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[Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called "dbox-Mails" (2.0beta5)
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

I am trying out "mdbox" under Dovecot 2.0beta5. Looking in the "mailboxes" directory under the mdbox storage root ("~/dbox" in my case), I can see that the mail folders are mapped into filesystem directories. But Dovecot seems to put all the message list information ("dovecot.index.cache", "dovecot.index.log") for any given mail folder into a directory called "dbox-Mails"... But this directory name exists in the same namespace as that used for mail subfolders... So this means we cannot create a mail subfolder whose name is "dbox-Mails"! I concede that this eventuality may be unlikely, but when designing in a green field, surely we should avoid such obvious pitfalls? Surely we would want to make it so that these objects exist in different namespaces, so that mail folders can be created with any name? So perhaps the directory "dbox-Mails" should use a character in its name which could not be used in mail folder names. Or mail folder names could have a non-identity mapping into directory names such that the directory name can never be "dbox-Mails". Regards, Bill

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[Dovecot] Specify auth service for protocols
by Lukas Garberg 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi all, I'm building a mail system where two machines are functioning both as POP3/IMAP-proxy (using dovecot 1.2.12) and SMTP-server with authentication for outgoing mail. The SMTP-server is postfix with dovecot SASL as authentication backend. User credentials for SMTP auth as well as the mapping from account to final server for the proxy is stored in a MySQL-database which dovecot queries. As I want the POP3/IMAP-proxy to accept any username and password (as the final POP3/IMAP server takes care of the authentication) the passdb SQL query has the statements "NULL AS password, 'Y' AS nopassword, 'Y' AS proxy" added to the query. As these additions cannot be used in the SQL query for the auth service used by postfix (as users would be able to authenticate with any password) I have defined a second auth service (auth postfix { ... }) in dovecot.conf which is slightly different; it returns the password hash instead of NULL as password and skips the proxy and nopasswd part. This works fine on one server, but on the other one the auth services get mixed up and the service defined for postfix (missing password and proxy stuff) is used by the POP3 and IMAP services and vice versa, which breaks the proxying. I've been trying my best to find any difference between the configuration of the two machines, but without result. The configurations are simply copies of each other. So, to finally arrive at my question: Is there any way to specify which authentication service is to be used by each protocol in dovecot.conf? Or is the solution instead to rewrite the passdb-query to take the service into account and return 'Y' AS proxy when the service is postfix and 'N' AS proxy when the service is POP3 or IMAP as I then would be able to use only one authentication backend? Sorry for the lengthy post and thank you in advance! Regards, Lukas Garberg

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[Dovecot] notification plugin
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, I'm pretty new to dovecot's codebase and trying to write a plugin which performs certain plugins if new mail arrives in a user's mailbox. I saw the mail-log plugin and was playing around with it but it seems to not create events if new mails arrive but only if mail are copied or saved from an IMAP connection. Are there any hooks I can base my plugin on to get events in the above case? Any pointers? Thanks, Wolfgang

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[Dovecot] Quotas - per folder message limits?
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in Dovecot? We're finding major performance hits once a threshold of files/directory is exceeded. This applies across all common filesystems with the threshold differing depending on the FS. GFS2 pretty much _STOPS_ for 10 minutes when users put 65k+ messages in one folder... I'm currently running 1.1.20 but looking to update (RHEL5 cluster installation)

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[Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. We have a few mentions at: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove But I was thinking it would be helpful if there could be a page about alternate storage. I could write the page, but I currently have so many unknowns that I think it would be better to gather some more information before writing the first draft. Note that I don't necessarily fully understand all the surrounding concepts, so I could have written something below which is based on a (vague) belief. Please correct me if I am wrong, or even if it's sort-of right but doesn't quite hit the point squarely. We might want to have a name for the wiki page. Perhaps "AlternateStorage"? Of course if it only applies to dbox, then another idea is to make it a section on the page "MailboxFormat/dbox". All suggestions gratefully received. I would be interested in an overview of what alternate storage is. It seems to be a way of transparently moving message data to alternare storage, with the idea that the alternate storage may be on a different filesystem which may be cheaper and/or slower than the main storage, which may be an economic way to store messages where the fastest access to them is less important. It is transparent in as much as IMAP/POP users will not normally be able to tell if any given message has been moved to alternate storage. A single mail folder can end up containing a mixture of messages stored in main storage and alternate storage. (Another question begged here of what consistent term should be used to refer to the main storage. Could be "main storage", "normal storage", "ordinary storage".) Also I would be interested to know the development/stability status of alternate storage: experimental / alpha / beta / stable. Also I would be interested to know the applicability against mailbox formats: mbox / maildir / sdbox / mdbox / cydir. Also I would be interested to know which data gets moved to the alternate storage, and which data stays in the main storage: message-data / control-data / index-data / combined-control-and-index-data. Also I would be interested to know how data can be moved to alternate storage. Seems to be that is only done by invocation of "doveadm altmove". There is a page for that already so we can link to that. Also it would be interesting to have some idea of how it works. For example there might be an "alternate storage" flag in the indexes, or Dovecot tries the main location first and if not found there then it tries the alternate storage. Just a brief overview, and any pertinent ramifications of that. Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST
by Samuel Kvasnica 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi Timo, >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder1" >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder2" >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" {9} >> six"wafer >> . OK List completed. >> >> Note the {9} length of the following real folder name. Is this normal >> handling of special folder names ? >Yes. Well, I did try other servers and e.g. on scalix I'm getting this: * LIST (\X-DirectRef=000d7f94a4731510 \X-ModDate=20100814200222) "/" "six\"wafer" I cannot find anything relevant in RFC3501 >> Mail clients do not seem to like this response. >What clients? They're buggy then.. Well, of course, way too many clients are :( at least Thunderbird will go totally crazy when getting this kind response. (My old python scripts expecting string, not a tuple go crazy as well... :-< )

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[Dovecot] Alternate mail_location prefix for homedir
by Henry C. 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, I'm switching from UW-imap to dovecot 2.0.1 and was wondering about the mail_location config: mail_location = mbox:~/.:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Notice '.' in '~/.' above. This seems to resolve the ~/mail problem when switching from UW-imap (ie, no 'mail' prefix). doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt doesn't mention using '~/.', so I was wondering whether there are any gotchas anyone can think of. Thanks Henry

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[Dovecot] psr2md
by Benoit LORAND 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

hello, I just write script who converts outlook pst files to the maildir format. I want to share it to community. I have tried it with outlook 2003 and outlook 2007. http://www.blorand.org/index.php/Pst2md i hope it will help someone. -- Benoît LORAND http://www.blorand.org benoit.lorand(a)blorand.org

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Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Why so complicated?   ---- Originalnachricht ---- Von: fakessh <fakessh(a)fakessh.eu> Gesendet: 4 Sep 2010 17:31 +02:00 An: Patrick Westenberg <pw(a)wk-serv.de> CC: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:27:26 +0200, Patrick Westenberg <pw(a)wk-serv.de> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I tried to use a global sieve skript to sort spam mails into > a subfolder of INBOX. I´m using mdbox. > > The log shows that the script is called and executed but it is > not able to find or create the mailbox: > > Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/Spamverdacht > Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 > > Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX.Spamverdacht > Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 > > My skript looks like this: > > require "fileinto"; > if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { > fileinto "Spamverdacht"; > } > > I also tried: > > require "fileinto"; > if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { > fileinto "INBOX.Spamverdacht"; > } > > How can I fix this? > > Regards > Patrick the script should be require ["fileinto","regex","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","reject","relational"]; # rule:[spammanage-before] if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["500"] { discard; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["100"] { fileinto "Junk.spam"; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["10"] { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains "Received" [ "[4.63. "[218.160.", "[218.242.]" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains ["SPAM", "X-Spam-hits"] ["ADDRESSES_ON_CD", "X_OSIRU_DUL", "X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE", "X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; }

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[Dovecot] fts, solr, and client support
by Kelsey Cummings 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

I've been playing around with the fts plugins and currently have solr up and running. While the initial indexing time is pretty rough, the search performance is impressive. I've run into a problem though- so far as I can tell, thunderbird (and most other popular clients?) won't actually take advantage of it. Even using thunderbird's advanced search and checking the 'run serach on server' box doesn't push the search to the server. If most popular clients don't support it, there doesn't seem much point in setting it up; which is a shame, solr beats the snot out of the built in search for thunderbird. That said, is anyone running any of the fts plugins in a large scale environment? If so, what kind of scaling issues do you see? How do the search servers compare hardware wise to users count/spool size? -- Kelsey Cummings - kgc(a)corp.sonic.net sonic.net, inc. System Architect 2260 Apollo Way 707.522.1000 Santa Rosa, CA 95407

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