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[Dovecot] dovecot - outlook users keep getting locked out of imap
by Anthony Kolasny 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Greetings: My outlook users accessing mail via dovecot's imaps have been consistantly getting locked out of their email. It happens about once a week per outlook user. It appears to happen when the are cliking on emails with attachments. When this happens, there are two imap deamons running for that user. I kill both deamons and things start working again. Squirrelmail, thunderbird and pine users haven't had this issue. I'm running a version of dovecot dated dovecot-stable-20050610. All user accounts have their mail on nfs mount points. The INBOX directory is local to the imap server but we have a smtp server that gets this data via nfs. Below is the dovecot.conf info: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/imaps/certs/dovecot_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/local/imaps/certs/dovecot_key.pem disable_plaintext_auth = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_process_size = 128 login_processes_count = 9 login_max_processes_count = 256 login_max_logging_users = 512 verbose_proctitle = yes mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mmap_disable = no lock_method = fcntl mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_lock_timeout = 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 mbox_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol pop3 { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam userdb = passwd user = root } Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anthony

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[Dovecot] dovecot restart bug?
by Andrew Hutchings 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Using my initd script (no idea of the origin now) to do a restart I randomly get: Jun 28 13:56:05 svr24 dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Jun 28 13:56:05 svr24 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test74 starting up Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: auth(default): net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.23322) failed: No such file or directory Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: child 23322 (auth) returned error 89 It then suddenly starts working again, is this something to do with that new mysql timeout feature? This started happening when I migrated from test72 to test73. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ A-Wing Internet Services - http://www.a-wing.co.uk/ Random quote 111: "It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me." - BILL GATES

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[Dovecot] dovecot problem or not ?
by Mircea Hutanu 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi, I've setup a postfix mailserver with dovecot and postgres database for virtual domains with virtual users, but I have some problems getting the accounts to work. I've used instruction from this tutorial : http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql I want users to be able to get their email with imap or pop3, but I didn't manage to solve this problem. The server makes mbox style user accounts, I can send email to them but when I try to read emails from virtual accounts I get the following error : Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 connected Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 10491 Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT '/home/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user(a)foo.org): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user(a)foo.org): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3-login: Login: user(a)foo.org [127.0.0.1] Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 8 disconnected Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot: child 10492 (pop3) returned error 89 The error " mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied" appears because, using mbox, the home for virtual accounts is /home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user, where user is allready the mbox file, to the sistem can't create the directory structure for IMAP settings. What I'm doing wrong ? Did someone else got this problem ? Thanks ! -- ------------------------------ Mircea Hutanu voodookid(a)gmail.com ------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Automating message archiving
by Steffen Kaiser 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hallo, I recently stumple over some discussion about Sieve and what's the advantage to integrate it into the server rather than the LDA. Most of the filtering capabilites local users want to have performed are related to the INBOX or more preciesly the way to filter the message coming in. However, there are few tasks left: 1) Auto-archive old mail. 2) Drop old mail. 3) "Seen" mails are moved from INBOX to somewhere else. To 1) Several people love to store each single mail, but because the system becomes very slow when they open a mailbox with, day, 5000 messages (Mozilla even core dumps sometimes); they archive the mails by year or month, if they got elder than, say, 6 month. I do not want to discuss this habbit, it's like it is and I have the trouble with it. To 2) There is the doing of dropping all messages flagged as SPAM into a specific folder. It would be nice if the does messages are deleted, when they grew get elder. To 3) I don't grasp the idea, but it seems that notebook users want to look, what messages are new, flag and download selected ones; when they connect next time the "old, already seen" ones should be invisible, but still accessable on demand in another folder. Maybe it has to do with that the client sometimes reads the whole IMAP INBOX again, instead just the new ones. I've seen this behaviour with Mozilla myself in conjunction with a variaty of IMAP servers now and then. Those things must be user-configurable, of course ;-), I hoped Sieve would solve this problems, but it doesn't. The MVMF mentioned in the mailing list, doesn't as well. Does somebody has some solution for these tasks, besides to setup a cronjob and hack a webinterface? Is there some Dovecot tool that one can use to manipulate the mail storage? UW-IMAP ships such thing (mailutil), but it does not support Maildir and it would be nice, when the Dovecot extensions are created well. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism
by Orchun Kolcu 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi, I just switched (or tried to) from UW-IMAP to dovecot. When I try to login through the telnet client I get: 1 NO Authentication failed and in the log I get: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism If I try to login through the IMAP client (Thunderbird), in the log I get the slightly different: imap-login: Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism Here's the auth setup from the conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam imap userdb = passwd user = root } And here's /etc/pam.d/imap for good measure: auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth The server is a fairly standard Redhat 8 setup. Any idea what's going on? Thanks! -- Orchun Kolcu orchunk(a)fastem.com -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service

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Re: [Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

dovecot and squirrelmail configuration successfull!! The problem was: There were many other options related to ssl,which were enabled, like ssl_cert_file,ssl_parameters_file and so on. i disabled them all, and it's working fine now. Now, only, ssl_disable = no is uncommented. Thank you all. Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] newbie - trying to set up pop3 access for multiple domains
by Andy Green - Green Consulting 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I'm hosting multiple domains, and I'm having problems getting dovecot to play nicely. The only protocol I've got enabled in the conf file is pop3, yet the maillog shows the following entries when I try to authenticate: mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /mail: Permission denied Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/mail/vhosts/<domain name here>/<user name here> returned error 89 Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: [Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

>Only two things I can think of: >1. Dovecot was not configured for imap with ssl (check that >ssl_disable is not set to yes). Also check the protocols statement >that it supports imaps. > >2. Check that you do not have access lists blocking off 993 to your >squirrelmail. This is often encountered if using tcp wrappers and >you're running dovecot through (x)inetd. > >Regards, Neil The ssl_disable is set to no and the protocols statement contains all the four protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s. But i couldn't make out the 2nd point, you suggested.Can you, please, describe it a little more ? Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi all, I am new to dovecot and squirrelmail and I am trying to configure squirrelmail with dovecot as its imap server. When i disable "Secure Imap (TLS)" option (2-A-7) from squirrelmail configure menu, it's working fine. But when i try to enable tls support, squirrelmail is giving the following error: Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to 192.xx.xx.xx:993 in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 445 ERROR Error connecting to IMAP server: tls://192.xx.xx.xx. 111 : Connection refused Go to the login page The port numbers of the imap server are as follows: imap_listen 143 pop3_listen 110 imaps_listen 993 pop3s_listen 995 Squirrelmail and the dovecot imap server are running on different machines, so it is essential to enable tls support. All the machines are running Debian Sarge. Can anyone suggest a solution for the above problem ? Thank you. Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] root login is refused, but....
by Roberto Tagliaferri 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

If i try to connect as root (dovecto 1.0) with wrong password doveco exit with an auth error robyt:~# telnet dns pop3 Trying x.x.x.x Connected to dns. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user root +OK pass [wrong] -ERR Authentication failed. but if the password is correct dovecot exit but with another error: user root +OK pass [correct] -ERR [IN-USE] Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. robyt:~# Why dovecot don't close the connection at user root? With this system i may know the root password.. -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn't use vchkpw properly :(
by Casey Allen Shobe 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hey all, It seems that dovecot does NOT call vchkpw properly when using vpopmail-style authentication, I can only guess that it reads the vpasswd{,.cdb} files directly. This is indicated by the syslog log for the mail facitily which reads: Jun 30 16:51:30 [vpopmail] vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success blah@blah.com:24.17.153.137 Jun 30 17:16:25 [pop3-login] Login: blah(a)blah.com [24.17.153.137] Jun 30 17:47:42 [imap-login] Login: blah(a)blah.com [216.57.201.58] pop3-login and imap-login are dovecot processes - vchkpw is never called or there would also be log entries for it. I've verified this with the vpopmail list, who agree that the problem lies within dovecot. This might not be quite so annoying, but we are using vpopmail compiled with the --enable-learn-passwords option, which will populate the password files with cleartext versions of the passwords where they are missing. Because of dovecot not calling vchkpw, this doesn't work for POP3/IMAP logins, only SMTP (using qmail-smtpd). People don't send mail from every account they poll, and we need to get all of the passwords in cleartext form so that we can complete migration to a PostgreSQL password database which multiple applications will use to authenticate. Are there plans to make dovecot use vchkpw in the normal checkpassword manner? If not, I'd like to request it. We will probably switch back to qmail-pop3d and bincimap for the time being to finish collecting passwords if we can't get a quick fix...I think we can do that without much impact. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | http://casey.shobe.info cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | cell 425-443-4653 AIM & Yahoo: SomeLinuxGuy | ICQ: 1494523 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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RE: [Dovecot] LF not found where expected
by Miles Mawyer 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Thanks for the reply. I think I'd found the issue. It seems to be the empty line that is ending up at the top of mail file. I removed that blank line out of one of the mail box files, and it started working without an issue. I'm not sure what is causing the empty line in the mbox file however. Most of my clients use pop3 to download their messages through dovecot. Could this be happening if the client only downloads part of their messages? Pretty easy for me to straighten out, but I didn't know if this was a bug that needed to be addressed. ... Miles Mawyer -=- Webmaster . Centralva.net ... ... mmawyer(a)rosecomputers.com ... ... 434.385.5053 ... -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:52 AM To: Miles Mawyer Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LF not found where expected On 27.6.2005, at 18:45, Miles Mawyer wrote: > pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file > /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected These usually happen because the mbox file has two adjacent From-line, ie: From foo ... From bar ... Message-headers: ... That shouldn't happen normally though. Sounds like something is wrong with how your mails are written. Are all the software that are writing to the mbox using same lock methods? Anyway, 1.0-test/stable versions of Dovecot can handle the adjacent From-lines too without failing.

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[Dovecot] How to lock a user out?
by Kai Wang 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi, We are considering to migrate to Dovecot. We can running uw-imap and have a local path which allow us to lock a user by creating a .lockdir directory in the user home directory and put our warning message to .lockdir/mbox. The locked user can still receive messages in ~/mbox. But can not access any messages except ~/.lockdir/mbox. I wonder if Dovecot has any similar feature which we can use to lock a user out without affecting the mail delivery? Kai Wang University of Calgary

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test74
by Timo Sirainen 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Not much has happened, but the APPEND bugfix is important since it was broken in test73 (at least). Summer makes me tired and lazy. :( I've been trying to get keywords implemented in maildir. Hopefully works soon.. After that I'll create 1.0-stable2 (ugh. any other naming ideas?) branch of the code before merging the new master/config code. - Fixed APPEND .. I hope? At least works much better than before - pop3_uidl_format = %m now doesn't return broken 0 MD5 sums when the MD5 sum wasn't written in indexes for some reason (eg. appended/copied to INBOX with IMAP and trying to access mail with POP3). - Authentication cache wasn't working when Dovecot was used for proxying - Index cache file wasn't keeping track of how much of the file was deleted, so it may not have ever shrinked - Maildir+NFS: Fixed skipping mails when moving files from new/ to cur/ - Maildir: We didn't notice if messages were directly deleted from new/

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[Dovecot] imap corrupted indexes
by Emmett Pate 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I've searched the archives and find a lot of references to corrupted indexes but can't seem to find any solutions. It seems like folks either have the problem or they don't. We recently migrated from a RedHat Linux server to an OpenBSD 3.7 server (both using dovecot). Imap was working flawlessly on the RedHat box but now gives numerous index errors. I then upgraded to dovecot-1.0-test66 compiled from ports - still no luck. Here's an example of the errors: Jun 27 12:02:23 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Corrupted transaction log file /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Keyword record UIDs are broken Jun 27 12:02:24 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Lost transaction log file /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 7 I found references to "disabling indexing" but they don't say how. Would this be a reasonable temporary solution? Any other suggestions? Thanks for your help, Emmett Pate

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[Dovecot] Sudden IMAP problem - UID Errors
by Jamie Heckford 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, We have quite happily been running dovecot with no issues at all for approx. two years now and have had no problem whatsoever. Great work :) BUT (there is always a but!).... yesterday one of our users started complaining that they were having issues with their mail. I checked and although they can still view their IMAP mailbox ok it constantly throws up error messages such as: "The UID of a message changed unexpectedly. This typically indicates a server bug. Your program may not function properly after this. MsgSeqNum 131: Previous UID: 21402, New UID: 21555 Protocol: IMAP" and "Your server has reported a UID which does not comply with the IMAP standard. This typically indicates a server bug. Your program may not function properly after this." This is using Outlook 2003 as the IMAP client, and is only affecting a single user. Server is dovecot-0.99.14 running on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #1: Thu Apr 15 10:00:08 GMT 2004 Anybody seen this before or have any suggestions? Also is there a way I can make the logging more verbose as I only get info on date/user/ip when they login. I did see a --raw-log or similar compile flag, is this whats needed? I suspect this is Outlook being stupid and not dovecot though. Any help would be greatly received. Many thanks! -- Jamie Heckford Network Manager Trident Microsystems Ltd. t: +44(0)1737-780790 f: +44(0)1737-771908 w: http://www.trident-uk.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] UID confusion
by Andrew Hutchings 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, 2 or 3 customers have reported that they are having problems downloading their mail via. POP3. I have attached the rawlogs of their transactions and the UID list at the time. Is this because I am using an incompatible UID format or is something else at fault? Deleting the UID list and indexes fixes the problem. I am using Test72. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ A-Wing Internet Services - http://www.a-wing.co.uk/ Random quote 148: "We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993" - Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) STAT UIDL DELE 12 DELE 13 DELE 14 DELE 15 DELE 16 DELE 17 DELE 18 DELE 19 DELE 20 DELE 21 DELE 22 DELE 23 DELE 24 DELE 25 DELE 26 DELE 27 DELE 28 DELE 29 DELE 30 DELE 31 DELE 32 DELE 33 DELE 34 DELE 12 DELE 31 DELE 20 DELE 14 DELE 32 DELE 19 DELE 21 DELE 33 DELE 23 DELE 28 DELE 22 DELE 34 DELE 27 DELE 30 DELE 24 DELE 18 DELE 17 DELE 29 DELE 26 DELE 25 DELE 15 +OK 37 3133628 +OK 1 1102086912.6586 2 1102086912.6604 3 1102086912.6606 4 1102086912.6607 5 1102086912.6613 6 1102086912.6614 7 1102086912.6624 8 1102086912.6627 9 1102086912.6628 10 1102086912.6637 11 1102086912.6638 12 1102086912.6642 13 1102086912.6643 14 1102086912.6644 15 1102086912.6645 16 1102086912.6646 17 1102086912.6647 18 1102086912.6649 19 1102086912.6650 20 1102086912.6651 21 1102086912.6652 22 1102086912.6653 23 1102086912.6655 24 1102086912.6656 25 1102086912.6657 26 1102086912.6658 27 1102086912.6659 28 1102086912.6660 29 1102086912.6661 30 1102086912.6662 31 1102086912.6663 32 1102086912.6664 33 1102086912.6665 34 1102086912.6666 35 1102086912.6668 36 1102086912.6669 37 1102086912.6670 . +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Too many bad commands. 1 1102086912 6671 6586 1119365297.H428351P22768.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6604 1119430792.H16069P15059.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6606 1119435803.H269574P27211.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6607 1119438782.H651475P11876.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6613 1119444180.H435092P3752.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6614 1119446623.H168979P14147.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6624 1119519980.H840253P23730.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6627 1119534126.H915877P9542.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6628 1119534129.H58338P9545.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6637 1119590807.H77202P16581.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6638 1119594010.H314838P14558.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6642 1119631309.H826676P15985.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6643 1119634096.H108358P8422.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6644 1119651249.H740483P15403.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6645 1119652382.H85165P25444.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6646 1119662861.H891233P15682.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6647 1119666011.H343203P9515.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6648 1119678421.H726408P9343.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6649 1119682873.H656272P7774.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6650 1119709610.H933163P23969.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6651 1119711088.H95605P27225.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6652 1119717756.H183955P3515.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6653 1119726592.H247339P1807.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6654 1119727779.H102401P8785.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6655 1119749596.H731030P9216.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6656 1119760115.H508676P14834.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6657 1119761702.H762025P27895.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6658 1119774991.H8003P28710.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6659 1119780623.H432714P11671.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6660 1119797027.H333204P330.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6661 1119799332.H700308P15617.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6662 1119800637.H600428P30602.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6663 1119807991.H64209P14572.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6664 1119808834.H473596P22065.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6665 1119838893.H830072P23165.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6666 1119838934.H873217P23186.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6667 1119860409.H899984P26859.svr34.nsnoc.com:2, 6668 1119860596.H249033P27907.svr34.nsnoc.com 6669 1119867953.H904781P22645.svr34.nsnoc.com 6670 1119867978.H374439P22691.svr34.nsnoc.com

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[Dovecot] getpeername() and SSL
by Andreas Goertz 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi Timo, first of all: i'm using 0.99.14. You helped me to raw-log the client-IP using something like this in rawlog.c: if (net_getpeername(0, &ip, NULL) == 0) { str = t_strdup_printf("IP: %s\n", net_ip2addr(&ip)); write_full(log_out, str, strlen(str)); } Now i got the problem, that this doesn't work when the client is connected using SSL. After some testing i think, the problem is, that after calling net_getpeername() the ip-family is AF_UNIX, not AF_INET, so net_ip2addr() returns null, but i'm not sure ;-) And i have no clue, how to solve this and find out the ip... Do you have another hint for me? Thanks in advance. Regards, Andreas.

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[Dovecot] Blank messages and problems starting Dovecot
by Lars Karset Grimsrud 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

When I use Evolution for viewing my e-mail and display full headers, no content is shown. The number of messages indicated in Evolution is however correct. Logging into webmail (Squirrelmail) doesn't work either, saying "Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost. 13 : Permission denied". I have verified that ~/Maildir/new actually contains valid e-mails. Does anyone have suggestions on how to debug this problem? A connection is established if I telnet. I use Fedora Core 4. Another problem I have, is changing log_path and info_log_path to something useful. If I change either to i.e. /tmp/dovecot.log, dovecot refuses to start (service dovcot restart) with noe error message. If it helps, my /etc/dovecot.conf is here: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~grimsrud/info/dovecot.conf.txt -- Lars Karset Grimsrud <grimsrud(a)stud.ntnu.no>

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[Dovecot] password scheme
by Nathalie Boulos 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, I have dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4 running on fedora core 3, and authenticating with openLDAP on a remote server. When i try to authenticate, i get the error "Unknown password scheme SSHA". I read that earlier on this mailing list, SSHA was not suported by dovecot. Is it supported now? what should i do to make my password authentication work? The users in the openLDAP database have userPassword {SHA} already used by other services, so i cannot change them. Any suggestions? Regards, Nathalie ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] LF not found where expected
by Miles Mawyer 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I'm using Dovecot 0.99.13 on a fedora core 3 server. I keep getting these errors from time to time. There user ends up retrieving no mail (but no error in their client, be it web mail or pop3 client) What usually fixes it is this procedure: Cp mbox file to mbox_ Remove original mbox Send a test message to recreate mbox. Cat mbox_ >> mbox Problem solved! Can anybody tell me what causes this? pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-06-27 11:16:38] pop3-login: Jun 27 11:17:06 Info: Login: mjmurray [64.203.167.125] pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-06-27 11:17:06] imap-login: Jun 27 11:17:28 Info: Login: mjmurray [127.0.0.1] imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:28 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:28 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap-login: Jun 27 11:19:12 Info: Login: mjmurray [127.0.0.1] imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:19:12 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:19:12 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected ... Miles Mawyer -=- Webmaster . Centralva.net ... ... mmawyer(a)rosecomputers.com ... ... 434.385.5053 ...

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[Dovecot] possible bug with incoming mail
by Luke Ehresman 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I've been using Dovecot for a couple months now and am very impressed. Thanks for a great package. However, I have noticed a problem that I haven't been able to solve. When a new message comes into my inbox, the last message that was received is marked as new as well as the new one. I originally thought this was a bug in my client (mutt) but I have verified that the same thing happens with Thunderbird, Sylpheed, mutt, and pine. My configuration is as follows: ------------------------------- using mbox: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/vfolders/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n using imaps Linux version 2.6.11-hardened-r1 (root@gondor) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 Thu May 5 13:14:52 EDT 2005 Thanks for any help you can give, Luke

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + MySQL no auth
by Dylan Baxter 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I haven't been able to login to my mail server using MySQL authentication and I believe I've found the issue. My POP log says: dovecot: Jun 07 09:58:56 Error: auth(default): sql(dylan(a)domain.com,127.0.0.1): Password query must return a field named "password" dovecot: Jun 07 09:58:56 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected [127.0.0.1] The password field in MySQL is called "passwd". Am I to understand that there is no way around this? I must rename the field to "password"? My config files all check out. I'm pretty sure I'm at a road block here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, aren't there anough Dovecot users to warrant a forum and/or IRC channel? I cant seem to find either (but thank you for the mailing list!). Thanks all for any help! Dylan

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[Dovecot] Restrictions on User Basis
by Net Cerebrum 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, I am running dovecot on Fedora Linux in our organization and use IMAP as well as POP3 protocols for mail retrieval. I want to impose the following user based restrictions: (a) I want to permit only selective users to access either POP3 or IMAP server or both. (b) The server can be accessed from LAN as well as WAN. However I want to allow only selective users to be able to access POP3 or IMAP server from the WAN side (or on the basis of IP addresses). What do I need to do to impose these restrictions ? Thanks,

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[Dovecot] APPEND issue with Thunderbird
by Todd Burroughs 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I'm getting a strange problem with APPEND and Thunderbird 0.8. This was working fine in the CVS version from June 8 and is not so fine as of June 20. It works fine using Pine. It appears that imap is hanging when trying to append to a folder. Right now, an imap process has the file open for about 1/2 hour. It wrote the headers out, but not the body. When Thunderbird disconnects from it, it closes the file, but does not finish writing the email. Here's the difference in the commands sent by Pine and Thunderbird from rawlogs. These are different accounts. (Thunderbird) (.in file) 2 append "Sent" (\Seen) {520+} Message-ID: <42BAC447.7050901(a)hostopia.com> (rest of headers and message follows) The .out file is empty --------------------------------------- (Pine) (.in file) 00000003 CAPABILITY 03000004 APPEND Sent {392} Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:35:42 -0400 (EDT) (rest of headers and message follows) 03000005 LOGOUT (.out file) * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2005-06-22 19:36:20 * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS 00000003 OK Capability completed. + OK 03000004 OK Append completed. * BYE Logging out 03000005 OK Logout completed. ----------------------------------------- Todd

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[Dovecot] IP Based Access
by kasharif＠citech-bd.com 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, Can someone tell me how can I restrict 110 port access other than my IP block? if it through tcp-wrapper then how can i do that? Thanking Sharif

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[Dovecot] FAM support?
by Michael Tibben 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, Is there any planned support for FAM http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ in dovecot? One of my favourite features of Courier IMAP server is that it alerts my email client through IMAP when email has arrived. Regards, Mick

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[Dovecot] pop3 retr error
by Marten Lehmann 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello, I'm getting the following error while Mozilla Mail is downloading >4000 emails: The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving message. Mail server xxx responded: Message is deleted. So what's the error? Can't I retrieve a message, that has been marked as deleted before? If the Mesage-ID wouldn't exist, the error message would be different. I don't know what Mozilla Mail is doing and on which message id it is failing. Also, there's no output in the logfiles. Any ideas? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] quetion about duplicate messages
by Michiel van Es 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, we recently switched from Imap-Uw to Dovecot as a pop3 server. I was wondering why people who have the flag 'Leave messages on server' in their email client (Outlook, Outlook Expres) that they receive duplicates of their stored mail? Is it because Dovecot doesn't know that the messages has already been popped by Imap Uw or is the email client which thinks there are new messages on the server and if so..how can I avoid this behaviour? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Kind Regards, Michiel

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[Dovecot] dovecot and solaris 9
by Sander 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hi, Does anyone know where to find a how-to to get dovecot working with Solaris. Specifically how to setup plain authentication? Thanks in advance, Sander

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0
by Jeff Graves 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Either Timo's got most of the bugs worked out or everyone is on vacation this week (traffic on the list has been very light). Good Job! Jeff Graves, MCSA Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax jeff(a)image-src.com - Email www.image-src.com

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[Dovecot] [newbie question]to receive mail
by neo anderson 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

sorry, i forget to attach the result that run by mail command. the "mail" command i use it shows the mail as follow: ========== mail command beg 12 mail-user(a)[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Thu Jun 23 11:21 48/1478 "this is a test mail" ========== mail command end ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] [newbie question]to receive mail
by neo anderson 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

hi, i'm newbie to dovecot. lately i install postfix on a server for providing mail service. however, i encounter a problem in receiving mail, i.e., to get mail download to the remote client. (i'm able to send mail through mozilla client, but can't get the sent mail download to the client). what reasons may cause such problem? check several points that i suppose it may have problem, yet can't figure out where the problem may be resulted from. for instance, ========== telnet beg telnet target-server-ip 143 ... * OK dovecot ready. telnet target-server-ip 25 ... 220 host-name.domain.com ESMTP Postfix (ehlo localhost) <---------- hidden command i enter 250-host-name.domain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 20971520 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250 8BITMIME (quit) <---------- hidden command i enter 221 Bye telnet target-server-ip 110 .... +OK dovecot ready ========== telnet end btw, i'm able to read and write mail through mail program in the target server; simply can't get the mail downloaded to the other client with mozilla mail client (out look also doesn't work). mozilla mail client is version 1.7 . target server using centos 4.0. postfix 2.1.5 dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 i appreciate any help, sincerely. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] miugrating mail to new server
by Gabe Granger 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hi All, I've just a new server to help with migration of our email, the old email server is using mbox and the new is using Maildir. I've managed to some user mail migrated fine. The new server is only a temp server as I have too many users to migrate easily in one go(Also I want to nuke the current mailserver, remove SuSE and install Debian on it). So what i'm doing it moving users one by one to temp server and converting to Maildir. My question is. I notice that all email files in maildir format end with .<host> when I go to migrate everything to back over to the original server is this going to cause me problem? Ie will the original server now have to be named the same as the temp server so that the maildir format files end with the same .<host> or does that not matter? Any help, advise would be great. Gabe

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[Dovecot] question about
by Michiel van Es 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hi, I am running Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on centos 4) and we are switching from newer machines. I copied all usernames from /etc/passwd,/etc/group and /etc/shadow to the new machine. I do not want that every user has it's own /home/$user directory.. When I test my dovecot installation with a telnet 'servername' 110 user test pass test I get this error: ################################################################################ Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 pop3(aaptest): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/aaptest/mail: Permission denied Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 pop3(aaptest): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/aaptest) Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 dovecot: child 3393 (pop3) returned error 89 ############################################################################## So I changed the MAIL environment to /var/spool/mail (using Sendmail and mbox) Now I get this error: ###############################################################################3 Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3-login: Login: aaptest [::ffff:10.101.3.37] Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3(aaptest): open(/var/spool/mail//inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3(aaptest): mkdir_parents(/var/spool/mail//.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied ################################################################################# Wht is Dovecot trying to AUTOcreate IMAP folders? I do not want Dovecot to do this hence I tell Dovecot to serve only pop3 and pop3s: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = pop3 pop3s # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port". #imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] Does anyone know how I can dissable this IMAP-AUTOcreate behaviour? Thanks in advance. Michiel

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[Dovecot] test73 not compiling with iconv?
by Sean Porter 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

I've recently upgraded from test53 to test73 from a source compile on FreeBSD 5.3, and am getting some [BADCHARSET] errors in 73 that I wasn't getting in 53 (specifically with Squirrelmail). When I run one of Squirrelmail's built-in filters, I get the following error: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 UNSEEN Subject {14} *****SPAM***** Reason Given: [BADCHARSET] Unknown charset Googling around, I found the admonition on the wiki about chrooted environments: http://wiki.dovecot.fi/moin.cgi/QuestionsAndAnswers#head- e146cada4e103a4a93a736998c64f23b1a8cd312 so I disabled all chroot directives in my config and ran as root, just to see if that was the error. No luck. When running configure with "./configure --with-mysql --with- storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl", I noticed that I got this error regarding iconv: checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv Oddly enough, I do have libiconv-1.9.2 installed in /usr/local: /usr/local/lib/libiconv.a /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so@ -> libiconv.so.3 /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 /usr/local/include/iconv.h and an iconv -l shows support for the charset in question. I tried adding the prefix directive to configure: ./configure --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl -- with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local and got the same message. I presume that 53 picked up iconv headers and libraries from LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and now 73 isn't getting it even set explicitly -- I see some ChangeLog entries for iconv files in dovecot source in May, but nothing more. How can I verify that dovecot compiled with libiconv support? Anyone else see the same thing? Thanks, Sean

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[Dovecot] Hang-up problems with outlook 2003 and test 1.0
by Alfonso Sparano 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hi all, I'm testing dovecot 1.0 on a tru64 v5.1 and on a rhel3 platforms. I've a problem when I use outlook 2003 to download mails: outlook stop responding and hang-up when I use imap protocol. Someone have the same problem? What should I do? This is my configuration: protocols = pop3 imap disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_save_crlf = yes mail_read_mmaped = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = passwd userdb = passwd user = root } Alfonso

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RE: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Jeff Graves 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I don't know C or C++ but here's the patch I wrote for lowercase auth on test69. Hopefully it's a starting point for anyone who wants to try and tackle this but well beyond my abilities. Jeff Graves, MCSA Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax jeff(a)image-src.com - Email www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Peter Evans Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:33 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames? Dan Hollis (test3943395(a)anime.net) wrote: > So that's three people then. me, jeff graves and peter hessler. More than > two :-) > What's the exact 'minimum required users for a feature' number? :-) Feel free to code it yourself and submit a patch to Timo. I guess you want to start with 1.0-test-reallybignumber as a base. If I had the energy, I might do this. P

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI support status
by Fredrik Tolf 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi list! I'm wondering, what is the current status of GSSAPI (krb5) support in Dovecot? I know from googling that there used to be a patch for it around a year ago, but I haven't seen a trace of that patch ever since, and GSSAPI doesn't even seem to be mentioned in the Dovecot source tree (at least not according to "grep -irl"). Is GSSAPI planned at all, as it stands? If not, is there a way for me to get my hands on the original patch, so that I can fix it up for the current version of Dovecot? I'm eagerly waiting for the day that I can switch from UW-IMAP to Dovecot, but I don't want to until I can get GSSAPI authentication. Thanks for reading! Fredrik Tolf

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[Dovecot] "Angle" address with empty "display name"
by Chris Wakelin 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Some clients are sending from addresses like <someone(a)somewhere.org> i.e. without a "friendly" name. It seems to me from RFC2822 that you should either have "Display Name <someone(a)somewhere.org>" or just "someone(a)somewhere.org" (both without the quotes). Dovecot, not unreasonably, treats "<someone(a)somewhere.org>" as having an empty Display Name, but this seems to confuse at least one client - our webmail ;) - which then displays "?" for the "from" address. The patch below tries to make dovecot treat empty display name as non-existent display name (so that the IMAP "ENVELOPE" command responds with "NIL" instead of "" in the relevant places). Best Wishes, Chris --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c.orig Fri Apr 8 12:30:34 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c Mon Jun 20 10:42:23 2005 @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ return -1; ctx->addr.name = p_strdup(ctx->pool, str_c(ctx->str)); + if (*ctx->addr.name == '\0') { + /* Cope with "<address>" without display name */ + ctx->addr.name = NULL; + } if (parse_angle_addr(ctx) < 0) { /* broken */ ctx->addr.domain = p_strdup(ctx->pool, "SYNTAX_ERROR"); -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- 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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[Dovecot] MySQL user_query ignored
by Helmut Zeilinger 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi all, i installed Dovecot 0.99.14. Everything works fine except that the mysql setup directive "user_query" seems to be ignored - however the password_query works. Instead the default user query in db-mysql.c always takes effect. Might this be a bug or is something worng wit my setup below? (To keep on working i changed the default query in db-mysql.c..) Helmut dovecot-mysql.conf: db_host = localhost #db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db = mail db_user = mail db_passwd = db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = '%n' and domain='%d' user_query = SELECT '/var/mail/%d/%n' as home, 506 as uid, 100 as gid FROM users WHERE login = '%n' and domain='%d'

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[Dovecot] "LDAP: No username in reply" error
by Jim Canon 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

Hi All, I am using the latest Dovecot stable with Fedora Core 4. I am trying to use it with LDAP, but I am getting the following error in my mail log when I attempt to check my mail: Jun 18 09:12:24 relm dovecot-auth: LDAP: No username in reply Jun 18 09:12:24 relm imap-login: Internal login failure: yaw(a)yaw.org [192.168.1.20] Here is the slapd log: Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SRCH attr=uid homeDirectory uidNumber gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=566 fd=21 closed Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SRCH attr=uid homeDirectory uidNumber gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=565 fd=18 closed Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=568 fd=18 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:54510 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" method=128 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=1 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SRCH attr=gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=569 fd=21 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:54511 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" method=128 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=1 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SRCH attr=gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= I can supply more information if needed. I'm not actually sure what the error message means. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim

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[Dovecot] imap crash
by Todd Burroughs 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

This is from the June 16 CVS, it also happens with June 15 but not with June 8. Basically, imap segfaults when opening my mbox. Some details are below: Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 755 if (msg[0] == '\n' || (gdb) bt full #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 msg = (const unsigned char *) 0x0 i = Variable "i" is not available. (gdb) p *ctx $1 = {line = {name = 0x0, name_len = 0, value = 0x0, value_len = 0, full_value = 0x0, full_value_len = 0, middle = 0x0, middle_len = 0, name_offset = 14794827, full_value_offset = 0, continues = 0, continued = 0, eoh = 0, no_newline = 0, use_full_value = 0}, input = 0x80c9cfc, hdr_size = 0x0, name = 0x80cf030, value_buf = 0x0, skip = 0, skip_initial_lwsp = 0, has_nuls = 0} (gdb) p *hdr_r $2 = (struct message_header_line *) 0x0 (gdb) bt #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 #1 0x0806bfaf in mbox_sync_parse_match_mail (mbox=0x80c3ba8, view=0x80c8ea8, seq=2028) at mbox-sync-parse.c:521 #2 0x080689d0 in mbox_file_seek (mbox=0x80c3ba8, view=0x80c8ea8, seq=2028, deleted_r=0xbffff748) at mbox-file.c:164 #3 0x0806a91f in mbox_mail_seek (mail=0x80c9200) at mbox-mail.c:63 #4 0x0806ab2a in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x80c9200, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mbox-mail.c:176 #5 0x0808cc55 in mail_get_stream (mail=0xfffffffe, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mail.c:106 #6 0x080760ef in index_mail_get_header_stream (_mail=0x80c9200, _headers=0x80c95d8) at index-mail-headers.c:606 #7 0x0808cc31 in mail_get_header_stream (mail=0xfffffffe, headers=0x80c95d8) at mail.c:97 #8 0x080769d0 in index_storage_search_next (_ctx=0x80c9188, mail=0x80c9200) at index-search.c:492 #9 0x0808d525 in mailbox_search_next (ctx=0x0, mail=0x80c9200) at mail-storage.c:405 #10 0x08057bee in cmd_search (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-search.c:33 #11 0x080594f5 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #12 0x0809e1ca in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #13 0x0809d8e9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #14 0x080603e7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:228

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[Dovecot] dovecot.index.cache 1/3rd of INBOX size
by Chris Wakelin 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

I've noticed that my dovecot.index.cache file has got very large (24MB, which is more than 1/3 of my INBOX size). I've tried deleting (well, renaming) the dovecot.index.* files, and re-opening my INBOX, and the new dovecot.index.cache is only 90KB so far. I'm using dovecot-1.0-stable and mbox format. My mail_cache_fields and mail_never_cache_fields are set to the default. Looking back in the list archives, I found a message from Timo that suggested the cache entries are created for each message when the indexes are created, rather than when each message is accessed, so it ought not to grow? What happens when a message is deleted? I "strings/grep" ed through the dovecot.index.cache file and it looks like it's not caching any headers it shouldn't (like Received, X-Spam-XYZ etc.), but they seem to occur multiple times for each message. None of my other dovecot testers seem to have huge cache files (yet!). Anybody else seen this? Best Wishes, Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Compressed maildir
by Curtis Maloney 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Greetings, I noticed a while back someone posted a patch/plugin that allowed Dovecot to use compressed mbox files. I'm now wondering how far that would put us from having compressed maildir? I have a server with more CPU than disk space, and while I can buy more HDD space, my backup solution doesn't make that practical. It seems to me that when looking for a message file, if it ends in .gz unpack it, and otherwise everything acts as normal. Worst case, this is one strcat() and a stat() slower to find. Newly delivered messages could remain unpacked, and a cron job could come by whenever to compress old/large/un-looked-at-for-months messages. So, new and frequently referenced messages would be as fast as ever, and older messages would be slower. I would love to dive in an do this myself, but 1- my time is very very limited, working two jobs, and 2- I'm not running 1.0 yet, as it apparently still doesn't support my Thunderbird users tagging their messages (am I wrong? please tell me I'm wrong... I want to upgrade! :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] SSHA with LDAP?
by Ben Beuchler 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Poking around in the code for dovecot-stable seems to indicate that support has been added for the {SSHA} password scheme. This is not reflected in dovecot-ldap.conf. Is the SSHA code actually functional? Thanks! -Ben

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[Dovecot] small dovecot problem
by Cor Bosman 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hi all, just noticed a small problem in test70. If you have an mail in your maildir 'new' directory, and use another method to delete that email (for instance pop it through another pop server), dovecot will continue to report that email as being on the server. So if you had 1 email, delete it through pop, dovecot will continue to say that 1 email is on the server, even if you disconnect/reconnect. If that same email is in the 'cur' dir (so its been read), this doesnt happen and dovecot will report 0 emails. Cor

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and openmailadmin ?
by albi＠scii.nl 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

hi, wondered whether some people tried dovecot and openmailadmin ? http://www.openmailadmin.org "openMailAdmin is a little administration interface to IMAP mailservers." "openMailAdmin works with most of the popular MTAs, such as Postfix or Sendmail, and with almost every complete IMAP-server, i.e. Cyrus or Courier" a google-search didn't show any useful results so far, i'm just curious whether some people already tried it with dovecot (of course i can try it myself, but quite busy currently)

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[Dovecot] customflags and keywords
by Curtis Maloney 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

OK. After checking the 0.99->1.0 migration documentation, it seems I've been a little confused between customflags and keywords. (Though this is partly due to my repeated requests for clarification being ignored.) The page (http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/UpgradingDovecot) says 1.0 does not use .customflags any more. Now, I'm hoping they're still supported, in which case I'm curious to know where those details ARE stored? If 1.0 does support custom flags in a usable way, I'll migrate next week (with Andrey's gzip patch applied :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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Re: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Timo Sirainen 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 03:16 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > PAM module only works for PAM passdb, Dovecot still does userdb lookup > > from /etc/passwd or wherever you have it. > > PAM should be given a chance to modify the username dovecot uses to do the > userdb lookup with. Hmm. I remembered PAM wouldn't allow that, but looks like it does. Changed CVS version to support that now (non-tested though, but doesn't at least break the normal behavior).

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