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RE: [Dovecot] Purge / Delete Problem using IMAP
by A Ve 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 23:46 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, A Ve wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am using dovecot 0.99.14 RPM on a Fedore Core 4 Server. > > > Everything was running fine for weeks (IMAP), and 2 days ago I was > > > not able to delete/purge any Mail in INBOX. I am > > > using Outlook 2003 as an IMAP-Client. > > > > Okay, this is *really* weird. I've been having the same > > problem here. Now I'm beginning to suspect that it might be > > distro-specific. > > Confirmed. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167043 Right. :-| Fixed it disableing selinux totally and removing it ! This is not the first time, that selinux is disturbing a daemon to work (http, postfix ...) Thanks for hint, this solved my problem ... Regards, AVE.

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[Dovecot] Purge / Delete Problem using IMAP
by A Ve 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Hi, I am using dovecot 0.99.14 RPM on a Fedore Core 4 Server. Everything was running fine for weeks (IMAP), and 2 days ago I was not able to delete/purge any Mail in INBOX. I am using Outlook 2003 as an IMAP-Client. I tried to delete/purge the Inbox with other mail-clients (Mozilla Thunderbird, Mulberry) too, same effect: I can read mail, I can copy them by drag-n-drop to a local Client-Folder (eg: Outlook) , but I can delete them. Strange enough, the mails are marked as read, but when I login again, all Mail are marked as new/unread ! When I log to the node, and start mutt (which is using the spool-file /var/spool/mail/username), then I am able to read-n-delete all Mails... The File Permisson of the File: 755, Owner: Username, Group: Mail. Did I miss something ? How can this stop working from one day to another ? I seems to me, like the INBOX is not writable to me ... From the UNIX Side, it is ... :-/ Any Comment/Feedback would be helpfull. This is really strange. Regards, AVE.

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[Dovecot] string expansion *in* dovecot config?
by OpenMacNews 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

hi all, is it possible to define/use 'MACROS' (string expansion, ala Exim) in dovecot's config file? specifically, e.g. -- rather than: login_executable = /some/crazy/path/to/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login i'd LIKE to do something like MY_PATH = /some/crazy/path/to login_executable = MY_PATH/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login i'm reading the wiki docs, and it's just not obvious to me ... thanks! richard

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[Dovecot] Weird internaldate behavior with 1.0-test80 and mbox folder
by Jon Roma 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Has anyone else encountered weird date behavior with mbox-style folders? I am nearly ready to bite the bullet and convert my UW imap hierarchy (which is in mbx format) to Dovecot. In so doing, I need to convert each UW-specific mbx-format mailboxes to the more portable mbox format, which Dovecot can read. (This is done with the 'mbxcvt' utility that's part of UW.) I am then planning to copy those mbox-format folders into a staging area in a directory I've defined to Dovecot as a mbox-format namespace. The plan was then to use my normal GUI to reorganize my old data and copy it into proper maildir folders into Dovecot's default namespace. Since I'm naturally paranoid, I did a dry run of a couple folders first and discovered a rather strange anomaly -- all the mail in the converted folder is displayed by Dovecot with a timestamp exactly 200 minutes (3 hours 20 minutes) into the future! Investigating this via telneting to the respective IMAP ports shows that UW imapd shows the correct timestamp both in the original mbx-format folder and the converted mbox-format folder -- so it appears that Dovecot is skewing the time. This doesn't look like a timezone issue since 200 minutes ahead from CST6CDT would be a pretty strange timezone -- not even Newfoundland has this odd a TZ value! :) (For the curious, Newfoundland is a Canadian province whose time zone is TZ=NST3:30NDT, therefore being a half-hour "off" from the rest of North America.) I have distilled this into a degenerate case of a single folder with a single message and can reproduce. As mentioned, I am running 1.0-test80. My platform is AIX 5.1. I created the test by sending a message to myself using date | mail -s "Test at $(date)" roma(a)uiuc.edu and using my MUA (Mulberry) to file it into the test folder, which defaults to mbx format in UW's namespace. Here's what UW shows when I select/fetch the "original" message: * namespace * NAMESPACE (("" "/")("#mhinbox" NIL)("#mh/" "/")) (("~" "/")) (("#shared/" "/")("#ftp/" "/")("#news." ".")("#public/" "/")) * OK NAMESPACE completed * select "~/Test" * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1124811965] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 3] Predicted next UID * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags * OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed * fetch 1 internaldate * 1 FETCH (INTERNALDATE "23-Aug-2005 11:16:37 -0500") * OK FETCH completed * fetch 1 envelope * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500" "Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005" (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) ((NIL NIL "roma" "uiuc.edu")) NIL NIL NIL "<200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu>")) * OK FETCH completed Next I use the UW 'mbxcvt' to convert the folder, leaving it in mbox format in a different folder (~/Test-mbox) -- still in UW's namespace. Here's what the telnet connection shows: * namespace * NAMESPACE (("" "/")("#mhinbox" NIL)("#mh/" "/")) (("~" "/")) (("#shared/" "/")("#ftp/" "/")("#news." ".")("#public/" "/")) * OK NAMESPACE completed * select "~/Test-mbox" * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1124813840] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags * OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed * fetch 1 internaldate * 1 FETCH (INTERNALDATE "23-Aug-2005 11:16:37 -0500") * OK FETCH completed * fetch 1 envelope * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500" "Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005" (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) ((NIL NIL "roma" "uiuc.edu")) NIL NIL NIL "<200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu>")) * OK FETCH completed Now, copying the same mbox-format folder into dovecot's namespace and telneting to my Dovecot port gives the following: * namespace * NAMESPACE (("" ".")("Stage/" "/")) NIL NIL * OK Namespace completed. * select "Stage/Test" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1124815188] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID * OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * fetch 1 internaldate * 1 FETCH (INTERNALDATE "23-Aug-2005 14:36:37 -0500") * OK Fetch completed. * fetch 1 envelope * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500" "Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005" (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) ((NIL NIL "roma" "uiuc.edu")) NIL NIL NIL "<200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu>")) * OK Fetch completed. Notice the "internaldate" response. Dovecot reports the correct time zone, but the internaldate value is 200 minutes ahead of what it should be!!! This is an interesting mystery; I seem to be living three hours and 20 minutes in the future. I've attached the entire contents of the mbox-style mailbox that Dovecot misinterprets. Thanks in advance. >From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Aug 23 11:39:48 2005Date: 23 Aug 2005 11:39:48 -0500 From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 1124815188 0000000001 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. >From roma(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu Tue Aug 23 11:16:37 2005 -0500 Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: Received: via dmail-4.1(10) for +INBOX; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:37 -0500 (CDT) Return-Path: <roma(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> Received: from zippy.cso.uiuc.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cso.uiuc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7NGGUCQ027294 for <roma(a)uiuc.edu>; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500 Received: (from roma@localhost) by zippy.cso.uiuc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j7NGGUrc022618 for roma(a)uiuc.edu; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500 From: Jon Roma <roma(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> Message-Id: <200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> To: roma(a)uiuc.edu Subject: Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on zippy.cso.uiuc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=2.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-UID: 1 Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Phillip Needham 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

I am trying to get away from courier imap because it is flaky the way it uses FAM (or gamin in my case), and the developers seem to have a chip on their collective shoulder, and it is too complex. I found dovecot because it is ships with CentOS 4 (ie Red Hat Enterprise 4). It looks like just what I need: simple, fast. But I can't use it! I can't authenticate. If any of these statements were untrue, I would use it happily: o it doesn't support simple bind authentication against LDAP o I don't want to make passwords readable, and this version (0.99.14) doesn't support SSHA anyway o it won't talk to the saslauthd I already have configured o I can't find how to implement a new auth module for dovecot I am wondering why, in the quest to fill a niche with a simple, fast, secure IMAP server, the authors felt the need to re-implement a robust and well-tested infrastructure (saslauthd) with a less-featureful and untested one?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot imap with Postfix and using Thunderbird as client
by Ben Ware 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi, I just recently installed dovecot, and I am having the following problem: If I send an email to my account on this new machine, I can log in via SSH and use the unix mail command, and instantly my email is visible. If I turn on Thunderbird, it will show my new message. If Thunderbird was already on and had already checked the mailbox, even if I click on get new mail for that specific mailbox, the new mail does not show up until I restart thunderbird. Is there something that I have set wrong in the config files that is preventing the IMAP part of dovecot from refreshing the messages quickly for me to see? I dont see anything in the log files at all except for it showing me logging in. Thanks, Ben

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[Dovecot] 'Bind'-method authentication for LDAP
by Phillip Needham 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Has there been any thought given to implementing authentication via an LDAP 'bind', rather than by a password lookup and hash comparison? doing a bind would obviate the need to make the passwords readable by the dovecot process and would lend itself to improved security. Phillip Needham Principal, iBright Consulting phillip(a)ibright.net 614-783-3301

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[Dovecot] another assert/core with 1.0alpha1
by Jeff A. Earickson 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Same as reported before: Assert: IMAP(user): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 442 (mbox_sync_update_header_from): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid == 0 || ctx->mail.uid_broken || ctx->mail.uid == mail->uid) Setup: 1.0alpha1 on Solaris 9, built with gcc 4.0.1 Debug output of the core is attached. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Dovecot version for production server
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hi! What version of dovecot I can secure install in production server? -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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Re: [Dovecot] Oddities with Debian unstable dovecot
by Lisandro Grullon 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

whaooo that is interesting, Thank you so much for the explanation. I guess my choice now is to go with maildir as Blairpoint out because I am running in single host mode. Probably in the future I will run a big enough enviroment as a cluster data center them I will op for mbox. Thank you again Blair and Tomi for educating me in the topic.Lisandro ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> Tomi Hakala <tomi.hakala(a)clinet.fi> 08/31/05 3:08 PM >>> Lisandro Grullon wrote: > What method for mail boxes are you guys using mbox or maildir and which one > would you recommend? Thanks. I'd say it depends, I'm working with clustered filesystems in SAN environments where mbox is significantly faster than maildir since single mbox file generates much less overhead in form of distributed file locking accross cluster nodes. On single host systems with good file system I'd probably go with maildir. Maybe someday I'll manage to do some benchmarking between mbox and maildir with Dovecot. -- Tomi Hakala

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Re: [Dovecot] Oddities with Debian unstable dovecot
by Lisandro Grullon 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

What method for mail boxes are you guys using mbox or maildir and which one would you recommend? Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> Blair Zajac <blair(a)orcaware.com> 08/31/05 12:43 PM >>> Tomi Hakala wrote: > Blair Zajac wrote: > >>dovecot: Aug 30 13:14:06 Error: IMAP(ashley): Corrupted index cache file >>/home/ashley/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file > > > Please try lastest CVS version, there are fixes for indexing > code which resolves this problem. > Thanks. I'll give that a shot. Regards, Blair

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Re: [Dovecot] Oddities with Debian unstable dovecot
by Blair Zajac 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Lisandro Grullon wrote: > What method for mail boxes are you guys using mbox or maildir and which one would you recommend? Thanks. I use maildir because it stores each message in a separate file. So this gets me: 1) Daily backups of a ~/Maildir are much smaller than a large mbox because most files don't change, while a single change to a large mbox file will require the entire mbox to be backed up. 2) Moving emails from folder to folder is much faster, as it's moving a single file and you don't have to delete an email from a middle of a mbox file. I have a 5 year old 450 Mhz Dell that easily and quickly manages over 2 Gbytes of email for several users. Regards, Blair

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[Dovecot] Oddities with Debian unstable dovecot
by Blair Zajac 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hello, I'm running an Debian etch box with unstable and ever since the last upgrade to dovecot, I've seen odd things. At times, I would see emails would go missing from the Inbox or other folders, and I couldn't move emails that were moved from the Inbox to another folder back into the Inbox. These have seen gone away since I removed all dovecot.* files and .index* files from my Maildir's and let Dovecot regenerate them as needed. The most current thing are these errors: dovecot: Aug 30 11:38:33 Error: IMAP(blair): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: l ine 183 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (max_file_offset == ( uoff_t)-1 || max_file_offset <= file->sync_offset) dovecot: Aug 30 13:05:21 Info: imap-login: Login: ashley [127.0.0.1] dovecot: Aug 30 13:14:06 Error: IMAP(ashley): Corrupted index cache file /home/ashley/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file Anything I can do to help here? I don't have a core file, even though I have 'mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes'. The other odd thing I noticed is after running /etc/init.d/dovecot stop, I would have several imap processes left over in my uid. They don't do much: # strace -p 5014 Process 5014 attached - interrupt to quit gettimeofday({1125460345, 997748}, {420, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460345, 998465}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 2, 410) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 410768}, {420, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 410890}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 2, 0) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 411940}, {420, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 412551}, NULL) = 0 However, lsof shows that the file descriptor 8 is a pipe back to fd 9 in the same process. Why would poll() be polling it's own file descriptor? Is this normal? Is this process waiting to do a fork later on and communicate with a child? # lsof -p 5014 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME imap 5014 blair cwd DIR 8,4 4096 6619138 /home/blair imap 5014 blair rtd DIR 8,4 4096 2 / imap 5014 blair txt REG 8,4 420168 4572306 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap imap 5014 blair mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 1178624 6636723 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 20148 6636742 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 1265136 6996193 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 9592 6996195 /lib/tls/libdl-2.3.5.so imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 21568 6636721 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.log imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 88924 6995972 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so imap 5014 blair 0u IPv4 160155 TCP localhost.localdomain:imap2->localhost.localdomain:47852 (ESTABLISHED) imap 5014 blair 1u IPv4 160155 TCP localhost.localdomain:imap2->localhost.localdomain:47852 (ESTABLISHED) imap 5014 blair 2w FIFO 0,5 160165 pipe imap 5014 blair 3r CHR 1,9 16396 /dev/urandom imap 5014 blair 4u REG 8,4 1178624 6636723 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache imap 5014 blair 5r DIR 8,4 77824 6930433 /home/blair/Maildir/new imap 5014 blair 6r DIR 8,4 118784 6900850 /home/blair/Maildir/cur imap 5014 blair 8r FIFO 0,5 160244 pipe imap 5014 blair 9w FIFO 0,5 160244 pipe imap 5014 blair 10u REG 8,4 20148 6636742 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index imap 5014 blair 11u REG 8,4 21568 6636721 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.log Regards, Blair -- Blair Zajac, Ph.D. <blair(a)orcaware.com> Subversion and Orca training and consulting http://www.orcaware.com/svn/

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[Dovecot] dovecot/pop-before-smtp
by Micah Stevens 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi, This is off-topic I know, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. I'm running postfix 2.2.x, dovecot 0.99, and it's working great, I wanted pop-before-smtp functionality, so I fired up the suggested perl daemon in the dovecot docs.. This seems to work, I ran tests, it was picking up the ip's, putting them in the .db file, and postfix was able to read them. My issue is that it doesn't seem to continue to do this. It only works if I force it with a --reprocess flag. At that point, the latest set of ip's get inserted in the database, and all is well. Any ideas? I did check to make sure the daemon is running, and it is. Thanks! -Micah

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[Dovecot] Dovecot default inbox name?
by Andy Cravens 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

I'm installing dovecot and migrating from mbox to maildir. I've read several articles concerning this process but I can't seem to find the answer to one particular question. What is the default name of the inbox when using maildir format? I need to create this in advance for each user and I don't know what dovecot is expecting for the inbox directory name. -- Andy Cravens

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[Dovecot] Recommended dovecot version
by Diego M. Vadell 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi, I'm running CentOS 4 in a X86_64 server with dovecot. I've been having some (already reported by others) problems. For example, sometimes - randomly - a mbox file wil get a couple of lines at the beggining of the mbox file (/var/spool/mail/user), before the first From line, and dovecot will complain that that file is not a mbox file. Also, neither sylpheed nor thunderbird would get new mail via imap a second time (I have to kill thunderbird, then run it again so it would give me the new mails). But I'm more concerned by the mbox corruption. so I want to upgrade, but to what? 0.99.14? But in www.dovecot.org says that dovecot-1.0 is recommended. But it also says -alpha! (not even beta: alpha). There is also a stable branch, but it's not the recommended one (or is it?). Can anyone point me to a stable version that addresses the mbox corruption issue, or if there isn't such a version, any idea of when it will be ready? Thank you. -- Diego.

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[Dovecot] New imap assertion failure
by Todd Burroughs 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

This is from the CVS version as of Aug. 28. It's the first time I've seen this assertion failure. Prior to this, I was using the CVS version from Aug. 15. dovecot: Aug 30 16:07:52 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1125327213 -> 1125430510) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/mbox dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:13 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1123616948 -> 1125414730) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/Drafts dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:16 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1123616948 -> 1125414730) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/Drafts dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:36 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1122993637 -> 1125403981) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/Tier-2 dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:39 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): file mail-index-view.c: line 596 (mail_index_view_open): assertion failed: (index->map != NULL) dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:40 Error: child 24929 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff548 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00006161 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809af4a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x6161 <Address 0x6161 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809b364 in i_panic ( format=0x80a7fac "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x080874d6 in mail_index_view_open (index=Variable "index" is not available. ) at mail-index-view.c:615 view = Variable "view" is not available. (gdb) frame #9 0x08079ccd in index_storage_mailbox_init (ibox=0x80c78c0, index=0x80c8000, name=0x80bfe80 "Tier-2", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:367 367 ibox->view = mail_index_view_open(index); (gdb) p *index $3 = { dir = 0x80c80a0 "/mailhome/new/s/b/support/.imap/Tier-2", prefix = 0x80c80e8 "dovecot.index", cache = 0x80c68b0, log = 0x80c6788, mode = 384, gid = 4294967295, extension_pool = 0x80c8258, extensions = { buffer = 0x80c8288, element_size = 28}, expunge_handlers = { buffer = 0x80c81c8, element_size = 4}, sync_handlers = { buffer = 0x80c8dc8, element_size = 8}, sync_lost_handlers = { buffer = 0x80c8de8, element_size = 4}, filepath = 0x80c8c70 "/mailhome/new/s/b/support/.imap/Tier-2/dovecot.index", fd = 6, map = 0x0, hdr = 0x0, indexid = 0, lock_type = 2, shared_lock_count = 0, excl_lock_count = 0, lock_id = 14, copy_lock_path = 0x0, dotlock = 0x0, lock_method = MAIL_INDEX_LOCK_FCNTL, sync_log_file_seq = 1, sync_log_file_offset = 24, keywords_pool = 0x80c8460, keywords = {buffer = 0x80c8140, element_size = 4}, keywords_hash = 0x80c8658, keywords_ext_id = 0, last_grow_count = 0, error = 0x0, nodiskspace = 0, index_lock_timeout = 0, opened = 1, log_locked = 0, mmap_disable = 1, mmap_no_write = 0, readonly = 0, fsck = 0, sync_update = 0, mapping = 0}

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot default inbox name?
by Lisandro Grullon 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

This is a very interesting question, I would like to know the answer too. I wish I could help, but I don't know the answer to this question also. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> Andy Cravens <acravens(a)uen.org> 08/30/05 12:30 PM >>> I'm installing dovecot and migrating from mbox to maildir. I've read several articles concerning this process but I can't seem to find the answer to one particular question. What is the default name of the inbox when using maildir format? I need to create this in advance for each user and I don't know what dovecot is expecting for the inbox directory name. -- Andy Cravens

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[Dovecot] Multiple mailbox formats, per-user mailbox format support
by Ragnar Rova 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Hello, I have a setup where each user has different mailbox formats (some use only /var/spool/mail/user) mailbox format, some is stored in mbx format ~/INBOX or ~/mbox and some is stored in maildir format in ~/Mail/ I currently use UW-IMAP to read /var/spool/mail/... and the mbx format mailboxes in ~/INBOX and mutt to read ~/Mail/... (the maildirs in ~/Mail/ are created by procmail rules) Does dovecot make it possible to also read the maildir directories i have in ~/Mail/ without having to reconfigure the delivery/imap system for all users? I know I should migrate to use one consistent mailbox format (thinking about maildir), but to avoid any migration It would be great if dovecot just would be able to read multiple inboxes in different formats differently configured on a per-user basis. I use postfix for delivery/transfer.

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Re: [Dovecot] MySQL user cant log in
by Marvin Stark 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Am Montag, den 29.08.2005, 10:54 -0700 schrieb Micah Stevens: > Is dovecot aware of the password format? i.e. are you storing in > plaintext, and dovecot is expecting md5's? > > -Micah Ah, thanks that was the problem. But now i got a new one. --- start dovecot.conf --- default_mail_env = %h/ --- start dovecot.conf --- --- start log --- Aug 30 16:02:01 vs6020 imap-login: Login: marv [xx.xx.xx.xx] Aug 30 16:02:01 vs6020 imap(marv): Failed to create storage with data: /home/marv/ Aug 30 16:02:01 vs6020 dovecot: child 3792 (imap) returned error 89 --- end log --- What to do? best regards, Marvin Stark

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[Dovecot] quick, quick, slow...
by Jeroen Scheerder 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Hi, I'm (still) evaluating dovecot for a switch from UW in the near future. All the following happens on a Solaris server. Functionally, all is well. However, I see strange phenomena. Normally, dovecot is pretty swift. Every now and then, though, things slow down to a crawl. Everything seems to be working, still, but a few orders of magnitude slower. A copy of an outgoing message (of a few lines) to my Out box, which normally succeeds nearly instantly, suddenly takes over 30 minutes, for example. Obvious things to look for would be conflicting locking strategies. As far as I know, though, my mail delivery agent (procmail) and all mail handling software use dotlocking, fcntl lockf, in that order), as does dovecot. In syslog there's nothing to see, except an occasional SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF messsage, which I can correlate to my service monitoring software (nagios), which checks for the presence of the imaps service. When this happens and I quit my mail agent (Thunderbird), an imap process seems to remain on the server. Killing that does not resolve the extreme slowdown; that persists on consecitive reruns of my mailer. I'm at a loss here. Any hints?

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[Dovecot] Wiki of dovecot.conf file
by Tim Schaefer 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Thanks but that was of absolutely no help. Evidently the 1.0alpha version syntax is completely different from the .99 release. The 1.0 syntax for setting up dovecot.conf uses brackets "{}" for auth and other drastic differences, so most of the documentation is either vacant or out of date. I tried using the syntax used in the Wiki only to have it die. There are NO docs for the 1.0 release to help understand how to make MySQL work with Dovecot. I've hacked my way along and stumbled into some success, but overall I'd have to say there is a bug in the software that is preventing it from connecting. I do not know where else to look or what else to do other than start to hunt again for yet another pop server. I've spent the past week downloading, compiling, and trying to get various POP servers to work, only to have the wheels fall off at one point or another. I'm so fu**ing close to getting Dovecot to work, but may have to walk away from yet another disappointing software product. I might downshift to the .99 release and see if I can get that one to work. But thanks anyway for your desire to help, it prevented me from leaving a note and then pulling the trigger. :-) Tim

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[Dovecot] imaps only, and on a nonstandard port?
by Dan Stromberg 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

I'm trying to get dovecot configured to: 1) Only do imaps 2) Do imaps on port 500 I've tried "ssl_listen = *:500" both globally and in my "protocol imap" section, but neither seems to be working. Is there a way of doing this? Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 28, Issue 61
by Lisandro Grullon 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Can you guys fixed that bug. WE know is a bug in the .c file. 2cents. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca> 08/29/05 7:06 PM >>> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:01:55 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Installation error on "make" > > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 04:34 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: >> /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:332:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" > > Some versions of Solaris 10 want "#define _XPG6" at the beginning of the > mycrypt.c file, but most other versions give error if it's there. Do you > have a final release of Solaris 10 or some pre-release? Maybe I should > put this check to configure if it happens with non-prereleases too.. Oh, yes please. This also happens when compiling on my Solaris 10 box I believe it is an up to date Solaris: > uname -a SunOS zoo 5.10 Generic_118822-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 28, Issue 61
by Joseph Tam 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:01:55 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Installation error on "make" > > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 04:34 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: >> /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:332:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" > > Some versions of Solaris 10 want "#define _XPG6" at the beginning of the > mycrypt.c file, but most other versions give error if it's there. Do you > have a final release of Solaris 10 or some pre-release? Maybe I should > put this check to configure if it happens with non-prereleases too.. Oh, yes please. This also happens when compiling on my Solaris 10 box I believe it is an up to date Solaris: > uname -a SunOS zoo 5.10 Generic_118822-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] Feature Request - wild idea - folders for executing programs
by Marc Perkel 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Timo, I have a wild idea for a feature that is somewhat unusual, would be very powerful, and easy to implement. What I want is ... Special folders that when someone drags a message into them - it pipes the message into a program. The reason I want this is - for example - reporting of spam. Suppose you want everyone to have a spam-missed folder so that if a spam gets through then the user drags it into the spam missed folder. But instead of storing it there it executes a program and pipes the message into it. In this case a learner program for the spam filter. The folder would be "write only" and attempting to read the folder would generally look like it was empty. Setup would look like this: executable-folder spam-missed { command = /usr/bin/sa-learn spam user = spamd group = spamd create_folder = yes accounts = * } The "create_folder" command says to add the folder to the users lists whether or not it is physically there. The folder appears even if there is no real folder. If it is "no" then it only exists if there is a real folder. The "user" and "group" is of course the UID and GID to run the "command" as. The "accounts" determines which accounts are affected. Default is everyone. Other uses is to control blacklists and whitelists. Dragging a message into the blacklist folder runs an executable that adds the sender to a blacklist, or a whitelist, or controls settings etc.

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[Dovecot] Sig11 and some corrupted indexes after 1.0-stable -> 1.0.alpha1
by Ben Beuchler 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

I just upgraded my production box from 1.0-stable to 1.0.alpha1. I've noted some new errors in my dovecot logs: Aug 28 23:23:56 cliff dovecot: IMAP(rsferra): Corrupted index cache file /mail/mcad.edu/rsferra/Maildir/.Sent Items/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Aug 28 23:33:57 cliff dovecot: IMAP(acarr): Corrupted transaction log file /mail/mcad.edu/acarr/Maildir/.Deleted Messages/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header I'm not too worried about those, as I'm hoping they'll go away once all the indexes have been rebuilt. However, these are a bit more disconcerting: Aug 29 09:07:35 cliff dovecot: child 22484 (imap) killed with signal 11 Aug 29 09:07:36 cliff dovecot: child 22488 (imap) killed with signal 11 I don't see any other errors in the logs around those messages. Platform: Gentoo 2005.1, 2.6.10 SMP kernel, mail stored on XFS file system Any thoughts? -Ben

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[Dovecot] IMAP noticeably slower after 1.0-stable -> 1.0.alpha1
by Ben Beuchler 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Not much else to say... All LDAP interaction is noticeably slower, from logging in to moving messages between folders. Configuration options: ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --with-ldap --disable-ipv6 --without-pam --with-ssl=openssl --without-vpopmail --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot -Ben

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 alpha trouble on OS X
by Lars Skovgaard 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi all! I've just upgraded dovecot from 0.99 to 1.0 alpha, and it seems to be working perfectly except for a strange problem with one of my imap- users Inbox. Every folder is accessible, including the Inbox. The inbox currently contains five mails. With at least three of these, when they are attempted moved, dovecot crashes immediately with the message "Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 12345 name: imap". The destination folder seems to be of no importance. I can copy or move these mails from the command-line, but not from the mail-client. I can, however, open them and read them from the Inbox using Apple Mail or SquirrelMail, as well as from the command- line. I've checked the privileges, and the mails belong to the user and have the appropriate rw-privileges. Any new incoming mail seems to be accessible as expected, and can be moved as desired. I apologize if this has already been discussed, but I've searched the archives without finding anything. Best regards Lars Skovgaard

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/Active Directory/KRB client (OT)
by Lisandro Grullon 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Interesting, Thanks for sharing the info. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick(a)colby.edu> 08/29/05 9:59 AM >>> Gang, For those who asked about making a Solaris system a Kerberos client to Active Directory, the magic document to have is: http://www.connectathon.org/seam1.0/files/c0101.htm See the section "How to Configure a SEAM Client Using a Windows 2000 KDC". SEAM was Sun's Kerberos client stuff in Solaris 8; it is just there as part of Solaris 9 and 10. These instructions apply if one is using Solaris 9, 10, or a Windows 2003 KDC. The instructions probably give insight for other UNIX versions. The hard part is configuring the pam.conf file, and there are significant differences between Solaris 9 and 10. For dovecot, I use the "other" service, in Solaris 9 pam.conf looks like: other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 debug other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 try_first_pass debug other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other session optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other password required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 For Solaris 10, it looks like: other auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 debug other auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1 debug other auth sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_auth.so.1 debug other account requisite pam_roles.so.1 debug other account required pam_unix_account.so.1 debug other account required pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required pam_unix_session.so.1 debug other password required pam_dhkeys.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_check.so.1 other password sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 other password required pam_authtok_store.so.1 I hope this helps. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] dovecot/Active Directory/KRB client (OT)
by Jeff A. Earickson 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Gang, For those who asked about making a Solaris system a Kerberos client to Active Directory, the magic document to have is: http://www.connectathon.org/seam1.0/files/c0101.htm See the section "How to Configure a SEAM Client Using a Windows 2000 KDC". SEAM was Sun's Kerberos client stuff in Solaris 8; it is just there as part of Solaris 9 and 10. These instructions apply if one is using Solaris 9, 10, or a Windows 2003 KDC. The instructions probably give insight for other UNIX versions. The hard part is configuring the pam.conf file, and there are significant differences between Solaris 9 and 10. For dovecot, I use the "other" service, in Solaris 9 pam.conf looks like: other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 debug other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 try_first_pass debug other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other session optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other password required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 For Solaris 10, it looks like: other auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 debug other auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1 debug other auth sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_auth.so.1 debug other account requisite pam_roles.so.1 debug other account required pam_unix_account.so.1 debug other account required pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required pam_unix_session.so.1 debug other password required pam_dhkeys.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_check.so.1 other password sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 other password required pam_authtok_store.so.1 I hope this helps. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] MySQL user cant log in
by Marvin Stark 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi, I configured dovecot IMAP for MySQL authentification. --- start dovecot.conf --- auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf --- end dovecot.conf --- --- start dovecot-mysql.conf --- db_host = localhost db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock db = users db_user = users db_passwd = xxx db_client_flags = 0 password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%n' AND active = 'Y' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' --- end dovecot-mysql.conf -- /var/log/mail.log looks fine: --- start mail.log --- Aug 29 14:40:43 vs6020 dovecot: Dovecot starting up Aug 29 14:40:44 vs6020 dovecot-auth: MySQL: connected to localhost --- end mail.log --- But if i try to log in authentification failed. I added the user test to the database and set the user test in my mail client(evolution) I dont know what it could be.. because connecting to mysql worked fine... best regards, Marvin Stark

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[Dovecot] Running pop3 on more than one port
by Andrew Gargan 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi All This is possibly a silly question but after reading some of the docs and hunting a bit I could not find an answer. I need to run my pop3 service on both the standard 110 port and another (not really sure which yet) port. My ISP is doing shaping on port 110 destined traffic causing a nightmare with some of my machines pulling only some of their mail then crashing (and no its not anything else it is the ISP). How do I get pop3 of dovecot to bind to two ports? Regards Andrew Gargan Developer Interface Media (PTY) Ltd. Tel: 011 507 3003

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[Dovecot] mail directory error solved!
by Micah Stevens 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi, I figured out my issue, in my database query for the mail dir, I was grabbing the home column instead of the mail column. Once I changed the name of the column returned it started working. Currently my queries are like such: password_query = SELECT `passwd` FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' and user_query = SELECT concat('/usr/local/virtual/',maildir, '.INBOX') as mail, 101 as uid, 103 as gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' My question now is currently I'm saving mail like this: mailroot/domain/user/.INBOX I assume I should be able to save it as: mailroot/domain/user/ the .INBOX is superfluous, is that correct, or will imap want to make directories at the same level at inbox? Thanks, -Micah

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[Dovecot] Increase logging?
by Micah Stevens 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Is there a way to increase the log level of the dovecot logs? I'm having a real hard time getting an worthwhile information out of the logs. It would be nice if it would display more of the actions it's taking. Thanks, -Micah

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[Dovecot] Success: MySQL Works on 0.99 But Not 1.0alpha
by Tim Schaefer 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Great news! yay! I downshifted to dovecot 0.99-14 and pop server is working! Finally a pop-server and postfix and all! And no Courier! or Qmail! Whatever changed in the 1.0 release regarding MySQL is broken, and is working in the .99-14 release. I can finally use my mail server! :-) I'll keep an eye out for the 1.x stable release, hopefully it will have MySQL support working. Maybe by then I'll be brave enough to get IMAP working and maybe even ( gulp ) LDAP. Good Luck to all of you! Timo go go go ! Tim

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[Dovecot] Authenticate user thru PAM
by Adrian Mak 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db. SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db. I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd, shadow, vpopmail, etc and in my case it is mysql. Right ?

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[Dovecot] Master Password
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I want to set up a Master Password that will authenticate to any account. How would I do that? (Don't need to hear about why I shouldn't so don't waste my time replying with a security lecture)

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[Dovecot] mbox of list archives?
by Ted Kaczmarek 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Is their an mbox kicking around somewhere of all the list archives? Ted

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[Dovecot] per user quota with lda
by Renzetti Federico 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi List Anybody could tell me how to set per-user quota with dovecot-lda? Thank in advance.

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[Dovecot] Multiple Mail Environments?
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

The default_mail_env is very powerful, but .... If you have multiple databases wouldn't it make sense to have a separate mail environment for each database? For example: userdb passwd { default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } # Linuxconf passwd-like file with specified location userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d default_mail_env = mbox:/vhome/%d/home/%n:INBOX=/vhome/%d/home/%n/INBOX:INDEX=/nobackup/imap-cache/%d-%n } Is this possible? If not - perhaps it should be? -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Installation error on "make"
by Lisandro Grullon 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I am not sure what the problem is. I try ./configure as the intallation point out;however, when I try make I am getting the bellow error. PS. I am running Solaris 10 X86, GNU gcc. 1. [04:05:24][root@www:~/dovecot-1.0.alpha1]$ make 2. make all-recursive 3. Making all in src 4. Making all in lib 5. Making all in lib-sql 6. Making all in lib-ntlm 7. Making all in lib-settings 8. Making all in lib-charset 9. Making all in lib-mail 10. Making all in lib-imap 11. Making all in lib-index 12. Making all in lib-storage 13. Making all in index 14. Making all in maildir 15. Making all in mbox 16. Making all in subscription-file 17. Making all in register 18. make all-am 19. Making all in lib-auth 20. Making all in auth 21. if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-sql -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ntlm -DAUTH_MODULE_DIR=\""/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth"\" -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/usr/local/libexec/dovecot"\" -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mycrypt.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" -c -o mycrypt.o mycrypt.c; \ 22. then mv -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" ".deps/mycrypt.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo"; exit 1; fi 23. In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:18, 24. from mycrypt.c:5: 25. /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:332:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" 26. *** Error code 1 27. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `mycrypt.o' 28. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1/src/auth 29. *** Error code 1 30. The following command caused the error: 31. failcom='exit 1'; \ 32. for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ 33. case $f in \ 34. *=* | --[!k]*);; \ 35. *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ 36. esac; \ 37. done; \ 38. dot_seen=no; \ 39. target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ 40. list='lib lib-sql lib-ntlm lib-settings lib-charset lib-mail lib-imap lib-index lib-storage lib-auth auth master login-common imap-login imap pop3-login pop3 deliver util'; for subdir in $list; do \ 41. echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ 42. if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ 43. dot_seen=yes; \ 44. local_target="$target-am"; \ 45. else \ 46. local_target="$target"; \ 47. fi; \ 48. (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ 49. || eval $failcom; \ 50. done; \ 51. if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ 52. make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ 53. fi; test -z "$fail" 54. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' 55. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1/src 56. *** Error code 1 57. The following command caused the error: 58. failcom='exit 1'; \ 59. for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ 60. case $f in \ 61. *=* | --[!k]*);; \ 62. *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ 63. esac; \ 64. done; \ 65. dot_seen=no; \ 66. target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ 67. list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ 68. echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ 69. if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ 70. dot_seen=yes; \ 71. local_target="$target-am"; \ 72. else \ 73. local_target="$target"; \ 74. fi; \ 75. (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ 76. || eval $failcom; \ 77. done; \ 78. if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ 79. make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ 80. fi; test -z "$fail" 81. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' 82. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1 83. *** Error code 1 84. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' 85. [04:05:28][root@www:~/dovecot-1.0.alpha1]$ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.". <Albert Einstein>

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[Dovecot] Authentication with encrypted passwords
by Sebastjan Trepca 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hello, I have a postgresql database which contains users that will access dovecot, but their passwords are hashed and I don't have them in plain text. I was reading documentation that you can add tell dovecot which password scheme should it use. For example: password_query = "select '{MD5}'||password from users where userid=%u" Which would mean that dovecot will hash the password with MD5 from client and match it with the one in database. Did I understand this correctly ? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Namespace Feature
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I've never used namespaces and don't quite know what they do. If I add a namespace then do things like shared folders magically appear to users? Also - I wonder if this is possible. I'd like to create a write only shared folder. I know this is unusual but I have a reason. I'd like to have a folder that people can drag spam into to report missed spam. I want to write only so people aren't reading each other's spam. I have a bot that comes by and reads this to train the bayesian filter. Right now I have to create these folders individually. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Postfix/Dovecot
by Micah Stevens 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, I searched through the maillist archives and the docs, but didn't find anything that directly addresses my question, so here goes if anyone has some time to address it. I'm running a redhat el3 server, with Postfix as the MTA, and I'd like to setup Dovecot to provide IMAP/POP3 services. Postfix uses MySQL lookups to do mailbox lookups, and I configured dovecot to do the same thing. The mail is delivered to /usr/local/virtual/<domainname>/<end.address>/ in maildir format by Postfix. This is working fine. I've setup dovecot, and set it do user auth and user lookups to MySQL. This seems to be working fine as I get no mysql errors from the queries, and my login process (to IMAP from localhost) is fine. Here's a typical scenario: telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.domain (127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1login micah(a)9250x.com "rigid2" 1 OK Logged in. 2 select INBOX 2 NO If I look in the directory for micah(a)9250x.com I find: # ls cur new tmp The permissions are 777 for now to eliminate that possibility. The dovecot log file lists: imap-login: Aug 28 12:27:11 Info: Login: micah(a)9250x.com [127.0.0.1<http://127.0.0.1> ] each time I log in, and nothing after that indicating why it's not seeing any mail. Why isn't it seeing any mail? Do I need to make an Inbox directory and tell postfix to deliver there? From reading the docs, having the delivery into the main maildir directory should be okay, but I might be mis-reading. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.. Thank you, -Micah

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[Dovecot] thanks for changing the name of the alpha tarfile!
by Joakim Verona 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Its much easier to build RPM:s now, thanks :) -- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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[Dovecot] Permission denied changing to mail directory
by Chris Hogan 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail directories to be /mail/mail/%d/%n When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further. Its very odd because (a) it was working up until 16:50 on Thursday & (b) the directories now have 777 access. Each user is (at present) a separate unix user & the directories are owned by root & have a file group of mail. I would have thought that the 777 access would have been enough. I don't know what we did on Thursday evening, but any ideas about how to fix the permissions problem? Chris

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication
by Dave Smith 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

First off, sorry if this has been asked before - I have looked, honest. Is it possible to get dovecot to authenticate users against active directory, treating the AD as a plain ldap server? I have this working with cyrus saslauthd. Currentlt I get a long delay (30 seconds or so) then * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. All I get in the maillog is imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [::ffff:127.0.0.1] I am using dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS 4. If anybody has got this to work then please let me know - otherwise I will be forced to use Cyrus........ Cheers Dave Smith

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Delivery Bug
by Marc Perkel 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Ran into an interesting bug in Dovecot delivery. A friend forwards an email to me as an atachment. When I receive it - it comes in as two separate messages. One is the forwarding message which is empty, and the other is the original message that was forwarded but it comes in as if I had got the email directly. If I use exim to deliver the message to the mailbox it works. But when exim pipes the message into dovecot deliver it gats split. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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Re: [Dovecot] Authenticate user thru PAM
by Chris Wakelin 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Adrian Mak wrote: > my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db. > SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db. > > I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file > it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't > > Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd, > shadow, vpopmail, etc and in my case it is mysql. Right ? Yes, at least in 1.0-alpha1/stable, so I guess the same for 0.99. Dovecot can authenticate via mysql directly, of course (but I've never done it, so don't ask me how!) 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

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