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[Dovecot] Better flagging of errors on logs?
by Francisco Reyes 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Last night dovecot died because of time changed backward. I noticed that the line from dovecot read Oct 9 01:00:44 mailstore16 dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 132 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. Shouldn't such lines have the word "Error" or "Fatal"? If I set the log_path = to a file, will syslog messages still be generated?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot raw backtrace when copying to folder
by Julian Cowley 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Seeing a problem with a certain user causing dovecot to crash when copying mail to a folder. This looks similar to a bug someone on the mailing list posted recently. Since the backtrace mentions the index, I tried deleting all of the index files for the user (including subfolders) but it had no effect. Seems that the bug still happens when creating the index for the first time. Unfortunately, I can't pin down if there is a particular message causing the problem but I'll see if I can track it using strace. Lines are broken for clarity. This is dovecot 1.0.5 on CentOS 4.5. Sep 27 16:41:42 cookie dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user@domain>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.xx, lip=::ffff:yy.yy.yy.yy, TLS Sep 27 16:41:53 cookie dovecot: IMAP(user@domain): Trying to allocate 0 bytes Sep 27 16:41:53 cookie dovecot: IMAP(user@domain): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80ad7d4] -> imap [0x80ad239] -> imap [0x80b5624] -> imap(i_malloc+0x1b) [0x80b0e1b] -> imap [0x8083037] -> imap [0x80833e6] -> imap(index_storage_search_init+0xf4) [0x80836f4] -> imap(cmd_copy+0x145) [0x8056d15] -> imap(cmd_uid+0x7c) [0x805a74c] -> imap [0x805b2d5] -> imap [0x805b25e] -> imap(_client_input+0x8c) [0x805b43c] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x169) [0x80b3e09] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80b3178] -> imap(main+0x49f) [0x806384f] -> /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd3) [0x506de3] -> imap [0x8055db1] Sep 27 16:41:53 cookie dovecot: child 26079 (imap) killed with signal 6

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[Dovecot] User database ldap lookups and sasl
by olivier castan 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hello I'm currently trying to use Active Directory with Unix extensions to store UID, GID and homedir and retrieve them with ldap I don't want to allow anonymous bindings and I would rather not use TLS and manage a PKI. So I'm trying to use SASL to do a Kerberos authentication for Dovecot against AD LDAP. I'm currently getting GSSAPI errors about the lack of "credentials cache". Looking at similar cases where services act as clients, like using nss_ldap for unix host accounts, I understand the credentials cache should be initiated by an external program (cron and startup script), at least with the TGT and maybe the TGS for ldap. Since usually kerberosv5 cache is based on the user id ( /tmp/krb5cc_0 for root) there's an option in ldap.conf (krb5_ccname) to set the filename (/etc/.ldapcache in nss_ldap tutorials) for this cache. Is there any way to do this with dovecot-ldap.conf or should I try to use "auth user" default cache filename ? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Howto make deleted itens visible to users?
by "Fábio M. Catunda" 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi! I'm using lazy_expunge to backup that are deleted/expunged, but I would like it to be visible to the user. I tried something like: namespace private { prefix = .EXPUNGED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/.Apagadas } namespace private { prefix = .DELETED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/.Apagadas } namespace private { prefix = .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/.Apagadas/ } But neither OE nor TB shows the messages. (yes, i subscribed the ".Apagadas" maildir). Anybody can give me this little tip? Thanks a lot. []'s, Catunda! !DSPAM:46f1105715318362916074!

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[Dovecot] Mail client kill imap-login process
by dovecot acc 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, In my env we have quite a number of old PC which are running windows95. I have installed the thunderbird and outlook97 with the right configuration to dovecot. Everytime I starts the mail client it shows the following, dovecot: Oct 09 10:56:45 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=172.24.65.60, lip=172.24.66.24 only then it shows the login screen. After submit the password, it doesn't seems to login properly. If I use the Outlook Express, it runs ok on the same machine? I can send and read email. I trace the process using strace but it failed since the pid got killed everytime I starts that two mail client. In order to make sure my dovecot run correctly, I run all mail clients from XP and it works like charm. Can someone share with my what should I do next or how to debug further? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Disconnects in log
by Jackie Hunt 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi all, I need some help interpreting the info I'm seeing in the dovecot logs. I have a user using Outlook who is having connectively problems. Below is a sample of what the Dovecot log is showing. Can anyone explain to me why multiple logins occur within a few seconds of each other? Also, as I understand it, the "Disconnected" messages mean the kernel told Dovecot the connection was closed. I'm trying to figure out why I'm seeing so many of these. And why they seem to occur shortly after a login. Thanks for any insight! Jackie -- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu Oct 10 09:05:26 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:05:27 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:05:36 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:06:28 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 09:06:28 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 09:35:28 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:35:28 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 09:36:11 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected: Logged out Oct 10 10:01:25 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:05:28 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:05:29 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:06:16 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:06:16 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:12:32 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:24:23 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:24:50 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:35:29 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:35:29 lamar dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<auser>, method=PLAIN, ri p=129.82.xxx.yy, lip=129.82.rrr.ss, TLS Oct 10 10:36:18 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected Oct 10 10:36:18 lamar dovecot: IMAP(auser): Disconnected: Logged out

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[Dovecot] verbose_proctitle for proxy processes?
by Onno Molenkamp 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, We're using Dovecot to proxy incoming POP3 and IMAP connections to the right server. We'd like to be able to see what connections are currently open on the proxy servers, without having the parse the log file. For normal mail processes it's possible to use verbose_proctitle for this purpose, but this setting doesn't work for proxy/login processes. Is it possible to do something similar for proxy processes? Even without displaying the username and IP address, it would be useful to be able to see the difference between normal (idle/active) login processes, and proxy processes. Onno

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[Dovecot] Per-user quota (with local users)
by Maykel Moya 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

I'm migrating to LDAP mi local users, there is the auth section of my dovecot.conf -- auth default { mechanisms = plain socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = dovecot group = nusers } } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } passdb pam { } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb prefetch { } userdb passwd { } user = root } -- The idea is to try to find the user in the directory and if it isn't found then fallback to a local user lookup. My quota configuration is -- plugin { quota = maildir:storage=10240:ignore=Trash } -- I have some users with particular quotas. With LDAP lookups, there is no problem, in those cases I simply put their particular quota values in their entries and pass it to dovecot via user_attrs. I wonder how to do the same for local users, I mean, to have the ability of specifying particular quotas for some local users. Another doubt is how to express to Dovecot that a user have no quota at all, could I use 0? Regards, maykel

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[Dovecot] dovecot and imap session forwarding
by Omer Faruk SEN 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi, I was trying to install a qmail-ldap cluster. I have successfully setup dovecot to authenticate against ldap directory. But what I need is to enable imap session forwarding for qmail-ldap. For example when a user connects to a imapserver if the real mailhost of this user is different than the one that is connected so session is forwarded to real mailhost. Normally we can do that with courirer imap using auth_imap binary that comes with qmail-ldap which handles session forwarding. I have done this but got error auth_executable = /var/qmail/bin/auth_imap . Obviously it won't work. But I am not sure where to put /var/qmail/bin/auth_imap http://www.qmail-ldap.info/dovecot.php and http://www.qmail-ldap.info/imap_courier.php page shows a bit information about where to put it. -- Best regards, Omer mailto:omer@faruk.net

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[Dovecot] thunderbird and email duplication
by Alexander Banthien 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi all, I have recently switched over to Dovecot from CourierIMAP trying for some speedup, which I did get. Installation went OK, so all seemed fine. But suddenly I realised, that incoming emails are replicating themselves. This seems only to happen when connected with Thunderbird. I am also using Squirrelmail and KMail as clients which don't seem to show the behaviour. It seems to happen only for mails received during a Thunderbird session. When I close TBird and reopen it, only newly received messages will show the funny behaviour. The emails are real file copies in the Maildir, I have checked that. Running Dovecot on Debian Etch: dovecot --version: 1.0.0 (this is Debian package 1:1.0.0-1~bpo.1 from backports. I have tried the main package from Debian aswell, same result) with qmail delivering the mails to a Maildir without Dovecot's LDA. Clients: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 on WinXP over Wireless LAN (tried Thunderbird/Iceweasel on Debian aswell) Squirrelmail and KMail (both running on the same box as Dovecot) don't show that behaviour. Has anybody seen anything similar or have any advice on what to look for? I would like to stick with Dovecot but the way it is looking now, I find working with emails near impossible. Thanks in advance, Alexander -- --------------------- Alexander Banthien ParentPay Ltd. Project Manager +44 1926 812704 (o) +44 7787 562694 (m) --------------------- This e-mail is from ParentPay Limited. The e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the individual entity or entities to whom they are addressed. If you have received the e-mail in error please notify info(a)parentpay.com or telephone 08700 420 550, and destroy the original. If you are not the intended recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any contracts attached to this e-mail are in draft form only and are subject to legal review. They do not necessarily constitute an offer or commitment to do business on the part of ParentPay Limited. Any opinion expressed in this email is personal to the sender and does not necessarily represent the views of ParentPay Limited. This email cannot be relied upon to create a contract or any obligation on the part of ParentPay Limited.

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[Dovecot] how to deliver when username and email differ
by Cory Coager 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

I have an Active Directory virtual setup and am using LDA to deliver to local recipients. Today I found a big problem with my configuration and not sure if this is fixable. Some of the users have multiple email addresses and the %n variable for user doesn't match their actual username. So if I have realname "Joe Bob" with a username of "joe" and an email of "jbob(a)somewhere.com", deliver will try to deliver to "jbob" and this is wrong. Here is the relevant part of my ldap config: user_attrs = mail,postOfficeBox=home user_filter = (|(mail=%n@%d)(proxyAddresses=%n@%d)(sAMAccountName=%u)) pass_attrs = mail,postOfficeBox=home pass_filter = (|(mail=%n@%d)(proxyAddresses=%n@%d)(sAMAccountName=%u)) Somehow I need to change the username from the LDAP lookup but it seems that the mail attribute does this already. If I switch the mail attribute with sAMAccountName the domain becomes NULL. Anyone know if this is fixable?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v1.0.3 -> Sieve "redirect" command returning Sendmail exit status 75
by Elisamuel Resto 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hello! My local setup here is Exim 4.68, DSPAM 3.8.0 and Dovecot 1.0.5. Entirely on MySQL tables for virtual hosts and authentication. Dovecot does the authentication for Exim. What I am having problems with, is a simple sieve script to redirect a message that matches the "X-DSPAM-Result" header as "Spam" to another email address. When this rule matches, deliver returns in the log (which is attached) that "Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status: 75" What would cause this, and how can I resolve it? Thanks. -- Elisamuel Resto <samuel(a)dragonboricua.net> ID: 0x18615F19 / FP: B66D 1C2A E8EE B922 1D9C D98F D2D5 FB61 1861 5F19

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[Dovecot] Problem with bodystructure/partial fetch using 1.1*
by mikkel＠euro123.dk 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hi there I'm using dovecot-1.1b2/b3 with deliver. All information is stored in an SQL database and no errors related to this issue are written to the logs (actually I get no errors at all). I've run into at problem; FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE is broken after upgrading to dovecot 1.1b2 (same issue with 1.1b3). BODUSTRUCTURE only returns information from the first section (with incorrect content-type/disposition) and discards everything else. This problem is somehow related to deliver; IMAP returns the correct BODYSTRUCTURE for e-mails received before the upgrade, but an incorrect for ones received after the upgrade. This tells me that IMAP is working properly but somehow the MIME sections are being corrupted doing mail delivery (if I fetch the complete body nothing seems to be wrong). Also if I fetch a section something is not right - instead of just the section I get part of the Content-type header as well (but only half the header). Obviously this makes various webmail clients go somewhat crazy while Outlook/Thunderbirds dont mind (since they fetch the complete body and do the MIME parsing themselves). These are my compile options (GCC 3.4.3 on Solaris 10): CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/pkgsrc/pkg/include/mysql LDFLAGS=-L/opt/pkgsrc/pkg/lib/mysql ./configure --prefix=/opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b2 --with-pop3d --with-deliver --with-mysql --with-prefetch-userdb --with-sql --with-gnu-ld --with-ssl=no --enable-header-install make; make install Everything else works flawlessly. Have anyone else experienced at problem like this? Best wishes, Mikkel Configuration: /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/sbin/dovecot -c /local/config/dovecot2.conf -n # 1.1.beta3: /local/config/dovecot2.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 768). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings log_path: /local/log/dovecot.run info_log_path: /local/log/dovecot.run protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no first_valid_uid: 105 first_valid_gid: 105 mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/freeware/dovecot-1.1b3/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous passdb: driver: sql args: /local/config/dovecot-sql2.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /local/config/dovecot-sql2.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=102400:messages=5000 quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10M trash: /local/config/dovecot-trash.conf

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[Dovecot] In 1.1.beta3, COPY cmd results in msg with Content-length: 0 and no text
by Eric Weaver 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

I run Thunderbird with message filters that sort mail into other folders, and this has killed me for the day. COPY commands (and I have verified this with a manual test) result in the message headers coming out correct but the body totally missing. Is this a known issue being addressed? Thanks Eric Weaver

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[Dovecot] Folders and Mail within Folders
by Elizabeth Greene 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hello. How do I make folders that can contain mail and additional folders? Thanks, -- Elizabeth Greene IT Manager, GlobalOptions FSIU Division 615-665-5555 (Office) 615-456-9813 (Mobile)

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Re: [Dovecot] performance?/connectivity? issues after server upgrade
by Udo Rader 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 08:46 +0100, Ed W wrote: > > I've verified this with various customers and thus I am completely lost > > here. The only service affected with this massive slowdown seems to be > > dovecot but unfortunately I cannot think of a way to debug the issue ... > > > > > Duplex mismatch on the network card? grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, yes!!! Checking the link status of the NIC it showed that indeed duplexing was giving wrong results. Forcing it into the correct mode did not change anything, but finally replacing the card with a new one solved the riddle! Thanks for your help! Udo Rader

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[Dovecot] Operations error with AD connections
by Maarten Vanraes 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Hello, dovecot version: 1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.5 OS: 2.6.15-26-server i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu dapper filesys: ext3 authentication is with ldap (Active Directory) the problem is that after a while with a number of pop3 connections (8 people who have checking every 5 minutes), the ldap_search gives 'Operation Error' . we have tried to use the global catalog, but that doesn't solve the problem. the binding is the problem, we must use binding, cause we don't get a userPassword field. Right now, we have switched to courierLDAP and it works for now, we'll have to see if it persists (we have set an LDAP timeout variable, but don't know if it's related.) The thing is that we have lots of places where can setup something like this with AD, and that for now, we'll probably use courier. dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = 172.17.80.1:3268 dn = CN=SPIC,OU=Beheerders,OU=Zonnegroep,DC=zonnewende,DC=local dnpass = xxxxxxxxx auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=zonnewende, dc=local user_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (mail=%u) user_global_uid = 5000 user_global_gid = 5000 any ideas on how to solve it? PS: can you CC me? -- Maarten Vanraes BA NV: IT & Security

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[Dovecot] performance?/connectivity? issues after server upgrade
by Udo Rader 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi, we are facing some weird performance issues after we upgraded on of our mail servers to a new Opteron 64bit machine. The problem we are facing is that mail retrieval from external clients is incredibly slow. Fetching a mail with say a size of 3MB takes 7 minutes vs. sending exactly the same mail back to our postmaster account is only a question of seconds. I've verified this with various customers and thus I am completely lost here. The only service affected with this massive slowdown seems to be dovecot but unfortunately I cannot think of a way to debug the issue ... System load is absolutely minimal. % dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps imap pop3 listen: 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(default): 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(imap): 81.16.98.99 ssl_listen(pop3): ssl_cert_file: /usr/bestsolution/ssl/certs/mail.bestsolution.at.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/bestsolution/ssl/private/mail.bestsolution.at.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 24 disable_plaintext_auth: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 9 mail_extra_groups: mail default_mail_env: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mmap_disable: yes lock_method: dotlock maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u auth default: mechanisms: digest-md5 cram-md5 login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix Any ideas welcome :-) -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] Released v1.1.beta3
by Timo Sirainen 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta3.tar.gz.sig Please try and report any bugs. Beta2 still had a few bad bugs, but I'm hoping this release is near a usable state. I've been a bit busy with school lately so I haven't had time/energy to answer mails in here. The main reason has been this lab course (biochemistry) which ends on friday, so I'll try to start answering mails sometimes next week. Changes since beta2: - SORT fixes. Still buggy? - If Date: header doesn't exist or is broken, fallback to INTERNALDATE (as required by newer sort drafts, which I hadn't noticed before, v1.0.6 will have this too) - Log fatals/panics as such, instead of converting them to errors. - Don't bother logging "returned error 89" if the child process logged a fatal before that. - dovecot.index.cache file may have been updated wrong when saving messages causing all kinds of problems if it was - Some crashfixes

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[Dovecot] Migration to Dovecot
by Frank Bonnet 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hello all Tomorrow is the day , I'm gonna migrate all our mailboxes and imap folders from our old mailhub to the new one. In the same time I will migrate from UW to Dovecot , I've read all the stuff about it on the Dovecot web site. I have one question , do I have to care about the .imap cache directory created by Dovecot in any way or will it be "all automatic" when starting Dovecot ? Many thanks -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet

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[Dovecot] iPhone 1.1.1 problems.
by Mike Meyer 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

I'm having problems with the iPhone client in the 1.1.1 version of the iPhone software. Things with other clients work fine, and the iPhone worked fine before it was upgraded to 1.1.1. Other phones on 1.1.1 failed. I'm still working on testing against the client with the iPhone 1.0.2 software on it. The problem is that the client simply doesn't connect to dovecot. I can see the packets passing back and forth in a number of ways, but haven't been able to see the contents. I tried turning on raw logging, but don't get log files for accesses from the iPhone. What I get are lines like so: Oct 13 00:08:34 bhuda dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1, TLS Turning off SSL both ways, and the message changes to: Oct 13 18:21:38 bhuda dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx2, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1 Tweaking the logging in the firewall reveals something interesting: apparently the phone makes the connection to 993, then dovecot drops the connection, but the phone keeps sending to it (and yes, I've tried setting the firewall to allow arbitrary traffic between the phone and the server). So, first question: is anyone who has clients using iPhone software version 1.1.1 working willing to share config information? Second question: suggestions for things to try to solve the problem? (Other than talk to apple as that process is underway)? For instance, a recipe to sniff the text of the interchange? Final question: Any other information I can provide that might help debug this? Thanks, <mike dovecot info: bhuda# dovecot --version 1.0.5 bhuda# dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /usr/opt/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/openvpn/server.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/openvpn/server.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/opt/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/mailboxes imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd System info: bhuda# uname -a FreeBSD bhuda.mired.org 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6: Sun Jun 3 04:17:59 EDT 2007 mwm@bhuda.mired.org:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/BHUDA amd64 And all the mailboxes are stored on ufs file systems. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm(a)mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.

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[Dovecot] feedback ?
by Dan Orlescu 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

Hello guys, I chose Dovecot to run on an RHEL 5, comunicating with an AD server for users query over LDAP. Any tips ? What version you suggest could fit the best on that distro ?

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[Dovecot] OT: Cron Output When Deleting Files
by Jeff Grossman 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

I have a Dovecot setup for a personal e-mail server. I have a cron job setup each evening which runs the following command to delete old messages from my Deleted Items folder. find ./ -type f -ctime +14 | xargs rm I don't know that much about bash scripting. I would like the output to tell me how many files were deleted. Can anybody share with me how can I get that done, or point in the correct direction? Thanks, Jeff

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Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail with 1.1 Beta 3
by Jerry Yeager 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:05 PM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: (various messages snipped) > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:14:04 -0700 > From: Bill Landry <bill(a)inetmsg.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail Problem with 1.1 Beta 3 > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <47150D7C.6040409(a)inetmsg.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Jeff Grossman wrote: >> I just installed 1.1 beta 3 and noticed a problem when sending an >> e-mail >> with Squirrelmail. When I hit send, I get the following error in >> my log: >> >> Oct 16 11:35:54 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Disconnected: EOF while >> appending bytes=1851/5926 >> Oct 16 11:35:54 apple imapproxyd[9132]: Raw_Proxy(): IMAP server >> unexpectedly closed the connection on sd 9 >> >> I am also using imapproxy. I wasn't sure if that line would help >> also. >> In Squirrelmail I get a LOGOUT message when it tries to redisplay the >> INBOX listing. The message does get sent correctly, but it does >> not get >> copied to my Sent Items folder. >> >> I went and deleted all of the dovecot.index* files and now I don't >> get >> that error anymore, but I now get the following error. The >> message is now >> copied to the Sent Items folder. >> >> Oct 16 11:44:45 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Cache file >> /home/jeff/.maildir/.Sent >> Items/dovecot.index.cache: Newly added field got lost unexpectedly > > Same here, using Dovecot 1.1 Beta 3 and SquirrelMail 1.4.10a-1.fc7. > SquirrelMail with either Firefox 2.0.0.7 or IE 6.0.2900.2180 > browser sessions: > > It works okay using the new Squirrel Mail 1.4.11 with Safari as well as as Firefox and Opera on OS X. Jerry

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[Dovecot] Squirrelmail Problem with 1.1 Beta 3
by Jeff Grossman 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

I just installed 1.1 beta 3 and noticed a problem when sending an e-mail with Squirrelmail. When I hit send, I get the following error in my log: Oct 16 11:35:54 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Disconnected: EOF while appending bytes=1851/5926 Oct 16 11:35:54 apple imapproxyd[9132]: Raw_Proxy(): IMAP server unexpectedly closed the connection on sd 9 I am also using imapproxy. I wasn't sure if that line would help also. In Squirrelmail I get a LOGOUT message when it tries to redisplay the INBOX listing. The message does get sent correctly, but it does not get copied to my Sent Items folder. I went and deleted all of the dovecot.index* files and now I don't get that error anymore, but I now get the following error. The message is now copied to the Sent Items folder. Oct 16 11:44:45 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Cache file /home/jeff/.maildir/.Sent Items/dovecot.index.cache: Newly added field got lost unexpectedly Jeff

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Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail Problem with 1.1 Beta 3
by Jeff Grossman 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

> > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:47 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: >> I just installed 1.1 beta 3 and noticed a problem when sending an e-mail >> with Squirrelmail. When I hit send, I get the following error in my >> log: >>=20 >> Oct 16 11:35:54 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Disconnected: EOF while >> appending bytes=3D1851/5926 > > Hmh. I did change things related to saving mails, but since it worked > with my stress testing and with Evolution, I thought I had fixed it. I > guess I'll need to test more. > That error went away after I deleted by index files. Once they were rebuilt I never saw the above error again. >> Oct 16 11:44:45 apple dovecot: IMAP(jeff): Cache file >> /home/jeff/.maildir/.Sent >> Items/dovecot.index.cache: Newly added field got lost unexpectedly > > I see this too, but since it happens only once I didn't bother fixing it > yet. OK Jeff

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[Dovecot] namespace prefix issue with avelsieve and dovecot v1.1beta2
by Martin Konopka 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi, I have installed dovecot v1.1.beta2 with the sieve plugin v.1.1.2. I have configured the following namespace: namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. location: inbox: yes hidden: no list: yes When I create a rule which should move messages into the subfolder "Junk", Dovecot's deliver seems to ignore the namespace and creates a new folder .INBOX.Junk . I think I read somewhere that in Dovecot v1.1+ deliver supports namespaces? Or have I misconfigured something? Thank you! Martin dovecot -n output: # 1.1.beta2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/certs/server.key verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir 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_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs

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[Dovecot] Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
by Maykel Moya 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

I'm using deliver (1.0.5) with Postfix (2.1.6). I made a test for a few minutes in a moderated busy server. While most mails was delivered, a lot of them failed with this error: deliver(userfoo): Oct 15 09:58:31 Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Sounds to me something like not enough auth-master to answer every concurrent deliver. Any hint? Regards, maykel PD: If there any other info I could give let me know.

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[Dovecot] assertion failure when appending
by Johannes Berg 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

I get this assertion failure: file maildir-save.c: line 456 (maildir_save_finish): assertion failed: (ctx->seq != 0) once a while when I APPEND messages to a folder. My plugin doesn't touch the ctx, especially not the internal maildir one, but I have no idea where to start looking. Any hints? johannes

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by LDB 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Version: 1.0.beta8 Is it possible to listen on just specific IP addresses as opposed a single IP or just all IPs on the same server? Thanks, LDB

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.1beta2 and dovecot-sieve 1.1.2 - crash in LDA
by Bernhard Schmidt 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Hi, I've upgraded to dovecot 1.1beta2 and the latest dovecot-sieve release yesterday and have one single mail that cannot be delivered repeatedly. Log (reformatted): Oct 12 15:19:19 vs02 deliver(bernilrz): pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed Oct 12 15:19:19 vs02 deliver(bernilrz): Raw backtrace: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(i_syslog_panic_handler+0x1e) [0x47117e] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x470eac] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x47929b] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x46f3e3] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(buffer_write+0x9d) [0x46f70d] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x469aaf] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(message_header_decode+0x104) [0x469c14] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(message_header_decode_utf8+0x4b) [0x469d4b] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x43f3eb] -> /usr/local /libexec/dovecot/deliver(index_mail_get_headers+0x42) [0x4401c2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2b662df67d87] -> /usr/local/lib /dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2b662df716e8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_eval_bc+0x395) [0x2b662df72665] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(sieve_execute_bytecode+0xfa) [0x2b662df77daa] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so(cmu_sieve_run+0x318) [0x2b662df689b8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so [0x2b662df66d96] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver(main+0xe74) [0x417d24] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2b662da15b44] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x416079] All other mails work fine, so there is probably something corner case here. Timo, I'll send you the mail in private. Regards, Bernhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Logging client commands (patch)
by Zach Bagnall 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

This might be useful to someone so I'll throw it out there. Patch against 1.0.5 adds support for two new configuration params: pop3_debug_client_commands = TOP, RETR, DELE imap_debug_client_commands = FETCH, DELETE Obviously add in whichever ones you're interested in, or none, or comment them out completely. It'll log the appropriate events: Oct 12 18:30:18 kea dovecot: IMAP(zach): Client command: FETCH The parameters are included for POP3 events. Wasn't sure quite how to do the same for IMAP and for my purposes it's not too important so imap command parameters aren't logged. Running smoothly here with a few dozen IMAP and POP3 users. Not suggesting this gets added to the codebase - I just needed it to help debug some other IMAP software and thought it might be useful. Zach.

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[Dovecot] UIDL format for old UW pop3
by Oliver Hookins 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Hi, we're trying to migrate from UW imap 2001a-10, which doesn't seem to use the UIDL format documented in the wiki. It seems to use a 16 character long MD5 hash of something. I've tried configuring Dovecot to do the same but the value comes out differently. The main thing that I can see is getting in the way is that the UIDL format is not documented sufficiently. There is no description of using numbers to restrict the length of the output, and no documentation of special features like X or M. Can someone shed some light on these? -- Regards, Oliver

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[Dovecot] Quota Display with Horde / IMP ( WebMail Client )
by edwardspl＠ita.org.mo 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Dear All, For the Dovecot.conf : protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } plugin { quota = maildir } For /var/spool/mail : -rw------- 1 root root 7168 Sep 24 23:02 aquota.group -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Sep 24 18:05 aquota.user -rw------- 1 edward mail 301709 Sep 24 23:27 edward But the Quota display is un-limited status... So, what mistake about the config ? Mine is FC6 System ! Thanks ! Edward.

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI Cross-Realm Patch
by Zachary Kotlarek 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

I've written a GSSAPI cross-realm auth patch for people not lucky enough to have the __gss_userok function, though it should apply pretty cleanly with that patch in place as well. The patch is available at: http://zinux.cynicbytrade.com/svn/servers/dovecot/cross-realm.diff.bz2 It works for me on MIT-kerb, and I tested compilation against heimdal, but I don't have a cross-realm setup to test functionality under heimdal (though I also have no reason to think it wouldn't work). Since neither MIT nor heimdal provide a gss_userok() function, I used the krb5_userok() function. So if you're using a mechanism other than krb5 this won't work. But it's the same thing that OpenSSH and the apps distributed with heimdal do, so it seemed relatively safe. I also choose to append the krb5_userok() check rather than replace the gss_compare_name() check -- that way same-realm auth works for non-krb5 mechanisms, and my new code doesn't get called unless the same-realm check fails. If you don't care about other mechanisms it would be faster to bypass the gss_compare_name() check entirely. If this is something you'd like to mainline I'd be happy to standardize the coding style -- just point me to a style definition document. And if it doesn't hit the mainline I expect to maintain it for the foreseeable future, with updates at the same URL. Zach

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, postifx, virtual domains and deliver, what about luser_relay/fallback_relay?
by Alexander Hoogerhuis 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

I've read documentation (obviously not the right parts) and googled, but I can't seem how to solve this simple problem: I have a machine running postfix/dovecot and using virtual domains, delivery happens with dovecot's LDA. I also have an Exchange machine that I have to house some of the users of a given domain. How can I tell either postifx in general or dovecot's LDA that whatever specific user that cannot be found in the virutal setup can be pawned off to a given relay-server which will sort it out? -A

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[Dovecot] FW: IMAP proxy with dovecot and hostname
by Limperis Antonis 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Good morning dovecot users I read in http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy that dovecot need ip address in host field and then "This field is required. Note that currently it's required to use an IP address since no DNS resolving is done.". I use a qmail cluster and Courier IMAP. In this system used the ldap field mailhost for proxy functionality with dns name as value. Is there a plan to add the DNS resolving to dovecot in host field; Is there any patch; Thanks Antonis

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[Dovecot] User database ldap lookups and sasl
by Olivier Castan 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hello I'm currently trying to use Active Directory with Unix extensions to store UID, GID and homedir and retrieve them with ldap. I don't want to allow anonymous bindings and I would rather not use TLS and manage a PKI. So I'm trying to use SASL to do a Kerberos authentication for Dovecot against AD LDAP. I'm currently getting GSSAPI errors about the lack of "credentials cache". Looking at similar cases where services act as clients, like using nss_ldap for unix host accounts, I understand the credentials cache should be initiated by an external program (cron and startup script), at least with the TGT and maybe the TGS for ldap. Since usually kerberosv5 cache is based on the user id ( /tmp/krb5cc_0 for root) there's an option in ldap.conf (krb5_ccname) to set the filename (/etc/.ldapcache in nss_ldap tutorials) for this cache. Is there any way to do this with dovecot-ldap.conf or should I try to use "auth user" default cache filename ? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] SpamAssassin and Public Namespace
by James 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hi I know i might get flamed for asking this in the dovecot mailing list instead of the spamassassin one but i thought someone might be kind enough to help anyway. TIA I'm trying to do site-wide spam filtering with a public namespace but it's not reading the folder i have in the public namespace This is the public namespace set in my dovecot.conf #public spam folder namespace public { separator = / prefix = Filter/ location = maildir:/home/vmail/domains/Spam/Maildir/ hidden = no } There's also a .Spam and .Non-spam folder created in that directory server:/home/vmail/domains/Spam/Maildir# ls -al total 32 drwxrwxrwx 7 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 . drwxrwxrwx 3 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-05 13:23 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 cur drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 new drwxrwxrwx 5 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 11:20 .Non-Spam drwxrwxrwx 5 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 11:19 .Spam -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 14 2007-10-08 11:58 subscriptions drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2007-10-09 10:35 tmp I'm trying to use this script to login and get the spam from the public spam folders and send it to spamassassin to learn I've highlighted the important parts There are 13 messages in Spam There are 5 messages in Non-Spam Here's the script: ######################################################################################### #!/usr/bin/perl # # Process mail from imap server shared folder 'spam' & 'not-spam' through spamassassin sa-learn # dmz(a)dmzs.com - March 19, 2004 # http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/spam.phtml # LGPL # # Things to try if it doesn't work # 1) Turn debug onto 1 and see if you connect to imap server ad get messages (yes i could have made a command line flag, just didn't see the need once I got it working :) # 2) Check your local.cf for spamassassin (in debian it's /etc/spamassassin/local.cf) bayes_path settings. # # Also be sure to check that your spamassassin is truely using the bayes files (-D manual startup of spamd to debug there) # use Mail::IMAPClient; use IO::Socket::SSL; my $debug=1; my $salearn; my $username = 'user'; my $password = 'password'; my $server = 'server.example.com'; my $ssl=new IO::Socket::SSL("$server:imaps"); die ("Error connecting - $@") unless defined $ssl; $ssl->autoflush(1); my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new( #Server=> 'imapmailhost:143', Socket => $ssl, User => $username, Password => $password, Debug => $debug ); if (!defined($imap)) { die "IMAP Login Failed"; } # If debugging, print out the total counts for each mailbox if ($debug) { foreach my $foldername ($imap->folders) { my $number_of_messages = $imap->message_count( $foldername ); print $foldername, " is imap folder\n"; }* my $spamcount = $imap->message_count('Filter/Spam');* print $spamcount, " Spam to process\n"; * my $nonspamcount = $imap->message_count('Filter/Non-Spam');* print $nonspamcount, " Notspam to process\n" if $debug; } # Process the spam mailbox *$imap->select('Filter/Spam');* my @msgs = $imap->search("ALL"); for (my $i=0;$i <= $#msgs; $i++) { # I put it into a file for processing, doing it into a perl var & piping through sa-learn just didn't seem to work $imap->message_to_file("/tmp/salearn",$msgs[$i]); # execute sa-learn w/data # if ($debug) { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn -D --no-sync --showdots --spam /tmp/salearn`; } # else { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn --no-sync --showdots --spam /tmp/salearn`; } print "-------\nSpam: ",$salearn,"\n-------\n" if $debug; # delete processed message $imap->delete_message($msgs[$i]); unlink("/tmp/salearn"); } $imap->expunge(); $imap->close(); # Process the not-spam mailbox *$imap->select('Filter/Non-spam');* my @msgs = $imap->search("ALL"); for (my $i=0;$i <= $#msgs; $i++) { $imap->message_to_file("/tmp/salearn",$msgs[$i]); # execute sa-learn w/data # if ($debug) { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn -D --no-sync --showdots --ham /tmp/salearn`; } # else { $salearn = `/usr/bin/sa-learn --no-sync --showdots --ham /tmp/salearn`; } print "-------\nNotSpam: ",$salearn,"\n-------\n" if $debug; # delete processed message $imap->delete_message($msgs[$i]); unlink("/tmp/salearn"); } $imap->expunge(); $imap->close(); $imap->logout(); # integrate learned stuff my $sarebuild = `/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync`; print "-------\nRebuild: ",$sarebuild,"\n-------\n" if $debug; ######################################################################################### Results: server:/home/james# ./DMZS-sa-learn.pl Using Mail::IMAPClient version 2.2.9 and perl version 5.8.8 (5.008008) Spam to process Notspam to process . ------- Spam: Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined) ------- Autoloading: UID store +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted) . ------- NotSpam: Learned tokens from 1 message(s) (1 message(s) examined) ------- Autoloading: UID store +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted) ------- Rebuild: bayes: synced databases from journal in 0 seconds: 4 unique entries (4 total entries) -------

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hanging up with many defunct processes
by Mayank Joshi 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

Hi, I am in a very awkward situation and need some kind of immediate fix up. I had installed dovecot in my organization as part of migration of email server. The setup involves sendmail, dovecot (imaps+pop3s) and webmail (squirrelmail) running on apache webserver. All was working fine until one day I found a lot of defunct processes on system related to dovecot. dovecot-auth, imap-login and imap were all defunct. The system is using pam_ldap and nss_ldap to authenticate users to a Windows 2003 Active Directory. Immediate restart of dovecot solved the problem for me that day, however since then it's been about 3 times that I've faced this problem. After visiting various forums I came to know one thing, that it has something to do with pam_ldap and nss_ldap. However with UW-IMAP we were using the same setup and we didn't find any problems there. It would be very kind of you, if you can help me out on this front as apart from these mishaps the mail server is running perfectly fine and we wish to continue using Dovecot for our setup in future as well. Following is the system details: 1) OS: RHEL4 (Kernel - 2.6.9-5.ELsmp) 2) Dovecot: Dovecot (Version - 1.0.3) 3) Following is dovecot configuration: log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/private/imapd.pem login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes: 10240 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/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): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd 4) Dovecot's PAM file (/etc/pam.d/dovecot) #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_ldap.so account required pam_ldap.so session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077 session required pam_ldap.so As far as I feel it's problem with pam_ldap not able to authenticate against Windows 2003 Active Directory due to some reason or the other. However I'm not sure why is this happening. Regards, Mayank Joshi.

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[Dovecot] undelete messages?
by Cory Coager 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

I'm using the lazy expunge plugin as configured in: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge The page claims users can undelete messages without assistance from a sysadmin. How is this accomplished? When I try to subscribe to the folders under the EXPUNGED namespace, nothing happens. ~Cory Coager

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[Dovecot] global sieve script
by Jorge Salamero Sanz 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

hi all, i'm moving from a maildrop+courier setup to lda(sieve)+dovecot setup. with maildrop i had a global filter for all the users, so i could filter and archive into the spam folder spam tagged emails for users without custom filters, including them if they exist: LOGNAME=tolower($LOGNAME) `test -e $LOGNAME` if ( $RETURNCODE != 0 ) { `maildirmake $LOGNAME` `maildirmake $LOGNAME/._spam` } `test -f $LOGNAME/mailfilter` if ( $RETURNCODE == 0 ) { include "$LOGNAME/mailfilter" } if ( /^X-Spam-Status: YES */) { to "$LOGNAME/._spam" } else { to "$LOGNAME/" } how could i get this behaviour with dovecot lda and sieve ? thanks !

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Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP isvery slow (sometimes)
by Stefano Scalise 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi to all, I can confirm that if I downgrade to 1.0.5 version I have no more the slowness problem. Then I think it is a bug introduced in th 1.1.x releases. Stefano. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it> To: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it>; "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP isvery slow (sometimes) > Hi to all, > > very strange! I tried to debug why imap process takes 100% CPu and it is > very slow when I move an email from an imap folder to another imap folder > and then I typed: > > strace -tt -o /log-imap.txt -p <process number> > > well, during the trace the imap process doesn't crash and it is very fast. > If I stop the tracing, I have again the problem and sometimes the crash of > the process. > > Any help? > Thank you, > Stefano. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it> > To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> > Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP > isvery slow (sometimes) > > >> Sorry, but with the new version (1.1.beta2), I still have the same >> problem of very slowness during moving email between two imap folders. >> What can I do for debugging it? >> Stefano. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> >> To: "Stefano Scalise" <s.scalise(a)tno.it> >> Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> >> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 1:52 PM >> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Moving email from a folder to another using IMAP >> isvery slow (sometimes) >> >> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:05 +0200, Stefano Scalise wrote: >>> Update to the problem: >>> >>> I tried to stress the server with many moving and I received: >>> >>> Sep 26 10:56:40 sirio3 dovecot: IMAP(<email_address>): Trying to >>> allocate 0 >>> bytes >> >> This should fix it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/c6b85cf1e63a >> >> I'll probably make a beta2 release today after fixing several other >> things. >> >> >

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[Dovecot] User database ldap lookups and sasl
by olivier castan 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hello I'm currently trying to use Active Directory with Unix extensions to store UID, GID and homedir and retrieve them with ldap I don't want to allow anonymous bindings and I would rather not use TLS and manage a PKI. So I'm trying to use SASL to do a Kerberos authentication for Dovecot against AD LDAP. I'm currently getting GSSAPI errors about the lack of "credentials cache". Looking at similar cases where services act as clients, like using nss_ldap for unix host accounts, I understand the credentials cache should be initiated by an external program (cron and startup script), at least with the TGT and maybe the TGS for ldap. Since usually kerberosv5 cache is based on the user id ( /tmp/krb5cc_0 for root) there's an option in ldap.conf (krb5_ccname) to set the filename (/etc/.ldapcache in nss_ldap tutorials) for this cache. Is there any way to do this with dovecot-ldap.conf or should I try to use "auth user" default cache filename ? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] quota exceeded not showing email address
by JC 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Hi everyone, I have a mail server with postfix 2.3.8-2, dovecot 1.0.0 and mysql with virtual users and domains. Everything is working but when a mail bounces it doesn't show me what is the email address with overquota. I'm using Dovecot Delivery Agent to send a mail when an email bounces. This is the message that shows me: Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent. The following reason was given: Quota exceeded It doesn't show me what is the email address. In my /etc/postfix/master.cf I added this: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=xyz:xyz argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} In my /etc/postfix/main.cf I added this: dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot In my /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf : protocol lda { postmaster_address = <postmaster-address> auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } ... user = xyz socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = xyz group = xyz } } What should i have to show the email address?

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Re: [Dovecot] Postfix with Deliver (LDA) - user unknown
by Branislav Baca 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Glenn wrote: > Howdy BB! Hopefully this helps to answer your questions... > > /etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes contains: > > test(a)geekinetdev.com test/ > > /etc/passwd contains: > > test:*:5000:5000:test account for email:/var/mailboxes/test:/nonexistent probably you need here to have a full user@domain name. i.e: test@geekinetdev.com:*:5000:5000:test account for email:/var/mailboxes/test:/nonexistent > > The reason for the virtual_* stuff is that I am testing each program > configuration as I set up a new SMTP server. The goal is to move all > the virtual_* settings to MySQL. However, I want to walk before I run. > Not sure if that is part of my problem.?. Of course, you can leave it there, I've just said it is not necessary for dovecot to work. Also try to avoid using mysql, except you have dedicated mysql server or playing on small site with a lot of RAM. This is by my own experiences. LDAP is probably better solution but more complex to setup. > > Thanks for your assistance! > > glenn > > > Branislav Baca wrote: >> You have set in the main.cf: >> virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes >> but dovecot deliver is using userdb for this purpose, which you have >> set to >> passwd. Have you equivalent data in both places? Similary nearly all >> configuration parameters in the main.cf of the postfix starting with >> virtual_??? are not required, but should be provided by userdb for >> dovecot >> deliver. >> >> BB >> >> On 1:26 04/10/07 "Karin Gregorec" <karinnv1(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Good Day All! I am attempting to configure deliver as our LDA. I am >>> also configuring the server to use Postfix instead of Sendmail. I >>> have followed the all the documentation and examples I could find. >>> >>> Below are my Dovecot and Postfix configs. Can someone please smack me >>> upside the head and tell me why I am getting "user unknown" errors? >>> If i don't use deliver as the LDA, all works perfectly. Help... >>> >>> TIA, >>> glenn >>> >>> ========== >>> >>> >>> *** Dovecot Config *** >>> >>> dovecot -n >>> # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf >>> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ >>> log_path: /var/log/maillogs/dovecot.log >>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >>> ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW >>> disable_plaintext_auth: no >>> verbose_ssl: yes >>> 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 >>> login_greeting: GID Ready >>> login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> service=%s authMethod=%m rIP=%r >>> lIP=%l encryption=%c >>> login_max_processes_count: 256 >>> verbose_proctitle: yes >>> first_valid_uid: 5000 >>> last_valid_uid: 10000 >>> first_valid_gid: 0 >>> mail_extra_groups: mail >>> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir >>> dotlock_use_excl: yes >>> fsync_disable: yes >>> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes >>> mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 >>> mail_process_size: 1024 >>> mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(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 >>> imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle >>> netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh >>> tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle >>> pop3_uidl_format(default): >>> pop3_uidl_format(imap): >>> pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv >>> pop3_client_workarounds(default): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(imap): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh >>> pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> auth default: >>> cache_size: 1024 >>> cache_ttl: 604800 >>> verbose: yes >>> passdb: >>> driver: pam >>> args: cache_key=%Lu >>> userdb: >>> driver: passwd >>> socket: >>> type: listen >>> master: >>> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >>> mode: 384 >>> user: maildrop >>> plugin: >>> quota: maildir:storage=10000000:ignore=Trash >>> >>> >>> *** Postfix main.cf *** >>> >>> alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> biff = no >>> command_directory = /usr/local/sbin >>> daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix >>> >>> debug_peer_level = 2 >>> debugger_command = >>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH; (echo cont; >>> echo where) | gdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id 2>&1 >>> > $config_directory/$process_name.$process_id.log & sleep 5 >>> >>> #### Dovecot LDA Service - http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix >>> dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 >>> >>> home_mailbox = Maildir/ >>> html_directory = no >>> inet_interfaces = all >>> mail_owner = postfix >>> mail_spool_directory = /var/mail >>> mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq >>> manpage_directory = /usr/local/man >>> message_size_limit = 12000000 >>> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost >>> mydomain = geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> myhostname = superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> mynetworks = 72.18.193.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 >>> newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases >>> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix >>> readme_directory = no >>> sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix >>> sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >>> setgid_group = maildrop >>> smtpd_banner = $myhostname NO WHAMMIES!!! >>> >>> virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 >>> virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mailboxes >>> virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vdomains >>> virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes >>> virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 >>> virtual_transport = dovecot >>> virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 >>> unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 >>> >>> *** Postfix master.cf *** >>> ...snip... >>> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe >>> flags=DRhu user=maildrop:maildrop >>> argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e -d ${recipient} > >

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[Dovecot] dovecot cloning mails?
by Andreas Schneider 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hi, I have a strange issue here. I have a large message of a svn commit and the message is cloning itself more and more. I've deleted it several time completely but it doesn't go away. http://www.cynapses.org/tmp/dovecot.png How can I debug it? Thanks, -- andreas milliways:~ # dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/milliways.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/milliways.key login_dir(default): /var/run/dovecot//login login_dir(imap): /var/run/dovecot//login login_dir(managesieve): login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/srv/mail/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): dspam mail_plugins(imap): dspam mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve auth default: 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 mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: mail plugin: dspam_spamfolder: Junk -- http://www.cynapses.org/ - cybernetic synapses

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[Dovecot] Strange errors
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

One of our users seems to have strange problems with his mailbox: Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1096, but next_uid = 1097 Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1096, but next_uid = 1097 Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index Oct 2 00:36:42 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Oct 2 02:40:54 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unlinked a duplicate: 1191278050.P11797Q0M631938.postamt.charite.de,S=3164:2, Oct 2 02:40:54 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Maildir /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.CCL sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (1097 > 1096, file = 1191278202.P12120Q0M512940.postamt.charite.de,S=5349:2,) Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Corrupted transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.jmol/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 570, but next_uid = 571 Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Transaction log file /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.jmol/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Unlinked a duplicate: 1191322757.P13572Q0M515987.postamt.charite.de,S=3982:2,a Oct 2 13:46:12 postamt dovecot: IMAP(rbxxxx): Maildir /home/r/b/rbxxxx/Maildir/.listen.jmol sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (571 > 570, file = 1191325571.P17909Q0M852537.postamt.charite.de,S=5674:2,) This is dovecot 1.0.5. -- 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 Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS

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[Dovecot] Timeout leak
by Lars Stavholm 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

In my development environment I sometimes get: dovecot: IMAP(stava): Timeout leak: 0x4425d0 Does anyone know what it means or how I can use this information? Cheers /Lars

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[Dovecot] Corrupt Message?
by Daniel Watts 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Dear List, Am accessing dovecot imap through squirrelmail. Squirrelmail paginates the message list into pages. All works fine except for the page one particular email is in. When I try to open that page (or in fact click 'show all') the server returns: ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Query: FETCH 549,551,555:557,563,565,567:569 (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)]) Server responded: No mailbox selected. Could you possibly let me know what I should do and also how I can find the guilty mail file from that error? Can I just delete the email? Or is there a nice script to repair a dovecot maildir? Many thanks for your advice, Daniel -- Squirrelmail Stable 1.4.8 PHP 5.x Hardened with Eaccelerator Apache 2.x Imapproxy over Dovecot/Maildir all running on Gentoo Linux for ~5,000 users.

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