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[Dovecot] dsyncing lazy_expunge namespace
by Angel L. Mateo 06 May '13

06 May '13

Hello, I'm in the process of migrating mailbox from one dovecot server running dovecot 2.1.9 with mailboxes stored in maildir format to a newer one running 2.1.16 with mailboxes stored in mdbox format. To migrate mailboxes I'm using dsync as explained at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync. The command I'm running in the newer server is: sudo dsync -o mailbox_list_index=no mirror -R -u <user> imapc: The mailbox of the user is correctly synced to the newer server, except the lazy_expunge namespace, which is not synced at all. The config in my old server is: namespace { # hidden = yes # list = no # Temporally, only for migration hidden = no list = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir/expunged prefix = BORRADOS. separator = . } and in the newer one is: namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = mdbox:%h/expunged:INDEX=/mail/indexes/%2Ln/%Ln/expunged prefix = BORRADOS/ separator = / } With a tcpdump I have checked that old servers list the namefolder, this is the IMAP dialog for an example user: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 2 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN YW5nZWwubHVpcwBtYXN0ZXIAVkFzR293ZW0= 2 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 1 LIST "" "" * LIST (\Noselect) "." "" 1 OK List completed. 3 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "SPAM" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\Noselect \HasNoChildren) "." "BORRADOS" 3 OK List completed. 4 STATUS "SPAM" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY) * STATUS "SPAM" (UIDNEXT 3 UIDVALIDITY 1316372649) 4 OK Status completed. 5 EXAMINE "SPAM" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) ... But "BORRADOS" is never selected in the rest of the dialog. Any idea? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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[Dovecot] XFS vs EXT4 for mail storage
by Charles Marcus 05 May '13

05 May '13

Hello, I'm in the process of finalizing the spec for my new dovecot VM, and this is the last question I need to address... I've read until I'm just about decided on XFS, but I have no experience with it (been using reiserfs on my old box (@ 8 yrs old now), and never had a problem (knock on wood), but considering its current situation (little to no development support for reasons everyone is aware of), I've decided now is the time to switch. It came down to XFS or EXT4, and I like what I've read about XFS, but am unsure how to tune it (or even if I should). I've decided to use mdbox for storage (been using maildir), and will enable SIS for attachments. So, anyone (Stan?) have any suggestions? Should I go with EXT4? Or XFS with just the defaults? Or XFS with one or more tuned parameters? Appreciate any suggestions (including links to docs dealing with tuning XFS for my mail storage conditions that are written more at the layman level) or comments from anyone experienced using both... Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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Re: [Dovecot] qmail-ldap LDA Delivery and sieve
by Deepak 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hi I used the below filter in my dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf file, user_attrs = homeDirectory=home, uidNumber=uid, gidNumber=gid user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u) (uid=%u))) This above filter was working fine for me, and it's delivering fine for all the domains. seive is also working fine. The "-d" in dovecot-lda will do userdb lookup with ldap.

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[Dovecot] dovecot antispam plugin is not woking
by Ravi Kanchan 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hi All, I am using dovecot version 2.0.9 DSPAM Anti-Spam Suite 3.10.2 (agent/library) ClamAV 0.97.7/17102 and dspam antispam plugin dovecot-antispam-plugin-43880985e3dd and plugin configuration is given below: protocol imap { mail_plugins = " antispam autocreate" } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = antispam autocreate } plugin { antispam_allow_append_to_spam = YES antispam_backend = dspam antispam_crm_args = --config=/home/vmail antispam_dspam_args = --client;--user vmail antispam_dspam_binary = /usr/bin/dspam antispam_dspam_notspam = --class=innocent antispam_dspam_result_header = X-DSPAM-Result antispam_dspam_spam = --class=spam antispam_mail_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_spam = Spam } dspam bin path: [root@sogo ~]# which dspam /usr/bin/dspam but my dspam plugin configuration is not working. and I am not getting any log from dspam. My dspam server is working prefect. cna anyone help me Regard's Ravi Kanchan Sharma

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[Dovecot] Dovecot has no understandable configuration any more
by forum 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hello, for many years i used an mailserver with dovecot V1 very satisfied! http://mailserver.decotrain.de/ One of the reasons to use dovecot was a simply configuration. Dovecot was the best choice for IMAP for me! Now i updated the server to Debian testing with dovecot 2.1.7. It's not possible for me to get a running authentication for virtual mail users! I recently found this mailing and have the same problem: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064181.html The documentation says *nothing* about my problem how to authenticate with mysql! http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers I can solve the problem only with try and error without a chance in this complex system. It's nice to have all this possibilites but they are not useful if not documented. There should be some clear examples for different scenarios to be found in your wiki. My problem at this time: I don't know how to configure the userdb to work with mysql authentification? All mail is running under the special user mail. dovecot.conf ============ disable_plaintext_auth = yes passdb { driver = sql # Path for SQL configuration file, see example-config/dovecot-sql.conf.ext args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb { driver = prefetch } first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_uid = 8 first_valid_gid = 8 last_valid_gid = 8 mail_location = maildir:/srv/mail/%d/%n dovecot-sql.conf ================ driver = mysql connect = host=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock dbname=... => WORKS! default_pass_scheme = SHA1 password_query = SELECT password, '/srv/mail/%d/%n' AS home, 'mail' AS uid, 'mail' AS gid FROM user WHERE username = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND IMAP_allowed = 'YES' Errors ====== Apr 30 10:28:22 auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=xxxx@yyyy home=/srv/mail/yyyy/xxxx uid=mail gid=mail Apr 30 10:28:22 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 3163291649 5347 1 87066c907eef8f4e5ed71319b560dd2a Apr 30 10:28:22 auth: Error: prefetch(xxxx@yyyy,::1,<doTKyI/brgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): userdb lookup not possible with only userdb prefetch Apr 30 10:28:22 auth: Error: userdb(xxxx@yyyy,::1,<doTKyI/brgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): user not found from userdb prefetch Apr 30 10:28:22 auth: Debug: master out: NOTFOUND 3163291649 Apr 30 10:28:22 imap: Error: Authenticated user not found from userdb, auth lookup id=3163291649 (client-pid=5347 client-id=1) Apr 30 10:28:22 imap-login: Info: Internal login failure (pid=5347 id=1) (internal failure, 1 succesful auths): user=<karsten(a)dct.mine.nu>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=5352, secured, session=<doTKyI/brgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> I have no idea how to solve the problem and up to know i could not find an example with google. Please help. Best regards Karsten

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[Dovecot] Accessing mail files not owned by imap login user
by PaulM47 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi, I have managed to set up a 'maildir' based mail system using fetchmail and procmail that delivers sorted mail to folders /var/spool/mail/user1, ../user2 etc. 'user1', 'user2' etc. are real users but the mail system is run under logged in user 'mailserver'. The mail folders are owned by 'user1', 'user2' etc. but mail files, when delivered, are owned by 'mailserver'. I've been unable to find a way to change this behaviour :-( Dovecot is configured by adding the single line 'mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u' to 'dovecot.conf', everything else is as installed. When I make an imap connection as 'user1' the logon is successful, the mail files are moved from ../new/ to ../cur/ but are invisible to the imap client. If I 'chown' the mail files to 'user1' they instantly become visible to the imap client. I gather from googling info on dovecot I can configure dovecot to allow 'user1', when logged in, to access the mail files owned by 'mailserver'. Is this simple to do, and if so how do I do it please ? Thanks PaulM -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Accessing-mail-files-not-owned-by-imap… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] feature request: pipe for custom quota dict queries
by Jeff Gustafson 03 May '13

03 May '13

Just a followup to my previous post. I appears that a pipe for quota queries via dict is not supported right now. Because of the way we group things we need more flexibility. I'd like to propose that dovecot should support quota queries just like userdb dict queries. My expertise is not C, but I might try to poke around and see if I can make something work. ...Jeff

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[Dovecot] sieve: deleteheader sometimes fails [bug]
by Daniel Piddock 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi, We're using Dovecot 2.1.16 with Pigeonhole 0.3.4. Mail is delivered by exim4 to the dovecot LDA. Sometimes users are unable to delete headers. I've narrowed the problem down to preceding the deleteheader command with a query against the body. A simple example: """ require ["body", "editheader", "fileinto"]; if body :contains "!TEST!" { fileinto "INBOX.Trash"; stop; } deleteheader "Subject"; addheader "Subject" "Testing"; """ Putting the "deleteheader" above the "if body" causes it to be deleted correctly. Although I've used Subject in this example it happens for other headers. Cheers, Dan

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.5 Fatal: setgid(5000(vmail)) Operation not permitted
by Mosh Mage 03 May '13

03 May '13

This is the error I'm getting (whenever i recieve and email): *deliver() : Fatal: setgid(5000(vmail)) failed with euid=5000(vmail), gid=8(mail), egid=8(mail): Operation not permitted (This binary should probably be called with process group set to 5000(vmail) instead of 8(mail)) * I am at loss. I have tried "everything" i could think of (besides purging the machine and do it all over again, which is not an option -- unless it is). Can anyone help me fix this? # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.13-grsec-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64-vps x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:/var/zpanel/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: trash: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf # /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=zpanel_postfix user=USERNAME password=AWESOMEPASSWORD default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = \ SELECT name, domain, password \ FROM mailbox WHERE name = '%n' AND domain = '%d' user_query = \ SELECT maildir \ FROM mailbox WHERE name = '%n' AND active = '1' AND domain = '%d' #This is my ls -la drwxrwsrwx 5 vmail vmail 4096 May 2 18:39 vmail #and this is inside vmail/ drwx--S--- 3 vmail vmail 4096 May 2 18:39 asfaltotejo.com drwx--S--- 3 vmail vmail 4096 May 2 12:35 gestaoconteudos.pt drwx--S--- 17 vmail vmail 4096 May 2 15:34 tribanet.com #/var/run/dovecot srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 May 2 19:46 auth-master srw------- 1 root root 0 May 2 19:46 auth-worker.6564 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 2 19:46 dict-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 May 2 19:46 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 May 2 19:46 login

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[Dovecot] CATENATE allows zero parts
by Mike Abbott 03 May '13

03 May '13

I'm pleased to see that dovecot-2.2 includes support for RFCs 4467 and 4469 (URLAUTH and CATENATE). I have begun testing these features (in dovecot-2.2.1) and comparing their functionality against Apple's implementation. So far I have discovered a few inconsistencies. I will report each of these, and any more that I may find, in separate threads. The first issue is that using CATENATE with no message parts works but, IMO, shouldn't: a2 append inbox catenate () a2 OK [APPENDUID 1366726248 9] Append completed. For comparison this is how Apple's enhanced dovecot in OS X Server handles this request: a2 append inbox catenate () a2 BAD Invalid arguments. According to RFC 4469 section 3 CATENATE requires "one or more message parts." This is formalized in section 5: append-data =/ "CATENATE" SP "(" cat-part *(SP cat-part) ")" and in RFC 3501 section 9 which states that "[ABNF] rules MUST be followed strictly." I believe that permitting zero cat-parts is contrary to the RFC, although I can understand permitting it under the general doctrine of "servers should be liberal in what they accept, and clients strict in what they send." Is accepting zero cat-parts an intentional exception to the RFC or an oversight?

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