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[Dovecot] Maildir with LAYOUT=fs not working
by Rich Wales 26 May '09

26 May '09

I'm considering converting a Cyrus system (managing my family's e-mail) to Dovecot. I'm trying Dovecot 1.1.15 on an Ubuntu 9.04 (2.6.28-11-server) system. My production server is currently running Cyrus 2.3.14. Since I have a huge number of folders and subfolders, I need to use LAYOUT=fs. However, it's not working consistently. I tried setting up a test account in Thunderbird (2.0.0.21), and I was able to create folders under the Inbox, and they showed up as nested subdirectories under my ~/Maildir on my mail server. So far, so good. However, when I tried a home-grown Perl script (an archival scheme for my work e-mail), Dovecot wouldn't create subfolders properly; instead of nesting them (as I thought LAYOUT=fs would do), it used a flat layout. Here is a trace (generated by my Perl script) of an IMAP session. This was supposed to log in as the user "stanford" (the name of my archival account); create a folder named "2009" if not already present; create (again, if not already there) a "2009-05" folder inside the "2009" folder; and, finally, save a message (marked as seen) inside the "2009-05" folder. 1 LOGIN XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX1 OK Logged in. 2 STATUS user.stanford.2009 (MESSAGES)* STATUS "user.stanford.2009" (MESSAGES 0) 2 OK Status completed. 3 STATUS user.stanford.2009.2009-05 (MESSAGES)* STATUS "user.stanford.2009.2009-05" (MESSAGES 3) 3 OK Status completed. 4 APPEND user.stanford.2009.2009-05 (\Seen) {4043} + OK (message text here . . .) 4 OK [APPENDUID 1243306507 4] Append completed. 5 LOGOUT* BYE Logging out The above works perfectly when I'm talking to my Cyrus server. However, when I tried the same thing with Dovecot, I got a folder named "user.stanford.2009" in the "stanford" account's Maildir, and then another folder named "user.stanford.2009.2009-05" (again, in the Maildir -- NOT nested in the "user.stanford.2009" folder) -- and the message was stored in the "user.stanford.2009.2009-05" folder. I tried changing my Perl script to use "INBOX" instead of "user.stanford" -- but the result was basically the same, except I got new folders named "INBOX.2009" and "INBOX.2009.2009-05" directly in my archival account's Maildir. Finally, I tried omitting any prefix at all on the folder names, and I got new folders named "2009" and "2009.2009-05" -- again, directly in Maildir -- no nesting of one folder within another. I suppose I actually have two issues here -- the lack of folder nesting (even with LAYOUT=fs), and also Dovecot's failure to recognize a "user.XXX." prefix on a mailbox name as designating user XXX's inbox (something that seems to work fine on Cyrus). My Cyrus server currently has over 1,600 folders and subfolders, so I absolutely can't / won't consider switching it to Dovecot unless I can get the nested filesystem layout working. Any thoughts? -- Rich Wales / richw(a)richw.org / richw(a)stanford.edu Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=206680

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[Dovecot] compile errors on latest hg trunk
by reg9009 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi, I think there are some files missing (regarding auth mech-external): compile error (did fresh autogen.sh): gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-auth -I../../src/lib-sql -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ntlm -I../../src/lib-otp -I../../src/lib-master -DAUTH_MODULE_DIR=\""/opt/dovecot-2.0/lib/dovecot/auth"\" -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/opt/dovecot-2.0/libexec/dovecot"\" -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/opt/dovecot-2.0/var/run/dovecot"\" -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT mech-digest-md5.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/mech-digest-md5.Tpo -c -o mech-digest-md5.o mech-digest-md5.c mv -f .deps/mech-digest-md5.Tpo .deps/mech-digest-md5.Po make[3]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Target Â»mech-external.oÂ«, benÃ¶tigt von Â»dovecot-authÂ«, zu erstellen. Schluss. make[3]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 (It's german environment, but means there is no rule to make target mech-external.o, needed by dovecot-auth). root@171:/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c/src# find . -name mech-dig* ../auth/.deps/mech-digest-md5.Po ../auth/mech-digest-md5.c ../auth/mech-digest-md5.o root@171:/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c/src# find . -name "*exte*" ../auth/.deps/mech-external.Po and compile error: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-auth -I../../src/lib-sql -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ntlm -I../../src/lib-otp -I../../src/lib-master -DAUTH_MODULE_DIR=\""/opt/dovecot-2.0/lib/dovecot/auth"\" -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/opt/dovecot-2.0/libexec/dovecot"\" -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/opt/dovecot-2.0/var/run/dovecot"\" -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT mech-digest-md5.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/mech-digest-md5.Tpo -c -o mech-digest-md5.o mech-digest-md5.c mv -f .deps/mech-digest-md5.Tpo .deps/mech-digest-md5.Po make[3]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Target »mech-external.o«, benÃ¶tigt von »dovecot-auth«, zu erstellen. Schluss. make[3]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/inst/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2-0-304238bbd36c' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 (It's german environment, but means there is no rule to make target mech-external.o, needed by dovecot-auth). Regards, Sebastian

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[Dovecot] Segfault with dovecot -n / dovecot 2.0
by ja nein 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi all, and while trying to get some environmental stuff via dovecot -n, I got a segfault (dovecot is not in system path): /opt/dovecot-2.0/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot-2.0/sql/dovecot.conf -n # 2.0.UNSTABLE: /etc/dovecot-2.0/sql/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24-23-xen x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04.2 nfs Segmentation fault stat("/home/dovecot/mail/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY) = 6 fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=480, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7ff654983000 read(6, "/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw,noatime,nodi"..., 4096) = 480 stat("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat("/proc", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/sys", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/run", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=400, ...}) = 0 stat("/var/lock", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=40, ...}) = 0 stat("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12820, ...}) = 0 stat("/dev/shm", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=40, ...}) = 0 stat("/dev/pts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/dovecot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 close(6) = 0 munmap(0x7ff654983000, 4096) = 0 write(1, "# OS: Linux 2.6.24-23-xen x86_64"..., 51# OS: Linux 2.6.24-23-xen x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04.2 nfs ) = 51 lseek(1, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) getsockname(1, 0x7fff5c986f50, [18446744069414584348]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Process 30890 detached Version is still dovecot 2.0 hg latest. Regards, Sebastian

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[Dovecot] Converting mbox files with dots in names to Maildir
by Kenneth Porter 26 May '09

26 May '09

I tried to run convert-tool from dovecot-1.2-0.rc2 on a tree of mbox files with some containing dots in the filenames and got this failure: # /usr/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool ken /home/ken mbox:/home/ken/mail maildir:/home/ken/Maildir Error: Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Lists.WINE.patches: Mailbox already exists Error: Internal failure *** glibc detected *** /usr/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08ce6cc8 *** The directory in question contains these files: # ls Lists/WINE/ announce bugs cvs devel patches patches.20050130 Will I need to go through the (large) file tree and rename all files with dots in the names? If so, anyone have a script that will do that? (Changing the dot to dash would be fine with me.)

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[Dovecot] lda deliver per instance sieve configuration
by J.P. Trosclair 26 May '09

26 May '09

I'd like to override the sieve settings in dovecot.conf for a deliver instance that is being run from a custom archiving script. This is dovecot 1.0.15 on debian lenny. Is this possible? Doesn't appear to be looking through the WIKI. If it's not any suggestions? The problem is the user specific sieve scripts override where the archived mail is supposed to be stored (maildir:~/.Archives.YYYY-MM) so I'd like to disable their sieve scripts while the archived mail delivery via deliver is taking place. Thanks, J.P.

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[Dovecot] Separate home and mail folders problem on delivery
by Николай Бочев 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hello, I am using dovecot 1.2rc series on my mail server combined with postfix ( virtual users with postgre ). I have setup separate home and mail locations. It works fine ( with sieve etc. ). The user home folders are in /home/vmail/%d/%n and mailboxes are in /srv/mail/%d/%n . The permissions are fine and everything is working except in the following case : If a user does not have a home dir already crated ( the home dirs get auto created when creating a sieve script through managesieve for example ), and he recieves a message with an attachment, the delivery fails with the following error : May 19 10:47:28 mail postfix/pipe[2759]: 969531007B: to=<office(a)grandstarco.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=2296, delays=2296/0.2/0/0.06, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) The Dovecot deliver log says : > 2009-05-19 10:47:28 deliver(office(a)grandstarco.com): Error: creat(/home/vmail/grandstarco.com/office/.temp.mail.dodo.bg.2760.1242719248… failed: No such file or directory > 2009-05-19 10:47:28 deliver(office(a)grandstarco.com): Error: copy: i_stream_read() failed: No such file or directory > 2009-05-19 10:47:28 deliver(office(a)grandstarco.com): Error: sieve: msgid=<1242716935.24056.6.camel(a)shiny.bgservice.local>: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-05-19 10:47:28] > 2009-05-19 10:47:28 deliver(office(a)grandstarco.com): Error: sieve: script /home/vmail/global.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep Here's my dovecot -n dovecot -n # 1.2.rc4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27-11-server x86_64 Ubuntu 8.10 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl_ca_file: /etc/dovecot/certs/cacert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/certs/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/certs/key.pem ssl_key_password: 1234 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: Dodo.bg IMAP Ready. mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_uid: 1001 mail_gid: 1001 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat acl imap_acl expire mail_log autocreate mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota fts fts_squat acl imap_acl expire mail_log autocreate mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:/srv/mail/%Ld/%Ln/ inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:/srv/mail/%%d/%%n/:INDEX=~/shared/%%u list: children auth default: mechanisms: plain login master_user_separator: * verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers pass: yes master: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf pass: yes master: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf 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: vmail group: vmail plugin: convert_mail: maildir:/srv/mail/%d/%n fts: squat quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 quota: dict:user::proxy::quota quota_rule: *:storage=1GB quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% quota_rule3: spam:storage=20%% acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/srv/mail/%d/shared-mailboxes.db expire: Trash/* 7 Spam 30 spam 7 expire_dict: proxy::expire mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename append mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size from subject sieve: /home/vmail/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_before: /home/vmail/global.sieve autocreate: Trash autocreate2: spam autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: spam dict: quota: pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql-quota.conf expire: pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql-expire.conf Any ideas on what am i doing wrong are welcome

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[Dovecot] convert-tool skip_dotfiles is not the actual option
by Kenneth Porter 26 May '09

26 May '09

Looking at the source for convert-tool.c, I see this: "Usage: <username> <home dir> <source mail env> <dest mail env>\n" \ " [skip_broken_mailboxes] [skip_dotfiles] [alt_hierarchy_char=<c>]" else if (strcmp(argv[i], "skip_dotdirs") != 0) set.skip_dotdirs = TRUE; Looks like the usage line needs to be fixed (dovecot-1.2-0.rc2).

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[Dovecot] maillog plugin issue
by Ibrahim Harrani 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hello, I just installed dovecot 1.2-rc4 on FreeBSD with qmail and vpopmail. I am using roundcube webmail to test(read,delete,move mails) I configured mail-log plugin according to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog log fields: mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size This but in the log file I only that something like that. May 23 15:37:14 IMAP(test(a)mydomain.com): 127.0.0.1 Info: copy: uids=7, box=Spam, dest=Spam, size=540 May 23 15:37:14 IMAP(test(a)mydomain.com): 127.0.0.1 Info: delete: uids=7 May 23 15:37:14 IMAP(test(a)mydomain.com): 127.0.0.1 Info: expunge: uids=7, size=540 May 23 15:37:14 IMAP(test(a)mydomain.com): 127.0.0.1 Info: Disconnected: Logged out bytes=205/1558 I don't see msgid etc? Also I added flag_change to mail_log_events and from, subject, flags to mail_log_fields. I don't see anything about from, subject, flags etc. I only see the following lines. May 23 15:05:49 mail dovecot: IMAP(test(a)mydomain.com): flag_change: uids=5 May 23 15:05:49 mail dovecot: IMAP(test(a)mydomain.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=168/1027 Here is my config. Did I miss something? dovecot -n # 1.2.rc4: /opt/mail/imap/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p9 amd64 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/mail/imap/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/mail/imap/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/mail/imap/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Welcome first_valid_uid: 89 mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/mail/imap/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/mail/imap/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/mail/imap/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_log mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/mail/imap/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/mail/imap/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/mail/imap/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): %r mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 auth default: passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: vpopmail plugin: mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_group_events: mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size quota: maildir

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[Dovecot] little problem with lmtp and 8bitmime mail from:
by ja nein 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi all, I'm very excited to see lmtp in dovecot now. Starting to play, I encountered following problem: With senders in normal mail address format, everything is delivered right, lmtp works as expected. But with 8bitmime senders, like kernel mailing list, lmtp returns a 5.5.4 not supported and mail is bounced. Is this expected, meaning just not implemented, or could it be a bug? E.g.: Problem: MAIL FROM:<linux-kernel-owner+info=40xxxx.com-S1753112AbZEYPtt(a)vger.kernel.org> BODY=8BITMIME RCPT TO:<info(a)xxxx.com> DATA vstream_fflush_some: fd 12 flush 130 vstream_buf_get_ready: fd 12 got 89 501 5.5.4 Unsupported options Ok: MAIL FROM:<some.address(a)somewhere.com> RCPT TO:<info(a)xxxx.com> DATA vstream_fflush_some: fd 12 flush 71 vstream_buf_get_ready: fd 12 got 36 250 2.1.0 OK 250 2.1.5 OK 354 OK Dovecot version is latest hg dovecot-2.0 trunk. Regards, Sebastian

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[Dovecot] Deleting mail account?
by David Reid 25 May '09

25 May '09

This is likely a daft question, but how do I remove a mailbox from a dovecot server? I'd like to simply remove it from the disk as well, deleting any messages, indexes etc etc Is there a way? david !DSPAM:1715,4a1a817434922186719589!

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