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[Dovecot] fine tuning for 10 users?
by badeguruji 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hello, How can i fine tune dovecot for less then 10 users? or is there no need? Also, is there any smtp client which can be used with it for a open-source standalone server? i want very-small foot print+secure server, qmail and sendmail are dinos, and i felt xmail is trying to do everything. (as we are less then 10 users here.) i liked round-cube for webmail. i would appreciate all suggestions and pointers. thank you. -B ________________________________

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[Dovecot] Problem with imap running at 100%
by nuitari-dovecot＠nuitari.net 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at 100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it. hammer ~ # lsof -p 1918 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME imap 1918 vpopmail cwd DIR 8,2 96 539699 /var/vpopmail/domains/maxpersuasion.com/kec imap 1918 vpopmail rtd DIR 8,2 856 2 / imap 1918 vpopmail txt REG 8,2 851832 3646578 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap imap 1918 vpopmail mem REG 8,2 1330888 2752698 /lib64/libc-2.8.so imap 1918 vpopmail mem REG 8,2 14520 2753738 /lib64/libdl-2.8.so imap 1918 vpopmail mem REG 8,2 114960 2753800 /lib64/ld-2.8.so imap 1918 vpopmail 2w FIFO 0,5 0t0 574015 pipe imap 1918 vpopmail 6u 0000 0,6 0 10 anon_inode strace & gdb can't seem to attach to the process. The process was started 2 days ago. It is dovecot 1.1.6

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[Dovecot] imap quota makes the Alarm clock expire
by Magnus Appelquist 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello list, I have a strange problem with dovecot and quota. The error message is not obvious... After a couple of seconds when I try to start dovceot, I get this: root@taleira:~# /etc/init.d/dovecot start Alarm clock If I uncomment the "imap_quota and quota" in dovecot.conf everything seem to work fine: protocol imap { listen = *:143 ssl_listen = *:993 # problem pa taleira01: konstigt... #mail_plugins = quota imap_quota mail_plugins = } I can't really figure out what's wrong. There's nothing in the log and dovecots error message is not so talkative. It took a while to figure out that it was the quota that caused the problem. I guess there is something with the underlying FS, but all kernel modules are loaded as far as I know. The maildir is on a nfs-mounted disk. The whole system is on a XEN machine and I have multipe copies of this image running on other machines with no problem. Strace gives me: root@taleira:~# strace dovecot .... lstat64("/var/run/dovecot//login", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=60, ...}) = 0 open("/var/run/dovecot//login", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE| O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=60, ...}) = 0 getdents64(4, /* 3 entries */, 4096) = 88 lstat64("/var/run/dovecot//login/ssl-parameters.dat", {st_mode=S_IFREG| 0644, st_size=230, ...}) = 0 getdents64(4, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 pipe([4, 5]) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 dup(2) = 6 fcntl64(6, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID| SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xf7e666f8) = 3343 close(6) = 0 close(5) = 0 alarm(5) = 0 wait4(-1, 0xffbd7e9c, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGALRM +++ Process 3342 detached Finally, my system is: root@taleira:~# dovecot --version 1.1.4 root@taleira:~# uname -a Linux taleira 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 8 21:20:04 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux Any ideas? /Magnus

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[Dovecot] freebsd 7, panics - kqueue?
by mike-maillist＠nux.co.uk 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi, We have a issue with a server pretty much just running dovecot, there's about 250gb of maildirs which has about 200 simultaneous connections to it running on freebsd 7. The machine has stayed up for about 8 days before it panics but sometimes panics after about 24 hours. We are running a PAE kernel (with ULE scheduler) as the machine has 2 (4 core processors) and 8gb of ram, dovecot is compiled with kqueue support which i suspect is causing the panics. We are currently trying with a GENERIC kernel to see if this addresses the issue but looking back through the dovecot lists there seems to be some issue with kqueue, freebsd and dovecot, i am tempted to simply disable kqueue in dovecot but am not sure on the performance penalties. Please see the freebsd pr for the kgdb dumps - for both dumps the current process was imap, and the second one seemed to hint towards a problem with kqueue but im not a c or kernel hacker: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129550 --- snip of what i think is relevent from the dump --- (kgdb) list *0xc04c4c4d 0xc04c4c4d is in knlist_remove_kq (/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_event.c:1615). 1610 if (!kqislocked) 1611 KASSERT((kn->kn_status & (KN_INFLUX|KN_DETACHED)) == KN_INFLUX, 1612 ("knlist_remove called w/o knote being KN_INFLUX or already removed")); 1613 if (!knlislocked) 1614 knl->kl_lock(knl->kl_lockarg); 1615 SLIST_REMOVE(&knl->kl_list, kn, knote, kn_selnext); 1616 kn->kn_knlist = NULL; 1617 if (!knlislocked) 1618 knl->kl_unlock(knl->kl_lockarg); 1619 if (!kqislocked) (kgdb) mail# dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p6 i386 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 256 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_privileged_group: mail imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail

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[Dovecot] How to setting shared Maildir
by mlus 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello I'm dovecot bigginer from courier-imap. I used shared maildir in courier like this. 1) create maildir # maildirmake -S /home/shared 2) create maildirshared file # echo 'SHARE /home/shared ' > /etc/courier/maildirshared (use tabcode) 3) edit imapd config file IMAP_UMASK=022 IMAP_SHAREDINDEXFILE=/etc/courier/shared/index in courier, only 3 step work . I read http://wiki.dovecot.org

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[Dovecot] How to setting shared Maildir
by mlus 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello I'm dovecot bigginer from courier-imap. I used shared maildir in courier like this. 1) create maildir # maildirmake -S /home/shared 2) create maildirshared file # echo 'SHARE /home/shared ' > /etc/courier/maildirshared (use tabcode) 3) edit imapd config file IMAP_UMASK=022 IMAP_SHAREDINDEXFILE=/etc/courier/shared/index in courier, only 3 step. I read wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org) about shared maildir, for example Shared mailboxes Access Control Lists Namespaces ..... but I can't understand at all . Please explain by using the concrete illustration ? thank you.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot authentication not supported in Entourage
by jan gestre 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi Guys, I recently configured an mail server running postfix + dovecot + mysql + postfixadmin, everything is running ok except for Mac Entourage clients which is a PITA IMO, I always get a authentication not supported error while thunderbird and outlook on windows don't. Any ideas or workaround? my dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5. here's the output of dovecot.conf and dovecot-sql.conf respectively: # dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/mail-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/mail-key.pem 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 first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%u 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 pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 user: nobody passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: virtualmail group: mail # cat /etc/dovecot-sql.conf [root@mail ~]# cat /etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=dovecot password=dovecot69 default_pass_scheme = MD5 user_query = SELECT '/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' # Get the password password_query = SELECT username as user, password, '/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home, 'maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 12 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' TIA. Jan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot authenticating---> Active Directory Win2003
by Michel Vega Fuenzalida 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello list, I have installed 4 Etch, with dovecot 1.0.rc15-2, and I wanted that when the users make IMAP/POP3, the dovecot verifies the user/passwd in a Active Directory of Windows 2003. Greetings -- Usemos el Software Libre "Con todos y para el bien de todos" Michel Vega Fuenzalida Usuario Linux: 353763 Coordinador del Grupo Linux Pinero Técnico de Laboratorio Centro Universitario "Jesús Montané Oropesa" Isla de la Juventud Cuba La jornada de homenaje a los trabajadores de nuestro sector se desarrollará del 15 al 22 de diciembre. Cuyo lema central es " La Revolución tiene una fe infinita en los presentes y futuros educadores".

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[Dovecot] Duplicate suppression from remote lists?
by Adam Seering 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi, I have a setup where users on my server who are subscribed to several lists on a (remote) weirdly-configured listserver are getting many duplicate e-mails. I know why this is happening; but I don't have control over that listserver so I can't fix it. Is there a way for me to suppress duplicates from within Dovecot? The duplicates do all have the same (otherwise-unique) message ID. "dovecot --version" gives 1.0.rc15. I'm using exim for SMTP. I'm also using dovecot-lda, with the Sieve plugin. There's a rather old thread on this list that mentions that dovecot-lda+Sieve should be able to suppress duplicates; it's not doing so automagically, though... Thanks, Adam

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[Dovecot] W= fixup feature
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi, When there are maildir mail files without W= tag in name then dovecot opens them, read data inside to calculate W= size, cache that information etc. Would be it sensible to have option where dovecot would fix names of such files? Like if no W= then after calculating size rename file to actually contain W= ? -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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