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[Dovecot] Dovecot aspects of fighting spam
by Phil Howard 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I see no documents in the Dovecot documents wiki on how Dovecot features can be used in the fight against spam. One hit came up in a search, and it was about how to fight spam in the MoinMoin Wiki itself (e.g. TextCHAs and such). I already asked in another thread about removing message files at the search from a designated "learn-spam" folder. My next question would be how to automatically place detected spam into a specific folder for the user to access or ignore as they deem fit. That would seem to me to be something for the deliver command and its -m option. But this might be more of a Dovecot and MTA coordination issue, too (e.g. how to get the spam detection done in the MTA ... Postfix in my case ... to become a label of some sort that ends deciding the folder. The -m option might be harder to get it dynamically set since it would be hard coded in master.cf for Postfix (so a variable has to be able to direct it to INBOX in this case). But maybe the "standard" way of doing this is to shim another program between the MTA (Postfix for me) and the LDA (Dovecot deliver) to dynamically add the -m option on the fly? Lacking any other clever solution, this seems to me to be the way I could make it work. Maybe there is a special header deliver could detect, such as "X-Spam: yes"? A wiki document on how Dovecot helps (or how to help Dovecot) in the fight against spam, I think, would be helpful.

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[Dovecot] returned error 83 (Out of memory)
by J Contad 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hello! I've setup dovecot a few months ago, and it was working pretty swimmingly. Then, out of nowhere, we started getting this error: Apr 21 19:15:17 IMAP(xx(a)xxx.com): Fatal: block_alloc(1073741824): Out of memory Apr 21 19:15:17 IMAP(xx(a)xxx.com): Error: Raw backtrace: imap [0x49e5e0] -> imap [0x49e643] -> imap [0x49dba1] -> imap [0x4a7f6d] -> imap [0x4a7f98] -> imap [0x4a8028] -> imap [0x49bf6f] -> imap(buffer_write+0xe4) [0x49c334] -> imap(mail_cache_lookup_headers+0x146) [0x46dcf6] -> imap [0x458162] -> imap(index_mail_get_first_header+0x45) [0x458685] -> imap [0x45fe44] -> imap [0x460008] -> imap [0x4796d1] -> imap(hash2_lookup+0x64) [0x4a1c94] -> imap(mail_index_strmap_view_sync_add+0x85) [0x47ab05] -> imap(mail_thread_init+0x2a5) [0x4602f5] -> imap(cmd_thread+0x161) [0x41f931] -> imap(cmd_uid+0x78) [0x41fb38] -> imap [0x42079c] -> imap [0x420852] -> imap(client_handle_input+0x3f) [0x42098f] -> imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x4214df] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xf8) [0x4a63a8] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x1d) [0x4a54ed] -> imap(main+0x620) [0x428db0] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x3f75e1d8a4] -> imap [0x419969] Apr 21 19:15:17 dovecot: Error: child 25918 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory - see mail_process_size setting) The folder (which is shared) has about 8 thousand emails in it. I'm not sure if it's pertinent, but the dovecot.index.cache file is about 8MB. Help? Cheers, -- John

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[Dovecot] Dovecot install problem
by David 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I am trying to set up a new web and mail server i have postfix now working but dovecot will not allow me to login and retrieve the emails so below isa portion of the log file passwd-file /var/mail/vhosts/xxxx.net/shadow: stat() failed: Permission denied passwd-file(xxxxx@xxxx.net,::ffff:0.0.0.0): no passwd file: /var/mail/vhosts/xxxx.net/shadow Dovecot -n output # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: Maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login CRAM-MD5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /var/mail/vhosts/%d/shadow userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /var/mail/vhosts/%d/passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix The passwd shadow file -rw-r----- 1 root root 210 May 24 21:39 passwd -rw-r----- 1 root root 327 May 24 21:39 shadow So who whould own these files? What should the perrmissions be?

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[Dovecot] configuring sendmail to work with dovecot+LDAP
by Douglas Maus 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I would like to setup dovecot (1.1.20) with LDAP virtual users, but I don't seem to understand how to get my sendmail to accept mail for the virtual users. (I am rather new to this, so I may have some misunderstandings) I have followed - wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/DovecotOpenLdap (OpenLDAP 2.3.43) and I think I have IMAP working for virtual users. I can connect to port 143, enter a username and password and it works. Now I surmise I need to configure my SMTP server to accept mail for these LDAP virtual users, and deliver it appropriately. (The above HowTo doesn't address this step, from what I can tell) I read - wiki.dovecot.org/LDA and wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail (I'm using OpenBSD 4.7, which uses sendmail for MTA / SMTP server, sendmail version 8.14.3) For sendmail.cf, I made the changes in my sendmail.mc file to include the dovecot mailer (calling /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver), and compiled with m4 and installed the new sendmail.cf For dovecot.conf, I edited the portions (abbreviated): protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } and auth default { socket listen { master {path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master }}} When I try to test this, (telnet www.example.org 25) If I try: MAIL TO:jdoe@www.example.org I get "User unknown" I see that if I try: MAIL TO:jdoe@example.org I get "Relaying denied" Either way it doesn't get delivered. Thank you for any help. And if anyone knows a good basic tutorial for dovecot+LDAP+sendmail I would really appreciate it. dovecot -n (de-identified, and yes I know SSL is disabled, after it all works I'll fix it) ---------- # 1.1.20: /etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 128 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: OpenBSD 4.7 i386 ffs base_dir: /var/dovecot/ protocols: imap listen: *:143 ssl_disable: yes ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: _dovecot verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 519 last_valid_uid: 519 first_valid_gid: 519 last_valid_gid: 519 mail_uid: 519 mail_gid: 519 mail_location: mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%u/mail mbox_write_locks: fcntl imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.org sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: bsdauth passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: _dovevirt

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[Dovecot] Migration - Dovecot to Dovecot
by Greg Pearson 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi, I am using Dovecot with mbox format, and I am interested to move to Maildir. I have run the modified script (mb2md) but it seems UIDs are not preserved. I don't know how to verify this, but my client seems to be downloading all messages again. Can someone help?

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[Dovecot] recipient_delimiter
by Phil Howard 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I have recipient_delimiter = + in main.cf (Postfix). But deliveries to dovecot/deliver are still being rejected. It appears that the full email is still in the envelope (e.g. phil+howard(a)example.com which I want to be delivered to phil(a)example.com) Is that how it's supposed to work and Dovecot just doesn't support this?

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Re: [Dovecot] draft-ietf-morg-list-specialuse-01 - IMAP LIST extension for special-use mailboxes
by Nikolay Shopik 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

On 20.05.2010 14:40, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 20.5.2010, at 12.11, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > >> I don't think this really need per-user option. This is basically "system folders" and MUA will decide on their local names. Combining with autocreate plugin seems reasonable. > > Autocreate plugin would be useful only if it was a per-user option. Then it could create some kind of a file into the created mailbox. > > If it was a global option .. could it be just something as simple as > > list_specialuse = \Trash:Trash "\Sent:Sent Messages" etc. > > or > > list_specialuse_trash = Trash > list_specialuse_sent = Sent > etc. > > I don't really like either of them.. > What's wrong with these examples for global option, second one looks good for me.

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[Dovecot] Intermittent timeout issues
by Del Stoliker 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Greetings list! We've been experiencing an intermittent issue in which none users are able to log into the mail server for about 10 to 20 minutes. This issue first appeared on our CentOS 4 box running dovecot 1.2.11 after upgrading from the stock version 0.99. The issue persists after migrating our users to a CentOS 5 server - also running version dovecot 1.2.11 but now in the 64-bit flavor. Our users authenticate against LDAP via PAM in case that might be relevant. I've yet to find anything "of interest" in the logs covering the outages. But here is what I've noticed: * Users on our internal network are still able to authenticate and login. * Users from the outside are "Disconnected for inactivity" * Immediately after the restart, external users were able to log in again. It almost sounds like the firewall is blocking external access except that: * The version of dovecot was the thing that changed * Everything starts working again after a dovecot restart If anyone could provide some insight, I'd sure appreciate it. Output of dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) listen: * shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_trusted_networks: x.x.x.x/x login_max_processes_count: 164 max_mail_processes: 2048 mail_max_userip_connections: 50 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.com sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] purge maildir folder after sa-learn
by Florian Effenberger 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hello, I am looking for a command-line utility to automatically purge one Maildir folder. I want to periodically run sa-learn from cron, and after the spam learning folder has been added to the Bayes database, its contents should be deleted. I've searched a bit, but only found a few old utilities or some telnet+expect scripts, which both didn't look too reliable. Is there any command-line utility to delete all contents of a Maildir folder, or is there any other solution? Thanks, Florian

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Re: [Dovecot] cur folder e-mails are not shown...
by Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

>Since you didn't claim you actually are missing mail, just seeing more Nope. As I suffer the same problem from Evolution and ThunderBird >They could be "deleted" (actually marked for deletion, physically >removed upon expunge). Those would have a T flag in the file name after >the comma. Your MUA Evolution shows them in the Trash (virtual) folder. I tried all this but nothing shown. It's like cur folder is not shown. >They could have been flagged Junk, and only be displayed in the Junk >(virtual) folder. Junk folder is almost empty since I have SpamAsassin in place >You could have a search active, hiding some mail. I checked this also. But's not. >You could have specifically hidden them. See the View menu. I checked show all. But only a few appears. The one deleted by spam filter in the client. What else can be?

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