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[Dovecot] Problems with apple'mail client
by Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo 25 May '08

25 May '08

hi all I use dovecot for smtp authentication this works ok for thunderbird and for outlook express but not for apple'mail client. my config is as follow postfx main.cf . . #authentication smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes #smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = $mynetworks smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth # TLS parameters . . Dovecot dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = no dotlock_use_excl=yes protocols = imap pop3 protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { postmaster_address = support(a)oc3.fr mail_plugins = quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /usr/dovecot/etc/sql.conf } # userdb prefetch { # } userdb sql { args = /usr/dovecot/etc/sql.conf } user = nobody socket listen { master { path = /usr/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vmail group = mail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } } } dict { } plugin { } Thanks

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[Dovecot] Bug [1.1rc5]: Crash during "CPU architecture changed" index upgrade
by Cabel Sasser 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hello List, We just migrated from a PPC Xserve to an Intel Xserve. I used "rsync" to bring everyone's home directories over, and in the back of my mind wondered about how it would handle the binary index files... only one way to find out! :) Once I tried to login to IMAP, I got the following results: May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: IMAP(cabel): Rebuilding index file /Users/cabel/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: CPU architecture changed May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: IMAP(cabel): fscking index file / Users/cabel/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: IMAP(cabel): Fixed index file / Users/cabel/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: log_file_seq 1 -> 637534208 May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: IMAP(cabel): /Users/cabel/ mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: log_file_head_offset too small May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: Panic: IMAP(cabel): file mail- transaction-log-view.c: line 215 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_offset >= view->tail->hdr.hdr_size) May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: IMAP(cabel): Raw backtrace: 2 imap 0x000839d8 i_set_failure_file + 392 -> 3 imap 0x00083283 i_panic + 51 -> 4 imap 0x0006f512 mail_transaction_log_view_set + 1170 -> 5 imap 0x000669c9 mail_index_sync_map + 297 -> 6 imap 0x0005d35c mail_index_map + 1580 -> 7 imap 0x00061f5e mail_index_transaction_open_updated_view + 958 -> 8 imap 0x00062ba6 mail_index_sync_begin_to + 102 -> 9 imap 0x0006352d mail_index_sync_begin + 77 -> 10 imap 0x00030b50 mbox_sync + 1120 -> 11 imap 0x0003203d mbox_storage_sync_init + 77 -> 12 imap 0x0004f21f mailbox_sync + 31 -> 13 imap 0x00006167 cmd_select_full + 231 - > 14 imap 0x0000 May 6 19:46:48 posh dovecot[1169]: IMAP(cabel): 6329 cmd_select + 25 - > 15 imap 0x00008409 client_handle_unfinished_cmd + 201 -> 16 imap 0x000084ab client_handle_unfinished_cmd + 363 -> 17 imap 0x00008705 client_handle_unfinished_cmd + 965 -> 18 imap 0x00008962 client_input + 114 -> 19 imap 0x0008c2e9 io_loop_handler_run + 313 -> 20 imap 0x0008b606 io_loop_run + 70 -> 21 imap 0x000119f7 main + 1207 -> 22 imap 0x000016c6 start + 54 May 6 19:46:49 posh ReportCrash[1222]: Formulating crash report for process imap[1202] May 6 19:46:49 posh dovecot[1169]: child 1202 (imap) killed with signal 6 May 6 19:46:49 posh ReportCrash[1222]: Saved crashreport to /Library/ Logs/CrashReporter/imap_2008-05-06-194648_posh.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0 Naturally, deleting everyone's ".imap" folders fixed the problem. I'll attach the crash report to this e-mail. Hope this is useful to someone on this list! Best, Cabel Panic Process: imap [1202] Path: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap Identifier: imap Version: ??? (???) Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: dovecot [1169] Date/Time: 2008-05-06 19:46:48.366 -0700 OS Version: Mac OS X Server 10.5.2 (9C31) Report Version: 6 Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96d540ea __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96dcb3f2 raise + 26 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96dda9af abort + 73 3 imap 0x00083a0a i_internal_fatal_handler + 106 4 imap 0x00083283 i_panic + 51 5 imap 0x0006f512 mail_transaction_log_view_set + 1170 (mail-transaction-log-view.c:143) 6 imap 0x000669c9 mail_index_sync_map + 297 (mail-index-sync-update.c:753) 7 imap 0x0005d35c mail_index_map + 1580 (mail-index-map.c:926) 8 imap 0x00061f5e mail_index_sync_begin_init + 78 (mail-index-sync.c:355) 9 imap 0x00062ba6 mail_index_sync_begin_to + 102 (mail-index-sync.c:418) 10 imap 0x0006352d mail_index_sync_begin + 77 (mail-index-sync.c:323) 11 imap 0x00030b50 mbox_sync + 1120 (mbox- sync.c:1684) 12 imap 0x0003203d mbox_storage_sync_init + 77 (mbox-sync.c:1880) 13 imap 0x0004f21f mailbox_sync + 31 (mail- storage.c:539) 14 imap 0x00006167 cmd_select_full + 231 (cmd-select.c:39) 15 imap 0x00006329 cmd_select + 25 (cmd- select.c:88) 16 imap 0x00008409 client_command_input + 41 (client.c:553) 17 imap 0x000084ab client_command_input + 203 (client.c:604) 18 imap 0x00008705 client_handle_input + 277 (client.c:643) 19 imap 0x00008962 client_input + 114 (client.c:698) 20 imap 0x0008c2e9 io_loop_handler_run + 313 (ioloop-kqueue.c:150) 21 imap 0x0008b606 io_loop_run + 70 (ioloop.c:300) 22 imap 0x000119f7 main + 1207 (main.c:254) 23 imap 0x000016c6 start + 54 Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit): eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x96dda96f ecx: 0xbfffdcdc edx: 0x96d540ea edi: 0x00201720 esi: 0x00000004 ebp: 0xbfffdcf8 esp: 0xbfffdcdc ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000282 eip: 0x96d540ea cs: 0x00000007 ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037 cr2: 0x00107000 Binary Images: 0x1000 - 0xa9fe0 +imap ??? (???) <10c13baf127aaaae5e5c68a2929781d2> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap 0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe2da53 dyld 96.2 (???) <7af47d3b00b2268947563c7fa8c59a07> /usr/lib/dyld 0x9024c000 - 0x90340ff4 libiconv.2.dylib ??? (???) <c508c60fafca17824c0017b2e4369802> /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib 0x935d3000 - 0x935d7fff libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/ system/libmathCommon.A.dylib 0x93768000 - 0x9376ffe9 libgcc_s.1.dylib ??? (???) <a9ab135a5f81f6e345527df87f51bfc9> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x96ce5000 - 0x96e44ff3 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <4899376234e55593b22fc370935f8cdf> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1780 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/ libSystem.B.dylib

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[Dovecot] Maildir locking by LDA of dovecot
by Mike Grozak 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hi all! First of all, I want ti thank the whole Dovecot community (developers for developing and fast responses, users for populating and responses too). Dovecot is a really good and fast IMAP server - it serves near 3000 in our installation. Now I have a problem and request community's help its resolving;) Dovecot version: 1.0.13, compiled with vpopmail support. I have an account spam(a)domain.com (:-), in which we put all our spam (we gather statistic later). There can be 10 and more delivery attempts in a second to maildir of this account during the spam attacks on our server. The queue of our server can grow up to 20k messages, and all of these messages are sent to spam(a)domain.com. I found a lot of such strings in dovecot.log file during such DoS attack: dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:18:48 Info: msgid=<01c8b6da$a8bacf80$b7af2abe@sale>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:18:59 Info: msgid=<6611811842.20080516012444(a)poiusadfhnvxzmdiasdasgkhlsdkfg.com>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:20:06 Info: msgid=<01c8b6a8$7b552e00$a0a4034c@sale>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:20:14 Info: msgid=<360825920.32055246029506(a)mirgames.ru>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:20:50 Info: msgid=<01c8b6b1$0df9cb00$cc36dfc9@tek2>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:21:00 Info: msgid=<087901c7ca2d$ef272640$1e01a8c0(a)telefonia.InterCable.net>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:21:01 Info: msgid=<000701c8b6d2$01ff999f$c491aca7@snoueiij>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:22:32 Info: msgid=<000801c8b69b$060c0230$3cd8a4b7@cpbvlrx>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:22:45 Info: msgid=<000801c8b6a5$04ba6412$9910848d@aldldr>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:22:45 Info: msgid=<031401c772e2$adc5be40$1e01a8c0(a)mtu-net.ru>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock dovecot.log:deliver(spam@domain.com): May 16 04:23:08 Info: msgid=<01c8b6db$0222fe80$b7af2abe@info>: save failed to INBOX: Timeout while waiting for lock What can I do for resolving this locks? The queue of my server becomes really big! May be, while looking into uidlist file, can dovecot LDA lock it? And other deliver processes can't open it and wait for him? $ dovecot --version 1.0.13 # dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes 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_greeting: Server is ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_max_connections: 1024 first_valid_uid: 39 last_valid_uid: 39 first_valid_gid: 39 last_valid_gid: 39 fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: 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): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 default_realm: tversu.ru cache_size: 10240 user: vpopmail username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: vpopmail args: cache_key=%u dovecot userdb: driver: vpopmail socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 438 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 plugin: quota: maildir:ignore=Trash --------------------------- WBR, Mike Grozak, TvSU IC

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[Dovecot] Multiple private namespace question
by Troy Engel 24 May '08

24 May '08

(apologies if this has been covered, can't find it on the Wiki/FAQ, etc.) We have a stellar, fantastic, hard working Dovecot 1.0.5 (yes, I need to upgrade) installation running in Courier-IMAP compatibility mode: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/spool/dovecot/indexes/%1u/%u namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } A user purchased a Windows Mobile 6 device which is ignoring the namespace (it's the device's bug for sure, other people report it on forums around the 'net) and there's no way on this device to manually set the Prefix; so, his Sent mails are never making it back to the server when replying from the device because of the missing INBOX. issue. Can I add a second hidden namespace with no prefix: namespace private { separator = . prefix = hidden = yes } ...to fix his problem, but without adversely affecting anyone else? The issue that has given me pause is this comment in the config file: "Default namespace is simply done by having a namespace with empty prefix." ..but then there's also: "If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE extension or shown in LIST replies." I'm not sure what exactly will happen by adding a hidden namespace with no prefix after an advertised namespace with a prefix; this is a live server, so mucking up the works with a bad config is not an option. :) Anyone have a clue if this is valid/good/correct and Dovecot will play nicely? Many thanks, -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com

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[Dovecot] Problem compiling antispam plugin with Dovecot 1.1
by Juan Asensio Sánchez 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi I am trying to compile antispam plugin with Dovecot 1.1, but i get an error when running make install: pdc-server:~/tmp/dovecot-antispam# make cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-storage/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-mail/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-imap/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-dict/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-index/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/imap/ -DCONFIG_DEBUG -DDEBUG_SYSLOG -DCONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE -DCONFIG_DOVECOT_11 "-Dmempool_unref(x)=pool_unref(x)" -fPIC -shared -Wall -Wextra -DPLUGINNAME=antispam -o debug.o.o debug.c cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-storage/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-mail/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-imap/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-dict/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-index/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/imap/ -DCONFIG_DEBUG -DDEBUG_SYSLOG -DCONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE -DCONFIG_DOVECOT_11 "-Dmempool_unref(x)=pool_unref(x)" -fPIC -shared -Wall -Wextra -DPLUGINNAME=antispam antispam-storage-1.1.c -o antispam-storage-1.1 cc -o .o cc: no input files make: *** [.o] Error 1 When running make clean to try to compile again, a file called "antispam-storage-1.1.c" (without any extension) is not deleted, and this file was not before running make install. If I run again make install with that file present (after running make clean), i get this output: cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-storage/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-mail/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-imap/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-dict/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/lib-index/ -I/root/tmp/dovecot-1.1.rc5/src/imap/ -DCONFIG_DEBUG -DDEBUG_SYSLOG -DCONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE -DCONFIG_DOVECOT_11 "-Dmempool_unref(x)=pool_unref(x)" -fPIC -shared -Wall -Wextra -DPLUGINNAME=antispam -o debug.o debug.c cc -o .o cc: no input files make: *** [.o] Error 1 If I run make clean and manually deleted that file before running make install, i get again the first output. Why am i getting this error? Regards.

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[Dovecot] I've moved
by Timo Sirainen 24 May '08

24 May '08

I've moved again. If you need to know my new address, whois imapwiki.org (dovecot.org address is still lagging behind). My living costs also increased some because of this, but hopefully I'll get enough money from Dovecot coding to pay for it. :) I'll try to get back to replying mails within the next few days.

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[Dovecot] Disallow folder delete
by Kenneth Porter 24 May '08

24 May '08

Is there a straightforward way to disallow the deletion of all IMAP mailboxes? I have a user who's deleted an important IMAP mailbox and I'm now recovering a recent copy from the backup. But I'd rather just blanket disallow all folder deletions. The user is using Thunderbird and this has happened more than once so I suspect Tbird is willing to let a folder get deleted too easily. Perhaps there was a delay in the confirmation dialog and the user clicked ahead and confirmed something he shouldn't have. I'm looking at <http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL> and it looks like I should be able to use a group override to disallow "x" (mailbox delete) but the page says that groups aren't implemented, so I don't know how one says that nobody can do this for any mailbox. I'm using 1.2.rc15 from CentOS 5 (RHEL5 equivalent).

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[Dovecot] Don't Understand Error Entry
by Carlos Williams 24 May '08

24 May '08

I am using dovecot-0.99.11-8.EL4 on my system and decided to check the logs since I just took over as the administrator on this system and I noticed the same error entry over and over in the logs. I went to /var/log/dovecot.err and see: imap(rangry): May 22 13:33:31 Error: Error parsing IMAP envelope: "Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:10:01 -0400" "Re: Hi there I have a question" (("Rodney Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Rodney Angry" NIL "rodney.s.angry" " example.com")) ((NIL NIL "rodney.s.angry" "example.com")) (("Gryder, Connie" NIL "CONSTANCE.L.GRYDER" "example.com")) NIL NIL "< DD3761B99DC88F4284EDE00D608383C65DF16C(a)0088-its-exmp01.us.example.com>" NIL I don't understand what this error message means and why its flooding my logs. I do know the that the name in parenthesis on line one is a user on my email server. <rangry> is a user on my domain with a valid email account but I can't tell if the problem is coming from example.com or originating from <rangry>. Anyone happen to know what is causing this? I don't know if you guys need my config here so I don't want to flood this message. If this makes sense to anyone, please let me know what I can do to resolve this or keep this from flooding my email server. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] log contents questions?
by Knute Johnson 24 May '08

24 May '08

I switched from using Pegasus and POP3 to Thunderbird and IMAP for my email. Now I get a lot of "Corrupted index cache file" errors in my log. Dovecot is running under Fedora 8 and is version 1.0.13-6.fc8. The Thunderbird is version 2.0.0.14 running under Windows XP. My wife's Blackberry is also using IMAP and not reporting any errors. Any ideas what the problem is or how to fix it? Thanks, knute... --------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------ Dovecot disconnects: Inactivity: 2 Time(s) Logged out: 2606 Time(s) in IDLE: 27 Time(s) **Unmatched Entries** dovecot: IMAP(knute): Connection closed: 5 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): Corrupted index cache file /home/knute/mail/.imap/CR-FFL/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size: 3 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): Corrupted index cache file /home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size: 2 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): Corrupted index cache file /home/knute/mail/.imap/frazmtn.com/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size: 4 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(linux): Connection closed: 4 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(linux): Corrupted index cache file /home/linux/mail/.imap/Dovecot/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size: 2 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(linux): Corrupted index cache file /home/linux/mail/.imap/Fedora List/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size: 4 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(linux): Corrupted index cache file /home/linux/mail/.imap/Fedora Selinux List/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size: 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(linux): Corrupted index cache file /home/linux/mail/.imap/Fedora Test List/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size: 2 Time(s) ---------------------- Dovecot End ------------------------- -- Knute Johnson linux(a)www.knutejohnson.com

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[Dovecot] procmail --> deliver question
by Ben Budts 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi there, I use dovecot-1.1-rc4, got imap, imaps, pop3 & pop3s working fine with the mbox format. I use sendmail-8.14.2 as an MTA, sendmail uses procmail as an LDA. I migrated to maildir format now, and pipe all my mail to deliver right now to be able to make use of the indexing etc... Problem is I run into some errors : #My .procmailrc PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin SHELL="/bin/bash" SENDMAIL="sendmail -oi -t" DELIVER="/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver" LOGFILE="$HOME/procmail.log" #/dev/null VERBOSE=on LOGABSTRACT = "all" #DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/" #MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir/" :0 w | $DELIVER ##### My procmail.log : procmail: [12743] Wed May 21 13:43:38 2008 procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all" procmail: Executing "/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver" Fatal: destination user parameter (-d user) not given procmail: Error while writing to "/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver" procmail: Program failure (64) of "/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver" procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/kris.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/kris" procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/kris" ####" It's not working out and he falls back to delivering his mail to /var/spool/mail/%u Could you guys point me out in the right direction please ? Another question about the logging with deliver... I've put the following in my deliver.conf : deliver.conf in the lda section : log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log root@blaat:/home/kris# ls -la /var/log/dovecot/ total 232 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-05-20 10:44 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-05-19 10:08 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-05-20 10:44 deliver.log But it's not logging at all... Also tried the syslog alternative, no logging either. Also put set user or group ID on execution (s) on the deliver binary : -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 693300 2008-05-19 09:38 /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver thx a lot Benjamin

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