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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.beta3 Configuration issue (I think)
by Mark Sapiro 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

I have been running dovecot 1.2.10 without problems. I am trying to install 2.0.beta3. I have I think translated all my configuration customizations correctly, but I have problems. I can start dovecot, but I can't login, at least not with SSL. Here's my dovecot -n # 2.0.beta3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i686 CentOS release 5 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain apop login auth_worker_max_count = 5 mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd deny = no driver = passwd-file master = no pass = no } passdb { deny = no driver = pam master = no pass = no } ssl_cert = /etc/postfix/sbh16-cert.pem ssl_key = /etc/postfix/sbh16-key.pem userdb { driver = passwd } Note the files /etc/postfix/sbh16-cert.pem and /etc/postfix/sbh16-key.pem exist and are the same files I use with dovecot 1.2. Dovecot starts OK, but when I try to connect with a pop3 or imap client, the connection is established, but no response is sent to the client. Here are the dovecot entries from the maillog from startup through the failed pop3 and imap logins. Feb 21 10:50:43 sbh16 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.beta3 starting up (core dumps disabled) Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Panic: file login-settings.c: line 216 (login_settings_read): assertion failed: (input.roots[count] == NULL) Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xc98950] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xc989a5] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xc98008] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0(login_settings_read+0x336) [0x1959a6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0(main+0x107) [0x195b77] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x4614cdec] -> dovecot/pop3-login(main+0x49) [0x80493c1] Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: master: service(pop3-login): child 3280 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: master: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling Feb 21 10:51:47 sbh16 dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Can't load ssl_cert: There is no certificate. Feb 21 10:51:47 sbh16 dovecot: master: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling I suspect I've overlooked something in the config or I have something wrong, but I don't know what. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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[Dovecot] [AUTH] Extra @ in user and empty passwd with CRAM-MD5
by Toorop 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi, I got problem whith CRAM-MD5 auth (works fine with PLAIN): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feb 20 13:15:02 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=5026 Feb 20 13:15:06 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 CRAM-MD5 service=imap secured lip=87.98.131.8 rip=82.245.64.126 lport=143 rport=1130 Feb 20 13:15:06 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 PDI5NzIzNTE1MTI1MTA3NjAuMTI2NjY2ODEwNkBkZXY+ Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 1 dG9vcm9wQHJlc3B1YmxpY2EuZnIgOTczNjdjMzE3NWE1MWY2YzJhNDY0OTNlNDMzZGZhZDQ= Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: vpopmail(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): lookup user=toorop domain=domain.tld Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: password(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): Generating CRAM-MD5 from user 'toorop@domain.tld@', password '' Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: password(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): Credentials: 00747cf2ffaf11c5ea4a64979c3901fc1d20dee13f480bb598f7d8575b23e61b Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: cram-md5(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): password mismatch Feb 20 13:15:09 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL 1 user=toorop(a)domain.tld Feb 20 13:15:14 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<toorop(a)domain.tld>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=82.245.64.126, lip=87.98.131.8, TLS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This line seems strange: Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: password(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): Generating CRAM-MD5 from user 'toorop@domain.tld@', password '' => Why extra @ in user and empty password ?? Client: Thundebird 2.0.0.23 vpopmail version: 5.4.16 dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24-8-pve i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: 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 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 5 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 5 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(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 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.tld hostname: dev.domain.eu mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda mail_plugins: sieve sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: ~/sieve Thanks, -- Toorop

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[Dovecot] v2.0.beta3 released
by Timo Sirainen 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta3.tar.gz.sig I had to break a few APIs in this release to get some other stuff implemented and fixed. And since I had to break some of them, I decided it could be a good time to do some other less necessary API cleanups. This made things again much simpler. I'm hoping to get v2.0.rc1 out in not too distant future. Pretty much the only big missing feature that I wanted to do is being able to add per-protocol auth settings (e.g. protocol smtp { userdb { .. } }), but that doesn't seem to be all that easy to implement. There are of course some bugs still left to be fixed, mainly related to mdbox and dsync. User visible changes: - imap_zlib plugin implements COMPRESS=DEFLATE IMAP extension - zlib plugin: Added support for compressing mails while saving - zlib plugin: fixed reading bzip2 compressed mail files - zlib plugin: Added support for dbox and mdbox formats - mdbox: doveadm purge moves old mails to alt storage (if using alt storage) - added support for tcpwrappers - added support for SHA512 password scheme (by Mark Washenberger) - mailbox deletion is now free of race conditions (e.g. quota calculations). if another session tries to access mailbox before it's fully deleted, it'll get "Mailbox is being deleted" error. - "key = $set" in config file now sets key's value to "set" setting's value. this is probably rather limited outside the only place where I created it for: service { user = $default_internal_user } - default_internal_user and default_login_user settings now specify what users should be used for them. currently the default is still dovecot and dovecot, but I'm hoping to change default_login_user to something else.. - Removed maildir_copy_preserve_filename setting. It's now always tried to be preserved (or rather: message's GUID is preserved) - auth failure penalty tries to avoid increasing penalty for IP if auth is failing always with the same user+password combination. - doveadm penalty command can be used to see the current penalties - login processes: config lookups are now cached, so it no longer asks for configuration from config process every time (except if there are remote {} blocks in config. also the local {} caching could be smarter.) - Tons of mdbox fixes - Tons of dsync fixes, especially with mbox So some of the changes visible to developers are: - dovecot-config file changed. if your external plugin uses this file, you need to change it to use the new format. - added dovecot.m4 file that can be used by external plugins' configure script to get Dovecot settings. This was mainly done by Dennis Schridde. - mailbox_alloc() no longer has stream parameter, instead there's mailbox_open_stream() - mailbox_close() renamed to mailbox_free(). added a different mailbox_close(), which only closes opened mailbox, but doesn't free it. - mailbox_delete(), mailbox_rename() APIs changed - notify plugin's delete/rename API changed as well - mailbox GUID is now looked up using mailbox_get_guid(), not mailbox_status() - dict_iterate*() API changed

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[Dovecot] Migration 1.2.10 -> dovecot-2.0.beta
by Frank Elsner 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello *, I've a well functioning dovecot.1.2.10 installation. I'd like to migrate to dovecot.2.0.beta. Is it possible to use one (big) dovecot.conf or must I split it into pieces into directory conf.d? What is the best procedure to convert the configuration file? Any pointers welcome. --Frank Elsner

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[Dovecot] (minor) bug in configure
by Sandro Tosi 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, while reading config options for dovecot v1.2.10 I've noticed a very small bug: # ./configure --help | egrep -- 'Dovecot|--with-gnu-ld' `configure' configures Dovecot 1.2.10 to adapt to many kinds of systems. --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no] --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld default=no I think the latter entry should be removed. Thanks for considering, Sandro

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[Dovecot] Replication status
by dovecot＠lechtermann.net 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, I couldn't find any recent informations regarding the status of implementing replication to Dovecot. Especially master/master is what I am waiting for. Is it useable yet with 2.0 or, if not, any eta? Thanks in advance, Michael

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[Dovecot] 1/2 OT: Finger mail count
by Marcio Merlone 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi all, Is there how to make the finger command retrieve mail count from maildir? Thanks and best regards. -- Marcio Merlone

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[Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability
by Wayne Thursby 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello everyone, I am currently running Dovecot as a high performance solution to a particular kind of problem. My userbase is small, but it murders email servers. The volume is moderate, but message retention requirements are stringent, to put it nicely. Many users receive a high volume of email traffic, but want to keep every message, and *search* them. This produces mail accounts up to 14+GiB. After seeing the failures of my predecessors, I transitioned to Postfix/Dovecot and haven't looked back. Things are running nicely with the below setup. Postfix and Dovecot running on the same virtual machine on a Dell 2950 with 1x Xeon E5440 on ESXi 4. Maildirs served up by 10x146GB 15k RPM SAS drives on RAID-10 via direct attached Dell MD-1000. We are transitioning other services to high availability, and I'm wondering exactly how to provide some kind of near-realtime failover for my Postfix/Dovecot machine. The MD-1000 provides nothing in the way of iSCSI, but it *does* have two SAS connections available, only one of which is in use. I have been looking at the Dell EqualLogic stuff and it seems to provide what we need. I can get most of the information I need from the rep, but I wonder if anyone has any experience with high performance requirements on these kinds of storage. I'd like to continue running my current hardware as the primary mail server, but provide some kind of failover using the SAN. The primary usage of the SAN will be to make our 2TB document store highly available. I'm wondering what kind of options I might have in the way of piggybacking some email failover on this kind of hardware without sacrificing the performance I'm currently enjoying. Is it possible to go with a virtual machine mounted on iSCSI acting as a backup mail server? How would I sync the two, NBD+MD? Any experience doing this with maildirs? I wonder about the performance. Can it be as simple as attaching my MD-1000's second controller to the SAN magic box via SAS and pressing the Easy button? Is it as expensive as running my primary mailserver mounted from the SAN via Fiber Channel? Will that get me under 30ms latency? I welcome any suggestions the group may have. -- Wayne Thursby System Administrator Physicians Group, LLC

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[Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4
by Rodolfo Gonzalez 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi, This might be a silly question: which would be the best inode ratio for a 5 Tb filesystem dedicated to Maildir++ storage? I use ubuntu server, which has a preconfigured setting for mkfs.ext4 called "news" with inode_ratio = 4096, and after formating the fs with that setting and then with the defautl setting I see this difference of space (wasted space, but more inodes): 4328633696 free 1K-blocks with mkfs's "-T news" switch = 1219493877 free inodes 4557288800 free 1K-blocks with default mkfs settings = 304873461 free inodes I'll be storing e-mail messages for around 20,000 accounts on that partition (average 512 Mb per account). Would you consider worth the waste of about 200 Gb of the filesystem space in exchange of more inodes? Thanks. Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot setting up SASL/TLS now it will not start
by VaineDragon 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

[root@dragon-server dragon]# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED] Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 795: Unknown section type (section changed in /etc/dovecot.conf at line 787) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-setting-up-SASL-TLS-now-it-will-not-start-tp2… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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