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[Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?
by Ed W 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

GlusterFs always strikes me as being "the solution" (one day...). It's had a lot of growing pains, but there have been a few on the list had success using it already. Given some time has gone by since I last asked - has anyone got any more recent experience with it and how has it worked out with particular emphasis on Dovecot maildir storage? How has version 3 worked out for you? Anyone had success using some other clustered/HA filestore with dovecot who can share their experience? (OCFS/GFS over DRBD, etc?) My interest is more in bootstrapping a more highly available system from lower quality (commodity) components than very high end use Thanks Ed W

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Re: [Dovecot] sieve vacation
by Martin F. Foster 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Following from Steffen Kaiser's response, RFC5230 explains the conditions necessary for the Sieve Vacation extension to trigger a response. This says: "Vacation" MUST NOT respond to a message unless the recipient user's email address is in a "To", "Cc", "Bcc", "Resent-To", "Resent-Cc", or "Resent-Bcc" line of the original message. So your scenario 4 happens when the sender is only in the envelope, and not in the headers. For example: this transaction will get a response because the mailbox address is in the To: header ehlo there.com mail from: <dude(a)there.com> rcpt to: <user(a)domain.tld> << envelope recipient, mailsystem routes with this information data To: "Some User" <user(a)domain.tld> << header recipient must be correlated for Sieve Vacation to send a response From: "Dude" <dude(a)there.com> Subject: message Hi there . This transaction will not get a response, and will trigger the "discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to <user(a)domain.tld> " log: ehlo there.com mail from: <dude(a)there.com> rcpt to: <user(a)domain.tld> data Subject: message Hi there . Cheers, -Martin Foster Le 12-Feb-10 21:00, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org a écrit : > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:18:23 +0100 > From: Lampa<lampacz(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Dovecot] sieve vacation > To: Dovecot Mailing List<dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: > <9aef75b11002120018v69f185b5hb0a9e0f7dad1e5c5(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello, > > scenario: > > OK 1. created vacation script (see below) > OK 2. send message fromuser(a)anotherdomain.tld touser(a)domain.tld => > got auto vacation response (2010-02-11T19:42:13) > OK 3. send message fromuser(a)anotherdomain.tld touser(a)domain.tld => > no response (is ok because ":days 1" settings) (2010-02-11T19:47:46) > BAD 4. send message fromanotheruser(a)anotherdomain.tld to > user(a)domain.tld => no response (2010-02-11T19:48:04) > > > Why is discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered > to<user(a)domain.tld> ? > > log: > 2010-02-11T19:42:13.669321+01:00 hermes dovecot: > deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: > msgid=<052a01caab49$ec4752e0$c4d5f8a0$@tld>: sent vacation response to > <user(a)anotherdomain.tld> > 2010-02-11T19:42:13.732541+01:00 hermes dovecot: > deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: > msgid=<052a01caab49$ec4752e0$c4d5f8a0$@tld>: stored mail into mailbox > 'INBOX' > 2010-02-11T19:47:46.271534+01:00 hermes dovecot: > deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: > msgid=<053201caab4a$b295ece0$17c1c6a0$@tld>: discarded duplicate > vacation response to<user(a)anotherdomain.tld> > 2010-02-11T19:47:46.275891+01:00 hermes dovecot: > deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: > msgid=<053201caab4a$b295ece0$17c1c6a0$@tld>: stored mail into mailbox > 'INBOX' > 2010-02-11T19:48:04.958622+01:00 hermes dovecot: > deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: > msgid=<053701caab4a$bda90220$38fb0660$@tld>: discarding vacation > response for message implicitly delivered to<user(a)domain.tld> > 2010-02-11T19:48:04.965875+01:00 hermes dovecot: > deliver(user(a)domain.tld): sieve: > msgid=<053701caab4a$bda90220$38fb0660$@tld>: stored mail into mailbox > 'INBOX' > > vacation script: > ----------- > require "vacation"; > > vacation > :days 1 > :subject "Auto reply" > > "auto reply message"; > -------------- > > Thank you > -- Lampa ------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0 b13e01d82083
by Renaud Allard 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hello, I was trying to compile Dovecot 2.0 b13e01d82083, and I found this when doing make: Making all in lib test -f UnicodeData.txt || wget http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt /bin/sh: wget: not found I think it's probably not the best idea to assume everyone has wget installed. Perhaps it is installed by default on linux, but probably not on all other platforms. Why not just include the UnicodeData.txt file? Best Regards

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[Dovecot] quota usage
by Papp Tamás 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

hi All! Dovecot's version is 1.2.11-0~auto+0 from http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ . dovecot.conf: dict { quota = mysql:/data/apps/dovecot/dict-sql.conf #expire = db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db } /data/apps/dovecot/dict-sql.conf: connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=db user=user password=pw map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota username_field = username value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota username_field = username value_field = messages } The problem is that the mailbox is almost empty: $ du -sh . 228K . But the quota usage show something else: mysql> select bytes,messages from quota where username='<user>'; +-----------+----------+ | bytes | messages | +-----------+----------+ | 217699358 | 987 | +-----------+----------+ What could be a problem, how can I fix this? Thank you very much, tamas

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[Dovecot] .mailboxlist location
by Dave Brenner 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Greetings. On our 1.2.9 setup, we are finding that .mailboxlist (we recompiled to use this name rather than .subscriptions) ends up in the user's ~/mail folder. We'd like this file to be stored in ~/ instead. Is this possible without changing namespaces (for UW compatibility) and/or userdb mail location? Thanks! -- Dave Brenner - david(a)toledotel.com The Toledo Telephone Company, Inc.

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[Dovecot] v1.2.11 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.11.tar.gz.sig mbox users really should upgrade, because by sending a message with a huge header you could basically cause a DoS (this problem exists only with v1.2.x, not with v1.0 or v1.1). - mbox: Message header reading was unnecessarily slow. Fetching a huge header could have resulted in Dovecot eating a lot of CPU. Also searching messages was much slower than necessary. - mbox, dbox, cydir: Mail root directory was created with 0770 permissions, instead of 0700. - maildir: Reading uidlist could have ended up in an infinite loop. - IMAP IDLE: v1.2.7+ caused extra load by checking changes every 0.5 seconds after a change had occurred in mailbox

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Re: [Dovecot] I stream read - stale NFS file handle (reboot of server)
by Damon Atkins 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

In the old days NFS Shared Path had a static handle (ie a number), normal based on some number pulled out of the file system/inode. To fix (well work around) a security issue, for about 10+ years now, when a NFS server reboots, it generates a new random handle for the NFS Share. (sever may generate a new random handle per mount request) The NFS Stale Handle happens when the client is still using the old NFS handle, the only fix is a remount Some NFSv3 server let you fix the handle id for NFS share so it does not change over reboots. (this is how NFS clustering works, sometimes you need to install cluster software if the exportfs/share command does not let you hard code the fsid by hand. The other option is to use NFSv4 which is design to handle reboots by servers.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0beta3 installation
by Renaud Allard 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hello, I tried to install dovecot 2.0 beta3 and deliver seems to look for its config file in unusual places. In my exim logs, I get: 010-03-17 13:39:24 [31257] 1NrsWt-0004T0-1K <email(a)example.com>: dovecot_delivery transport output: lda: Fatal: User lookup failed: net_connect_unix(/opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory 2010-03-17 13:39:24 [31257] 1NrsWt-0004T0-1K == email(a)example.com (email(a)example.com) <email(a)example.com> R=local_user T=dovecot_delivery defer (0): Child process of dovecot_delivery transport returned 75 (could mean temporary error) from command: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver Dovecot have been started with the following command: /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot2.conf Furthermore, it has been compiled with: --prefix=/opt/dovecot --sysconfdir=/etc I don't see why it searches for /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Also, I didn't really find out how to convert the v1.2 config snippet: auth default { mechanisms = digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm login plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/cram.pwd } userdb passwd { } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/passwd } socket listen { client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0666 } } user = exim } I tried the following, but it does not seem to work as I get an authentication socket protocol error service auth { unix_listener /var/run/dovecot/auth-client { mode = 0666 } } Thanks for you help

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[Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION
by Stephen Feyrer 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hi. I'm trying to test EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in Dovecot. To do this I first configured Thunderbird and Opera to use my server, neither of them were successful. As a result I contacted both organisations to enquire if they supported EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in their products. Thunderbird responded and said yes. However, on closer inspection my contact at Thunderbird identified that support for EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION was poor at best and then only in SMTP. From that point on, my contact has been trying to implement support in Thunderbird. I've also try to test using openssl s_client which is detailed below. As far as I can tell my problems appear after the authentication. I don't know what the problem is only that there is one. [~] # dovecot -n # 1.2.10: /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.12.6-arm1 armv5tejl ext3 base_dir: /opt/var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /opt/var/log/dovecot/messages info_log_path: /opt/var/log/dovecot/info protocols: imaps listen: [::] ssl_ca_file: /opt/etc/domain.ca/cacrl.pem ssl_cert_file: /opt/etc/domain.ca/newcerts/mail.cer ssl_key_file: /opt/etc/domain.ca/private/mail.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 ssl_verify_client_cert: yes verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /opt/var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /opt/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_size: 32 mail_location: dbox:/share/MD0_DATA/mail/%u mail_debug: yes dbox_rotate_days: 0 imap_id_send: * imap_id_log: * lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)ksudra.net auth default: mechanisms: EXTERNAL realms: ksudra.net default_realm: ksudra.net user: admin verbose: yes debug: yes ssl_require_client_cert: yes ssl_username_from_cert: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd [~] # openssl s_client -cert Stephen.pem -connect 10.1.1.245:993 <-- snip --> SSL handshake has read 4460 bytes and written 2451 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Server public key is 4096 bit Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Session-ID: [...] Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: [...] Key-Arg : None Krb5 Principal: None Start Time: 1268756439 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain) --- * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=EXTERNAL] Dovecot ready. 01 AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL + 01 list "" * 01 NO [ALERT] Invalid base64 data in continued response 01 select inbox 01 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. 02 select inbox 02 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. DONE [~] # tail -f /opt/var/log/dovecot/info Mar 16 16:51:14 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=9176 Mar 16 16:51:16 imap-login: Info: Valid certificate: /O=ksudra.net/OU=Ksudra CA/emailAddress=certs(a)ksudra.net/L=Wilmslow/ST=Cheshire/C=GB/CN=ksudra.net Mar 16 16:51:16 imap-login: Info: Valid certificate: /C=GB/ST=Cheshire/O=ksudra.net/OU=Stephen Feyrer/CN=Stephen Mar 16 16:52:06 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 EXTERNAL service=imap secured valid-client-cert cert_username=Stephen lip=10.1.1.245 rip=10.1.1.4 lport=993 rport=45379 Mar 16 16:52:06 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 Mar 16 16:52:42 imap-login: Info: Valid certificate: /O=ksudra.net/OU=Ksudra CA/emailAddress=certs(a)ksudra.net/L=Wilmslow/ST=Cheshire/C=GB/CN=ksudra.net Mar 16 16:52:42 imap-login: Info: Valid certificate: /C=GB/ST=Cheshire/O=ksudra.net/OU=Stephen Feyrer/CN=Stephen Mar 16 16:52:42 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 EXTERNAL service=imap secured valid-client-cert cert_username=Stephen lip=10.1.1.245 rip=10.1.1.4 lport=993 rport=45381 Mar 16 16:52:42 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 Mar 16 16:52:42 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT<hidden> Mar 16 16:52:42 auth(default): Info: EXTERNAL(Stephen,10.1.1.4): Invalid base64 data in continued response Mar 16 16:52:42 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL 1 reason=Invalid base64 data in continued response Mar 16 16:52:42 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=9182 Mar 16 16:52:45 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT<hidden> Mar 16 16:52:45 auth(default): Info: EXTERNAL(Stephen,10.1.1.4): Invalid base64 data in continued response Mar 16 16:52:45 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL 1 reason=Invalid base64 data in continued response Mar 16 16:52:47 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (cert required, client didn't start TLS): method=EXTERNAL, rip=10.1.1.4, lip=10.1.1.245, TLS Mar 16 16:54:36 imap-login: Info: Valid certificate: /C=GB/ST=Cheshire/O=ksudra.net/OU=Stephen Feyrer/CN=Stephen Mar 16 16:54:36 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=9188 Mar 16 16:54:37 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 EXTERNAL service=imap secured valid-client-cert cert_username=Stephen lip=10.1.1.245 rip=10.1.1.4 lport=993 rport=49113 Mar 16 16:54:37 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 Mar 16 16:54:37 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT<hidden> Mar 16 16:54:37 auth(default): Info: EXTERNAL(Stephen,10.1.1.4): Invalid base64 data in continued response Mar 16 16:54:37 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL 1 reason=Invalid base64 data in continued response Mar 16 16:54:42 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (cert required, client didn't start TLS): method=EXTERNAL, rip=10.1.1.4, lip=10.1.1.245, TLS Mar 16 16:54:49 imap-login: Info: Valid certificate: /O=ksudra.net/OU=Ksudra CA/emailAddress=certs(a)ksudra.net/L=Wilmslow/ST=Cheshire/C=GB/CN=ksudra.net Mar 16 16:54:49 imap-login: Info: Valid certificate: /C=GB/ST=Cheshire/O=ksudra.net/OU=Stephen Feyrer/CN=Stephen -- kind regards Stephen Feyrer.

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[Dovecot] sieve fileinto rule (pigeonhole)
by Oliver Eales 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hello, i discovered that when a sieve rule "fileinto drawer;" tries to deliver a mail into a non existent drawer, the drawer gets created. This is neat, but is there also a way to automatically subcribe to the created folder ? Regards, Oliver Eales

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