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[Dovecot] Can't delete sub-folder
by pch0317 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hi list, I have problem with deleting sub-folder. I use thunderbird 8.0 as a client and dovecot 2.0.9 with imap protocol as a server. I use dovecot with tb-extra-mailbox-sep parameter. I use mbox mailboxes and thunderbird with *not checked* option 'server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages' so when I create sub-folder I can choose between 'folders only' and 'messages only'. When I try to delete 'parent' folder which contain 'messages only' folder, error message appear: [ALREADYEXISTS] Mailbox has children, delete them first. Ok, so I delete 'message only' folder first and try to delete parent folder, but the same error appear: [ALREADYEXISTS] Mailbox has children, delete them first. When I list mailboxes from console I see inside 'parent' folder ".imap" folder. When I delete .imap folder from console and then delete parent folder from thunderbird, parent folder is deleted correctly. Which application create this ".imap" hidden folder and how solve this problem. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Problem compiling dovecot 2.1 Beta1 under Solaris 10 on SPARC
by Jürgen Obermann 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello, compiling dovecot 2.1 Beta1 under Solaris 10 on SPARC with Sun Studio 11 stops with the following error: Making all in lib-imap-client gmake[3]: Entering directory `/net/fileserv/export/sunsrc/src/dovecot-2.1.beta1/src/lib-imap-client' source='imapc-client.c' object='imapc-client.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../../depcomp \ /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-dns -I../../src/lib-ssl-iostream -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/usr/sfw/include -c -o imapc-client.lo imapc-client.c libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-dns -I../../src/lib-ssl-iostream -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/usr/sfw/include -c imapc-client.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/imapc-client.o "imapc-client.h", line 21: warning: enumerator value overflows INT_MAX (2147483647) libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-dns -I../../src/lib-ssl-iostream -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/usr/sfw/include -c imapc-client.c -o imapc-client.o >/dev/null 2>&1 source='imapc-connection.c' object='imapc-connection.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../../depcomp \ /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-dns -I../../src/lib-ssl-iostream -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/usr/sfw/include -c -o imapc-connection.lo imapc-connection.c libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-dns -I../../src/lib-ssl-iostream -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I/usr/local/include -fast -xarch=v8plusa -I/usr/sfw/include -c imapc-connection.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/imapc-connection.o "../../src/lib-imap/imap-util.h", line 6: warning: useless declaration "imapc-client.h", line 21: warning: enumerator value overflows INT_MAX (2147483647) "imapc-connection.c", line 1446: operand cannot have void type: op "==" "imapc-connection.c", line 1446: operands have incompatible types: const void "==" pointer to struct imapc_command {pointer to struct pool {..} pool, pointer to struct buffer {..} data, unsigned int send_pos, unsigned int tag, enum imapc_command_flags {IMAPC_COMMAND_FLAG_RETRIABLE(4), IMAPC_COMMAND_FLAG_PRELOGIN(2), IMAPC_COMMAND_FLAG_SELECT(1)} flags, pointer to struct imapc_connection {..} conn, pointer to struct imapc_client_mailbox {..} box, union {..} streams, pointer to function(pointer to const struct imapc_command_reply {..}, pointer to void) returning void callback, pointer to void context, unsigned int idle :1, unsigned int wait_for_literal :1} cc: acomp failed for imapc-connection.c gmake[3]: *** [imapc-connection.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/net/fileserv/export/sunsrc/src/dovecot-2.1.beta1/src/lib-imap-client' Viele Grüße, Jürgen Obermann Hochschulrechenzentrum der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 Tel. 0641-9913054

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[Dovecot] Unique message IDs?
by Alexander Chekalin 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello, I'm working with indexing my mail box. What I need is to have index in which mailing specified header string is located. I work with the messages via IMAP. I know that sounds like FTS can help me but no, I don't want to index whole message nor I want to patch FTS source to make it to index headers only. I need a way to identify message across my mail box. The idea is that I can move messages between IMAP folders and the index still should be able to identify it. What I want to know, will UID strings be unique across all my messages no matter which IMAP folder it belongs now to, or the UID can change if I move message? If I remove dovecot-uidlist from the folder will UIDs of messages in the folder be changed? What happened if I put a message to the given IMAP folder (and dovecot-uidlist will record UID for it), then shut down dovecot, and (given maildir storage model) move the message's file info another folder in the same mail box - after I start dovecot, will the UID for the message be the same or not? Thank you in advance, Alexander Chekalin

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[Dovecot] dsync strange duplicate directories
by Frank 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello, i'm testing whether dsync will help me in setting up a redundant master - master imap setup and experience this: 1. Master 1 dovecot is running, master 2 dovecot is down 2. I use rsync to create an exact copy of the master 1 maildir on master 2 3. I start up master 2 dovecot 4. I do a dsync on master 2: dsync -D -u test(a)example.com mirror ssh root@master1 dsync -D -u test(a)example.com Now what i see is this: Each mail directory is duplicated on master 1 and master 2 to a directory name with some MD5 hash value (as it seems) e.g. before dsync: ls -a /home/vmail/example.com/test/Maildir cur new .Drafts .Junk .Sent ... after dsync: ls -a /home/vmail/example.com/test/Maildir cur new .Drafts .Drafts_af61060f6f9fcb4efc0a00002691362e .Junk .Junk_b261060f6f9fcb4efc0a00002691362e .Sent .Sent_b261060f6f9fcb4efc0a00002691362e ... The new directories contain the same files as the original directories. What am i doing wrong? Thanks for the help Frank

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[Dovecot] disable imap info logging
by Chris Young 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Is there a way to disable the imap info logging? My logs are filling with tons of login/logout messages Nov 22 18:23:25 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<USER1>, method={method}, rip=10.86.189.79, lip=10.86.189.82, mpid=22488 Nov 22 18:23:25 imap(USER1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out bytes=54/726

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[Dovecot] No duplicates on imap copy?
by Alexander Chekalin 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Hello, when from my script I try to copy messages from one imap folder into another own (within the same imap mailbox). That works perfectly, but... If I copy the same message N times from one folder into another one, in the destination folder I see N copies of the same message, each with its own UID. I wonder if there any way to deduplicate folder content (so in the destination folder I'll get only one copy of each message)? I'd implement something like that myself in my script but I just don't know which part of the messages should I compare - probably md5 of headers? Thank you in advance! Yours, Alexander Chekalin

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Re: [Dovecot] Solaris hardware crypto engines
by Damon Atkins 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Here are some blogs on the topic. http://wikis.sun.com/display/CryptoPerf/Using+the+UltraSPARC+cryptographic+… Solaris 10 # /usr/sfw/bin/openssl engine -c -t # cc -fast*-I /usr/sfw/include -L /usr/sfw/lib -lcrypto* aes_test.c -o aes_test.out http://blogs.oracle.com/DanX/entry/sparc_t4_openssl_engine http://blogs.oracle.com/DanX/entry/where_s_the_crypto_libraries http://blogs.oracle.com/DanX/entry/solaris_x86_aesni_openssl_engine http://blogs.oracle.com/chichang1/entry/rsa_performance_of_sun_fire Here is some info from my intel box Solaris 11 # /usr/bin/openssl engine -c -t (aesni) Intel AES-NI engine (no-aesni) % no-aesni means no aes H/W acceleration [ available ] (dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support [ unavailable ] (pkcs11) PKCS #11 engine support [RSA, DSA, DH, RAND, DSA] [ available ] $ isainfo -v # My cpu does not have 'aes' support 64-bit amd64 applications cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu 32-bit i386 applications ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu # ldd /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/ssl-build-param **** libssl.so.1.0.0 => /lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 *** *** libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0* *** libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1 libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 libsocket.so.1 => /lib/libsocket.so.1 librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 libsendfile.so.1 => /lib/libsendfile.so.1 libmp.so.2 => /lib/libmp.so.2 libmd.so.1 => /lib/libmd.so.1 libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --with-ldap=yes --with-gssapi --with-ssldir=/etc/openssl Install prefix . : /opt/dovecot File offsets ... : 64bit I/O polling .... : poll I/O notifys .... : none SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL) GSSAPI ......... : yes passdbs ........ : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword ldap : -bsdauth -sia -sql -vpopmail userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword ldap : -sql -vpopmail -nss SQL drivers .... : : -pgsql -mysql -sqlite Note Under OpenSolaris I did the following: CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/sfw/include LDFLAGS=-R/usr/sfw/lib ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --with-ldap=yes --with-gssapi --with-ssldir=/etc/openssl (most likely Solaris 10 is the same as above, openssl may look old but I believe it is patched with compatible *fixes* from current openssl so application do not break. Apparently it took 5mths to update Solaris 11 to OpenSSL 1.0 and test everything) Cheers Damon.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Log analysis
by Thomas Hummel 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Hello, Before writing them myself, I'd like to figure out if some tools exist (anvil ? ...) and how to use them to extract from dovecot logs things like who is doing what and how hard or how fast in order to do some rate limiting. For instance, I'd like to be able to identify, slow or block users who . read or write to much / slice of time . login/logout too often / slice of time Note : I'm still using the 1.2.x branch. Thanks -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Groupe Exploitation et Infrastructure

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[Dovecot] Dovecot performance issues with many writes
by Andy Robbins 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

We are currently experiencing performance issue with our Dovecot system which we believe is caused by excessive writes to the dovecot files. The confusing thing is that we are seeing more writes than reads on our Dovecot volume when you would assume that most of the IO should be reads from customers checking their mail. We're seeing reads vs. writes similar to the following: # iostat -d 5 -x Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util dm-4 0.00 0.00 485.80 865.80 3886.40 6926.40 8.00 28.69 19.63 0.70 94.00 drbd0 0.00 0.00 485.80 865.80 3886.40 6926.40 8.00 111.42 94.44 0.74 99.60 We can't figure out why we would be seeing twice as many writes as we are reads. Could this have something to do with the index files? Appreciate any assistance on this issue.

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[Dovecot] uid=error
by Paresh Chalke 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Hi Timo, We are facing this issue on our mail server 1. Two email id's are mapped to a same account 2. If I send a mail to both the account simultaneously i get below error "Nov 21 12:13:37 blade8 dovecot: lda(kapil.gupta(a)qlc.in): save: box=INBOX, uid=error, msgid=<1321857820.4ec9f31ce638c(a)SwiftMailer.generated>, size=10921" 3. Due to this the mail is delivered only to 1 email id. 4. I am loosing all my mails. Kindly help in the same ASAP. Regards, Paresh Chalke

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