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[Dovecot] RFC: PAM service name change?
by Jeremy Katz 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

It would be nice for the sake of not conflicting to have the PAM service name not be imap. Especially as the same service name is used for pop as well :) My recommendation would be to use dovecot instead. Any other opinions? Jeremy

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 23 Jun '03

23 Jun '03

Home again. Fixed SSL checking for Redhat 9, I hope. Could someone test if it actually works now? Also fixed a few compiler warnings. If this thing works, I'll just update the NEWS file and call it 0.99.10. http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/rc/ Near future plans include rewriting parts of index handling. At least .tree file will go, I've a _much_ better idea how to replace it. .data file is also too bloaty and it's a bit difficult to add new fields into it. I'd have to figure out some better API to access it. I've also been worrying about locking.. If we want to share indexes between many clients, lock contention will become a problem. For example a "FETCH 1:* BODY[]" could take a long time and index can't be modified while it's being done. I'm not really sure what to do about this.. Probably some more fine graned locking and maybe some kind of transaction log where changes are written if you couldn't get exclusive lock.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and LDAP problems
by Spectron International, Inc. 22 Jun '03

22 Jun '03

I'm having problems with dovecot and OpenLDAP. I installed both, and configured both. /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf exists and I modified dovecot.conf to have... auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf ...but the log displays the following: Jun 19 13:59:15 backup dovecot-auth: Unknown userdb type 'ldap' Jun 19 13:59:15 backup dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 19 13:59:15 backup dovecot: child 4187 (auth) returned error 89 the auth_userdb and auth_passdb seem to be ok, so what am I missing? Faw

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[Dovecot] Bug?
by Steve Gare 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

Hi, Been using Dovecot for a few weeks now, must say it's very good.. I've been looking for a 'drop in' replacement for UWImap for ages! :) but just recently It's been giving me a few problem, I haven't tracked down exactly what causes the problem yet (I'm using Apple Mail on OS X 10.2.6) but after a good mail session it keep trying to log in over and over again.. Looking the the log file I find this... Jun 20 15:38:02 neuron imap-login: Login: sgare [IP REMOVED] Jun 20 15:38:02 neuron imap(sgare): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 263 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Jun 20 15:38:02 neuron dovecot: child 6329 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jun 20 15:38:02 neuron imap-login: Login: sgare [IP REMOVED] Jun 20 15:38:02 neuron imap(sgare): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 263 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Jun 20 15:38:02 neuron dovecot: child 6331 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jun 20 15:38:02 neuron imap-login: Login: sgare [IP REMOVED] Jun 20 15:38:03 neuron imap(sgare): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 263 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Jun 20 15:38:03 neuron dovecot: child 6332 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jun 20 15:38:03 neuron imap-login: Login: sgare [IP REMOVED] Jun 20 15:38:03 neuron imap(sgare): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 263 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Jun 20 15:38:03 neuron dovecot: child 6333 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jun 20 15:38:03 neuron imap-login: Login: sgare [IP REMOVED] Cheers, Steve Gare - Xantara.Net -- 0845 123 5707

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[Dovecot] NetBSD pkgsrc maintanance
by tom hensel 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

hi all, i've taken over the maintainership of dovecot's pkgsrc on NetBSD - please send me your ideas, questions and comments related to dovecot on NetBSD. FreeBSD's port has currently some more 'features' than the pkgsrc, i'm going to add some of them - any feedback is appreciated. bye, TOM

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 2, Issue 15
by ohp＠pyrenet.fr 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

> >Message: 2 >Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:21:08 +0200 (CEST) >From: Andreas Aardal Hanssen <dovecot(a)andreas.hanssen.name> >Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Multiple auth howto >To: Dovecot mailing list <dovecot(a)procontrol.fi> >Message-ID: > <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306181319060.29812-100000(a)shusaku.troll.no> >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 ohp(a)pyrenet.fr wrote: >>> Well, short answer: You can't. Put them all to one place (eg. pgsql), >>> maybe using some automated scripts. I don't know if I should even >>> consider about supporting fallbacking.. >>Hi Timo, Thanks for your answer. >>The reason I came to dovcot is that I thought it was possible. I've benn >>researching this for weeks now. First thought that cyrus would do that, it >>does but though SASL and pam whitch I don't have. >>How difficult would it be to implement a fallback? > >Does this tool do what you want? (checkpassword only though, but I bet you >will find checkpassword compatible authenticators that suit your needs): > >http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/software/multichkpwds.c It surely is interesting bu I'd rather see modules inside the server, see below > >-- >Andreas Aardal Hanssen > > > >------------------------------ >Message: 4 >Date: 18 Jun 2003 15:31:36 +0300 >From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> >Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Multiple auth howto >To: dovecot(a)procontrol.fi >Message-ID: <1055939496.10262.163.camel@hurina> >Content-Type: text/plain > >On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:05, ohp(a)pyrenet.fr wrote: >> > Well, short answer: You can't. Put them all to one place (eg. pgsql), >> > maybe using some automated scripts. I don't know if I should even >> > consider about supporting fallbacking.. >> > >> > >> Hi Timo, Thanks for your answer. >> The reason I came to dovcot is that I thought it was possible. I've benn >> researching this for weeks now. First thought that cyrus would do that, it >> does but though SASL and pam whitch I don't have. >> >> How difficult would it be to implement a fallback? > >Not very. I'm mostly concerned about what happens if the user exists in >both authenticators. I guess normally this shouldn't happen, but you >can't really guarantee that and mistakes happen.. Yes mistakes happen. Why could'nt you (we?) do like proftpd that has a parameter that give the order of authenticators first one wins. That way you could even have the same user as a real and virtual account with differents passwords > >If fallbacking happened only when user isn't found from first >authenticator, that could work a bit more safely, but I'm not sure if I >can know with PAM if check failed because user wasn't found or because >password didn't match. I don't know either. My idea is to get rid of PAM for that's although fantastic on the paper is a Linux thing that I can't even compile here. Regards -- Olivier PRENANT Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work) Quartier d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax) 31190 AUTERIVE +33-6-07-63-80-64 (GSM) FRANCE Email: ohp(a)pyrenet.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your life a dream, make your dream a reality. (St Exupery)

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[Dovecot] \0\n at end of lines
by Mike Grupenhoff 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

Since upgrading to -test11, mail fetched from imap has every line terminated with a nul and a newline ("\0\n"). This also happens with -test12. It seems to happen with both mbox and maildir. I'm running on NetBSD/sparc (NetBSD-current as of April 1, 1.6Q). If it matters, I have "mail_save_crlf" set to "no" and "mail_read_mmaped" also set to "no". I can't find any other options that look like they could be relevant. Any ideas? Thanks, mike

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-test12
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/test/ I should have released 0.99.10 already I think.. There's just two annoying problems that I think should be fixed first: - PAM: If user gives a wrong password, dovecot-auth process sleeps for two seconds, blocking everyone else who are trying to authenticate at the time. So using PAM isn't very good idea at the moment. - OpenSSL problems. Are they really my fault? I have no idea what I could be doing wrong. Maybe some compile option is wrong? Also I should try to use pkg-config to get compile flags if it exists in configure. The new things in -test12 then: - We sync mailbox less often. Only NOOP and CHECK will force a mailbox sync now. Other commands do it also but only if mailbox hasn't been synced in last 5 seconds. Maybe this reduces some I/O. At least a bit less stat() calls :) - Dirty maildir flag flushing work now. Meaning that if you change message flags but rename() fails because you're out of quota, the flags are changed in index file and dirty-flag is set. Once in a while it tries to flush the dirty flags by rename()ing the file again. - IMAP RFC requires that NUL characters are never sent to client. We do now the same as UW-IMAP by sending ascii 128 chars instead.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-test13
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/test/ - Hopefully OpenSSL is fixed :) - We sometimes produced invalid ENVELOPE with 8bit headers. That could really have broken things (broke it in test12). So, what's left is to make PAM work well..

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[Dovecot] Multiple auth howto
by ohp＠pyrenet.fr 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

Howdi. I'm new to dovcot (just succeded in compiling on unixware 713 today) I'm noww configuring for tests on other port. The sample configuration file is pretty well documented, however, I don't understand how I can firstt authenticate against passwd/shadow if not found against pgsql. What's the syntax? Please cc responses as I'm subscribed to digest TIA Reghards -- Olivier PRENANT Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work) Quartier d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax) 31190 AUTERIVE +33-6-07-63-80-64 (GSM) FRANCE Email: ohp(a)pyrenet.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your life a dream, make your dream a reality. (St Exupery)

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[Dovecot] imaps now works!
by Farkas Levente 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

thanks! -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] SASL Support
by Ken Crain 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

I need to support Outlook/Outlook Express users of Sendmail with SMTP Authorization. From what I can see, the LOGIN method available in Outlook/Outlook Express is the only applicable way to go at this time. It appears it is not supported in Dovecot right now. Is this correct and, if so, how would I go about adding this support?

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[Dovecot] crash on LIST command
by Wouter Van Hemel 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hello, I'm experiencing a reproducable crash in the imap daemon of dovecot 0.99.9.1 when running the next commands (sniffed from a sylpheed session): [cocaine:~] telnet ice 143 Trying 192.168.196.1... Connected to ice. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 NOOP 1 OK NOOP completed. 2 LOGIN wouter password 2 OK Logged in. 3 NAMESPACE 3 BAD Error in IMAP command: Unknown command 'NAMESPACE' 4 LIST "" "" * LIST (\Noselect) "/" "" 4 OK List completed. 5 LIST "" "%" Connection closed by foreign host. [cocaine:~] _ The log shows this: Jun 16 02:48:09 ice imap-login: Login: wouter [192.168.196.5] Jun 16 02:48:19 ice dovecot: child 1870 (imap) killed with signal 11 Looks like a segfault. [...] Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...done. Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. #0 0x8058469 in mbox_list_inbox (ctx=0x8098080) at mbox-list.c:333 333 if (ctx->dir->virtual_path != NULL) (gdb) bt #0 0x8058469 in mbox_list_inbox (ctx=0x8098080) at mbox-list.c:333 #1 0x805809e in mbox_list_mailbox_next (ctx=0x8098080) at mbox-list.c:193 #2 0x804b75a in list_unsorted (client=0x8096080, ctx=0x8098080, reply=0x807ed06 "LIST", sep=0xbfbffac4 "/", listext=0) at cmd-list.c:234 #3 0x804b9fa in _cmd_list_full (client=0x8096080, lsub=0) at cmd-list.c:341 #4 0x804ba8b in cmd_list (client=0x8096080) at cmd-list.c:365 #5 0x804d39e in client_handle_input (client=0x8096080) at client.c:306 #6 0x804d43d in _client_input (context=0x8096080) at client.c:342 #7 0x8078c87 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x808d060) at ioloop-poll.c:210 #8 0x8078745 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x808d060) at ioloop.c:295 #9 0x80524a9 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbffc2c, envp=0xbfbffc34) at main.c:166 #10 0x8049eb5 in _start () (gdb) _ This crash happens when adding an imap account to the sylpheed mailer. I also noticed other problematic log entries, which might or might not be related: Jun 16 00:28:36 ice imap-login: Login: wouter [192.168.196.5] Jun 16 00:28:36 ice imap(wouter): open() failed with file /usr/home/wouter/.mail/.imap/INBOX/.customflags: No such file or directory Jun 16 00:28:36 ice imap(wouter): Can't create temp index /usr/home/wouter/.mail/.imap/INBOX/.temp.hostname.domainname.tld.1728: No such file or directory ... this happens when an imap user connects and opens his/her INBOX for the first time, and the /usr/home/username/.mail/ directory doesn't exist yet. My DEFAULT_MAIL_ENV settings: #default_mail_env = mbox:~/.mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u default_mail_env = mbox:/usr/home/%u/.mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u (tried both) Manually adding the ~/.mail directory with mkdir takes care of the problem, but shouldn't this directory be created automatically when it doesn't exist? I can't expect every user to log in and first make this mail directory before they can use their mail account. Dovecot also refuses to show any folders at all, such as the INBOX, when it can't find it's mail(folders) directory. Is this intentional? Dovecot is running on a pretty standard (i386) FreeBSD 4.4 test machine with postfix and normal mbox-formatted inbox files. Thanks for any suggestions, wouter

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[Dovecot] Dovecot will not run on secure kernel.
by Ola Garstad 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

I am trying to run Dovecot on RH 7.3 with Linux kernel 2.4.20 + GrSecurity patch. I downloaded the RPM yesterday and installed it. When I start Dovecot the kernel reports: kernel: grsec: From 192.168.1.22: attempt to overstep process limit by (dovecot:14491) UID(0) EUID(0), parent (dovecot:23872) UID(0) EUID(0) I have never seen this problem in the 3 years I have used GrSecurity together with a lot of programs. GrSecurity explains: "Enforce RLIMIT_NPROC on execs. Users with a resource limit on processes will have the value checked during execve() calls. The current system only checks the system limit during fork() calls." Any ideas why Dovecot causes this problem? -- Ola

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[Dovecot] more newline related errors
by Mike Brown 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Should I be concerned about these errors? imap(msun): Jun 13 13:21:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /home/msun/mail/Deleted Messages: LF not found where expected imap(msun): Jun 13 13:39:08 Error: Corrupted binary tree for index /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: lookup returned index outside range (1 >= 0) imap(msun): Jun 13 13:44:07 Error: IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree imap(msun): Jun 13 13:44:07 Error: IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree imap(msun): Jun 13 13:44:07 Error: IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.log imap(msun): Jun 14 12:07:42 Error: Error indexing mbox file /home/msun/Mailbox: LF not found where expected imap(msun): Jun 14 12:08:27 Error: Corrupted index file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: Sequence 1 not found from binary tree (1 msgs says header) imap(msun): Jun 14 12:08:27 Error: Corrupted index file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: Sequence 1 not found from binary tree (1 msgs says header) imap(msun): Jun 14 12:08:27 Error: Corrupted index file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: Sequence 1 not found from binary tree (1 msgs says header) imap(msun): Jun 14 12:14:23 Error: IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree imap(msun): Jun 14 12:14:23 Error: IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree imap(msun): Jun 14 12:14:23 Error: IndexID mismatch for modify log file /home/msun/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.log imap(msun): Jun 15 11:34:58 Error: Error indexing mbox file /home/msun/Mailbox: LF not found where expected There was a patch required for the POP3 server to read mbox files that did not precede "From " lines with a blank line. Perhaps this is related? Thanks

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[Dovecot] bug in search? (fwd)
by Mark E. Mallett 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

I received this report and am passing it along.. mm > If all messages are marked for deletion, the following command returns > an empty list: > SEARCH DELETED > If all messages BUT one are marked for deletion the same command returns > a list of every message but one. > > If parens are used it works fine. > SEARCH (DELETED)

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[Dovecot] Deleting NFS-mounted Maildir subfolders fails
by Christian Ehrhardt 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

Hi, [ please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to the list ] I'm using dovecot-99.9.1 with a little hack to get authentication to work the way we want it. The server is running on a Solaris 9 host and user homes are mounted via NFS from a Solaris 8 server (Version doesn't seem to matter). Almost everything's fine but I can't delete maildir subfolders if these reside on a non local NFS-directory. The reason given is that the directory isn't empty and hence can't be deleted. Most likely the following happens: dovecot has the index file and other stuff in the maildir subfolder opened via NFS. When the delete request comes in dovecot deletes these files but doesn't close them. On normal unix file systems this is no Problem but with Solaris NFS these file's aren't actually deleted until they are (explicitly or implicitly) closed. Instead they are renamed to .nfs.<some digits>. These files will automatically vanish once they are closed. However, as long as they exist it is impossible to delete the directory where these files reside and rmdir fails. This is not a big deal and one may argue that dovecot is fine and the NFS implementation is in error. However, it would be cool if dovecot could atttempt to close all administrative files before it deletes them (or at least before it tries to delete the directory where these files reside). regards Christian Ehrhardt -- THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

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[Dovecot] Folder creation errors
by Mark E. Mallett 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

Hi- In a mbox environment: 1 login username password 1 OK Logged in. 2 create "slar" 2 NO Internal error [2003-06-11 15:44:56] 3 create "/slar" 3 NO Invalid mailbox name: /slar 4 create "Mail/slar" 4 OK Create completed. 5 create "./slar" 5 OK Create completed. 6 create "blar" 6 NO Internal error [2003-06-11 15:46:54] 7 logout * BYE Logging out 7 OK Logout completed. i.e. I get "internal error" if there is no path component in the folder name. Is this a problem? I would guess that "internal error" is always a problem :-) mm

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[Dovecot] Speed and memory probs writing large Maildir
by Robin Whittle 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

I have Dovecot 0.99.9.1 compiled from the source, without SSL, running on a Red Hat 9.0 system - EXT3 file system, Pentium Pro 233 MHz, Intel motherboard, 128M RAM, IBM 40Gig 7200 RPM HD. I find reading and searching to be nice and fast, and comparing it with Courier IMAP on a Celeron 824 MHz, I think Dovecot is generally not much slower, which means it may well be faster than Courier in some or many ways if it was running on the same machine. My only problem is when writing mailboxes with large numbers of messages. I use Mailir - the same arrangement as Courier IMAP. (I also find that Netscape 4.77 can't use mailboxes which are subfolders of others, but that is probably a Netscape config problem.) I am using Netscape 4.77 (Windows 2000 1.3 GHz Celeron, via 100Mbps switched Ethernet to the Linux machines) to do these tests since I find Netscape 7.02 to be much slower. Netscape 7.02 seems to want to resynch its notion of the mailbox repeatedly as it is writing to it. Without looking at the IMAP traffic (I don't know how) I would say that Netscape 4.77 is not doing this at all. Indeed, after the write, looking at the mailbox causes Netscape 4.77 to read the headers from the IMAP server - so I feel sure that its way of writing the messages is purely "write". Writing a mailbox with a small number of large messages, such as 20 x 100k messages is fine. There is no obvious speed problem or excessive memory use. When writing 2000 x 1k messages, it is totally different. Here are some times for writing from a Netscape 4.77 local mailbox to Dovecot and to Courier IMAP. Message Total Time CPU max Memory RSS size number size Seconds Approx Megs - max Dovecot 100k 100 10M 23 15% ~2 100k 20 2M ~5 ? 1.2 10k 200 2M 20 15% 4 ! 1k 2000 2M 230 60 32 !!!! Courier IMAP 100k 100 10M 14 5% ~1 100k 20 2M ~2 ? ? 10k 200 2M 9 5% ~0.6 1k 2000 2M 88 2% ~0.6 This 2000 message test is small compared to some of the mailboxes I have. I used a real-live mailbox, 6878 messages - 44 Megabytes in a single Mbox for a more demanding test. Using Netscape 4.77 to copy this to a Dovecot Maildir took a very long time - over 30 minutes. The process was fast at first and got slower and slower. As the number of messages in the destination Maildir increased, the memory usage went up and the speed reduced. It seems that RSS memory usage (as reported by "top -d 0.3" hit some kind of limit at about 49 Megs after 4000 messages and then went down a little to about 48 or less. CPU usage was 30 to 82%, fluctuating according to the moment top looked. At the end, I think it was only writing 1.5 messages a second. RSS is the "total amount of physical memory used by the task". The "SIZE" was even bigger - "code plus data plus stack". This got up to 114 Megs by the end of the writing process! After the write had finished, I made Netscape 4.77 view the destination mailbox. This caused Dovecot to send it all the headers, and again Dovecot had these huge memory usage figures. It seemed to read the mailbox at a decent speed - 20 seconds or so. But if I made Dovecot look at another mailbox, and then again at this big target mailbox (say with another client - Netscape 7), it would read the big mailbox at Dovecot's usual high speed - without the high memory usage and I think without high CPU usage as well. Without knowing anything about how Dovecot works, I imagine that there is some kind of caching algorithm for writes, and that this is retained until Dovecot (or at least the instance serving this client) is asked to look at another Maildir. It seems that reading is not slowed by this process much or at all - but writing gets progressively slower as the cache gets bigger. The memory usage - even 49 Megs for RSS - seems excessive. It reached that about halfway through writing the mailbox, so the entire message contents at that state would have been about 22 Megs. But the "SIZE" memory usage is even larger - perhaps limited by the available RAM. This slow speed for writing Maildirs with large numbers of messages is currently a barrier to me using Dovecot. I am about to go back and try again to get Courier IMAP to do what I want . . . The Courier IMAP documentation and what I regard as the difficult "configure -> build -> install -> wonder why it doesn't run" process has cost me so much time that I would be very happy to use something simpler and easier (for me, at least) to install. Thanks for developing this new IMAP server! - Robin

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[Dovecot] DRAC support?
by Charlie Allom 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

Hi, I was hoping someone had a quick and dirty (is there any other kind) of patch for DRAC support for dovecot. This daemon is very slick, and I wish to replace my complex courier-imap setup. Regards, C. -- charlie(a)rubberduck.com - Melbourne, Australia http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/ PGP: 0x14AA7941 || finger yeled(a)lazy.spodder.com > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3266D499.342E%40student.uq.edu.au <

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[Dovecot] --enable-debug bug?
by Gasha 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

Hello all, when i'm bulding rpm with --enable-debug get this: I tried 2 different versions 0.99.8 and 0.99.9. Jun 2 20:41:14 mezgls dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jun 2 20:41:15 mezgls dovecot: child 9409 (login) killed with signal 11 Jun 2 20:41:15 mezgls dovecot: child 9408 (login) killed with signal 11 Jun 2 20:41:15 mezgls dovecot: child 9407 (login) killed with signal 11 Jun 2 20:41:15 mezgls dovecot: child 9406 (auth) killed with signal 11 Jun 2 20:41:15 mezgls dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Gasha

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[Dovecot] squirrelmail setup
by Gasha 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

Hi all, My setup: INBOX -> /var/spool/mail/user directories -> /home/user/Maildir it works with Netscape, but squirrel mail shows only subfolder content. nothing in INBOX. any ideas? Gasha

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[Dovecot] Dovecot configuration with passwd-file
by Spectron International, Inc. 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

I have tried to configure dovecot to use passwd-file authentication and I havent been able to. I changed the following in the dovecot.conf file (I want to have all the mailboxes in one directory): default_mail_env = maildir:/opt/mail/%u auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap auth_verbose = yes It gives me the following error (I hoped it would be more verbose than this): Internal login failure: f_rojas [192.168.10.4]. passwd.imap exists, the user and password are ok What am I missing? Fawzib Rojas

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[Dovecot] Debian and dovecot
by Spectron International, Inc. 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

I have Debian 3.0 (woody) and installed the dovecot packages and it works ok with the default configuration. I want to change the default configuration, is any of this possible? a) I don't want to create accounts for each user, can I have a mailboxes directory with the mailboxes of all the users? They are not many (10-15). b) The authentication right now is done through PAM, the pam.d/dovecot file is: auth required pam_unix_auth.so account required pam_unix_acct.so password required pam_unix_passwd.so session required pam_unix_session.so I want to authenticate against an SMB server, I added the following /etc/pam_smb.conf: SPECTRON-MSIM MAIN MAIN # documentation says I need 2 servers (only have one, is this ok) and changed the pam.d/dovecot to: auth required pam_smb_auth.so account required pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_acct password required pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_passwd session required pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_session and it doesn't work. I obviously did something wrong, but don't know what, and I found nothing that could help me on google. I have samba installed and it works so It's PAM that I'm configuring incorrectly. Hope someone here can help me. Fawzib Rojas

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[Dovecot] Quotas once again
by Mike Machado 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

Its been a while since I tried dovecot on my mail server where I have quota issues. I am using mbox file format. There still seems to be a quota problem. I have only /var with quotas and basedir is under /usr (not quotaed). default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u. I tried with mbox_locks = dotlock fcntl (1st set of logs below) and with mbox_locks = fcntl (2nd set of logs) dotlock: Jun 12 17:02:49 newrook pop3(mike): open(/var/mail/mike.lock) failed: Disk quota exceeded Jun 12 17:02:49 newrook pop3(mike): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/mike: Disk quota exceeded Jun 12 17:02:49 newrook pop3(mike): open(/var/mail/mike.lock) failed: Disk quota exceeded Jun 12 17:02:49 newrook pop3(mike): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/mike: Disk quota exceeded Jun 12 17:02:49 newrook pop3: I/O leak: 0x8050930 (0) Jun 12 17:02:49 newrook pop3: I/O leak: 0x807baac (1) fcntl: Jun 12 16:45:32 newrook pop3-login: Login: mike [127.0.0.1] Jun 12 16:45:33 newrook pop3(mike): file_set_size() failed with mbox file /var/mail/mike: Disk quota exceeded Jun 12 16:45:33 newrook pop3(mike): file_set_size() failed with mbox file /var/mail/mike: Disk quota exceeded Jun 12 16:45:33 newrook pop3: I/O leak: 0x8073a2c (1) Jun 12 16:45:33 newrook pop3: I/O leak: 0x804a470 (0) I am using the latest CVS (as of 5 minutes ago). Wasn't this supposed to be working? Have I missed something? My sole goal is to allow people to delete mail when they are out of disk space. -- Mike Machado mike(a)innercite.com InnerCite Inc. Engineering Director / CTO

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[Dovecot] trouble with ssl
by tom hensel 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

hi list, first of all, many thanks to the developers of dovecot for this great piece of software! i'm running dovecot 0.99.9.1 on netbsd-current - runs very fine until i try to use sylpheed from my client to connect via ssl: --snip-- Jun 13 08:48:32 devbox imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408F455:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac [192.168.100.88] Jun 13 08:48:32 devbox imap-login: Disconnected [192.168.100.8 --snip-- doesn't say much to me... thanks for any help, TOM

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Re: [Dovecot] when/where to set MAIL env variable?
by Mike Brown 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

Andrew Basterfield wrote (in a msg I don't think made it to the list): > In dovecot.conf > > default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir Ah, silly me... default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mailbox works wonderfully, and is easier than trying to figure out where the MAIL environment variable actually comes into play. Thanks...

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[Dovecot] when/where to set MAIL env variable?
by Mike Brown 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

I am trying to get dovecot to work on a system that uses qmail as its MTA. As is typical on such systems, the user's primary inbox is an mbox file called Mailbox, in their home directory. Global shell config files /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile set the MAIL environment variable to ~/Mailbox for the users, which is enough to satisfy their interactive mail clients such as pine, mutt, and elm. The mail-storages.txt file in the dovecot docs seems to say that dovecot will not have a problem with this kind of setup. However, I can't figure out how to make it work. The MAIL variable is only set for users who are using shells like tcsh, bash, etc. The server apparently does not operate in a shell, so it is looking in some other location, perhaps /var/mail/$USER, so everyone's INBOX appears to be empty. It would help if mail-storages.txt, when referring to environment variables such as MAIL, would clarify *whose* environment variables are being referred to. Is it the environment of the user who built dovecot? Is it the environment of the user running the main dovecot process? Is it the environment of the user who is checking their mail / the user that dovecot runs setuid as? When and where do I set the MAIL variable so that dovecot will see it? Or is there some other problem? Any help appreciated...

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[Dovecot] Help setting up SSL?
by Mike Matz 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

Hi, Sorry to bother, I don't know if this mailing list is the right place to look for help setting up dovecot.. Anyway I've got standard IMAP working fine, and I used mkcert.sh after editing the openssl config, and it seemed to work properly (I had to change some directories, I am using the FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT port).. Anyway, when I try to connect using Outlook, here is what the log shows: (without the exact ip address shown, dont hax0r my windows machine!) imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408F455:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Panic: key not found from hash dovecot: Jun 10 13:13:14 Error: child 32935 (login) killed with signal 6 imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408F455:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Warning: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [12.106.77.x] imap-login: Jun 10 13:13:14 Panic: key not found from hash dovecot: Jun 10 13:13:14 Error: child 32937 (login) killed with signal 6 so it says "decryption failed or bad record mac".. Does this mean I don't have my .pem files set up correctly? Or is there a problem with the OpenSSL libraries? I'd sure appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks, Mike

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[Dovecot] gnutls_handshake problem
by Jacob Elder 07 Jun '03

07 Jun '03

I'm trying to bring dovecot up on Debian/stable using Christof Meerwald's unofficial packages (cmeerw.org/debian/) This package seems to work fine on Debian/testing. There error I'm getting on the stable box is: gnutls_handshake: A TLS fatal alert has been received.(Bad record MAC) Any guesses? -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Dovecot for Gentoo portage
by Zach Bagnall 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Hi all - I've added an ebuild for 0.99.9.1 to bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22080 It includes the CR+LF patch. Should be trivial to update for .10 when it makes an appearance :-). Feel free to fix/improve this ebuild - I'm fairly new at them. Zach. -- Services & Support Bulletin Wireless | www.bulletinwireless.com This email is digitally signed | Key ID 0x3F9AA9A2

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[Dovecot] error
by Farkas Levente 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

hi, I've got the following alert window in mozilla (with dovecot): --------------------------------------- The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command: Too long argument.. --------------------------------------- although there is not any messages in my imap.log file. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99.10-test10
by Andrew Basterfield 31 May '03

31 May '03

Hiya builds fine on BSD now (thanks) Now I am getting index corruption again May 30 03:11:53 snigger imap(bob): Corrupted binary tree file /home/bob/Mail/.INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (1 <= 1) and so on until the client hangs test7 is stable here. Also what are the correct permissions for /var/run/dovecot/login? I get a message about correcting the permissions every time I start dovecot --Andrew -- http://cemetery.homeunix.org

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[Dovecot] the most serius problems [part 3]
by Farkas Levente 30 May '03

30 May '03

hi, so the third problem is ssl. the imaps is still not working (and I assume the same apply to pop3s too). I already send the log file which was generated when verbose ssl is set. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] the most serius problems [part 2]
by Farkas Levente 30 May '03

30 May '03

hi, the second thing is the webmail. we use squirrelmail. actualy I don't know whose fault is, but they told that them imap server's:-) first problems is that those mails which has empty body (even if they has an attachments) simple not shown in the mail list (as they even not exists). it'd be nice to check this and find the reason of the problem. this happend with more people. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] the most serius problems [part 1]
by Farkas Levente 30 May '03

30 May '03

hi, I try to collect out most serious problem with dovecot. so I write a series of mails:-) the first on is the load. has anybody else use dovecot in a real enviromnt with at least hundreds of users and at least 50 concurrent user at the same time? it seems to me no one else just me. the weekend I move the whole mail system to a quad P4 with 1Gb ram and this server do nothing just imap. yesterday evening I have to delete all .imap.index and other dovecot specific files. and as I wrote today morning the load was about 20-30 !!!. but even in an average day the load is over 2-3 white the cpu load is 1-2% in each of the 4 processor. the system is totaly unusable. what more today I've got other errors. of course all the time when I can't find the colution I try to escape to the latest cvs. today finally I compile a new courier install it to another port and those clients which can't connect to dovecot reconfigure to courier. but they are not compatible!!! I have to set root directory to INBOX in courier while not for dovecot and this is a real big problem. is there any way to compile dovecot to use INBOX as a root directory? since in this case at least there is a chance to switch to courier without reconfigure 300 OE6. I try to help to find out the reason for the load in any way, but it seems to me than it's better to change to courier or cyrus since our users getting angry not to mention my boss. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-test8
by Timo Sirainen 30 May '03

30 May '03

http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/test/ Again major maildir syncing updates: - uidlist file is accessed and rewritten a lot less often now than before - mail duplicates are detected and handled properly by renaming them to new base name - message flag updates and expunging before did two full syncs for cur/ directory. now it does only one. - some fixes to syncing in read-only / out-of-quota conditions - before we did always a full sync in cur/ directory when mailbox was opened. now it's done only when needed. - fixed some crash/index corruption cases I think syncing should be now very close to having perfect possible performance.

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[Dovecot] new problems
by Farkas Levente 29 May '03

29 May '03

hi, so yesterday I move the whole mail system to a better machine. the only thing which is running on this system is dovect and: -------------------------------------------------- 10:44am up 6 days, 25 min, 3 users, load average: 28.03, 17.96, 9.05 233 processes: 231 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 3.1% user, 29.4% system, 0.0% nice, 66.4% idle CPU1 states: 7.1% user, 63.2% system, 0.0% nice, 29.1% idle CPU2 states: 1.3% user, 3.1% system, 0.0% nice, 94.4% idle CPU3 states: 1.1% user, 7.4% system, 0.0% nice, 90.3% idle Mem: 1030496K av, 1021836K used, 8660K free, 0K shrd, 104064K buff Swap: 2040244K av, 55544K used, 1984700K free 776180K cached -------------------------------------------------- so the problem here is again with the load 28 (!!!)..... in the imap.log: -------------------------------------------------- imap(arvays): May 28 10:39:32 Error: Timeout while waiting for release of fcntl() lock for index file /home/arvays/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index imap(lfarkas): May 28 10:42:05 Panic: unreached dovecot: May 28 10:42:07 Error: child 19933 (imap) killed with signal 6 imap(ahegedus): May 28 11:05:57 Panic: file maildir-sync.c: line 472 (maildir_sync_uidlist): assertion failed: (ACTION(hash_rec) == MAILDIR_FILE_ACTION_NEW) dovecot: May 28 11:05:58 Error: child 29103 (imap) killed with signal 6 -------------------------------------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] still has error
by Farkas Levente 28 May '03

28 May '03

hi, after download the current cvs recompile, start I still has these errors: ------------------------------------- imap-login: May 28 13:49:02 Info: Login: jcsinalos [192.168.0.106] imap(jcsinalos): May 28 13:49:02 Panic: unreached dovecot: May 28 13:49:02 Error: child 31683 (imap) killed with signal 6 imap-login: May 28 13:49:03 Info: Login: jcsinalos [192.168.0.106] imap-login: May 28 13:49:03 Info: Login: jcsinalos [192.168.0.106] imap(jcsinalos): May 28 13:49:03 Panic: unreached dovecot: May 28 13:49:03 Error: child 31687 (imap) killed with signal 6 ------------------------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] 0.99.10-test7
by Timo Sirainen 28 May '03

28 May '03

- APPEND memory leak fixed - maildir syncing crash / some other errors fixed - pop3 mail fetching fixed - pop3 didn't advertise STLS in capabilities before http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/test/

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[Dovecot] a few more error
by Farkas Levente 28 May '03

28 May '03

in the imap.log: imap(arvays): May 28 10:39:32 Error: Timeout while waiting for release of fcntl() lock for index file /home/arvays/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index imap(lfarkas): May 28 10:42:05 Panic: unreached dovecot: May 28 10:42:07 Error: child 19933 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] serious problem
by Farkas Levente 28 May '03

28 May '03

hi, I've got dozen such errors: ---------------------------- imap-login: May 28 10:28:56 Info: Login: gpajlocz [192.168.1.182] imap(gpajlocz): May 28 10:28:56 Panic: file maildir-sync.c: line 472 (maildir_sync_uidlist): assertion failed: (ACTION(hash_rec) == MAILDIR_FILE_ACTION_NEW) dovecot: May 28 10:28:56 Error: child 17207 (imap) killed with signal 6 ---------------------------- and this users can't get into the system... -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 0.99.9.1 and openssl-0.9.7a-5
by Robin Whittle 28 May '03

28 May '03

Hi Timo and others, Thanks for Dovecot! I just got it running under Red Hat 9.0 after spending many hours unsuccessfully trying to get Courier IMAP to run, although I have done it in the past. Here is a compilation glitch which may already be well known: I compiled dovecot-0.99.9.1 on my newly installed and recently updated (via Red Hat Network) system and the compilation stopped due to a missing file in the SSL headers: In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, from ssl-proxy-openssl.c:14: /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, from ssl-proxy-openssl.c:14: The currently installed OpenSSL RPM was openssl-0.9.7a-5. This lacks the file /usr/include/openssl/krb5.h . I understand that openssl-0.9.7b is OK, but I wasn't sure about whether installing this as a tarball from http://www.openssl.org would upset any other programs on this machine, or confuse the RHN update system. I didn't really need SSL and I couldn't see a specific option for disabling it, other than a general instruction about disabling modules with a ./configure option. So I tried ./configure --help and compiled it with: ./configure --without-ssl This worked fine. I really like the report at the end of the ./configure stage saying how the program will be compiled! - Robin // Robin Whittle http://www.firstpr.com.au // Melbourne, Australia http://fondlyandfirmly.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot in OpenBSD ports system
by Andrew Basterfield 27 May '03

27 May '03

Hi I have put together dovecot port for the OpenBSD ports system. The port has yet to be submitted, but is finished awaiting testing from a wider audience. I have been using dovecot successfully on OpenBSD/sparc64 -current for months now with no problems. Would you recommend including the CR+LF patch? http://cemetery.homeunix.org/OpenBSD/dovecot.tar.gz -- http://cemetery.homeunix.org

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RE: [Dovecot] Postgres "issue"
by Maikel Verheijen 27 May '03

27 May '03

Ok: a little lame to answer my own question, but I created a CRUDE patch. It does NOT check why a connection failed, it just does a PQreset, and it SEEMS to work. Kind regards, Maikel Verheijen. Ps: Timo, can something with reconnect be implemented permanently? --8<-- --- src/auth/db-pgsql.c.ORIG Tue May 27 10:06:39 2003 +++ src/auth/db-pgsql.c Tue May 27 11:16:38 2003 @@ -53,9 +53,16 @@ res = PQexec(conn->pg, query); if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) { - i_error("PGSQL: Query \"%s\" failed: %s", - query, PQresultErrorMessage(res)); - failed = TRUE; + PQreset(conn->pg); + res = PQexec(conn->pg, query); + if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) { + i_error("PGSQL: Query \"%s\" failed: %s", + query, PQresultErrorMessage(res)); + failed = TRUE; + } else { + i_error("PGSQL: Reconnected because of failure!"); + failed = FALSE; + } } else { failed = FALSE; } --8<-- -----Original Message----- From: Maikel Verheijen [mailto:maikel@ladot.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:43 AM To: 'Dovecot (E-mail)' Subject: [Dovecot] Postgres "issue" Dear list, I have a small issue with dovecot talking to a postgresql server: If my postgres server get restarted, dovecot fails to reconnect to the postgres server. I run dovecot 0.99.9.1 (which is actually a cvs version of dovecot, of may 9 2003) I have the same postgres version for the server as I use for the libraries. Is it hard to get auto-reconnect to work? Kind regards, Maikel Verheijen Ps: the log message I get is this: May 22 17:33:01 testlfw3 dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Query "SELECT password FROM aliases WHERE alias = 'maikel(a)test.com' AND password != ''" failed: FATAL 1: This connection has been terminated by the administrator. server closed the connection unexpectedly ^IThis probably means the server terminated abnormally ^Ibefore or while processing the request. Which probably describes it all :)

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[Dovecot] still problem with load
by Farkas Levente 27 May '03

27 May '03

hi, we've got (and getting more) serious problem with load. I'm just calculate that ther is about 300 mailbox with 20Gb mails. and the whole system is _very_ slow and just getting slower and slower. it's a fast lan every client has 100Mb connection to the server with gigabit crad and gigabit switches. when I push the delete button in a mail I usualy have to wait 10,20 or 30 seconds (!!!) to deleted and show me the next one. dovecot eat so much io to the hard disk, that we can't do too much. currently at the same time about 100 clients are connected mostly with OE6. the server is a P4 server with 1GB ram and about 1TB hard disk. there is only one samba and dovecot on the server. and the load use to be something like this: ---------------------------------------- 10:47:38 up 3 days, 15:48, 2 users, load average: 4.64, 3.58, 3.43 230 processes: 225 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 6.3% user 8.9% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 84.6% idle Mem: 1022840k av, 1013588k used, 9252k free, 0k shrd, 80320k buff 826372k actv, 47324k in_d, 16904k in_c Swap: 4193608k av, 80612k used, 4112996k free 783088k cached ---------------------------------------- as you can see it use almost all ram (as the 2.4 kernmel used to do) but no cache. so the ram is enough. the more interesting part is the load while the idle usualy between 80-90% the whole system doesn't use any cpu (or just minimal). BUT at the same time the load is around 3,4,5 (!!!) which is too much, and more than acceptable. what's worse the reason is the io load on the hard disks. every process are waiting for io. in this case I usualy service dovecot stop killall imap <wait about one minutes> service dovecot start and the load goes back to 0.3-0.6. after an hour the same happend and I have to do the same.:-((( what's more in this case samba case that all (!!!) clients stops for a few seconds. since everybody use OE6 they always download all messages with huge mailboxes what's more dovecot index the whole system all the time. I assume this cause the load. IMHO 300 mailbox and 100 concurrent user is not such a big thing. is there any way to restrict dovecot not to use so much io? thanks in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] Postgres "issue"
by Maikel Verheijen 27 May '03

27 May '03

Dear list, I have a small issue with dovecot talking to a postgresql server: If my postgres server get restarted, dovecot fails to reconnect to the postgres server. I run dovecot 0.99.9.1 (which is actually a cvs version of dovecot, of may 9 2003) I have the same postgres version for the server as I use for the libraries. Is it hard to get auto-reconnect to work? Kind regards, Maikel Verheijen Ps: the log message I get is this: May 22 17:33:01 testlfw3 dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Query "SELECT password FROM aliases WHERE alias = 'maikel(a)test.com' AND password != ''" failed: FATAL 1: This connection has been terminated by the administrator. server closed the connection unexpectedly ^IThis probably means the server terminated abnormally ^Ibefore or while processing the request. Which probably describes it all :)

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[Dovecot] pop3 timeout when sending first message
by Mike Brown 27 May '03

27 May '03

I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 with dovecot from the ports collection. First I am first trying to fetch mail via POP3. Clients are both OE6 and Mozilla. Both exhibit the same behavior: the client says it is receiving message 1 of (however many), but nothing happens; no message data is transferred. Mozilla seems to keep waiting forever, but OE6 times out after 60 seconds and lets me stop waiting. I tried both with and without SSL. Authentication works fine in either case, but the mail xfer just doesn't work. There's nothing of interest in the logs. By the way, there seems to be no mention of what syslog facility is used by dovecot. What is it? I'm avoiding syslog for now and writing to specific files. In the info log I get this when the client logs in: pop3-login: May 25 23:10:44 Info: Login: mike [my.IP.addr.here] In the other log I get this when OE6 disconnects, following the timeout and prompting me to wait or stop: pop3-login: May 25 23:11:53 Warning: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [216.241.45.45] I'm not sure what else to do to try to debug this... Help? -Mike

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[Dovecot] Why dovecot is not multi-threaded?
by Ruben Alvarez 26 May '03

26 May '03

Hi, I'm looking for the most efficient OpenSource IMAP server and I am told that Dovecot Server is a good solution. Anyway, I have inspected the source code and I think Dovecot is not a multi-threaded server, but a forked server. I am surprised about this issue, because threads perfomance should be higher than creating a new process for each connection....I suppose. So, Could anybody tell me why Dovecot was not designed with multi-threaded support?. Perhaps, threads are not a good solution for Dovecot but I am very interested in which are the reasons for this. By the other hand, ¿do anybody know any multi-threaded OpenSource IMAP server?. I would like test performance of Dovecot server versus a multi-threaded one. Very thanks.

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[Dovecot] logging in POP3
by Jens Laas 26 May '03

26 May '03

I have begun testing dovecot as (primarly) a POP replacement. So far the only lacking bit is the logging. It would be great if pop3 could log a line at client exit with the following info: (wishlist follows :) o nr deleted mails + total bytes deletes o nr mails left in spool + bytes left o time spent o indication if TLS was used or not If you would lika generic logging API I have one you can use: (Only tested under Linux. It is GPL) http://robur.slu.se/jensl/jellog.tar.gz Excerpt from headerfile: /* Functions for setting the destination of logger_facilities. - filename is the file to append log entries to. If file does not exist it is created with umask 0666 (modified as usual by open() call). - filestream is the FILE stream to use. - fd is the filedescriptor to use. - priority is the syslog priority to use as used in the syslog() call. - timestamp is used as a boolean. True means begin line with a timestamp. */ int logger_set_file(logger_facility facility, char *filename, int timestamp); int logger_set_iostream(logger_facility facility, FILE *filestream, int timestamp); int logger_set_fd(logger_facility facility, int fd, int timestamp); int logger_set_syslog(logger_facility facility, int priority, int timestamp); /* fmt = [sdt]+ s = string d = integer t = time-string Example: logger( LOGGER_ERROR, "sds", "Errorcode: ", -1234, ". Aborting!"); See end of logger.c for more examples. */ int logger(logger_facility facility, char *fmt, ...); Dovecot looks great! Just thought I'd send you this wishlist. If you could point me to the right places in the code I am willing to help adding this myself. Cheers, Jens Låås ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'This mail automatically becomes portable when carried.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Låås Email: jens.laas(a)data.slu.se Department of Computer Services, SLU Phone: +46 18 67 35 15 Vindbrovägen 1 P.O. Box 7079 S-750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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