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[Dovecot] duplicate message headers in Thunderbird with dovecot server
by Matt McClure 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

I've been trying to diagnose some strange interaction between dovecot and Mozilla Thunderbird. If two clients are connected to a dovecot IMAP server, Mozilla-based clients start showing multiple messages in the message list for each message that arrives after the sessions were started. There is really only one copy of the message in the mbox file on the server. However, its UID changes repeatedly during the session, and Mozilla gets confused. From looking at Thunderbird's log of the IMAP conversation, it seems the message sequence number does not change, and I'm guessing that other clients handle the situation better because of this. Nevertheless, I found this in the IMAP RFC 3501, so my interpretation is that there is a dovecot bug involved: The unique identifier of a message MUST NOT change during the session, and SHOULD NOT change between sessions. Any change of unique identifiers between sessions MUST be detectable using the UIDVALIDITY mechanism discussed below. Persistent unique identifiers are required for a client to resynchronize its state from a previous session with the server (e.g., disconnected or offline access clients); this is discussed further in [IMAP-DISC]. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a known solution? I've been logging what I've found so far at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209561 -- Matt Funky like your grandpa's drawers

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[Dovecot] 0.99 mail env
by Curtis Maloney 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Greetings, all Last night I migrated our mail between two machines... both running dovecot 0.99.xx. In the process, I wanted to make some small changes, namely that new mail be delivered to mboxs in /var/mail/%u and IMAP mail stored in Maildirs at ~/.imap ... I tried using: default_mail_env = maildir:~/.imap/:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u But had no luck. Is it only 1.0 that can work with two different mailbox formats? Or did I screw up somewhere else? In the end, it actualy saved me a fair bit of work, since I'd have had to move everyone's old inbox. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] IMAP session freezes
by Brad 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

I've been having IMAP sessions "freeze" with fetchmail trying to retrieve larger e-mails, typically over 20K and always with an attachment. When I switch to POP3 I am able to retrieve the same e-mails just fine. This started at test33. I'm currently using test42 on a OpenBSD 3.5/macppc system with Maildir.

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[Dovecot] Multiple domains
by Daniel L. Miller 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

How do I setup Dovecot to read both local UNIX account maildirs and a separate virtual user area? Or do I need to run two servers? Daniel

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test40
by Timo Sirainen 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Fixed dying with SIGIO signal with busy Maildir + Linux + IDLE system - Fixed maildir syncing: "UIDs not ordered in file" errors could have occured sometimes wrongly - --with-ioloop=epoll enables epoll code with Linux 2.6. Untested after my changes. - Pretty big changes in internal index handling code (I started this change 2-3 months ago..) Keywords are now the only big missing feature that is planned for v1.0.

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[Dovecot] "Invalid offset returned by binary tree"
by Andy Isaacson 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hi, I'm running 0.99.10 on OpenBSD 3.4/i386, with Squirrelmail as the only client. I recently had dovecot fail with this in syslog: Sep 10 14:34:55 pirx imap(alisgray): Corrupted index file /home/alisgray/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: Invalid offset returned by binary tree: 118 Sep 10 14:34:55 pirx dovecot: child 20827 (imap) killed with signal 11 Poking around some, I see that dovecot.org recommends mmap_no_write=yes for OpenBSD... but that option's not implemented in 0.99.10, afaics. Does the symptom I'm seeing match the expected failure mode of OpenBSD's noncoherent mmap? I deleted .imap.* (after saving a backup) and that seems to have fixed the problem. I can provide a copy of the bad file for debugging, if necessary. And of course, if it's a known bug fixed in 1.0-test, I'd be happy to upgrade. -andy

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test42
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - fixed the last remaining cache corruption problems (I hope, no known ones left) - internaldate was never read from cache, but it was always cached again. this grew cache file uselessly and triggered cache compression constantly - buffer_set_used_size() assertfixes with mmap_no_write=yes (although it hasn't been much tested since the recent large index file changes, hopefully works..) - POP3: Replaced timestamp in APOP challenge string with 128 bits of base64d randomness - Added pop3_enable_last setting to enable LAST command

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[Fwd: [Dovecot] login process died too early]
by Adrian Roye 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

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[Dovecot] About maildir
by Jean-Edouard Babin 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hi, i just discover dovecot, and it's what i always wanted to have i read that it support qmail Maildir, i use postfix, but read on postfix site that postfix Maildir are compatible with qmail. so i have something like /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/ i tried a simple setup to 'test' auth_userdb = static uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n auth_passdb = passwd-file /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot-passwd.conf all thing work exept that i don't see my email. dovecot has created /var/mail/vhosts/domaine.tld/testuser/mail/ and it seems that inbox email are stored in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/test3/mail/inbox (i have put an email on my inbox folder into my email client) but when i get a mail it's in /var/mail/vhosts/archives.jeb.be/.new/ so i'am wondering what is wrong, thank you, -- Jean-Edouard BABIN Mail: Jeb(a)jeb.com.fr Web : www.Jeb.com.fr IRC : Jeb @ Undernet

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[Dovecot] newbie question - no users can retrieve email (login works) pop3
by Web Enabled Info Systems 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

not sure where to go from here.... OS : Red Hat Fedora 2.6.5-1.358 #1 sendmail: sendmail dovecot version : 0.99.10.5 i can send email to the server. the email is then appended to the /var/mail/{user} file. i can view the /var/mail/{file} and see the email. i cannot retrieve the email from the local machine using Ximian Evolution (version 1.4.6). however if i use good ole #mail in a terminal it access the file and reads all emails. also as an added twist if i type in an incorrect email for the receiving email server it fails to login. however if i change it back it gets pass the login but it just hangs at retrieving messages. (again this is all on the local machine) i am sure i am just leaving out a pointer or permissions, or something crazy like that... thanks in advance Jack Taffar

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test41
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I think this release should be quite stable one. - fixes parsing mails with header lines longer than 8192 bytes - cache file corruption fixes - fixed "corrupted offset in mbox file" errors - don't return extra INBOX replies in LIST Those mbox and cache problems were pretty tricky to figure out. Thanks to Tomi Hakala for tons of testing while I tried to fix them. I've also began working with keywords support which hopefully doesn't take too long to finish. After that 1.0-alpha1 should be near.

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[Dovecot] mail not received from dovecot
by Tanim Islam 12 Sep '04

12 Sep '04

Hello all, I cannot receive emails to my dovecot IMAP server. Are there any WIKIs or anything in the dovecot mailing list that can address this issue? I use fedora core and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. Tanim Islam

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0-test32 fails with assertion
by dovecot 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hello, dovecot-1.0-test32 continuously fails on one of our customers mboxes with the following error: Sep 11 16:27:15 web dovecot: POP3(xxxxxxxxxxxxx.de1): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 360 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == -mails[idx].space) About 200 other mboxes are working perfectly on the same server. Where should I start looking for the cause of this? Regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] Errors with NFS root filesystem?
by Nate Carlson 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hey all, I've been testing out Dovecot, and it works nicely. However, when I tried to roll it to my production server, I'm getting the following error: Sep 10 17:14:22 tungsten imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to get list of authentication servers: Stale NFS file handle Any ideas on what I can do for this? I am running on a NFS root filesystem on the production server, so that's likely where this error is coming from. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars(a)natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Re: evolution/dovecot
by Stephen Waters 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:57, Stephen Waters wrote: > This bug may interest you: > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65679 I've updated it... looks like there's a problem with using /var/spool/mail/user for INBOX and subfolder creation/deletion using mbox in ~/Mail. The result is this: Request: A00099 LIST "" INBOX Response: * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX Request: A00100 LIST "" {7+} Response: * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "INBOX/" Which makes Evolution think INBOX is unreadable. :) Thanks for looking at this. -s

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[Dovecot] pop/imap & smtp auth installation with just one userdb
by Christoph Steigmeier 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi First of all thanks to the authors of dovecot. It's a pleasure to work with it. I would like to ask, if somebody has an idea about how I can combine all mailusers (dovecot pop/imap & sendmail smtp) into one db, given that I'd like to use sasl with CRAM-MD5 as authentication mechanism to ensure security. The idea behind my question is, that it is easier to administer all mail users, which in my case are mostly non-interactive users, into one db, instead of creating native unix accounts for them. Any input appreciated. Thanks and Kind regards Chris

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[Dovecot] Re: 0.99 mail env - mbox to maildir
by C.Lee Taylor 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Greetings ... > I'm all sorted now, anyway... but it has inspired me to build > a mailbox conversion tool using the dovecot mail handling > code.... watch this space. mbox to maildir converter ... There are a few perl scripts which could do this ... But I like the idea of mbox to maildir in dovecot ... But I wonder if that is the right place to put it ... Mailed Lee P.S. If anybody has scripts or a system that moves mail from mbox to maildir, I would be happy to use them ... I run FC2, with procmailrc setting maildir, but it seems when the system is busy or something, my mail is still put into mbox ...

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[Dovecot] ah ha!!
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

i don't know what happened, but it just started giving me better errors. i had to set first_valid_uid=100 since that's where my users start. wow, dovecot is FAST. -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by Brad.Allen＠edwardjones.com 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

I am having this same problem. We are running on a Solaris 8 server and Dovecot puts a blank line at the top of the mailbox and can no longer process until the line is deleted. Any idea how to fix this? Brad Allen IS EMS Projects and Planning

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[Dovecot] Internal login failure
by Brian Hechinger 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

ok, so, dovecot 0.99.11, Solaris 9. i have: auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow in my dovecot.conf, which gets me logged into dovecot in the first place, but then i get: Sep 9 09:52:41 ford.4amlunch.net imap-login: [ID 457029 mail.info] Internal login failure: wonko [10.0.1.6] in /var/log/syslog how do i track down exactly what the problem is so i can fix it? i would love to add SSL to my imap service, and don't care to mess with cyrus seeing how dovecot seems to be so nice. thanks!! -brian -- "The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected facts, the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit." -- Nic Clews

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Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Timo Sirainen 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

On 6.9.2004, at 03:28, Zoong Pham wrote: > > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes? Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in 1.0-tests..

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[Dovecot] Problem with mysql...
by Jacek Osiecki 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hello, I am trying to run dovecot on my Linux. I am using an exim 3.30 as the MTA with vmail-sql virtual users. I have installed latest dovecot release and ran through the config file. Some options seemed unclear to me, but generally I think it is OK. The problem is, that MySQL authentication does not work. It even does not try to authenticate! Dovecot connects correctly with MySQL database, but then no activity is shown in MySQL logs - but when I try to login manually with the telnet, i get: [root@mainframe root]# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1.143... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 login [my_email] [my_password] 1 NO Authentication failed. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I have spent two days with this problem, even modifying source files could not help me localize the source of my troubles :( Here are the important (I think) entries from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ------- # Authentication process name. auth = default # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 anonymous auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf ------- Any suggestions? Best regards, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl Poland

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[Dovecot] Mail cut on CR character
by Tom Mraz 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hi all, when I move the attached mail from local folder in Mozilla to an IMAP folder on dovecot, it is cut just before the ... characters. There is an extra CR character. I have setup the dovecot to use Maildirs. When I copy the file with the message manualy to one of the Maildir folders it is shown correctly in Mozilla however it if I move it using Mozilla to another IMAP folder the mail is cut again. Thanks for any reply, Tomas Mraz P.S. Using self compiled dovecot 0.99.11 on Fedora Core 2 >From - Wed Sep 8 08:18:55 2004 X-UIDL: 2f50f9a50ff6d9a016b79e964aa3bbg9 >From users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org Tue Sep 7 20:39:39 2004 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44525 "HELO data2.centrum.cz") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S2310612AbUIGSjU>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:39:20 +0200 X-Virus-Scanner: This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus system NOD32 for Linux Mail Server. For more information on NOD32 Antivirus System, please, visit our website: http://www.nod32.com/. Received: from s002.sfo.collab.net ([64.125.133.202]:62908 "HELO openoffice.org") by mail.centrum.cz with SMTP id <S279819AbUIGSiB>; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:38:01 +0200 X-SpamDetected: 0 Received: (qmail 13761 invoked by uid 5302); 7 Sep 2004 18:38:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: <mailto:users-help@cs.openoffice.org> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:users-unsubscribe@cs.openoffice.org> list-post: <mailto:users@cs.openoffice.org> Reply-To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: mailing list users(a)cs.openoffice.org Delivered-To: moderator for users(a)cs.openoffice.org Received: (qmail 29370 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2004 16:57:14 -0000 Message-ID: <413DF687.5010705(a)zoznam.sk> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:57:27 +0100 From: Skusac <skus(a)zoznam.sk> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users(a)cs.openoffice.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: CSS Styly Return-Path: <users-return-3131-t8m=centrum.cz(a)cs.openoffice.org> X-Orcpt: rfc822;t8m(a)mail3.centrum.cz Zdravim, ako sa daju pouzivat css styly v Open Office? Potrebujem aby styly boli v externom dokumente napr styly.css a v dokumente html aby bol len link na styly. Mne to vzdy link vyhodi a uklada mi styly priamo do html dokumentu. Skusal som to ukladat aj pre HTML 3.2 aj s pomocou ignore font settings, vtedy styly neuklada, ale zase popisuje farby, velkosti ... pre kazdu cast textu. Ale styly si to z externeho .css dokumentu nenatiahne. Tools->Options->Load/Save->HTML Compatibility (Sorry za anglicku verziu) Vdaka za prispevky. Alex Fischer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe(a)cs.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help(a)cs.openoffice.org

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[Dovecot] better way to create home dirs for mail servers
by ramana 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Dear all, Autodir is for creating home directories and group directories much better then pam_mkhomedir as pam_mkhomedir does suffer some limitations like, 1) There are some applications which never need to authenticate users But they need home dirs -- for example mail servers configured to use home dirs for mail delivery and storage but not configured to use pam. 2) Some do use other ways to authenticate, bypassing pam all together. 3) Servers must be root so that pam can create home dirs. Otherwise make /home similar in permissions to /tmp And there are other interesting features with Autodir like transparent backup for 24x7 online systems and many more. Autodir uses autofs kernel module to transparently create home dirs And for more information check http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/ And here is Autodir-HOWTO http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download Regards ramana -- http://www.intraperson.com

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[Dovecot] Workaround for outlook UIDL handling bug ??
by Nikolaus Gerstmayr 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Scenario: Using Dovecot 0.99.10.9 as pop3 server. With delete on retrival off. clients: outlook* Problem: Everytihng work perfectly, except that outlooks keeps re-downloading SOME mail over and over. Though it already got them. No obvious pattern which, but only a small percentage. First of I looked at dovecots UIDLs. Initialy I thought it's broken (see my previous thread) Sorry for even thinking that, it's ok, my bad :) Rather, outlooks UIDL handling seems to be very broken :( But I think I found an easy workaround. Dovecots UIDLS seem to be timestamp.message# eg. 1 1093990148.1 2 1093990148.2 3 1093990148.3 4 1093990148.4 5 1093990148.5 6 1093990148.6 7 1093990148.7 8 1093990148.8 9 1093990148.9 10 1093990148.10 11 1093990148.11 12 1093990148.12 The problems started with #10 -> Asumption: outlook falsy only takes a fixed numbers of chars to hold the UIDL, the rest ist ignored. Perhaps only the first 13 or so. What I did is reversing the order in UIDL generation. Instead of timestamp.message# -> message#.timestamp. Seems to work perfectly. Well, a bit too early too tell if it really works. Need to wait a couple of days and see if the problem re-appears or not. The only thing I'm 100% sure is that outlooks UIDL handling is broken. BTW: very nice source code. Very easy to follow, took me 5 minutes to find the correct .c and routine. In /pop3/command.c, list_uids() all I changed is ... mail->seq, client->uidvality, mail->uid to mail->seq, mail->uid, client->uidvality. (2 times) If anyone is interested, I'll keep you informed if the problem is really gone with this mini-patch.

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[Dovecot] Comments on planned migration to Dovecot
by Rory Campbell-Lange 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Our office of about 100 users is presently running its mail through an Exchange 5.5 Server. The Exchange server is protected by Linux server pass-through server running Exim4. We intend to move all of our mail and directory services to open source software, probably Exim4, Dovecot and OpenLDAP. We have a mixture of mail clients. These include Mac OS9 Entourage (about 30%), OSX Entourage (20%) and Apple Mail (50%). About 30 individuals also look in to their mailboxes using squirrelmail. Each user is permitted a mailbox of no more than 20MB in size. Project mailboxes may rise to 200MB, however, with up to 5 simultaneous users connection to each project mailbox. I would be grateful for comments on the suitability of deploying Dovecot in this production environment. I already use Dovecot for a small number of users in a different environment (Mac Eudora, XP Outlook, Squirrelmail) and it appears to work without fault. Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Maildir++ support]
by Maykel Moya 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

> In the homepage said that dovecot doesn't yet support maildir++, but in > http://dovecot.org/doc/mail-storages.txt said 'we support maildir++'. > > My question is: does dovecot support maildir++ ? > > Regards > mike

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[Dovecot] Dovecot quota support
by Alton Yu 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Sorry if this question has already been answered. I'm just thought that maybe I could get an answer here faster than my research. I'm currently using squirrelmail and there's a plugin that supports quota compatible with Courier. Does dovecot have the same support? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: dovecot bug case] Reproducably make "imap" loop.
by Grahame Bowland 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Hi guys I noticed a few people talking about a bug where "imap" processes loop. Bruce has managed to reproduce the bug. Anyone know if this has been fixed in CVS, or is it an unfixed problem? Cheers Grahame

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RE: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Zoong Pham 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > Sent: Monday, 6 September 2004 6:34 PM > To: Zoong Pham > Cc: Dovecot mailing list > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation > > Probably because one of the lines in it is larger then 4096 bytes? > Header parser doesn't really like that. I should get that fixed in > 1.0-tests.. > I just check the problematic mailbox. The maximum line length is 2047 characters. Most of them are around 1300 characters. Thanks, Zoong THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy, forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. MERCY HEALTH & AGED CARE is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year, one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) *Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo *Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury *Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose *Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo

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RE: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Jamie Heckford 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

> > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. > I've noticed this using maildir, luckily we have an SMP server so it doesn't affect it to much, but obviously I would like to stop it. Doesn't happen to all users and doesn't seem to be dependent on size of Maildir, sending SIGTERM makes it go away and then the user opens the mailbox again and I see normal CPU usage. However 3-4 hours later it will happen again. Using FreeBSD 4.9 and dovecot-0.99.10.4, postfix 2.0.18 as MTA. If theres any other info that would be useful (this is probably the most vauge description I can manage, but its all the info I have) then let me know and I can provide. Ta Jamie

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] [RFC] epoll based ioloop handler
by Andrey Panin 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hello, this patch adds ioloop handler using Linux 2.6 epoll API. I'm not sure is it ready for inclusion right now, but it works for me and survives deadconn test with 1024 simultaneous connections. Please take a look and comment. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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Re: [Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Lasse Danielsen 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

I have some experience with OBSD, squirrel, vpopmail and dovecot. In my experience it would hang like that if squirrel was set up to sort/thread (or whatever the settings was named). try to turn such things off and see if that helps. -- Lasse Danielsen lasse(a)danielsen.tk -- No part of this message may reproduce, store itself in a retrieval system, or transmit disease, in any form, without the permissiveness of the author. > > Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing > (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen > with other mailboxes. > The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. > They are all in mbox format. > > OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all patches > MTA: Sendmail-8.12.11 > It happened with other RCs of dovecot-0.9.11 > Configured as: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow > --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl > --with-ssl=openssl > > There is no strange information in /var/log/maillog except the > normal ones like: > Sep 6 10:12:40 onion imap-login: Login: zoong [127.0.0.1] > > The pop or imap clients (mutt and squirrel-1.4.3a) just stay at "opening > INBOX ...". > mutt can open directly the mailbox without any problem. > I rebooted the server and problem still happening. > > Can someone advise how to find out what's wrong here? > I guess there is some kind of corruption within the mailbox. > > Thanks, > Zoong PHAM > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error > please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal > information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this > email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise > disseminate any information it contains. > Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. > Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we > provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. > Our services include: > * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) > * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - > Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - > Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * > Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for > the Aged - Bendigo * > -- Lasse Danielsen lasse(a)danielsen.tk -- No part of this message may reproduce, store itself in a retrieval system, or transmit disease, in any form, without the permissiveness of the author. Random Thought: -------------- There was a young lady named Ransom Who was rogered three times in a hansom. When she cried out for more A voice from the floor Replied, "My name is Simpson, not Samson."

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[Dovecot] POP3 and big mailboxes
by Sergey Matveychuk 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hello. Today one of my users has returned from vacation and his mailbox has grown to 67 Mbyte in 1705 e-mails. dovecot can't index this mailbox with this message (i've changed username with 'xxx'): pop3-login: Sep 06 10:03:43 Info: Login: xxx [172.16.4.9] pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/xxx: LF not found where expected pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/xxx: LF not found where expected pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Warning: I/O leak: 0x8050600 (0) pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Warning: I/O leak: 0x80858f0 (1) pop3(xxx): Sep 06 10:03:43 Warning: Timeout leak: 0x8065b90 Is it a bug in dovecot? PS. dovecot-0.99.10.9 on FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (a month before BETA1 released). -- Sem.

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[Dovecot] v0.99.11 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

v0.99.11 2004-09-04 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + 127.* and ::1 IP addresses are treated as secured with disable_plaintext_auth = yes + auth_debug setting for extra authentication debugging + Some documentation and error message updates + Create PID file in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid + home setting is now optional in static userdb + Added mail setting to static userdb - After APPENDing to selected mailbox Dovecot didn't always notice the new mail immediately which broke some clients - THREAD and SORT commands crashed with some mails - If APPENDed mail ended with CR character, Dovecot aborted the saving - Output streams sometimes sent data duplicated and lost part of it. This could have caused various strange problems, but looks like in practise it rarely caused real problems.

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[Dovecot] 100% CPU utilisation
by Zoong Pham 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Dovecot (0.9.11) consumes 100% CPU utilisation when accessing (either pop or imap) one of my mailboxes. It doesn't happen with other mailboxes. The mailbox has about 500 mails while others have many more. They are all in mbox format. OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all patches MTA: Sendmail-8.12.11 It happened with other RCs of dovecot-0.9.11 Configured as: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl There is no strange information in /var/log/maillog except the normal ones like: Sep 6 10:12:40 onion imap-login: Login: zoong [127.0.0.1] The pop or imap clients (mutt and squirrel-1.4.3a) just stay at "opening INBOX ...". mutt can open directly the mailbox without any problem. I rebooted the server and problem still happening. Can someone advise how to find out what's wrong here? I guess there is some kind of corruption within the mailbox. Thanks, Zoong PHAM ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] Plaintext Authentication from Localhost
by Paul C. Bryan 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hi: It appears that at least at one time, Dovecot supported plaintext authentication from localhost, even if disable_plaintext_auth = yes. To wit, the example configuration file reads: # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. #disable_plaintext_auth = yes On brief inspection of the code, there doesn't seem to be any such support. This is corroborated by the fact that 0.99.10 (Debian package) behaves by disallowing plaintext authentication via connections on localhost. This is a particularly useful feature, as local webmail clients can safely authenticate via the local interface without requiring secure authentication. So, the question is, is Dovecot supposed to support plaintext auth via localhost even if disallowed in dovecot.conf? If so, any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong? Yours truly, Paul C. Bryan email(a)pbryan.net

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[Dovecot] pam_access
by Programmer 05 Sep '04

05 Sep '04

I've discoverd when I add the line pam_access for access authentication, It always denys a login, even when access.conf accepts everything. I've tested this with other programs, and they work okay. Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] file ostream-file.c: assertion failed with v1.0-test38
by Wouter Van Hemel 05 Sep '04

05 Sep '04

Hello, I've some troubles logging in after upgrading to -test38. The error in the logs says: Sep 4 02:34:38 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: username [123.123.123.123] Sep 4 02:34:48 hostname dovecot: IMAP(username): file ostream-file.c: line 105 (update_buffer): assertion failed: (size <= used) Sep 4 02:34:48 hostname dovecot: child 28966 (imap) returned error 1 Regards, wouter

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test39
by Timo Sirainen 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixes several crashes. Apparently can still break with mboxes, although it works with me..

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[Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc3
by Timo Sirainen 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Maybe this one works? :)

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[Dovecot] link() problem with dovecot-imapd
by James Ray 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

I'm having a few problems with dovecot-imapd (installed from debian unstable) and am after some much needed help, all is set up and configured, except for this final problem of when I try and move or copy a message from one Maildir to another. I have the option "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no" in the the dovecot.conf file but it still seems to be trying to link() the file instead of doing a proper copy. There is a log fragment below for when I try to do a move, the FS that my Maildir is on doesn't support link() hence the problem. It seems to be doing a proper copy to get it into the tmp/ part of the Maildir and then a link() to put it in new/. Any ideas on how to cure this? Log output;l -- Sep 2 18:44:29 indulgence imap(jamesr): link(/home/jamesr/Mail/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/tmp/1094147066.P2339Q0M915274.indulgence, /home/jamesr/Mail/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/new/1094147066.P2339Q0M915274.indulgence:2,Sa) failed: Operation not permitted James 'BR' Ray - EMail : jamesr(a)pethippo.co.uk (Primary) - EMail : j.ray(a)herts.ac.uk (University) - Web : http://www.pethippo.co.uk/ - PGP : http://www.pethippo.co.uk/in.php/pgp

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RE: [Dovecot] file ostream-file.c: assertion failed with v1.0-test38
by dovecot 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Hi, > IMAP(username): file ostream-file.c: line 105 > (update_buffer): assertion failed: (size <= used) Sep 4 Same error occurs here, using test38 on Fedora Core 1. For me, the error occurs only using Outlook (2003 in my case). Horde's WebMail client IMP and OpenNMS' IMAP poller work fine though. Reverting back to test32 helped, after I found out about a recent change in ostream-file.c in CVS aroung August 15. BTW, test32 fixes the mbox 'empty lines at beginning of file' corruption problem someone reported here lately too. Regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] "not listening" errors fdpass.c
by christian sherwood 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

I'm getting a flood of errors that look like: Sep 3 13:27:02 localhost dovecot: login: received another "not listening" notification (if you can't login at all, see src/lib/fdpass.c) every few minutes. Versions: Dovecot: 0.99.10.9 Exim: 4.34 Debian Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp Squirrelmail: 1.4.3a Although the majority of users (99%) have no problems logging in and reading their mail, occasionally one user gets timeouts when trying to access their mailbox, seems to correlate with the errors. I can't locate fdpass.c, so what does this error indicate?

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[Dovecot] isync with dovecot
by tino.keitel＠gmx.de 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Hi folks, I use isync, an IMAP sync tool (Debian package isync 0.9.2-2) together with dovecot (dovecot-imapd 0.99.10.8-0.backports.org.1). Everytime when isync wants to upload a new mail from the client to the server I got messages like this: Mailbox outbox Selecting IMAP mailbox... >>> 16 SELECT "outbox" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1580 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1092995697] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1581] Predicted next UID 16 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 1580 messages, 0 recent Reading IMAP mailbox index >>> 17 UID FETCH 1:* (FLAGS) * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Seen)) * 2 FETCH (UID 2 FLAGS (\Seen)) [...] * 1579 FETCH (UID 1579 FLAGS (\Seen)) * 1580 FETCH (UID 1580 FLAGS (\Seen)) 17 OK Fetch completed. Synchronizing Uploading messages.>>> 18 APPEND outbox (\Seen) {360} + OK 18 OK Append completed. >>> 19 UID SEARCH HEADER X-TUID 4136367cd15e45705 * SEARCH IMAP error: incomplete SEARCH response 19 OK Search completed. warning: no UID for new messge 1094071902.22258_2.thinkpad:2,S 1 messages. Fetching new messages... 0 messages My concern is the line "IMAP error: incomplete SEARCH response". I already saw this mesage with old versions of courier-imap, which won't return an APPENDUID tag so the client doesn't know which UID will be used for the uploaded message (this was the explanation I got). Is there any way to get dovecot to return the UID when a message is uploaded? Regards, Tino

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Re: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Timo Sirainen 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

On 3.9.2004, at 02:45, Zoong Pham wrote: > I started dovecot the same way > as dovecot-0.99.10.9 and with the same config file. > The return code is 0 but there are no dovecot processes at all. > And the POP3 client can't connect. netstat reports port 110 (for POP3) > is not listening. Dovecot probably crashed while trying to create the pid file and didn't start at all. I was wondering today that no-one noticed this, but I also noticed it only after trying to run it in Solaris, with Linux it worked fine. (I hate t_strconcat() API but I just can't get myself to stop using it.)

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RE: Re[2]: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Zoong Pham 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Nikolaus Gerstmayr [mailto:Nikolaus_Gerstmayr@gmx.at] > Sent: Friday, 3 September 2004 9:49 AM > To: Zoong Pham > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re[2]: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2 > > > Currently, I restored the backup of dovecot-0.99.10.9 > binary and everying > > works again. > > > Having EXACLTY the same problem. > > no error message whatsoever. > no dovecot process. > > "reverted" to 0.99.10.9 My "backup" of dovecot-0.99.10.9 is giving me this error: Sep 3 12:13:31 onion pop3(user1): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /var/www/htdocs/user1/Mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index Sep 3 12:18:31 onion pop3(user1): Timeout while waiting for release of fcntl() lock for mbox file /var/mail/user1 Sep 3 12:18:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c00866c (0) Sep 3 12:18:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c03441c (1) How can I remove the lock? Can I simply remove the file /var/www/htdocs/user1/Mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index and start dovecot again ? Thanks, Zoong ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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RE: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2
by Zoong Pham 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On > Behalf Of Timo Sirainen > Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 9:01 PM > To: Dovecot mailing list > Subject: [Dovecot] 0.99.11-rc2 > > > http://dovecot.org/rc/ > > Changes since rc1: > > + Create PID file in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid > - THREAD and SORT commands crashed with some mails I configured, compiled and installed the RC2 the same way as dovecot-0.99.10.9. There were no error at all. Here is how I configured: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl I also ran these: - mkdir /var/run/dovecot - chown _dovecot:_dovecot /var/run/dovecot I started dovecot the same way as dovecot-0.99.10.9 and with the same config file. The return code is 0 but there are no dovecot processes at all. And the POP3 client can't connect. netstat reports port 110 (for POP3) is not listening. What's wrong here? How can I turn on debugging with dovecot? Currently, I restored the backup of dovecot-0.99.10.9 binary and everying works again. Thanks, Zoong ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] mail location questions
by Chris 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi all, I'm reading the docs and confs and it's not quite sinking in, mostly cuz I've been reading IMAP docs for a week now trying to find one that I want. :) I have a mail server that will have about 800 webmail users without actual home directories. Can I set up the IMAP dir in another location, like /var/imap, where everyone can read/store their mail? Or just use the /var/spool/mail/<user> mbox file and make a sub dir for the indexing files? Sorry if this is basic, all I saw was ~/Maildir locs. :P Thanks! -- C

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[Dovecot] What version am I running
by Mark Lidstone 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi all, This is probably a silly question, but is there an easy way to get the dovecot executable to report it's version number? Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== ==

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