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[Dovecot] 2.1: timeout waiting for lock?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Mar 15 09:46:11 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock Mar 15 09:46:11 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Mar 15 09:47:26 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock Mar 15 09:47:26 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Mar 15 09:51:01 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock Mar 15 09:51:01 postamt dovecot: pop3(username): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 during that time, I wasn't able to access the mailbox using imap. I then issued doveadm kick username and all over sudden the mailbox was accessible (via IMAP) # doveadm kick username kicked connections from the following users: username # /usr/local/scripts/find_abnormal_imap Mar 15 11:38:48 postamt dovecot: imap: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=24545 uid=0 code=kill) -- 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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Re: [Dovecot] .mailboxlist -> .subscriptions
by Joseph Tam 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Steve Campbell <campbell(a)cnpapers.com> writes: > Their imap folders, the ones that they create using an imap client or > webmail, are either in ~ or ~/mail. Their original .mailboxlist is > always in ~. Based on that, I should probably copy any imap folders not > in ~/mail to that folder, duplicate ~/.mailboxlist to the file > ~/mail/.subscriptions, and amend any .subscriptions file contents to > just have the name of the folders (without any "mail/folder" reference > in it). > > My example would then be as follows > > /home/steve = folder > /home/steve/Drafts = original folder > /home/steve/AnyFolder = original folder > /home/steve/.mailboxlist = original file > /home/steve/mail = folder (either original or created) > /home/steve/mail/.subscriptions = copied contents of .mailboxlist > file > /home/steve/mail/Drafts = copied folder of original > /home/steve/mail/AnyFolder = copied folder of original > > Contents of original .mailboxlist and new .subscriptions: > > Drafts > AnyFolder > > If the imap folders were in ~/mail, then the original .mailboxlist would > have been > > mail/Drafts > mail/AnyFolder > > but after the corrections to the .subscriptions file, they would be as > above (without reference to the mail folder). > > Is this correct? That depends -- are you aliasing namespaces so that prefix={"", "mail/", etc.} all map to a user's ~/mail folder? You may be creating a confusing situation where a client with a null IMAP prefix has 2 copies of a mailbox. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] firefox dovecot-sieve
by paul 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Send this to dovecot(a)dovecot.org, not dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org On 14.3.2012, at 4.45, paul wrote: > HI. I have just started to play with sieve and everything seems ok when > logging on using telnet localhost 4190 and an encoded username/password. > If I try to connect with firefox at localhost:4190 I get > "IMPLEMENTATION" "Dovecot Pigeonhole" > "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress > comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include > variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave" > "NOTIFY" "mailto" > "SASL" "PLAIN LOGIN" > "STARTTLS" > "VERSION" "1.0" > OK "Dovecot ready." > NO "Error in MANAGESIEVE command received by server." > NO "Error in MANAGESIEVE command received by server." > NO "Invalid characters in atom" > BYE "Too many invalid MANAGESIEVE commands." > my dovecot -n shows > # 2.0.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.42.9-1.fc15.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) > auth_mechanisms = plain login > disable_plaintext_auth = no > mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u > mail_privileged_group = mail > managesieve_notify_capability = mailto > managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope > encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric > relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify > environment mailbox date ihave > mbox_write_locks = fcntl > passdb { > driver = pam > } > plugin { > sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve > sieve_dir = ~/sieve > } > protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve > service managesieve-login { > inet_listener sieve { > port = 4190 > } > } > ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem > ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem > userdb { > driver = passwd > } > Have I missed something obvious or does Firefox clash with Managesieve? > Thanks. Paul >

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[Dovecot] Login Failed
by Aydın Demirel 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi; We are using scripts for login successes. Is there a feature for login failed status or can it be developed? Regards -- *Aydın Demirel Endersys Ltd. Sistem Destek Mühendisi/ System Support Engineer* * *<<Endersys is the first Advanced Business Partner of Red Hat in Turkey! http://www.europe.redhat.com/partners/endersys/>> Phone : +90 216 470 9423 | GSM : +90 530 401 8203 Fax : +90 216 470 9508 | Web : http://www.endersys.com <http://www.endersys.com/> Blog : http://blog.endersys.com <http://blog.endersys.com/> Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/endersys LPI : The #1 Linux Certification for IT Professionals LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Turkey http://www.lpi-turkey.com <http://www.lpi-turkey.com/>

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[Dovecot] FTS crash
by Joan Moreau 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hi Timo, I updated my 2.1 from HG, and now the FTS (Squat) plugin makes a segmentation fault. When I remove the plugin from the dovecot.conf, all works fine. No debug available here, but let me know how can I help you. Joan

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[Dovecot] RECENT status always 0
by Arnaud Abélard 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hello, we are using dovecot 2.0.13 with maildir++ (we migrated away from courrier just a few months ago) and the RECENT status doesn't seem to be working: . STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT) * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 35106 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 10) then 2 minutes later: . STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT) * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 35106 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 11) How can the UNSEEN count change without the RECENT count changing accordingly? Thanks in advance, Arnaud -- Arnaud Abélard (jabber: arnaud.abelard(a)univ-nantes.fr) Administrateur Système - Responsable Services Web Direction des Systèmes d'Informations Université de Nantes - ne pas utiliser: trapemail(a)univ-nantes.fr

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Archive to slower storage - sort of alternate storage
by Marcio Merlone 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hi people, When a user archives a message from Thunderbird it moves to an IMAP folder "Archives", everyone knows that. I use dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 and want to move that folder (and respective IMAP sub-folders) to a slower storage, link it to original location and my first idea for this is find -type d -name .Archives\* -print0 | \ while read -d $'\0' archive; do \ mv "$archive" /dead/Emails/jhon.doe/; \ ln -s "/dead/Emails/jhon.doe/$archive" .; done It works, given that the files are not locked. I could restart dovecot before so it would unlock the files, but there is no guarantee it does not get locked again before the find finishes. I took a look on mailling list archives, but could not find something like that and was wondering what you guys use (if any) for such task and what are the recommendations, best practices, solutions for that? Thanks in advance, best regards. -- *Marcio Merlone*

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Re: [Dovecot] \NoSelect on missing folders in LIST
by Peter Mogensen 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

On 2012-03-05 16:36, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Still curious about if Courier is doing something wrong which the scripts just happened to take advantage of. > > Neither behavior is wrong, just different. :) Ok... I were in doubt if I had missed something from the RFC. However... for testing, I tried to create "INBOX.INBOX" on dovecot. But then dovecot answers NO and complains that the folder already exists. Though it's still not on disk and dovecot still doesn't list it with "*". /Peter

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[Dovecot] No passdbs specified in configuration file with passdb/userdb in protocol sections
by btb＠bitrate.net 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

hi- i have a configuration in which i'm using different passdb/userdb settings for each of imap, lmtp and smtp [without getting too far off on a tangent, this is so ldap group membership can be used to independently control authorization for receiving [lmtp], retrieving [imap], and sending [smtp/postfix] of email. each passdb/userdb uses a different search filter.] when i use this as my config: # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 11.10 auth_debug = yes first_valid_gid = 2000 first_valid_uid = 2000 log_timestamp = "%d.%m.%Y %H.%M.%S " login_greeting = dovecot ready mail_debug = yes protocols = " imap lmtp" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 10026 } } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/pki/mra.example.com-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/pki/mra.example.com-key.pem verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-imap.conf.ext driver = ldap } userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-imap.conf.ext driver = ldap } } protocol lmtp { userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-lmtp.conf.ext driver = ldap } } protocol smtp { passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-smsp.conf.ext driver = ldap } } dovecot complains: dovecot: auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN mechanism needs one which is a little confusing, since there are multiple passdbs specified, in the various protocol sections. i found that adding another "global" passdb to the config allows dovecot to work - e.g.: # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 11.10 auth_debug = yes first_valid_gid = 2000 first_valid_uid = 2000 log_timestamp = "%d.%m.%Y %H.%M.%S " login_greeting = dovecot ready mail_debug = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocols = " imap lmtp" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 10026 } } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/pki/mra.example.com-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/pki/mra.example.com-key.pem verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-imap.conf.ext driver = ldap } userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-imap.conf.ext driver = ldap } } protocol lmtp { userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-lmtp.conf.ext driver = ldap } } protocol smtp { passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-smsp.conf.ext driver = ldap } } the problem with this is that while each of the passdb/userdb configs for the various protocols does indeed work, if a result is not found in one of them, the global passdb appears to then function as a catch-all. how can i tell dovecot it doesn't need a global passdb? each of the protocols' passdb/userdb configs is functioning as desired, but having dovecot look elsewhere upon failure ends up defeating the purpose. thanks -ben

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[Dovecot] invalid mailbox name
by Vincent Schut 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi, while migrating all mail from our old to our new server (using offlineimap, imap -> imap), I get the following error for one of my user's mailboxes: ERROR: Folder 'Organisations.RS Env & IJRS'[local_hoekman] could not be created. Server responded: ('NO', ['Invalid mailbox name: Organisations.RS Env & IJRS']) I suppose this is because of the ampersand in the mailbox name? Because other folder with spaces in it go just fine... Is this a fixed thing? Why was my user able to create the folder once? And why is dovecot 1.2.15 refusing to create the folder now? Migration is from dovecot 1.1.11 to 1.2.15. Thanks, Vincent.

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