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[Dovecot] Dsync didn't updates automatically
by Breno Moreira 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hi, I'm trying to use the Dsync cluster feature in a simple setup, without director, but I'm having some troubles. First of all, I want to know if this functionality syncs the mailbox when the user receive a mail or only when the dovecot starts? Reading the Dovecot mailing list and the design description for a dsync-replicated Dovecot cluster, I understood that it should sync every time a new mail arrives, but it isn't happening in my system. So, can I do this update automatically? If yes, why is it not working properly? Maybe is my configuration files or maybe I'm confusing the capability of this feature. I'm using Dovecot 2.1.7 included in the Debian Wheezy, with virtual users in a MySQL database, Moreover, I have the following configuration: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins notify replication service aggregator { # give enough permissions for mail processes fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail #mode = 0666 } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail #mode = 0666 } } service replicator { # start replication at startup process_min_avail = 1 } plugin { # host1 replicates to host2 #mail_replica = remote:vmail at 10.127.0.2 # host2 replicates to host1 mail_replica = remote:vmail@10.127.0.5 } dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -l vmail %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u -l%{lock_timeout} -n%{namespace} service doveadm { # if you're using a single virtual user, set this to # start ssh as vmail (not root) user = vmail } service config { unix_listener config { user = vmail } } The vmail user has rsa id's in both servers, so it can do ssh connections without asking for password. I appreciate your help. Best Regards, -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Breno Moreira "I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence." Ayrton Senna

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[Dovecot] dovecot-antispam-plugin compile error
by Bradley Giesbrecht 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

$ hg --cwd ./work/dovecot-antispam-plugin-50 glog -l3 --style compact @ 50[tip] 0319240072d8 2012-12-20 03:56 +0200 Eugene Paskevich <eugene(a)raptor.kiev.ua> | Made use of new DOVECOT_ABI_VERSION macro. ... $ configure; make Compiling signature-log.c (plugin)... signature-log.c:122: error: too many arguments to function ‘dict_init’ ... Reverting src/signature-log.c from r49 to r30 allows make to succeed again. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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[Dovecot] Question about supporting EAI in Devecot
by Abdulrahman I. ALGhadir 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Dear all, I would like to ask the staff of Devecot if they are planning (working) or supporting EAI (http://tools.ietf.org/wg/eai/) in the future versions? If there is a working progress on it can anybody guide me to it? Thank you, AbdulRahman, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This message and its attachment, if any, are confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and delete this message and its attachment, if any, from your system. You should not copy this message or disclose its contents to any other person or use it for any purpose. Statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC). CITC accepts no liability for damage caused by this email.

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[Dovecot] imap: Error: net_connect_unix(/.../auth-master) failed: Invalid argument
by Joan Picanyol i Puig 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hi, I'm unable to get past the subject error trying to setup dovecot 2.1.10 on FreeBSD 6.4: right after login the server closes the connection (testing with telnet) I've tried manualy chown()ing auth-master to 666, so permission issues should be ruled out. I'm attaching logs, config and excerpt of ktrace -id. I've built a version with debug symbols, but I don't seem to hit a breakpoint in net_connect_unix on lib/network.c What can I look at? tks -- pica

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[Dovecot] Access to deleted mails in mdbox storage
by Wolfgang.Friebel＠desy.de 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hi Timo, we are currently running dovecot 2.1.10 using mdbox storage. Sometimes we get requests from users to restore accidentally deleted mails. If the mails got deleted before a backup was made, such mails could of course not be restored from backup. One option to help users in this respect would be to use the lazy expunge plugin. On the other hand I have seen, that the deleted mails stay intact in the mdbox storage until a doveadm purge has been performed. Therefore without using the plugin it is in principle possible to get access to any deleted mails. As in our case the expunge runs once a week while the backup is done daily we can basically recover all mails ever received. My question: doveadm has currently no command similar to doveadm search or fetch to get to deleted mails. Would it be useful to have such a command? As a proof of concept I wrote a little script to mimic the doveadm fetch as closely as possible given the limited amount of information in the mdbox/storage/m.* files and could indeed get access to deleted mails. Do you regard such a procedure (within doveadm) useful or would you recommend nevertheless using the lazy expunge plugin? I am aware of the fact that this is a solution for mdbox storage only. -- Wolfgang Friebel Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Phone/Fax: +49 33762 77372/216 Platanenallee 6 Mail: Wolfgang.Friebel AT desy.de D-15738 Zeuthen Germany

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[Dovecot] 2 node dovecot
by Lazy 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hi, We run dovecot 2.1 on 2 nodes with shared nfs storage. Index files are kept on local disk. Second node is usually used only for email snapshots access. If primary node fails it is configured to take place of the primary imap server. Snapshots are additional namespaces with mail from various points in time. We need a way to easly copy multiple messages from snapshots to current mailboxes. It would be best to make current mailbox available as another namespace so one would simply copy messages from one folder to another. Is it safe ? There will be times when given user is writing to the same nfs based Maildir mailbox from 2 nodes both of them having separate index files. What will happen if already present message gets copied back from the snapshot ? Regards, Michał Grzędzicki

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[Dovecot] lda crash?
by kjonca＠o2.pl 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

When I try to refilter some messages lda crash: Dec 29 16:07:34 LDA(kjonca): Info: sieve: msgid=<003a01bf6d8f$c9d69f20$9c2dcdc3(a)tiger.com.pl>: stored mail into mailbox 'scott/Sent' Dec 29 16:08:02 lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules Dec 29 16:08:02 lda: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/home/kjonca Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Mail/0:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/Mail/0/INBOX Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: fs: root=/home/kjonca/Mail/0, index=, control=, inbox=/home/kjonca/Mail/0/INBOX, alt= Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: userdb lookup skipped, username taken from USER environment Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: Destination address: kjonca(a)alfa.kjonca (source: user@hostname) Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: sieve: include: sieve_global_dir is not set; it is currently not possible to include `:global' scripts. Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: sieve: Pigeonhole Sieve Extprograms plugin version 0.1.0 loaded Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: sieve: using the following location for user's Sieve script: /home/kjonca/.dovecot.sieve Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: sieve: opening script /home/kjonca/.dovecot.sieve Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: sieve: script binary /home/kjonca/.dovecot.svbin successfully loaded Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: sieve: binary save: not saving binary /home/kjonca/.dovecot.svbin, because it is already stored Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Debug: sieve: executing script from /home/kjonca/.dovecot.svbin Dec 29 16:08:02 LDA(kjonca): Info: sieve: msgid=<001b01bf7227$18649840$9c2dcdc3(a)tiger.com.pl>: stored mail into mailbox 'scott/Sent' doveconf -n output KJ -- http://sporothrix.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/usa-sie-krztusza-kto-nastepny/ Little known fact about Middle Earth: The Hobbits had a very sophisticated computer network! It was a Tolkien Ring...

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[Dovecot] Director and forwarding LDAP user as Master user
by Alexandr Sabitov 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hello guys, Would you be able to help me with this little issue. I bet someone has the same config so if you can copy-paste it I will very appreciate it. So main idea is to enable Dovecot director to authenticate a LDAP user with plain or encrypted password and send the user to back-end Dovecot server after the authentication. According to Wiki it is only possible if we use the master user to communicate to the back-end server. On the back-end Dovecot server it is working fine, I can log in as normal user/user_password or as user*masteruser/master_password. The back-end config is: auth_master_user_separator = * passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers master = yes pass = yes } passdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } userdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } Now front-end: how to get director forward the user to the back-end after authentication on the director? With my director config the user stays on the director all the time: passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y master=masteruser pass=master_password destuser=%u*masteruser } passdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } userdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } The only way to forward the user is to setup nopassword=y in args of static passdb but in that case the user will be authenticated on the backend but not on the director... What do I missing ? Please help me Best Regards, Alexandr Sabitov

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"
by Joseph Tam 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Noel Butler writes: > I build from sources all key daemon software anyway, package maintainers > can only account for so many configurations. Its not so critical with > dovecot now since v2, because, regrettably, Timo removed a lot of fine > tune config options that allowed us to only build in what we wanted, > now, tuff, most the auth methods and stuff must be built even if we dont > want them. That hasn't been my experience, but maybe because the non-optional stuff are what I need. For example, my configure for v2.1.x summarizes Install prefix . : /opt/dovecot File offsets ... : 64bit I/O polling .... : poll I/O notifys .... : none SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL) GSSAPI ......... : no passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file checkpassword : -shadow -pam -bsdauth -sia -ldap -sql -vpopmail userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword : -ldap -sql -vpopmail -nss SQL drivers .... : : -pgsql -mysql -sqlite Full text search : squat : -lucene -solr A few auth methods, which even if you don't use, is a nice fallback for exceptions or niche caches, no dbs, one mandatory text search method. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] BLF-CRYPT
by Kristof Bajnok 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hi, I get "Unknown scheme: BLF-CRYPT" messages if I try to use Blowfish-encrypted passwords, even though it is supposed to be supported. I'm on 2.1.7, Debian Squeeze backports. Do you have any information whether Blowfish is supported with Debian Squeeze crypt(), or is there any other knobs I can turn on to make this algorithm available? Thanks, Kristof

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