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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot With cygwin
by Jaspreet Singh 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

I googled around web and found http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-December/005665.html by Johannes Berg that has a patch for dovecot + cygwin. but that does not work. Does anybody successfully compiled and running dovecot on windows XP + cygwin 5.1. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] Please remove me
by Mike McGonagle 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hello Mr List Administrator, I have tried to remove myself from this list, but for some reason, these requests are being ignored, and I am still receiving these mailings. Could someone in charge PLEASE remove me email address from this list? Thank you, Michael McGonagle

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[Dovecot] Quota per domain
by Michel Bulgado 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi People I have a two questions I use dovecot 1.0.10 I have quota maildir 1- I want to use the last version of quota 1.1 in my dovecot , i have to patch then, so which file i have to apply ? http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/ this one quota-rewrite-1.0.9.diff ??? my another question : 2- with the new quota (1.1) if is posible define a quota per domain? %n(a)domain1.com = 100M %n(a)domain2.com = 0 --- no quota limit or @domain1.com = 100M @domain2.com = 0 --- no limit quota Once again , sorry for my english Thanks -------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] old master.pid prevents dovecot startup
by Michael 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Summary ======= After an unclean shutdown the file /var/run/dovecot/master.pid remained behind. This prevented dovecot from starting, and gave a misleading error message. To be more resilient and fault-tolerant, I recommend that dovecot also check the validity of the PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid in order to determine whether or not another dovecot process is running. Detail ====== In testing out my automatic UPS shutdown I inadvertently shut down my system uncleanly ... oops! As the system rebooted, I saw that dovecot did not start properly, with an error message: Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf After the system came up, I tried to start dovecot manually. Turns out that there was an invalid PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid ----- [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 1965 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf [FAILED] [root@mykiss5 mth]# ps 1965 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [root@mykiss5 mth]# rm /var/run/dovecot/master.pid rm: remove regular file `/var/run/dovecot/master.pid'? y [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot stop Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# dovecot --version 1.0.7 [root@mykiss5 mth]# ----- This leads me to believe that dovecot is only checking for the existance of /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. It seems to me that it would be more fault-tolerant if it also checked the validity of the PID that is in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
by Jerry Yeager 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

> > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:11 +0100 > From: Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)dword.org> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at > */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <200801151519.11951.daff(a)dword.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 03:56:28 Jerry Yeager wrote: >>> while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA >>> "deliver" can be >>> used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that >>> in [1]) I >>> always end up running into the error message posted in the subject >>> line: ( stuff snipped out ) >> One last thing, as a security idea, try something like >> >> master { >> path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master >> mode = 0600 >> user = dovecot_user >> group = dovecot_group >> } >> >> and set your postfix line that calls deliver to match: >> >> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu >> user=dovecot_user:dovecot_group argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ >> deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} > > Thanks for this suggestion! But that would imply that I have a > virtual user > setup, wouldn't it? Because I don't, all my users are regular Unix > users with > shell accounts. That's why my Postfix main.cf contains just > > home_mailbox = Maildir/ > mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > which is also what the LDA/Postfix wiki page says on > wiki.dovecot.org. No > Dovecot entry in master.cf at all. > Actually I was responding to what you had listed in your message i.e. socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: root group: dovecot -- which is a setup type you would use in a virtual style of user (either a "super user" or a group of non-system listed users with different uids / gids) setup . I had not encountered your other postings until later. Jerry > And, as also mentioned elsewhere in this thread, until yesterday I > didn't even > have the master { ... } section uncommented, and no auth-master > socket seems > to have been configured. But then again I only delivered through > Postfix and > didn't need to have deliver called by a regular user. > > Andreas > -- > Andreas "daff" Ntaflos > Vienna, Austria > > GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4 >

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[Dovecot] Keep pop messages, is it possible?
by "Fábio M. Catunda" 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi! I would like to find a way to not delete messages when they are downloaded via pop3, is that possible with dovecot? Gmail do this, I dont know how they mark messages that have been downloaded to avoid clients to download it again, but it looks like a good resource! Thanks for the help!

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Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
by Jerry Yeager 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

> > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:21:02 +0100 > From: Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)pseudoterminal.org> > Subject: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at > */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <200801150021.02689.daff(a)pseudoterminal.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello list, > > while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA > "deliver" can be > used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that > in [1]) I > always end up running into the error message posted in the subject > line: > > Jan 15 00:00:02 HOSTNAME deliver(USERID): Can't connect to auth server > at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Permission denied > > Notice how it says "/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"! How and why does > dovecot > ^^^^^^^^^^ > think that anything of any importance can be found under /usr/local/ > var/... ? > Please see dovecot -n at the end of this message, but as far as I > can tell I > > master: > path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > mode: 432 > user: root > group: dovecot > -- > Andreas "daff" Ntaflos > Vienna, Austria > For the quick answer to your immediate problem / question, try: cd /path/to/dovecot's/deliver (probably /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ ) chmod u+s deliver (enable the setuid bit for the deliver app). Your Getmail app may not be truly running as root and thus does not really have permission to do what you want. you may need to do the same for the group as well Unix permissions are weird sometimes, like a $100 television tube that protects a 50 cent fuse by blowing first. It does look like (from your use of /usr/local/*****) you built dovecot to run out of /usr/local. One last thing, as a security idea, try something like master { path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = dovecot_user group = dovecot_group } and set your postfix line that calls deliver to match: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=dovecot_user:dovecot_group argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} (try to have dovecot run as an unprivileged user as much as you can)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot With cygwin
by Jaspreet Singh 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi This is jesse. I am running exim as my mail server on cygwin. But i need imap/pop3 for accessing mail. I found that dovecot works on cygwin with some code change. So can i know how to compile dovecot on cygwin. This is important ANYBODY ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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[Dovecot] setgid fails
by Anil 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I am using LDA/Sendmail. 20080113 version of dovecot. Jan 14 08:52:18 vds5 deliver(admin(a)domain.com): [ID 308812 mail.crit] setgid(10002) failed with euid=1, egid=1: Not owner

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[Dovecot] Maildir handling
by Sascha Holzleiter 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi, we just setup a new mailserver for our company with some sieve filtering in place. Everything works as expected but there is one flaw. We setup the per user sieve filters in files within the users mailbox maildir as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 mail mail 21 Jan 13 17:20 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/phpscript.sieve This link is actually picked up by dovecot and being announced as an IMAP folder which gives an error in certain MUAs as they try to access it. Is there a way to let dovecot check if the link is really a maildir, so lets say a directory with a maildirfolder file within it? Or just to hide this link from dovecot so its not advertised as an IMAP folder? Greetings, Sascha

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[Dovecot] Unexplained MDA bounce backs
by Dean Manners 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I have recently noticed that some of our internal mailer scripts are causing Dovecot-LDA to generate Mailer Delivery Subsystem messages. The following Dovecot-LDA message is generated: ---- Message body ---- Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent. The following reason was given: Unknown error ---- Message body ---- ---- Message header ---- Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> Delivered-To: bounces@xxxxx Received: by mymachine.xxxxx (Postfix, from userid 5000) id 5772568300; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:00:56 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <dovecot-1200294055-774265-0@mymachine> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:00:55 +1100 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <noreply@xxxxx> To: <bounces@xxxxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=disposition-notification; boundary="21506/mailfilter02" Subject: Automatically rejected mail Auto-Submitted: auto-replied (rejected) Precedence: bulk ---- Message header ---- Initially I thought these were being caused by Delivery-Receipt requests, however have since tested this and is not the case. I have tried to snoop through the logs (unfortunately on a very busy mail hub) using the Message-ID, however this doesn't seem to lead me back to the original message - only the MDA notification. I can only ascertain that its isolated to our scripts, as the bounces@ address is specifically used by them. Any ideas what would cause/trigger the "Unknown error" automatic rejects ? System config is -Postfix 2.3.4 with MySQL backend -Dovecot 1.0.rc26 with MySQL backend, using only deliver. All mail deliveries are otherwise fine. Regards __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap proxy with tls?
by Someone Something 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

offlineimap looks like it will work. Do you know if it works well on big changes? I have about 1.5 gigs of email at the local site that will need to be uploaded to the main server. After its uploaded it will have to weed through it all during the sync every time. Think that will be ok? Thanks > Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Someone Something wrote: > > > >> I have a server with dovecot installed with imap and tls working > (call > >> that the remote server). Now I want to have a few computers at the > same > >> place to access the same account on the remote server. I have another > >> server (call this the local server) at the local site to do this with > >> but am > >> not sure how to do it. The proxy setup > >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy looks > >> about right > >> but that does not seem to support tls? I need tls going from the local > >> server to the remote server. I want all emails on the remote server > >> to be > >> the same as on the local server. This way all clients at the local > site > >> have very fast access to email and can still get to the email when > >> not at > >> the local site. > > > > This is a little different from what you're doing, but let me tell you > > how I do the above: I run offlineimap on the "local server", and it > > syncs the changes to and from the "remote server". > > > > -- Asheesh. > > > > >

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[Dovecot] Imap proxy with tls?
by Someone Something 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello all, I have a server with dovecot installed with imap and tls working (call that the remote server). Now I want to have a few computers at the same place to access the same account on the remote server. I have another server (call this the local server) at the local site to do this with but am not sure how to do it. The proxy setup http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy looks about right but that does not seem to support tls? I need tls going from the local server to the remote server. I want all emails on the remote server to be the same as on the local server. This way all clients at the local site have very fast access to email and can still get to the email when not at the local site. Any suggestions? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Indexes
by Daniel L. Miller 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a mailbox. Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine. Is this expected behaviour? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Custom 'quota exceeded' message + Sieve script from database
by Przemyslaw Wegrzyn 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi! I'm quite new to Dovecot. helping my friend to migrate from Courier-IMAP to something more efficient, we are evaluating Dovecot at the moment. I had to prepare 2 small patches for Dovecot to suit our needs, and I've decided to post it here. I'm not fully familiar with Dovecot architecture yet, I'd appreciate if someone could look if these changes make sense (i.e. doesn't break anything). And of course, maybe someone is interested as well. 1. Customized "quota exceeded" message. http://czajnick.sitenet.pl/dovecot/dovecot_1.0.9_quota_exceeded_message.diff - quick hack to let me define custom message instead of typical "Quota exceeded", simply by using plugins { quota_exceeded_message = ... }. Browsing this mailing list I've seen some posts about such feature being implemented in Dovecot. Is it done in a similar way? Which stable version is the first to include this functionality? 2. Sieve filter modification http://czajnick.sitenet.pl/dovecot/dovecot_sieve_1.0.2_envscript_patch.diff In our systems we currently use a modified maildrop MDA that picks the filter script from the database instead of the file. This has proven useful - end-user's administration panel doesn't need any special permissions (or networking capabilities), as it doesn't need to access the filesystem - it is reduced to a plain database web-app. The patch above makes the delivery agent check for the sieve script present in SIEVE_SCRIPT environment variable. If this is the case, env var content is used instead of the script stored in a usual file pointed to by SIEVE variable. This makes it trivial to pass the script from the database using base dovecot functionality. A minor drawback of such solution is that the script is re-compiled on each delivery, but I don't think it takes much time to compile a few lines of a script using (f)lex/bison-or-yacc parser. Yes, I've noticed the sieve-manage patch, but I don't want the complexity of managing sieve script over the socket connection (if my understanding of the script is wrong, please correct me). BR, Przemyslaw

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[Dovecot] do not lose mail when dovecot is dead
by Daniel 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi! Recently I've experienced problems with dovecot. Dovecot died silently, what means is that there are no core files, nor any indication in the log files, just the "kevent(): Invalid argument" messages. Dovecot just died, so deliver could not connect to the auth-master socket, which means that messages couldn't been delivered. The problem is that postfix thought that the delivery was successful, and didn't place the message to delay, but deliver(LDA) couldn't deliver the message, so it got lost. An example: postfix/pickup[29619]: 8A1C6F261: uid=1001 from=<id> postfix/cleanup[19148]: 8A1C6F261: message-id=<20080107192402.8A1C6F261(a)domain.hu> postfix/qmgr[29441]: 8A1C6F261: from=<id(a)domain.hu>, size=585, nrcpt=1 (queue active) deliver(leva): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda deliver(leva): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so deliver(leva): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so deliver(leva): Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Connection refused postfix/pipe[8582]: 8A1C6F261: to=<leva(a)domain.hu>, orig_to=<id>, relay=dovecot-lda, delay=1.7, delays=1.1/0/0/0 .68, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot-lda service) postfix/qmgr[29441]: 8A1C6F261: removed See? Postfix removed it from the queue, so basically all bets are off, and everything depends on deliver, but it just dropped the message. Is there anything that can be done regarding this issue? Thanks! Daniel

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[Dovecot] randomly disconnected with imap, and latest hg
by Daniel 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hi! I'm using latest hg from the 1.1 branch, and noticed that since yesterday's updates, dovecot randomly disconnects clients when using imap, with these message in the log: "Disconnected for inactivity in reading our output bytes=153/41319" This happens randomly. Eg. I'm fetching messages, and suddenly, dovecot disconnects. Or my MUA just sits there, and then again, dovecot disconnects me with this message. I didn't even do anything with the client, so I can't think of anything which could've been read. What could be the problem? Daniel

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[Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users
by Andrew Falanga 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hi, I have to admit that I'm not quite sure why no one has responded to me about this one. If I'm not providing enough information or incorrect information please tell me. It's quite important that this e-mail system be working. I do not quite understand what it is that I'm missing now. I have the need to setup and configure various users as virtual users. To this end, I've configured them so that their home directories are "/virtusers/<userid>" and their INBOXes are "/var/mail/<userid>." I have created a system user ID called "vmail" which is referenced in my PostgreSQL database for UID/GID stuff. All virtual user home directories and INBOXes are made owner "vmail" and group is "users." Originally, I had my sendmail "/etc/mail/aliases" file setup to "map" all mail sent to these virtual users to the system user "vmail." However, none of the virtual users were getting any mail and vmail was just getting swamped. After doing more digging, I found that I just didn't understand the home directories and INBOX, mbox and such. That's what drove me to configuring what's in there now. Now, following directions on this WIKI page: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail?highlight=%28deliver%29 I'm still unable to get the e-mail working for them. Continually, sendmail bails with errors saying it, "Can't create output." Because I am using *.mc files, I made a new *.m4 file as directed in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/mailer. Dovecot does allow the virtual users to login. In fact, when I did, the first time, there appears a "mail" directory in their home directories after login. This would indicate to me that the login was successful. Further, I cut/pasted a message sent to one of the virtual users from the vmail INBOX (/var/mail/vmail) into the virtual user's INBOX (/var/mail/jdunkin). Then, logged in as this virtual user and ACTUALLY got the mail. I know this stuff works. What must be done to make sendmail do its thing for deliver? What is necessary to fix this situation? Andy

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[Dovecot] Allow_nets
by Evaggelos Balaskas 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I use the allow_nets password extra field [0] for my users. Is there a way to use this functionality for ALL users, and not to edit my passwd-file every time a new user is added ? The alternative i am working for this is the TCP Wrappers. [0]: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkd7ZzIACgkQWIK+Pe9twhrRDQCgjui9zyG67n6kA5I1Lf+0efvg cvIAoMe7+gniwfbZdFGh8UERtuw7IG0K =KKQk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-imap, tls, gnus
by Richard G Riley 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

I have a connection to my dovecot server from gnus: ,---- | (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods | '(nnimap "hermes" | (nnimap-stream starttls) | (nnimap-address "hermes") | (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo"))) `---- If I enter a group and read my mail then wander off and come back after a few minutes I can not navigate out of the group because my nnimap session has ended. What config parameter do I need to change in Dovecot to keep it open for the life of the client? (I am assuming its a dovecot issue here since it didn't happen with courier-imap).

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[Dovecot] Problem: "Missing IMAP reply key: F"
by Claus Atzenbeck 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi all: I installed dovecot v1.0 (on Mac OS X) and want to connect to is on localhost via Pine or Alpine, but it fails. Pine's debug mode tells me the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debug output of the Pine program (debug=2 debug_imap=4). Version 4.64 (OSX) [...] Terminal type: screen About to open folder "INBOX" inbox is: "INBOX" IMAP 14:40:22 1/11 mm_log babble: Trying IP address [::1] IMAP 14:40:22 1/11 mm_log warning: Connection failed to localhost,143: Connection refused IMAP 14:40:22 1/11 mm_log babble: Trying IP address [127.0.0.1] IMAP DEBUG 14:40:22 1/11: F IMAP 14:40:22 1/11 mm_notify warning: {localhost}inbox: Missing IMAP reply key: F IMAP 14:40:22 1/11 mm_notify bye: {localhost}inbox: [CLOSED] IMAP connection broken (server response) IMAP 14:40:22 1/11 mm_log error: [CLOSED] IMAP connection broken (server response) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I use the options "disable_plaintext_auth = no" and "ssl_disable = yes", because I don't need encryption. (I only access the server from localhost.) What does "Missing IMAP reply key: F" mean? Any easy way to solve the problem? Thanks for any hint! Claus

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[Dovecot] Automatically subscribe to folder?
by Christian Flothmann 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hello everybody, i am filtering e-mails using the cmusieve-plugin. A global script filters all mails tagged by SpamAssasin and moves them into the folder Spam: if header :is "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { fileinto "Spam"; } My problem is that users who did not had a folder Spam until the first time of filtering a spam mail are not automatically subscribed to this new created folder. They have to do this step manually in their mail client. Is it possible to automate this script and subscribe the account to this folder when it is created by the sieve script? Regards, Christian

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[Dovecot] Test Environment Question
by Stewart Dean 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

I have my master IMAP server running DC V1.0.10. The homedir and INBOXdir are physically resident there and NFS exported (no caching) to 3 other machines. I have installed V1.1beta13 on one of them (which thus accesses the homedir/INBOXdir remotely) and plan to have a limited community test-drive it there. Are there any hazards or drawbacks in doing this? While the homedirs and INBOXdirs are thus shared, I have it so that each machine has its own local index directory and /var/run dir. Comments or dire warnings?

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Re: [Dovecot] deliver triggering SELinux AVC denials
by greno＠verizon.net 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

>From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> >Date: 2008/01/01 Tue PM 09:18:05 CST >To: Gerry Reno <greno(a)verizon.net> >Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >Subject: Re: [Dovecot] deliver triggering SELinux AVC denials ... >Set dotlock_use_excl=yes to see what file it's really wanting to create. Ok, did that. And looking at all the alerts it appears to be any file that deliver is trying to write under /home/vmail. My users are all virtual and they all exist like: /home/vmail/example.com/john typical permissions: -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 464 2008-01-01 20:06 dovecot.index.log but for some reason even though deliver is setup to run as vmail:vmail it is still having permission problems. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} ???? Gerry

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[Dovecot] number of auth process
by Jorge Salamero Sanz 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

hi there, what are exactly the differences between auth_worker_max_count = 30 and auth default { count = 1 } ? first are threads (for threaded auth methods) and second the number of process ?

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[Dovecot] [dovecot][configure] docdir option lost
by Guth 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, While building dovecot-1.0.10 i've a trouble with --docdir configure option. It seems this option overload is "lost" during makefiles recurse generation (i didn't check others overload). Following are config.log and Makefiles cuts : ------------------- $ grep docdir dovecot-1.0.10/config.log dovecot-1.0.10/Makefile dovecot-1.0.10/doc/Makefile dovecot-1.0.10/doc/wiki/Makefile dovecot-1.0.10/config.log: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gssapi --with-ldap --with-sql --with-mysql --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/man --with-docs --docdir=/usr/doc/dovecot-1.0.10 dovecot-1.0.10/config.log:docdir='/usr/doc/dovecot-1.0.10' dovecot-1.0.10/Makefile:docdir = /usr/doc/dovecot-1.0.10 dovecot-1.0.10/doc/Makefile:docdir = $(datadir)/doc/dovecot dovecot-1.0.10/doc/wiki/Makefile:docdir = $(datadir)/doc/dovecot ------------------- I'll correct it in a dirty way (sed is my friend after Makefiles creation) because i want it built quickly, but i guess it shouldn't be hard to avoid this problem in futures releases. -- Guth

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[Dovecot] virtual domains/users and LDAP
by Anil 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

I have two suffixes in LDAP with users, e.g. ou=People, o=example.com ou=People, o=somethingelse.com I have the following two users: dn: uid=test1, ou=People, o=example.com uid: test1 mail: test(a)gmail.com dn: uid=test2, ou=People, o=somethingelse.com mail: test(a)yahoo.com uid: test2 The users login to IMAP as: test1(a)examle.com and test2(a)somethingelse.com. Here's an (excerpt) of the dovecot.conf file I am using: auth_bind = yes base = ou=People,o=%d scope = onelevel pass_attrs = mail=user pass_filter = (uid=%n) userdb static { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/apps/%d/%n } The problem I am seeing when the user logs in, the home dir is getting created incorrectly: Jan 3 14:08:12 vds5 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<test(a)gmail.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=, lip= Jan 3 14:08:12 vds5 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(test(a)gmail.com): Effective uid=500, gid=500, home=/var/mail/apps/gmail.com/test Jan 3 14:08:12 vds5 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(test(a)gmail.com): maildir: data=/var/mail/apps/gmail.com/test/Maildir ... I was expecting it to create the home dir under: /var/mail/apps/example.com/test1, since that is what they are logging in with. Any ideas? I am actually surprised that it even let me login with this configuration, something looks odd in this setup. :) Thanks, Anil

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[Dovecot] %d not recognized with LDAP
by Anil 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

I saw the recent threads but didn't help for me. Here's my configuration: The domain isn't getting expanded as per logs: Jan 4 08:06:40 vds5 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(admin): maildir: data=/var/mail/apps//admin/Maildir # 20080102: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf listen: *:143 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_log_format_elements: user=<%n@%d> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_max_connections: 64 max_mail_processes: 128 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/apps/%d/%n/Maildir mail_debug: yes auth default: passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/apps/%d/%n Here's the relevant LDAP configuration: auth_bind = yes pass_attrs = uid=user pass_filter = uid=%n I tried setting the mail_location to: maildir:~/Maildir and explicitly specifying the full path, but still the Maildir is getting created with out the %d. Of course, the user is logging in with "admin(a)domain.com". Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] Problems with AUTH=PLAIN in pop3
by Maykel Moya 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

I'm using Dovecot (1.0.10) locally to test SugarCRM. When I tried to set up a mail account in Sugar, it complains with -- SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN Please check your settings and try again. -- don't know if that behaviour is a bug or a feature of php-imap. The case is that I'm unable to set up the mail account in Sugar. Timo answered to me on IRC about Dovecot assuming that a connection from the same ip is considered secured. I'd rebuild Dovecot with the following patch: --- dovecot-1.0.10/src/pop3-login/client.c.orig 2008-01-05 00:44:14.000000000 -0500 +++ dovecot-1.0.10/src/pop3-login/client.c 2008-01-05 00:44:30.000000000 -0500 @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ client->created = ioloop_time; client->refcount = 1; client->common.tls = ssl; - client->common.secured = ssl || net_ip_compare(ip, local_ip); + client->common.secured = ssl; client->common.local_ip = *local_ip; client->common.ip = *ip; --- but still not able to make it not accept AUTH PLAIN authentication from the same ip. I'm missing something? On the other hand, if I set disable_plaintext_auth to yes I cannot use the classic USER/PASS pop3 verbs. I'm not sure what the POP3 related RFCs mandates with respect to this. Regards, maykel

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[Dovecot] Imap assertion (dovecot-1.1.beta13)
by Nuno Lopes 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, I continue testing the beta versions and have seen a great improvement over the last few ones. On beta13 I'm seeing the following assert on some client folders: file index-mail.c: line 759 (index_mail_stream_destroy_callback): assertion failed: (mail->data.destroying_stream) If you need I can try and reproduce this in a more controled environment to pinpoint the problem. Thanks, -- Nuno Lopes

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[Dovecot] [debian] Etch Packages Available for v1.0.10
by Brian T Glenn 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Compiled only for i386 with source package available. deb http://debian.delink.net/ etch-delink main deb-src http://debian.delink.net/ etch-delink main Cheers, - -- Brian T Glenn http://www.delink.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHfcGYFy/L+4MovqIRAgJUAJ4/fcaLb/Cyeo8s42EnAOu5MZr4CgCdGgBK 2RuF/zkrGBsQzElZSBJBCaI= =dGHp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Too many open files
by Andrew Hutchings 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi Guys, Just got this on one of my test72 dovecot servers: - Jun 10 12:40:28 svr21 dovecot: auth(default): net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.18818) failed: Too many open files Jun 10 12:40:28 svr21 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Jun 10 12:40:28 svr21 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Jun 10 12:40:28 svr21 dovecot: child 18818 (auth) returned error 89 Jun 10 12:40:29 svr21 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 10 12:40:29 svr21 dovecot: auth(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (maildb) Jun 10 12:40:29 svr21 dovecot: auth(default): net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.13784) failed: No such file or directory Jun 10 12:40:29 svr21 dovecot: child 13784 (auth) returned error 89 - Is dovecot leaving files open? Or is it a large mailbox? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - http://www.nwlug.org.uk/ BOFH excuse 122: because Bill Gates is a Jehovah's witness and so nothing can work on St. Swithin's day.

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[Dovecot] Switch from courier to dovecot
by Richard G Riley 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I have an courier IMAP server running. To get sib dirs working I had to rename them all to begin with a period ".". e.g Maildir Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account1/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account2/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account3/{cur,new,tmp} etc If I uninstall Courier and install dovecot, will these "period" dirs be seen by default? I am fairly new to this and sometimes it seems that Maildir format requirements vary a lot depending on client or server. Thank you for your help.

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Re: [Dovecot] Per user mailbox quota
by Ranjith Kumar 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I have read the links and where can I mention these extra fields (in /etc/passwd file??). Thanks BAT Message: 2 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:47:05 +0100 From: Luuk <dovecot(a)vosslamber.nl> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Per user mailbox quota To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Message-ID: <1199893625.5147.0.camel(a)opensuse.vosslamber.nl> Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:19 +0530, Ranjith Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > How do I setup per user mailbox quota? I am using /etc/passwd database. > > Thanks > BAT > >read this: >http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota >and this: >http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields >and you should know, how to do this.... greetings, Luuk

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[Dovecot] Too many open files
by Harrison Metzger 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, I have dovecot installed and it works for about 3 hours then I get this error (in /var/log/maillog): Jan 8 08:42:53 stu dovecot: auth(default): pam(grossmsm,69.131.100.47): pipe() failed: Too many open files I set pam_limits.so to allow the user 'dovecot' to have 8192 open files, and I also changed: login_process_size = 512 However, it still wont work for more than a few hours. When I run: lsof -p `ps -o pid= -C dovecot-auth` I get: [...] dovecot-a 1385 root 248u sock 0,5 374241289 can't identify protocol dovecot-a 1385 root 249u sock 0,5 374241391 can't identify protocol dovecot-a 1385 root 250u sock 0,5 374243642 can't identify protocol dovecot-a 1385 root 251u sock 0,5 374241701 can't identify protocol [...] And the number followed by a u keeps growing. As of writing this email that number is now at 274u. Is dovecot not closing its fd's or something? Harrison Metzger

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[Dovecot] OT: ctimes
by Jeff Grossman 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I am going to convert my 32-bit Debian system to a 64-bit Debian system today. But, after I move my maildir files over to the new hard drive the ctimes are going to get modified to current time and mess up my automatic purge scripts for the Deleted Items folders. Is it possible for me to either keep the existing ctimes or is it possible for me to modify the ctimes to the date headers of the emails after I move the files? Thanks, Jeff

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[Dovecot] Dovecot indexing questions
by Asheesh Laroia 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I was playing with Dovecot 1.1 full text indexing through Squat in late October, which was working pretty well. I wanted to ask about this behavior I had: When an email arrives in INBOX using procmail (which delivers to my Maildirs), and I see it in Dovecot, when I next do a search (IMAP SEARCH TEXT) of that folder, the search takes a long time. Successive searches are lickety-split. My question is: Can there be an option to "index greedily"? As soon as Dovecot sees the message, I'd like it to update the Squat index. That way, searches are always fast. I guess this implies a small performance hit - namely, that my IMAP server spends CPU and disk time indexing every message at the first time it is seen rather than being able to do batch indexing each time SEARCH TEXT is issued. But when I think about that, that sounds like the server can waste its time so I don't waste mine - which is exactly why I like these computing machines! (That, and because I can waste my time programming them.) -- Asheesh. -- Use extra care when cleaning on stairs.

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[Dovecot] Logging to stderr
by Abhijit Hoskeri 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi, I am having a bit of a problem with logging to stderr. I am trying to run dovecot as sort of "inetd" install using daemontools. I have daemontools 'services' named dovecot-pop3, dovecot-imap, etc. The service command line looks like tcpsvd -c20 -v -l 0 0 110 /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login [--ssl] In dovecot/dovecot.conf, the log_path is set to /dev/stderr. What seems to be happening is that all the log lines (regardless of service) go to the log file of which ever service was first used. Exactly how are these logs written? Is it possible to (easily) make the login process write to its own stderr? Thanks, -Abhijit

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[Dovecot] Trash plugin in 1.0.x
by Ralf Hildebrandt 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Does the Trash plugin in 1.0.x log it's dirty deeds somehow? I'd like to see that it works :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) plonk(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de Arguing with good advice will result in lack of good advice. -- Victor Duchovni

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[Dovecot] Per user mailbox quota
by Ranjith Kumar 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi, How do I setup per user mailbox quota? I am using /etc/passwd database. Thanks BAT

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[Dovecot] Sendmail, procmail, dovecot and quota
by papi mac 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I have Fedora 7 from a standard installation running sendmail, procmail and dovecot 1.0 installed on a single partition. I now need to set up mail quotas for most of the users but not all. Just protecting /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME is probably good enough for me. Since I just want mail quotas and the installation is on just 1 partition I don't have an easy way to use file system quotas. By reading through the dovecot documentation and list archives I have the feeling that this is possible with the versions and setup I have. I would probably need a main line like this (apart from other lines) per user mailbox that needs to be managed: dirsize:/var/spool/mail/joe-user:storage 10240 to give joe-user a 10 mb limit. Since this server is in production I don't have the luxury of experimenting (extensively) on it. I have a question though that I have not been able to answer yet. If the flow of mail goes from sendmail to procmail to the mailbox, how is it possible for dovecot to implement quotas on the inbox? Or would dovecot write something there that procmail has to honor? Is dovecot the way to do this? Am I misunderstanding what "quotas" mean in dovecot? Thanks for any clues. --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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[Dovecot] maildir_uidlist_create assertion failure
by Andrew Garner 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I've been getting the following error fairly often, which tends to result in a corrupted dovecot-uidlist. dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1009 (maildir_uidlist_recreate): assertion failed: (file_size == (uoff_t)st.st_size) dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80cb740] -> imap [0x80cb64a] -> imap [0x8070e58] -> imap(maildir _uidlist_sync_deinit+0xe8) [0x8072d18] -> imap [0x806e9e2] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x66) [0x806edf6] -> imap(imap_sync_init+0x4a) [0x80657da] -> ima p(cmd_sync+0x9d) [0x806590d] -> imap(cmd_store+0x33d) [0x805e1ed] -> imap(cmd_uid+0x57) [0x805e737] -> imap [0x805f009] -> imap [0x805f0ae] -> imap(client_inp ut+0x65) [0x805f6c5] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x162) [0x80d3022] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80d2368] -> imap(main+0x4ab) [0x806723b] -> /lib/tls/i686/cmo v/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7dfdea8] -> imap [0x8059551] dovecot: child 17997 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): rename(/home/vmail/domains/o/example.com/U/example/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.…, /home/vmail/domains/o/example.com/U/example/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): unlink(/home/vmail/domains/o/example.com/U/example/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.… failed: No such file or directory dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): rename(/home/vmail/domains/o/example.com/U/example/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.…, /home/vmail/domains/o/example.com/U/example/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): unlink(/home/vmail/domains/o/example.com/U/example/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.… failed: No such file or directory Followed sometime later by: dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.com): Invalid data in file /home/vmail/domains/o/example.com/U/example/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist Example of some corruption: ~/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist ... 7879 W193997 1195126451.4452.server023,S=191173:2,aopr :1195126451.4452.server023,S=191173:2,aopr ... 9628 W665454 1197354124.5254.server019,S=651976:2,pr <A0>% :1197354124.5254.server019,S=651976:2,pr # dovecot -n # 1.1.beta11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes mail_uid: 89 mail_gid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): fts fts_squat mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/ mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/ mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/ imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %f pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: login plain cram-md5 digest-md5 username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=102400:messages=30000 fts: squat

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth GSSAPI
by Eduardo Sachs 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi, I have Heimdal Kerberos with authentication in my Samba PDC, Postfix and OpenLDAP, it is perfect. But, I have problem with authentication GSSAPI of Dovecot. I install a service ticket of the form imap/mailserver.domain.com@REALM, imap/mailserver@REALM, pop/mailserver.domain.com@REALM and pop/mailserver@REALM and /etc/krb5.keytab for this services tickets. Debug in my messages log: Jan 9 15:14:32 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IGSSAPI^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.0.71^Irip=192.168.0.212 Jan 9 15:14:32 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): gssapi(?,192.168.0.212): Obtaining credentials for imap@mailserver Jan 9 15:14:32 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): gssapi(?,192.168.0.212): While importing principal name: An invalid name was supplied Jan 9 15:14:33 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Itemp Jan 9 15:14:33 mailserver dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: method=GSSAPI, rip=192.168.0.212, lip=192.168.0.71 Someone knows solve this problem? Or, it is a bug? Thanks!!!

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[Dovecot] dovecot upgrade
by Paul A 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi, I'm currently using Dovecot version 1.0 and I want to update it to the latest version. I know from version .99 to version 1.0 I had to change a few things on the dovecot config. When compiling the latest stable version should I just be able to use the same config I'm using for version 1.0 without making any changes ? Thank you Paul

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[Dovecot] Dovecot too many open files???
by Tim Tyler 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Dovecot experts, We just recently deployed Dovecot 1.0.rc15 on a Redhat 5 system. I have over 1400 users. At first it appeared to work fine. But soon, we had complaints of students that couldn't retrieve their email. I looked in the logs and found this error. Jan 7 22:27:31 stu dovecot: auth(default): pam(pucklisl,<http://144.89.40.6>144.89.40.6): pipe() failed: Too many open files We are running Dovecot to authenticate via pam which authenticates ldap. Below is the output of [root@stu ~]# dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf listen: * ssl_cert_file: /etc/mail/certs/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/mail/certs/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 login_process_size: 512 login_max_processes_count: 32 mail_location: mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /etc/custom-pop3.sh 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 Any solutions for this problem? Tim Tyler Network Engineer - Beloit College tyler(a)beloit.edu

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[Dovecot] (somewhat ot?) purging old maildir messages
by Matt LaPlante 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

I'm using Dovecot (+postfix) to host some personal imap accounts on a private server (Maildir format). I've got one account that receives mostly automated mails, and I want to be able to purge messages beyond a given date (say 30 days). I know that since maildir uses flat files, I can literally just delete messages doing something similar to the following with bash: for i in $(find /var/spool/vmail/host1/user/cur/ -mtime +30); do rm $i done I dislike this approach for a few reasons. First, and most plainly, it seems crude. When running complex server software, its rarely a good idea in the field of systems administration to be bluntly deleting files out from under the running applications. It feels wrong. How does this affect dovecot's monitoring of the files and indexing? What if the files happen to be open in an email client? Etc. Emotions aside, I also very much dislike running an automated 'rm' that has the power to wipe out a lot of my email if something goes pearshaped with the script. I can think of several possible solutions that don't require subversive operations on the maildirs, but I've never used them and therefore don't know if they're actually feasible: - Use a tool designed to manipulate maildirs. Something akin to postfix's postqueue and postsuper tools come to mind, but I don't know if such an app exists. - Use a setting within dovecot that expires old maildir data. As I understand it this will be available in 1.1 (yay!); unfortunately that's not an option for me until 1.1 is available as stable in my server os. - Use a scriptable mua that has the capability to check mail under said account and automatically delete based on age. I know very little of tools in this area, so again I don't know if such an application exists. Any pointers you might have would be much appreciated. Thanks, Matt

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[Dovecot] Problem with passwords surrounded by curly braces
by Frank Kintrup 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello, one of my users set his password to something surrounded by curly braces, and promptly all access to his mailbox was refused. After looking through the logs I found an entry "Unknown password scheme xxxx", where "xxxx" is the user's password, but without the curly braces. I then browsed through the documentation and there was explained that it is possible to prefix the password with the password scheme in curly braces, like "{PLAIN}xxxx" where xxxx is the password itself. Manually altering the users password in the database to "{PLAIN}xxxx" (where "xxxx" is the user's password WITH curly braces) fixed this problem for me at this time, but the time a user chooses such a strange password I would have to edit the table again. So in my opinion the {SCHEME}-prefix is not a useful thing. Why would anyone need it, anyway? Shouldn't all passwords have the same scheme which is set in the dovecot.conf file once? If the feature is indeed used: with a database lookup it should be replaced by an optional database field or, if that's not possible, it should be possible to disable this feature from the config file. Frank

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[Dovecot] What's the difference between mbox and maildir
by Andrew Falanga 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

I'm a little confused about some of these terms. What is: .imap/.imap/ (other than directories) mbox INBOX (I think I have this one) maildir ??????? I'm not sure how all of these things work together. Thanks, Andy

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[Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users
by Andrew Falanga 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

follow up: I forgot to mention, that I discovered my system doesn't appear to have procmail on it. So, I'm not sure what must be done for delivery of mail concerning that "LDA/Sendmail" dovecot WIKI page. Andy

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[Dovecot] assertion with outlook
by Guenther Sommer 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

i saw two crashes in my syslog with dovecot, and google did not report any known problems. i have no problems using dovecot, thus bugreport is just for information. following information: ubuntu gutsy gibbon server amd64 ext3 outlook 2003 & 2007, just retrieving mails. mails have been migrated via imapsync 2 days before to this server. dovecot is imap-server and LDA. has been seen with two different users, following syslog entries: Jan 7 18:27:01 siege dovecot: IMAP(userA): file strfuncs.c: line 165 (p_strndup): assertion failed: (max_chars != (size_t)-1) Jan 7 18:27:01 siege dovecot: IMAP(userA): Raw backtrace: imap [0x46372e] -> imap [0x46349c] -> imap(t_strndup+0) [0x470cf0] -> imap(cmd_create+0xd1) [0x4142c1] -> imap [0x4178f7] -> imap [0x417989] -> imap(_client_input+0x6d) [0x417fbd] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x101) [0x468e61] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x467f28] -> imap(main+0x3f2) [0x41f6c2] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2b974f225b44] -> imap [0x4132e9] Jan 7 18:27:01 siege dovecot: child 27443 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jan 7 18:35:36 siege dovecot: IMAP(userB): file strfuncs.c: line 165 (p_strndup): assertion failed: (max_chars != (size_t)-1) Jan 7 18:35:36 siege dovecot: IMAP(userB): Raw backtrace: imap [0x46372e] -> imap [0x46349c] -> imap(t_strndup+0) [0x470cf0] -> imap(cmd_create+0xd1) [0x4142c1] -> imap [0x4178f7] -> imap [0x417989] -> imap(_client_input+0x6d) [0x417fbd] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x101) [0x468e61] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x467f28] -> imap(main+0x3f2) [0x41f6c2] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2ad667dfeb44] -> imap [0x4132e9] Jan 7 18:35:36 siege dovecot: child 27902 (imap) killed with signal 6 user authentifaction is done against local unix users. # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/mail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/mail.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix with kind regards, guenther sommer.

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