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[Dovecot] Dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
by Fasil 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Dear all, Thank you all for such a wonderful support. Hats off to all :) Few times I came across imap login issues where new users will not be allowed to login. /var/log/mail.err shows the error below Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now Aug 12 07:58:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Aug 12 07:59:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Aug 12 08:00:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files I have a dovecot (V 1.2.9) +postfix (V 2.7.0) setup on ubuntu 10.04 # ulimit -Hn 1024 # ulimit -Sn 1024 # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 1238548 # cat /proc/`pidof dovecot`/limits | grep 'Max open' Max open files 1024 1024 files Please advice how to get rid off this. Fasil.

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[Dovecot] dovecot auth against AD on samba4
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hi group I am currently running a mail server on ubuntu 11.04 with postfix 2.8.5, dovecot dovecot 2.0.13 and openldap 2.4.23. I have now read about sogo and I am thinking about installing it because of it's native outlook support capabilities. The ZEG appliance wouldn't be an option for me because I use a virtual server from a provider where I can't install my own vm or even an iso. When I go thru the documentation there is a part with installing OpenChange based on samba4. As far as I understood the OpenChange authentication is against the samba4 AD. Actually there is no support in syncing the AD against an OpenLdap Server and I would have to change the OpenLdap port because the AD is listening on port 389. To change the port wouldn't be a big deal, but what i was thinking about to run the dovecot auth also against the samba 4 AD. I searched around on the internet but didn't find a doc yet how to do that. Does anyone here could provide me with a link or a how-to ? Thanks very much in advance. Regards, Carsten Laun-De Lellis Hauptstrasse 13 D-67705 Trippstadt Phone: +49 6306 992140 Fax: +49 6306 992142 Mobile: +49 151 27530865 email: carsten.delellis(a)delellis.net

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[Dovecot] Clarifications on Pigeonhole and MySQL lookups
by Sandro Tosi 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hello, we're scouting if it's possible to use Pigeonhole (currently v0.3.1, as this will be provided with an upcoming Debian package) with MySQL dict lookups with the mail setup we're designing. Our (main) goals are: 1. store the filters on the database 2. allow each user to enable/disable any of the filters set we provide (it's a static set of some general filters, available to all the users; we're currently not providing the possibility to users to write their own filters) For point 1) we already see[1] that's possible, but it uses the map construct that might not fit with our current database structure: we have a domain table (storing the domain info) and a mailbox table (storing the mailbox info, but the username is composed by the local part, stored in this table, and the domain part is a FK to the domain table, using an id). Do you think it's possible to run a join query on domain+mailbox to retrieve the mailbox_id needed to query the table for the filters? Or do we have to create the filter table and store the local(a)domain.ext info there ("relaxing" the integrity relationships between tables)? How do we specify which filters are enabled for any given user? We originally thought of an "Enabled" field on the filter table, but in the example in the doc[1] I hadn't seen a way to do that: it seems like the filter list is specified in the proxy definition - am I wrong? How can we do that? [1] http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole/file/e9ed5d5cef4b/doc/script-… I think it's enough for now, maybe additional questions will arise going deeper in details :) Thanks in advance, -- Sandro Tosi Product Engineer Shared Hosting Products R&D | Dada.pro eml sandro.tosi(a)register.it

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[Dovecot] Maildir hardlinks
by Benedetto Vassallo 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hello list, Excuse me for my poor english. I have updated on a test server dovecot 2.0.13 to dovecot 2.1.1. All works fine, but with the new version it seems that dovecot don't do hardlinks when deliver a message to multiple users. I have checked my config and the only rule I can see aboout that is maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf My mail location config is mail_location = maildir:~/MailDir:LAYOUT=fs I tryed using lmtp directly issuing 'telnet localhost 24' and sending a test message to 3 recipients. Then issuing a 'ls -il' in the "new" directory of that users, I saw the inode was not the same. I rechecked my config and take a look in the wiki and in the list for someone who had the same problems, but found nothing. Maybe I did something wrong, but I can't understand what. Can you help me? Thank you -- Benedetto Vassallo Sistema Informativo di Ateneo Settore Gestione Reti Hardware e Software U.O.B. Sviluppo e manutenzione dei sistemi Università degli studi di Palermo Phone: +3909123860056 Fax: +390916529124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using the University of Palermo web mail interface.

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[Dovecot] [2.2-UNSTABLE] compilation error: 'POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED' undeclared
by Michael Grimm 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hi -- I am trying to compile 2.2 (acd76b5272e9) at FreeBSD 9.0: | libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I/usr/local/include -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes \ -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 \ -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 \ -I/usr/local/include -MT fs-posix.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/fs-posix.Tpo \ -c fs-posix.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/fs-posix.o | fs-posix.c: In function 'fs_posix_prefetch': | fs-posix.c:298: warning: implicit declaration of function 'posix_fadvise' | fs-posix.c:298: error: 'POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED' undeclared (first use in this function) | fs-posix.c:298: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once | fs-posix.c:298: error: for each function it appears in.) | gmake[3]: *** [fs-posix.lo] Error 1 | gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2/src/lib-fs' | gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2/src' | gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2' | gmake: *** [all] Error 2 From configure logfile: | checking for posix_fadvise... no After a modification (stolen from src/lib-storage/index/index-mail.c) ... | --- dovecot-2.2-modified/src/lib-fs/fs-posix.c 2012-10-23 20:27:31.348919455 +0200 | +++ dovecot-2.2/src/lib-fs/fs-posix.c 2012-10-23 20:26:39.435300269 +0200 | @@ -295,10 +295,12 @@ | return TRUE; | } | | +#if defined(HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE) && defined(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) | if (posix_fadvise(file->fd, 0, length, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) < 0) { | i_error("posix_fadvise(%s) failed: %m", _file->path); | return TRUE; | } | +#endif | return FALSE; | } ... the compilations runs to completion, and dovecot-2.2 UNSTABLE is running. But: I do not have the knowledge to judge if that "fix" will be the right one. Just to let you know and with regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] index files created improperly in dovecot 1.2.16
by john roman 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Greetings, It seems to be a problem that ive seen occasionally on the web with few results as to a solution, but im experiencing it as well. Namely, dovecot creates index logs for users with a 600 permission, when it should create with a 700 permission. My indexes are stored in /var/indexes with the directory at 777 permission, the users are identified in MySQL. The error is as follows: Oct 23 09:03:13 mailer01 dovecot: POP3 (johnr(a)testing.com) stat(/var/indexes/j/johnr(a)testing.com/.INBOX) failed: Permission denied (euid=10509305(x10509305) egid=81607(pg199275) missing +x perm: /var/indexes/j) the permissions of /var/indexes/j are 700, owned by the euid and egid effectively. the only file that does not have this permission is in /var/indexes/j/johnr(a)testing.com/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log, at 600.

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[Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb [Resolved]
by Spyros Tsiolis 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hello all, I would like to thank you all for your kind replies and feedback in regards to migrating from a smaller hdd to a bigger one (namely from 72gb to 146gb). I finally found a painless way of doing this. Since I believe that this is still an off-topic post, if anyone is interested in the solution i've adopted for this, let me know by replying to me privately. If, however, you don't mind me posting here, let me know. Many many thanks go to Alexander Hoogerhuis, the "mad Norwegian" :-) who helped me on this too much to describe here. Alex, you are a true sport. Thank you again people. All the Best, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA message save logging
by Dominic Malolepszy 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hi, Is there any option in Dovecot that enables logging the full path of where a message is saved in the backend? Dominic

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[Dovecot] Anybody recognize these log lines?
by Knute Johnson 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot POP3', using last found WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot Secure POP3', using last found WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot IMAP', using last found WARN: Duplicate profile 'Dovecot Secure IMAP', using last found Anybody know if these are dovecot generated? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson

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[Dovecot] (new) director issues in 2.1.10
by Kelsey Cummings 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Timo - I upgraded to 2.1.10 on our director servers two nights ago and apart from errors associated with the directors processes restarting everything looked great for ~24 hours until I failed our the real servers last night to update the nfs mount options for the spools. I followed the suggested procedure for each backend server, just run on one of the directors, which seemed to work as expected. doveadm director add x.x.x.x 0 doveadm director flush x.x.x.x The following errors on the directors that started after this went unnoticed until this AM. director: User bb host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 30 secs (Ring synced for 36 secs) director: User cc host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 48 secs (Ring synced for 66 secs, user refreshed 12 secs ago) director: User dd host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 124 secs (Ring synced for 119 secs, weak user, user refreshed 155 secs ago) director: User ee host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 79 secs (Ring synced for 119 secs, weak user, user refreshed 113 secs ago) ... User ff host lookup failed: Timeout - queued for 30 secs (Ring synced for 7427 secs, weak user, user refreshed 620 secs ago) This continued, combined with occasional login timeouts (as reported by some internal imap clients.) The login delays/timeouts got bad enough that our load balancers dropped both the servers while I was investigating. They seem to be okay after being restarted. -K

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