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[Dovecot] Mail delivery to subfolders via address extension, and prefered lda method
by Micha Krause 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hi, I want to deliver mails directly to subfolders, based on address extensions. Example: Emails sent to: micha+test(a)example.com Should be stored into user micha, folder INBOX.test I was able to reproduce this with exim and dovecot-lda: command = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -e -m "INBOX.${substr_1:$local_part_suffix}" But I was wondering if I could do this within dovecot, which would enable me to use LMTP instead of dovecot-lda. Which brings me to my second question: Which method is "better" for dovecot, lda or LMTP? Micha Krause

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[Dovecot] Virtual Folders
by jacob＠alltechservices-ia.com 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hello, I am trying to get virtual folders to work properly, and I can't seem to. I will be as detailed as possible to remove confusion. Thank you in advance. Goal: Essentially, a gmail clone, but one that I can make work on cPanel hosts with roundcube and squirrel mail, etc. By default, cpanel creates user mail dir structure of (maildir++) inbox, drafts, sent, junk, and trash (with no dovecot specific files until first login) I would like to replace all those folders with virtual representations with more capabilities. I would like to achieve the conversation view that gmail has pulled off so well. cPanel, stock, generates the following dovecot -n: (i am still not sure how it negotiates mail_location yet) # 1.2.17: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5xen x86_64 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/ssl/dovecot.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LOW:-SSLv2:-EXP login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 100 login_max_connections: 500 mail_max_userip_connections: 200 maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 2048 username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!#$-=?^_{}~./@+% passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dovecot-auth userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 438 plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: Trash:ignore I started a test box with Debian running the same version of dovecot (1.2.x) and on that system I run into problems every time I make a virtual folder a root folder. I assume it is trying to look up a normal folder instead of the virtual ones and I am confusing it. So I came here because it would be really really neat if I could pull this off. Again, thank you in advance. -cornfeed

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1 with custom OpenSSL fails to build
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hello Dovecot users! There seems to be a new dependency in some modules (eg, lib-storage, libdovecot-lda, libdovecot-ssl) on OpenSSL. In Dovecot 2.0, those modules didn't require OpenSSL, but 2.1 does. For the linking process the path to the OpenSSL library isn't specified properly (SSL_LIBS). Dovecot fails to build if OpenSSL is in a non-standard path. (Haven't checked if SSL_CFLAGS isn't properly used as well.) Example for lib-storage: env SSL_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include" SSL_LIBS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/ssl/lib -lcrypto -lssl" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/${DOVECOTVER} --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/usr/local/${DOVECOTVER}/etc/dovecot/certs make gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-master -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-storage -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/Dovecot-2.1.1/var/run/dovecot"\" -std=gnu99 -g -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/ssl/include -MT master-connection.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/master-connection.Tpo -c -o master-connection.o master-connection.c mv -f .deps/master-connection.Tpo .deps/master-connection.Po /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -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/ssl/include -no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -o indexer-worker indexer-worker.o indexer-worker-settings.o master-connection.o ../../src/lib-storage/libdovecot-storage.la ../../src/lib-dovecot/libdovecot.la -export-dynamic -ldl -lrt libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -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/ssl/include -Wl,--as-needed -o .libs/indexer-worker indexer-worker.o indexer-worker-settings.o master-connection.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../../src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -ldl -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/Dovecot-2.1.1/lib/dovecot /usr/bin/ld: warning: libcrypto.so.1.0.0, needed by ../../src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libssl.so.1.0.0, needed by ../../src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) ../../src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `OBJ_txt2nid' ../../src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so: undefined reference to `SSL_set_ex_data' [...] # ldd src/lib*/.libs/*.so src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so: linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00979000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00c31000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x009ed000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0054d000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00c12000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x008f4000) src/lib-lda/.libs/libdovecot-lda.so: linux-gate.so.1 => (0x0096d000) libdovecot-storage.so.0 => /usr/local/src/dovecot-2.1.1/src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so.0 (0x00ae4000) libdovecot.so.0 => /usr/local/src/dovecot-2.1.1/src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so.0 (0x00110000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00189000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00192000) libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found libssl.so.1.0.0 => not found libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0031c000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00ebc000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x003f8000) src/lib-sql/.libs/libdovecot-sql.so: linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00a95000) libdovecot.so.0 => /usr/local/src/dovecot-2.1.1/src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so.0 (0x002b6000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00ab8000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x0072a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x008f7000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00ebd000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00619000) src/lib-ssl-iostream/.libs/libdovecot-ssl.so: linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00da6000) libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found libssl.so.1.0.0 => not found libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00df0000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00112000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00b5e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00e76000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x005a6000) src/lib-storage/.libs/libdovecot-storage.so: linux-gate.so.1 => (0x006ed000) libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found libssl.so.1.0.0 => not found libdovecot.so.0 => /usr/local/src/dovecot-2.1.1/src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so.0 (0x00c66000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00491000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00be2000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00110000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0036b000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x0029a000) Without SSL_CFLAGS and SSL_LIBS but just PKG_CONFIG_PATH, it also won't work. Help appreciated ... Andreas

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[Dovecot] Error with 2.0.18
by Ralf Hildebrandt 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Today I found this in my log: Feb 26 14:27:51 postamt dovecot: imap(tscxxxf): Error: mmap(/home/t/s/tscxxxf/Maildir/dovecot.index.search.uids) failed: Cannot allocate memory Feb 26 14:27:51 postamt dovecot: imap(tscxxxf): Error: Corrupted squat uidlist file /home/t/s/tscxxxf/Maildir/dovecot.index.search.uids: uidlist not found Feb 26 14:27:52 postamt dovecot: imap(tscxxxf): Panic: file squat-trie.c: line 289 (squat_trie_lock): assertion failed: (trie->fd != -1) Feb 26 14:27:52 postamt dovecot: imap(tscxxxf): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3d44a) [0xb771644a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3d4bb) [0xb77164bb] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xb7716d87] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so(+0x3bfa) [0xb74e1bfa] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so(squat_trie_build_deinit+0x9fc) [0xb74e4d3c] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so(+0x2a95) [0xb74e0a95] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_build_deinit+0x1b) [0xb752f6bb] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0x3726) [0xb7530726] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0x51d3) [0xb75321d3] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0x5c34) [0xb7532c34] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x3b) [0xb778b0cb] -> dovecot/imap [tscxxxf 141.42.206.38 SELECT UID SEARCH]() [0x805ce6e] -> dovecot/imap [tscxxxf 141.42.206.38 SELECT UID SEARC Feb 26 14:27:55 postamt dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 18468 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] Dovecot altmove questions
by Maria Arrea 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hello We are using Dovecot 2.0.17 with mdbox+zlib and we are evaluating alternative storage. These are the relevant settings mdbox_rotate_interval = 1d mdbox_rotate_size=60m [...] zlib_save_level = 9 # 1..9 zlib_save = gz # or bz2 [...] zlib plugin enabled in dovecot-lda These are my questions: 1º General mdbox question. We are happy usings zlib_save, but we would like to try bzip2 compression. Can we change zlib to bzlib without problems? In other words, can we mix & match gzipped and bzipped messages in the same mdbox file ? 2º With doveadm altmove we can move messages matching a pattern to alternate storage. I have read an older post in this mailing list about passing specific mdbox options to doveadm altmove. Should be a good idea to have a "main" mdbox area with zlib 9 and mdbox_rotate=1d and mdox_rotate_size=60m and an "alternate area" with bzip9, mdbox_rotate=1 week and rotate_size > 60 MB? In the alternate area should only be "old" mail (1 year older). 3º We have separate raids for indexes (raid 1+0) and mdboxes (raid 5). We have almost 3 TB of gzipped mdboxes, and our backup (bacula) is taking almost 16 hours to make a full backup. Our main problem is that indexes are backupd hours before mdboxes, and that bring us some inconsistencies. What is the "right" way of backing up for separate indexes and mdboxes? Thank you for your support. Maria

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[Dovecot] IMAP-proxy or not with sogo webmail and dovecot backend
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

We've been collecting some stats to see what kind of benefits UP/SquirrelMail's IMAP Proxy in for our SOGo webmail users. Dovecot is running in High-performance mode http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess with authentication caching http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching During the weekend two servers (webmail3 and webmail4) has been running with local imapproxy and two servers without (webmail1 and webmail2). Each server has served about 1 million http requests, over 3 days. server avg. response time # requests ---------------------------------------------------- webmail1.example.net 0.370411 1092386 webmail2.example.net 0.374227 1045141 webmail3.example.net 0.378097 1043919 imapproxy webmail4.example.net 0.378593 1028653 imapproxy ONLY requests that took more than 5 seconds to process: server avg. response time # requests ---------------------------------------------------- webmail1.example.net 26.048 1125 webmail2.example.net 26.2997 1080 webmail3.example.net 28.5596 808 imapproxy webmail4.example.net 27.1004 964 imapproxy ONLY requests that took more than 10 seconds to process: server avg. response time # requests ---------------------------------------------------- webmail1.example.net 49.1407 516 webmail2.example.net 53.0139 459 webmail3.example.net 59.7906 333 imapproxy webmail4.example.net 58.167 384 imapproxy The responstimes are not very fast, but they do seem to support the claim that an imapproxy isn't needed for dovecot. -jf

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD maintainer ?
by Frank Bonnet 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hello Does the FreeBSD Dovecot's port maintainer read this mailing-list ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] v2.0.13 problems after kernel patch for CVE-2011-1083 applied on Centos 5
by Doug Henderson 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Greetings, This email is both a request for assistance/help and a heads-up. [8irgehuq] CVE-2011-1083: Algorithmic denial of service in epoll. After ksplice automatically installed the above patch on our mail servers, most/all IMAP/POP3 connections began experiencing time-outs trying to connect, or extreme timeouts in the auth procedure. dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=a.a.a.a, lip=b.b.b.b, TLS handshaking: Disconnected dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=a.a.a.a, lip=b.b.b.b, TLS handshaking: Disconnected dovecot: pop3-login: Panic: epoll_ctl(add, 6) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: pop3-login: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3cb543baa0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3cb543baf6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3cb543afb3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_add+0x118) [0x3cb5447708] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_add+0xa5) [0x3cb5446e15] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_init_finish+0x1c6) [0x3cb54355a6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0(main+0x136) [0x37a000bdf6] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x3cb301d994] -> dovecot/pop3-login(main+0x49) [0x401b99] dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): child 27603 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - add -D parameter to service pop3-login { executable } dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling dovecot: imap-login: Panic: epoll_ctl(add, 6) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: imap-login: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3cb543baa0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3cb543baf6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3cb543afb3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_add+0x118) [0x3cb5447708] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_add+0xa5) [0x3cb5446e15] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_init_finish+0x1c6) [0x3cb54355a6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0(main+0x136) [0x37a000bdf6] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x3cb301d994] -> dovecot/imap-login(main+0x39) [0x402069] dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): child 27604 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - add -D parameter to service imap-login { executable } Once this patch was removed, everything started working again. Is it possible that dovecot is trying to re-add already-added connections to the polling list - which this specific 'patch' prevents? We haven't dug deeper yet, but the error is being thrown from the method io_loop_handle_add in ioloop-epoll.c http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/file/aa8dfa085a99/src/lib/ioloop-epoll.c Thanks Doug

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[Dovecot] upgrade to dovecot 2.1.1 any question
by ml 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

hi guys hi master of "Fu" hi Timo I am having problems to migrate to dovecot dovecot 2.0.18 to 2.1.1 I encounter fatal errors. I created it myself rpms available here http://ns.fakessh.eu/rpms/dovecot-2.1.1-1.centme.el5.src.rpm I can not run dovecot with this config file like this http://ns.fakessh.eu/rpms/dovecot-2.1.1-1.centme.el5.src.rpm i run this config ks37777 ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31.5-xxxx-rt14-ipv6-32 i686 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = [::] log_path = /var/log/maillog log_timestamp = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mail_plugins = " quota trash zlib" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date spamtest spamtestplus virustest namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/sa-learn antispam_mail_sendmail_args = --username=%u antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = move antispam_spam = SPAM;Spam;spam;Junk;junk antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items;Deleted Messages autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Junk autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts deleted_to_trash_folder = Trash plugin = $mail_plugins autocreate managesieve sieve quota quota = maildir:User quota quota_exceeded_message = Quota exceeded, please go to http://www.fakessh.eu/over_quota_help.html for instructions on how to fix this. quota_rule = *:storage=10GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10% quota_rule3 = Spam:storage=+20% quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/sieve-scripts/roundcube.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_path = whatever trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext zlib_save = bz2 zlib_save_level = 9 } protocols = sieve imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } vsz_limit = 64 M } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { address = * , [::] port = 993 } process_limit = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service imap { client_limit = 1024 service_count = 0 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener managesieve-login { address = * , [::] port = 2000 } process_limit = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { address = * , [::] port = 995 } process_limit = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = mail } user = dovecot } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/tls/certs/class3.crt ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/ks37777.kimsufi.com.cert ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/ks37777.kimsufi.com.key ssl_verify_client_cert = yes userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_max_line_length = 64 k mail_plugins = " quota trash zlib autocreate quota imap_quota zlib antispam imap_zlib" } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = autocreate quota quota autocreate zlib deleted_to_trash pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s } protocol lda { hostname = r13151.ovh.net info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = autocreate sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)fakessh.eu sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC2626742 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key C2626742 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] deliver(test@[***domain_name***]): Fatal: setgid(5000) failed with ... Operation not permitted
by fxCode 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi, I am relatively new to linux, and have set up my first lamp server around a month ago. The server is housed in a data centre a few miles from my house, and is working as a web server (with apache, tomcat, mysql) just fine. I have now been trying for a week to get Postfix and Dovecot working with postfixadmin and mysql. (below I have replaced my test domain name with [***domain_name***]) The story so far; I can send 'welcome' emails from within postfix admin to an external email address... and they are received by the mail client on my computer at home no problem. I can set up alias email addresses within postfix admin, such as webmaster@[***domain_name***], and emails sent to this address are redirected to the proper address as expected. But - if I set up a standard mailbox within postfix admin - test@[***domain_name***] , and email it from my home system, nothing appear in postfixadmin (after a fetch request) or the mysql database. Here is the fail point in my mail.log file ; Feb 26 12:50:27 quantum dovecot: deliver(test@[***domain_name***]): Fatal: setgid(5000) failed with euid=8(mail), gid=8(mail), egid=8(mail): Operation not permitted I don't know what the setguid(5000) is, or where it is being set, or what it should be! I have been changing permissions with the 'socket listen' section of my /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file, and when I restart dovecot it creates the auth-master file with the permissions as expected; socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0777 user = vmail group = mail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 432 #user = postfix #group = postfix } } my mail folders should be located at /var/vmail, but the folder is empty. I have chmod the permissions to be as follows; me@myserver: ls -ld /var/vmail drwxrwxrwx 2 vmail mail 4096 2012-02-11 08:40 /var/vmail Can anyone spot where this is going wrong? Thanks in advance for any help, it is very very much appreciated!!! My hosts file is as follows; 127.0.0.1 localhost [**server_ip***] quantum.[***domain_name***] quantum # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ...and 'dovecot -n' replies as follows; me@myserver: dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-38-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS ext4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 lda: log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address: fxcode(a)me.com mail_plugins: sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 511 user: vmail group: mail

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