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[Dovecot] dovecot starts and then exit
by Ed Lucero 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

I've just installed dovecot on FreeBSD 6.1. Running MySQL 5.0 on another server. Postfix version 2.3.3 Dovecot starts then exits with no error messages. I've run it as a daemon and on the command line with -F option How do I run it in debug mode so I can figure out why it does not stay running. The maillog has a startup message dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc7 starting up Ed Dovecot.conf ## Dovecot configuration file # IC - EL 2006.09.29 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s # IC - EL 2006.09.29 disable_plaintext_auth = no # IC - EL 2006.09.29 ssl_disable = no # IC - EL 2006.09.29 ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/s/Cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/s/PrivateKey.pem login_process_size = 64 # IC - EL 2006.09.29 login_processes_count = 6 # IC - EL 2006.09.29 login_greeting = InternetCrusade ready. # IC - EL 2006.09.29 #default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%Ld/%Ln/%2.256Hp default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%Ld/%Ln/ mail_extra_groups = mail verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_gid = 0 protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { # IC - EL 2006.09.29 pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail } auth default { # IC - EL 2006.09.29 mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm # IC - EL 2006.09.29 passdb sql { args = usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } # IC - EL 2006.09.29 userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/%Ld/%Ln } # IC - EL 2006.09.29 socket listen { client { user = postfix group = postfix path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 } } } #dict { #quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf #} dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=db1.sandiegort.com user=dovecot password=BuatSmiT dbname=icmail default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM emails WHERE account = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND alias = 0

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL errors
by Bill Boebel 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

On Fri, September 29, 2006 11:46 am, Dominic Marks <dom(a)helenmarks.co.uk> said: >> Actually, I found in the archives that I should increase login_process_size if >> I'm not running with login_process_per_connection. I have done this and that >> seems to have taken care of the malloc failure. However I am still getting a ton >> of these every few seconds: >> >> Sep 29 11:30:06 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF >> [70.171.61.190] >> Sep 29 11:30:06 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF >> [24.236.204.154] >> Sep 29 11:30:06 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF >> [70.171.61.190] >> Sep 29 11:30:08 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF >> [65.242.19.3] >> > > These are client disconnects, I believe. > Yep, all of my customers who had IMAP SSL problems are reporting that the problem is fixed now that I have increased login_process_size to 64 MB. In just two hours though the imap-login process is up to 33 MB, and continuing to grow. Is that normal? This particular server handles 1200 IMAP connections and 800 IMAPS connections concurrently on average. Bill

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[Dovecot] Outlook "IMAP server closed connection"
by Mark Adams 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Hi All, Dovecot 1.0rc2. Currently having a problem with Outlook clients popping up with the error; "Your IMAP server has closed the connection. This may occur if you have left the connection idle for to long" I initially though this would be the imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle option, but this is currently set and always has been. I dont think this is a known issue that has been fixed with newer releases, as we have rc2 on another server that does not have this problem. Any help thankfully recieved. Regards, Mark

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.0.rc7 install probs
by Timo Sirainen 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 19:55 -0400, Steve Maring wrote: > and the make and make install appear to go smoothly. However I am > struck by the lack on an include directory in the install location. > I'm not sure if that means anything. Doesn't mean anything. No header files are installed. > AUXLIBS=" \ > -L/usr/local/dovecot-1.0.rc7/lib/dovecot \ Postfix doesn't need any Dovecot libraries or anything to build Dovecot SASL support. > but the postfix make always dies with: > > smtpd.c:4534: error: âdovecotâ undeclared (first use in this function) Well, don't know about that. I'd ask from Postfix list.

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[Dovecot] Add virtual users to the Dovecot configuration
by Jens E. Madsen Jr. 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Dear Dovecot Mail List, I have used Dovecot for quite a while to service remote users on my SOHO network. A local not-for-profit asked about getting their own dedicated domain name for mail. I followed: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_postfix_virtual_hosting to set up a virtual, but the article leaves out system accounts and I have not been able to access both system and virtual users at the same time. I have the following lines: default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n/ which, when commented out, works for system users default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u which, when commented out, which works for virtual users If both are uncommented, only system users work. Wiki-ing and Googling, I learned that namespace could be applied to the problem. Here is the namespace from the configuration file. #namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. # The default however depends on the underlying mail storage format. #separator = # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". #prefix = # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. #location = # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to deprecate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} How do I specify which users use which namespace. Is there a good description of namespaces and how to use them? Thanks Jens

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Re: [Dovecot] Automatically deleting Trash a la Courier
by Jeff Kowalczyk 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Timo Sirainen wrote: > # Expire plugin. Mails are expunged from mailboxes after being there the > # configurable time. The first expiration date for each mailbox is stored in > # a dictionary so it can be quickly determined which mailboxes contain > # expired mails. The actual expunging is done in a nightly cronjob, which > # you must set up: > # dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool > #expire = Trash 7 Spam 30 > #expire_dict = db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db For users implementing the expire-tool as an email retention policy, it may be helpful to add path wildcarding and exclusion to handle users with folder heirarchies. e.g., To implement a 1-year retention policy on messages in all folders, excluding all messages in and in subfolders of 'Archived Email': expire = Trash 7 Spam 30 * 365 expire_exclude = Archived\ Email\\*

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot vs Ports
by Jos Chrispijn 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Odhiambo WASHINGTON schreef (08-10-06 9:16): > You could have as well explained the problem, if it was that serious. > After the latest portupgrade I rebooted my system and for some reason it stopped booting after loadin acpi.ko Investigated the OS with Fixit (from the first install disc booting and choosing this option from the sysinstall menu). After fsck we could mount the HD and investigate the problem. Main problem was an error in the /etc/rc.conf.. The dovecot_enable was missing the quotes... I think this is due to the portmanager (the person that has made the port for BSD) instead of Dovecot itself... > I am running this version on 30+ FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE boxes and they all > seem fine though. Perhaps I should thank God I still don't run 6.2-PRE? > I think it is a combination of OS version and the person that makes the (accurate) port for that version. Anyway we're all humans after all, so this is allways possible. Just a little bit stressing on a normal Saturdaynight :-) regards, Jos Chrispijn

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[Dovecot] Searchable archives?
by Francisco Reyes 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Is there a searchable archive of the lists somewhere?

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[Dovecot] bug: ssl fails when using certificates with "trust" setting
by Freddy Knolderpoort 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Hi, just a minor bug... I filled in the fedora tracker: **https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208746 It concerns (fedora-)version "1.0-0.beta2.7". Regards,

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[Dovecot] Dovecot vs Ports
by Jos Chrispijn 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Just discovered that there might be a problem with the latest Dovecot update thru portupgrade. If I reboot my BSD (6.2-PRERELEASE), it stopped/hanged during boot-sequence. Thanks to Jack Raats problem is solved now; he will explain _exactly_ what went wrong... regards, Jos

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[Dovecot] test
by Timo Sirainen 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

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[Dovecot] test mail
by Timo Sirainen 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Lets see if the server move actually worked..

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[Dovecot] Customizing Sign-Off Message
by Gerard Seibert 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

This is probably a dumb question; however, I have never let a thing like that stop me before. A user can configure Dovecot to give a customized greeting when it is accessed. Is there anyway to customize the message it displays when it terminates the session? -- Gerard Seibert gerard(a)seibercom.net "Losing my virginity was a career move." Madonna

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[Dovecot] Server move complete
by Timo Sirainen 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Looks like everything is working. Please mail me if you find something broken.

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[Dovecot] imap-login problem
by "M. Tolga Özses" 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<kartagis>, method=plain, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2 dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Error: IMAP(kartagis): open(/var/mail/.temp.kunduz.org.14095.855b9feb950c2c78) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Oct 05 16:03:07 Error: IMAP(kartagis): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/kartagis: Permission denied Hi, I get these when I attempt to check my mail. Any ideas? Regards and thanks, -- M. Tolga Özses Bilgi Teknolojisi Sabanci Üniversitesi Orhanli 34956 Tuzla Istanbul Tel: (216) 483 91 98 Web: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/mtozses

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[Dovecot] re-installation
by "M. Tolga Özses" 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi, I reinstalled my system, therefore lost dovecot. I get this message after reinstalling imap-login: Authenticate plain failed: Plaintext authentication disabled.: method=plain, rip=192.168.1.2, lip=192.168.1.2. Can you help me? Thanks :) Regards, -- M. Tolga Özses Bilgi Teknolojisi Sabanci Üniversitesi Orhanli 34956 Tuzla Istanbul Tel: (216) 483 91 98 Web: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/mtozses

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[Dovecot] dovecot mailbox to csv
by John Heim 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

We (the Math department at the U of Wisconsin) recently switched over from another server to dovecot One thing that a lot of people here do is set up an on-line form that sends them email. They use formmail for this. I have them edit their procmail config so that all the messages go into a particular mail folder.... So far so good. With our old system, all messages in a folder were kept in a single file. With dovecot, they go into a couple of different directories. This is problematic because we often need to convert the form field data to csv values so it can be imported into a spreadsheet. So a professor can create an on-line form and end up with the data from it in an Excell spreadsheet. Slick (when it works). I understand that I can make dovecot store messages in a file by leaving the trailing slash off when specifying the folder name. Sample procmail segment: :0: * Subject:.*\[feedback\] .feedback But I can't get the feedback folder to show up in the list of IMAP folders in my mail client. I've tried Outlook Express and Thunderbird. If I put the slash at the end, it creates a .feedback folder and then I can see it in my mail client. But then I can't export it to cvs. Anybody know why I can't see the .feeback folder? Or maybe somebody has a good way to get data from the body of messages stored in a dovecot folder, for example, .feedback/cur/ and .feedback/new/.

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[Dovecot] Site down?
by Michael Blinn 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I'm getting a 'Forbidden' when accessing dovecot.org.. Have we been rooted, or is this scheduled maintenance, or..? -Michael

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[Dovecot] Website down? SSL2?
by Rick Romero 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I think the website is down.. I can't get to the root, or any of the 'previously visited' links I still have in my browser. How do I turn off SSLv2 support?

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[Dovecot] bug with rsh/ssh connections
by David Lee 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

(Using rc7 code) There seems to be a bug in rsh/ssh-style connections. For reference, on a normal imap connection (port 143, 993, etc.) things are OK. The imap session ends (from a client-end command "a logout") thus: --- a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. unix-prompt% --- But when the connection had been established using rsh or ssh to the servers's "/etc/rimapd" which contains: exec /usr/dovecot/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap the session ends thus: --- a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. imap(<username>): Info: Disconnected: Logged out unix-prompt% --- Note that additional, protocol-breaking, "imap(...): Info ..." line. This seems to be coming from "imap/cmd-logout.c" calling: client_disconnect(client, "Logged out"); which in turn ("imap/client.c") does: i_info("Disconnected: %s", reason); On the imap connection, this "i_info(...)" output goes (correctly) to syslog, but on the rsh/ssh connection this output seems to go to something like stdout. This strongly suggests a bug: an inconsistency between the two connection types, possibly regarding the way that stdout, stderr, syslog etc. are initialised, assigned, adjusted, etc. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. :

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[Dovecot] Bug: auth_cache breaks master password feature
by Bill Boebel 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

When you set auth_cache_size to a value greater than zero, it breaks the master password feature in Dovecot. It appears that during a cache hit, Dovecot attempts to query the userdb for use the master user's home directory and other settings, rather than querying for the userdb settings of the user that the master was trying to log in for... causing the login to fail. Perhaps caching the userdb settings in addition to the passdb settings (since that is on the TODO list) would indirectly fix this problem. Bill

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[Dovecot] dovecot with vpopmail
by nq525＠singnet.com.sg 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

I have been using bincimap with vpopmail for awhile and would like to give dovecot a try. Does anyone has any success configuring dovecot with vpopmail? I have installed dovecot but didn't manage to get it up with vpopmail. It will be good if someone can share their settings on dovecot.conf with me. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Can't load certificate file: cert already in hash table
by Peter Abrahamsen 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, I've searched for this error and found nothing. When I switch on SSL, I get the following errors: >>> Oct 3 20:05:23 [dovecot] Dovecot v1.0.rc7 starting up Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] Login process died too early - shutting down Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.crt: error:0B07C065:x509 certificate routines:X509_STORE_add_cert:cert already in hash table Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] pop3-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.crt: error:0B07C065:x509 certificate routines:X509_STORE_add_cert:cert already in hash table - Last output repeated twice - Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13344 (login) returned error 89 Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13345 (login) returned error 89 Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13346 (login) returned error 89 Oct 3 20:05:24 [dovecot] child 13347 (login) returned error 89 <<< This is Gentoo on amd64 with openssl 0.9.8d. The cert and key were generated with tinyca and openssl 0.9.8c (I know, I know, it's upgrading now). I made 'em the same way I made my ldap and apache certs, which work fine. Any pointers? Also, why am I given a numeric error code? Thanks, Peter

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[Dovecot] Whatever happened to rc8?
by Charles Marcus 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

It sounded like there was going to be one, so that some of the fixes that didn't make it into rc7 could be easily tested before releasing 1.0? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] No inbox for user error
by Ron 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, I'm getting 'no inbox for user' error. Set up sendmail, and can send and receive mail using Webmin/Usermin both to internal addresses and external ones. But Dovecot gives the no inbox error. I've tried telnetting in and get: +OK dovecot ready. USER myob -ERR Unknown command USER myob +UK PASS <password> +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. No idea why the first USER command gives an error. And, of course, when I try using Evolution I get 'Cannot get POP summary'. The Dovecot config file, less all the commented out bits is: imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imaps_listen = [::] pop3s_listen = [::] ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login_chroot = yes login = imap login_user = dovecot login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root Any and all ideas very welcome. I'm a total newbie at this server business... Thanks in advance. Ron

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[Dovecot] Hooks API
by Boris Ivanov 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi Is it possible to make hook api? I mean universal hooks any commands of pop3/imap which can trigger your modules. Not just quota etc,,, Boris

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Re: [Dovecot] Errors while doing make on Solaris 9 for dovecot-1.0.rc7
by Agarwal, Lalit 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Thanks. make AR=ar works -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:18 PM To: Agarwal, Lalit Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Errors while doing make on Solaris 9 for dovecot-1.0.rc7 On 25.9.2006, at 16.41, Agarwal, Lalit wrote: > rm -f liblib.a > false cru configure has detected your "ar" binary to be "false", which really doesn't work. I'm not sure what the right way to fix this would be (see what config.log says about it), but one workaround at least would be if you ran make as: make AR=ar Of course if you don't have ar at all in the path, that's your problem. :) Looks like it exists in /usr/ccs/bin/.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot as LDA
by Gerard Seibert 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p8 postfix-current-2.4.20060903,3 dovecot-1.0.r7 I am experiencing a problem with dovecot as an LDA. It will not deliver mail unless the mail directory is chmod'd to 1777. Below is an example of the log file output. The dovecot.log file had over a hundred entries similar to this: deliver(gerard): Error: open(/var/mail/.temp.scorpio.seibercom.net.1123.cd38cd4d82e1368f) failed: Permission denied deliver(gerard): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/gerard: Permission denied Obviously the /var/log/maillog had similar fail warnings. By changing the permission to 1777 on the /var/mail directory and running postsuper -r ALL, I was able to get the mail delivered. What I am trying to determine is if I really should have those settings on the directory, or if I have something configured wrong in either postfix or dovecot. Postfix will deliver mail without any problem so I think it has to do with dovecot although I am not sure what. -- Gerard

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[Dovecot] Quota with quota dict and peruser quota, dovecot LDA needed?
by Peter Veerman 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hi, This mail sources from the thread with this topic title: Re: [Dovecot] [SOLVED] quota with: postfixadmin, postfix, mysql & dovecot As this title does no longer cover the topic i decided to start a new thread. I have set up quota:dict with the proxy::quotadict option and i'm not using dovecot LDA. My quota table is filled with records like username: pveerman(a)nemo.kabelfoon.net path: 0 current: 0 and the personal max-quota reported by the client is okay, but the current-quota is 0. What am I doing wrong here? Peter

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[Dovecot] Dovecot accepts squirrelmail, rejects fetchmail
by M. Fioretti 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hello, this is a follow-up to the thread "Fetchmail can't talk to dovecot" http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-September/016477.html Increasing the log level I get this in the log filed: Sep 30 15:04:19 fm dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc7 starting up Sep 30 15:04:22 fm dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/dovecot_user_file: Read 1 users Sep 30 15:05:05 fm dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAPsecured +lip=::ffff:SERVER_IP_HERE rip=::ffff:CLient_IP_HERE resp=LONG_STRING_HERE VDBB Sep 30 15:05:05 fm dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user_name,::ffff:CLIENT_IP_HERE): unknown user Sep 30 15:05:07 fm dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=user_name Sep 30 15:05:07 fm dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<user_name>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:CLIENT_IP_HERE, +lip=::ffff:SERVER_IP_HERE, TLS Remember that when the same user name and password come from Squirrelmail on the same host where dovecot runs, everything works. Why does it fail with fetchmail? what does that message "unknown user" exactly mean? Thank you in advance for any help, Marco

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[Dovecot] [SOLVED] quota with: postfixadmin, postfix, mysql & dovecot
by Peter Veerman 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, I'm quite new to dovecot but already quite satisfied. Your documentation in the wiki is great but on quota + mysql it is not very clear. Because of the previously mentioned I have got the following note to make which you will hopefully use to adjust your wiki documentation on per-user-quota + mysql. I've searched your mail archive as good as possible and found no messages on this. If already messages have been exactly on this topic I want to apologize for sending this one. The notes I want to make is about this page: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota I'm using postfix + postfixadmin & mysql and dovecot (previously I used courier-imap instead of dovecot). The problems I ran in to was with setting up the per-user quota, as the explanation at the wiki is quite vague. For instance, the dict plugin is used to keep the quota counters in the mysql backend but only one single line shows how to set-up a per user quota. Setting up a per user quota where the max-quota is stored in mysql should be made making use of this setting: ========== user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid, 'dirsize:storage=' || quota_bytes AS quota FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' ========== nowhere is mentioned that this should also! be set: =========== protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota } =========== the second point I want to make is that the mysqlquery is incorrect as || does not do the job of joining the two strings. Secondly is dovecot making use of kilobytes instead of bytes like postfix (and postfixadmin) does. For this I have found the following solution: ========== user_query = SELECT maildir, 125 AS uid, 125 AS gid,\ CONCAT('dirsize:storage=', ROUND( mailbox.quota / 1024 ) ) AS quota \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' ========== Here I select the quota field from the mailbox table. This is then divided by 1024 (1Kbyte) and ROUNDED off in order to get rid of the .00 that results from this division. Greetz, Peter Veerman pveerman NO-SPAM at NO-SPAM hackwerk DOT net

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[Dovecot] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot
by M. Fioretti 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Hello, I have dovecot q1.0-0_22.rc7 up and running on a server: I can read email from squirrelmail just fine. When I try to download email with fetchmail, however, I get the result below. Why is that happening? In dovecot.conf I have: protocols = imap imaps pop3, so why should pop3 or imap fail? Where should I look? (I'll fix the certificates problem after I've managed to get in successfully with plain imap or pop3) Thanks, Marco fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.server (protocol POP3) at Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:15:17 AM CEST: poll started fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready. fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< CAPA fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< STLS fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> STLS fetchmail: POP3< +OK Begin TLS negotiation now. fetchmail: Issuer Organization: SomeOrganization fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost.localdomain fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost.localdomain fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != my.server fetchmail: my.server key fingerprint: ... fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< CAPA fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> USER user_name fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Authentication failed. fetchmail: Authentication failed. fetchmail: Authorization failure on user_name(a)my.server fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.server (protocol POP3) at Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:15:21 AM CEST: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: Writing fetchids file. fetchmail: normal termination, status 3 fetchmail: Writing fetchids file. if I try with IMAP the part after the certificate verification error is: fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 CAPABILITY fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDRE N NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK Capability completed. fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP4 rev 1 fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGIN "user_name" * fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 NO Authentication failed. fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 * fetchmail: Authorization failure on user_name(a)my.server fetchmail: IMAP> A0006 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE Logging out and I don't see any error message related to this in the server log.

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL errors
by Bill Boebel 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

On Fri, September 29, 2006 11:47 am, Charles Marcus <CMarcus(a)Media-Brokers.com> said: > Bill Boebel wrote: >> I have a Dovecot server set up as a proxy and getting a ton of these >> errors, but I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting it. I'm >> hearing frequently that Outlook users who use IMAP with SSL are >> getting disconnected often as a result. Any suggestions?... > > Need more details... Dovecot version? Platform? > Sorry... Red Hat ES4 (2.6.9-42.0.2.EL), latest dovecot CVS 20060926. login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 10 login_max_connections = 4000 login_process_size = 64 Also added this to the dovecot init script to allocate more file descriptors to dovecot: start() { echo -n $"Starting $prog: " + ulimit -n 16384 daemon /usr/sbin/dovecot Also, seeing this error occasionally... Sep 29 11:34:15 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_write() syscall failed: Bad file descriptor [166.137.221.91] Maybe nothing to worry about now that I have increased "login_process_size". Checking with customers to see if the Outlook IMAP SSL disconnects are still frequently occurring. Thanks, Bill

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[Dovecot] SSL errors
by Bill Boebel 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I have a Dovecot server set up as a proxy and getting a ton of these errors, but I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting it. I'm hearing frequently that Outlook users who use IMAP with SSL are getting disconnected often as a result. Any suggestions?... Sep 29 11:12:07 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [64.81.197.28] Sep 29 11:12:07 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [24.236.204.154] Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL errors
by Bill Boebel 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

On Fri, September 29, 2006 11:23 am, Bill Boebel <bill(a)webmail.us> said: > I have a Dovecot server set up as a proxy and getting a ton of these errors, but > I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting it. I'm hearing frequently that > Outlook users who use IMAP with SSL are getting disconnected often as a result. > Any suggestions?... > > Sep 29 11:12:07 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: > error:1409C041:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_BUFFERS:malloc failure [64.81.197.28] > > Sep 29 11:12:07 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF > [24.236.204.154] > Actually, I found in the archives that I should increase login_process_size if I'm not running with login_process_per_connection. I have done this and that seems to have taken care of the malloc failure. However I am still getting a ton of these every few seconds: Sep 29 11:30:06 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [70.171.61.190] Sep 29 11:30:06 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [24.236.204.154] Sep 29 11:30:06 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [70.171.61.190] Sep 29 11:30:08 director4 dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [65.242.19.3]

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[Dovecot] Passdb passwd on FreeBSD
by Jim Flowers 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I am trying to use dovecot for both virtual and local pop3 mailboxes. When I try to access a local account, I get an "unknown user" reject from 'passdb sql', as expected. However, I also get a reject from 'passdb pam' with the message: dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): pam(username(a)domain.tld,###.###.###.###): pam_authenticate() failed: authentication error. Is this because it is trying to authenticate username(a)domain.tld instead of just username? What can I do about it? Although I have a block for 'passdb passwd' following the 'passdb pam' block, there is nothing in the log. Why is this, I wonder? Any help to point me in the right direction will be appreciated. Thanks. -- Jim Flowers <jflowers(a)ezo.net> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Quota plugin rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Backported from CVS HEAD to branch_1_0. You can get it as a patch from http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/quota-rewrite.diff New features include support for multiple quota roots, so you could have eg. per-user quota and a larger domain quota (although no backend actually supports this yet..). The more important feature is that you can configure specific mailboxes to have a bit more space available for them, such as Trash or Spam. The configuration has also changed. Normally you'd use something like this: quota = maildir # 1GB quota in general quota_rule = *:storage=1048576 # Trash mailbox gets 100MB more (so max. 1,1GB) quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=102400 # Spam mailbox gets also +100MB (still maxes at 1,1GB, not 1,2GB) quota_rule3 = Spam:storage=102400 You can place all the above into plugin { .. } section in dovecot.conf. In userdb if users have different quotas you'd then need to override only quota_rule (not quota, quota_rule2 and quota_rule3). I tested quickly that this seemed to work as described above. Please test and report. :)

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[Dovecot] [BUG(let)] Dovecot does not recognize threaded/reentrant mysql libs
by OpenMacNews 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, i build mysql (currently v5.0.22) on OSX 10.4.7 w/ threading enabled. i.e., i build the reentrant libs: libmysqlclient_r.dylib rather than the 'usual': libmysqlclient.dylib currently, to make Dovecot 'play nice' and recognize the reentrant libs, I: perl -pi -e 's/AC_CHECK_LIB\(mysqlclient,/AC_CHECK_LIB\(mysqlclient_r,/g' configure.in perl -pi -e 's/mysql_lib=\"\-lmysqlclient \-lz \-lm"/mysql_lib=\"\-lmysqlclient_r \-lz \-lm\"/g' configure.in then: autoreconf -i -f before configure, etc. subsquent build/exec/function all seem OK with this mod, and the linked, reentrant mysql lib: ls -al /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 950616 Sep 28 09:59 /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth otool -L /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth /usr/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0) /usr/lib/libpam.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.15.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current version 16.0.0) /usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.1.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.1.0) /usr/local/ncurses/lib/libncurses.5.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.5.0, current version 5.5.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.1.6) /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib (compatibility version 0.9.8, current version 0.9.8) /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib (compatibility version 0.9.8, current version 0.9.8) /usr/local/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3) /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) once verified that these changes are sufficient (anybody else got eyeballs on this?), a conditional in configure should do ... richard - -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email, vCards / \ & micro$oft attachments [GPG] OpenMacNews at gmail dot com fingerprint: 50C9 1C46 2F8F DE42 2EDB D460 95F7 DDBD 3671 08C6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkUcAcUACgkQlffdvTZxCMYQXACgustNRKkqu97hWI88CTQwxZG7 q10AniSAcnhYesxf68x4y5Z7pg6uf/2f =py2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] LDA and chroot
by Uldis Pakuls 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Hi, I'd like to ask: is it possible to use Dovecot's LDA with mail_chroot variable set, e.g. "mail_chroot = /serv/storage19/vmail"? Without "mail_chroot" set all works fine. If mail_chroot is set and user database contains relative paths to home directory (without chroot part like "domain.net/user") deliver ignores this and tries to work at real root, while imap and pop3 processes founds home directory correctly. If users database contains full paths deliver works correctly, but imap/pop3 processes tries to access chroot directory + full path (and fails). Home directory in form "/chroot/path/./domain.net/user" solves the problem..., but as I understand, it is jut form to override default. Thus I can't find a way to correctly set default chroot path. Any suggestions? Tnx, Uldis

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[Dovecot] LDA directly to Maildir/cur
by Scott Murman 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

i'm tired of dealing with buggy clients so i'm moving more processing into the server-side. i configured procmail as LDA with maildir-style mailboxes. i would like to simulate an automatic "mark as read" feature during procmail processing. simplest way looks to be forcing delivery directly to Maildir/cur instead of Maildir/new, but i suspect this may screw up dovecot. will this work? is there another (better) method? -SM-

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[Dovecot] dovecot checkpassword passdb and vmailmgr
by Mij 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

hello some times ago I posted some patches to workaround vmailmgr not fitting into dovecot's passdb-checkpassword authentication module. Yesterday I spent some spare time for carrying out a cleaner solution for this problem. Check out these patches. If you're not interested in merging them, I will make them available at the same page I used for the former solution [ http://mij.oltrelinux.com/net/dovecot-qmail-vmailmgr ]; there were some 20 people/month that checked it out. This is a brief explanation of the patches: The root of all evil is that the checkpassword interface [ http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html ] leaves room to interpretation when the scope is not system login. Vmailmgr and vpopmail, for example, collapse many mail users on the same system account. So, what "home" is here is not specified. In the case of vmailmgr, it's "checkvpw" sets HOME to the system user's home, and returns the path of the actual mail user differently. The solution I applied for this problem is to generalize the process that fetches authentication data (what currently is "checkpassword- reply"). I was set up for a specific passdb-vmailmgr module, but this would have seen a lot of code replication. Similarly (but I did not inspect further), I guess vpopmail can fit in this solution as well. So 1) provide a module "vmailmgr-reply", with the same behavior as checkpassword-reply, that's aware of the way checkvpw returns accounting information and pass this back to dovecot transparently so, this patch ships vmailmgr-reply along with checkpassword-reply (name them "fetcher"s for brevity) The idea is that every checkpassword-compatible module may have its own fetcher for passing correct info back to dovecot. Now with this generalization, the user must be able to specify if its checkpassword module needs a custom fetcher, and if it does, what's its path. So 2) modify auth/passdb-checkpassword.c and pump "args =". By default it takes the path of the checkpassword module (e.g. "checkvpw"), now it can be appended another field, that is the path of the custom fetcher. If this optional is omitted, the default checkpassword-reply will be used, and the cp module is supposed to behave like dovecot expects from it. Otherwise, a comma appear after the first path. e.g. passdb checkpassword { args = /xyz/checkvpw,/libexec/vmailmgr-reply } if one needs to specify paths with commas in the first one, commas can be escaped with \ (eg args=first\,path,second_path) Last but not least, the patch addresses again the problem with colons in paths. Currently, dovecot dictates no colons can exist in mailbox path names. In UNIX, no such constraint exist. Moreover, paths with colons are common when working specifically with qmail (see dot-qmail). When dovecot encounters ':', it truncates the path. This way, for example, if the authentication module returned home "/ path/name:surname", dovecot will truncante it to "/path/name". If name exist, name:surname will browse his mail without effort. All this comes from dovecot parsing params on MAIL environment (INDEX, INBOX, CONTROL), but it also happens if none of them was actually specified. So 3) modify lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c for fixing the parsing problem with the mail environment. [ I did not provide the same fix for the remaining storages, but this can easily be done by copy/paste if convenient ]. For simplification and without loss of generality, this fix mandates ":INBOX=", ":INDEX=" and ":CONTROL=" params to follow in this order, if they appear. [ a minor patch agains auth/Makefile.am is provided for including vmailmgr-reply when building the rest of the auth stuff ] Any comment on this is welcome for discussion. bye

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[Dovecot] Big sites using Dovecot
by Jonathan 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi, Are there any big Dovecot sites (say 50,000-100,000) users on this list? What sort of hardware do you use. What sort of problems do you see? Many thanks, Jonathan.

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Re: [Dovecot] syslog messages
by Rich West 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

After commenting out the "passdb pam" section and uncommenting "passdb ldap", with the "args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf", the syslog messages went completely away, and everything continued to work. I just thought I would mention it in the event that anyone else was seeing similar problems in the future. :) -Rich > > (I sent this last night, but to the wrong address.. argh) > > After an upgrade to FC5, and a rebuild and install of dovecot 1.0RC7, > > I've been getting a LOT of syslog messages like the following: > > Sep 26 21:47:55 myhost dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP > > server ldap://ldap.mydomain.com after 1 attempt > > > > Now, everything is working fine as far as I can tell (it's only been a > > rocky day since the upgrade.. and that was littered with other LDAP > > related problems), but I was wondering why it was even using > > nss_ldap... I have dovecot configured to connect to LDAP directly. > > > > My dovecot.conf contains: > > auth default { > > # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: > > # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi > > mechanisms = plain > > ... > > passdb pam { > > } > > ... > > # LDAP database > > #passdb ldap { > > # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for > > example > > #args = > > #} > > ... > > # LDAP database > > userdb ldap { > > # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for > > example > > args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf > > } > > > > And I am wondering if I missed something obvious here... > > > > I'm going to try commenting out the "passdb pam" section, uncommenting > > the "passdb ldap" section and see if that allows for everything to go > > directly to LDAP (and not rely on nss_ldap or pam_ldap). > > > > -Rich > > >

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Re: [Dovecot] support for UW-style mbox
by Rich West 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

> UW-IMAP will automatically append the contents of /var/spool/mail/user to > ~user/mbox (and then clear /var/spool/mail/user) if ~user/mbox exists. > I'd like to mimic that action with Dovecot. (I'm probably going to be unlucky, > as an earlier respondent pointed out). > > Sorry to show my ignorance, but I thought delivery was a function > of the MTA (Exim in my case), which would require a change to my exim > config file, and would probably not then be a per-user thing. > (i.e. with UW-IMAP, if ~user/mbox doesnt exist, mail gets left in > /var/spool/mail/user). > I need to read about dovecot.conf No, you are correct. Delivery is handled by the MTA. Dovecot just needs to know where to access it. By default, for example, with Sendmail, it will place the email in /var/spool/mail (unless you change some back-end code somewhere along the line), and then you can use procmail (with a global procmailrc file in /etc) to place the mail where you want it to go.. I haven't used UW-IMAP in a while now (well over a year and a half). I stopped using it at all of my supported sites because, even though it was simple to manage, it was just way too slow. From what I remember, the UW implementation is such that UW-IMAP will read from the user's mbox file if it exists, and if it doesn't, it will read from <spooldir>/<username> (in this case, /var/spool/mail/user). UW-IMAP (or any IMAP) wouldn't actually do the delivery, so writing to the spool directory temporarily and then moving it to the home directory shouldn't actually happen. However, I don't truly remember how it worked under the hood, but that just doesn't seem right to me (too much chance for conflict). I do remember (back in the day) the headaches we would get when trying to debug a "lost mail" problems (with a centralized /var/spool/mail directory) and it turned out the user in question had created an mbox file which had next to nothing in it. :) -Rich

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[Dovecot] syslog messages
by Rich West 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

(I sent this last night, but to the wrong address.. argh) After an upgrade to FC5, and a rebuild and install of dovecot 1.0RC7, I've been getting a LOT of syslog messages like the following: Sep 26 21:47:55 myhost dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap://ldap.mydomain.com after 1 attempt Now, everything is working fine as far as I can tell (it's only been a rocky day since the upgrade.. and that was littered with other LDAP related problems), but I was wondering why it was even using nss_ldap... I have dovecot configured to connect to LDAP directly. My dovecot.conf contains: auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain ... passdb pam { } ... # LDAP database #passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} ... # LDAP database userdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } And I am wondering if I missed something obvious here... I'm going to try commenting out the "passdb pam" section, uncommenting the "passdb ldap" section and see if that allows for everything to go directly to LDAP (and not rely on nss_ldap or pam_ldap). -Rich

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Re: [Dovecot] Big sites using Dovecot
by Bill Boebel 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

On Thu, September 21, 2006 1:14 pm, Jonathan <dovecot(a)redigloo.org> said: > Are there any big Dovecot sites (say 50,000-100,000) users on this > list? Yes, Webmail.us. Many multiples of that number :) > What sort of hardware do you use. 80 backend IMAP servers. 5 front-end IMAP-proxy servers. All running Dovecot. The boxes are single AMD CPU, 1GB RAM, and 4 SATA drives. DRBD used to replicate data between servers. > What sort of problems do you see? Dovecot doesn't need much CPU, but it needs a lot of disk. So give it lots of spindles, either in one big box or many small boxes like we do. Right now the only problem we have is the Dovecot proxy software sometimes disconnects imap sessions that it should not disconnect. Since Timo is very busy, we are working on a patch for this. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-August/015401.html Bill

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[Dovecot] SSL_accept failed
by Timothy Martin 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hello, I'm new to dovecot. I just installed it a few days ago on FreeBSD via the ports and got it up and running without too much trouble. Although yesterday I turned on the SSL/TLS features and tried to get secure connections to work. I don't get any error messages when launching dovecot, I saw it successfully create the SSL parameters after first enabling the feature yet I can't seem to get a successful connection. Normal non- ssl connections work fine. What happens: 1) my client claims to be attempting the connection. 2) things go on for some time with nothing happening 3) finally the dovecot log pops up with these messages dovecot: Sep 09 02:25:23 Warning: imap-login: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [x.x.x.x] dovecot: Sep 09 02:25:23 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS handshake dovecot: Sep 09 02:26:23 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS handshake FYI: I've regenerated a fresh cert and key, just for dovecot and I'm using Mac OS X's Mail client. Any clues? .tim

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[Dovecot] log tools with html for dovecot
by Robert Schetterer 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hi @ll, are there any recommandations for logging tools with html display for dovecot thx -- Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht und ist - aktuelle Virenscanner vorausgesetzt - sauber.

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[Dovecot] Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files
by Dirk Essl 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hi, I am currently migrating a big bunch of mail accounts to a dovecot server running 1.0rc2 on Solaris 10 suddenly all imap processes died and I see this in my dovecot.log: dovecot: Sep 26 14:54:31 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 14:54:31 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 14:54:31 Error: child 29376 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:48 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:48 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:49 Error: child 1563 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:55 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:55 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:55 Error: child 1572 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:58 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:58 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:58 Error: child 1577 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:25 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:25 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:25 Error: child 1659 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:27 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:27 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:27 Error: child 1662 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:32 Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:32 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:32 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files what could cause the error? is this from Solaris or from dovecot? TIA dirk

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[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification
by Robert Creager 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hey all, I'm having no luck getting new mail notification except in two mail folders (using maildir w/procmail delivery). I'm using three different clients (sylpheed-claws 1.9.14, Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 and a newer version of Horde). None of them are getting new mail in any except these two folders (inbox and 1 other). If I browse to the folders, still nothing. If I browse to the folders with Horde, I see the new mail, but not always in the other clients. It's hit or miss if the other clients get notified of the mail, but the mail is moved from the new folder. I'm subscribed to the folders and have them to be checked for new messages (in Thunderbird). I tried using dnotify, and things got worse (no folders updated). I've over 350 e-mails sitting in new folders right now: [robert@thunder Maildir]$ ls .*/new | wc 397 332 12925 One interesting item I noticed is that if I touch a file in a new directory (or vi it), I immediately get notification of the mail (and it gets moved from new to cur). I'm running dovecot 1.0 RC7 configured as ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --with-pgsql --with-pam --localstatedir=/var with the following changes to the config: base_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/ protocols = imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep } I'm running dovecot through xinetd: service imaps { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login flags = IPv4 server_args = --ssl } Linux thunder.logicalchaos.org 2.6.12-12-3 #5 SMP Wed Feb 1 23:59:03 MST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2600+ unknown GNU/Linux Help? Thanks, Rob

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