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Re: [Dovecot] Reproducible duplicate messages bug with Mail.app+Dovecot / may imap bug from mail apple
by Andrew Moran 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > i investigated the imap bugs from apple mail app with google > trough the years, and i saw there was no version without a bug with > imap, so i speculate its not dovecot what does something wrong here > Oh I have no doubt that Apple's Mail.app is very buggy, but I submit a bug to them which only happens with dovecot IMAP server, I'm sure they are going to be quick to blame dovecot rather than investigate it fully. This is why I was hoping that someone on this list who has Mail.app and Dovecot can (a) verify that it is happening for them (it's 100% reproducible to me) and (b) figure out exactly what's going on, at least to the point of knowing it's Mail.app's fault and not something Dovecot is doing, or a combination of both (such as dovecot doing something other IMAP servers don't and Mail.app misinterpreting it). --Andy

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[Dovecot] Shared folders plans for the future
by Timo Sirainen 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

So while driving for several hours in my car recently and having nothing else to do, I started thinking how they could be done. I think the "public folders" configuration will stay as it is now. Does it really even need anything else? The problematic case is how the users can share their mailboxes to other users. There are two problems related to it: 1) How to get (quickly) a list of another user's mailboxes that I have access to? 2) How to get quickly a list of all users who have mailboxes that I have access to? The 1) problem is easier to solve. Create a directory listing all the mailboxes that are shared to at least someone (have ACLs set). It could be configured like: namespace shared { # IMAP namespace prefix, %u expands to shared user prefix = user/%u/ # Directory containing symlinks to user's all shared mailboxes share_dir = ~/Maildir/shared # Where to store indexes for other users' accessed mailboxes index_dir = ~/Maildir/others-indexes } The ~/Maildir/shared directory could then contain symlinks to all the shared mailboxes. The directory list could probably be in Maildir++ layout even though the symlinks would point to mboxes. This requires adding code that can handle mixed maildir/mbox directories, but it'll come anyway.. The 2) problem is more difficult. There are 3 choices: a) Use a shared database file. lib-dict could be used for this, so the database could be in SQL or in a berkeley db file. The downside to this is that the file needs to be readable and writable to everyone, so if users have shell access the users could break the file. They dictionary would contain data in format "<destination_user>/<sharing_user>" = 1 and "<destination_group>/<sharing_user>" = 1, ie. the value would be ignored and only the existence of the keys would be important. Then iterating through "<my_username>/*" and "<all_my_groups>/*" would list the users who probably have mailboxes where I have access to. b) Use a directories with sticky bit set. Well, basically the same idea as in a), except filesystem would be used. Actually perhaps this could be made another lib-dict backend.. c) Brute force: Just assume everyone potentially have shared mailboxes. Get the list of users by readdir()ing through /home (configurable). I guess each of these could be made an option.. So something like: namespace shared { .. # a) shared_dict = db:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db # b) shared_dict = dir:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes # c) shared_dict = bruteforce:/home } I'm currently also implementing a "mailbox list index", which contains a list of all the user's mailboxes and some useful metadata for them, such as number of messages and so on. So that STATUS command wouldn't need to open the mailbox index files if they haven't changed. The mailbox list index updating is normally done when directory's mtime has changed. For list of shared users that would also work in 2b) and 2c) cases, but for 2a) I'd either have to always sync everything or alternatively add some sequence/<dest_user/group>=# value which is grown for each update, and the syncing is done only when the sequence is updated.

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[Dovecot] help needed - dovecot-ldap authentication
by Vidyasagar Warge 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I am trying to set a up mail server on a ubuntu edgy machine. I followed the howto at http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html . I am able to configure everything except dovecot-ldap authentication :(. After struggling with it for a week I decided to seek help. The current version of dovecot is v1.0 RC21 and the version used for the howto is v0.99.10.9. I installed & tried to configure both versions but none of them was able to authenticate a user from ldap. I noted some differences in syntax of the dovecot.conf files of both the versions. It seems that the ldap documentation at dovecot site is from the old version of dovecot ( I might be wrong on this!). So if anyone can tell me how to configure the current version of dovecot with openldap? Please help me! I am eagerly waiting for your response. Regards, Vidyasagar

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[Dovecot] where is the subfolders
by P Y Tan 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I have just set up a dovecot IMAP + Maildir. Would any one tell me where Dovecot store the subfolders and how to delete invalid folders.

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc21 released
by Timo Sirainen 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc21.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc21.tar.gz.sig Just one fix. Maybe the one big thing in Dovecot v2.0.* will be a test suite, which is run before any release. :) - Cache file handling could have crashed rc20

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[Dovecot] Lda does not query pgsql
by Tognini Samuele 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi, I don't know if it's a bug or my configuration fault, but LDA does not work as i expect. Dovecot auth connects to a pgsql database that mirrors Nis users infos, but it has also quota settings because i'd like to use a per-user quota environment. Mailserver and Postfix authenticates users with Nis (through PAM), while imap and local delivery (with the postfix mailbox_command setting) are left to dovecot mechanism. Imap works perfectly, dovecot retrieves authentication and quota setting from database, but dovecot LDA seems to not query any database (and nothing is logged) , so that quota is not retrived and message is not bounced when user is overquota. You can see it in the verbose log: deliver(tognini): 2007-02-08 12:25:02 Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda deliver(tognini): 2007-02-08 12:25:02 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so deliver(tognini): 2007-02-08 12:25:02 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin. so deliver(tognini): 2007-02-08 12:25:02 Info: mbox: data=/home/t/tognini:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/tognini deliver(tognini): 2007-02-08 12:25:02 Info: mbox: root=/home/t/tognini, index=/home/t/tognini, inbox=/var/spool/mail/tognini deliver(tognini): 2007-02-08 12:25:02 Info: cmusieve: Using sieve path: /home/t/tognini/.dovecot.sieve deliver(tognini): 2007-02-08 12:25:02 Info: msgid=<20070208112502.7706B3273D6(a)arturo.cli.di.unipi.it>: saved mail to INBOX If i set quota variable in dovecot.conf, still no query but the global variable is used for all users: ... deliver(tognini): 2007-02-07 12:33:04 Info: dirsize quota limit = 1024kB ... My Debian server packages are: dovecot-common/unstable 1.0.rc22-1 postfix/testing 2.3.6-1 postgresql/testing 7.5.22 Dovecot.conf: protocols = imap imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Server ready. mail_location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { user = root mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = mail # User running Dovecot LDA group = mail # Or alternatively mode 0660 + LDA user in this group } } } protocol lda { postmaster_address = samuele(a)example.org mail_plugins = quota cmusieve log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } plugin { #quota = dirsize:storage=1024 # every user gets this quota, but it's not what i want. } Dovecot-sql.conf: driver = pgsql connect = host=192.168.1.2 dbname=dovecot user=myuser password='mypasswd' default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT password, home as userdb_home, uid as userdb_uid, gid as userdb_gid, 'dirsize:storage='||quota as userdb_quota FROM user_accounts WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' #user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid, quota FROM user_accounts WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid, 'dirsize:storage=' || quota AS quota FROM user_accounts WHERE username = '%u' Postfix main.cf: ... mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver .... Postgresql table: Table "public.user_accounts" Column | Type | Modifiers ----------+------------------------+------------------------------ username | character varying(12) | not null uid | integer | not null gid | integer | not null password | character varying(32) | home | character varying(255) | not null active | character(1) | not null default 'Y'::bpchar quota | integer | not null default 512 Thanks in advance for any help or suggestion, Samuele

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[Dovecot] error on pop3
by jepoy 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

hi guys, just got this error after install quota. -ERR [IN-USE] Couldn't sync mailbox. tnx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] LSUB * error solved on rc22
by Gavin Henry 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi All, Just a quickie to say ew are running the latest version now. Our LSUB error was due to: open(/var/mail/public/.Projects/dovecot-acl) failed: Permission denied Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] why is there email in my mbox file?
by Kendall Shaw 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi, I've installed dovecot-imapd under ubuntu. My account and root are the only email accounts on my computer. I transitioned from using GNUS with fetchmail, exim and movemail, to gnus with exim, fetchmail and imap, so I've kept the mbox format email instead of changing to maildir. This works okay, except my mbox file is giant. I expected dovecot to take the mail out of the mbox file and put it somewhere. But, I see there's a big mbox file (/var/mail/me) that keeps growing. Is dovecot using that as the store of messages? If I were to move to using maildir instead of mbox, what is going to happen to my existing mail? Kendall

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[Dovecot] Feature Request
by Jay Chandler 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

How much trouble would it be to have the name of the .subscriptions file set via the configuration file, or failing that, as a compile-time option? I find that editing the source directly is a bit of a harrowing experience, particularly when doing it as part of a package management system such as an RPM or the FreeBSD ports tree. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler(a)chapman.edu Today's Excuse: Too many interrupts

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[Dovecot] Folders compat. problem ?
by Frank Bonnet 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hi A user here has a strange problem when I moved my imap server from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. A folder created monthes ago with mozilla mail (windows client) became suddenly invisible when I stopped UW then started Dovecot. I really think that IMAP created folders a fully compatibles between UW and Dovecot but I'm curious to know from where does come this trouble ??? Anyone had experienced the same problem ? Thanks a lot.

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[Dovecot] duplicate emails
by Alex 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

i'm working with dovecot-1.0.rc15 I have receive a lot of duplicate emails with microsoft outlook, i don't have this problem with outlook express This is in pop3

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[Dovecot] POP3 UIDL
by FiL ＠ Kpoxa 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

I have installed rc22 and tried it with my mbox-based mail - fine. Then I converted that mbox to Maildir to see if new feature (saving state without QUIT) works - first run - I get time out. Second run - I get rest of the Maildir scanned and get into mailbox. Fine. but.... # telnet enders2 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user filonovd +OK pass ****** +OK Logged in. uidl +OK . where is the list of pop3 uids ? When I connect to mbox I get something like .......... 84904 d8f096c72c24719bd7d13d78a3694114 84905 9074b40ab4283ec38a151587f34690d9 84906 06a40afeaca43fc76bea2231b13b1a33 84907 cdae771ec2407df89a25321f3792d9e9 84908 9f84415625d77dd3cde7d9441847318e but with Maildir I get nothing. Doesn't look like proper behavior. P.S. mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir #mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_uidl_format = %m FiL

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[Dovecot] negative quota usage causes over-quota messages with dictionary quota backend
by Marshal Newrock 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Using dovecot 1.0.rc21, with quotas being stored in mysql, I have found that if the quota usage stored is negative, then when a message is given to dovecot deliver, the account is reports as being over quota. The squirrelmail quota usage plugin says that the quota is at around 40 million percent (I should have written down the exact number), though I don't know if that's squirrelmail or dovecot coming up with that number. At a guess, I'd say there's an unsigned int being used where the result can be signed. I'm using MySQL 5, so for an easy workaround, I added a trigger that sets the quota usage to 0 if it goes less than 0. I could probably also set the field to unsigned int, but I haven't tested what mysql does if you try to change an unsigned int field such that it would be negative. -- Marshal Newrock, Ideal Solution LLC http://www.idealso.com

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[Dovecot] OTP?
by Micah Cowan 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hello, I was wondering where I might find more information about using OTP as an authentication protocol with dovecot. In searching, I found a thread from 2004, but not much information about how it has progressed from then. I also saw some promising patches from mid-last year, which if I had to guess are probably the addition of support for the SASL OTP mechanism. Is this available in a release yet? (And, also: does anyone know of Linux mail clients that support the OTP SASL mechanism? I'm hoping Thunderbird might...). If not, is it possible to make it work currently with PAM (or, if that's not possible, maybe Cyrus SASL)? It would be okay with me if it can work with PAM but not prompt with the seed/series number: I can scratch off keys no prob. I tried briefly to get it to work through PAM, and in fact opieinfo told me that the series was being decremented, but auth.log gives Feb 6 15:41:46 mabruk dovecot-auth: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=x.x.x.x user=micah ssh works fine with the same PAM settings (both include common-auth, which has:) auth sufficient pam_opie.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok_secure auth required pam_deny.so -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/

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[Dovecot] imap crashes on deleting an e-mail with no message-id.
by Tan Shao Yi 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hi, I'm on RC21 on a Solaris 10 SPARC box. Somehow I managed to receive an e-mail with no message-id and when dovecot tries to delete the e-mail. Viewing the e-mail is not a problem though. I attached truss to the imap process and this was what I received: pollsys(0x000B7A88, 3, 0xFFBFF870, 0x00000000) = 0 pollsys(0x000B7A88, 3, 0xFFBFF870, 0x00000000) = 0 pollsys(0x000B7A88, 3, 0xFFBFF870, 0x00000000) (sleeping...) pollsys(0x000B7A88, 3, 0xFFBFF870, 0x00000000) = 1 read(0, " g 1 b q U I D S T O".., 3747) = 52 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl(6, F_SETLKW64, 0xFFBFF1D0) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 close(8) = 0 open64("/maildirs/tansy/Maildir/maildirsize", O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 8 read(8, " 1 0 7 3 7 4 1 8 2 4 0 S".., 5120) = 2223 read(8, 0xFFBFE8DF, 2897) = 0 Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x00086FF8 siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default] siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 I believe it's due to the mail_log plugin that is logging the message-ids being deleted. When I disabled the mail_log plugin, the e-mail gets deleted correctly. Timo, do you think we can have mail_log to handle such exceptions? :) Thanking in advance. Cheers, Tan Shao Yi

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[Dovecot] Default domain name
by Nils Vogels 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I'm trying to setup a dovecot installation and at the same time i'm also moving from system to virtual users. In order for end-users to experience as little impact as possible, I'd like to add a default domainname to the login, if the login doesn't contain a full username. For instance: * User logging in as "user(a)mydomain.com" will get the mailbox for user(a)mydomain.com. * User logging in as "user" will also get the mailbox for user(a)mydomain.com Is there some way to do this, without using the pop3/imap proxy? I've searched the wiki and sample configuration file, but was only able to find entries about authentication rewrites so far, and I don't know if this could be done with auth_username_translation ? Greetings, Nils - -- Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. ~Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFyP+3MzNX/a06Wq0RAvQ4AJwNWr7ov8Fw6JhuoOQGiQte51FW9wCfaZ7x Y3VbqigfdqSFgnlA0Aukucg= =owku -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Indexing Performance Question (was tpop3d vs dovecot)
by Nate 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Since posting the previous thread we've setup a new system (Opteron 2.0ghz, 1gb ram, Fedora 6) for testing. I am hoping somebody very familiar with the indexing portion of dovecot can shed some light on this for me. After much testing, I've come to one primary conclusion that dovecot is possibly unnecessarily scanning or reading files within the maildir directories. Take a mailbox for instance (my test one has 71570 emails in the cur/ folder so the process runs long enough to get data of what it's doing). Follow these steps: 1. First pop3 connection. With no index files whatsoever, it takes nearly a full 10 minutes at 100% io load to scan the 71570 files (748M) directory and build the index files from scratch which look like this: -rw------- 1 postfix postdrop 839K Feb 1 00:43 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 postfix postdrop 1.9M Feb 1 00:57 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 postfix postdrop 560K Feb 1 00:43 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 postfix postdrop 3.1M Feb 1 00:43 dovecot-uidlist While it's building index i see a lot of these fly by in lsof pop3 2023 postfix 8r REG 8,3 14425 285947 /var/spool/mail/test.visp.net/natetest/cur/1128488047.V902I7d42e.s3.visp.net:2, No problem here, the disk can only go as fast as the disk can go and thats a *lot* of mail. Although, one curious thing here, it appears that dovecot is reading or at least scanning the entire contents of the files within the cur/ directory to generate an index. I assume this by watching my disk cache go from 100MB to 600MB. Is it necessary to do that or only read the top X lines of each file, is that even possible? 2. Second connection. Near instantaneous results from a login and LIST. Cannot perform an lsof fast enough to see what files it's opening. This step can be repeated with nearly the same results. *rebooted machine to clear all cache* 3. Third connection. It takes ~40 seconds to display a LIST after login. The index files are untouched; however, during the 40 seconds I'm waiting, I can catch a few of these in lsof. pop3 1971 postfix 10r REG 8,3 4196 205963 /var/spool/mail/test.visp.net/natetest/cur/1157863512.V902I1f3867.s3.visp.net:2,S This tells me even though there is no new email, it is re-scanning the cur/ directory somewhat. It doesn't take near as long as the initial index build, but certainly takes longer than it would for the system to read any or all of the listed index files above. Why would dovecot need to even enter cur/ if the index file is up to date? Is it verifying that the index file is up to date by re-reading some or all of the many files in cur/? If so, could it not get the info it needs by simply doing the equivalent of a ls, which would take considerably less time? The disk cache is only filled up an additional 30meg vs an additional 500meg from connection 1, so it's certainly not reading as much data. (also makes me wonder why the initial scan/index build could not use this lesser time consuming function if thats what it's doing). Additional information: Running strace on the initial indexing looks like this... ------------------------------------------- open("/var/spool/mail/test.visp.net/natetest/cur/1115929738.V902I67c13.test.visp.net:2,", O_RDONLY) = 8 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=4667, ...}) = 0 pread(8, "Return-Path: <mehl8nl3n8osm3r83a"..., 4096, 0) = 4096 pread(8, "zdik8dyrnffv6bbrue.itownshipno12"..., 4095, 4096) = 571 pread(8, "", 3524, 4667) = 0 close(8) = 0 open("/var/spool/mail/test.visp.net/natetest/cur/1115931742.V902I67c42.test.visp.net:2,", O_RDONLY) = 8 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=3881, ...}) = 0 pread(8, "Return-Path: <sender-5-8759012-9"..., 4096, 0) = 3881 pread(8, "", 215, 3881) = 0 close(8) = 0 ------------------------------------------- Running strace on the 3rd connection looks like this... ------------------------------------------- open("/var/spool/mail/test.visp.net/natetest/cur/1114490671.V902I6011f.test.visp.net:2,", O_RDONLY) = 10 fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=5367, ...}) = 0 pread(10, "Return-Path: <qflfmq82vz8zg-u6ci"..., 4096, 0) = 4096 pread(10, "gs/rpoc_District6Spauldings.php?"..., 4095, 4096) = 1271 pread(10, "", 2824, 5367) = 0 close(10) = 0 open("/var/spool/mail/test.visp.net/natetest/cur/1114496568.V902I60bf5.test.visp.net:2,", O_RDONLY) = 10 fstat(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2047, ...}) = 0 pread(10, "Return-Path: <removed(a)aaa-calif.c"..., 4096, 0) = 2047 pread(10, "", 2049, 2047) = 0 close(10) = 0 Thank you for the help! - Nate

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[Dovecot] Problem with vpopmail auth
by Fred Moyer 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hello, I've install 1.021 and am having some problems getting vpopmail authentication to work correctly (running 0.99 in production, upgrading to 1.021). I'm using vpopmail-5.4.16. Here are the authentication debug statements in the log, my dovecot.conf changes from default, and the schema of my vpopmail database. Any ideas / suggestions? I've commented out all authentication except for vpopmail. I took a look around the source but am not that familiar with the vpopmail api. Thanks dovecot: Feb 05 22:23:31 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=10.0.0.2 rip=10.0.0.1 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Feb 05 22:23:31 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(fred(a)redhotpenguin.com,10.0.0.1): crypted password=rightpasswd dovecot: Feb 05 22:23:31 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=fred(a)redhotpenguin.com dovecot: Feb 05 22:23:31 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 13457 1 dovecot: Feb 05 22:23:31 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(fred(a)redhotpenguin.com,10.0.0.1): vget_assign(redhotpenguin.com) failed dovecot: Feb 05 22:23:31 Info: auth(default): master out: FAIL 1 dovecot: Feb 05 22:23:31 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<fred(a)redhotpenguin.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.1, lip=10.0.0.2 852 # vpopmail authentication 853 # http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/VPopMail 854 passdb vpopmail { 855 # args = cache_key=%u dovecot 856 # [cache_key=<key>] - See cache_key in PAM for explanation. 857 # args = cache_key=%u 858 } 907 # vpopmail 908 # http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/VPopMail 909 userdb vpopmail { 910 } +-----------+-----------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+-----------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | pw_name | char(32) | | PRI | | | | pw_domain | char(64) | | PRI | | | | pw_passwd | char(40) | YES | | NULL | | | pw_uid | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | | pw_gid | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | | pw_gecos | char(48) | YES | | NULL | | | pw_dir | char(160) | YES | | NULL | | | pw_shell | char(20) | YES | | NULL | | +-----------+-----------+------+-----+---------+-------+

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[Dovecot] Big problems after upgrade from beta8 (FC5) to rc21
by Jim Garrison 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

After upgrading a working system from FC5's beta8 to rc21, one vhost is failing with: > dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Error: POP3(user(a)mydomain.com): > open(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.com/david/user, O_CREAT) failed: Not a > directory > dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Error: POP3(user(a)mydomain.com): > mkdir_parents(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.com/user/.imap/INBOX) failed: > Not a directory > dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Error: POP3(user(a)mydomain.com): Couldn't open > INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more > information. [2007-02-05 09:54:30] > dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Info: POP3(user(a)mydomain.com): No INBOX for > user top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 > dovecot: Feb 05 09:54:30 Info: pop3-login: Login: > user=<user(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:4.242.120.235, > lip=::ffff:216.75.55.45, TLS Here's the entire dovecot.conf: protocols = pop3s ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/popcert.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/popkey.pem ssl_ca_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt ssl_parameters_regenerate = 48 disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_extra_groups = mail mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = no auth_debug = no auth_debug_passwords = no auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/%d.passwd } passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } userdb static { args = uid=502 gid=502 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d mail=mbox:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n } user = root } plugin { } Did something changed between beta8 and rc21 in the index format and/or mbox location? If so, how do I recover so users can retrieve mail again? Thx.

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[Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind=yes in rc21 = goodness
by Adrian Close 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi all, I finally got a chance to try out the fix for the LDAP auth_bind=yes issues in production (using rc21). It seems to be working just fine even after 24 hours of severe abuse. Incidentally, I had switched to bsdauth+login_ldap (on OpenBSD) which was often OK, but occasionally I would see Postfix smtpd throttled with SASL errors due to "connection refused" on the Dovecot authentication socket. This may just have been due to increased LDAP server load (Dovecot's internal LDAP generates much less). Thanks Timo! (And thanks Brad for updating the port) Adrian.

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[Dovecot] minor kerberized dovecot build issue
by Dan Price 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi all, again, I'm not knowledgeable about Kerberos, but we have a few users who use it to make sure that it works well on Solaris... so, they would like a Kerberized IMAPd. I tried compiling dovecot --with-gssapi on Solaris Nevada (the current development release), and the configure script choked for a couple of reasons. First, script uses 'grep -qv' in the case that you specify --with-gssapi to run some test. Unfortunately, Solaris doesn't have 'grep -q'. There's a note in GNU grep's manpage about this problem and a note that portable scripts should just redirect to /dev/null. Once I fixed this problem, I got: configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: section "Present But Cannot Be +Compiled" configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: in the future, the compiler will take +precedence configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to dovecot(a)dovecot.org ## configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------- ## For whatever reason, on Solaris /usr/bin/krb5-config does not like the syntax 'krb5-config --cflags gssapi' (ditto with --libs). I found that removing the 'gssapi' part from the configure script fixed the problem, but I imagine this must break some other OS. If need be, I can follow up with the Kerberos team about this. Once I made these minor changes, I also had to add -lgss to the src/auth makefile's compile line. After that, I had no problem getting this to compile, although we have not yet tested it. -dp -- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp(a)eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp

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[Dovecot] Nitpicking: rc21 startup banner says rc19
by Jim Garrison 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

> [jhg@helios RPMS]$ rpm -q dovecot > dovecot-1.0-1_42.rc21.fc5.at but: > dovecot: Feb 05 10:49:21 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc19 starting up

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[Dovecot] Problems enabling quota on MacOS X
by Lars Skovgaard 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, I'm trying to activate quotas for my users, preferably maildir++ quotas as all users are using maildir. I have compiled dovecot with quota-support, but when I try to enable quotas in the config, dovecot refuses to start up with a (to me, at least) strange message: Fopendir(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap) failed: No such file or directory Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 In the logs I get the following: dovecot: read (imap dump-capability process) failed: Interrupted system call The directory "/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap" is not missing, which would be the obvious explanation... Dovecot-version is 1.0rc21 (which by the way is running ***great*** without quotas). Thanks, /Lars

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[Dovecot] Compile without GSSAPI disables SSL?
by Troy Engel 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Perchance this is something unique to Red Hat -- I'm compiling/running 1.0rc?? on a CentOS 4 machine (i386), building RPMs and trimming down things I don't need (SQL e.g.). If I compile with the flag --with-gssapi, the resulting dovecot-auth binary links to libcrypto and libssl, the standard OpenSSL libs. Life is happy even though I don't need gssapi/krb5 support. If I remove --with-gssapi (but leave --with-ssl=openssl as before), the resulting dovecot-auth binary is no longer linked to the OpenSSL libraries (so I'm assuming no TLS/SSL support, but can't run the binary to test - I have SSL betatest users). So the question is, is this a ./configure problem in Dovecot, or some strangeness with Red Hat that you must link with gssapi/krb5 to get OpenSSL? Anyone care to hazard a guess? -te == details == The full configure line generated by the build is: + ./configure --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info 'INSTALL_DATA=install -c -p -m644' --with-doc --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/pki/dovecot --with-ldap --with-gssapi --with-linux-quota=2 With gssapi: Install prefix ...................... : /usr File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : yes Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: Without gssapi: Install prefix ...................... : /usr File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com

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[Dovecot] URGENT: specify mailboc location
by T. Horsnell 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Is there a way I can tell dovecot to only use the .subscriptions file, if it exists, as the source of mailfolder paths, rather than have it look at every file in a user's directory to see if it's a mail folder? I'm on RHEL4, still on dovecot dovecot-0.99.11 Thanks, Terry.

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[Dovecot] pop3 not working properly in 1.0.r19
by Charlie Root 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, I often see this message: Feb 1 14:42:44 vlk dovecot: POP3(obec(a)nizkov.cz): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Feb 1 14:42:44 vlk dovecot: POP3(obec(a)nizkov.cz): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/obec(a)nizkov.cz (68386 > 68346, seq=2, idx_msgs=3) this is on FreeBSD@i386 runnin 1.0.r19 (but I have seen this with all versions of 1.0.x), filesystem in use is UFS (ie. local filesystem). THe mailing client in question seems to be outlook express. I can provide the mbox in question. locking method is #lock_method = flock and the dovecot was compiled with kqueue thnx roman

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[Dovecot] a namespace "mbox" without an INBOX
by David Bonnafous 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

hi, (dovecot 1.0r15) I try to setup up two namespaces: 1- the first one (and default one) a maildir namespace 2- the second one a mbox namespace I want only one "INBOX", in the maildir namespace, no INBOX in the mbox namespace. I get what I want with this configuration: ---------------------------------------- mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace private { inbox = yes } namespace private { separator = . prefix = mbox. location = mbox:~/mbox:INBOX= inbox = no hidden = no } ---------------------------------------- My question is: is it a normal way to do what I want ? I mean, the line location = mbox:~/mbox:INBOX= looks odd. I try with just the line inbox=no (without INBOX=) but dovecot set a default INBOX that disturbs some mail client. yours, -- David Bonnafous Institut de Mathématiques Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse - France

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[Dovecot] Large & busy site, NFS with deliver only servers
by Dean Manners 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Timo / Others, I have been working on a new installation for a fairly busy site, and after many weeks of tribulation have come to an architecture Im happy with: 2x Debian (2.6.18) - MXing machines running Postfix / MailScanner / Dovecot-LDA (A slightly patched RC17 for prettier Quota bounces) 2x Debian (2.6.18) - Mail retrieval machines running Dovecot IMAP/POP3 (Currently RC17) 3x Node Isilon NFS cluster (NetApp type devices) I chose Dovecot-LDA over Postfix-Virtual / Maildrop / Procmail due to its hassle free auto creation of new user maildirs, and the funkyness of built in Sieve functionality. The on the fly indexing sounded like a bonus at the time. However as Im sure all people who stress test with index's stored over NFS find, index locking makes for some 'spectacular crashes' (see others previous posts). I have tried out the recommended mount options and locking methods to no avail. Once under some stress, say ~60 messages a minute from the two front end machines, understandably the index's get pickled instantly. So as a hack way around the index locking problems, I have configured the MXing machines to index locally to no where (/tmp) - and deal with the very slightly slower IMAP/POP3 performance on the retrieval side. Is there way to tell/patch Dovecot-LDA not to bother with indexing? So Im not creating unused index files. Cheers __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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[Dovecot] Quota crashing w/ gdb backtrace
by Dean Brooks 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, I'm still running into consistent crashing when moving files between folders when dirsize quotas are enabled. This is running Dovecot1.0rc19. Please let me know if I'm posting this to the wrong list. Here is the gdb backtrace: #0 0x377fc in mbox_file_seek (mbox=0xc8560, view=0xc94c0, seq=1, deleted_r=0xffbef157) at mbox-file.c:167 167 if (data == NULL) { (gdb) bt #0 0x377fc in mbox_file_seek (mbox=0xc8560, view=0xc94c0, seq=1, deleted_r=0xffbef157) at mbox-file.c:167 #1 0x39684 in mbox_mail_seek (mail=0xc73a8) at mbox-mail.c:69 #2 0x398f0 in mbox_mail_get_physical_size (_mail=0xc73a8) at mbox-mail.c:163 #3 0x6b880 in mail_get_physical_size (mail=0xc73a8) at mail.c:75 #4 0x7f933a74 in quota_default_try_alloc (ctx=0xc9a58, mail=0xc73a8, too_large_r=0xffbef397) at quota.c:434 #5 0x7f933654 in quota_try_alloc (ctx=0x0, mail=0xc73a8, too_large_r=0xffbef397) at quota.c:301 #6 0x7f9370c8 in quota_check (t=0xc57f0, mail=0xc73a8) at quota-storage.c:120 #7 0x7f9374d0 in quota_save_finish (ctx=0xc7790, dest_mail=0xc73a8) at quota-storage.c:222 #8 0x6cb64 in mailbox_save_finish (_ctx=0xffbef504, dest_mail=0xc73a8) at mail-storage.c:538 #9 0x6ba2c in mail_storage_copy (t=0xc57f0, mail=0xc5c00, flags=MAIL_SEEN, keywords=0x0, dest_mail=0xc73a8) at mail-copy.c:38 #10 0x7f9371e4 in quota_copy (t=0xc57f0, mail=0xc5c00, flags=MAIL_SEEN, keywords=0x0, dest_mail=0x0) at quota-storage.c:148 #11 0x6cbbc in mailbox_copy (t=0xc57f0, mail=0xc5c00, flags=MAIL_SEEN, keywords=0x0, dest_mail=0x0) at mail-storage.c:553 #12 0x1e6b0 in fetch_and_copy (t=0xc57f0, srcbox=0xc57f0, search_args=0x8) at cmd-copy.c:34 #13 0x1e804 in cmd_copy (cmd=0xba6c4) at cmd-copy.c:95 #14 0x21eec in cmd_uid (cmd=0xba6c4) at cmd-uid.c:19 #15 0x22ab8 in client_handle_input (cmd=0xba6c4) at client.c:331 #16 0x22a3c in client_handle_input (cmd=0xba6c4) at client.c:388 #17 0x22bb0 in _client_input (context=0xba680) at client.c:428 #18 0x80e88 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0xb7de8) at ioloop-poll.c:199 #19 0x80794 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0xb7de8) at ioloop.c:281 #20 0x2b3d0 in main (argc=0, argv=0xffbefa7c, envp=0xffbefa8c) at main.c:280 The "data" variable defined as: (gdb) print data $1 = (void *) 0xd9354 (gdb) print &data $3 = (void **) 0xffbef0dc I've noticed that the copy (during a move) *does* complete correctly. However, the original files never gets deleted, so I assume that this crash is occuring during the deletion in the original folder. -- Dean Brooks dean(a)iglou.com

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[Dovecot] broken attachments with pop3
by Robert Schetterer 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi all, ive just upgrade to rc21 ( so i dont know perhaps this report failure is fixed with this release ) i have reports from users that attachments get broken ( with rc19, dont know about before ) with some accounts , which where downloaded via a pop3 service to a exchange server, but in fact nothing is broken when looking with imap to the mailboxes Has anyone an idea, i havent any failure logs about that, is there a parameter which makes logging verbose to such failures? -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer https://www.schetterer.org Munich/Bavaria/Germany -- Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht und ist - aktuelle Virenscanner vorausgesetzt - sauber.

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[Dovecot] SSL error is it due to a self certified certificate?
by Matthew Bickerton 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi I have set up dovecot with a self signed SSL certificate, created with the mkcert.sh script. Now I see the following in the log: pop3-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094416:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert certificate unknown [206.124.112.22] pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=206.124.112.22, lip=204.3.153.71, TLS handshake Is this caused by my self certified certificates. Or is it another problem? Thanks Matthew

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[Dovecot] mail_log plugin, log throttling and killing of the IMAP child.
by Tan Shao Yi 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, Just a quick check, was wondering if anyone is experiencing problems mass deleting/purging mails from a folder? I am on RC19 with the mail_log plugin enabled. Quite often, when a mass deletion/purge is attempted, we receive the following message in the dovecot logs: dovecot: Feb 01 11:36:27 Error: IMAP(userid): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. Sometimes this is accompanied by a message like the following and the user will be prompted with an error message saying that the connection has been abruptly terminated. dovecot: Feb 01 11:34:41 Error: child 3908 (imap) killed with signal 11 Is anyone experencing similar behaviour? Cheers, Tan Shao Yi

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Wiki: Orphaned page on mbox locking
by Jim Garrison 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

The following shows up in the "orphaned page" list of the Wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxLocking?action=show&redirect=MboxSoftwareLocks Does the description of Dovecot mbox locking still apply to current versions? If yes, it should be linked from the "Troubleshooting" page. -- Jim Garrison (jhg(a)acm.org) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88

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[Dovecot] get username in pop3s
by Maria de los Angeles Cifuentes 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Dear friends: I need to get the username after authenticate user in a ldap database but I don't know where i must modificate de source code. Please help me. Regards Maria de los Angeles.

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[Dovecot] unknown namespace with Mac OS client
by Francisco Reyes 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

I see in this thread, http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-April/012918.html, that others had simmilar problems with Mac OS client. Anyone got a working Dovecot + Mac OS setup? In particular with RC15. Our setup default_mail_env = maildir:Maildir namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } Would it help to use hidden = yes ?? Reading the description doesn't say much to me.. in particular I guess I am not familiar with the IMAP protocol to appreciate the explanation in the config file. The server is getting data originally coming from a Courier setup. I wrote a couple of scripts to convert files names and delete old setup files. So far we have moved 3 domains to this machine and the only one with the problem so far is the customer with the Mac client. Unless we can solve this soon, we will have to move him back to a courier server ... until we can figure how to solve this problem.

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[Dovecot] Push IMAP
by Paul 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hearing that today's new Apple device is going to work with push IMAP from Yahoo, my first thought is to wonder whether an extension might make it possible for a Dovecot server to push its own IMAP in a compatible way. Paul

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[Dovecot] command line options
by AJ Weber 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Is the wiki up-to-date on the command-line arguments that can be passed to dovecot? I don't like the fact that I have to hard-code the "listen address" in the config file. Even though it shouldn't change (rarely if ever), when I have a multi-homed host, I need to specify only one of the interfaces. Would it be possible to either: 1) Make --listen into an optional, command-line argument; or 2) Make the listen config-file parameter understand interface names instead of just IP Addresses? (Like "eth0") -AJ

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[Dovecot] beta8: core, signal 11
by Jeff A. Earickson 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Timo, The gdb analysis is attached. It looks like memory got seriously stomped in this core dump. There was no assert or other useful information in the syslog. My setup: Solaris 9, imap and imaps, mbox format, INBOXes NFS mounted, index files on local ufs filesystem, beta8 configured like so: VERSION=1.0.beta8 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl \ --with-sql-drivers=no \ --disable-ipv6 \ > configure.out Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Trailer message
by Gyanchand Maurya 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

Hi , I am using Dovecot with Postfix I want put a trailer message for smtp/pop3 user how do I do. Regards Gyan

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[Dovecot] start dovecot at boot
by jepoy 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

hi guys, just recently installed dovecot from source on my centos box.how can i enable it to automatically start upon reboot. tnx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc19 with plugins on AIX 5.2
by Ralf Becker 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Hello, has anyone out there successfully build dovecot on AIX with plugins supported? I'm talking about an dlopen error when a plugin tries to access global symbols, that are defined in the dovecot "parent" binary For example: # MAIL_PLUGINS=zlib /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap imap(root): Error: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so) failed: rtld: 0712-001 Symbol i_error was referenced from module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol i_stream_get_data was referenced from module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol i_stream_skip was referenced from module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol i_stream_seek was referenced from module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol i_stream_close was referenced from module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol i_panic was referenced from module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol pool_get_exp_grown_size was referenced from module /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. Additional errors occurred but are not reported. Maybe libtool is the problem, because it does not export global symbols correctly. Or would a newer version of AIX vac fix this? Any ideas? I'm using dovecot 1.0rc19, AIX 5.2-06 and vac 5.0.2 Regards, Ralf -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Ralf Becker Rechenzentrum (r/ft) der FH Trier (Network|Mail|Web|Firewall) University of applied sciences Administrator Schneidershof, D-54293 Trier Mail: beckerr(a)fh-trier.de Fon: +49 651 8103 499 WWW: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Fax: +49 651 8103 214 PGP: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr/pgp ICQ: <available> ______________________________________________________________________ Wenn Gott gewollt haette, dass E-Mail in HTML geschrieben wuerden, endeten Gebete traditionell mit </amen>. (Tom Listen)

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Re: [Dovecot] broken attachments with pop3
by Robert Schetterer 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Justin McAleer schrieb: > Robert Schetterer wrote: >> Hi all, >> ive just upgrade to rc21 ( so i dont know perhaps this report failure is >> fixed with this release ) >> i have reports from users that attachments get broken ( with rc19, dont >> know about before ) with some accounts , which where downloaded via a >> pop3 service to a exchange server, but in fact nothing is broken when >> looking with imap to the mailboxes >> Has anyone an idea, i havent any failure logs about that, is there a >> parameter which makes logging verbose to such failures? >> >> > The first thing you should do is pop such messages directly from > Dovecot. Anytime there is a problem with mail, and Exchange is involved, > the first step should always be ruling out Exchange IMHO. > > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht > und ist - aktuelle Virenscanner vorausgesetzt - sauber. > agree exchange is magic voodoo, but its not exchange , its an independent pop service which delivers to exchange ( like fetchmail ) and the other 1000 mailboxes do not have this problem going the same way, so it must something special with this mailboxes, may any index stuff involved with this? I have no failure doing pop3 with thunderbird to that mailboxes, these mailboxes are the the ones with most traffic on the system After all the exchange systems are not under my control and the failure info from win admins and their users is not very exact *g -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer https://www.schetterer.org Munich/Bavaria/Germany -- Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht und ist - aktuelle Virenscanner vorausgesetzt - sauber.

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[Dovecot] Automatic Folder Expiry (plugin?)
by Troy Engel 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Greetings, I'm migrating an existing Courier IMAP installation to Dovecot (1.0rc19 right now) on a new server; there's one feature I'm not sure if Dovecot supports - but it might and I'm missing it, so I'll ask. In Courier there's an option to expire a folder after a given time period; ostensibly it's to keep a Trash folder clean, but we use it to keep the Junk folder (where spam is delivered by Exim) clean. How can I do this in Dovecot? Here's the chunk from Courier for those unfamiliar with it (just part of the verbiage): ##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0 # # The following setting is optional, and causes messages from the given # folder to be automatically deleted after the given number of days. # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of folder:days. # # Important: the purging is controlled by CTIME, not MTIME ... So in our case it's set like so: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Junk:14 Thanks for any help/ideas - I'm not sure if we can live without this feature, the amount of spam is horrendous and users never clean out that folder. -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com

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[Dovecot] Planning a dovecot deployment: issues and questions
by Dan Price 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi folks, I am currently evaluating Dovecot for deployment to ~200 software engineers (so, heavy email users); I'm hoping this list could provide wisdom about how best to do the configuration, evaluation and deployment, and what testing folks have done to determine whether dovecot is right for their site. Below I've listed the diffs between the dovecot-example.conf and our config. I've been playing with 1.0rc19 running on Solaris Nevada. We have set it up on our server on an alternate port from the existing IMAPd, which is something ancient, horrible and problematic. We're using sendmail and mail.local as our MTA and MDA, respectively, as these ship with the OS, and we need to test them. I have some users who have volunteered to experiment with the server, and they are starting to do so. I've also seen the "flags" problems others have mentioned on the list, and I do not think I could deploy to production with that bug affecting the users. I also have some issues which I'm not sure have been previously reported: One user (of my 4 test users) is occasionally seeing a bug in which mutt 1.4.2.1 claims to be "[downloading xxx/30724]" headers. Upon getting very near to the 30724 total, the total rises to something like: "[downloading xxx/50132]". And on and on. The actual number of messages in the box is 30724. This is not very reproducible, and we do not yet know if it's a problem with mutt or dovecot. Another, using Apple's Mail.App reported: "Everything was working fine until i quit out of my mail app (Mac mail) and restarted. Then i saw weird things: - messages wouldn't get marked unread - messages from eons ago started showing up in my Drafts folder - Inbox would keep spinning/loading - then eventually Inbox just hung showing me no messages" Any thoughts about how to approach these issues? I don't really have a feel for how to go from user-observed-app-doing-X to imapd-is-doing-Y. The big challenge for our site may be mailbox size: the median mailbox size is 62M, the average is 176M and the largest is 1.1GB. I'd be curious to know what sort of mailbox sizes other sites have experienced, and how widespread the use of the Dovecot MDA is-- is this likely to make a big difference for us, and will we have to migrate our (approximately 25) procmail users to sieve? Having read the recent discussions about "1.0", I think my team would really appreciate knowing how to obtain something that was thoroughly vetted and worked highly reliably. If major changes are coming, I think it'd be great to have a 1.0.x stability focused tree, and a 1.1.x (or 2.x.x) feature tree. Thanks in advance for your comments, -dp ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- [note that IMAPS is off for now, but that's just temporary] $ diff dovecot.conf dovecot-example.conf 21d20 < protocols = imap 42,45d40 < protocol imap { < listen = *:150 < } < 50c45 < disable_plaintext_auth = no --- > #disable_plaintext_auth = yes 89c84 < ssl_disable = yes --- > #ssl_disable = no 214,215d208 < mail_location = mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=%h/Mail/imapd-indices < 258d250 < mail_extra_groups = mail 290d281 < dotlock_use_excl = yes 296d286 < lock_method = fcntl 441,444d430 < # dp: we'll see. < mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl < mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl < ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp(a)eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc20 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc20.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc20.tar.gz.sig So, rc19 was somewhat broken. How about this version? + dovecot: Added --log-error command line option to log an error, so the error log is easily found. + Added mail_log_max_lines_per_sec setting. Change it to avoid log throttling with mail_log plugin. - Changing message flags was more or less broken in rc19 - ACL plugin still didn't work without separate control directory - Some mbox handling fixes, including fixing an infinite loop - Some index file handling fixes - maildir quota: Fixed a file descriptor leak - If auth_cache was enabled and userdb returned "user unknown" (typically only deliver can do that), dovecot-auth crashed. - mail_log plugin didn't work with pop3

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[Dovecot] Strange Error in RC19
by Jay Chandler 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Drops IMAP connection when a particular user's "Sent" folder is opened. Does this mean that the sent folder is potentially corrupted? Feb 2 10:14:57 MyBox dovecot: IMAP(WhinyUserDuJour): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 404 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler(a)chapman.edu Today's Excuse: those damn raccoons!

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[Dovecot] namespace subscription problem
by Nate Sanders 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Greetings, I am trying to setup a private namespace in dovecot and running in to some troubles. Here is my setup: > default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir > > # default namespace > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = > inbox = yes > } > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = maillog. > location = maildir:/var/maildir/maillog/Maildir/ > #inbox = yes > hidden = no > } So far it's working to a degree. When I load my imap folder and go to Subscribe, I can see the master "maillog" folder, and expand it to see all the subfolders. The problem is, I cannot subscribe to the master "maillog" folder. Only it's sub folders. When I check dovecot.info it says this: > dovecot: 2007-01-31 13:27:42 Info: imap(nate): Namespace: > type=private, prefix=maillog., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, > subscriptions=no I see there "subscriptions=no". Is it possible to change this to yes? Would changing this to yes allow me to subscribe to the actual namespace folder? I tried adding "subscriptions=yes" and "subscription=yes" to dovecot.conf but both entries resulted in failed starts and errors. How is it possible allow subscriptions directly to this namespace? Thanks. -- Nate Sanders nate(a)ima.umn.edu Associate Systems Manager (612) 624 - 4353 Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

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[Dovecot] periodic problems with dovecot-1.0rc19 (No authentication sockets found)
by Mikhail Teterin 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi, Timo! On the new server running 1.0rc19 people stop being able to login every once in a while. The log messages on the server side are: Jan 30 12:18:50 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:18:50 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:18:59 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:19:01 bonkers dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:19:06 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Restarting dovecot helps for a while, but then the problem reappears... The config-file was copied from an older server running 1.0.r15, where we never saw this problem... The old server ran FreeBSD-4.10/i386. The new one runs FreeBSD-6.2/amd64. Thanks for any hints! Yours, -mi

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[Dovecot] Over quota message
by Antonio Casado Rodríguez 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi all, I'm working with Dovecot-1.0.rc19 + dovecot-lda + postfix + quota-maildir plugin When a new email arrives and it's over quota, the client receives this: -------------------------------- The mail system <vvv(a)ual.es>: Command died with status 89: "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver" -------------------------------- Reporting-MTA: dns; vvv.ual.es X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 3AA3F280AB X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; zzz(a)ual.es Arrival-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:00:17 +0100 (CET) Final-Recipient: rfc822; vvv(a)ual.es Original-Recipient: rfc822;vvv(a)ual.es Action: failed Status: 5.3.0 Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; unknown mail system error 89 -------------------------------- cannot be received another type of clear message like: the user to exceeded the quota?

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