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[Dovecot] can not get t'bird to create folder
by sean darcy 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

dovecot-2.0.16 on Fedora 15. thunderbird-8.0 I can access dovecot from thunderbird, imap maildir. But when I try to create a new folder, nothing happens. I'm not using LAYOUT=fs, so I have added, tb-extra-mailbox-sep, which didn't seem relevant anyhow. Any help appreciated. sean

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[Dovecot] Authentication listener configuration
by Rainer Frey 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi, I'm wondering about the authentication listeners that dovecot uses. In many configurations I see: service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { Does any component of dovecot use this listener internally (lmtp, lda ...) and does that read the config and search for the listener, or is the exact name "auth-userdb" expected? Is this maybe dependent on the userdb? Which ones need it? And if I want to use postfix SMTP auth, should I define a second listener, or just re-configure that default one to postfix's needs? Also, in which cases do I need to define an auth-worker service, and a unix_listener for it? I don't find this in the documentation, if that's caused by my lacking search skills, please just send apointer. Thanks Rainer

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[Dovecot] dsync(root): Fatal: execvp() failed: No such file or directory
by Yaroslav Boychuk 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi everybody, I try to convert mbox to maildir using local locations /root/mail is a dir with mboxes /root/INBOX is mbox file h=/root dsync -f -v mirror \ mbox:$h/mail:INBOX=$h/INBOX \ maildir:$h/Maildir:CONTROL=$h/dovecot:INDEX=$h/dovecot \ as result I have dsync(root): Fatal: execvp(mbox:/root/mail:INBOX=/root/INBOX) failed: No such file or directory dsync-local(root): Error: read() from worker server failed: EOF thank you for any help FreeBSD, dovecot 2.0.15

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[Dovecot] LDAP Authentication - Home Directory Creation
by Stephen Bowman 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

How does everyone handle this case? Users are authenticated by LDAP, and do not have accounts on the IMAP/dovecot server. When a new user is added to LDAP, the home directory (/home/newuser) needs to be created on the IMAP/dovecot server so dovecot can create the mail directories inside it (/home/newuser/mail/). Obviously I can come up with a few custom solutions, utilizing cron, but I feel like there's a cleaner solution out there. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda quota rule
by Micah Anderson 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

I really like the feature where you can define quota rules with percents which trigger off of the default values[0] (so you can set the Trash to allow for 10% more of the user's quota for example). What I would really love in dovecot would be for the ability to configure a quota rule for dovecot-lda. I would like to configure things so we don't bounce emails for users until they are well over quota, the IMAP quota plugin is a really great way to notify people that they are over quota because it fails to write to other folders.... that should be enough to get people's attention that they need to deal with things, but bouncing is harsh. Is there a way to do this now that I haven't seen? thanks! micah 0. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration --

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[Dovecot] can't get sieve to sort virus into spam
by sean darcy 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

I can't get sieve to put virus files in the SPAM folder. dovecot -n # 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) auth_debug_passwords = yes info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_access_groups = mail mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { antispam_backend = dspam-exec antispam_dspam_args = --deliver;--user;%u antispam_dspam_binary = /usr/bin/dspam antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_spam = Spam antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages sieve = /home/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve.script sieve_dir = /home/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve/ sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " antispam" } cat /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve require "fileinto"; if header :contains "X-DSPAM-Result" "Virus" { fileinto "SPAM"; } if header :contains "X-DSPAM-Result" "Spam" { fileinto "SPAM"; } and there is a folder SPAM: cat mail/subscriptions Sent Trash Drafts SPAM yet : Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=14dae9399d3b9b67cc04b2d60790 X-DSPAM-Result: Virus X-DSPAM-Processed: Mon Nov 28 21:03:47 2011 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 4ed43d8341479178914901 --14dae9399d3b9b67cc04b2d60790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* does not end up into SPAM, or anyplace else, including inbox. How do I make this work? sean

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[Dovecot] second active directory
by Айдар Камалов 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello! There is dovecot authenticating through AD. All is working well, if authentication is just one of AD. But there is another AD, and working with 2 AD's dovecot don't recognizes last AD user's home directory. For example, if user name in the second AD - 1developer and Mail - it-2c(a)zakamye.ru then dovecot creates folder /var/mail/zakamye.ru/1cdeveloper but it should be /var/mail/zakamye.ru/it-2c. What I do wrong?( And, if I change the order of viewing AD, does not work precisely the second AD: passdb ldap-DUSLYK { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-DUSLYK.conf } userdb ldap-DUSLYK { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-DUSLYK-users.conf } passdb ldap-DUSL-OFFICE { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-DUSL-OFFICE.conf } userdb ldap-DUSL-BASE { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-DUSL-OFFICE-users.conf } Sorry for my bad english, but maybe you can understand logs and configs: http://pastebin.com/mtk4XsNE -- Айдар А. Камалов, Системный администратор ООО "ТД Дуслык" г. Наб. Челны, пос. Сидоровка Тел.: +7 (8552) 47-01-99 доб. 3025 Тел.: +7 (8552) 70-65-15 доб. 280 Сот.: +7 (919) 621-28-52 E-mail: akam(a)zakamye.ru

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[Dovecot] Fault tolerant architecture
by Marcelo Salhab Brogliato 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi, I'm new to this list and want your help. I'm the mail admin for some domains in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. Today we have only one machine running dovecot (imap+pop3) with local mail. We are migrating to two virtual machines in kvm running in separate hosts. Then we have two main problems: - How to share mail files to both dovecots? We've been thinking about NFS using local indexes. Is this a good approach? - How do we have a fault tolerant mail servers? Our first solutions is using two IP addresses in our DNS records. About NFS using local indexes, I'm configuring a test server. But how to configure local indexes when my mail_location comes from sql (userdb_home actually). I'm using dovecot 1.2.9. I guess you already had some of these problems or maybe in another architecture these neither exists. Thanks for any help, Marcelo

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[Dovecot] Best setup for performance and fault tolerance
by Donny Brooks 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello all. I am in need of some guidance. First a little background. Currently our mail server is on physical hardware (Dell server with 2x 2.8GHz Xeon w/ 4GB ram, raid5 array, single gigabit nic) running on Fedora 11 and postfix-2.5.6-3.fc11.x86_64 with dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64. Mailstore is via Maildir format that was converted from mbox about a year ago. This same machine is also our PDC with samba, Master LDAP, slave MySQL replication, primary DNS, and home server for about 20 users. We have approximately 200 end users that have mailboxes on the server ranging from 1KB to 20GB in size. Total mail store is currently at 300GB. About 75 of the users are currently POP access and their mail will be moved to the server soon and setup as IMAP. This is calculated to add roughly another 150GB of mail for a total of 450GB mail store. Being a state agency we have to keep the mail indefinitely for public record reasons. We use a mixture of Thunderbird as an IMAP client and SOGo for web access. Now to the problem: Recently we have been having super slow access to the mail server. Turns out the load was insanely high partially due to the samba home server portion, which is being moved off as we speak, and the other part is due to people searching their mail. Just yesterday one of our users nearly brought the entire agency to its knees by performing a search on her 8GB of mail via IMAP. Since the server is old in both hardware and software I have been tasked with moving it to newer hardware and a newer OS. We currently have 3 virtual servers running Xen and a SAN. The new setup will be placed in the virtual environment. I will probably run Fedora 16 as the OS but am open to Centos, Fedora, or Ubuntu. Now to the question: What is the best way to setup Dovecot so that it is tuned for performance and high available? We have been running with this single point of failure for years so as long as we are moving the mail server we might as well build in some redundancy. To solve the searching problem I thought of maybe setting up some type of indexing. I do kind of want to break the various services out on to separate virtual machines for a little more fault tolerance, but that is not totally necessary. What do you think of things like iRedmail? I see it's usefulness but the not being able to separate services kind of defeats the purpose, plus I want to setup a high available MySQL cluster and possibly OpenLDAP or 389 cluster so iRedMail may not be the best solution. Sorry for the long email but I am trying to get all the information out there at once so it will help get more directed responses in the shortest amount of time. I look forward to any and all input on this matter -- Donny B MDAH

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[Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD
by Patrick Westenberg 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi all, is anyone on this list who dares/dared to store his index files on a MLC-SSD? Regards, Patrick

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