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[Dovecot] How to set MDNSent flag on a large amount of mails?
by Patrick Nagel 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi, after having moved a big mail archive to IMAP, I've now got the following problem: The MUA asks to send an MDN on all those old messages that contain the 'Disposition-Notification-To' header when opened. I'd like to set the $MDNSent flag on those (>10000 in a deeply nested directory structure) mails. After having read http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir I wrote a script that changed the filename of mails in all directories that contained the header, so that the filename contained a 'b' in the last part of the filename (after the comma), because I found '1 $MDNSent' in Maildir/dovecot-keywords. I then discovered that there can be a 'dovecot-keywords' file in each directory, and all of those files can have different flags in different order. Do I really need to write a script that evaluates each dovecot-keywords file, figures out which letter corresponds to the flag and rename the files (per directory) accordingly? Isn't there a more simple way? 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

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[Dovecot] spamassassin, postfix with dovecot lda?
by George Mamalakis 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi all, I am trying to setup a mail server using postfix (virtual_mailboxes), spamassassin and dovecot, along with SQL where appropriate. From my research so far I realized that, for several reasons, it is required for me to use dovecot LDA instead of maildrop, local, procmail or other alternatives. My configuration was working flawlessly, until spamassassin per-user configuration came to play. If I just wanted an MTA anti-spam gateway, I could directly call spamassassin via master.cf, or through some helper "content-filter-application" (like amavis or amavisd-new), and everything would work just fine (I tried and tested many such configurations with success). But when antispam per user preferences became my concern (Bayesian filters and classifier), I realized that spamd should be called by the LDA. With procmail this was a trivial issue, with dovecot-lda I was unable to find any solution on the web or other documentation. So my question is as follows: Is there a way to call spamc from dovecot-LDA (and/or dovecot-sieve), or is there an alternate way to do this for a site with virtual mailboxes configured with dovecot-lda? Thank you all in advance, regards, -- George Mamalakis IT Officer, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

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[Dovecot] v1.1.rc6 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc6.tar.gz.sig This is it. The first v1.1 release that actually deserves the "release candidate" name. It contains everything I require from v1.1.0 release. There are two bugs left that I'd like to get fixed, but they won't block v1.1.0 release: * index_mailbox_set_recent_uid() assert (reported by Diego Liziero) * Maildir not always finding new messages and returning them as empty (reported by Anders). The major change in v1.1.rc6 release is the SORT indexing half-rewrite. I hadn't much stress tested that code before, and once I started I just kept finding more and more weird bugs and it became extremely difficult to figure out how to fix them, so I finally decided to just redesign how it's supposed to work and then implemented that. The resulting sort code is a lot cleaner and it should also perform better (although it could still be improved a bit: the basic binary searching could be replaced with one that first binary searches between already-looked-up sort-strings and only after that binary searches the resulting space which requires slower sort-string lookups). Hopefully there are also no stupid bugs left like returning messages in wrong sort order. :) I've been wasting time this past week getting new stuff for my new apartment, but that's nearly done now. I think (hope) I'm going to be more productive in here, there are less neighbours behind walls/floors (just 1), so less potential for annoying noises. :) Thinking also seems to work better when there's more space to walk around. And finally, the changes since v1.1.rc5: * Index file format changed a bit. If an older Dovecot v1.1 reads index files updated by rc6+, they may give "Invalid header record size" or "ext reset: invalid record size" warnings. v1.0 won't give these errors. * IMAP: LIST .. RETURN (X-STATUS) command return now LIST entries before STATUS entries. * zlib plugin: Uncompress if the message begins with zlib header instead of looking at the 'Z' flag. This fixes copying with hard links. Based on a patch by Richard Platel. + IMAP: SORT index handling code was half-rewritten to fix several bugs when multiple sessions were sorting at the same time. The new code is hopefully also faster. + Maildir: If POP3 UIDL extra field is found from dovecot-uidlist, it's used instead of the default UIDL format (or X-UIDL: header). This allows easily preserving UIDLs when migrating from other POP3 servers. Patch by Nicholas Von Hollen @ Mailtrust. + Maildir: ,W=<vsize> is now always added to maildir filenames + deliver: Avoid reading dovecot-uidlist's contents if possible. + Added %T modifier = Trim whitespace from end of string - IMAP: Fixed some bugs in LIST-EXTENDED implementation. - IMAP: If client tries to change the selected mailbox state while another command is still running, wait until the command is finished. This fixes some crashes and other unwanted behavior. - allow_nets userdb setting was broken with big endian CPUs

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[Dovecot] overview of patches used in Fedora
by Dan Horák 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi, I have gone through the patches that are used in the Fedora package and probably only the "mkcert-permissions" [1] can be considered to be included upstream. It is dated into package version 1.0-0.beta2.3, but I cannot find any particular reason for the inclusion (like a bug in bugzilla, etc.). Some (winbind support, quota warnings) were obsoleted by dovecot 1.1, two are used for distro specific settings. So the only real patch that remains is the "pam_setcred" [2] patch that fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=146198 Current state of the package for Fedora is at http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/dovecot/devel/ Dan [1] http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/dovecot/devel/dovecot-1.0.beta2-m… [2] http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/dovecot/devel/dovecot-1.0.rc2-pam… -- Fedora and Red Hat package maintainer

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Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.rc8 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 16:04 -0700, Andrew Roberts wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > + deliver: Added -c parameter to provide path to delivered mail. > > This allows maildir to save identical mails to multiple recipients > > using hard links. > > According to the wiki, deliver already uses a -c parameter to specify the > path to an alternate configuration file. Is this incorrect, or is this > functionality going away? I meant to say -p parameter.. And thanks for reminding, I'll update the wiki as well.

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[Dovecot] Unsuccessful POP sessions on dovecot-1.0.3-13_60
by Patrick Ben Koetter 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

A Client runs a RAS network. Users access mailboxes using Outlook Express. The server runs dovecot-1.0.3-13_60. Almost a week ago users began to report that they can't retrieve their mail. The session starts, they seem to retrieve messages, but then the client reports a problem and the session is terminated. Here's what I have in the log: May 28 08:56:46 server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@client>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:10.11.9.18, lip=::ffff:10.11.9.108 May 28 08:59:00 server dovecot: POP3(user@client): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=5/448621, del=0/58, size=8991962 May 28 08:59:29 server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@client>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:10.11.9.18, lip=::ffff:10.11.9.108 May 28 09:03:49 server dovecot: POP3(user@client): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=5/448621, del=0/58, size=8991962 May 28 09:04:24 server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@client>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:10.11.9.18, lip=::ffff:10.11.9.108 May 28 09:12:11 server dovecot: POP3(user@client): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=5/448621, del=0/58, size=8991962 May 28 09:14:32 server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@client>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:10.11.9.18, lip=::ffff:10.11.9.108 May 28 09:17:10 server dovecot: POP3(user@client): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=5/448621, del=0/58, size=8991962 May 28 09:17:52 server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@client>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:10.11.9.18, lip=::ffff:10.11.9.108 May 28 09:20:27 server dovecot: POP3(user@client): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=5/448621, del=0/58, size=8991962 May 28 09:23:23 server dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@client>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:10.11.9.18, lip=::ffff:10.11.9.108 May 28 09:30:05 server dovecot: POP3(user@client): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=5/448621, del=0/58, size=8991962 What I see is that the client seems to try to retrieve the same mails (retr=5/448621) over and over again. If they login using IMAP they don't experience any problems. Any idea what this could be? Rumor has it it's a know problem with Outlook Express and its POP implementation. Is that rumor or a fact? p@rick -- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation, Design und Softwareentwicklung Patrick Koetter Tel: 089 45227227 Echinger Strasse 3 Fax: 089 45227226 85386 Eching Web: http://www.state-of-mind.de Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563

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[Dovecot] Purging Deleted Messages
by Carlos Williams 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

I noticed today I checked a users mailbox with the mutt command: mutt -f /home/bob/email/ There I saw he had 100 messages that had been deleted but not yet purged from his inbox so they're still using up disk storage on my email server. My question is does Dovecot have a process to automatically delete these messages after a certain period of time? I would like to think that they don't just sit in a users mailbox for years waiting to be purged, right? Does anyone know exactly how this works? I checked my own mailbox using mutt and I see 11 messages that are deleted from my Thunderbird client but are still on the server (marked for deletion). How long do these messages stay there? -- Man your battle stations...

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[Dovecot] renameing users
by Ivan Levchenko 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi All, I have a pretty basic question - I'm just getting into this email business =). There is a server that uses virtual users with dovecot. How could I go by allowing the users to change their usernames and to let them save all of their info? Access to the mailboxes is provided via squirrelmail . Thanks in advance! p.s. please cc me in the reply! -- Best Regards, Ivan Levchenko levchenko.i(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] deliver & override homedir
by arne van theemsche 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi We're in the phase of converting our existing unix-based users to virtual users. Goal is to make mail-spool totaly independent of home-spool. For that reason, NO files can be written to home. I've solved the problem for all files, except for .dovecot.lda-dupes. I can see in duplicate.c #define DUPLICATE_PATH "~/.dovecot.lda-dupes" I thought being clever and override in the userdb passwd following args = home=/var/spool/mail/%1n/%2n/%n but deliver totaly ignores that. does anybody has tips? kind regards Arne

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[Dovecot] deliver saving mails with hard linking
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

http://dovecot.org/tmp/deliver-multiple.diff for Dovecot v1.1 implements -p <path> parameter for deliver, which reads the input mail from the specified path instead of stdin. With maildir and hardlink copying enabled, it also tries to hard link the file to destination instead of copying it. So to get the same mail delivered to multiple recipients using hard links, you'd have to write a small wrapper script that stored the mail temporarily somewhere and then called deliver for each recipient using the -p parameter. Any thoughts on if this should go to v1.1 like this? Some problems: - If you're not using a single UID/GID you probably have to make the file world-readable. - A wrapper script is kind of ugly, so it would be nice if deliver took a list of all recipients as input. But the deliver code is currently ugly enough that this would require larger changes. - Am I forgetting something?..

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[Dovecot] Problems under opensuse-10.3-x86_64
by Christian Kuehn 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi, I have a lot of problems to compile or to run the dovecot on my OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64. Sometimes the compiled binary cannot read the existing and running config, the dovecot -n results in: ian:/opt/src/build/dovecot-1.1.rc7 # /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.rc7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Error: Missing auth section for server default Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf The prebuild RPM-daemon (v 10.0.13) said: ian:/opt/src/build/dovecot-1.1.rc7 # dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf listen: *:8088 ssl_listen: *:10943 ssl_disable: yes ssl_cert_file: /etc/exim/www.foo-bar.de.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/exim/www.foo-bar.de.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 98 mail_location: maildir:~/maildir mail_executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf This looks fine and right, but there is no access to my old maildir (created by courier-imap) and I found several entries like this in my maillog: May 27 19:13:54 ian dovecot: IMAP(tkstest(a)foor-bar.de): Unexpected eof found when reading file 'UNOPENED' (Errcode: 0) or: May 27 16:22:44 ian dovecot: IMAP(tkstest(a)foo-bar.de): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/virtuser/xxxxx/mail/INBOX./.imap/Trash/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header or: May 27 18:05:44 ian dovecot: IMAP(tkstest(a)foo-bar.de): file mail-index.c: line 1 900 (mail_index_move_to_memory): assertion failed: (index->fd == -1) May 27 18:05:44 ian dovecot: IMAP(tkstest(a)foo-bar.de): Raw backtrace: imap [0x4648be] -> imap [0x4645fe] -> imap [0x443834] -> imap [0x450b08] -> imap(mail_index_open+0x1df) [0x444e6f] -> imap(index_storage_mailbox_init+0x159) [0x43c119] -> imap [0x41fe0d] -> imap [0x420ab8] -> imap(_cmd_select_full+0xaa) [0x4149ca] -> imap(cmd_select+0xb) [0x414b7b] -> imap [0x415e97] -> imap [0x415f29] -> imap(_client_input+0x6f) [0x4165cf] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x101) [0x46a021] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x4691f8] -> imap(main+0x457) [0x41e087] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2b5ab1476ae4] -> imap [0x411719] May 27 18:05:44 ian dovecot: child 15320 (imap) killed with signal 6 Tested versions: 1.0.13 RPM by OpenSUSE 1.0.13 self-compiled 1.1.rc7 self-compiled OS: Linux ian 2.6.18.8-0.9-default #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:48:05 UTC 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux configure: ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --with-mysql --with-pop3d --with-notify=inotify --with-ioloop=epoll --with-sql CPPFLAGS='-fPIC -I/opt/mysql/include' LDFLAGS='-L/opt/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm' Any ideas? Kind Regards Christian -- Christian Kuehn eMail: christian(a)hamburg.gay-web.de

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[Dovecot] Requested CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only MD5-CRYPT
by Richard Pyne 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

After upgrading my dovecot installation about a month ago, I have started seeing "Requested CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only MD5-CRYPT" message from dovecot in my logs. Any help in finding and correcting the cause will be greatly appreciated. --Richard

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Re: [Dovecot] Segfault in imap_bodystructure_write when searching
by Christer Mjellem Strand 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

>> Whenever I try to search on my dovecot test install, dovecot dies. It >> immediately spawns a new process, which the client tries to connect to, >> and send search commands to, causing that to die, and so forth. This loop >> means I have to kill either the server or the client. > > Your dovecot.index.cache file is probably broken somehow. Try moving > dovecot.index* files elsewhere and see if it works then? If it does and > dovecot.index.cache doesn't contain anything too sensitive > (subjects/from/to addresses), could you send me the dovecot.index* > files? > > If it crashes even without dovecot.index* files then the mails > themselves contain a broken message. It would help if I could get that > message. Bullseye. Why did I fail to mention that I was trying to use uiddb from Courier? :P Using your conversion script fixed it, but simply copying the Courier file crashed Dovecot. According to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier this is supposed to work though, so either that page is wrong, or Dovecot has a bug. >> betty - ~vpopmail/domains/bar.com/foo # gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/imap core > .. >> (no debugging symbols found) >> Core was generated by `imap'. >> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. >> #0 0x080a539d in imap_bodystructure_write () >> (gdb) bt full >> #0 0x080a539d in imap_bodystructure_write () >> No symbol table info available. >> #1 0x08083b5c in ?? () > > Unfortunately this backtrace is almost completely broken and it doesn't > really help.. You also could try compiling Dovecot itself with debug > symbols and getting backtrace from it. That'd probably work. I tried reproducing now, but it seems it's started working even when moving all dovecot files and copying courierimapuiddb to dovecot-uidlist. If I see it again I'll send you a copy of the file offlist. Thanks. -- -==- -=- -==- Christer Mjellem Strand yitzhaq System administrator ICQ: 9557698 GSM +47 922 000 12 JID: yitzhaq(a)jabber.no -==- -=- -==-

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot hard link problem
by Timo Sirainen 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 23:27 +0900, 도원철 wrote: > My company recently changed mail server from cyrus to dovecot. > > The problem is that dovecot does not support hard links for message > files with same message ID. > > I turned on the ‘maildir_copy_with_hardlinks’ option in dovecot.conf, > but it does not seems to have relation to this problem, am I > misunderstood? > > Hard links are created when move or copy messages from one folder to > other folder, but when deliver creates messages this option does not > works. Right. This isn't implemented yet. Also I don't think it should rely on Message-ID: header proving the uniqueness. There are two ways this can be implemented reliably: 1) If the message is sent to multiple recipients using same RCPT TO command, all the recipients could be given to deliver as parameters, and deliver would know that it's the same message and they could be hard linked. 2) Keep some kind of a hash database where hash is e.g. SHA1 sum of the entire message. All messages could be then stored in some global directory and hard linked from there to users' mailboxes. When receiving a new message using an existing hash, it could still compare byte-by-byte the files to make sure that it's not a hash collision before hard linking the file. 1) probably wouldn't be too difficult to implement and probably would solve your problem (assuming the problem is that people are mailing 100MB attachments to everyone inside a company). But I don't think I have time to do it myself..

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hard link problem
by 도원철 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

My company recently changed mail server from cyrus to dovecot. The problem is that dovecot does not support hard links for message files with same message ID. I turned on the ‘maildir_copy_with_hardlinks’ option in dovecot.conf, but it does not seems to have relation to this problem, am I misunderstood? Hard links are created when move or copy messages from one folder to other folder, but when deliver creates messages this option does not works. Our mail storage will be exhausted in few days. If you have some idea to solve this problem, please please help me. Or If you fix this problem, I will happily pay for it at reasonable cost. I installed dovecot 1.0.13 and postfix 2.5.1. Best regards, WonChul,Do

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap_bodystructure_write when searching
by Christer Mjellem Strand 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Whenever I try to search on my dovecot test install, dovecot dies. It immediately spawns a new process, which the client tries to connect to, and send search commands to, causing that to die, and so forth. This loop means I have to kill either the server or the client. Running Dovecot 1.0.13 from/on Debian testing, rebuilt with vpopmail support and no other source changes. Vpopmail version is 5.4.25, latest stable. Client is Mulberry 4.0.8, and the crash seems to occur whenever any type of search is performed, be it subject, sender, body etc. Otherwise the server behaves fine. dovecot -n output: # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S listen: *:9000 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting_capability: yes login_max_processes_count: 256 first_valid_uid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail auth default: user: vpopmail verbose: yes passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail plugin: quota: maildir Anonymized log excerpt: May 31 21:01:24 betty dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo(a)bar.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=4.3.2.1 May 31 21:01:24 betty dovecot: child 21748 (imap) killed with signal 11 May 31 21:01:24 betty dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo(a)bar.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=4.3.2.1 May 31 21:01:24 betty dovecot: child 21752 (imap) killed with signal 11 May 31 21:01:24 betty dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo(a)bar.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=4.3.2.1 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: child 21753 (imap) killed with signal 11 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo(a)bar.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=4.3.2.1 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: child 21759 (imap) killed with signal 11 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo(a)bar.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=4.3.2.1 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: child 21774 (imap) killed with signal 11 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo(a)bar.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=4.3.2.1 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: child 21775 (imap) killed with signal 11 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<foo(a)bar.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=4.3.2.1 May 31 21:01:25 betty dovecot: child 21776 (imap) killed with signal 11 ... Backtrace: betty - ~vpopmail/domains/bar.com/foo # gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/imap core GNU gdb 6.7.1-debian Copyright (C) 2007 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"... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so (no debugging symbols found) Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x080a539d in imap_bodystructure_write () (gdb) bt full #0 0x080a539d in imap_bodystructure_write () No symbol table info available. #1 0x08083b5c in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x080fa698 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x080fae60 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #5 0x080fa660 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #6 0x080fae40 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #7 0x080fae40 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #8 0xbfc90328 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #9 0x080b0520 in _buffer_free () No symbol table info available. #10 0x08083f64 in index_mail_get_special () No symbol table info available. #11 0x080703f4 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0x080f8c08 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0x00002000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #14 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #15 0x080bc105 in o_stream_send_str () No symbol table info available. #16 0x0805f26e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0x080f8c08 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #18 0x00002000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #19 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #20 0x00000000 in ?? () Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- -==- -=- -==- Christer Mjellem Strand yitzhaq System administrator ICQ: 9557698 GSM +47 922 000 12 JID: yitzhaq(a)jabber.no -==- -=- -==-

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[Dovecot] fetchmail on demand
by Graeme Vetterlein 31 May '08

31 May '08

I hoping this is an RTFM ... and somebody can point me at the correct 'FM' :-) I've just spent a while setting my new Debian , allways-on box in what I suspect is a generally useful configuration. I have fetchmail(1) collect mail from many mailboxes via pop3. I store these mails in different mboxs according to rules in procmail(1) I then offer these out to the household via imap in dovecot(1) . I have fetchmail(1) set to poll the ISPs every 5 minutes, this seems to work fine, but there are two issues: 1: The constant polling keeps the disk spinning for no good reason (most of the time) 2: If I check my mail via a mail reader using imap to the local mboxes ...there could be mail sitting on the ISP servers I don't see (for 5 mins) Now what would be much nicer, would simply be to have dovecot(1) issue the fetchmail(1) command whenever it it got an imap request. I general what I guess I would like is: "When a request comes in (via imap) fork off a command who's name is given in the conf file. ... imap_pre_cmd="xxx" -- Graeme

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[Dovecot] Sieve Editheader Extension?
by Michael K Sanders 31 May '08

31 May '08

I've done extensive searches, and there is virtually no information about actual implementations of the draft Sieve Editheader Extension (which provides 'addheader' and 'deleteheader' actions): http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sieve-editheader-11.txt Is anyone currently working on this for Dovecot Sieve? If not, are there any plans to do so? And before I start digging through the source, is the architecture amenable to this functionality? Thanks, :: Mike ::

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.rc7 Panic: POP3(username): file index-mail.c: line 1007: unreached
by Diego Liziero 31 May '08

31 May '08

And got this regression with dovecot-1.1.rc7 with each pop3 connection, hg version of 2 days ago was working fine. Now I'm back again to hg before "Message sort index handling rewrite". Regards, Diego. --- Panic: POP3(username): file index-mail.c: line 1007: unreached (gdb) bt #0 0x00b91402 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x00725ba0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x007274b1 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x080c3f0d in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:152 #4 0x080c3f5a in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x80d8210 "file %s: line %d: unreached", args=0xbfeec684 "3ï¿½\r\bï¿½\003") at failures.c:418 #5 0x080c37fc in i_panic (format=0x80d8210 "file %s: line %d: unreached") at failures.c:193 #6 0x08089a60 in index_mail_get_special (_mail=0x963cbe0, field=6, value_r=0xbfeec70c) at index-mail.c:1007 #7 0x0805aac5 in list_uids_iter (client=0x9636f68, ctx=0x96389a0) at commands.c:566 #8 0x0805ad31 in client_command_execute (client=0x9636f68, name=0x963b37c "UIDL", args=0x80dc0c2 "") at commands.c:642 #9 0x08059f92 in client_input (client=0x9636f68) at client.c:413 #10 0x080cb7c0 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x96359b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:201 #11 0x080ca9c8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x96359b0) at ioloop.c:308 #12 0x0805bbfc in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x4c52 ) at main.c:275

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[Dovecot] Panic: Trying to close mailbox INBOX with open transactions
by Diego Liziero 31 May '08

31 May '08

Got this using dovecot-1.1 (hg version of 2 days ago). I mean with http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/c4342385d696 included. Regards, Diego. ----- Panic: IMAP(username): Trying to close mailbox INBOX with open transactions (gdb) bt #0 0x007c3402 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x00138ba0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x0013a4b1 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x080d49f0 in default_fatal_finish (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0) at failures.c:152 #4 0x080d523a in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x80f6c34 "Trying to close mailbox %s with open transactions", args=0xbf8648c4 "8^\\\bï¿½H\206ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½\005\b\210ï¿½[\bNï¿½\016\bï¿½H\206ï¿½NI\016\bï¿½ï¿½[\bhï¿½[\b\030I\206ï¿½ï¿½\023\006\bï¿½ï¿½[\bï¿½ï¿½[\b\bI\206ï¿½2ï¿½\016\bï¿½ï¿½[\bï¿½$") at failures.c:418 #5 0x080d4b2a in i_panic (format=0x80f6c34 "Trying to close mailbox %s with open transactions") at failures.c:193 #6 0x080a5126 in mailbox_close (_box=0x6) at mail-storage.c:471 #7 0x0805edb8 in cmd_logout (cmd=0x85bd7d8) at cmd-logout.c:18 #8 0x080613dc in client_command_cancel (_cmd=0x85bd3c4) at client.c:75 #9 0x08061662 in client_destroy (client=0x85bd368, reason=0x80eee5b "Connection closed") at client.c:134 #10 0x0806285e in client_input (client=0x85bd368) at client.c:697 #11 0x080df05a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x85bb9b0) at ioloop-epoll.c:201 #12 0x080de2a2 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x85bb9b0) at ioloop.c:308 #13 0x0806dd14 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf864ab4, envp=0xbf864abc) at main.c:293

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[Dovecot] Upgrade To New Version
by Carlos Williams 31 May '08

31 May '08

I am currently running Dovecot on DoD production email server (Postfix) and the latest version the software available from Redhat is dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4. According to you guys, this is ancient and I was wondering what is the safest and easiest way to get my version updated without breaking it... Thanks for any help and or points in the right direction... [root@mail ~]# dovecot -n Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>]

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Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.rc7 released
by Jerry Yeager 31 May '08

31 May '08

v1.1 rc7 So far, so good, on OS X 10.5.3. No problems compiling, installing or running. :^) Jerry

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[Dovecot] v1.1.rc7 released
by Timo Sirainen 30 May '08

30 May '08

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc7.tar.gz.sig One extra RC release, just to fix compiling problems with non-Linux OSes. Nothing else changed since rc6.

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[Dovecot] Web-based shared calendar synchronizable with Outlook
by Samuel HAMEAU 30 May '08

30 May '08

Hi, I know this request is a a little off-topic but may be interesting for dovecot users (at least i hope!) Does anybody has already had an experience with a calendar sharing solution including a webcalendar and an outlook connector, "compatible" with dovecot ? Today, there are many projects aiming to be a "M$ Exchange Killer" (such as Zimbra, OBM, open-exchange, etc) but they offers a global package with MTA and imap server included. I saw the page about BynariConnector (http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/BynariConnector) but unfortunatly they do not provide a webmail :( I'm afraid What I am looking for is a shared agenda solution providing a webcalendar, an outlook connector and eventually a pda connector, using (or not) dovecot, and a corporate ldap server... What are you guys using ? sam

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1 significantly faster than 1.0
by Marc Perkel 30 May '08

30 May '08

It appears to be that 1.1 is a lot faster that 1.0. And server load levels have dropped.

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[Dovecot] v1.1.rc6 released won't compile
by webbie 30 May '08

30 May '08

I got a compile error with rc6, rc5 works fine. amd64:dovecot-1.1.rc6# uname -a FreeBSD amd64.objtech.com 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Fri Apr 18 02:18:13 EDT 2008 ./configure \ --prefix=/opt1/dovecot \ --localstatedir=/var \ --without-shadow \ --without-cyrus-sasl2 \ --without-pop3d \ --without-gssapi \ --disable-ipv6 \ --disable-debug \ --with-ioloop=kqueue \ --with-ssl=openssl make [trimmed] gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT mail-index-view-sync.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/mail-index-view-sync.Tpo -c -o mail-index-view-sync.o mail-index-view-sync.c mv -f .deps/mail-index-view-sync.Tpo .deps/mail-index-view-sync.Po gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-mail -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT mail-index-write.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/mail-index-write.Tpo -c -o mail-index-write.o mail-index-write.c mail-index-write.c: In function 'mail_index_write': mail-index-write.c:179: error: 'struct stat' has no member named 'st_ctim' mail-index-write.c:179: error: 'struct stat' has no member named 'st_ctim' *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.1.rc6/src/lib-index. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.1.rc6/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.1.rc6. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.1.rc6.

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[Dovecot] no bookeeping using public folders
by Claude Frantz 30 May '08

30 May '08

Using dovecot 1.0.10. In the config: namespace public { separator = / hidden = no prefix = Flock/ location = maildir:/home/baratin/PublicMaildir:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/Flock:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/%u/Flock } This should be a public mail folder owned by "baratin", "read only" for all other users. Every user has his/her own control and index area related to this public folder. I have verified, they are owner and "group" of the respective control and index area. The problem, while using Thunderbird: The "read only" user can delete messages or mark then read. But after a new session, all the messages are still "new". Of course, only "baratin" is the owner. The problem, while using mutt and IMAP: mutt refuse to change any flag because the folder is "read only". Of course, this is correct. My question: Why is no bookkeeping maintained for "other" users, although every one has his/her own control and index structure ? Thanks a lot ! Claude

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[Dovecot] Compile error with 1.1rc6
by Trent Stevens 30 May '08

30 May '08

I'm trying a very basic ./configure; make of v1.1rc6 under Mac OS X 10.5.3. I have previously installed v1.1rc5 with no problems (although I was running OS X 10.5.2 at the time). Machine is an Intel based Mac Mini running on an Journaled HFS+ partition. When I attempt the make I am running into: <snip> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib- mail -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing- declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad- function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT mail-index-view-sync.o -MD -MP - MF .deps/mail-index-view-sync.Tpo -c -o mail-index-view-sync.o mail- index-view-sync.c mv -f .deps/mail-index-view-sync.Tpo .deps/mail-index-view-sync.Po gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib- mail -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing- declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad- function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT mail-index-write.o -MD -MP - MF .deps/mail-index-write.Tpo -c -o mail-index-write.o mail-index- write.c mail-index-write.c: In function 'mail_index_write': mail-index-write.c:179: error: 'struct stat' has no member named 'st_ctim' mail-index-write.c:179: error: 'struct stat' has no member named 'st_ctim' make[3]: *** [mail-index-write.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2

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[Dovecot] Upgrading from 1.0x to 1.1x
by Marc Perkel 30 May '08

30 May '08

OK - about to jump to the new version of dovecot. Is there anything I need to change in the config files or things I should know? I'm using maildir format running under Fedora 8.

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[Dovecot] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird?
by Knute Johnson 30 May '08

30 May '08

I am running Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP. When I try to delete one of the folders I get a dialog with the following "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Target mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes." I am running dovecot version 1.0.13-6.fc8 under Fedora 8. The output of dovecot -n is below; [root@www knute]# dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imaps pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login 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 Is there something to be configured to allow mail box deletion? I know there was a similar discussion this week about users deleting their mailboxes accidentally. Are folders within folders allowed by dovecot? Thanks very much, -- Knute Johnson linux(a)www.knutejohnson.com

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[Dovecot] dovecot's deliver and SELinux
by Dan Horák 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hello, I am the new maintainer of dovecot for Fedora and Red Hat and so I am trying to cleanup some old reported bugs. One of them is a problem when "deliver" writes of temporary files into /tmp are blocked by SELinux policy (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=424091) From the SELinux's point of view it is bad when system services try to write into /tmp (for detail see http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/11467.html) The solution looks simple - just to switch from /tmp to PKG_RUNDIR (line 472 in deliver.c for dovecot 1.0) for writing the temp files. But this raises two questions - will it really work and when yes, is it acceptable for the author? Thanks, Dan -- Fedora and Red Hat package maintainer

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[Dovecot] Fwd: Re: [SOLVED] Configuring Quota on Dovecot 1.0.13-1~bpo40+1
by Lucas Carlessi 29 May '08

29 May '08

Thank you Tomasz! The quota per user worked fine now... The problem was that in dovecot.conf I had these lines: userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } And I just changed to: userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } Now it's working... bye! On Wed, 28 May 2008 21:08:51 +0200, Tomasz Suchodolski <suchodolski.tomasz(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all! >> I have just updated my dovecot 1.0.rc15 to 1.0.13-1~bpo40+1 > >> I have a mysql table with this structure: > >> +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ >> | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | >> +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ >> | email | varchar(91) | YES | | NULL | | >> | password | varchar(32) | NO | | | | >> | quota | bigint(20) | NO | | | | >> | home | varchar(255) | NO | | | | >> +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ > >> email returns email(a)domain.com > >> password returns the pass in mysql-crypt format > >> quota returns the quota in bytes(like 100000000) > >> home returns the path to the user home(like >> /home/vmail/domain.com/email/) > >> the mail user and group id are 5000. > >> Now the question: How can I configure the quotas by user using >> mysql... in dovecot 1.0.rc15 didn't work... >> Thanks for your >> help! > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/1.0 > Set global quota and see examples for sql queries. Also try with > kilobytes. > > Ps. 1.0.rc15 - quota per user(with mysql) works - I have tested it. > > Regards

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[Dovecot] "storage error during logout"
by Vegard Svanberg 29 May '08

29 May '08

What is this error message actually trying to tell me? May 28 13:47:24 yyy dovecot: POP3(aaa@bbb): Disconnected: Storage error during logout. top=0/0, retr=2/73195, del=0/435, size=13509375 This user is accessing his mailbox using both POP3 and IMAP, I don't know if that's relevant. The POP3 check is quite aggressive; once every minute or so. Dovecot 1.0.13-1~bpo40+1 -- Vegard Svanberg <vegard(a)svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]

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[Dovecot] Trim trailing whitespace from username
by David Jonas 29 May '08

29 May '08

Recently we changed Postfix to use Dovecot for our SASL authentication and we ran into trouble with some of our clients having extraneous spaces at the end of their usernames. The quick fix was to add a space to username_chars. The slightly longer fix was a pretty simple patch to Dovecot. I put the trimming in auth_request_fix_username. I didn't think it warranted a full strfuncs function. If there is a better way to do this I'm all ears. I don't really like patching with my own code, even if I did essentially steal if from the kernel's strstrip(). diff -u dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/auth/auth-request.c dovecot-1.1.rc5-patched/src/auth/auth-request.c --- dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/auth/auth-request.c 2008-05-04 15:01:52.000000000 -0700 +++ dovecot-1.1.rc5-patched/src/auth/auth-request.c 2008-05-16 00:44:15.000000000 -0700 @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/stat.h> +#include <ctype.h> struct auth_request * auth_request_new(struct auth *auth, const struct mech_module *mech, @@ -750,6 +751,7 @@ { unsigned char *p; char *user; + size_t size; if (strchr(username, '@') == NULL && request->auth->default_realm != NULL) { @@ -759,6 +761,16 @@ user = p_strdup(request->pool, username); } + /* Trim trailing whitespace from the username */ + size = strlen((unsigned char*)user); + if(size) { + p = user + size - 1; + while (p != user && isspace(*p)) + p--; + *(p + 1) = '\0'; + p = NULL; + } + for (p = (unsigned char *)user; *p != '\0'; p++) { if (request->auth->username_translation[*p & 0xff] != 0) *p = request->auth->username_translation[*p & 0xff];

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[Dovecot] Sieve/Vacation
by Ulrich Schreiner 29 May '08

29 May '08

hi, i'm using 1.1.rc5 but the same error occured with 1.0.13. the dovecot package was installed on centos 5 with rpm's from atrpms. exim 4.69. everything works fine except the vacation's from sieve. don't get me wrong, sieve works for everything, including mailforwards, or sorting in subfolders. but when i have a vacation, the script is compiled, but it produces the following output: sieve_execute_bytecode(/var/virtuser/test@<adomain>.sievec) failed (the "<adomain>" is replaced with the real domain of the user). i use virtual users in different domains. the sieve-scripts are generated by horde/ingo and stored via ftp in the "/var/virtuser" directory with the pattern "%u.sieve". the "sievec" files are up-to-date, because: a) i can delete the "sievec" files and they are regenerated b) i can "sieved" them and get an disassembled output with the vacation rule inside but when executing the script (when a mail arrives) the upper error is logged and no vacation is processed. the same error occured with 1.0.13 thank you </usc>

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[Dovecot] Configuring Quota on Dovecot 1.0.13-1~bpo40+1
by Lucas Carlessi 28 May '08

28 May '08

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[Dovecot] Configuring Quota on Dovecot 1.0.13-1~bpo40+1
by Lucas Carlessi 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi all! I have just updated my dovecot 1.0.rc15 to 1.0.13-1~bpo40+1 from backports... I need some help in configure quotas by user using mysql

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 rc15 + Quota by user using mysql
by Lucas Carlessi 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi all, I installed the Dovecot on a Debian by apt-get, it's all working except quota by user.. I have a database with all quotas in bytes, and that lines in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf : driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=USER password=PASS default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM view_users WHERE email='%u'; #Quota: user_query = SELECT home AS maildir, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, CONCAT('dirsize:storage=', ROUND( view_users.quota / 1024) ) AS quota FROM view_users WHERE email='%u'; and in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf : protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_plugins = quota } plugin { #quota = maildir:ignore=Trash } But when I open the webmail I have no limit quotas! If I put quota = maildir:storage=101480 in plugin the quota works fine at 100MB, but in all users... Is the query right? There is another way to configure quotas by user in Dovecot 1.0 using mysql? Sorry my bad English, and thank you all!

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[Dovecot] Error when using include directive in Sieve
by Juan Asensio Sánchez 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi I have two sieve scripts: # cat /var/vmail/sieve/global require ["include"]; include :global "spam"; include :personal "sieve"; # cat /var/vmail/sieve/spam require "fileinto"; if exists "X-Spam-Flag" { fileinto "Junk"; } # ls -l /var/vmail/sieve/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 mailuser mailgroup 68 2008-05-28 00:40 global -rw------- 1 mailuser mailgroup 80 2008-05-28 00:40 globalc -rw-r--r-- 1 mailuser mailgroup 68 2008-05-27 21:15 spam -rw------- 1 mailuser mailgroup 80 2008-05-27 21:25 spamc # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf [...] sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/sieve/ sieve_global_path = /var/vmail/sieve/global [...] When delivering a message I get: deliver(*****@*******): May 28 00:39:04 Error: sieve_execute_bytecode(/var/vmail/sieve/globalc) failed Personal sieve script is not sure to exist, only if the user has created it. If I put the contents of the spam script in the global script (replacing the content), everything works fine. Why does this happen? Is it because the personal script doesn't exists?Or is the syntax incorrect (i don't think this because the script is compiled)? Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Vanishing maildirsize files with 1.0.7 using 'deliver' via postfix
by Jason Forester 28 May '08

28 May '08

Aloha, I've searched the list and have found no similar reports, so I'm asking here. We have 3 RH5.1 boxes running the stock Postfix 2.3.3, but due to issues with the stock Dovecot 1.0rc15, Redhat supplied us with the version of Dovecot 1.0.7 that will be in Redhat 5.2. The mail store is automounted per-user from a Sun box via NFS. We were using it with no problems until last Friday, when we attempted to implement quotas. I had done quite a lot of testing on a single system, so I didn't anticipate any issues here. I created maildirsize files for each user in the NFS-mounted /var/spool/mail/$USER and everything seemed fine. I changed mailbox_command to /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver in postfix main.cf. Mail was delivered, quota files updated, all good. However almost immediately a maildirsize folder vanished. Soon after another, then another, and now we're missing nearly 40 of them. Any ideas as to why they're vanishing? Something to do with NFS? I've tried to trigger it by massively sending to the same user on all three systems but have yet to reproduce it at will. Any clues would be appreciated. For reasons of support I cannot upgrade to a later dovecot at this time. Best Regards, - jason

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[Dovecot] Dovecot quota for mailadministrator
by Markus Hofer 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hallo, i have a question for the quota with dovecot. I plan to go from our cyrus installation to dovecot. I have just install dovecot without problem with mysqldb and quota per user. Quota work well and the user receive always via Webmail or client the quota information. My question is: With cyrus the mailadministrator has the possibility to see the quota for all users with the command "quota". Output or example: 300000 9 28305 user.tinfo With that way the administrator could have always a look if some users have quota problems. My question is, if dovecot has some similar command for the administrator? Thanks in advance. Markus

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[Dovecot] Problem with checkpassword-reply
by sawyer x 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hello I posted an earlier post on problems with getting usernames. That one is solved, thank you. I'm currently having trouble executing checkpassword-reply. The maillog shows the following error: (substituting rip/lip/user/domain) May 27 07:21:06 saw dovecot: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user user(a)domain.com> May 27 07:21:06 saw dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<user(a)domain.com>, method=plain, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS My script reads fd3 right and gets all the details correct. Then runs the following code: --- $REPLY = $ARGV[0] || exit 111; # this is actually run much earlier $ENV{HOME} = "$USERSHOME/$domain/$user"; $ENV{USER} = $user; # effective gid $) = 300; # effective uid $> = 300; exec $REPLY; --- I've looked at the checkpassword-reply code (thank god for open source software) and I saw that it opens fd4 for writing. I couldn't find any documentation about this and couldn't find anyone who is using checkpassword-reply. No sample scripts, no examples, and the documentation on the site is extremely scarce. The wiki docs indicate I should just execute it - which I do - but that does not help. Also, the debugging isn't very meaningful. I'm definitely changing the UID and GID, but it's not apparent in the maillog. The fie permissions on checkpassword-reply show I could execute it under any user and I've tried that with "sudo -u <user> /path/to/checkpassword-reply. On a post somewhere in the vortex of the internet someone said Dovecot does not allow any uid/gid under 99 (which is why I tried 300), but I couldn't find any documentation for that anywhere in the wiki either. What am I missing and is there anything I've missed that would have prevented me from emailing the mailing list with this long email? Thanks, Sawyer.

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[Dovecot] Asking for password
by Aziz KNINA 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hi, I'm a new user of Dovecot. I have installed it in a server in combination of Postfix. I have created a system user and given him a password, this is a final user. when I try to add the account in my mail client (outlook), I get the window of authentication asking for password, even if I enter the correct password, this window does not disappear. below my configuration. dovecot --version: 1.0.13 dovecot -n: # 1.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes 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 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %m auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd can someone help me with this? thank you at advance. -- RG Aziz KNINA

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[Dovecot] mbox From escaping implementation ?
by Nicolas KOWALSKI 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hello, I read in the wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox) about "From Escaping": "Dovecot doesn't currently do this escaping however. Instead it prevents this confusion by adding Content-Length headers so it knows later where the next message begins. Dovecot doesn't either remove the '>' characters before sending the data to clients. Both of these will probably be implemented later." As I understand it, this makes the mbox format of dovecot slightly incompatible with other mbox-capable clients, because if they read the data files directly, they may understand a line starting with an unescaped 'From ' as the start of a new message. Right ? Are there any plans to implement this escaping in the future (1.1.x or 2.0.x?) Thanks, -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] Sieve plugin changes 'To' header on redirect
by Patrick Nagel 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hi, I'm a bit confused by the fact that the 'To' header is being modified by sieve when a message is being redirected. RFC3028 states in chapter 4.3: > The "redirect" action is used to send the message to another user at > a supplied address, as a mail forwarding feature does. The > "redirect" action makes no changes to the message body or existing > headers, but it may add new headers. The "redirect" modifies the > envelope recipient. (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3028.txt) The situation here is as follows: I'm sending a mail to "city(a)company.net" (To: ...), which is being delivered to "city(a)city.company.net" (Delivered-To: ...). User city has the following sieve script: redirect "other(a)company.net"; keep; One would expect, that the 'To:' header is identical in both mails, but instead I get something like this: Mail in 'city' mailbox: > Delivered-To: city(a)city.company.net > To: city(a)company.net > Subject: test mail (Redirected) Mail in 'other' mailbox: > Delivered-To: other(a)city.company.net > To: city(a)city.company.net > Subject: test mail It seems as if sieve uses the 'Delivered-To' header as the 'To' header in the redirected mail - which is not what I need. Am I misunderstanding something here, or does dovecot's sieve plugin not act according to the RFC? Patrick. -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 5427 7799 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 6485 0071 PGP key: https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005

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[Dovecot] Problem of using dovecot as sasl implement for postfix
by sosogh 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hi list I install postfix dovecot on my debian etch box I install them via apt-get I want to use dovecot to be postfix sasl implement,but i got the following error message in the mail log: Apr 27 21:28:39 sosogh postfix/smtpd[19776]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory Apr 27 21:28:39 sosogh postfix/smtpd[19776]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Apr 27 21:28:40 sosogh postfix/master[19765]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 19776 exit status 1 my configuration: postfix: Mail:/etc/dovecot# more /etc/postfix/main.cf smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth Mail:/etc/dovecot# postconf | grep mail_version mail_version = 2.3.8 Mail:/etc/dovecot# postconf | grep -i mail_owner mail_owner = postfix Mail:/etc/dovecot# ls -al /var/spool/postfix/private/ total 8 drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 2008-04-27 22:11 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2008-01-20 23:12 .. srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 anvil srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 bounce srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 bsmtp srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 defer srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 discard srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 dspam srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 error srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 ifmail srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 lmtp srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 local srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 maildrop srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 mailman srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 policy srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 proxymap srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 relay srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 rewrite srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 scache srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 scalemail-backend srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 smtp srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 tlsmgr srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 trace srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 uucp srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 verify srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 virtual dovecot: Mail:/etc/dovecot# dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 Mail:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: Mail:/etc/dovecot# more dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log disable_plaintext_auth = no auth default { mechanisms = plain login user = postfix passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } user = root socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } I wonder why private/auth does not exsit THANK YOU！ BEST RGDS! ****************** sosogh(a)126.com 2008-05-26 *******************

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[Dovecot] Bug: subscriptions file does not take on the same perms as dovecot-shared
by Damon Atkins 27 May '08

27 May '08

All, Version: 1.1.rc5 Solaris x86 on ZFS Shared Folder Bug, renamed a folder with sub folders (Maildir format) After the rename the subscriptions file is own by the person who renamed the folders, and access is owner rw only. Instead it should be the same as dovecot-shared which would general be rw owner, and rw group for a shared folder. Cheers Damon.

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[Dovecot] Multiple files for sieve
by Adrián Ribao Martínez 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hello, I have this line in the plugins configuration section : sieve = /etc/dovecot/sieve Where: /etc/dovecot/sieve: require "fileinto" if header :contains "Subject" "****SPAM****"{ fileinto "spam"; } I want this filter for all the users of the system, but I also want to tell dovecot to look in the /home/user/mail/.sieve file for custom per-user filters. Can I do this? Thank you. -- Adrián Ribao Martínez

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crash in 1.0.9
by Peter Eriksson 26 May '08

26 May '08

I've been having a problem with a crashing Dovecot the last couple of months where it crashes after a couple of weeks of uptime. Been a bit difficult to diagnose. Anyway, we're now running 1.0.9 on a Sun Fire T1000 running Solaris 10. Any good ideas on how to pin-point the problem? - Peter Here's the output from syslog when the last crash happened: May 14 11:46:50 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<hidta>, method=PLAIN, rip=130.236.160.20, lip=13 0.236.160.6, secured May 14 11:46:50 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=4054 May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(joher): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 143: assertion failed: (UIDLIS T_IS_LOCKED(uidlist)) May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(joher): Raw backtrace: 0x100082768 -> 0x1000298ec -> 0x100027e70 -> 0x100028fa8 -> 0x1000294a8 -> 0x10002057c -> 0x100014824 -> 0x100016cb4 -> 0x1000170d4 -> 0x10008a458 -> 0x100089938 -> 0x100022ad 8 -> 0x10000fe7c May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 3677 (imap) killed with signal 6 May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.warning] IMAP(hidta): Killed with signal 15 May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.warning] IMAP(peber): Killed with signal 15 ... May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(yohell): Server shutting down May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.warning] imap-login: Killed with signal 15 May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.warning] auth(default): Killed with signal 15 May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot[7743]: [ID 711832 mail.warning] I/O leak: 10000a578 (268) May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot[7743]: [ID 711832 mail.warning] I/O leak: 10000a578 (275) May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot[7743]: [ID 711832 mail.warning] I/O leak: 10000a578 (261) May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot[7743]: [ID 711832 mail.warning] I/O leak: 10000a578 (256) May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot[7743]: [ID 711832 mail.warning] I/O leak: 10000a578 (197) May 14 11:46:51 ifm.liu.se dovecot[7743]: [ID 711832 mail.warning] I/O leak: 10000a578 (254)

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[Dovecot] 1.1rc5 Panic: mailbox-tree.c: line 171 (mailbox_tree_iterate_set_next_node)
by Jeffrey Rice 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hi, I do hope this hasn't been covered. I googled and looked in the archives but didn't see anything related, so hopefully I am not covering old ground. I recently upgraded from 1.0.10 to 1.1rc5. I am seeing this error from clients: May 25 11:01:54 finity dovecot: Panic: IMAP(xxx(a)here.org): file mailbox-tree.c: line 171 (mailbox_tree_iterate_set_next_node): assertion failed: (len <= ctx->parent_pos) May 25 10:21:19 finity dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)here.org): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80ced44] -> imap [0x80ce99a] -> imap [0x80a0c63] -> imap(maildir_list_iter_next+0x33) [0x806ba53] -> imap [0x805c49b] -> imap(cmd_list_full+0x4b2) [0x805d1d2] -> imap(cmd_lsub+0x1a) [0x805d55a] -> imap [0x805f83c] -> imap [0x805f8e5] -> imap [0x80600c5] -> imap(client_input+0x5e) [0x80602ce] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x110) [0x80d6ad0] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80d5d28] -> imap(main+0x4a1) [0x8067e71] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7de6450] -> imap [0x8059d61] ## In my old install, I did have mail_extra_groups = vmail I commented that out and put in: mail_access_groups = vmail mail_privileged_group = vmail The documentation on these parameters is a bit light, so I'm not sure which (or both) to use. Can someone clarify? All the maildirs are owned by group vmail. ### dovecot -n # 1.1.rc5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/certs/dovecot_cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/private/dovecot_key.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: IMAP ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 1 mail_access_groups: vmail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_process_size: 70 auth default: mechanisms: plain cram-md5 login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.cnf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%u/home socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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