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[Dovecot] Alerts when process limits are met
by David Anderson 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi, I've not found the answer to this question anywhere - please forgive me if I overlooked. I'd like to be able to be automatically alerted if process limits are hit (e.g. max POP3 logins). Is there a way that I can configure a script to be run, in the same way that I can with quota warnings? I can of course use logwatch, but this alerts me the next day, and logwatch can be noisy and it's easy to overlook. My motivation: for some reason my POP3 listener was hanging, and I had to restart dovecot (this is 2.0.9). But I was not aware - the process was still there, it was accepting connections (but not doing anything useful with them) and was actually managing to log the fact that the process limit was being hit (as more and more connections came in). If I could have been alerted I could have restarted dovecot earlier. Many thanks, David -- WordShell - WordPress fast from the CLI - www.wordshell.net

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[Dovecot] ACL MySQL dict: to_user==from_user entries
by Roland Rosenfeld 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi! We run dovecot 2.1.6 with ACL support and MySQL dict for shared/shared-boxes/user/$to/$from. When a user does a SETACL (via IMAP) to himself he is added as $to and $from to the MySQL dict. Se for example this IMAP conversation: 5 GETACL INBOX * ACL "INBOX" "user@domain" lrwstipekxacd 5 OK Getacl completed. 6 SETACL INBOX user@domain lrwstipekxacd 6 OK Setacl complete. 7 GETACL INBOX * ACL "INBOX" "user@domain" akxeilprwtscd 7 OK Getacl completed. As you can see, user@domain sets the ACL of his INBOX to the same value it was set before (reading it from the server after this idempotent write changed the order but none of the flags). But after "SETACL INBOX user@domain lrwstipekxacd" I see a new entry in my imap_acl_shares table where to_user and from_user both contain the value "user@domain". As far as I can see, this entry does not make much sense in the database, because every user should be able so see its own folders. But adding this line may blow up the database especially according to the full table scan problem for acl dict rebuild mentioned in http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-August/067548.html. Does it make sense to run a daily cron job, that removes all entries with from_user=to_user or may this cause other inconsistencies? If you need to have a look at my complete setup, it's in http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-July/067130.html, so I don't have to clone this here. Tschoeeee Roland

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[Dovecot] imap_idle_notify_interval
by Andreas Meyer 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi! I want to change the imap_idle_notify_interval t0 29 minutes and have edited the 20-imap.conf with imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins and restarted the server. doveconf -n shows me this: .... protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota autocreate" } .... doveconf |grep idle shows me the following output: default_idle_kill = 1 mins imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs idle_kill = 0 idle_kill = 4294967295 secs imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins I see two line of imap_idle_notify_interval. What is the right one? Greetings Andreas

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[Dovecot] Is it possible to save only some messages compressed to mdbox? (2.1.6)
by Jost Krieger 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

I'm trying to save some messages as compressed (via zlib plugin) and it doesn't seem to work. Here's a log line (I'm logging to stderr): d k 1345467448.705591500 1345467448.705596500 1345467448.974808500 1650 <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(a)YYY.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> local.jost.krieger+hirn(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de 10909 80 Extra: -o plugin/zlib_save_level=9 -o plugin/zlib_save=bz2 lda(kriegjcb): Info: msgid=<20120820125728.58CC9172B6C(a)c2-4-7.noc.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>: saved mail to Hirn-2012-08 did 0+0+1 This probably doesn't make much sense to anyone except the last line but 1. It is a somewhat complicated qmail/maildrop/dovecot setup, which works for the standard cases. The Extra gets interpolated into the lda command and this works because an incorrect option blows up the delivery. The mails arrive uncompressed. So here's the questions: 1. Is it possible to have compressed/uncompressed mails mixed in an mdbox? 2. Will it work via "-o" in lda delivery? I tried to find out in the source but found it hard to see which options are pulled in when. Thanks Jost Krieger -- | Helft Spam ausrotten! HTML in Mail ist unhöflich. | | Postmaster, JAPH, manchmal Wahrsager am RZ der RUB | | Wahre Worte sind nicht gefällig, gefällige Worte sind nicht wahr.| | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 |

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Re: [Dovecot] ChgrpNoPerm issue
by Joseph Tam 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Robert JR <roundcube222(a)alaadin.org> writes: > The problem is /var/mail (Owner is > useraccount and the group us mail) , and here comes the problem > Dovecot > keeps trying to chown the imap folder inside the homedirectory with > user:mail account and since > And this is the reason of error that appears > in my log file. Dovecot is trying to keep the permission of your index caches consistent with that of your mailbox it indexes. The INBOX index cache is kept in your user's mail directory (as per your default settings), although you can change that location. > The option mail_access_groups=mail solve the problem.. > but I read it is not secure.. > With my current configutation, users login > with imap to read mail , can they use > any the mail_access_groups=mail > and read other poeple mail ? Yes, that's the security problem. > does my configutation > is a shard mailbox > and could be unsecure.. Could not parse your question/comment. > why didnot have > this issue with uw-imapd? and why dovecot try to chown the .imap > folder > with the mail group ? uw-imapd was not as picky. The extra consideration for group ownership is so that shared access to mailbox files, and their associated index caches, remain consistent. For example, if you shared a mailbox among your colleagues in group "staff" and the mailbox has group=staff,perm=g+rw, then the index caches will inherit those permissions, and members of group staff can access mailbox and indices alike. [You later write ...] > Sep 9 11:22:30 dovecot: pop3(r): Error: > fchown(/home/r/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) > failed: Operation not permitted (egid=501(r), group based on > /var/mail/r) > > i know that chmod 0600 /var/mail , will solve the problem > and i will no longer receive the above errors again You also have to make sure that autocreated INBOXs (i.e. a brand new account) does not start out with anything other than 0600. You may have to use dovecot's LDA or twist your LDA's arm to create mailboxes that way. I guess you can also avoid these errors by using memory indices, but you forego the advantages of persistent indices. > But my question is > that incase i did not set chmod /var/mail 0600, can i ignore such > errors, is these errors harmful ? if this errors keep coming and i > ignored them would this cause mbx corruption .. please advise No, you can't ignore these errors. They will break IMAP access to those mailboxes (as you will find out). Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] precise reading of plugin deleted to trash
by ml 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

hello timo and other dev after a precise reading of plugin deleted to trash it appears to me like things more varariables are declared NULL in the code. it appears to me as being possible to achieve actions even if messages with the same id appears several times in different INBOX when it is the exact order of things -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC2626742 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key C2626742 http://about.me/fakessh http://urlshort.eu fakessh @ http://gplus.to/sshfake http://gplus.to/sshswilting http://gplus.to/john.swilting https://lists.fakessh.eu/mailman/ This list is moderated by me, but all applications will be accepted provided they receive a note of presentation

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[Dovecot] Chown ChgrpNoPerm problem
by Robert JR 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Hello, I just have a one simple question. my logs has the following entries Sep 9 02:48:10 dovecot: pop3(r): Error: fchown(/home/r/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=501(r), group based on /var/mail/r) Sep 9 11:22:30 dovecot: pop3(r): Error: fchown(/home/r/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=501(r), group based on /var/mail/r) i know that chmod 0600 /var/mail , will solve the problem and i will no longer receive the above errors again But my question is that incase i did not set chmod /var/mail 0600, can i ignore such errors, is these errors harmful ? if this errors keep coming and i ignored them would this cause mbx corruption .. please advise My dovecot conf is disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mymail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Thanks. Robert

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[Dovecot] ChgrpNoPerm issue
by Robert JR 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

I have dovecot version 2.0.9 I am confused about this article http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm my mail_location = mbox:~/mymail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u So my inbox is at var/mail/ and my imap folder is /home/user/mymail The problem is /var/mail (Owner is useraccount and the group us mail) , and here comes the problem Dovecot keeps trying to chown the imap folder inside the homedirectory with user:mail account and since And this is the reason of error that appears in my log file. The option mail_access_groups=mail solve the problem.. but I read it is not secure.. With my current configutation, users login with imap to read mail , can they use any the mail_access_groups=mail and read other poeple mail ? does my configutation is a shard mailbox and could be unsecure.. my main quesion , for my current configuration , can i use mail_access_groups=mail safely or can some user use this to read other people mail ? attached my configuration. why didnot have this issue with uw-imapd? and why dovecot try to chown the .imap folder with the mail group ? dovecot -n output is # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mymail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } [ Robert

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[Dovecot] Sieve command line tool status for Refiltering
by Dieter Knopf 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Hello, is there any update about the sieve command line tool? I really need some way to refilter my mails without loosings flags and without moving all messages in a different folder. This is possible with procmail via direct access to the file system without the need of getmail. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Auth worker max line size
by Emmanuel Dreyfus 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Hello I have been playing with some exotic authentication scheme with Dovecot and PAM. That involves sending really large base64 encoded data as the IMAP password, and I have hit a line limit in Dovecot, with AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH set to 1024. This limit is especially frustrating since other parts of the software use much larger limits: MAX_INBUF_SIZE 4096 MAX_IMAP_LINE 8192 AUTH_CLIENT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH 8192 I had to make the patch attached below to get my authentication working. I can live with this local patch, but given the much more liberal limits of MAX_INBUF_SIZE at 4096 makes we wonder if this 1024 limit on AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH could not be a bug. Or is there a security concern at using more than 1kB? Opinions? (please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed ot the list) --- src/auth/auth-worker-client.h.orig 2009-06-23 18:32:15.000000000 +0200 +++ src/auth/auth-worker-client.h 2009-06-23 18:32:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ #ifndef AUTH_WORKER_CLIENT_H #define AUTH_WORKER_CLIENT_H -#define AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH 1024 +#define AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH 4096 struct auth_worker_client *auth_worker_client_create(struct auth *auth, int fd); void auth_worker_client_destroy(struct auth_worker_client **client); void auth_worker_client_unref(struct auth_worker_client **client); -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu(a)netbsd.org

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