: POP3(soggiorno): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/1321, del=0/29, size=298926 Dovecot on linux, ext3 fs (the 2 server is similar, one with real users and one with virtual users on pgsql), only pop3 (with mbox file) root@mx:~# dovecot -n # 1.1.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/poplog info_log_path: /var/log/poplog protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_processes_count: 4 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds: oe-ns-eoh outlook-no-nuls auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postdrop root@smtp:~# dovecot -n # 1.1.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/poplog info_log_path: /var/log/poplog protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_processes_count: 4 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds: oe-ns-eoh outlook-no-nuls auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postdrop -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-antispam has some kind of bug
by Johannes Berg 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

> My dspam users has the email as username somthing(a)domain.com and in > dovecot.conf i need to specify the user when training, is there a > way to get the resiptient address in the dovecot.conf? i am only able to > get %u ie the username ;-( > > Could you patch the antispam plugin to be able to take then resiptient > as dspam user? ie the mail address , you can have a option in dovecot > that says use resiptient address as user or something > > it would be great if you had time to check this out ;-) TBH, I don't, and I also don't see why you'd need the recipient address, can't you just build it like %u@%d or %u(a)example.com or something? johannes

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[Dovecot] dovecot-antispam: Failed to read mail beginning, Next message unexpectedly lost
by Jiri Novosad 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hello, I'm trying to configure the dovecot-antispam plugin. Now I've run into a problem: whenever I try to move/copy a message in/from the spam mailbox, Thunderbird (and also Sylpheed, haven't tried anything else) says: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Failed to read mail beginning. and in the logs I get: dovecot: Aug 07 10:41:23 Error: IMAP(username): Next message unexpectedly lost from 337928 dovecot: Aug 07 10:41:23 Error: IMAP(username): Next message unexpectedly lost from 337928 The message is not moved/copied. My config (dovecot -n): base_dir: /var/run/dovecot_test/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/test_log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/test_info_log protocols: pop3s imaps pop3 imap listen(default): *:10143 listen(imap): *:10143 listen(pop3): *:10110 ssl_listen(default): *:10993 ssl_listen(imap): *:10993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:10995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/anxur.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/anxur.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 24 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot_test/login login_executable(default): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: HI! login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_location: mbox:/home/%u/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/home/%u/mail/.imap mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: no mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: no dbox_rotate_days: 0 mail_executable(default): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): antispam mail_plugins(imap): antispam mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2//lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 20 imap_max_line_length(default): 131072 imap_max_line_length(imap): 131072 imap_max_line_length(pop3): 65536 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(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: gssapi plain executable: /packages/run.64/dovecot-1.1.2/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth krb5_keytab: /etc/krb5.imap verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot userdb: driver: passwd plugin: antispam_spam: mailbox.spam antispam_trash: trash;Trash;Deleted Items antispam_mail_spam: spam(a)mysite.org antispam_mail_notspam: notspam(a)mysite.org antispam_mail_sendmail: /home/username/fake_sendmail Dovecot is version 1.1.2, dovecot-antispam is the latest snapshot. Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2, x86_64, filesystem is ext3 (on lvm). Attached is the strace -p of the session. The code seems to be this in i_stream_raw_mbox_read: if (stream->istream.v_offset - rstream->hdr_offset + new_pos > rstream->mail_size) { /* istream_raw_mbox_set_next_offset() used invalid cached next_offset? */ i_error("Next message unexpectedly lost from %"PRIuUOFF_T, rstream->hdr_offset + rstream->mail_size); rstream->eof = TRUE; rstream->corrupted = TRUE; return -1; } If I comment it out (after I backup my mail), everything seems to work as expected. Jiri Novosad epoll_wait(6, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=7035872, u64=7035872}}}, 4, 492) = 1 gettimeofday({1218008692, 930362}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 930446}, NULL) = 0 read(0, "452 uid copy 4 \"mailbox.", 24) = 24 gettimeofday({1218008692, 930610}, NULL) = 0 epoll_wait(6, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=7035872, u64=7035872}}}, 4, 423) = 1 gettimeofday({1218008692, 930806}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 930903}, NULL) = 0 read(0, "spam\"\r\n", 4087) = 7 stat("/home/username/mail/mailbox.spam", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/mailbox.spam", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/mailbox.spam", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 931707}, NULL) = 0 access("/home/username/mail/mailbox.spam", R_OK|W_OK) = 0 open("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/mailbox.spam/dovecot.index.log", O_RDWR) = 10 fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=10908, ...}) = 0 pread(10, "\1\0\30\0\373\264\226H\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\364\334\0\0|\"\230H", 24, 0) = 24 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/mailbox.spam/dovecot.index.log.2", 0x7fffd3bb6f50) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/mailbox.spam/dovecot.index", O_RDWR) = 11 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl(11, F_SETLKW, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1136, ...}) = 0 pread(11, "\7\2x\0x\1\0\0(\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\373\264\226H\0\0\0\0\373\264\226H\232\10\0\0"..., 4096, 0) = 1136 fcntl(11, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/mailbox.spam/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=10908, ...}) = 0 fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=10908, ...}) = 0 pread(10, "\200\200\200\204 \0\0\20P\0\4\0\322P\231H\200\200\200\204 \0\0\0200\0\4\0\232\10\0\0"..., 1024, 10204) = 704 pread(10, "", 1024, 10908) = 0 mkdir("/tmp/antispam-mail-GYlEb4", 0700) = 0 mkdir("/tmp/antispam-mail-Rb3HAN", 0700) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 933917}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 934014}, NULL) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/sent-mail", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2143, ...}) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 934308}, NULL) = 0 alarm(5) = 0 fcntl(19, F_SETLKW, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 alarm(0) = 5 stat("/home/username/mail/sent-mail", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2143, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fstat(19, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2143, ...}) = 0 pread(19, "\nFrom popel(a)mysite.org Thu Jul "..., 4096, 551) = 1592 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 935474}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 71, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 71 gettimeofday({1218008692, 936290}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 67, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 67 gettimeofday({1218008692, 937117}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 70, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 70 gettimeofday({1218008692, 937848}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 74, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 74 gettimeofday({1218008692, 938501}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 66, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 66 gettimeofday({1218008692, 939236}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 69, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 69 gettimeofday({1218008692, 939981}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 68, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 68 gettimeofday({1218008692, 940611}, NULL) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 sendto(7, "<14>Aug 6 09:44:52 imap: antisp"..., 87, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 87 gettimeofday({1218008692, 941375}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 941511}, NULL) = 0 open("/home/username/mail/mailbox.spam", O_RDWR) = 12 fstat(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 941777}, NULL) = 0 alarm(5) = 0 fcntl(12, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 alarm(0) = 5 stat("/home/username/mail/mailbox.spam", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/mailbox.spam", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 alarm(180) = 0 fcntl(10, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 alarm(0) = 180 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/mailbox.spam/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=10908, ...}) = 0 fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=10908, ...}) = 0 fcntl(10, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/mailbox.spam/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=10908, ...}) = 0 fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=10908, ...}) = 0 fstat(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 lseek(12, 140168, SEEK_SET) = 140168 read(12, "\n", 1) = 1 fstat(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 fstat(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140169, ...}) = 0 pread(12, "\n", 4096, 140168) = 1 pread(12, "", 4095, 140169) = 0 pread(19, "Return-Path: <popel(a)mysite.org>\n"..., 4096, 600) = 1543 pread(19, "", 2553, 2143) = 0 pread(19, "", 2553, 2143) = 0 pread(19, "", 2553, 2143) = 0 write(12, "From popel(a)mysite.org Thu Jul 3"..., 1593) = 1593 pwrite(12, "\nContent-Length: 581", 20, 141159) = 20 creat("/tmp/antispam-mail-GYlEb4/0", 0600) = 13 lseek(13, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat(13, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 write(13, "\1\0\0\0", 4) = 4 pread(12, "From popel(a)mysite.org Thu Jul 3"..., 4095, 140169) = 1593 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 write(2, "\1ENext message unexpectedly lost"..., 45) = 45 pread(12, "\nFrom popel(a)mysite.org Thu Jul "..., 4096, 140168) = 1594 stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2246, ...}) = 0 write(2, "\1ENext message unexpectedly lost"..., 45) = 45 close(13) = 0 close(13) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) rmdir("/tmp/antispam-mail-Rb3HAN") = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fcntl(19, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 alarm(0) = 0 write(12, "\n", 1) = 1 ftruncate(12, 140169) = 0 fcntl(12, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 alarm(0) = 0 unlink("/tmp/antispam-mail-GYlEb4/0") = 0 rmdir("/tmp/antispam-mail-GYlEb4") = 0 close(12) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008692, 946718}, NULL) = 0 write(1, "452 NO Failed to read mail begin"..., 38) = 38 gettimeofday({1218008692, 946937}, NULL) = 0 epoll_wait(6, {}, 4, 407) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008693, 353573}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008693, 353660}, NULL) = 0 epoll_wait(6, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=7035872, u64=7035872}}}, 4, 5000) = 1 gettimeofday({1218008694, 161166}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008694, 161210}, NULL) = 0 read(0, "453 IDLE\r\n", 4080) = 10 gettimeofday({1218008694, 161352}, NULL) = 0 inotify_add_watch(18, "/home/username/mail/sent-mail", IN_MODIFY|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF) = 123 epoll_ctl(6, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 18, {EPOLLIN|EPOLLPRI|EPOLLERR|EPOLLHUP, {u32=7144768, u64=7144768}}) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/sent-mail", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2143, ...}) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008694, 161636}, NULL) = 0 epoll_ctl(6, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, 0, {0, {u32=7035872, u64=7035872}}) = 0 epoll_ctl(6, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 0, {EPOLLIN|EPOLLPRI|EPOLLERR|EPOLLHUP, {u32=7035872, u64=7035872}}) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008694, 161895}, NULL) = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/sent-mail", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2143, ...}) = 0 alarm(180) = 0 fcntl(8, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 alarm(0) = 180 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fcntl(8, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 mkdir("/tmp/antispam-mail-3WExWz", 0700) = 0 rmdir("/tmp/antispam-mail-3WExWz") = 0 stat("/home/username/mail/.imap/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2088, ...}) = 0 write(1, "+ idling\r\n", 10) = 10 gettimeofday({1218008694, 164036}, NULL) = 0 epoll_wait(6, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=7144768, u64=7144768}}}, 4, 4189) = 1 gettimeofday({1218008694, 164168}, NULL) = 0 read(18, "z\0\0\0\0\200\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 32768) = 16 gettimeofday({1218008694, 164332}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1218008694, 164400}, NULL) = 0 epoll_wait(6, ^C <unfinished ...>

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[Dovecot] dovecot panic after upgrade 1.0.15 to 1.1.2
by Eric Rostetter 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

I recently upgraded dovecot from 1.0.15 to 1.1.2 and since then I am getting the following types of things in the logs: Aug 21 17:23:13 mail1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<myuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.16.78.20, lip=172.16.78.22 Aug 21 17:24:01 mail1 dovecot: Panic: IMAP(myuser): file index-sync.c: line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: (seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid)) Aug 21 17:24:01 mail1 dovecot: IMAP(myuser): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80d25bb] -> imap [0x80d2def] -> imap [0x80d2719] -> imap [0x809edb8] -> imap(index_mailbox_set_recent_seq+0x46) [0x809ee06] -> imap [0x8083183] -> imap [0x8083621] -> imap [0x8083c3c] -> imap(mbox_sync+0x25) [0x80840d5] -> imap [0x807b993] -> imap(mail_index_transaction_commit+0x51) [0x80aee31] -> imap(index_transaction_commit+0x52) [0x809fe32] -> imap(mailbox_transaction_commit_get_uids+0x34) [0x80a2874] -> imap(cmd_copy+0x16a) [0x805b19a] -> imap [0x806068e] -> imap [0x8060536] -> imap [0x80606ea] -> imap [0x8060791] -> imap(client_input+0x67) [0x8060897] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x112) [0x80daa92] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x2f) [0x80d9e4f] -> imap(main+0x61) [0x8068d81] -> /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xda) [0x12679a] -> imap(__fxstat64+0x6d) [0x8059ed1] Did I miss something in the upgrade process, or is this a bug that has yet to be fixed? This seems to be happening to many various users for various reasons. But I can verify for Andreas M. Kirchwitz who noted the other day that one of the easiest way to produce it seems to be "saving" or "moving" between folders in (Al)Pine... If Timo wants, I can send the dovecot.(index|index.cache|index.log) files for when this happens, but I would need to know what to send (both the folder being moved from and folder being moved to, or just one of them) and anything else needed, and the email to send them to. Sending the folder itself might be problematic, but might be possible. If we can't get this resolved by early next week, I might have to downgrade back to the previous version... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

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[Dovecot] Simplest (static?) build & config for loopback access?
by FZiegler 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

I am installing Dovecot for the sole purpose of maintaining a local mail store that I could 1) manage with any client; 2) keep duplicated on several machines, using Unison; 3) hopefully, index using Spotlight (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mh-e.user/1308 ...). In particular, I have no intention to allow connections from anywhere but localhost. I've followed the instructions at http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless and it all seems to work quite well, but I'm not sure about 3 things: 1) Initially Dovecot would not respond to Thunderbird ("Could not connect to server localhost; the connection was refused"). Eventually, a "Trying ::1..." in the telnet log (see below) made me find hidden pref "network.dns.disableIPv6" and set it to FALSE. Which solves the problem -- but is this really needed, or have I done something wrong? 2) The Dovecot I built on OS X 10.4 appears to work fine when copied on another Mac running 10.5. Now, I'd love to avoid installing developer tools on both machines, but I fear this an illusion (some libraries are changing under us, e.g. libiconv.2.2.0.dylib --> libiconv.2.4.0.dylib). Does this mean I should try a static build? If so, what are the flags and how do I go about specifying a minimal set of libraries to include for my purposes? 3) Probably offtopic here, but has anyone seen a better way to index mail in Spotlight than just as plain text? E.g. to hook up Apple's importer (Mail.mdimporter in /System/Library/Spotlight) or Thunderbird's (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290057) which I guess can better deal with quoted-printable and other encodings? Thanks in advance; I include my compilation and config data below. Francois Z. ------------------ mini:~ fz$ curl -O http://www.dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.2.tar.gz mini:~ fz$ tar xzf dovecot-1.1.2.tar.gz mini:~ fz$ cd dovecot-1.1.2 mini:~/dovecot-1.1.2 fz$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/sw mini:~/dovecot-1.1.2 fz$ make mini:~/dovecot-1.1.2 fz$ make install mini:~ fz$ cd mini:~ fz$ sw/sbin/dovecot Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings mini:~ fz$ telnet localhost 10143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. . login fz ******** . OK Logged in. . list "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" . OK List completed. . logout * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. mini:~ fz$ sw/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.2: /Volumes/Home/FZ/sw/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings log_path: /Volumes/Home/FZ/Library/Logs/Dovecot/error.log info_log_path: /Volumes/Home/FZ/Library/Logs/Dovecot/info.log listen: localhost:10143 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /Volumes/Home/FZ/sw/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /Volumes/Home/FZ/sw/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: fz login_chroot: no mail_location: maildir:~/Library/Maildir auth default: user: fz passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /Volumes/Home/FZ/sw/etc/dovecot.passwd userdb: driver: passwd mini:~ fz$

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[Dovecot] POP3 UID file problem
by naslov naslov 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hello. I upgraded from RHRL4 to RHEL5 and my dovecot version changed from dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4 to dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5. I also transferred all /home directories of users. The problem is that users have POP3 mail client set that it leaves mail on mailserver for 30 days. When they try to download messages from new server, client (Thinderbird) want to download all messages for those 30 days (he of course already has all those messages..). I suspect UID POP3 database index file format has changed.. How to "convert" dovecot 0.99 POP3 UID files to those used in newer version or how to go around that? Thanks for answering, naslov [root@mercury5 INBOX]# dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Quota plugin
by Thiago Monaco Papageorgiou 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi! I have some questions about quota plugin. I have taken quota-maildir as example. What does the function maildir_quota_root_get_resources? When it is called? I have tested including some log messages, but it wasn't appears in the log file. When dovecot calls this function? It is an important function? Regards / / -- Thiago Monaco Papageorgiou <thiago.monaco(a)corp.terra.com.br> ________________________ Terra Networks Brasil S/A Tel: +55 (51) 3284-4274

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Re: [Dovecot] Experience moving mailboxes from Dovecot 0.99.14 to Dovecot 1.07 => Improvement possible
by Eric Rostetter 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Quoting Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net>: Just to keep the list up-to-date in case any one is cruising the archives... > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:02:57AM -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: >> Quoting Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net>: >> >>>> Anyone know about Dovecot 1.1.x rpms for Centos/RHEL 3.x? I still have not found any, but I was able to rebuild them (see below). >>> You could try to rebuild from ATrpms' src.rpm, but to spare some >>> trouble this is what I had with 1.1.rc4 4 months ago: >> >> I tried this, and it failed due to incompatible tools versions (autoconf, >> libtool, etc). After upgrading the tools to: automake14-1.4p6 automake-1.9.2 automake15-1.5 autoconf-2.59 libtool-1.5.6 libtool-libs-1.5.6 And disabling a few features I don't use (MySQL, etc) I was able to get the ATrpms Centos 4 dovecot 1.1.2 to build and run on CentOS 3. See my next message for the nasty results of doing so... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!

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Re: [Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?
by Blake Carver 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Thanks Kenneth On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: >The best you can do here is to query the database to see if the > files it knows about match those on the disk. For that, use "rpm -V -v > dovecot". That does a verbose verify and tells you what files it knows about > have been changed in some way. I guess I'm not quite sure how to interpret this to help me figure out my problem, there are changes rpm reports, does this mean that an RPM was installed but so was a source package? rpm -V -v dovecot ........ c /etc/dovecot.conf ........ c /etc/pam.d/dovecot ........ c /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf S.5....T c /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot ........ /usr/lib/dovecot ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_quota_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_zlib_plugin.a ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_zlib_plugin.la ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_zlib_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.a ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.la ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_trash_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lda ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_acl_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_quota_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib02_trash_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.a ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.la ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_convert_plugin.a ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_convert_plugin.la ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_convert_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_quota_plugin.a ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_quota_plugin.la ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_quota_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_trash_plugin.a ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_trash_plugin.la ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_trash_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so ........ /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_quota_plugin.so ........ /usr/libexec/dovecot ........ /usr/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-reply ........ /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver prelink: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dict: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/libexec/dovecot/dict prelink: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth ........ /usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper ........ /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap prelink: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login ........ /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 prelink: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login ........ /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog prelink: /usr/libexec/dovecot/ssl-build-param: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/libexec/dovecot/ssl-build-param ........ /usr/sbin/dovecot prelink: /usr/sbin/dovecotpw: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/sbin/dovecotpw ........ /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0 ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/REDHAT-FAQ.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/USE-WIKI-INSTEAD ........ /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/UW-to-Dovecot-Migration ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/UW-to-Dovecot-Migration/maildir-migration.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/UW-to-Dovecot-Migration/migrate-folders ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/UW-to-Dovecot-Migration/migrate-users ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/UW-to-Dovecot-Migration/perfect_maildir.pl ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/auth-protocol.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/auth.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/configuration.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/design.txt ........ /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/examples ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/examples/dovecot-ldap.conf ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/examples/dovecot-sql.conf ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/examples/mkcert.sh ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/index.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/mail-storages.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/multiaccess.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/nfs.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/securecoding.txt ........ d /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/variables.txt ........ /var/lib/dovecot ........ /var/run/dovecot ........ /var/run/dovecot/login

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[Dovecot] dovecot bug - kevent(EV_DELETE, 9)
by Mail.ru 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Sorry for my english. FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE dovecot-1.1.2_1 (from ports with LDAP) AD LDAP на Win 2003 SP2 (work via GK) CPU 2xIntel XEON NFS not used LDAP part of dovecot.conf (if you need all file, l'll send it): auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = nobody count = 1 ssl_require_client_cert = no ssl_username_from_cert = no #Postfix Auth socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } Whole dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = 192.168.8.5:3268 192.168.8.6:3268 dn = CN=SomeUser,OU=SomeOU,DC=domain,DC=ru dnpass = password tls = no debug_level = 0 auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = DC=domain,DC=ru deref = never scope = subtree user_filter = (&(mail=%u)(objectclass=user)(memberOf=CN=Mail,OU=SomeOU,DC=domain,DC=ru)) pass_filter = (&(mail=%u)(objectclass=user)(memberOf=CN=Mail,OU=SomeOU,DC=domain,DC=ru)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT My problem. dovecot works fine with AD! but i have this in logs (This not nice, but no more): Aug 14 02:21:03 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting Aug 14 02:21:03 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): kevent(EV_DELETE, 9) failed: Bad file descriptor Aug 14 02:36:04 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting Aug 14 02:36:04 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): kevent(EV_DELETE, 9) failed: Bad file descriptor Aug 14 02:51:04 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting Aug 14 02:51:04 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): kevent(EV_DELETE, 9) failed: Bad file descriptor Aug 14 03:06:05 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting Aug 14 03:06:05 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): kevent(EV_DELETE, 9) failed: Bad file descriptor Aug 14 03:21:05 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting Aug 14 03:21:05 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): kevent(EV_DELETE, 9) failed: Bad file descriptor Aug 14 03:36:06 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting Aug 14 03:36:06 somecomp dovecot: auth(default): kevent(EV_DELETE, 9) failed: Bad file descriptor docecot was launched with debug_level = -1 in dovecot.conf. If you need this log (it's very big) - i send it too. But i don't see in it something new (dovecot check connection when it lost and succesefully reconnecting to AD LDAP). I want to know: What this event means? Can i fix it and what to fix?

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[Dovecot] TECRA-A9 -- devcot LDA/sendmail
by dovecot＠guice.ath.cx 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 i386 --------------- sendmail -d0.1 Version 8.14.2 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG ------------------ dovecot-1.0.7 dovecot-sieve-1.0.2 _______________________ IMAP-UW was previously used. ISSUE-1: Unable to get new mail delivered to the Dovecot generated ~/Maildir/folders. The mail continues be delivered to the standard /var/mail/<user-name>. Ofcourse, until I get the aforementioned functioning, I'm unable to experience the Dovecot-sieve. With focus on the above issue, my dovecot-conf has mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda mail_plugins = mail_plugins = cmusieve With the above four (4) lines in the dovecot.conf the mail continues to find its way to /var/mail/user-name. After which I find this -- http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail which did not work for us. New mail continues to get delivered to /var/mail/user-name. We find another resource of information to help get this working; http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-April/021448.html -- while it looks promising it opened up a whole new issue (see below) --not to mention it too was not able to deliver our mail to ~/Maildir ... mail continues to get delivered to /var/mail/usr-name. ISSUE-1a: The following text was generated while trying to resolve issue-1 (above): The short version is after generating another hostname.cf 'plugins' and/or the plugin directory was not found during two (2) attempts of starting and restarting sendmail. On the third attempt the directory and its files were magically found; the plugin directory and its files were always there. - WORKSTATION# make install restart /usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.mc > /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.cf install -m 444 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf install -m 444 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.submit.cf /etc/mail/submit.cf Restarting: sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue. WORKSTATION# Aug 19 03:43:09 WORKSTATION deliver(email): Plugin mail_plugins not found from directory /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda ----- WORKSTATION# make restart Restarting: sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue. WORKSTATION# Aug 19 03:43:41 WORKSTATION deliver(email): Plugin mail_plugins not found from directory /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda ------- WORKSTATION# ll /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda total 272 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 30 2007 lib01_acl_plugin.so -> ../lib01_a cl_plugin.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Nov 30 2007 lib10_quota_plugin.so -> ../lib10 _quota_plugin.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Nov 30 2007 lib11_trash_plugin.so -> ../lib11 _trash_plugin.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26 Nov 30 2007 lib20_convert_plugin.so -> ../lib 20_convert_plugin.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 27 Nov 30 2007 lib20_mail_log_plugin.so -> ../li b20_mail_log_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 151292 Nov 30 2007 lib90_cmusieve_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 909 Nov 30 2007 lib90_cmusieve_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 123073 Nov 30 2007 lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so --------- WORKSTATION# make restart Restarting: sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue. WORKSTATION# make install restart install -m 444 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf install -m 444 /etc/mail/WORKSTATION.submit.cf /etc/mail/submit.cf Restarting: sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue ISSUE-2: Next is the converting, and moving, of existing mail from /var/mail/<user-name> (file) to the newly generated ~/Maildir/folders. NOTE: I've seen a few files on or linked to the Dovecot wiki page but, I'm a bit reluctant to try them because of directions/instructions I followed in the past with regards to LDA/sendmail that appears to either be incorrect or the author assumes the reader has prior knowledge (we don't have this knowledge); in addition the article appeared to be Red Hat specific. We would like to resolve all of the above with some level of authority. We are not programmers and can barely script so please go easy with the jargon/termonology Apologies for the long wind.

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-antispam has some kind of bug
by Mikael Jenkler 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Needed to be a member, now its done, sorry for remailing this again (need to be in list) Mikael Jenkler wrote: > Yeah! > > My problem is gone. needed: > latest dovecot-antispam plugin > and dovecot-1.1.2 minimum > > Thanks Johannes > > > about my other question: > > > My dspam users has the email as username somthing(a)domain.com and in > dovecot.conf i need to specify the user when training, is there a > way to get the resiptient address in the dovecot.conf? i am only able > to get %u ie the username ;-( > > Could you patch the antispam plugin to be able to take then resiptient > as dspam user? ie the mail address , you can have a option in dovecot > that says use resiptient address as user or something > > it would be great if you had time to check this out ;-) > > > > > > > /J3nkl3r > > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 10:04 +0200, Mikael Jenkler wrote: > >> > Hi All! >> > > There is a issue with dovecot-antispam and the new dovecot-1.1.x >> > (dovecot-1.1.1) >> > > The antispam plugin requires 1.1.2 > > johannes > > > > > > Johannes Berg wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 12:25 +0200, Mikael Jenkler wrote: >> >>> Hi Johannes! >>> >>> it seams that you pluggin is doing something wrong with the imap >>> connection >>> >>> i get this: >>> >>> Aug 21 12:21:54 firestorm dovecot: child 21443 (imap) killed with >>> signal 11 >>> >>> both with squirrelmail and mutt mail clients, but only when the >>> pluggin is enabled in dovecot >>> iam using dovecot-1.1.1 >>> >>> have you seen this error before? >>> >> >> Only with older versions of my plugin. Are you using the latests dovecot >> 1.1 and my plugin? We'll need you to compile both dovecot and the plugin >> with debugging information and provide a backtrace. >> >> johannes >> > >

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[Dovecot] Regarding dovecot-antispam bug!
by Mikael Jenkler 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi All! There is a issue with dovecot-antispam and the new dovecot-1.1.x (dovecot-1.1.1) The imap server dies when sending mail, the mail goes away but it says that the imap server has crached in squirrelmail. I get the standard signal 11 crach in the dovecot loggs another question? My dspam users has the email as username somthing(a)domain.com and in dovecot.conf i need to specify the user when training, is there a w way to get the resiptient address in the dovecot.conf? i am only able to get %u ie the username ;-( Could you patch the antispam plugin to be able to take then resiptient as dspam user? ie the mail address , you can have a option in dovecot that says use resiptient address as user or something it would be great if you had time to check this out ;-) Thanks in advance

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-antispam has some kind of bug
by Johannes Berg 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 12:25 +0200, Mikael Jenkler wrote: > Hi Johannes! > > it seams that you pluggin is doing something wrong with the imap connection > > i get this: > > Aug 21 12:21:54 firestorm dovecot: child 21443 (imap) killed with signal 11 > > both with squirrelmail and mutt mail clients, but only when the pluggin > is enabled in dovecot > iam using dovecot-1.1.1 > > have you seen this error before? Only with older versions of my plugin. Are you using the latests dovecot 1.1 and my plugin? We'll need you to compile both dovecot and the plugin with debugging information and provide a backtrace. johannes

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[Dovecot] Sent Date/time vs Received Date/time
by Charles Marcus 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

On 8/20/2008, Nicolas KOWALSKI (nicolas.kowalski(a)gmail.com) wrote: > The alpine documentation states about 'Arrival' sorting: > > " The Arrival sort option arranges messages in the MESSAGE INDEX in > the order that they exist in the folder. This is usually the same as > the order in which they arrived. This option is comparable to not > sorting the messages at all. " > > It is the same (non-)ordering available in Mozilla mail clients, with > the 'Order Received' option. Ok, this is something that I have thought about from time to time. I know that every message has a 'received' header, which is basically the date/time stamp of the SENDERS CLIENT - so if their system's time is off, that date/time header will be off. So, where does this 'Order Received' column in TBird get its info from? I'm guessing it is a TBird thing, like an internal index number? In my mind, there should be two primary date/time columns: Sent Date/Time = Date/time of the Client system when message was sent (this is already there as the plain 'Date' column) and Received Date/Time = Date/time the receiving SERVER DELIVERED it I can see the benefit for the third 'Client' side Date/time stamp, which is the current 'Order Received' in TBird. I'd like to see support added for grabbing the last date/time from the LDA that delivers the message, but that obviously request is for the TBird devs (or most likely an extension request), but... The main question is - is there a proper IMAP/RFC for providing/getting this date/time? -- Best regards, Charles

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot & (Al)pine - resaving messages to Inbox
by Jonathan Herbach 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

> I suppose the OP does not sort by date but Arrival time (this means arrival time in the mailbox). Exactly. I sort by arrival time, which in practice is the "unsorted" ordering based upon the mbox file itself. (Except I'd like to control the arbitrary "unsorted" order that I want by "resave to inbox" to handle reordering.) Nicolas wrote: > - a quick grep shows this is 'normal' behaviour, as written in > src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-save.c > > if (mbox->mbox_lock_type == F_RDLCK) { > /* FIXME: we shouldn't fail here. it's just > a locking issue that should be possible to > fix.. */ > mail_storage_set_error(storage, > MAIL_ERROR_NOTPOSSIBLE, > "Can't copy mails inside same mailbox"); > return -1; > } So I'm currently using: mbox_write_locks: fcntl When I was using version 9 the relevant config setting was: "mbox_locks = fcntl", which plus the config suggestion "fcntl: Use this if possible" led me down this path. Does anybody know why this code was designed this way / why it is different from 0.99 behavior / etc? Jonathan _________________________________________________________________ Get thousands of games on your PC, your mobile phone, and the web with Windows®. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108588800/direct/01/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot & (Al)pine - resaving messages to Inbox
by Jonathan Herbach 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

I have a x86 Linux box running Fedora 4. Up until 2008 I was using pine 4.64 and Dovecot 0.99.x. In early 2008 I transitioned to Alpine 1.10, and didn't notice any major changes. I upgraded to Dovecot 1.0.15 this past weekend. My dovecot -n settings are at the bottom of the email. I've noticed a change since Dovecot was upgraded. I used to reorder items within my INBOX in al/pine by "saving" messages back to the INBOX, which I was connecting via IMAP . Now when I try to do it I get an error in alpine that says: [Can't copy mails inside same folder] then: [Save to folder "{localhost:143/i...r=jherbach}INBOX" FAILED] While these are alpine messages, they appear to be from the dovecot upgrade. I really miss the ability to reorder messages in my inbox since I often use it as a queue of important items. Does anybody have any ideas why I'm seeing this error message? Or better yet, how to potentially (re) configure the system to allow me to resave messages into the same folder? Jonathan --------------- My settings: # 1.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_gid: 100 last_valid_gid: 100 mail_location: mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=%h/Mailbox mbox_write_locks: fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08X pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd _________________________________________________________________ Get ideas on sharing photos from people like you. Find new ways to share. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/photogallery/posts?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Pho…

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[Dovecot] config file parsing, tab characters
by John Hannfield 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hello, I am using the latest dovecot 1.1.2 with postfix, and using doveco deliver command for LDA. I really love dovecot, and how it has progressed over the years. However I have noticed that if I put a TAB character in the dovecot.conf file, it sometimes does not parse the file correctlty, and complains about missing postmaster_address etc, even though they are there. So I reformated my config file, with just spaces, no tabs. I am very careful about that now. However I still seem to have a problem in some places with spaces. For example, in the LDA section: If I have 3 or 4 spaces, after the lda line in the definition, like so: #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # LDA Settings #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mydomain.com hostname = mydomain.com .... it does not work. I must have only 1 space between the end of lda and the curly bracket. Like this: #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # LDA Settings #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mydomain.com hostname = mydomain.com .... This seems very flaky. I am not certain I will always be able to check the file when making changes. So my question is: 1. Is there someway to check the validity of the dovecot.conf file. I notice dovecot -n does not print the entire config. 2. Is there any chance the code used to parse the config file, could be updated to be more robust, and to include support for tabs? Thank you. Paul

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[Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?
by Blake Carver 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

I'm trying to help someone with Dovecot, and it looks like this one is a few versions behind. They say that they're not sure if it was installed Via an RPM or a source tarball. Dovecot is use MySQL. This is a RHEL5 server. There are RPMs listed as installed (rpm -qa) but I don't know how I can tell what was used to install the currently used set up. (also asking on the Postifix list) Is there something in a conf file or something that shows me how it was installed? Thanks Blake

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[Dovecot] Stateful Webmail
by Michael Carter 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello, I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org) which provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using ajax and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication between a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server. One of the other developers pointed me to a recent dovecot thread about webmail. Sorry for the new thread (I just joined this list and couldn't reply to the old emails). Timo Sirainen wrote Wed Aug 13 23:37:11 EEST 2008: > I wrote this a while ago: http://imapwiki.org/ClientImplementation > > One thing that would be nice, that pretty much no webmail does, is to > keep a stateful connection open all the time (or at least some of the > time) instead of creating tons of short-lived connections that ask the > same stuff over and over again. With a stateful connection you could > basically run IDLE and wait for changes there instead of asking all > the time "is there new mail?" "is there new mail now?" "what about > now?". Coincidentally, we have just began work on a JavaScript IMAP client. With it, building a webmail app should be *entirely* a UI concern. The good news is that our Socket interface is very stable and is being used in production for protocols like IRC for webchat. The bad news is that none of the the Orbited developers have experience with the IMAP protocol. We are putting all of our protocol implementations in the soon-to-launch js.io project (www.js.io) As soon as we have any kind of IMAP client prototype, I'll let you know. In the meantime, would anyone be interesting in helping us develop the imap client? Its 100% pure JavaScript, and will greatly ease the development of feature-rich webmail, as a webmail deployment will become a matter of simply running Dovecot, the js.io.imap client, and an HTML gui. -Michael Carter

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[Dovecot] assertion failed
by CJ Keist 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just switched over to dovecot 1.1.2 on our live system last night. I'm seeing the following errors in the logs: Aug 19 10:01:03 goku dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.crit] Panic: IMAP(elevin): file in dex-sync.c: line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: (seq_range _exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid)) I did apply the assertion fix that Timo sent out. # 1.1.2: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 3072). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings base_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: MEDIUM:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Cyrus ready. login_max_processes_count: 1024 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/lib/postfix/private/auth mode: 438 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot//auth-master mode: 384 - -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIqvAiA29OFr7C6jcRAlbPAJsHSPO0JvyUHGOBUJ1E8NhuT9tM5wCgnOZ2 NW9OeL6tSORhGleWSX63uPI= =mw7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1.2, index-sync.c, line 39, assertion
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hi folks, because I accidently missed a syslog entry from previous reports, here's a new one with both syslog lines. Same problem as always when saving mail from one folder to another with Pine 4.64. Does nobody else get this when copying/moving mail between folders? The assertion refers to src/lib-storage/index/index-sync.c, line 39 (function index_mailbox_set_recent_uid). Aug 19 23:01:15 linux dovecot: Panic: IMAP(user2): file index-sync.c: line 39 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: (seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid)) Aug 19 23:01:15 linux dovecot: IMAP(user2): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80cf8e0] -> imap [0x80cf93a] -> imap [0x80cf26c] -> imap [0x809d11a] -> imap(index_mailbox_set_recent_seq+0x3e) [0x809d15e] -> imap(mbox_sync+0x105d) [0x80823fd] -> imap [0x807a454] -> imap(index_transaction_commit+0x4e) [0x809ddfe] -> imap(cmd_copy+0x35f) [0x805b26f] -> imap [0x805fd7c] -> imap [0x805fe25] -> imap [0x80605e5] -> imap(client_input+0x5e) [0x80607fe] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x100) [0x80d7230] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80d63c8] -> imap(main+0x4a1) [0x8068321] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x149390] -> imap [0x805a101] Dovecot 1.1.2 is running on Fedora 8 Linux 32 Bit with all patches and custom OpenSSL 0.9.8h. [ output of "dovecot -n" ] # 1.1.2: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.key login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.passwd It sometimes happens with Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 as well, but Pine 4.64 triggers this assertion very often. Greetings, Andreas

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[Dovecot] dovecot performance
by Giorgenes Gelatti 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello All, I've been studying dovecot for replacing my company's current system and I got a little worried about an aspect of the dovecot's design. I was surprised that dovecot doesn't use prefork for its mail processes, forking a new processes for each new client connection. Talking in the #dovecot channel I was gave a scenario of a system supporting ~40k users with 4 servers just fine. I wonder how well dovecot would scale if we increase this number of users by some order of magnitude like, say, 4M users. It is well known that preforking is a good pratice if you want to achieve a higher performance. When I was asked about it I readily answered: "of course it does". For my surprise later, i doesn't. Do you have any plans to support preforking in the near future? Best regards, giorgenes

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[Dovecot] sendmail permissions denied
by CJ Keist 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Never mind On this, operator dumbness involved. Two directories above didn't allow general access into postfix home. - -------------------- With the sieve plugin trying to redirect or send vacation reply I'm getting the following error: Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 619685 mail.info] Module loaded: /use rM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 848615 mail.info] mbox: data=/top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/:INBOX=/userM/mail/joeblow Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 885103 mail.info] fs: root=/top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home, index=, control=, inbox=/userM/mail/joeblow Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 223526 mail.info] cmusieve: Using sieve path: /top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/.dovecot.sieve Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 507699 mail.info] cmusieve: Executing script /top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/.dovecot.sievec Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 107833 mail.crit] Fatal: execv(/userM/mail-services/postfix/lib/sendmail) failed: Permission denied Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 260232 mail.error] Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 75 Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 344163 mail.info] sieve runtime error: Vacation: Error sending mail Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 702911 mail.info] msgid=<48AB1B2E.4000007(a)colostate.edu>: saved mail to INBOX Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 368532 mail.error] sieve_execute_bytecode(/top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/.dovecot.sievec) failed Aug 19 13:12:52 goku postfix/local[10821]: [ID 197553 mail.info] EF96F2363C: to=<joeblow(a)engr.colostate.edu>, relay=local, delay=0.11, delays=0.02/0/0/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver) Aug 19 13:12:52 goku postfix/qmgr[24972]: [ID 197553 mail.info] EF96F2363C: removed The sendmail path /userM/mail-services/postfix/lib/sendmail is correct the the permissions sendmail is: - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 602472 Aug 18 22:02 sendmail* I didn't have this problem with the test server. Any ideas? dovecot -n base_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: MEDIUM:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-log in login_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Cyrus ready. login_max_processes_count: 1024 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/lib/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix - -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIqyjlA29OFr7C6jcRAv6GAJ90UCY/clZa43NBCysv0ktlg11cVQCeOnkq ylkleO56B91KU/4CuAGBACc= =s9YN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] sendmail permissions denied
by CJ Keist 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 With the sieve plugin trying to redirect or send vacation reply I'm getting the following error: Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 619685 mail.info] Module loaded: /use rM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 848615 mail.info] mbox: data=/top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/:INBOX=/userM/mail/joeblow Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 885103 mail.info] fs: root=/top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home, index=, control=, inbox=/userM/mail/joeblow Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 223526 mail.info] cmusieve: Using sieve path: /top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/.dovecot.sieve Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 507699 mail.info] cmusieve: Executing script /top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/.dovecot.sievec Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 107833 mail.crit] Fatal: execv(/userM/mail-services/postfix/lib/sendmail) failed: Permission denied Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 260232 mail.error] Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 75 Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 344163 mail.info] sieve runtime error: Vacation: Error sending mail Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 702911 mail.info] msgid=<48AB1B2E.4000007(a)colostate.edu>: saved mail to INBOX Aug 19 13:12:52 goku deliver(joeblow): [ID 368532 mail.error] sieve_execute_bytecode(/top/students/UNGRAD/ES/joeblow/home/.dovecot.sievec) failed Aug 19 13:12:52 goku postfix/local[10821]: [ID 197553 mail.info] EF96F2363C: to=<joeblow(a)engr.colostate.edu>, relay=local, delay=0.11, delays=0.02/0/0/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver) Aug 19 13:12:52 goku postfix/qmgr[24972]: [ID 197553 mail.info] EF96F2363C: removed The sendmail path /userM/mail-services/postfix/lib/sendmail is correct the the permissions sendmail is: - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 602472 Aug 18 22:02 sendmail* I didn't have this problem with the test server. Any ideas? dovecot -n base_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: MEDIUM:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-log in login_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Cyrus ready. login_max_processes_count: 1024 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/lib/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix - -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIqx3LA29OFr7C6jcRAr2FAJ4lHPlswLAhQpwTLm788CkogrfB0QCfXHvs /2Ej000B55JKNjdRrk4/KIM= =wtuS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3603 seconds.
by Stephen Feyrer 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

<nervous_darting_eyes> Hi Everyone. </nervous_darting_eyes> Ooops I just broke my dovecot install. I've looked through the mailing list archives and not found anything relevant. When I try to connect to my mail server I get this message. "Could not connect to mail server chen.home.org; connection was refused" The last message in /var/log/mail.err is:- Aug 13 21:02:27 chen dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3603 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards It seems this is my own fault. Time on my system is a little wonky so I reset the time and then I found out I'd broken Dovecot. I didn't realise that doing this would have an impact on dovecot. I read the web page and to be honest I'm not confident about hacking source code. I've reinstalled dovecot which worked except it hasn't solved my time travel problem. By the way since my first install of dovecot the config file seems to have changed a little but since I've tried to migrate my settings over the new file and been met with the same problem I don't think it's that. Is it possible to get dovecot working again? -- Regards Stephen.

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[Dovecot] Anyone using LG Voyager (vx10000) with dovecot IMAP?
by Adam McDougall 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Anyone using the mobile IMAP option on the LG Voyager (mobile phone) with dovecot? I think it costs $5 extra per month. Seems low enough just to try it and find out. Thanks

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[Dovecot] SpamAssassin and Maildir with Dovecot
by Kenneth Porter 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

A patch has been proposed for SpamAssassin to process Maildir folders of spam: <https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3003> Is this patch compatible with Dovecot's implementation of Maildir? For example, is anything needed to avoid stepping on Dovecot's metadata?

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[Dovecot] POP3 dictionary attacks
by Kenneth Porter 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

I'm seeing strings of failed POP3 login attempts with obvious bogus usernames coming from different IP addresses. Today's originated from 216.31.146.19 (which resolves to neovisionlabs.com) This looks like a botnet attack. I got a similar probe a couple days ago. Is anyone else seeing these? The attack involves trying about 20 different names, about 3-4 seconds apart. Here's a few sample log lines: dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:45 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(mike,216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the underlying authentication module dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:49 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(alan,216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the underlying authentication module dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:53 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(info,216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the underlying authentication module dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:57 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(shop,216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the underlying authentication module Timo, can you add the port used in the attempt to the error log entry? (It does show up in the info log entry, but that means I need to correlate lines in the two log files.)

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[Dovecot] IMAP maildir performance difference between dovecot-uidlist versions?
by Jack Stewart 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hi, Is there an IMAP performance difference using Maildir between using version 3 and version 1 of the dovecot-uidlist (either dovecot 1.0.7 or 1.1.2)? It isn't entirely clear to me there is any difference as the filename may contain the size/vsize information. The servers will eventually be running 1.1.2 with the maildir_copy_preserve_filename turned on. I'm doing a batch migration from courier to dovecot 1.0.7 and eventually dovecot 1.1.2. These servers are, and will continue to be, IMAP only (i.e. dedicated control/dovecot-uidlist files). The migration script is run once - no build on the fly. It does a readdir() to get the full filenames and make sure that list entries are only for existing files. As a result, there is almost complete freedom in the output format for the dovecot-uidlist. Many thanks in advance! ---Jack P.S. For better or worse, it does seem that once you are stuck with whatever initial version you choose. -- Jack Stewart IMSS, California Institute of Technology, M/C 1-10, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 jstewart(a)caltech.edu / 626-309-4690 http://www.imss.caltech.edu

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Re: [Dovecot] POP3 dictionary attacks
by Bruce Bodger 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

On Aug 16, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >>> Exactly. These days, IP spoofing is most useful to hide the >>> identity of >>> the perpetrator of a DoS attack. It certainly is not applicable to a >>> dictionary attack on POP3 or other logins since with a spoofed >>> IP, the >>> perpetrator will never see the response to determine if the login >>> attempt was successful. >> >> I stand corrected... sorry. I was thinking of an http cross-site >> attack which also seems popular now-a-days. >> >> So if I read you right then you would consider the IP address shown >> in the original thread post.. >> >>> dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:45 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(mike, >>> 216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the >>> underlying authentication module >>> dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:49 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(alan, >>> 216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the >>> underlying authentication module >>> dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:53 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(info, >>> 216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the >>> underlying authentication module >>> dovecot: Aug 15 04:15:57 Error: auth-worker(default): pam(shop, >>> 216.31.146.19): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the >>> underlying authentication module >> >> >> ..216.31.146.19, to be a party to the attack and therefore a >> candidate for locking out? > > > Yes. I do it (with my own script, not fail2ban, but it works the same > way). Thank you for the clarification. B. Bodger

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[Dovecot] PAM session closes too soon
by Lauri Alanko 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Hi. I'm trying to keep most of my data encrypted when possible, only keeping the decryption key in memory (and thus vulnerable to local attacks) when I'm actually using my data. In practice, this means using pam_mount to mount my home directory from an encrypted device. It almost looked like I could get this to work with mail as well, even when read via IMAP from a remote client: I placed my mail in the encrypted home directory, added pam_mount to /etc/pam.d/dovecot, and set session=yes in Dovecot's PAM configuration. Except that it didn't, quite: pam_mount worked just fine and mounted the encrypted disk using the IMAP password... and then immediately unmounted it, since for some reason session=yes means that Dovecot closes the session _immediately_ after opening it. This seems just silly. If a PAM session is to be used, then it seems obvious to me that its length should be exactly the length of the IMAP session. I can't see any reason for the current behavior, except maybe that it was a bit simpler to code and is sufficient for pam_mkhomedir (and only that). Can this be fixed with reasonable effort? Also, for pam_mount to work correctly, there must not be any file descriptors open in the mounted file system when the session closes, as otherwise unmounting is impossible. Will dovecot release all fds into the mail and index files when the session ends, or can it be made to do so? (UTSL is an acceptable answer.) Thanks in advance. Lauri Alanko la(a)iki.fi

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[Dovecot] Error 89
by Hodges 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Just installed dovecot 1.1.2. downloaded from dovecot.org. Seemed to compile and install OK but I get the following error when I try to start it "child 28410 (auth) returned error 89 (fatal failure)" I just want to use it for SMTP/SASL authorization, not Pop3 or IMAP, as yet It looks as though I haven't installed some component or other but what? Config file follows; # 1.1.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: none login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix Steve

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[Dovecot] Problem with squirrelmail and dovecot 1.1
by Gerhard Wiesinger 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Hello! I'm running squirrelmail 1.4.8 (I know this is not the latest version) and know I'm having troubles with: 1.) Folder list view 2.) Save to sent or Drafts folder. Configuration worked well. I think it has to do with the upgrade from dovecot 1.0 to 1.1 and the LIST command. Thunderbird/alpine work well. Commands from rawlog are: A002 LIST "" "~/Mail/Drafts" A002 OK List completed. or A002 LIST "" "~/Mail/sent" A003 CREATE "~/Mail/sent" A002 OK List completed. A003 NO Mailbox exists. Has something changed in the folder behaviour of dovecot from 1.0 to 1.1? If you need more information please let me know it. Any ideas? Thnx. Ciao, Gerhard -- http://www.wiesinger.com/

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Re: [Dovecot] SpamAssassin and Maildir with Dovecot
by Gabriel Millerd 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: > A patch has been proposed for SpamAssassin to process Maildir folders of > spam: > Nothing on the disk looks modified by the code change, sa-learn is just reading from the disk fand altering the sa-storage as instructed by the learn rule switch. If you learned and then nuked some headers for example, the file size would change and that would be an issue if you storage that in the filename (they wouldn't match) as well as the dovecot index for imap/pop would be off potentially. Possibly some active imap sessions might be confused as well. This patch only really is sensitive to the Maildir structure, it has been able to handle the mail directories. -- Gabriel Millerd

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[Dovecot] Search for (any of) multiple terms slow
by Patrick Nagel 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, this may be an obvious logical problem I'm not aware of, which cannot be solved any more efficiently... but maybe it's just a bug or there is potential for optimisation in Dovecot (or Thunderbird?). When searching for multiple terms at once ("any of") with Thunderbird/Dovecot (using FTS Squat indexes), it takes much longer (not double the time, or a bit more than that, but really much, much longer) than when I search for only one term. Here are some figures (the IMAP commands are shown as issued by Thunderbird and recorded by Dovecot rawlog). While searching, I can see the 'imap' process using 100% CPU time. Searching for "xyz" in Archive and subfolders 4 secs 32 select "Archive" 33 uid SEARCH UNDELETED BODY "xyz" 34 select "Archive.2004" 35 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 36 uid SEARCH UNDELETED BODY "xyz" 37 select "Archive.2004.2005" 38 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 39 uid SEARCH UNDELETED BODY "xyz" 40 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006" 41 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 42 uid SEARCH UNDELETED BODY "xyz" 43 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007" 44 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 45 uid SEARCH UNDELETED BODY "xyz" 46 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007.2008" 47 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 48 uid SEARCH UNDELETED BODY "xyz" 49 IDLE Searching for "xyz" and "abc" (any of) in Archive and subfolders 123 secs 50 select "Archive" 51 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") 52 select "Archive.2004" 53 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 54 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") 55 select "Archive.2004.2005" 56 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 57 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") 58 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006" 59 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 60 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") 61 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007" 62 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 63 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") 64 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007.2008" 65 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 66 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") 67 IDLE Searching for "xyz", "abc" and "def" in Archive and subfolders 173 secs 68 select "Archive" 69 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") 70 select "Archive.2004" 71 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 72 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") 73 select "Archive.2004.2005" 74 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 75 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") 76 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006" 77 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 78 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") 79 select "INBOX" 80 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 81 check 82 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007" 83 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 84 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") 85 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007.2008" 86 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 87 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") 88 IDLE Searching for "xyz", "abc", "def" and "ghi" in Archive and subfolders 217 secs 89 select "Archive" 90 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") BODY "ghi") 91 select "Archive.2004" 92 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 93 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") BODY "ghi") 94 select "Archive.2004.2005" 95 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 96 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") BODY "ghi") 97 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006" 98 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 99 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") BODY "ghi") 100 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007" 101 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 102 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") BODY "ghi") 103 select "Archive.2004.2005.2006.2007.2008" 104 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) 105 uid SEARCH UNDELETED (OR (OR (OR BODY "xyz" BODY "abc") BODY "def") BODY "ghi") 106 IDLE Patrick. - -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIooxq7yMg/OiDoAURAhb9AJ4jOaK+eHXcSwJTAER8xEKIlJJt0gCgtZan wJm05V0F03gj+6YxbNOtCew= =jID/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Migrating mbox to maildir
by Mike Hobbs 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Sorry to bother everyone but I was wondering if it is possible for Dovecot to handle mbox AND maildir at the same time? Example: I want to convert from UW Imap using mbox to Dovecot using maildir. Do I need to convert ALL my users mbox mailboxes to maildir right away or can I convert them one at a time? I'd like to use maildir with all my new users, but I'd like to be able to continue using mbox for my old users and slowly convert them as I get time. Is this possible? I know Dovecot supports both formats, I just couldn't find anything in the install notes about using both at the same time. Thank you, mike

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[Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.
by Roderick A. Anderson 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

There was a thread several weeks (or months) ago on webmail applications. I didn't like any of the options and only found few that I did but they were either expensive or not maintained. So ... I raised the question on the Catalyst Framework list about Perl based webmail apps and got nothing usable. It came down to what would it take to build a Perl (Cat) webmail app. Several others on the list got interested so we decided to build it. The main issue I run into is my lack of understanding of the ins-and-outs of the IMAP specification and the features that come with using Dovecot. (Oh yeah. Dovecot was the preferred IMAP server!) Another project I'm working on uses IMAP and what I found was there is a great quantity of Perl modules for dealing with IMAP. A great quantity! Unfortunately many of them assume a deeper knowledge of IMAP than I have so are very confusing. What I'm looking for is a good reference, besides the RFC, on IMAP. Anything out there? Electronic or dead-tree is fine. (A book of Dovecot would be neat too.) TIA, Rod --

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Re: [Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?
by Daniel Watts 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

>> I've noticed when I select a folder of messages (Thunderbird) and >> mark them all as read (or unread) it produces the following IMAP >> transcript: >> >> Source Destination Info >> c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: DONE >> s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: 20 OK Idle completed. >> c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 21 uid store 1:20 -Flags (\Seen) >> s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Recent >> NonJunk)) >> c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 22 UID fetch 2 (UID RFC822.SIZE >> BODY.PEEK[]) >> s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 2 FETCH (UID 2 RFC822.SIZE 1339 >> BODY[] {1339} > .. > > Looks a bit stupid. But I'd guess it's related to Thunderbird being > configured to download mail when reading it and it treats setting > \Seen the same as reading it. Just a guess though. It becomes a bit of a problem when done in a folder of 40,000 messages - locks up the program for ages and hammers the server a bit too. > >> Is this reasonable? I thought it would be possible to just send a >> list of message UIDs and say mark these as /seen /unseen etc. > > Sure, it would be possible. Also if Thunderbird really wants to fetch > these messages' bodies, it could have done it using a single command > instead of 20 separate ones.. > Perhaps it does it one by one incase there are a lot of messages.... but it could chunk them at least. Timo - thanks as always for your help with this, particularly as it is slightly OT. Ever thought about writing your own mail client? =) Perhaps LightningDove! The more I use Thunderbird the more I find it totally insane. Still better than going back to Outlook (thought not tried 2007 yet). Dan

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