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[Dovecot] Dovecot authentication issue with postgresql
by wernervdm＠topbilling.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Good day, I am having trouble getting dovecot to authenticate using postgresql. For some reason, it fails on a PAM error, although I have specified pgsql as authentication? Here my setups: dovecot.conf: -- snip-- (not sure if you need teh rest) auth = digest_md5 auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_user = root dovecot-pgsql.conf: connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=postfix default_pass_scheme = MD5 password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/vmail/'||maildir AS home, uid, gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' I get an authentication error trying to log in. It queries the database for the password, but it does not seem to query for user? Logs: dovecot: dovecot-auth: Jul 05 05:14:41 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(chrisj(a)topbilling.com) failed: Authentication failure messages: Jul 5 05:14:39 tophat dovecot(pam_unix)[2928]: check pass; user unknown Jul 5 05:14:39 tophat dovecot(pam_unix)[2928]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Any help will be greatly appreciated - the passwords are created using postfixadmin - I presume it is in MD5 format. Kind regards Werner

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[Dovecot] fun: bird shit
by martin f krafft 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

At the risk of self promotion, I thought I'd share this wise thought: 21:16 * madduck loves dovecot because a dove is a bird and the german word for animal shit is kot, so there... 21:16 < madduck> your mail is served by bird shit! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "he gave me his card he said, 'call me if they die' i shook his hand and said goodbye ran out to the street when a bowling ball came down the road and knocked me off my feet" -- bob dylan

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[Dovecot] migrating to 1.0.rc1 + vpopmail
by Lucas Valdeón 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, We want to migrate to rc1 using vpopmail auth. This is the configuration: -------------------------------------------------- auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain login passdb vpopmail { # [cache_key=<key>] - See cache_key in PAM for explanation. #args = } userdb vpopmail { } user = root } -------------------------------------------------- And the log shows: -------------------------------------------------- dovecot: Jul 04 13:49:33 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:03 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc1 starting up dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:04 Error: auth(default): dovecot-auth: Fatal: USERDB envir onment is unset dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:04 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:04 Error: child 11290 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 04 15:55:42 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc1 starting up dovecot: Jul 04 15:55:43 Error: login: Protocol version mismatch (mixed old and new binaries?) dovecot: Jul 04 15:55:43 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down -------------------------------------------------- What´s happening? Thank you in advance, Lucas

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[Dovecot] subscription to mail folders not working properly anymore with dovecot1.0x ?
by Alain Hofer 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi we run dovecot on sun solaris 9. I try to switch from dovecot 0.99.11 to dovecot 1.0, with ssl support turned on. The user's mail are stored in mbox format in Mail in their home dirs. I was not able to get the subscrition working properly with the new dovecot. New means: 1.0beta2 and now also 1.0.RC1 (beta9) The client mailreaders are mainly thunderbird 1.0x and 1.5.x, Netscape Messenger, and SquirrelMail for web access. The mail folder subscriptions stored in <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions works fine with the dovecot 0.99.11. With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears. Did I miss any point in the configuration? Or does someone else encounter the same problem? Thx for any help! -- Alain Hofer ________ __ _________________________________________________ / ____/ / / / / / ____/ GLUE Software Engineering AG / / __/ / / / / / __/ Zieglerstr. 34, 3007 Bern, Switzerland / /_/ / /___/ /_/ / /___ Phone: +41-(0)31/385 3011 Fax: 3018 \____/_____/\____/_____/___mailto:hofer@glue.ch http://www.glue.ch

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[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver logging problem and procmail
by Gerhard Wiesinger 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello! Currently I'm trying to integrate dovecot's deliver program into procmail. So basically I'd write a patch for procmail to deliver not directly into the mbox file but delivering with the dovecot deliver program. Do you think this is a good concept? For testing I use the commands discussed below. Currently I'm having a problem that deliver doesn't recognize the logging configuration from the environment (as non root user): setenv INFO_LOG_PATH $HOME/deliver.log setenv LOG_PATH $HOME/deliver.log setenv LOG_TIMESTAMP "%b %d %H:%M:%S " cat testmail.txt | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m testbox cat testmail.txt | strace /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d gerhard -m Mail/testbox cat testmail.txt | strace /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m Mail/testbox Mail is delivered correctly, but no logging at all. Any ideas? Config (currently not security optimized, local testing only): auth default { #Some stuff deleted socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! # mode = 0600 mode = 0660 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) #user = group = users } } } protocol lda { # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. For example quota plugin is used to enforce quota. #mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Address from LDA should send MDNs like out of quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)wiesinger.com # Hostname to show in mail headers. Default is the system's # real hostname. #hostname = # Binary to use for sending mails. #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail # If there is no user-specific Sieve-script, global Sieve script is # executed if set. #global_script_path = # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master } Thank you for your help. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] Per-user Reply-To headers
by Timo Sirainen 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Today (tonight..) I thought maybe I should see how easy this would be to implement: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1469343&group_id=1… So basically if enabled it'd add a "Reply-To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org" for the mails you *send* to this list. You can of course already do this yourself, but most clients don't support setting it automatically. I even managed to make it work: http://dovecot.org/tmp/mailman-2.1.8.replytolist.diff But should I actually enable it for Dovecot list? It'll probably break completely once Mailman 2.2/3.0 comes out (when does it come?) and I probably won't bother updating it then. And somehow I feel that the patch won't get accepted to upstream version..

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC 3/13] OTP: parity table
by Andrey Panin 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Add OTP parity table. diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c --- dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c 1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300 +++ dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c 2006-06-23 13:44:31.161891112 +0400 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +/* + * OTP parity table. + * + * Copyright (c) 2006 Andrey Panin <pazke(a)donpac.ru> + * + * This software is released under the MIT license. + */ + +#include "lib.h" +#include "otp.h" + +const unsigned char parity_table[256] = { + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, +}; diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h --- dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h 1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300 +++ dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h 2006-06-23 13:44:31.161891112 +0400 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +#ifndef __OTP_PARITY_H__ +#define __OTP_PARITY_H__ + +const unsigned char parity_table[256]; + +static inline unsigned int otp_parity(unsigned char *data) +{ + unsigned int i, parity = 0; + + for (i = 0; i < OTP_HASH_SIZE; i++) + parity += parity_table[*data++]; + + return parity & 3; +} + +#endif /* __OTP_PARITY_H__ */

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Re: [Dovecot] OE pop3 > imap subfolder migration?
by Sysadmin 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Tere. > Sysadmin wrote: >> Hello. >> >> This isn't actually a dovecot question, but I'm running in clienys >> servers dovecot mostly as pop3 server and now started to migrate some >> servers to imap. >> >> But as clients uses Outlook Express how to transfer their pop3 settings >> and mailboxes to imap?. Making a new mail account for imap is easy, and >> drag & drop the default folders (inbox, outbox etc) messages to imap >> accounts default folders is easy, but what about subfolders? Some users >> have hundreds subfolders and creating them & transfering messages by >> hand is a pain. >> >> So have anyone a better and faster solution how to migrate Outlook >> Express pop3 account to the imap account, preserving the same folders, >> rules etc. >> > > I found with OE I could drag whole trees of folders from one location > to another without issue. This actually made it the most useful tool > we had to unlock our users from using OE - previously all employee > mail was stored on a shared drive, but in whatever format their mail > client used. > > Some of our users have many complex hierarchies of folders, but with > OE I just created another account, dragged their folders over, and hey > presto - it was done (after a while :) Hmm, just tried, XP, Outlook Express, pop3 account, folders are: Loval Folders Inbox - Test1 Outbox Sent Items Deleted Items Drafts Test2 Test3 Then I made for the same user also in same Outlook Express imap account. And all I can is drag & drop messages for example from pop3 inbox to the imap inbox. But I can't drag & drop any folder from pop3 to imap account. What kind of trick did You use, to do this? > > Don't know about the settings though - I assume you mean filters and > sorting? Yes. -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Bug: ThunderBird and dovecot 1rc1
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hello! It seems to me that correct deletion of message in thunderbird still doesn't work with ThanderBird and dovectot 1rc1. As I've said before messages are not removed phisically from filesystem, just marked for deletetion. Though I'm not sure that this is dovecot bug and not ThunderBird. Anyone to clarify this issue ?

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Re: [Dovecot] RE: [dovecot-cvs] dovecot/src/lib-storage/index index-mail.c, 1.102, 1.103
by Bill Boebel 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Woops... yep, that was the problem. Sorry. Bill On Mon, July 3, 2006 10:08 am, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > Are you sure you're not just mixing changes to CVS HEAD and branch_1_0? > CVS HEAD was broken for days before this patch fixed it. > > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:59 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >Fyi, after this patch I started seeing the error below: > >Jul 3 09:46:55 mail11a dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): file mail-cache-lookup.c: > line 270 (mail_cache_field_exists): assertion failed: (field < > view->cache->fields_count) > >Bill > > >On Mon, July 3, 2006 7:12 am, tss-movial(a)dovecot.org said: > >Update of /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index >In directory talvi:/tmp/cvs-serv31265/lib-storage/index > >Modified Files: >index-mail.c >Log Message: >Crashfix: Added missing date.save field. > > > >Index: index-mail.c >=================================================================== >RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/index-mail.c,v >retrieving revision 1.102 >retrieving revision 1.103 >diff -u -d -r1.102 -r1.103 >--- index-mail.c 29 Jun 2006 11:08:55 -0000 1.102 >+++ index-mail.c 3 Jul 2006 11:12:15 -0000 1.103 >@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ >sizeof(struct mail_sent_date), 0 }, >{ "date.received", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, >sizeof(time_t), 0 }, >+ { "date.save", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, >+ sizeof(time_t), 0 }, >{ "size.virtual", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, >sizeof(uoff_t), 0 }, >{ "size.physical", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > > >

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[Dovecot] RE: [dovecot-cvs] dovecot/src/lib-storage/index index-mail.c, 1.102, 1.103
by Bill Boebel 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Fyi, after this patch I started seeing the error below: Jul 3 09:46:55 mail11a dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): file mail-cache-lookup.c: line 270 (mail_cache_field_exists): assertion failed: (field < view->cache->fields_count) Bill On Mon, July 3, 2006 7:12 am, tss-movial(a)dovecot.org said: > Update of /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index > In directory talvi:/tmp/cvs-serv31265/lib-storage/index > > Modified Files: > index-mail.c > Log Message: > Crashfix: Added missing date.save field. > > > > Index: index-mail.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/index-mail.c,v > retrieving revision 1.102 > retrieving revision 1.103 > diff -u -d -r1.102 -r1.103 > --- index-mail.c 29 Jun 2006 11:08:55 -0000 1.102 > +++ index-mail.c 3 Jul 2006 11:12:15 -0000 1.103 > @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ > sizeof(struct mail_sent_date), 0 }, > { "date.received", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > sizeof(time_t), 0 }, > + { "date.save", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > + sizeof(time_t), 0 }, > { "size.virtual", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > sizeof(uoff_t), 0 }, > { "size.physical", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > >

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[Dovecot] deliver roadmap
by Jorge Salamero Sanz 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

hi all, what is the roadmap to the dovecot deliver in 1.0 ? will be dovecot 1.0 released with the current no-filtering, no-vacation and no-quota deliver ? will include the dovecot-sieve which has these features ? thanks for your answers.

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[Dovecot] Re: Error compiling on Solaris 10
by Joseph Tam 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 Dirk Essl wrote: > fiction:/tmp# gcc test.c -o test > In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:34, > from /usr/include/signal.h:26, > from test.c:2: > ... You get this error if you use a Solaris9 version of gcc rather than Solaris 10 (header incompatibility). What do you get when you do gcc -v Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] User Mailbox Backups
by Fintec 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

I realise it is very easy server-side but we have some Outlook users who are use to creating PST backups of their mail. What is a good open source alternative to the MS PST file? Does it just come down to what the Mail client supports? Keen to hear recommendations and thoughts on the topic... Gavin

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[Dovecot] rc1: Questions about ssl-build-param!!??
by Jeff A. Earickson 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Timo, My setup: Solaris 9, 1.0rc1, built like so: CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include \ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.1.0rc1 \ --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl \ --with-sql-drivers=no --disable-ipv6 using gcc 4.1.0. Protocols are imap and imaps. My system paniced and crashed in the middle of the night, and after it came up the ssl-parameters.dat file was messed up. >From syslog: child 1965 (login) returned error 89 imap-login: Can't open SSL parameter file ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied Nobody was getting their email via imap. So I removed the directories /opt/dovecot/var and /var/run/dovecot to get dovecot to rebuild the ssl-parameters.dat file. Questions: 1) Why on Earth does ssl-build-param take so long??!! (> 12 minutes on my E220R) What is it doing? How to speed this process up, and/or tune it? 2) Where does ssl-parameters.dat get written to? I found one copy in the /opt/dovecot/var/lib/dovecot directory, and one copy in /var/run/dovecot/login. Which copy gets used? 3) What are the permissions supposed to be for ssl-parameters.dat? The copy in /var/run was chown root:other and chmod 640. I could not get rid of the syslog "permission denied" until I made it chmod 644. 4) Likewise the directories /opt/dovecot/var and below get created chown root:other and chmod 750, with ssl-parameters.dat chmod 640. What should these perms be? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] writing a plugin for LDA to chain Unix pipes
by martin f krafft 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi, I've spent some part of the last week on trying to figure out whether dovecot LDA meets our requirements for a new mail server infrastructure (the IMAP and POP servers, as well as the SASL backend certainly do; thanks a lot!). The one thing that's holding me back is that we need per-user integration of SpamAssassin and some other, custom content filters, all of which are implemented as Unix pipe filters. My conclusion is that since dovecot LDA cannot yet integrate such filters in the delivery chain, but it supports plugins, that such a plugin must be written. Conceptually, it's very simple: a configuration file option specifying the Unix pipe, and a plugin that does the proper popen() (or whatever is to be used these days) call, checking for errors and doing the right thing. Unfortunately, I do not have much time at my hands -- basically it all boils down to Sunday evening and a little bit of Monday, and then it's got to be done. My C is rusty, but I do have a lot of experience with it, so I am confident... ... but what would really help is if someone who knows the internals of Dovecot would give me a starting point, or even some more information. How do I conceive to write such a plugin? I could not find the information online, and I'd rather not reverse engineer existing plugins, for that approach usually leads to ugly and hence unstable/insecure/unusable code. Any feedback is thus warmly appreciated! Also, if someone is online on IRC on Sunday and Monday and wouldn't mind if I asked a question now and then, please let me know. It goes without saying that I will happily submit my plugin (once its tested) to Dovecot upstream under the Artistic Licence, or if that doesn't work, another licence of your choosing. Thanks, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- albert einstein

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[Dovecot] Error compiling on Solaris 10
by Dirk Essl 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi, I'm trying to compile dovecot 1.0rc1 on a V250, Solaris 10 installed. -- configure: CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib' ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-file-offset-size=32 -- gcc Version 3.3.2 from Sunfreeware Error Message: # make make all-recursive Making all in src Making all in lib if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/ssl/include -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT file-dotlock.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/file-dotlock.Tpo" -c -o file-dotlock.o file-dotlock.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/file-dotlock.Tpo" ".deps/file-dotlock.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/file-dotlock.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:34, from /usr/include/signal.h:26, from file-dotlock.c:13: /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:259: error: parse error before "ctid_t" /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:292: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:294: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:390: error: parse error before "ctid_t" /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:392: error: conflicting types for `__proc' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:261: error: previous declaration of `__proc' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:398: error: conflicting types for `__fault' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:267: error: previous declaration of `__fault' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:404: error: conflicting types for `__file' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:273: error: previous declaration of `__file' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:420: error: conflicting types for `__prof' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:287: error: previous declaration of `__prof' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:424: error: conflicting types for `__rctl' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:291: error: previous declaration of `__rctl' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:426: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:428: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:432: error: parse error before "k_siginfo_t" /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:437: error: parse error before '}' token In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:26, from file-dotlock.c:13: /usr/include/sys/signal.h:85: error: parse error before "siginfo_t" In file included from file-dotlock.c:13: /usr/include/signal.h:111: error: parse error before "siginfo_t" /usr/include/signal.h:113: error: parse error before "siginfo_t" *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `file-dotlock.o' Current working directory /tmp/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/lib *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='lib lib-dict lib-sql lib-ntlm lib-settings lib-charset lib-mail lib-imap lib-index lib-storage lib-auth auth dict master login-common imap-login imap pop3-login pop3 util plugins'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /tmp/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /tmp/dovecot-1.0.beta8 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' -- Can anybody halp, please? TIA dirk

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc1 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

I think the code is now stable enough to be called the first release candidate. Please report any bugs, new and old. The filesystem quota numbers should be correct now? http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc1.tar.gz.sig * PAM: If user's password is expired, give "Password expired" error message to the user. Now actually working thanks to Vaidas Pilkauskas * Relicensed dovecot-auth, lib-sql and lib-ntlm to MIT license. See COPYING file for more information. * Abuse prevention: When creating a mailbox, limit the number of hierarchies (up to 20) and the length of the mailbox name within a hierarchy (up to 200 characters). * mbox: If saved mail doesn't end with LF, add it ourself so that the mails always have one empty line before the next From-line. + Added --with-statedir configure option which defaults to $localstatedir/lib/dovecot. ssl-parameters.dat is permanently stored in that directory and is copied to login_dirs from there. + IMAP: Support SASL-IR extension (SASL initial response) + Support initial SASL response with LOGIN mechanism. Patch by Anders Karlsson + Added PLAIN-MD4 password scheme. Patch by Andrey Panin. + Added support for XFS disk quotas. Patch by Pawel Jarosz + If another process deletes the opened mailbox, try to handle it without writing errors to log file. Handles the most common cases. + Added TLS support for LDAP if the library supports it. - SEARCH command was more or less broken with OR and NOT conditions - Dovecot corrupted mbox files which had CR+LF linefeeds in headers - MySQL code could have crashed while escaping strings - MD4 code with NTLM authentication was broken with 64bit systems. Patch by Andrey Panin - Plugin loading was broken in some OSes (eg. FreeBSD) - Several fixes to handling empty values in configuration file - Several fixes to dictionary quota backend and dict server. Also changed how they're configured. - deliver: Fixed plugin handling settings - mbox_min_index_size handling was somewhat broken - passdb passwd-file: extra_args field wasn't read unless the file was also used as userdb.

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[Dovecot] SSL proxy rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Last time I committed my SSL proxy rewrite people complained that it got broken. Now that I'm finally trying to fix it, it seems to work perfectly with me. Both downloading lots of messages and saving lots of messages works fine. I added SSL alerts and something else to be logged now with verbose_ssl=yes. With that enabled, could you people try if the rewritten code works with you, and if not, what do the logs say? To test it you'll need the latest CVS code or the latest nightly snapshot and this patch: http://dovecot.org/patches/ssl-rewrite.diff

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[Dovecot] Secure connection from "localhost" in jails
by Dirk Engling 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear dovecot developers, first: thanks for this really cool imapd, on my server it serves some hundred domains, all in all some thousand users, some having hundred thousand mails in their Maildirs (their spam boxes mostly). Since I put this installation in an FreeBSD geli encrypted disc image I had no choice but to choose an imapd with clever indexes - dovecot was perfect. However, since I reconfigured the disc image to work as a FreeBSD jail, I had some trouble with my web mail solution. Squirrelmail does not work with imaps (or at least not smoothly, out of the box, or whatever) and I didn't like to hack php to support SSL. Plus: there is no point in using ssl for a local connection. In a FreeBSD jail a sockets source address is always rewritten to the jails address, so squirrelmail opening a connection to dovecot will not come from 127.0.0.1 but from the same (jails) address, dovecot listens to. Still, dovecot only considers 'localhost' addresses as secure and allows LOGIN or PLAIN auth. With the little patch below dovecot allows clients from the jail to authenticate via LOGIN, when they connect from the IP it accepts connections at. Something similar is lurking around in pop3 auth code, I am sure, you get the point. Regards erdgeist ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< dovecot-1.0.rc1/src/imap-login 18:59:44 #> diff -u client.c* - --- client.c Thu Jun 29 18:59:39 2006 +++ client.c_new Thu Jun 29 18:59:19 2006 @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ const struct ip_addr *ip) { struct imap_client *client; - - const char *addr; + const char *addr, *local_addr; if (max_logging_users > CLIENT_DESTROY_OLDEST_COUNT && hash_size(clients) >= max_logging_users) { @@ -429,8 +429,10 @@ client->common.tls = ssl; addr = net_ip2addr(ip); + local_addr = net_ip2addr(local_ip); client->common.secured = ssl || (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, "127.", 4) == 0) || + (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, local_addr, strlen(local_addr)) == 0) || (IPADDR_IS_V6(ip) && (strcmp(addr, "::1") == 0 || strncmp(addr, "::ffff:127.", 11) == 0)); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEpAu4ImmQdUyYEgkRAnC8AJ9W3L5XwjdTuLvGfUwmIjEfyq8sAQCdErPc v6JW46e9dfYBsKzAWprg2zw= =/IWt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Re: 1.0 RC1 status
by Ramunas 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

>If you think there's still something I should have replied to, please >re-send it because I've either missed it or just skipped it for some >reason.(Except there are still a couple of mails from this week I've >yet to reply to.) Timo look at this message - http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/013958.html. I compiled dovecot-latest (dovecot-20060618.tar.gz , configured --with-ioloop=poll), but same problem: Jun 19 07:43:25 srv1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up Jun 19 07:43:26 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to hosting Jun 19 07:44:09 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 07:44:09 srv1 dovecot: POP3(ramas): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Jun 19 19:18:21 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): sql(ramas,192.168.0.3): Password query failed: Jun 19 19:18:21 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): invalid I/O fd 8, callback 0x8065170 Jun 19 19:19:21 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS gdb /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth 30056 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.122rh) 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) x 0x8065170 0x8065170 <get_result>: 0x83e58955 (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7debe3e in __lll_mutex_lock_wait () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7d6b94c in _L_lock_100 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0xb7d6b8ea in fflush () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0xb7e5a973 in pqFlush () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #5 0xb7e57cb0 in PQconsumeInput () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #6 0x0806518c in get_result () #7 0x0806abe8 in io_loop_handler_run () #8 0x0806a28c in io_loop_run () #9 0x08058da5 in main () Also tryed compile with epoll, got this error: Jun 19 06:55:23 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): sql(ramas,192.168.0.3): Password query failed: Jun 19 06:55:23 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 06:55:26 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(3, 9): No such file or directory Jun 19 06:55:26 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 06:55:26 srv1 dovecot: child 11758 (auth) returned error 89 Jun 19 06:55:27 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to hosting Jun 19 06:55:27 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 06:55:27 srv1 dovecot: POP3(ramas): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=2/3429, del=2/2, size=3395 Users passwords stored on PostgreSQL (7.4.11) another server. Machine - Linux, kernel 2.6.16.20 Thank you. Ramunas

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[Dovecot] Just one user experiencing server timeouts
by Fran Fabrizio 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

[dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 on Fedora Core 5, maildir formatted mail directories, various clients: thunderbird 1.5.0.4 from FC4 and WinXP, SquirrelMail 1.4.6-5.fc5 RPM, various recent versions of Pine from various Fedoras and Redhat 9] I have just one mail user who experiences server timeouts when trying to delete a message (move it to Trash) or other common operations. This user has 4.1GB of mail spread over 200+ Maildir-formatted folders, so I immediately expected sheer volume as the problem - this user has by far the most mail. This user experiences the problem from multiple Thunderbird installs, from SquirrelMail, and from Pine. However, I created a new user account using our standard account creation processes, and did a direct copy of olduser's Maildir to newuser's homedir. Then I did a chown -R newuser ~newuser/Maildir, set up an account in Thunderbird for newuser's account, and tried for an hour to get a server timeout doing all the same operations that cause the timeout on olduser's account, with no timeouts. I absolutely cannot duplicate the behavior, but when I watch olduser do this from any of the above named clients, I see the timeouts on about 10% of the operations. I've been looking into this off and on for weeks, but I am baffled. I can't think of what is so specific about this one user's account that is causing the trip up. Both home directories are stored on the same filesystem and as I mentioned I made an exact duplicate of Maildir. I'm completely out of ideas, does anyone have any thoughts? Does Dovecot do any data tracking on a per user basis that could be confusing it, some cache I can clear? Dovecot has been restarted numerous times since the trouble started. -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

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[Dovecot] Problems with Sent folder
by james edwards 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

We are using dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3; the users use IMAP. I have had several of these today where the user cannot write to their Sent folder on the server. The users do own everything in their home dir: [root@jidmail lcrdjav]# file Sent Sent: ISO-8859 HTML document text What is up with the HTML, I am not used to seeing this in any of the IMAP folders ? -- James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards(a)nmcourts.com

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[Dovecot] patch to make sieved compile & work
by Steffen Kaiser 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, attached you'll find a patch to make the Sieve decompiler located in dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve compile & work. To compile sieved I've extracted the two commands from the make process for sievec, see the attached sieved.compile.sh. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] rc1 & password debug
by Thomas Hummel 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello Timo, I just launched rc1 with auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes #auth_debug_passwords = no and on a wrong password, I see my crypted passwd in the log : userPassword(password)={Crypt}xxxxxxxx Is that normal, since I assume that auth_debug_passwords defaults to no ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Improving interaction/performance with Mail.app?
by Alan Schmitt 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, I'm using dovecot as my IMAP server just for me, and I access it from three machines, all using Apple Mail.app. Unfortunately the performance is really bad, especially when deleting or copying a lot of messages. I know this is the fault of Mail.app, whose IMAP support leaves a lot to desire, but I was wondering if there could be some dovecot configuration tricks that make the interaction smoother. Thanks a lot, Alan -- Alan Schmitt <http://alan.petitepomme.net/> The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] file_wait_lock with dovecot 0.99.14-1sarge
by Jorge Salamero Sanz 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

hi all, i've just installed dovecot from debian sarge and i get this error: Jun 28 16:31:50 server pop3(user): file_wait_lock() failed with custom flags file /mnt/nfs/users/user//mail/.customflags: No locks available (maildir in nfs) how seriously i should take it ? is it fixed in newer versions ? thanks !

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RE: [Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Bill Boebel 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Timo, > >I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the > >following when trying to APPEND: > >"NO Unknown error" > >System logs show: > >Quota: Couldn't get new message's size > > > >.... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the > >lack of the file is the cause of the error). > > I am seeing this problem as well. Running this morning's CVS. It is hitting this condition on line 229 of src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-mail.c, in function maildir_mail_get_physical_size(): /* size can be included in filename */ if (!maildir_filename_get_size(fname, MAILDIR_EXTRA_FILE_SIZE, &size)) { if (_mail->uid != 0) { if (maildir_file_do(mbox, _mail->uid, do_stat, &st) <= 0) { return (uoff_t)-1; } } else { /* saved mail which hasn't been committed yet */ if (do_stat(mbox, fname, &st) <= 0) { >> line 229 >>>>>> return (uoff_t)-1; } } size = st.st_size; }

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc1 location variable bug
by Chris Wakelin 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

I think I've found a bug in Dovecot 1.0 rc1 where if you have namespaces without the "location = " setting defined, it fails to use default_mail_env as it should. This seems to have been broken by :- 2006-06-16 18:13 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * src/master/: auth-process.c, login-process.c, mail-process.c, main.c, master-settings.c: Settings parser nowadays returns "" instead of NULL when it reads an empty value from config file (due to some good reason I unfortunately didn't write to commit message and can't remember anymore). Fixed a lot of existing checks which checked for empty strings with NULL instead of "" checks. Looks like Timo missed (at least) one! I'm surprised nobody else has seen this. Do you all have "location" defined? Patch attached. Best Wishes, Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094 --- dovecot-1.0.rc1.orig/src/master/mail-process.c Tue Jun 27 22:00:46 2006 +++ dovecot-1.0.rc1/src/master/mail-process.c Fri Jun 30 16:08:40 2006 @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ for (i = 1; ns != NULL; i++, ns = ns->next) { t_push(); - location = ns->location != NULL ? ns->location : + location = *ns->location != '\0' ? ns->location : default_location; location = expand_mail_env(location, table); env_put(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u=%s", i, location));

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[Dovecot] ssl-parameters.dat permissions
by Thomas Hummel 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, I'm using 1.0rc1 with login_dir = /var/dovecot-1.0/run/dovecot/login #login_user = dovecot but when launched, I've got dovecot: imap-login: Can't open SSL parameter file ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied as a matter of fact, ssl-parameters.dat is created with the following permissions : -rw------- 1 root dovecot 230 Jun 30 14:35 /var/dovecot-1.0/run/dovecot/login/ssl-parameters.dat -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] set quota on INBOX only
by Kristian Vlahovicek 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, how can I configure the IMAP quota plugin to force quotas on inbox only? I would like to limit the size of each of the user's inbox (in /var/mail/%u) to 50 meg and I do not want to force any quotas in their folders (mbox style). They should keep their inbox small :) thanks, Kristian

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[Dovecot] help for static user
by JC 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hi everybody, I have been long (for 2 days) trying, but I really need some help. I would like to use virtual static users. I configured my file as indicated in the documentation and then I created the following directory, with the needed rights (mail account) and leave them empty : /var/mail/virtual/<mon_domaine>.fr/toto/ I am not sure that it is the good method, but I understand it as follows : dovecot looks up in the directories and takes them as usernames and domain names. When I try to open the imap box from a client (evolution), I get a "Unknown error - the server closed the connection" message, that doesn't appear in the server's syslog. My dovecont.conf : << base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = pop3s imaps imap_listen = *:143 pop3_listen = * ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login = imap login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 32 login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 login = pop3 login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_uid = 0 first_valid_gid = 1 last_valid_gid = 0 mail_extra_groups = mail client_workarounds = outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls mailbox_check_interval = 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_max_flag_length = 50 mail_save_crlf = no mail_read_mmaped = no maildir_stat_dirs = no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_check_content_changes = no mbox_lock_timeout = 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 umask = 0077 imap_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 imap_use_modules = no imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap pop3_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_process_size = 256 pop3_use_modules = no pop3_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth = cram-md5 auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 auth_realms = auth_userdb = passwd static uid=8 gid=8 home=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/cram-md5.pwd auth_user = dovecot auth_chroot = auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_process_size = 256 auth_count = 1 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ >> Thank you in advance for any help.

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[Dovecot] Secure connection from "localhost" in jails
by Dirk Engling 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear dovecot developers, first: thanks for this really cool imapd, on my server it serves some hundred domains, all in all some thousand users, some having hundred thousand mails in their Maildirs (their spam boxes mostly). Since I put this installation in an FreeBSD geli encrypted disc image I had no choice but to choose an imapd with clever indexes - dovecot was perfect. However, since I reconfigured the disc image to work as a FreeBSD jail, I had some trouble with my web mail solution. Squirrelmail does not work with imaps (or at least not smoothly, out of the box, or whatever) and I didn't like to hack php to support SSL. Plus: there is no point in using ssl for a local connection. In a FreeBSD jail a sockets source address is always rewritten to the jails address, so squirrelmail opening a connection to dovecot will not come from 127.0.0.1 but from the same (jails) address, dovecot listens to. Still, dovecot only considers 'localhost' addresses as secure and allows LOGIN or PLAIN auth. With the little patch below dovecot allows clients from the jail to authenticate via LOGIN, when they connect from the IP it accepts connections at. Something similar is lurking around in pop3 auth code, I am sure, you get the point. Regards erdgeist ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< dovecot-1.0.rc1/src/imap-login 18:59:44 #> diff -u client.c* - --- client.c Thu Jun 29 18:59:39 2006 +++ client.c_new Thu Jun 29 18:59:19 2006 @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ const struct ip_addr *ip) { struct imap_client *client; - - const char *addr; + const char *addr, *local_addr; if (max_logging_users > CLIENT_DESTROY_OLDEST_COUNT && hash_size(clients) >= max_logging_users) { @@ -429,8 +429,10 @@ client->common.tls = ssl; addr = net_ip2addr(ip); + local_addr = net_ip2addr(local_ip); client->common.secured = ssl || (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, "127.", 4) == 0) || + (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, local_addr, strlen(local_addr)) == 0) || (IPADDR_IS_V6(ip) && (strcmp(addr, "::1") == 0 || strncmp(addr, "::ffff:127.", 11) == 0)); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEpmKwImmQdUyYEgkRAmWJAKCISUFtjdwvIZvHucqREHXKmB3s3ACeO7ql phwkh3m/KTjQCKsRetLxORA= =VnV4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] How to use filters with the LDA?
by martin f krafft 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hi, I am trying to deploy dovecot LDA and liking it so far. However, I need to pass the message through some filters before it's delivered to the user (e.g. spamc). I realise I can just set up a chain (postfix delivers to spamc, pipes to foo, pipes to bar, pipes to deliver), but there's no reliable error handling with that approach. Furthermore, I cannot seem to figure out whether sieve can pass messages through external filters, or how you'd do that. How do people approach this? What would be really sweet is an LDA plugin that can call arbitrary filters for each message it processes. Has something (obvious) like this been done? Thanks, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "doesn't he know who i think i am?" -- phil collins

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[Dovecot] some basic questions
by David 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I'm seeking a small IMAP server, and dovecat was recommended by those more savvy than me. (The sign on my monitor is "My programming language is solder..") so I'll be getting help to deploy this, but first... I've read through the wiki docs but still have questions, ones likely too obvious for most readers.... There will be <100 users, the platform will Debian, and I need IMAP/PO over SSL/TSL and locally-hosted Squirrelmail [unless someone has a better webmail client...]. Other boxes here run postfix, so that is a first choice. Clients will be Eudora, maybe TBird/Apple mail; no M$ Outlook. A) I need multi-domain support, with <joe(a)xyz.com> and <joy(a)qbc.net> being separate users. B) I have a problem with storage-abusers & really want the carrot-stick quota system my favorite ISP, Panix, has. You get N bytes {or messages, I can live with either/both} and when you get near, you get nagged until you solve it. When you exceed quota, you get no more incoming mail, just nagging. It's shunted aside until you make room. After D days, if it's still there, the shunted mail is returned. Regular reports as to who's naughty and nice would be great. C) Password changes. How can I have user-changable pw's, with crack/sanity checking of the new ones? Do I have to have accessible shell accounts on the box for each user? [argh] D) Spam: assume I can run spam-assassin and have it move suspected mail into a Junque mailbox; true? E) Non-guru creation/deletion of accounts: It appears from "Virtual Users" that this is possible via a text file, but I'm not sure... Comments?

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[Dovecot] Managesieve daemon
by Luca Corti 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello, some time ago there was dicussion on the list about development of a managesieve daemon to allow users to manage their own scripts. After putting the pieces togheter and having sieve working in the lda with Dovecot I solved the management issue by using Horde's Ingo + FTP to manage scripts for virtual users. This is quite ugly (technically speaking) but works and it is integrated with my webmail system (which is quite nice). Is anyone actively working on this? Which client do support managesieve? Luca

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[Dovecot] upgrade from beta9 to rc1 - lost access to messages and folders
by Joseph W. Breu 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello All, Upgraded a test machine this morning from beta9 to rc1 and lost access to messages and folders. an strace on the imap process shows it accessing the home directory, but not the mail directory. The two queries that I use are: password_query = SELECT email,crypt as password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT homedir AS home, maildir AS mail, 1000 AS uid, 1000 AS gid FROM users WHERE email = '%u' In this example, homedir=/var/spool/mail/filer/storage and maildir=cfu.net/b/r/breu Under beta9, it finds the homedir/maildir correctly as /var/spool/mail/filer/storage/cfu.net/b/r/breu. Under rc1, it accesses /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//mail/ What did I miss during the upgrade? -- Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] Maildir Quota and Trash Folder
by Joseph W. Breu 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Is there an option to instruct the imap_quota plugin to count messages in the Trash folder as used space? Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH]: updated tpop3d UIDL support based on older patch
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi, Here is an updated patch which allows to use tpop3d compatible UIDL in dovecot (it's against 1.0rc1): http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/dovecot-tpop3d-uidl.patch?r… which is based on: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-March/012080.html Please consider merging it. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] Running on HPUX
by Rich Rauenzahn 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I've gotten fairly far into compiling and running dovecot on HPUX. The problem I'm currently having is that the index seems to be mmap'ed at twice after login. The 576 byte mmap is the index file: root@hp46t243 # grep mmap64 /tmp/dovecot.tusc [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM root@hp46t243 # I think multiple mmap's of the same file are verboten -- + In most cases, two separate calls to mmap() cannot map overlapping ranges in a file. The virtual address range reserved for a file range is determined at the time of the initial mapping of the file range into a process address space. The system allocates only the virtual address range necessary to represent the initial mapping. As long as the initial mapping exists, subsequent attempts to map a different file range that includes any portion of the initial range may fail with an ENOMEM error if an extended contiguous address range that preserves the mappings of the initial range cannot be allocated. So, I was trying to look at why the index file is being mapped twice, and why the addr isn't saved and reused. I was thinking of adding it to one of the index structures and skipping the mmap if the addr != 0. I've been poking around for a couple of hours today and am going to call it a day, but I thought I'd ping the list to see if there was something obvious I was missing. Rich

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RE: [Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

On Wed, June 28, 2006 1:02 pm, Apps Lists <appslists(a)neonova.net> said: > I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the > following when trying to APPEND: > "NO Unknown error" > System logs show: > Quota: Couldn't get new message's size > > .... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the > lack of the file is the cause of the error). I am seeing this problem as well. Running this morning's CVS. Bill

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[Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Apps Lists 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi. I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the following when trying to APPEND: "NO Unknown error" System logs show: Quota: Couldn't get new message's size .... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the lack of the file is the cause of the error). I reverted back to dovecot-20060621 and APPEND is now working again. Steve

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[Dovecot] quota not working on delivery
by martin f krafft 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi, I am using the Debian dovecot packages and the deliver LDA from postfix, all version 1.0.beta8. My problem is with quota support, I am using Maildirs. The relevant configuration stuff is included at the bottom of this email. Quota support seems to work with IMAP. However, even when IMAP complains about an account being over quota, the deliver LDA still happily writes new mail to the (correct) Maildirs. I cannot see any warnings or other hints. Can you spot what I am doing wrong? Thanks! dovecot.conf: protocols = imap default_mail_env = maildir:~/.maildir auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } socket listen { master { # LDA path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } } } plugin { quota = maildir } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)seamus.madduck.net mail_plugins = quota } dovecot-sql.conf: driver = pgsql connect = host=localhost dbname=users user=dovecot password=XXXXXXXX password_query = select password from vmail.users where email='%u' user_query = select home, uid, gid, 'maildir:storage=' || quota as quote from vmail.users where email='%u' -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "women love us for our defects. if we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." -- oscar wilde

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[Dovecot] How to startup multi auth daemond
by Xueron Nee 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi all， I want restrict some user to use POP3 and some other to use SMTP. I consider to startup multi Auth daemond and each use a diffenent SQL. For example: for pop3： select .... where pop3_service=1 and ... for smtp: select .... where smtp_service=1 and ... I don't know if this is a good idea and how to setup dovecot to do so. Is there any suggest? Thanks! -- Xueron Nee <xueron(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] question indexes recreations
by Konstantin 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello! Is it correct not to backup index files in the hope that dovecot will recreate them ?

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[Dovecot] Test
by Tom Alsberg 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Test -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] mbox locking
by Thomas Hummel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello, I'd like to make sure my understanding of the mbox locking strategy is correct : - "mbox_dotlock_change_timeout" directive : a process seeing that an already locked (by another process) mbox he want to access hasn't change for this amount of time, allows himself to override the lock ? If it's using fcntl, is it only possible to override ? - when a process abort trying to get a lock after mbox_lock_timeout, does the UA sees anything ? - multiple locking methods in "mbox_write_lock" : if I state, for instance, mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl when does exactly dotlock method get used and when does fcntl get used ? Are both used simultaneously ? Which leads to the wiki's deadlock situation example : # Program A: fcntl locks the mbox # Program B at the same time: dotlocks the mbox # Program A continues: tries to dotlock the mbox, but since it's already dotlocked by B, it starts waiting # Program B continues: tries to fcntl lock the, but since it's already fcntl locked by A, it starts waiting why would A dotlock the mbox since he did fcntl'ed it successfully ? if he's able to perform fcntl, he can use a shared or an exclusive lock : why use dotlock at all ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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New LDA + Sieve (Was Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc1 released)
by Timothy White 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

> - deliver: Fixed plugin handling settings For sieve support, what is the new procedure? From what I could see, compile WITH deliver support, and then get a plugin from CVS? What has changed in the config files then to enable sieve support? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Colon in maildir folder name breaks keywords
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

With maildir, if you have a colon in a folder name, and you try to set a keyword on a message in that folder, the keyword does not get set - and worse, all existing keywords and other status information gets dropped (flagged, seen, replied, trashed). Bill

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[Dovecot] Trash expire plugin
by Timo Sirainen 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dovecot will soon have a plugin which allows running a nightly cronjob to expunge mails from configured mailboxes which have been in there for a configurable amount of time. For example the configuration could be: plugin { # Trash 7d, Spam 30d expire = Trash 7 Spam 30 } It also supports using Dovecot's lib-dict to keep track of the mailboxes and their oldest mail's timestamp, so that the nightly cronjob can quickly go through only those mailboxes that have those old mails. Berkeley DB support has been added to lib-dict for this purpose, but you could use SQL as well. There's however one problem with it that I could use opinions on. Currently there's no way to know how long a mail has been in a mailbox. There are pretty much 3 ways to handle this: 1) When copying to those Trash/Spam mailboxes the message's INTERNALDATE could be replaced with the current time. That way the INTERNALDATE tells how long the message has been in there. The obvious downside of this is that if the user wants to move the message back to another mailbox, the original INTERNALDATE is lost (INTERNALDATE means the time when the message was received and is often the timestamp used to sort messages). 2) Preserve the INTERNALDATE while copying, but still use it anyway. Often the messages are moved to Trash (and especially to Spam) soon after they have been received. If not, then the user has time until the next nightly cronjob to move the messages back before they're lost. 3) Add a new field to index file which contains the date when the message was copied. This could be done only for those Trash/Spam boxes so they don't waste space for other mailboxes. The problem with this is that it won't work if there are no index files. To overcome that problem the time could be stored in yet another place, such as maildir filename and some new mbox header. I don't see supporting those as worth the trouble though, so the fallback could be either the date index file is created or the messages' INTERNALDATE. I think either 1) or 3) would be best solutions. 3) probably, but if index files don't exist nearly permanently, it's not very reliable..

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