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[Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Dan Hollis 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Is it possible for dovecot to strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames? We have a lot of dumb customers who try logging in to pop3 with crap like UsERNAmE and bla(a)nonexistentdomain.com. All our usernames are lowercase and we have no realms. Trying to get hundreds of customers to fix this is hard and is a significant and costly support burden. It would be nice if dovecot could handle this in some way. -Dan

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test73
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Two potentially dangerous changes: - mbox parser should now be able to handle CR+LF linefeeds. Hopefully doesn't break anything. - Some mail header parser changes. Hopefully doesn't break anything. And other stuff: - COPY shouldn't crash anymore with 64bit systems - If PAM modifies username, keep it - When auth workers died they leaked file descriptors in dovecot-auth - Auth workers were leaking memory for each request - Make MySQL connect abort in 10 seconds if it can't connect - 32bit UID/GIDs were truncated to 31bit value - dovecot-auth reports cache hits and misses on SIGUSR2

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 19:27 +0900, Peter Evans wrote: > > > 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config > > > 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log > > > This is very lucid. Only argument I can see against is that solaris > > uses /nn to mark number of threads on a process (eg prstat). My vote > > will be on slashes before dashes any day. > > Or that solaris doesnt have setproctitle The above is done by modifying argv[0] before exec()ing. setproctitle() doesn't matter..

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[Dovecot] master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I've finally got it to work, kind of .. It should allow you to log in, but several settings don't work yet and there are probably many bugs. Anyway, I thought I'd show this already in case someone is interested of looking how it works :) One thing I'm still wondering a bit is if I should show process names as: 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log 32604 ? Ss 0:00 dovecot 32606 ? S 0:00 dovecot/imap-login 32607 ? S 0:00 dovecot/auth -s 3 Or if I should name the binaries all as dovecot-config, dovecot-log, etc. One nice thing with the above is that it also shows imap and imap-login processes while grepping for dovecot. You can get the tarball from http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.0-test67-mrewrite.tar.gz (it has all the test73 changes despite the name..) Example configuration file (with bare minimals) is at http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot.conf I think I'll create a separate dovecot-master.conf for those service-blocks in the above config file (after I add include-directive to config file parser code). After the code is working better, I'll commit it to CVS and it'll be in future -test releases.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stable slow
by Loren M. Lang 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

A few days ago I installed dovecot stable to replace uw-imap. The install went well and all boxes were converted ok. When accessing the new imap server though, certain operations seem much slower, in particular, moving mail between boxes is very slow, and I have received several complaints from users that the mail server has slowed down. I can't figure out what the slow point is as maildir should be faster than mbox. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2

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[Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp issue
by Rob Kettle 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I'm trying to use pop-before-smtp with Dovecot IMAP (not running pop3). Pop-before-smtp has fixes to work with the fact that Thunderbird holds the Dovecot Imap connection open and therefore doesn't record regular 'login' entries in maillog. Problem is that pop-before-smtp relies on Dovecot recording a disconnect in the maillog when an Imap client disconnects. Dovecot doesn't seem log disconnects. How can I get it to do this please ? Regards Rob -- This message has been scanned for viruses and other dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Quota
by Josh Kelley 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

We're getting ready to set up a new mail server running dovecot 0.99.11 (CentOS 4) with maildir and filesystem quotas. I saw on the Dovecot web site that "hard filesystem quota can also be problematic." How problematic? What problems might we anticipate? Thanks. Josh Kelley

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[Dovecot] Can't see existing mail folders
by Chris Green 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies. I have the following in dovecot.conf:- default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u (I also originally tried with %h/Mail) IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems. Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and folders that it's created itself? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms, many problems
by Jani Karlsson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

dovecot: Jun 11 23:57:56 Info: auth(default): pam(testi(a)irkkaa.net,83.145.196.129): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure tried also debugging whats wrong with it, it queries ok, the password in the query is ok and everything. but it never replies +OK. that connection just halts after PASS command. Tried IMAP, same result. config: (dovecot.conf, PLAIN etc all enabled) passdb pam { args = * } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT concat('/usr/local/virtual/',maildir) as home, 207 AS uid,208 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' postfixadmin-format mysql-DB, mails in /usr/local/virtual/user@domain/Maildir Any ideas where stuff could go wrong? Passwords in the MySQL are cleartext and checked that query returns right values. Yet authentication-phase just gets stuck. System is hardned Gentoo-Linux (2.6.11r13-grsec)

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[Dovecot] Question regarding dovecot 0.99.14 & 1.0 stable
by Sebastiaan de Vogel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi all, For several day's now I've been attempting to get Dovecot working, but without much success so far. I've compiled both 0.99.14 and the latest 1.0 stable version with mysql support, which seems to be working for the 0.99.14. Unfortunately version 1.0 stable wont start and quits with this: dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:47 Error: child 27346 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:48 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down Version 0.99.14 starts though! I've not included my dovecot.conf and dovecot-mysql conf here because of their size, if you need them please ask me by email. This version seems to work, I can see the databse getting queried, and can get authenticated. After authentication it just says this: dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT clear FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'sebastiaan(a)**.**' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id; dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT maildir||'/sebastiaan' as home, uid, gid FROM domains WHERE domain = '**.**'; pop3-login: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Internal login failure: sebastiaan(a)**.** [**.**.215.237] dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: connected to localhost dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 sent handshake: PID 15133 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 15149 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 15124 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 sent handshake: PID 15126 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 sent handshake: PID 15127 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 sent handshake: PID 15129 The client gets disconnected and just says this: +OK dovecot ready. user sebastiaan(a)**.** +OK pass blabla +OK Logged in. BYE Internal login failure. Error report written to server log. Does anyone have any suggestions to get Dovecot to work please? Thanks in advance Sebastiaan

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[Dovecot] chroot directory question
by Lisa C Boyd 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users are getting this error message: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this: dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the conf file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup the same (same maildir format, etc.). Thanks for any help :) Lisa B.

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[Dovecot] Mailbox usage
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I use dovecot-0.99.11 from RHEL4. dovecot-mysql.conf: === db_host = dbhost db_port = 3306 db = db db_user = dovecot db_passwd = pass default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = '%u' user_query = select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = '%u' === When I try "telnet localhost 110" and enter test login, I get in errorlog: === dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' pop3-login: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login: andy@domain [::ffff:127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login process 9 disconnected dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Fatal: chdir(/var/mail-domain/andy@domain) failed with uid 506: Not a directory dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Error: child 19446 (pop3) returned error 89 === I think, dovecot use "/var/mail-domain/andy@domain" as maildir - not as mailbox. What need set in dovecot config for work with mailbox? Thanks. -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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[Dovecot] Debugging test72
by Doug Luce 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

When attempting to save a message from the INBOX to a folder in a collection (like, .projects.dovecot), I get behavior like this (in GDB). Any clue what might be going wrong? Here's where a SIGABRT happens: 280 return array->buffer->used / array->element_size; This is the stack trace: (gdb) where #0 mail_index_map_get_ext_idx (map=0x1200c0db0, ext_id=0, idx_r=0x11ffe828) at ../../src/lib/array.h:280 #1 0x120058dcc in _view_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1200c0db0, seq=0, ext_id=0, map_r=0x11ffe898, data_r=0x11ffe8a0) at mail-index-view.c:395 #2 0x120059468 in mail_index_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1301100d4, seq=0, ext_id=301983784, map_r=0x1300e2078, data_r=0x1200c4f14) at mail-index-view.c:561 #3 0x12005912c in mail_index_lookup_keywords (view=0x1200c4e00, seq=0, keyword_idx=0x11ffe8f8) at mail-index-view.c:475 #4 0x12003e880 in index_mail_get_keywords (_mail=0x1200c0db0) at index-mail.c:184 #5 0x120063238 in mail_get_keywords (mail=0x1301100d4) at mail.c:39 #6 0x120063550 in mail_storage_copy (t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at mail-copy.c:22 #7 0x12002a90c in maildir_copy (_t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at maildir-copy.c:155 #8 0x120064dac in mailbox_copy (t=0x1301100d4, mail=0x0, dest_mail=0x11ffe828) at mail-storage.c:456 #9 0x120011b78 in fetch_and_copy (t=0x1200c2880, srcbox=0x0, search_args=0x1200e7020) at cmd-copy.c:28 #10 0x120011d98 in cmd_copy (cmd=0x1200c0268) at cmd-copy.c:88 #11 0x120017598 in client_handle_input (cmd=0x1200c0268) at client.c:334 #12 0x120017748 in _client_input (context=0x1200c0db0) at client.c:383 #13 0x12007e670 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #14 0x12007dd5c in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop.c:218 #15 0x120022b10 in main (argc=537660848, argv=0x11ffeb10, envp=0x11ffeb20) at main.c:228 And, stepping from this position results in the bomb: (gdb) s Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x130247908 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5 I'm not too familiar with the source code, so figuring out exactly what this is up to would be a major chore. I'm hoping someone can give me a little clue as to what direction I should take to fix this problem. Thanks! Doug

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[Dovecot] assertion failed -0.99 -> 1.0-stable
by Thomas Hummel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hello Timo, I've upgraded from dovecot-0.99 to dovecot-1.0-stable (the 2005-05-09 version) on FreeBSD 5.4 and encountered the following problems (problem #4 (assertion failed) made me downgrade back to dovecot-0.99...) : 1. mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/gopauld (5230 > 4407) --> OK, that's documented on the Wiki, not a real problem 2. imap(cxxx): mkdir_parents(/opt/dovecot/c/cxxx/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied --> I can't understand why since /opt/dovecot/c is rwxrwxrwt and belongs to root:wheel 3. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /yyyy/zzzz/xxxx/Mail/Drafts 4. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: +(rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) --> That one occured each time a user connected with Eudora (on OS-X) moved messages from INBOX to some of her IMAP mailboxes. Since it was in real life, I hadn't time to get a gdb backtrace. Notes : . that user had restarted her client (Eudora). . my messages moves from one IMAP mbox to another did work. . the assertion failed occured with the version of 2005-06-04 as well (which I tried since the ChangLog mentionned some similar problems). Any clues ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] CONTROLDIR directive
by Alan Premselaar 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Is the CONTROLDIR directive only available (undocumented as it may be) in the 1.0 series? I'm currently using 0.99.13 and I didn't find CONTROLDIR with grep. Thanks alan

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[Dovecot] Error on pop3
by Roberto Tagliaferri 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I've installed dovecot on my server (pop3 service on dovecot 1.0 stable plus patch for more logging, postfix as mta) and it's ok (not all, need more fine-tuning) but on one account i've a problem.. the account is read by oe 6, message on server mode. dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:18 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:19 Info: info-cipani,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/122 dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:05 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:18 Error: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: file mbox-sync.c: line 1129 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (offset == 0 || offset > 31) dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/0 Where is the 122 messages of first login???? -- 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] mail directory in user home?
by Knute Johnson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hey: When I run dovecot and retrieve any mail for a user, a mail directory is created in the users home. It has a subdirectory Inbox. No mail goes there however, it all goes to /var/spool/username. What is that directory for and how do I get it to not make it or can I? I am only using POP3. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] Fedora Core 4 and certificates
by Kenneth Porter 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

This is a heads-up that certificates will be moving to a new location in FC4. See section 6.2.3.1 in the release notes: <http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/>

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[Dovecot] IP in rawlog
by Andreas Goertz 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, i'm using dovecot with rawlog enabled. Well, i need to log the IP of the user, too. Could you give me a hint, how this can be implemented? Thanks and regards, Andreas Goertz.

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[Dovecot] Problem with configure.in in dovecot-stable CVS
by Brian T Glenn 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I am having trouble with using dovecot-stable from CVS. I get the following error when running autogen.sh: configure.in: 4: required file `./[config.h].in' not found I see the config.h.in file in the root dir, but I cannot figure out what the brackets are for. If I modify the file and remove the brackets, it works properly and I can compile dovecot. What are the brackets in the name for? Am I breaking something by removing them? Thanks, -- Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services

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Re: [Dovecot] maildirmake SOLVED
by f.renzetti＠fabaris.it 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

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[Dovecot] USERDB environment is unset
by Alex 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Hello, I tried the v1.0 test of dovecot, because it should make the directories for me. I configured it and installed it. The old one is still there, but I shut it down to test the other version. When I start the new v1.0 test of dovecot i get the following message in my log: Jun 6 13:33:08 APOLLO dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test72 starting up Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: auth(default): dovecot-auth: Fatal: USERDB environment is unset Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: child 18610 (auth) returned error 89 What does that mean? How can I set this? Thanks in advance, Greetings, Alex

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by Chris Barnes 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004, somone posted a note which read: It seems dovecop pop3 server sometimes inserts a blank line at the top of the mbox. It only happens for certain users not all. I'm not sure why it's doing that. Looking back into the mailing list, I saw the same post in Oct 6, 2003 but there was no reply to it. Is there a patch or fix that i can use to get around the blank line? I did not see any replies to this post. I am having the same issue... + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris(a)txbarnes.com (also MSN IM) Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

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[Dovecot] bug or not bug :) ? in dovecot imap
by Руслан Шарафутдинов 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi Timo Sirainen ! I have possible found the error at analysis of the body letter with embedding in national coding, in the manner of: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Content-Type: application/msword; name==?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?= Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename==?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?= result of the output telnet dovecotserver 143 ... * fetch 5 full * 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) INTERNALDATE "31-May-2005 14:32:15 +0600" RFC822.SIZE 28106 BODY (("text" "plain" ("charset" "koi8-r") NIL NIL "8bit" 104 6) ("application" "msword" NIL NIL NIL "base64" 26628) "mixed") ENVELOPE ("Tue, 31 May 2005 08:59:39 +0600" "=?koi8-r?B?1MXT1A==?=" (("kirill lopuchov" NIL "kirill" "soda.ru")) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If put(deliver) the quotation marks that name file returns it is correct.. Content-Type: application/msword; name="=?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?=" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?=" the example of the embedding see in my letter !!!!

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[Dovecot] maildirmake
by Renzetti Federico 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

It is possibile to call maildirmake at login-time? My final goal is to create maildir at login time (like courier-imapd) or at least to create .INBOX.Trash, .INBOX.Drafts, .INBOX.Sent dir for virtual user /home/vmail/domains/$virtual_domain/$virtual_user/ .... with already exsistant Maildir (created by postfix) Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] [dovecot-auth] <defunct>
by Dan Carl 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi all, first post. Looking through my processes I keep seeing this: [dovecot-auth] <defunct> The server seems to be running fine. Is this anything to worry about? dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3

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[Dovecot] Dovecot development status v1.0
by Raymond Lillard 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Timo, Regarding: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-January/006144.html I would like an estimate of where you are on the path to a released (dovecot-1.0). I have read your statement regarding the -stable series and am wondering when we see the first feature complete -beta of v1.0? Thank for your hard efforts. I have been a happy customer for about a year. Ray

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[Dovecot] map-login: Login failed: Plaintext
by Nmap 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi I'm running Dovecot 1.0 stable and getting error like this: dovecot: Jun 07 11:51:00 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: Jun 07 11:51:01 Info: auth(default): mysql: Connected to postfix Dovecot: Jun 07 11:47:34 Info: imap-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled [85.76.231.143] dovecot.conf Authentication processes section looks like: auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf and the dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=postfix user=koira password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 <and then the querys> I also tried default_pass_scheme = PLAIN and same error occurred.. I'm confused because earlier versions of dovecot has worked so well and smoothly. I've read some dovecot wiki pages and also dovecot-1.0-stable/doc/dovecot-sql.conf files etc. and noticed that the authenticatin has changed... but still getting that error :/ Anybody have any clue? ----------------------------------------------------------------- City.fi:n huippusuosittu kulttipalvelu nyt myös matkapuhelimeesi. Peilikuva on myös WAPissa! http://www.city.fi/mobiili/peilikuva/

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[Dovecot] Shared maildir problem: IMAP list archives
by Gergely Kis 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hello, I try to create IMAP archives for our mailing lists (runned by mailman). I run dovecot 1.0-stable from a recent CVS checkout. The obvious version with mboxes works without problems. However, when I try to use maildir storage I run into the following problem: -a message is sent to the list -mailman calls the external archiver (maildrop) which delivers the mail to a normal mbox (for cross-check) and a maildir. -in the client (Outlook 2003) the mail in the mbox shows up immediately. However the mail in the maildir only shows up in the client after an indefinite time (2 minutes, 10 minutes...etc.). As the thing works with mbox I would rule out Outlook IMAP as a problem. Is there anything I could try to set in the dovecot configuration? I already did the following adjustments: -enabled outlook workaround -changed mail_check_idle_interval to 1 Do you have any idea what could be the problem? Should I start debugging the code, or am I just missing something? Thanks, Gergely PS: I would like to use maildir because it is much easier to backup. Mboxes are a pain in the ass in this respect. The only backup solution I could find was rdiff-backup, which doesn't integrate well with ordinary backup solutions like Bacula.

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[Dovecot] Multiserver config
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hi! I need use dovecot on 3 servers. Home directory and mail spool shared over NFS in pop3/pop3s only mode (no imap). What details for dovecot config need set? When I try 2-servers config, some time I get in log: Jun 7 04:31:01 cluster2 pop3(andy(a)atomail.com): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/plasma/andy(a)atomail.com/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree But mail client not show any errors. And some time I get dup messages from other server (I keep messages on server). Thanks! -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 26, Issue 10
by Paul 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Claudio Succa wrote: > I succesfully configured dovecot-1.0test68 so that the same user can have both > a Mailbox and a Maildir and can access it by pop3, pop3s, imap and imaps > protocols with the same password. I have not very large acconts (26 users for > a total of 1.2 GBytes) but it is regularly running since the start of May. > > If that is the problem I will be glad to post the details about my > configuration; sorry for annoing instead. I would like those details. Paul

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[Dovecot] The Kolab Storage Format, supported?
by Farkas Levente 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

hi, is dovecot are support all required feature for kolab imap server? the requirements can be found here: http://www.kolab.org/doc/kolabformat-2.0rc3-html/index.html ie. can i replace cyrus-imap with dovecot in a kolab server? thanks in advance. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth defunct
by Oliver Schulze L. 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'm running dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 in RHEL4 and a couple of hours ago, I could not longer login in the imap or pop3 service. I noted that I have a process like this: root 8130 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:55 0:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> It this ok to have a defunct proccess? I can not kill this process. I have to stop the dovecot service, killall pop3-login and imap-login and then start dovecot again. Is there a solution for this? Any hint? I already enabbled the debug of dovecot-auth. I have my user accounts on a local LDAP using nss_ldap. Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] Migration from pop3 to imapd
by Stephan Holl 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear list, I am planing to set up dovecot-imapd on my production-mail server which currently only runs pop3 via qpopper on debian-sarge. It would be best, if I could only use imapd and use the existing pop3- server (qpopper) as it is. Is this possible? Can the user both use pop3 (qpopper) and imapd (dovecot) in parallel then? Where does dovecot-imapd store its mails? Does it store its mail in mbox-format in ~/mail, where also e.g. pine or mutt can access the mbox? Pretty dumb question I guess, but I want to make sure that nothing goes wrong during installation. It is a must that nothing changes on the server for my users. Best regards and thanks for your help Stephan Holl

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[Dovecot] maildir create problem
by Alex 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, I got the error failed to create storage data. I changed some things and now I get the following message: mkdir(/home/mail/domain.nl/info/.Trash) failed: No such file or directory The directory for domain.nl is not created either. Other emailaccounts which were running very good already have no problem. Can anyone give me a direction what the problem could be? thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Help on dovecot, imap, maildir and subfolders
by Lanhai Li 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I have Fedora Core 2 and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0. I've done nothing to configure it but it seems to have found the Mail dir in my home directory ok and I can connect using IMAP. But I can't create subfolders. If I right click on inbox, there's a 'New Folder...', but if I create one then right click on it, no more 'New Folder...'. So it seems folders can only go one level deep. Many Thanks! Lanhai LI __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] performance problem?
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'm running dovecot on a small server. I put all my mail from the last 10 years on it (approx. 160 mb). I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several minutes to display a message. This is with mutt, thunderbird and evolution. Copying an outbound message to the Sent IMAP folder (15k messages) typically takes a few minutes, but can be quite fast on occasion (Thunderbird). How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] AUTH patch for Postfix 2.3?
by /dev/rob0 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

The 2.2.1 patch works fine on Postfix 2.2.3 but not on the 2.3 snapshots. Any plans to update it for 2.3? On a similar subject, Timo, are you going to try again to get it accepted by Wietse? If so I'd try to help out with the documentation part. I'm just not sure he'll accept it anyway, what with Dovecot auth only being used by Dovecot ... Thanks, BTW ... it works nicely and was very easy to set up. Postfix 2.2.x is good enough for me, for now. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] POP3 download problem
by Eddie du Plessis 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi All I am experiencing a mail download problem with dovecot's pop3 protocol. We use outlook XP 2002 mail clients and I have setup a mail system with pop accounts on a Fedora 2 installation using dovecot. Some of the clients download email fine but others do not download email and also do not give any error messages. I have enabled the "verbose" options in the /etc/dovecot.conf and all the logged messages appear the same for those who get email and for those who don't. I listed the /var/spool/mail directory and can see mail in the accounts who do not seem to download. We are running an 80 - 90 user system. I have even tried IMAP on the clients with no success. There is nothing viable in the system log. I would appreciate it if you could help. Thank you Kind regards, Eddie Eddie du Plessis IT Administrator Now Media(PTY) Ltd 32 Fricker Road Illovo Boulevard Johannesburg Cell: 082 777 8110 Tel: 011 214 7302 Fax: 011 327 4094 www.nowmedia.co.za _________ "This e-mail, its attachments and any rights attaching hereto are, unless the contents clearly indicate otherwise, the property of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. It is confidential, private and intended for the addressee only. Should you have received this email in error, kindly notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Do not disclose or use this e-mail in any manner whatsoever. Views and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, unless clearly stated as those of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited accepts no liability for any loss or damages whatsoever and howsoever incurred or suffered, resulting or arising from the use of this email or its attachments. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited does not warrant the integrity of this e-mail or that it is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference."

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[Dovecot] failed to create storage data
by Alex 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, I have a problem. I get the message 'Failed to create storage with data' I have 2 emailaccounts which are working perfect and that worked fine. But now I want to add another account and now it said 'Failed to create storage with data' What is the problem? I have the same rights on the directory and it worked first fine. I didn't changed it. Can any one point me in the good direction? I use dovecot with mysql and postfix. thanks in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] Maildir
by Jason P Buscema 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I've spent most of the morning looking through the archives. Great information, however, I'm still unable to get my issues figured out. I believe I am missing something quite simple. From what I have read, I want to use maildir, mainly because it will allow the use of subfolders for my clients. My clients are running Mail.app (mostly) on 10.3 clients. I'm planning on using imap and my clients must be able to create sub folders to organize their email. I'm running into a couple problems. First, when I send an email to myself I see in the procmail log that it writes that message to: Folder: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse/Maildir/new/msg.ZAgKB However, when I send a message to another user on the same server it writes the message to: Folder: /var/mail/someuser I don't understand why the home directory changed. I don't believe I have anything custom in my account vs anyone else. My second issue/question.. how do I get Mail.app and SquirrelMail to see the email now that is not no longer in ~/mail ? Home directories are in this format on the server: /home/users/j/jp/jpbuse Users are authenticated via LDAP and their home directory actually is: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse I have a symlink that takes care of this and from what I can tell, works just fine. Changed the following line in /etc/dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:%h /etc/procmailrc looks like: # .procmailrc PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new PMDIR=/tmp/procmail LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail # Use SpamAssassin INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc dovecot-0.99 procmail-3.22 sendmail-8.13

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[Dovecot] can't get md5 stored passwords to work
by Benjamin Engle 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

In my mysql database everyone has plain passwords. I set the password don my account to {PLAIN-MD5}md5sum but when I go to login it wont let me. But I can log in with "{PLAIN-MD5}md5sum" it's like it ignores the whole {scheme} thing. So I changed my dovecot-mysql.conf to: default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 In the password field for my username I just used the md5sum. I stopped dovecot and killed all remaining processes and then started it. But it doesn't try to do md5 it is still doing plain text. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I looked and there are no compile time options that I need for this to work... Dovecot Version 0.99.13

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf %d problem
by Martins 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, I have got a problem ir dovecod.conf. I would like to use %d in default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u/Maildir but %d seems to be empty. I need it for Postfix virtual domains. If I use default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/DOMAIN.ORG/%u/Maildir mail folders could be accessed. I wonder, where Postfix virtual domains need to be passed to Dovecot? more config info: auth_userdb = static uid=100 gid=100 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/pass Thanks in advance, M.

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[Dovecot] SSL Certificate Chain Support
by Matthew P. Cox 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Greetings. I was wondering if there were any plans to add support for an SSL certificate chain file? This is useful to provide a valid certificate chain for lower cost signing authorities. I'm afraid that I'm not 100% positive of the implementation requirements. Although it does seem that OpenSSL supports this concept. I am aware that Apache HTTPD (via mod_ssl) and Courier-IMAP offer support for this feature. Here's a link to information from the Apache HTTPD manual: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcertificatechainfile Thank you for the continued development of a great project. Matt

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 26, Issue 5
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: >Am Samstag, 4. Juni 2005 01:31 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > >>> I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several> > >(...) > >>> How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini >> (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). > >mbox or maildir? Maildir. Listing or opening the directory via the OS is rather slow, btw, maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ time du 220240 ./cur 0 ./new 0 ./tmp 234776 . real 1m35.207s user 0m0.060s sys 0m1.850s maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ >I'm using an Am486DX4-100 with 64 MB to serve my personal mail. (about >650 >MB distributed over about 100 imap folders) indeed, so 160 mb on a beefier machine shouldn't be a problem. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] pam mysql authentication
by radus＠smartpost.ro 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hello I am trying to use pam to authenticate dovecot again a mysql database. In /etc/pam.d/dovecot i have: auth optional pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 account required pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 I have the same file for smtp and it works ok. However when i try to log in dovecot i get: Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: is Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: NULL Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: and Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: deleted Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: = Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: ''" Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"disabled)' at line 1 I am running dovecot 0.99.14 Thanks, Radu

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[Dovecot] Crash and Assertion Error
by Todd Burroughs 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

I've attached two backtraces, one from a segfault and another from an assertion error in imap. I've seen a couple of the same assertion and this is the only segfault. It looks like they could be related. They both have to do with indexing anyway... The code is from CVS as of May 30. The segfault happened while imap was doing searches for my pine filters. I've also noticed that in pine, if I expunge a lot of mail that is spaced out through my mbox, it usually gets the headers mixed up. What I mean is that I will open one email and get the body from another. Just mentioning this in case it has some bearing. I'll be trying some things out to see if I can figure out why this happens. Can't think of any more useful info, I need sleep. Todd

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[Dovecot] pam mysql authentication
by radus＠smartpost.ro 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hello I am trying to use pam to authenticate dovecot again a mysql database. In /etc/pam.d/dovecot i have: auth optional pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 account required pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 I have the same file for smtp and it works ok. However when i try to log in dovecot i get: Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: is Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: NULL Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: and Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: deleted Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: = Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: ''" Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"disabled)' at line 1 I am running dovecot 0.99.14 Thanks, Radu

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test72
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ I'm not sure if this was test71-specific or if it also happened with test70, but anyway IMAP process was hanging in some situations (I think POP3 hang was fixed though? :). So, fixed that.

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[Dovecot] Virtual users with sendmail ...
by Jordan Hayes 31 May '05

31 May '05

A quick search of the Wiki for the term "sendmail" reveals zero hits. Are all Dovecot users just sufficiently enlightened that they don't use sendmail? :-) Anyone have any tips (other than to not use it)? Thanks, /jordan

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