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[Dovecot] LDA and postfix with recipient delimiter: documentation
by John Fawcett 18 May '09

18 May '09

Just a comment about the documentation for postfix integration when using receipient delimiter and delivery of user+foo(a)domain.ext to user@domain: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix I had some issues to get this working, so thought I'd share my experience. Dovecot version 1.2.rc3. Postfix version postfix-2.7-20090511. I have no local (unix) mailboxes, everything is delivered to dovecot, so in postfix I have set mailbox_transport = dovecot. In this case the following syntax taken from the docs does not work: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} whereas the following does work: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${domain} I think that ${domain} is always what is wanted and only when ${nexthop} happens to have the same value as ${domain} - for example when using a transport table entry like this: /etc/postfix/transport domain.ext dovecot: will the ${user}@${nexthop} form be deliverable. Can anyone see a reason for not using always ${user}@${domain} instead of ${user}@${nexthop}? John

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 (revision 9271:d467712aee77) compile problems on AIX 5.3
by Jonathan Siegle 18 May '09

18 May '09

Having some problems compiling on AIX 5.3 with IBM vac version 8. Programs that I had problems building: test-mail test-imap test-index To fix the undefined symbols problem: ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .charset_to_utf8_end ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .charset_to_utf8_begin ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .charset_to_utf8 ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .charset_is_utf8 ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .charset_to_utf8_str ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .message_header_decode_utf8 ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .rfc822_parser_init ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .rfc822_skip_lwsp ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .rfc822_parse_content_type ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .rfc2231_parse ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .rfc822_parse_mime_token ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .rfc822_parse_atom ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .message_address_parse ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .iconv ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .iconv_open ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .iconv_close I add this ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a -liconv to the Makefiles (./src/lib-imap/Makefile;./src/lib-index/Makefile;./src/lib-mail/ Makefile) below: $ find . -name Makefile -exec egrep -p libcharset.a {} \; -print clean-noinstPROGRAMS: @list='$(noinst_PROGRAMS)'; for p in $$list; do \ f=`echo $$p|sed 's/$(EXEEXT)$$//'`; \ echo " rm -f $$p $$f"; \ rm -f $$p $$f ; \ done test-imap$(EXEEXT): $(test_imap_OBJECTS) $(test_imap_DEPENDENCIES) @rm -f test-imap$(EXEEXT) $(LINK) $(test_imap_LDFLAGS) $(test_imap_OBJECTS) $ (test_imap_LDADD) $(LIBS) \ ../lib-mail/.libs/libmail.a ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a -liconv ./src/lib-imap/Makefile clean-noinstPROGRAMS: @list='$(noinst_PROGRAMS)'; for p in $$list; do \ f=`echo $$p|sed 's/$(EXEEXT)$$//'`; \ echo " rm -f $$p $$f"; \ rm -f $$p $$f ; \ done test-index$(EXEEXT): $(test_index_OBJECTS) $(test_index_DEPENDENCIES) @rm -f test-index$(EXEEXT) $(LINK) $(test_index_LDFLAGS) $(test_index_OBJECTS) $ (test_index_LDADD) $(LIBS) ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a -liconv ./src/lib-index/Makefile clean-noinstPROGRAMS: @list='$(noinst_PROGRAMS)'; for p in $$list; do \ f=`echo $$p|sed 's/$(EXEEXT)$$//'`; \ echo " rm -f $$p $$f"; \ rm -f $$p $$f ; \ done test-mail$(EXEEXT): $(test_mail_OBJECTS) $(test_mail_DEPENDENCIES) @rm -f test-mail$(EXEEXT) $(LINK) $(test_mail_LDFLAGS) $(test_mail_OBJECTS) $ (test_mail_LDADD) $(LIBS) ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a -liconv ./src/lib-mail/Makefile Then compilation occurs fine. Thanks! Jonathan

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[Dovecot] How to manage Seen flags via sieve?
by Max Ivanov 18 May '09

18 May '09

I use public namespace for group mailboxes. If someone sends email from this mailbox , MTA detects it and delivers copy of that message to mailbox/Sent folder, to keep history of all messages available for every group member. I'd like to set Seen flag on all messages that dovecots deliver puts into "Sent" folder. Is it posible somehow?

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[Dovecot] 1.1.13 squat core dump
by David Halik 18 May '09

18 May '09

While using 1.1.13 and squat with local pine imap on Solaris 9 I had a random core dump today. I was doing a search in a maildir folder with about 2000 emails. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to reproduce it yet, but I wanted to send along the info anyways. Environment: # uname -a SunOS 5.9 Generic_122300-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 Backtrace: http://pastebin.com/f7aa8bb5 ~# dovecot -n # 1.1.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4u protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/heroes/u1/dovecot-index/sparc/index/%u:CONTROL=/heroes/u1/dovecot-index/control/%u mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=4 -- ================================ David Halik System Administrator OIT-CSS Rutgers University dhalik(a)jla.rutgers.edu ================================

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Re: [Dovecot] LDA and postfix with recipient delimiter: documentation
by john.ml＠erba.tv 18 May '09

18 May '09

> Hi John, > no i didnt wrote that, i only have user(a)domain.ext > layout in use currently in my test servers > > -- > Best Regards > > MfG Robert Schetterer > > Germany/Munich/Bavaria > Hi Robert I probably didn't make it clear. The problem with the published syntax is that it does not work for receipient delimiter and delivery to mailbox, except as far as I can see when next_hop is the same as domain, which is not always the case. I think that the documentation should report the syntax with ${domain} instead of ${next_hop}, unless there's something I'm missing, since this should always work. thanks again John

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[Dovecot] migration and conversion from courier
by Giuliano Gavazzi 18 May '09

18 May '09

Dear all, back in January I posted about migration from courier and in particular on the script courier-dovecot-migrate.pl. That script had a bug on BSD (or should I say not-Linux?) type systems*. On FreeBSD (6.1) and MacOSX (10.5) it appended a lot of binary garbage at the end of dovecot-keywords files. On a couple of systems I had not actually run the script with the -- convert option, as I had misunderstood the procedure, so those systems, ironically, are the ones that I migrated better... Now to the issue. My final question at the time was (http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2009-January/036292.html) can one delete the dovecot-keywords and rerun the script (leaving alone the dovecot-uidlist)? There is a problem if this cannot be done, as those files have the following structure: 0 flag0 1 flag1 ... m binary garbage [optionally followed by more lines like the last] and if a new keyword is added, the file ends up like (this is copy and paste example): 0 JunkRecorded 1 $NotJunk 2 $Junk 3 Redirected 4 ^A<F0># 5 <B0><96># 6 $Forwarded It does not look like a nice thing to me. I doubt though that the script will cope with flags correctly, as in principle will get the flags from an out of date courierimapkeywords, thus missing any new ones. Perhaps the only solution is to have a new script that deletes the garbage lines and renumbers the following ones, so that the above example would become: 0 JunkRecorded 1 $NotJunk 2 $Junk 3 Redirected 4 $Forwarded and then renames all *g files to *e. Thoughts? Giuliano * This bug was fixed back then by Timo who replaced the script on the site http://www.dovecot.org/tools/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl. But there's no note of the change on the site nor was an announcement made to the list, AFAIK.

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[Dovecot] Quota over NFS
by Flavio Costa 18 May '09

18 May '09

I have accidentaly reply only to Timo, so I'm forwarding to discussion back to the list. Sorry! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Quota over NFS To: Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc(a)gmail.com> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 15:03 -0300, Flavio Costa wrote: > I get that the server doesn't reply correctly to Dovecot, but the > thing is: why does the LDA works properly? > > May 6 13:15:35 SERVER_NAME deliver(USER_TO): > msgid=<eb4d7eac0905060915y130b9af6i93567e198659d5f7(a)mail.gmail.com>: rejected: Not enough disk space Because it's the NFS server that enforces the quota here. You'd get this error even if you didn't load quota plugin at all. Also note that it's saying "Not enough disk space", not "Quota exceeded" which is the error message from Dovecot v1.0's quota plugin. > And yet, why does 'quota <user>' replies correctly and Dovecot > doesn't? Looking at quota-tools sources, it seemed to ignore the active-check entirely. So I don't know if Dovecot should ignore it too.. > They all obtain the info from the rpc.rquotad running on the > fileserver, right? Yeah. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa

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[Dovecot] expire plugin error
by Michael Lechtermann 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, I am using the db backend for the expire plugin and found the following error message in the logfile: dovecot: Jan 22 10:10:55 Error: dict: secondary db: unable to allocate space from the buffer cache dovecot: Jan 22 10:10:55 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'expire' dovecot: Jan 22 10:10:55 Error: IMAP(xxxxxxxxxx): read(/var/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected Anyone know how to fix this? I do not want to use SQL as backend, that would be overkill. # ls -alFh /var/dovecot/dict-server srwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel - 0B Jan 22 10:08 /var/dovecot/dict-server= # dovecot -n # 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 4.4 sparc64 ffs base_dir: /var/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s listen: xxxxxxxxxxxx ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/xxxxxxxxxxxx.ca ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/xxxxxxxxxxxx.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/xxxxxxxxxxxx.key login_dir: /var/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: _dovecot mail_max_userip_connections(default): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 5 first_valid_uid: 10000 last_valid_uid: 19999 first_valid_gid: 100 last_valid_gid: 100 mail_gid: 100 mail_location: mbox:/var/data/mail/%u/mbox:INBOX=/var/data/mail/%u/mbox/inbox:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): expire imap_quota quota trash zlib mail_plugins(imap): expire imap_quota quota trash zlib mail_plugins(pop3): expire quota zlib mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: bsdauth userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: fs:user:noenforcing:mount=/var/data trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 14 expire_dict: proxy:/var/dovecot/dict-server:expire dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db

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[Dovecot] pine vs dovecot-zlib (mbox.gz)
by Darabos Edvárd Konrád 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hello! Always reproducible pine vs dovecot-imap-mbox.gz scene has weird errors. - Initial message is OK: [Folder "SAVE.gz" opened with 211 messages READONLY] - Some mails at the end are listed correctly, others are listed with empty sender/size/subject (just numbering). - All mails have no bodies. Full header command produces total blank screen. Even before any error message. Error messages appear during navigation: [{localhost/imap/user="nil"}SAVE.gz : Missing IMAP reply key: )] [MAIL FOLDER "SAVE.gz" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR] Seamonkey works with both mbox-es and mbox.gz-s. Mbox-es are working with both SeaMonkey and pine. Technical environment description follows... Thanks, Nil. PS: Tried to gzip other folder, same results. -- 8< -- Dovecot version: 1.0.15 Linux version 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-13) (waldi(a)debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-24)) #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009 Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Filesystem: ext3 -- 8< -- ~/.pinerc (all other lines are comments or equal to nothing) smtp-server=localhost inbox-path={localhost}INBOX default-fcc={localhost}Sent feature-list=enable-full-header-and-text, enable-full-header-cmd, enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation, enable-8bit-nntp-posting character-set=utf-8 folder-collections=IMAP {localhost}[] last-time-prune-questioned=109.2 last-version-used=5.10 ssh-path=/usr/local/bin/imapd.sh color-style=use-termdef current-indexline-style=flip-colors titlebar-color-style=default normal-foreground-color=255,255,255 normal-background-color=000,000,000 meta-message-foreground-color=255,255,255 meta-message-background-color=000,000,255 index-opening-foreground-color=000,000,000 index-opening-background-color=000,255,255 -- 8< -- /usr/local/bin/imapd.sh (just tried to redirect server stderr, did not helped): #!/bin/bash /usr/lib/dovecot/imap 2> /dev/null -- 8< -- # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3s listen(default): localhost listen(imap): localhost listen(pop3): * ssl_listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_access_groups: mail mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: zlib mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -- 8< --

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[Dovecot] expire plugin + dovecot 1.1.7
by Georg Käfer 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, testing expire plugin I get an error message "User lookup failed": /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool -test Error: userdb(lukas(a)manual.at) didn't return uid Info: User lookup failed: lukas(a)manual.at Info: gkaefer2(a)manual.at/INBOX.Sent: stop, expire time in future: Wed Mar 31 14:38:33 2010 Reviewing the expires database I see simmilar entries like for gkaefer2(a)manual.at (which is working) lukas(a)manual.at/INBOX.Trash 1241181173 lukas(a)manual.at/INBOX 1270238935 lukas(a)manual.at/INBOX.Sent 1271417514 Dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-gentoo-r3 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 ext3 syslog_facility: local0 protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/xxx.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/xxx.key 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 login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_process_size: 128 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 256 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 30 first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail mail_gid: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir/:INDEX=/var/mail/%d/%n/indexes mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: 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 trash expire mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash expire mail_plugins(pop3): quota expire mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail group: mail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=500M quota_rule2: *:messages=5000 quota_rule3: Trash:storage=10%% quota_rule4: Spam:storage=20%% quota_warning: storage=90%% /usr/bin/quota-warning.sh 90 quota_warning2: storage=70%% /usr/bin/quota-warning.sh 70 quota_warning3: messages=70%% /usr/bin/quota-warning.sh 70 trash: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 30 Trash/* 30 INBOX.Trash 30 Spam 30 Junk-E-Mail 30 INBOX.Sent 365 Sent 365 INBOX 365 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf dovecot-dict-expire.conf: connect = host=localhost dbname=postfixadmin user=postfixadmin password=xxx # dovecot v1.1 only: table = expires select_field = expire_stamp where_field = mailbox username_field = not_used and users home (lukas@] ls -ltra shows: -rw------- 1 mail mail 0 Mar 31 10:25 dovecot-uidvalidity.49d1d387 drwx------ 4 mail mail 4096 Mar 31 10:25 .. -rw------- 1 mail mail 36 Mar 31 11:53 subscriptions -rw------- 1 mail mail 8 Mar 31 14:31 dovecot-uidvalidity drwx------ 5 mail mail 4096 Apr 1 14:33 .INBOX.Trash drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 2 22:09 tmp -rw------- 1 mail mail 161 Apr 2 22:09 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 3 13:42 new drwx------ 2 mail mail 4096 Apr 3 13:42 cur drwx------ 8 mail mail 4096 Apr 16 11:32 . drwx------ 5 mail mail 4096 Apr 16 11:35 .INBOX.Drafts -rw------- 1 mail mail 64 Apr 16 13:31 maildirsize drwx------ 5 mail mail 4096 Apr 22 12:44 .INBOX.Sent any idea what is causing the "didn't return uid" / "User lookup failed:" ? many thanks, Liebe Gruesse Georg Kaefer

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