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[Dovecot] Asterisks (*) in Folder Names disallowed?
by Daniel W 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

As far as I can see the RFC for IMAP should allow the * character in the folder name. This is certainly allowed in UW IMAP. Dovecot seems to object however with: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: COPY 9975:9975 "mail/*myfolder" Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name. Could this restriction be lifted? Best wishes, Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

My BSD wrote: > That was my point. The problem seems to be more a Thunderbird than a > Dovecot bug. > Hmmm, I am not sure. With Cyrus TB seems to work correctly in that case.

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[Dovecot] Configure Dovecot with LDAP
by hpmysql 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Dear All I encountered some problem while i tried to configure Dovecot with LDAP. configuration directory: /usr/local/src/dovecot-1.0.beta8 configure command: ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --with-ldap /usr/local/include# ls -F lber.h lber_types.h ldap.h ldap_cdefs.h ldap_features.h ldap_schema.h ldap_utf8.h openssl/ slapi-plugin.h /usr/local/lib# ls *.a libcrypto.a liblber.a libldap.a libldap_r.a libssl.a My configure output: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: It does not seem to have LDAP configured. Did i miss out something on the configure options? or is there any PATH that i need to specify? Hope to hear from you soon! Thanking in advance. Joshua

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[Dovecot] trying to build dovecot-sieve
by Sergey Ivanov 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi, I'm trying to compile dovecot with dovecot-sieve, both from CVS. There is file dovecot-config.in.in in current dovecot module, which produce dovecot-config.in after ./configure'ing. But dovecot-sieve requires file dovecot-config to be in dovecot's directory. I think it is just typo, because after renaming dovecot-config.in to dovecot-config the building succeeded. -- Sergey Ivanov

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[Dovecot] quotas on shared folders
by Nicolas Boullis 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi, After using dovecot 0.99.14 on a production server with full satisfaction, I'm now giving a try to 1.0beta8 (I know beta9 is out, but it's not yet available within Debian). The new features are great. Maildir++ quotas seem to work fine, and shared folders look promising (despite a few issues). My problem is that I could not fire out how to set quotas on shared folders. Is it possible? Cheers, Nicolas

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC 0/13] OTP: add auth_cache_remove()
by Andrey Panin 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

This patchset add support for One-Time-Password authentication mechanisms, both S/Key (RFC 1731) and OTP (RFC 2444) are implemented. Tested with mutt (uses cyrus sasl library for authentication). Patches were made against CVS HEAD. Please take a look. Add auth_cache_remove() function which will be used by OTP code to evict old entries from auth cache. diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.c dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.c --- dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.c 2006-06-23 13:42:22.122508080 +0400 +++ dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.c 2006-06-23 13:44:30.945923944 +0400 @@ -226,3 +226,22 @@ void auth_cache_insert(struct auth_cache cache->size_left -= alloc_size; hash_insert(cache->hash, node->data, node); } + +void auth_cache_remove(struct auth_cache *cache, + const struct auth_request *request, + const char *key) +{ + string_t *str; + struct cache_node *node; + + str = t_str_new(256); + var_expand(str, key, + auth_request_get_var_expand_table(request, + auth_request_str_escape)); + + node = hash_lookup(cache->hash, str_c(str)); + if (node == NULL) + return; + + auth_cache_node_destroy(cache, node); +} diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.h dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.h --- dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.h 2006-06-23 13:42:22.122508080 +0400 +++ dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.h 2006-06-23 13:44:30.945923944 +0400 @@ -27,4 +27,9 @@ void auth_cache_insert(struct auth_cache const struct auth_request *request, const char *key, const char *value); +/* Remove key from cache */ +void auth_cache_remove(struct auth_cache *cache, + const struct auth_request *request, + const char *key); + #endif

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Re: [Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

My BSD wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:57:00 +0300 > Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:19 +0400, the.buratino(a)rambler.ru wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I have very strange problem with dovecot and thunderbird while >>> deleting messages. The problem is that they are not actually >>> deleted from storage filesystem and if I later run mutt I can >>> perfectly see them, though marked with 'D', so mutt ask to delete >>> them on exit and this time they dissapear from filesystem. I >>> enabled in thunderbird 'remove it iimediately' feature, but this >>> doesn't help. When I delete message from mutt it removed from >>> filesystem just fine. >>> >>> IMAP server: >>> OS: FreeBSD 6.1p2 >>> dovecot: dovecot-1.0.b9 >> Yes, this is a bug in 1.0beta9. If you do the expunging twice it >> should work then. I'll release 1.0rc1 soon which will fix it. >> > > Good day! > > (I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry. I hope I'm not > re-stating the obvious or what some other poster already observed.) > > I'm not so sure that this is only a Dovecot bug. > > As I understand it, upon manual deletion TB's "remove it immediately" > setting removes it from view but not from the server. > > As the.buratino correctly observed, messages are marked deleted on the > server. However, TB does not expunge them until TB is closed (or > sometimes re-started). > I've made some experiments with TB and observed: 1) if message was in INBOX and marked for deletion by TB it _is_ deleted from filesystem after TB restart. 2) if message was _not_ in INBOX but in other IMAP folder it is not deleted even after TB restart. In addition to mutt I've tested sylpheed and it is also delete messages from server correctly, i.e. they are removed from filesystem

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[Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello! I have very strange problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting messages. The problem is that they are not actually deleted from storage filesystem and if I later run mutt I can perfectly see them, though marked with 'D', so mutt ask to delete them on exit and this time they dissapear from filesystem. I enabled in thunderbird 'remove it iimediately' feature, but this doesn't help. When I delete message from mutt it removed from filesystem just fine. IMAP server: OS: FreeBSD 6.1p2 dovecot: dovecot-1.0.b9 Client: OS: Debian sarge Thunderbird: thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (from backports.org) Any suggestions ?

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[Dovecot] Squirrel mail search tool fails
by Paul 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

When I do a search in squirrelmail, it will start giving several results, but then fails. I use squirrelmail via https. maillog reveils: file message-body-search.c: line 391 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) Squirrel mail browser interface reveils: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 ALL TEXT {4} "text" Current versions (all up to date) squirrelmail-1.4.6-5.el4.centos4 dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12 squirrelmail-1.4.6-5.el4.centos4 mod_ssl-2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 Can someone point me in a direction? I just cut-over to CentOS4.3 (fresh install) from FC1 and this is the first bug which I have never seen before. Never have used Dovecot before. Thanks. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^| || \ | Budvar ######|| ||'|"\,__. | _..._...______ ===|=||_|__|...] "(@)'(@)""""**|(@)(@)*****(@)I

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[Dovecot] Dovecot with Imp problems
by Neil Wilson 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi guys, I've run into a strange problem using beta 8 and beta 9 when using the latest version of Horde/IMP Through IMP, I can see that there are messages in the maildir on the sidemenu(popup menu) but the emails don't show in my actual inbox. I thought this was an IMP problem, but then I downgraded to dovecot 99 series RPM and this resolved the problem. I was seeing the following error in my logs, when I tried to log into a mailbox through IMP. Jun 21 09:22:46 mail dovecot: IMAP(davew): file index-mail.c: line 105 (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == data_size) Jun 21 09:22:46 mail dovecot: child 6217 (imap) killed with signal 6 Thanks, I hope this helps. Regards. Neil Wilson Powered by Linux, driven by passion! -- This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.dcdata.co.za/emaildisclaimer.html

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[Dovecot] UID sync errors
by Patrick MacDonald 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello, I recently converted my 300+ email user system over to Dovecot. It is working fantastically, except for UID sync errors. I read everything I could find and only saw others with those problems in version 0.99 below. My log shows errors like this all day long for pretty much all users: dovecot: Jun 25 19:12:46 Error: POP3(nmichel): Maildir /home/rtb/users/nmichel/.Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (42 < 43, file = msg.oP8c:2,) dovecot: Jun 25 19:25:59 Error: IMAP(lcrowe): Maildir /home/dentist/users/lcrowe/.Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (70 > 4, file = msg.AM81:2,) When this happens, IMAP and POP3 drop the connections sending errors to their clients. I use squirrelmail over IMAP and some new emails never appear until I delete the index files. I have tried deleting indexes, and the problem continued. I went from dovecot-1.0.beta3 to dovecot-1.0.beta9 and still happens. The only way it doesn't happen is when I append the INDEX=MEMORY trick as in: default_mail_env = maildir:~/.Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY but then it's all so slow for large mailboxes, it's painful. Here are some of my specs: Linux kernel 2.6.15 Maildir Auth from /etc/shadow Users from /etc/passwd Does anyone have any hints on where I should start? Thanks in advance. I love Dovecot. I really hope I can get this resolved. Patrick MacDonald admin(a)athensguy.com

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[Dovecot] OE pop3 > imap subfolder migration?
by Sysadmin 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

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. -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] RHEL 3 and quota issues.
by Alan Premselaar 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to code provided by Geo Carncross, I was able to determine what the problem was with v2 quota support on RHEL 3 using ext3 filesystems. I've included a patch file for quota-fs.c <sys/quota.h> on RHEL 3 sets _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 1 if it's not defined by default. I copied <sys/quota.h> to ./sysquota.h and edited it to set _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 2 if not defined since that's the version i'm using on my machine. I don't know if that's necessarily appropriate so I'm not including that file. (I then modified quota-fs.h to load "sysquota.h" instead of <sys/quota.h>) I was able to get it to compile and properly show the quota information now. I'd like to do more testing (like seeing if explicitly setting _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 2 is really necesssary) but my one and only RHEL 3 machine is my production mail server, so I can't really do that. Anyways, since I figured out the problem and fixed it for myself, I thought I would share :) Timo, perhaps if you have the time to look at the patch and if the modifications to the quota.h file are necessary or not and include it into the next CVS update, I'm sure people would appreciate it. Thanks, Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEn0spE2gsBSKjZHQRAs/RAJ9DsqkhHYvRifZYkOcLo8DibQMS0gCdEPDD A4CUiujssDVT5e+pjfuMWow= =+6vU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- quota-fs.c.orig 2006-06-26 11:23:30.000000000 +0900 +++ quota-fs.c 2006-06-26 11:27:52.000000000 +0900 @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ /* BSD, AIX */ root->mount->device_path, QCMD(Q_GETQUOTA, USRQUOTA), #endif - root->uid, (void *)&dqblk) < 0) { + root->uid, (caddr_t)&dqblk) < 0) { i_error("quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, %s) failed: %m", root->mount->device_path); quota_set_error(_root->setup->quota, "Internal quota error"); @@ -211,8 +211,13 @@ return -1; } #endif +#if _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION < 2 *value_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_curblocks * (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4096; +#else + *value_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_curspace * + (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4096; +#endif *limit_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_bsoftlimit * (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4; return 1;

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[Dovecot] Problem with SSL
by Артемьев Артем 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Freebsd dovecot --version 1.0.beta9 In /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf #grep -i ssl /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf |egrep -v '^#' ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/certs/server.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/certs/server.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 When I try to be connected to imaps I get message in maillog: Jun 24 04:00:18 alife dovecot: imap-login: Waiting for SSL parameter file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat Also I deleted a file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat and reboot system. And file rebuild but still ssl doesn't work. I try # /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ssl-build-param /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat SSL parameters regeneration completed And ssl doesn't work and I still get message Waiting for SSL parameter file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat I do not know what to do. I have another server with 1.0.beta8 and ssl work fine.

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[Dovecot] escaping in sqlite
by Jakob Hirsch 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi Timo&all, a recent change in the sql drivers introduced escaping, but sqlite is a different in this aspect: You cannot escape with a backslash, the only character that needs escaping is the quoting character itself (by doubling it, as the SQL standard says). As the escaping function does not know which quote character is used, one should only use the single tick ' (again, as the SQL standard says) and the escaping function double any single quote in the string. (untested) patch for the latter attached. Index: dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c,v retrieving revision 1.5.2.1 diff -u -r1.5.2.1 driver-sqlite.c --- dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c 31 May 2006 11:02:45 -0000 1.5.2.1 +++ dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c 25 Jun 2006 12:53:48 -0000 @@ -92,7 +92,24 @@ static char *driver_sqlite_escape_string(struct sql_db *_db __attr_unused__, const char *string) { - return t_strdup_noconst(str_escape(string)); + size_t newlen = 0; + char *c, *newstr; + + /* check if escaping is needed */ + if (index(string, '\'') == NULL) + return string; + + /* escape ' */ + newstr = t_buffer_get(strlen(string) * 2 + 1); + for (c=string; *c != '\0'; ++c) { + newstr[newlen++] = *c; + if (*c == '\'') + newstr[newlen++] = *c; + } + newstr[newlen] = '\0'; + t_buffer_alloc(newlen + 1); + + return newstr; } static void driver_sqlite_exec(struct sql_db *_db, const char *query)

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[Dovecot] recent dovecot: assertion failed.
by sergey ivanov 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi, today I have built dovecot from cvs sources, and upgraded server from beta-7 to this newer version. Then i got problems with opening INBOX using thunderbird 1.5.0.2. The client says "Opening folder...", then, after about half a minute, blinking "connecting to the server" and returning to "Opening folder..." /var/log/maillog gets the messages: --- Jun 22 17:19:07 parkheights dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<seriv>, method=plain, rip=66.80.117.2, lip=192.168.10.14, TLS Jun 22 17:19:26 parkheights dovecot: IMAP(seriv): file index-search.c: line 845 (search_get_seqset): assertion failed: (ctx->seq1 <= ctx->seq2) Jun 22 17:19:26 parkheights dovecot: child 25812 (imap) killed with signal 6 --- and this lines repeat and repeat. At the same time I can open some INBOX' subfolders at the same server. So, I think it is a problem not with a server's software, but with mail storage. Help me, please, - how can I fix these indexes, or what causes the problem with access to that mail folder? My dovecot's configs are: --- # dovecot -a -n protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login default_mail_env: maildir:/home/%u/.imap lock_method: flock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd --- # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=epoll dnotify ipv6 openssl mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword ldap passwd passwd-file sql static -- Sergey Ivanov

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Re: [Dovecot] Help! Uidlist files are gone and won't come back; imap keeps coredumping!
by Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Timo - The only behavior change that I notice is that when I exit the telnet session the truss also exits. Previously, the truss hung around until I did the "pkill dovecot", after exiting the telnet session. So, that's weird. But, hold on! Now I do seem to have a uidlist file, again! % ls -l total 308 drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 98304 Jun 19 07:44 cur/ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 260 Jun 19 07:47 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 65752 Jun 19 07:47 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 29560 Jun 11 08:42 dovecot.index drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 32768 Jun 19 07:43 new/ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 1188 May 1 07:01 subscriptions drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 61440 Jun 19 07:42 tmp/ Mario Timo Sirainen wrote: > Try if the attached patch changes anything. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Index: src/lib/file-dotlock.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib/file-dotlock.c,v > retrieving revision 1.38 > diff -u -r1.38 file-dotlock.c > --- src/lib/file-dotlock.c 8 Jun 2006 16:42:40 -0000 1.38 > +++ src/lib/file-dotlock.c 19 Jun 2006 12:55:51 -0000 > @@ -664,6 +664,12 @@ > } > } > > + if (dotlock->fd != -1) { > + if (close(dotlock->fd) < 0) > + i_error("close(%s) failed: %m", dotlock->path); > + dotlock->fd = -1; > + } > + > if (rename(lock_path, dotlock->path) < 0) { > i_error("rename(%s, %s) failed: %m", lock_path, dotlock->path); > file_dotlock_free(dotlock); -- I don't need a name; my number's just fine. | Mario.Nigrovic(a)freescale.com It's nobody else's -- just mine, all mine. | 480-413-3578 Internal Use Only

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[Dovecot] BODY.PEEK errors on Beta8?
by Gavin Henry 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: FETCH 1 (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)]) Will try an update just now. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0_beta9 : (auth) killed with signal 11
by Paul Harrington 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I have just upgraded from courier to dovecot and things seem to be working okay (after a few problems getting shared folders working correctly). I notice the following error message in my logs:- Jun 23 11:17:32 calzone dovecot: child 1258 (auth) killed with signal 11 I am using the beta9 ebuild that is available from gentoo portage. I have followed the steps to try to get a core dump but it doesn't seem to be working. My config file is as follows:- =============================================================== protocols = imap imaps protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen = *:993 } mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes auth_debug = yes #mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/%u auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/imap.passwd } passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/imap.passwd } } namespace private { separator = . prefix = Inbox. inbox = yes } namespace public { separator = . prefix = Allstar. location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/shared::CONTROL=/var/spool/mail/virtual/control/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/virtual/control/%u } ================================================================== All users use UID/GID 5000. /etc/imap.passwd contains enteries such as:- paul:rMPY999gvr2kU:5000:5000::/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/paul Any advise on how I can produce a core dump and get this fixed? Thanks Paul

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[Dovecot] LMTP revisited
by Glenn Leavell 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

During the early Dovecot LDA brainstorming discussions, there was some talk about the possibility of including an LMTP interface, and I've noticed that there's an "is it needed?" question about LMTP in Dovecot's TODO file. I'd like to put in a vote for LMTP, and I'm wondering if anyone else has a need for it. Specifically, I'd love an LMTP-enabled LDA that uses hard links when when delivering the same message to multiple recipients (I'm thinking Maildir files), as it would be a nice way to facilitate so-called Single Instance Storage. Glenn

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[Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state
by Patrick Carney 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Can anyone help me with this issue? The CEO of our company keeps getting IMAP time out errors and "mailbox is in an inconsistent state" messages. He uses Outlook 2003. There are errors on the server side. This is what it says: "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't hi gher than existing (2 <= 504)" Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered Dovecot before. Thank You! Patrick

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[Dovecot] Patch for rawlog.c
by Andreas Schulze 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

hello The homedirectories are stored as a relative path in my userdb One problem ocoures with rawlog: rawloging occures only if a directory $HOME/dovecot.rawlog exist. this is checked with lstat for me $HOME is always "username/". This is relative to /var/mail and works. in rawlog.c lstat should now check "username//dovecot.rawlog" which fails. lstat can check "/var/mail/username//dovecot.rawlog" or "./dovecot.rawlog" ( All checks test the existence of the same dir. ) I patched rawlog.c for me to force always the test of "./dovecot.rawlog" I think, this is no problem, because imap-auth / pop3-auth always change to the correct location. mayby I am wrong, because I'm _NOT_ dealing with mboxes, only maildirs. then you may discard this ... --- snip diff -Naur dovecot-1.0.beta9.orig/src/util/rawlog.c dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/util/rawlog.c --- dovecot-1.0.beta9.orig/src/util/rawlog.c 2006-02-26 11:05:31.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/util/rawlog.c 2006-06-23 08:37:57.684368256 +0200 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #define TIMESTAMP_WAIT_TIME 5 #define TIMESTAMP_FORMAT "* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\n" +#define RAWLOG_DIRNAME "./dovecot.rawlog" static struct ioloop *ioloop; @@ -261,20 +262,14 @@ static void rawlog_open(bool write_timestamps) { - const char *home, *path; struct stat st; int sfd[2]; pid_t pid; - home = getenv("HOME"); - if (home == NULL) - home = "."; - /* see if we want rawlog */ - path = t_strconcat(home, "/dovecot.rawlog", NULL); - if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) { + if (lstat(RAWLOG_DIRNAME, &st) < 0) { if (errno != ENOENT) - i_warning("lstat() failed for %s: %m", path); + i_warning("lstat() failed for %s: %m", RAWLOG_DIRNAME); return; } if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) @@ -305,7 +300,7 @@ dec2str(getppid()))); ioloop = io_loop_create(system_pool); - rawlog_proxy_create(0, 1, sfd[0], path, write_timestamps); + rawlog_proxy_create(0, 1, sfd[0], RAWLOG_DIRNAME, write_timestamps); io_loop_run(ioloop); io_loop_destroy(&ioloop); ---- snap -- Andreas Schulze DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg Abt. Internet- und Securitydienste Telefon : +49 911 276 2648 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892 Mobil : +49 172 8122883 E-Mail : andreas.schulze_at_datev.de

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[Dovecot] courier imap features I miss in dovecot
by Andreas Schulze 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

hello, courier imap has two features: ##NAME: IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH:0 # # Set IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH to move expunged messages to Trash. This # effectively allows an undo of message deletion by fishing the deleted # mail from trash. Trash can be manually expunged as usually, and mail # will get automatically expunged from Trash according to IMAP_EMPTYTRASH. # # NOTE: shared folders are still expunged as usual. Shared folders are # not affected. # IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=1 ##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0 # # The following setting is optional, and causes messages from the given # folder to be automatically deleted after the given number of days. # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of folder:days. The default # setting, below, purges 7 day old messages from the Trash folder. # Another useful setting would be: # # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30 # # This would also delete messages from the Sent folder (presumably copies # of sent mail) after 30 days. This is a global setting that is applied to # every mail account, and is probably useful in a controlled, corporate # environment. # is this possible with dovecot too ? -- Andreas Schulze DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg Abt. Internet- und Securitydienste Telefon : +49 911 276 2648 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892 Mobil : +49 172 8122883 E-Mail : andreas.schulze_at_datev.de

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[Dovecot] different locations for different reals
by Arne Van Theemsche 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi I've been reading a lot, but I think I'am confused about namespaces. We are planning a migration of our pshychical mail storage. This will mean that subfolders are moving from /home to /var/spool/mail. I was thinking, for the migrations of creating a realm. I would like that if a user logs in with his username, the old location is used, if the user logs in with username@REALM, the subfolders are to be searched in the new location, is this possible? Can I use a different mail location per realm? thx in advance Arne

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[Dovecot] Large mbox files.
by Kevin Warren 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I'm very sorry if this is a faq. I've spent considerable time reading documentation and doing Google searches to no avail...and the mailing list archive isn't searchable as far as I can tell. Anyway, the question: When I try to open a large mbox file from Squirrel Mail I receive the following Dovecot error: Jun 23 10:47:55 jetta dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(kevin): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 400 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): ass ertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) Jun 23 10:47:56 jetta dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 28535 (imap) killed with signal 6 Not sure what other information you will need. (There's no posting guideline for the mailing list) Here's my guess: Dovecot version: 1.0.beta9 OS version: Solaris x86 v10 I'm guessing a listing of non-default values in dovecot.conf would be useful too: $ grep -vE "^ *#" dovecot.conf | grep -E "^ *[a-z\}]" ssl_listen = *:993 first_valid_uid = 100 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } plugin { }

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[Dovecot] dovecot and thunderbird
by Mark Davies 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

We've been using dovecot for a while now (currently 1.0beta7) and it works nicely. We have just one reoccuring problem: When using thunderbird as the imap client sometimes when messages are moved from the inbox to other folders (including Trash) they shortly thereafter reappear in the inbox - this can happen multiple times to the same message. We have multiple namespaces set up so that inbox is mbox format in ~/.poffice/username and other folders are maildir in ~/Maildir - both of these are on NFS. Indexes are on local storage. The problem only seems to happen with thunderbird. kmail, mac mail, outlook, pine all work fine. If we effectively move a user so that their inbox is also maildir then the problem doesn't happen. The inbox being mbox format is for historic reasons and medium to long term this should change to maildir but in the interim can anyone see anything different that thunderbird does to other imap clients that might be tickling an underlying bug? cheers mark

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[Dovecot] beta9 (auth) killed with signal 11 - backtrace
by Paul Harrington 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Further to my previous email I managed to find the core file. Version: 1.0.beta9 OS: Gentoo x86 Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt full #0 0xb7d575ba in strcasecmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x0805b091 in passdb_get_credentials () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available.

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[Dovecot] 2nd Question on v1.0 setup and maildir
by Patrick Carney 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

_____ From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick@castandcrew.com] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:55 AM To: 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Subject: Question on v1.0 setup and maildir Hello all. I appreciate the responses to my problem on v0.99.14. Thank you all. We have built a new server running version 1.0-0_15.beta9.el4. The mail delivery agent is sendmail. We seem to have gotten it up fairly easily. But we have one problem. We are using the maildir feature instead of mbox and when ever mail gets delivered, it is not sending it to the \maildir\new folder. It seems to be dumping it in the root of the maildir directory, thus when a client checks for email, it appears nothing is there. Here is a sample from our config. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Forgive me if this is elementary question, but I am new to dovecot. ## Mailbox locations and namespaces ## # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There are a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. #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. #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 depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no ##

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[Dovecot] This store does not support subscriptions, or they are not enabled...
by Dan Stromberg 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi folks. I'm using evolution 2.2.3 on Fedora Core 4 with simap to dovecot 1.0beta9. I had the same problem with dovecot 1.0alpha1. The problem is that I can't seem to subscribe to any folders. Nor can I seem to get this combination to list all of my folders. I'd be fine with either. It used to be, that if I just toggled "show only subscribed folders" a few times, I'd start getting folders, but not anymore. Of course, sometimes the behavior would be the opposite of what I'd selected, but I wasn't too worried about that. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] maildir++ Quotas - bizarre behavior.
by Apps Lists 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi Timo et al. I've been trying to track down why Dovecot recalculations of maildirsize are so wildly different (lower) than what Maildrop comes up with. I think I've found some bizarre behavior in Dovecot -- this is in beta9 as well as CVS from yesterday. It appears Dovecot isn't looking at /Maildir/cur ... /Maildir/new and /Maildir/tmp. It is, however, looking at /Maildir/.Drafts, /Maildir/.Sent, and /Maildir/.Trash. None of these folders contain any messages, but Dovecot seems to count the existence of . and .. as message files. Worse, it's coming up with actual usage data for these empty (of messages) folders. Presumably it's counting the log and cache files. I've attached a diff to quota-maildir.c which will enable some verbose logging. Also attached is a ls -lR of the Maildir in question as well as the output of the aforementioned debugging. Please help. Steve

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[Dovecot] Authentication problems with mysql 5
by Gianfranco Bartolini 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hello, this is my first post here, so hi to all! I've just configured a new Suse Linux 10.1 distribution that comes with: - postfix 2.2.9 + mysql tables - dovecot 1.0.beta3 - mysql 5.0.18 - kernel 2.6.16.13-4-bigsmp i386 on a Intel Xeon 2.0Ghz with 3Gb RAM I've also added postfixadmin 2.1.0 to build an IMAP server with virtual users/virtual hosts management, and ran the script DATABASE_MYSQL.TXT to build correctly database/tables and user/permissions. The problem is that dovecot fail to access to mysql tables with the following error: =================== dovecot: Jun 12 18:40:28 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up dovecot: Jun 12 18:40:29 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to 127.0.0.1 (postfix): Access denied for user 'postfix'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry =================== I've tried to connect to mysql using the socket instead of the local ip address, but i've got the same error: =================== dovecot: Jun 12 18:55:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up dovecot: Jun 12 18:55:20 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (postfix): Access denied for user 'postfix'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry =================== In mysql the user "postfix" is correctly created with access granted from either localhost and 127.0.0.1 If i do the same from the command line it works perfectly: =================== server01:/ # mysql -h localhost -u postfix -p Enter password: secret Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 136 to server version: 5.0.18 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> =================== Here is my dovecot.conf: =================== default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mbox/%d/%n protocols = imap pop3 auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } } first_valid_uid = 51 ssl_disable = yes listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log =================== And my dovecot-sql.conf: =================== driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' user_query = SELECT maildir AS mail, 51 AS uid, 51 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' =================== I'v tried also all the password mechanisms (PLAIN, PLAIN-MD5, MD5, CRYPT) with no success. My google searches ended with no results. Btw, the same configuration on a Suse 9.3 professional works perfectly :( Please anyone can help me? Thanks in advance for all the kindly support Saluti G.Bartolini Linux User #333064

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[Dovecot] Re: entered bc_action_emit with filelen:
by Alex Pimperton 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi, I'm still getting the errors below on Debian Etch with Dovecot 1.0.8-4 and Dovecot LDA. Is this something that's fixed in 1.0.9? It doesn't seem to have an effect but I'm wary of messages I don't recognise! Regards, Alex Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 16 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 112 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 240 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 368 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the MailScanner at Placet.co.uk, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] problem with kqueue
by Alessandro de Manzano 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hello, I'm a new user of Dovecot (since 1.0b8) and I'ld report about a possible bug. Situation: Dovecot 1.0beta9 with kqueue support FreeBSD 6.1-Release x86 machine (IBM x206, P4 3.2 Ghz) local filesystem UFS2 This is an internal, experimental, mail server running Postfix and Dovecot configured with Maildirs e IMAP-only access. Clients are quite few, now, just because it's an experiment. However are near all Outlook Express 6. Running with dovecot 1.0 beta8 _without_ kqueue support for few weeks was fine, no problems at all. A couple of days ago I updated to beta9 (using FreeBSD's portupgrade tools) and in the _same_time_ I enabled the kqueue support. Since then I've seen about 3-4 of these in the log: (note that process traps apparently after reporting the unrecognized event) Jun 20 10:38:53 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = 1, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x0000, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data = 0x00008322} Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): mode: 0x004x Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue kernel: pid 18426 (imap), uid 1004: exited on signal 6 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: child 18426 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Any ideas ? Any one else got these messages ? I'ld try recompiling beta9 without kqueue support, probably the issue would disappear, but IMHO is not the best way to "correct" things :) Many thanks in advance! -- Alessandro de Manzano System & Network Administrator Playstos - TIMA S.p.A. Corso Sempione 63 20149 Milano, Italy tel.: +39-023314153 fax : +39-02315678 email: demanzano(a)playstos.com http://www.playstos.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot servers / SAN
by Dean Manners 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hey guys, Wondering if anyone out there has any input on running Dovecot with SAN storage. Its coming to the time where we need to run load balanced servers, and past experiences steer us away from a NAS. Tips / pitfalls ? Regards __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state
by Patrick Carney 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

So how do I delete his indexes? Is there somewhere a step by step procedure? Timo, please help? Forgive me, I am new to all this. Thanks much, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Graves [mailto:jeff@image-src.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:34 AM To: 'Patrick Carney' Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state I haven't used 0.99 in a while but it shouldn't destroy the subscriptions. I think the next login may be delayed some while the index is rebuilt. Might want to check with Timo. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick@castandcrew.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:23 PM To: 'Jeff Graves'; dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Will that destroy his folder subscriptions? Will I loose anything? Thanks PAtrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Graves Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:18 AM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state The only quick and easy band-aid I can think of is to delete the indexes and let dovecot recreate them. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Carney Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:44 PM To: 'Timo Sirainen' Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Yes. I was afraid of that. But the weird thing is it only happens with One particular user. And at that, it wasn't doing it for the longest time. It just started recently. Is there a band-aid for this. I ask because we are not in a place to upgrade at the moment. Thanks Patrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:37 AM To: Patrick Carney Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:07 -0700, Patrick Carney wrote: > "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree > file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted > isn't higher than existing (2 <= 504)" > Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take > over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered > Dovecot before. You're using 0.99.x Dovecot and there's not much point anymore in trying to figure out why it's broken. I'd suggest upgrading to 1.0beta versions as the first step. If it still breaks after that I can help debug it further. Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot

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[Dovecot] Reading the index / log files
by Raymond Lillard 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Dear Dovecot, I have a user who claims his mail is being lost. I can find the message marked as having been accepted for delivery in the maillog. I am hoping there is a tool which will let me read his IMAP transactions. We are delivering the messages with procmail and storing them as Maildir files. I read mail on this very same server and process about 500 mails per day. (Its the machine where all of my mail lists are collected.) I use T-bird, he uses LookOut. My working theory is that he (or his MUA) is somehow deleting some of his mail. Being able to read a log of his IMAP transactions would be most helpful. I see nothing about this in the Wiki. Regards, Ray

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[Dovecot] Dovecot --IMAP
by Clovis Tristao 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I am using dovecot-0.99.14-8.fc4 in Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz), and is appears this message: maillog -------- imap(testelabin): file mbox-rewrite.c: line 429 (mbox_write_header): assertion failed: (hdr_parsed_size.physical_size == hdr_size) When I try to have access a very great mailbox(mbox) (99 MB) via Webmail SquirrelMail. My quota of record is of 250 MB, some suggestion? Thanks a lot, Clóvis -- Clovis Tristao - UNICAMP/Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola Administrador de Redes - Secao de Informatica (SINFO) E-mail: clovis(a)agr.unicamp.br http://www.agr.unicamp.br Fone(0xx19) 37881031-37881038 ou FAX(55xx19) 37881005/37881010

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[Dovecot] repairing mbox files
by Dominic Lepiane 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi folks, Is there a good tool for repairing/working with mbox files? I'm trying to get a user moved off of Entourage (Outlook for Mac). Entourage actually exports the mail (was pop, will be imap) as mbox files, however, I can't just drop them in place even after fixing the line-endings. many of the messages with attachments come up with the correct header info but no message body or attachment. But some work so it's clearly a problem that a lot the messages are malformed somehow. Server is RHEL 4, dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 Current client is Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) in Mac OS X 10.4.6 using IMAP. Previous client was MS Entourage (OS x 10.4.6) using POP. Thanks in advance. -- Dominic Lepiane Simon Fraser University/IRMACS dlepiane(a)irmacs.sfu.ca (604)268-7369

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[Dovecot] strange behaviour: connecting to mysql, but no queries after upgrade on ubuntu...
by dstrayer＠sadt.com 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

> hi all, > > I'm having trouble using dovecot with mysql after upgrading to 1.0.beta3 on > ubuntu. according to the mysql log, dovecot connects but doesn't issue any > queries.. > > any hints what might be wrong or where I should look? > -- > Cheers, > > Nikl I'm seeing the same behavior under Debian Sid. (First time I've tried it, so I don't know whether the problem is connected to a particular update.) I can make an imap connection using passwd-file authentication. When I switch to mysql, the mysql log shows a connection when dovecot starts but no further activity. The reply to the imap client is NO Temporary authentication failure. In the mail.log, I see: Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.1.2^Irip=192.168.1.3^Iresp=AGd1ZXN0QHNhZHQuY29tAGZvbw== Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: child 4951 (auth-worker) killed with signal 11 Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=foo(a)sample.com^Itemp Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<foo(a)sample.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.2, lip=192.168.1.3 Any clues?

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[Dovecot] Problem compile dovecot-sieve under Debian
by Dominique Feyer 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

I get the source from CVS: # cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot-sieve Edit configure.in to change - AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([dsieve-config.h]) + AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(dsieve-config.h) Launch autogen.sh, and I have some errors: configure.in: 4: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' configure.in: 11: automake requires `AM_PROG_LEX', not `AC_PROG_LEX' automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file `../map.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file `../imparse.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: lex source seen but `AC_DECL_YYTEXT' not in `configure.in' If i try to build: # ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-1.0.beta9 No error: ... configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/libsieve/Makefile config.status: creating stamp.h config.status: creating dsieve-config.h config.status: dsieve-config.h is unchanged # make gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o sievec sievec.o libsieve.a /usr/src/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/lib/liblib.a libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xa23): In function `sieve_script_load': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:435: undefined reference to `map_refresh' libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xaf0): In function `sieve_script_unload': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:462: undefined reference to `map_free' libsieve.a(sieve.o)(.text+0x1e6e): In function `verify_flag': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/sieve.y:951: undefined reference to `imparse_isatom' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [sievec] Erreur 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Erreur 2 I try to install cyrus-dev or cyrus21-dev with apt-get, but nothing change, always the same error. Does someone have success with plugin dovecot-sieve ? Thanks -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot, search and i18n
by Timo Sirainen 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 13:19 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:45 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> Does dovecot support i18n'd search? > >> > > > > It supports searching with all the character sets that your system's > > iconv supports. Case-insensitive matching unfortunately works only for > > A-Z characters for now. > > > > > Hmm... Attempt to plainly use squirrelmail's search resulted in no > success at all. Imap command was quite plain, > > SEARCH ALL SUBJECT {10}[russian letters here] > > The problem is that Cyrillic has at least two widely used encodings. > Maybe I need to specify them exactly somehow? I don't know much about Squirrelmail configuration, but SEARCH command should specify character set if using non-ascii characters in search string. Otherwise Dovecot will just try to search them from the mails without any charset conversions. So correct way would have been something like: SEARCH CHARSET cyrillic ALL SUBJECT {10} Maybe someone in this list knows more about Squirrelmail..

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[Dovecot] Question about acls
by Stian Jordet 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, Is it possible to have a maildir-folder with an acl letter "i", but not "r"? I mean, the folder always seems empty for the user, but he can copy mail there? (which of course might be readable for another user..) Regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] dovecot, search and i18n
by Alex Povolotsky 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hello! Does dovecot support i18n'd search? Alex.

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[Dovecot] Shared Folder's, Separate Index's, not 'Working'
by Timothy White 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Looking back through the mail, I found the following from March --- On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:15 +0000, Mark Lidstone wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if the above was possible. I know that the "seen" > flag is stored in the filename, but was wondering if anyone knew of a > way to separate it out? I know this would strictly-speaking break > maildir compatibility, but it would be extremely useful for shared > folders. The way this worked at one point was by making each user have separate index file for the mailbox, then keeping the \Seen flag only inside that index file and ignoring the maildir's seen flag completely. Then I rewrote the maildir syncing code and this part was dropped out. Probably wouldn't be too difficult to make it work again.. Yea, looks like it wasn't. Works now in CVS. --- I'm trying to do a similar thing now, but without 100% luck. I have the following namespaces defined namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/scouts/public:CONTROL=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/public/control:INDEX=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/public/index hidden = no } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Official/ location = maildir:/var/mail/scouts/official::INDEX=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/official/index hidden = no } Even though I have separate INDEX's for the second public namespace, the SEEN flag doesn't seem to be picked up from the users' INDEX's. BUT, for the first namespace, when I have CONTROL defined as well, it IS picked up! The reason I don't want CONTROL defined for the second name space, is I discovered that I can force all users on the system, to be subscribed to mailboxes in the 'Official' name space, if I keep CONTROL with the mailbox, instead of separate, and ensure that once I have set up the subscriptions file, I ensure it can't be changed. The counter side of this 'subscriptions' hack, is that I can't do hidden=yes. Ideally, I want a method of forcing a subscription on every user, that they can't change, but still preserving the SEEN flag. The closest I have come to, is, separate CONTROL, INDEX, and hidden=yes. This requires though, that I use the SquirrelMail forced subscriptions extension, which I've not yet tested. The other idea I had, was a method for having subscriptions come out of a database, seeing as I already have a large block of user data in the SQL database, and if I could have subscriptions in there as well, that would be a huge bonus! (Even better if it was only for the namespaces I wanted, cause I don't need to put each users personal subscriptions in a database). Anyway, it's mainly ideas, other than the SEEN flag issue I described above. Hope someone has ideas for getting it to work. Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] About RH patches and 1.0beta8
by Oliver Schulze L. 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I just started building dovecot 1.0beta8 on RHEL4.3 based on atrpm.net .spec file. I noted that 3 patches are included in the .src.rpm and wanted to discuss them. I'm interested in knowing if those patches are relevant to all dovecot users and if they can be applied to dovecot. From: http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.src.rpm patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-mkcert-permissions.patch calls 'chown root.root', is good to have the certs owned by root? patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-pam-setcred.patch is dissables the call to pam_setcred() because there is no other call to pam_setcred() in order to release the resources patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-pam-tty.patch it add a call to pam_set_item() I don't to attach the patches to the list, but I can if anyone could not extract them from the .src.rpm Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] "GETQUOTA" Working?
by richs＠whidbey.net 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Using beta9, I've tried "quota = dirsize:storage=10240" and "quota = maildir:storage=10240", but I can't seem to get the IMAP commands to respond: * OK Dovecot ready. a LOGIN user pass a OK Logged in. b CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS b OK Capability completed. c GETQUOTAROOT INBOX c BAD Error in IMAP command GETQUOTAROOT: Unknown command. d GETQUOTA "" d BAD Error in IMAP command GETQUOTA: Unknown command. e LOGOUT * BYE Logging out e OK Logout completed. (Per http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2087.html) Apparently "QUOTA" isn't being advertised, and none of the commands are accepted. Any ideas? Rich

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta9 released
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Fixes a lot of bugs. The next release will be the first "release candidate" instead of a beta. * PAM: Don't call pam_setcred() unless setcred=yes PAM passdb argument was given. * Moved around settings in dovecot-example.conf to be in more logical groups. + Local delivery agent (deliver binary) works again. + LDAP: Added support for SASL binding. Patch by Geert Jansen + ssl_verify_client_cert: Check CRLs. If auth_verbose=yes, log invalid sent certificates. If verbose_ssl=yes, log even the valid certificates. When using the username from the certificate, use CommonName. Based on patch by HenkJan Wolthuis + PAM: Set PAM_TTY which is needed by some PAM plugins + dovecot --exec-mail ext <binary path> can now be used to start binaries which want dovecot.conf to be read, for example the convert-tool. - Expunging needed to be done twice if client used STORE +FLAGS.SILENT command to set the \Deleted flags - Added sql_escape_string() to lib-sql API and use it instead of normal \-escaping. - ACL plugin fixes - DIGEST-MD5: Trying to use subsequent authentication crashed dovecot-auth. - Fetching BODY when BODYSTRUCTURE was already cached caused the reply to be broken in some cases - Lots of fixes for index file handling - dbox fixes and changes - mbox syncing broke if some extraneous/broken headers were removed (eg. extra X-IMAPbase headers in mails) - Running Dovecot from inetd work now properly with POP3 - Quota plugin fixes for calculating the quota correctly

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[Dovecot] Help! Uidlist files are gone and won't come back; imap keeps coredumping!
by Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Folks - Some time ago as I migrated to dovecot 1.0, I ran into all sorts of problems with file locks, and I tried various solutions. Apparently, in the process, I got a bit careless and removed all my dovecot-uidlist files. They're gone. My understanding, however, is that they should come back, but this doesn't happen. I've been forced to run with index=MEMORY in 1.0 for the entire time I've been using it, but I would really like to get back to a more standard configuration. Yet, anything I do to try and actually use index files, whether (locally) on /var or (via NFS) in /home, I run into problems. The log files say: dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<rvvk40>, method=plain, rip=10.69.75.131, lip=172.16.26.151 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): Effective uid=10019173, gid=21 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): maildir: data=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): maildir: root=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir, index=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir, control=, inbox= dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21207 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21208 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21211 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21212 (imap) killed with signal 11 and a truss says: 29146: execve("/home/mario/tools/SunOS/libexec/dovecot/imap", 0x000407D8, 0x00052850) argc = 1 29146: argv: imap ... 29146: write(1, " * 1 2 4 5 F E T C H".., 2091) = 2091 29146: write(1, " * 1 2 9 5 F E T C H".., 2059) = 2059 29146: write(1, " * 1 3 4 6 F E T C H".., 2056) = 2056 29146: poll(0x000AEC90, 3, 9912) = 1 29146: read(0, " 4 U I D f e t c h ".., 4037) = 173 29146: open64("/home/mario/.mail/Maildir/.Freescale.ATIC.CMOS65/dovecot-uidlist", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT 29146: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0xFF133218 29146: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 29146: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default] 29146: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 29146: *** process killed *** Some background info: dovecot is running only for me, so it runs under my UID, from my home directory. % tools/SunOS/sbin/dovecot --version 1.0.beta8 % tools/SunOS/sbin/dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll openssl Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static % uname -a SunOS velocity 5.8 Generic_117350-06 sun4u sparc What do I have to do to recreate the uidlist files? Mario -- I don't need a name; my number's just fine. | Mario.Nigrovic(a)freescale.com It's nobody else's -- just mine, all mine. | 480-413-3578 Internal Use Only

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[Dovecot] beta8 + mbox + Thunderbird
by Thomas Hummel 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm still using beta8 (on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE). Recently I put a co-worker who's using Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) on it and he seemed to have lost some messages (which were delivered on the spool since seen on procmail logfile). I switched him on another server to play safe and tried to test it myself but failed to reproduce the issue. I myself use mutt on a daily basis with no problem with that beta8. Did someone experienced the same (I read about some similar issue on the list but with maildir format - I'm using mbox) ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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RE: [Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem
by Xavier Romero 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Ok, patched and working perfectly !! Thank you!!! Xavier Romero. -----Mensaje original----- De: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] En nombre de Timo Sirainen Enviado el: lunes, 19 de junio de 2006 12:49 Para: Xavier Romero CC: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Asunto: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 12:43 +0200, Xavier Romero wrote: > But it seems that the way Exchange talks to our server, dovecot gets > confused, and password is used instead username for user lookups, so > authentication fails. Fixed in next version, or use a patch: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-June/005765.html

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